games

Bit late to the parade but I wound up playing a bit of Divinity: Original Sin with a friend from the TTRPG group that usually runs on Sundays. We wound up doing a lot of save scumming after getting some outcomes we didn't like and some combats we were horribly under prepared for.

So I started playing Dyson Sphere Program again because my kiddo asked me so he could watch. Then he went and watched tv instead... I'm a little sad because he seemed actually interested in learning stuff this time but whatever. In any case I'm at yellow jello and working on automating logistics stuff. I need to bootstrap processors and I fucking hate those in early game. But yeah it's processors, manually carry them to my logistics factory until I get spinner hats and PLS/ILS set up. then after that is green and purple jello and start setting up fer end game mall and sphere. I want to make it a quick run so I'm not going for like a Terrawatt sphere this time or anything. Will probably keep it all in my local system too.

I am also attempting to play Workers and Resources finally. And uh... it's not going great. I'm trying to follow along bballjo's beginner tutorial but I'm already having issues with heating, food, and clothing. I have a clothing factory set up but I need power and stuff to it. I set up a big farm and then got overwhelmed and just kind of quit last night. Anyone have any tips? I love the idea of a Soviet city builder but this thing is just way too serious lol.

Downloaded Balatro and, oh boy do I get why people kept describing it as dangerously addictive

Doing my I think ninth or tenth Prey playthrough and loving every second of it

Superliminal rn, pretty cool. Reminds me of portal and the stanley parable

Outer Wilds is really fun. I was looking for a good exploration game after beating Subnautica and this is really hitting the mark.

I also want to start another Disco Elysium run. Not just because it's a beautiful game, but because I need a whole bunch of screenshots to turn into proxies for my custom Disco Elysium-themed magic deck (Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant and Wernog, Rider's Chaplain as Harry and Kim)

Opened Pokémon packs on Nintendo's latest money grab.

Still UFO 50 lol

I've been playing Tactical Breach Wizards and Star Wars: Outlaws.

TBW is great - super fun puzzley turn based tactical combat.

Outlaws is an open world Ubisoft game, for better or worse. I haven't played one in years, so I'm enjoying this. Plus, I'm a big Glup Shitto fan

Digital Tamers 2, Digimon fan game but plenty of grinding, still amazing fun however to help my current Digimon hyperfixation.

Been playing Cities: Skylines. Just got up to 40,000 population. Probably the largest city I've built without chronic issues. I didn't even put in a metro system until around 25k (and I still haven't used a single traffic circle!). Still has room to grow.

im getting into animal crossing new horizons again

Just starting some Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. Gives me some major nostalgia vibes for A Link to the Past... maybe I should replay that, it's been thirty years since I beat it.

VTM: bloodlines playing as a really appreciate how well the game holds up (with the unofficial patch that is) been watching hunter the parenting so got in the mood for world of darkness again. Trying to get through it without cheating but if I stop having fun then I'll just keep playing around, gotten through the game legit before so nothing spoiled.

Genshin

Factorio. But I have decided to take a week break because it started to become a problem again.

I've finished all of the new content and got the win screen, but I stil have so much more to do.

Is anyone else playing the new dlc? I'm curious what other people think of it. I like it, but there are some silly arbitrary decisions which just limit how you can play it. Luckily there will be mods for that though.

Stalker 2 has been disappointing. Might end up somewhere good eventually, but until then I'm thinking about playing GAMMA again. Problem is that I updated it like an idiot and now all my hours of modding it last time are left as a broken mess of files to redownload. Think I'm gonna just have to start from a fresh install and rebuild my list. Gotta have my mags mod and my girl character to stalk the zone in search of artifacts. I guess I could put some more time into Zero Sievert for my fix instead, but it's not as immersive and that's what I like.

Also rockin magic arena still, got a good monogreen hydra deck with an above-average win rate - though it's still not as good as my black-red bloomburrow lizard aggrocragro deck.

My buddy got me into PlanetSide 2 and that's been a lot of fun! Really cool to play a game I got hyped for over a decade ago and totally forgot about until just now. I have also been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat with the GUNSLINGER mod installed and the relatively small tweaks it makes to gunplay and survival make the game feel a lot more fresh.

