The Bazaar has been hitting REALLY nicely over the past week or two ngl, highly recommend if you’re into that sort of nerd shit

Still on factorio. About 120 hours into the save. Pausing now to study programming a bit, but will play less hard, for the upcoming months, likely.

Replayed two flash games from my childhood that held up incredibly well. First was Battle of Britain 303 Squadron, and the second 1066. Would recommend if you have 15 minutes to spare!

I was soooo excited for Veilguard. Guess which game I kinda hate? 😅

Just about to finish Oracle of Seasons after Oracle of Ages. It is an EASY game I have to say, specially after playing Ages which has some weird puzzles

Just played The Quarry, and it was a blast. Can highly recommend if you enjoy choices based story games. My favorite genres are story games, turn based tactical, and roguelikes. I find I don't have a huge amount of time to play, so I like games that aren't too complex and that you can pick up and play without having to remember how the game works.

Didn't follow TGAs this year. For 2024 games, I really enjoyed Selaco, Spiritfall, Portal Revolution, and Arco.

Got back into playing pokken (am getting consistent wins against hard AI now yay)

i like to play hitman, and i was playing again deus ex: mankind divided. is a pretty nice game, breach mode is pretty cool too

This was probably the best TGA ever. Even the skits were funny. Definitely intrigued by the idea of an Elden Ring spin-off but the football game from the Sifu devs looked really cool too.

currently playing ys x: nordics. in the last chapter, so, might finish it soon. really enjoyed my time with it lol.

also playing some crimsonland, used to play that game a lot as a kid.

wanna play memories of celceta (ys 4) next. but might also give metal gear rising a shot, because M E M E S . i also wanna give dragon quest 3 a go too, idk why. maybe because i missed out on the classic jrpg era and was thrust straightforward into the deconstructionist/2deep4me era?

there are some other games that i have on my library that i wanna try too.

i will say however that it was nice and exciting to hear that okami's getting a sequel. (wish they'd port okamiden to pc too though)

Guardians of the Galaxy. It's a pretty fun game. I got it on a Steam sale.

Replayed Assassin's Creed Syndicate(relevant), goated game and last good AC in my opinion.

Next whatever is on sale on Steam.

Favorite genres are horror(any kind), action/adventure and SCI-FI.

I didn't see it tbh and except SH 2 remake, there's nothing special in particular this year.

I only played around 5 minutes of the My Sims Kingdom that came out on the Switch. I am in my finals week so I haven’t been able to play anything, but after the 19th I’m free (until January)! My favourite genre seems to be cozy games, so that’s interesting, although I also like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Legend of Zelda, so I don’t know what to say about that.

I don’t pay attention to the game awards, I think CaseOh won something. I liked playing my switch games and some on steam this year, not much gaming from me unfortunately. I imagine next year will be even less games because it’s my final year of undergrad which means I have to lock in.

My favorite announcement was Okami.

The 2024 game I enjoyed most was Paper Mario.

I've been playing some Pokémon. I'm mostly finished w/ Fire Red, just need to rematch the Elite 4, and I'm mostly done with Let's Go Pikachu too, which I started playing because a friend is also playing right now. And although it is extremely easy difficulty wise, I'm doing a living dex since catching Pokémon in this game is, at least, fun.

I'm getting the urge to go back to Baldur's Gate 3, Breath of the Wild and Disco Elysium, all which I haven't finished yet, unfortunately.

About TGA, I wasn't expecting another FromSoftware game, and it being an Elden Ring alternate reality 3-player roguelike? SIGN ME IN, the trailer was cool, I want to see where this goes. Other than that, the only other games that caught my attention where the football game which looked so fucking cool, and this comes from someone that absolutely hate sports games, specially Fifa; The Long Dark looked super cool too and the new Ninja Gaiden looked amazing. I'm also interested in Onimusha after the trailer on TGA, so I'll take a look into the games some time.

Just about finished up playing Assassin's Creed Mirage, was waiting for it to come out on Steam. Have definitely enjoyed it a lot, was nice to play a new AC game thats closer to the originals in style, as I like the stealth gameplay. They did a super good job recreating 8th century Baghdad, clearly a lot of care went into it. I love little details how like if you go to the market area you can hear foreign traders speaking their own languages. The attention to detail in the city is really good and the place feels very alive. It makes me really want to see them do another game in this style focused on maybe 2nd century Rome, as I still have yet to see a game properly tackle recreating Rome at the height of its wealth and power. If anyone can do that justice its this team as they nailed Baghdad.

As much as I enjoyed the game it also made me realize that I kind of like the more sprawling RPG direction games like Odyssey and Valhalla took. It makes me excited for the new Japan AC next year. Ubisoft gets shit on a lot for good reason but I really like the open world games they make, I have a lot of fun with them.

I didnt watch The Game Awards but I saw some of the announcements, definitely interested in the new Turok and Okami games. Nothing else really stuck out for me, Witcher 4 looks cool of course but for whatever reason I've always bounced off of the Witcher games, tried all 3 at various points and have never been able to enjoy them. Maybe this one will be different who knows.

2024 I actually played a lot of games, probably more than I should have. None of them were games released recently really but I had an absolute blast replaying Fable Anniversary and Zelda Wind Waker HD this year. Also played through Dark Souls remastered for the first time this year, extremely good remaster of a great game. I also played 2 and 3 again this year but after playing them all in quick succession I think DS1 is my favorite. Such tight level design and atmosphere, and the game suits my preferred playstyle of hiding behind a shield and smacking people with a mace.

I finished Tactical Breach Wizards recently, which is weird, because I usually bounce hard off turn based tactical games. I also generally suck at them. That doesn't stop me trying them every once in a while because I really -want- to get into them. TBW is one of those rare ones that plays more like a puzzle game and I really enjoyed it. I played on easy and found the mechanics very forgiving. Gameplay mostly revolves around setting up combos with each character's unique skills, allowing for some very satisfying outcomes when everything goes to plan. Writing is top notch; the story is fun, funny, engaging, humorous and touching with some really good character moments. Art style is very much low-poly pastel indie style, but it's well executed and looks good IMO. Veterans of the genre might find it a little simplistic, and the main campaign is fairly short, but I absolutely loved it.

Finished bulletstorm,

Starting sekiro.

@Makan I've played a bit of Mirthwood an indie game that's kind of a mashup between stardew valley and the sims

Then went to check out Path of Exiles 2 which I'm enjoying so far.

i played the Indiana Jones game a bit last week.. it's not really all that great but somehow it's just good enough to keep me trying to collect the things and whip Nazis

I download just about every game that comes out but most of them i delete within an hour or two of playing

i actually started playing tf2 again after many many years of not playing it .. it's still the same game i remember and loved, but i would love it if there was a MegaTF mod for it like there was for TF on Quake

What Video Games Have You Played Recently?

I recently finished Indika which is this strange little indie game where you play as a nun in the Russian Orthodoxy and my god. It was perfect, an insane story, the set-pieces were excellent, and the discussions on theology were very well written and for someone never really exposed to religion much it was very interesting.

Favorite Video Game Genre?

Probably social deduction multiplayer games. I do really enjoy a good single player story, but nothing is as addictive to me as a good game of SS14 or 13. There is so much fun to be had and every game you play is unique.

What did you like most from the recent TGA 2024, assuming you watched it or know of the announcements

Probably my most anticipated game from there is The Long Dark II just because a multiplayer version of that game should be fun. I anticipate zomboid but without zombies which should be fun

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