Been traveling around and I've been using a mini PC to game. Integrated graphics have come a long way actually. I can run quite a few newer games on this little 400 dollar machine, but I save them for my real computer and only play older stuff that I can play at max settings- so I have been playing a lot of Oblivion.

I didn't have the ability to play Oblivion when it was new, and plus I always wander around and fuck around forever in those games. A decade ago I probably put 100 hours into Oblivion but did almost none of the main story, and spent a lot of time modding and restarting.

In the last year I decided to stick to near-vanilla on all Bethesda games so I can actually beat them. I only install UI stuff, bug fixes, and gameplay mods that fix REALLY dumb shit like merchants punching dragons in Skyrim, that sort of thing. I have also been using Alternate Start in Skyrim and Oblivion, which is just incredible. Can't believe I slept on that mod all this time, despite knowing it exists.

Now by following that philosophy, I am actually starting to make it through Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout bit by bit.

Partner and I just hit level 27 in Lord of the Rings online. We're pretty obsessed and have been spending all our free time playing together. It's such a chill game.

Pathfinder 2e 😎

slow-burning divinity original sin 2. i’m playing on tactician mode and i get through one fight a day if i’m lucky. it rules

currently playing ys origin. it's pretty fun. almost near the end though lol

really looking forward to getting ys x: nordics (along with other games) this autumn sale OwO7

~~just 2.5 more days 😭😭~~

Played umvc3. That game is so ass. How did people that game for money.

Metaphor and i think i'm nearing the end. Should beat it this week!

Played a tiny bit of Monster Hunter: Rise, Risk of Rain 2, and Deep Rock Galactic earlier in the week. Now I'm trying to work through my backlog, will no doubt burn out and go back to games I already know I like at some point.

• Guild of Dungeoneering: a relatively simple roguelike "deckbuilder" where you build a dungeon as you explore it and place monsters for yourself to fight. Didn't hold my attention. The one time I died was due to really bad RNG on a minor enemy that I'd already beaten like 3 times that run. Played until I got all the steam trading card drops, then dropped it.
• Injustice: Gods Among Us ( ): a fighting game by the Mortal Kombat devs, but this time set in a DC world where Superman goes EVIL. Based on the comic run of the same name, but it somehow does the already incredibly ridiculous story even worse because the game doesn't show us the inciting incident of (CW: violence against a pregnant woman) Superman killing a pregnant Lois Lane while being mind controlled by the Joker which sets off a nuke in Metropolis that was triggered by her heartbeat stopping. I've never really played fighting games, so I have no idea whether it's good or not, but I'm not getting stomped by the AI so I'll probably finish the campaign. The special move inputs are really simple so that's nice I guess. Unfortunately the character models are all pretty garbo, and the VA for The Joker is just awful. This is from 2013 or something too, so they absolutely could have just gotten Hamill to do it. Oh yeah, and in case you were wondering, they handwave away Joker and Green Arrow etc fighting Superman or Ares by saying that Lex Luthor developed a magic pill that could make a normal person super tough.

I've been playing DQ7 for 3ds every free second I've had for the past week.

I finally got around to playing Mario & Luigi Brothership. I haven't played much, but it's... decent. My only problem is that the story has clearly been padded to make it longer than it needs to be (problem with a lot of modern games tbh) , meaning that It's slow at times, but when it's good, it's very good. I just wish there was more cartoon hyjinks. Because when their are, it's amazing.

It's nice to have a cozy RPG like this though, honestly. Outside of the Devs obviously being told to make the game long, It definitely gives that GameCube era vibe of Nintendo just letting Devs fuck around.

It's hard for me to rate it, because when it's at it's best it's as good as TTYD, but when it's dragging it's as bad as Dream Team.

Been playing V Rising. Its got a really good difficulty curve. I always feel like I can barely make it past the next objective and you cant just grind your way past the difficulty. The castle relocation mechanic is genius. Letting you remodel your setup without making you carry everything back and forth is really well done.

Armored core 3 and stalker trilogy on ps5. Wish gsc ported the fixes into PC stalker :( but playing with the controller took some getting used to