Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 9th
What have y'all been playing? I've been continuing my Avowed grind. I'm starting to be ready for it to be over. But it is still very enjoyable. I just have other games I want to play lol
I started Pentiment last week and am now wearing my detective hat - I can't wait to see what's gonna happen next.
I'm also playing Eigengrau, a shmup with elements of a twin-stick shooter - it's not bad!
I really was suprised how much I enjoyed Pentiment, it immersed me into the headspace of what living back in that time could be like.
Finished life is strange yesterday. Been on my backlog forever, kicking myself for not getting to it sooner. And no, I'm not ok.
Playing some mindless grim dawn on the deck since to scratch the ARPG itch, yet to decide if I move onto LiS: BtS soon or if I need some casual pallette cleansers before I'm emotionally ready for more.
Finished Skald: Against the Black Priory, and it was a lovely experience overall. It's one of those games that knows exactly what it attempts to do, and is very good at limiting its scope and not biting off more than it can chew. I might have liked a bit more agency and player choice - it is very linear for an RPG - but I can see how that would have been a challenge for a small studio and could well have ended up hurting the quality of the experience. As is it's a very enjoyable ride, full of retro charm, nostalgic music and pretty pixel art but without retro clunk like memory limitations or poor controls and UX. I liked the story and found the writing solid, with a great gloomy atmosphere and some nice cosmic horror touches. The combat and character customization could have been a touch more elaborate, but at around 20 hours the game isn't long enough that it really becomes a problem.
I'd give it somewhere around an 8 to 8.5/10 and definitely recommend it, especially to anyone who enjoys retro RPGs. It's quite cheap too, even at full price.
I started Avowed, but it didn't really grab me for some reason. So, I'm re-playing Persona 3 Reload because I never got around to checking out the Episode Aigis content. And, of course, Balatro on and off as my go-to, casual time killer.
C&C Red alert 3
I finished Final Fantasy III. This one had a weird bug for me, where the game wouldn't start and stop my mouse from working on my main monitor, when a Stream or Video was playing on my second screen. Never had this with any other game and took a bit to figure it out.
Then more Final Doom TNT: Evilution on the Doom + Doom II port. The second half is definitely a step-up in difficulty, and three levels took me a while to beat. Level 16 had a nasty start, that I had to replay for a while, and not much ammo, if you don't know where the secrets are. In Level 18 and 20 I just constantly messed up, plus some late Archviles or a Cyberdemon, to surprise you. I'm on Level 23 now, hopefully I can finish this soon.
Finally, I was going to buy the Rise of the Ronin PC port tomorrow, but according to a review it needs to cook a bit longer, just like all the other Team Ninja games on PC. So I started Cyberpunk 2077. I watched a playthrough on Twitch last year, and it looked pretty good. So far it's pretty good. Right now, I'm doing some side content before continuing with Act 1.
I gave another chance to Red Dead Redemption 2, it still feels like a chore simulator to me, but thanks to the mods to improve QoL, I can enjoy the main missions (which already take quite some time) without worrying about the rest
I don't like how the game forces me to do missions in a certain way though
What mods did you end up with?
I shelved RDR2 a while ago (year and a half ago?) but would like to get back to it at some point, likely with some QoL enhancements
I also shelved it 2 years ago after about 15h, but right now it feels fine with these mods (the pacing is still a bit slow but not annoyingly slow)
I installed Unciv from F-Droid. That's what happened to my Sunday.
Finished Chants of Sennaar. It was pretty good, altho it got a little bit repetitive towards the end. I did enjoy the
Played a bit of Shenzhen I/O. It's fun, but I'm a bit annoyed at how logic gates are (not) used and overall it makes me want to work on actual hardware projects.
Started Library of Ruina, hopefully it's less painful than Lobotomy Corporation, which I had to drop as I couldn't figure it out even tho I liked it.
Also tried Persona 5 Strikers. The combat is fun, but everything in the game feels a bit off and I can't explain why I'm not really enjoying it.
Want to continue playing Last Of Us Remake Part 1, start FF16 and replay Alan Wake 2.
However, my monitor kind of died and searching for a new one.
A friend turned me on to Sea of Thieves, and that's been loads of fun. I'm a bit surprised , because I've never really been into pvp games at all. But we get together and hang out on the couch and shout pirate stuff at each other every other night now. Really does a good job of encouraging teamwork and providing a platform for fun hijinks, rather than a guided story.
The new fire megalodons are my bane, though. Have yet to beat one, or even successfully survive one! But they look so cool I feel like a fly drawn toward a bug zapper.
Lethal Company, Battle Talent, Ready or Not, and Arma Reforger. Bit of Stalker GAMMA and Crusader Kings as well.
I'm halfway through my first kcd2 playthrough and I'm waiting for the barber update. The game is fantastic, and I really want to keep playing, but I kinda liked costumizing henry in the first game. Looking at the rest of the game, I imagine this one'll be much more polished.
Company of heroes, the original version. Still a very good game and unlike the two sequels, is not so dlc heavy and is more about tactics than just spamming tanks and landmines, though I still sometimes do that.
Very very slowly playing the Stanley Parable. It's pretty nice, I often feel mocked by the narrator.
Still having a blast sailing round the seas being a Yakuza Pirate with the odd quick round of Monster Meals in between when I have less time, but yesterday's Fields of Mistria patch is calling to me quite loudly
After a two-ish week break, I'm playing Marvel Rivals again. Completely disabling all chat (mainly text because I've always disabled voice anyway) does wonders. (The fact that I never had to disable text chat on Overwatch perplexes me. Even when it went F2P, I didn't have to deal with half the shit I see in MR.)
I don't play comp, so it doesn't really matter much.
Might start up Reviver or The Operator later. Loved both demos when I played them a while ago, so I think I'll enjoy those.
Keep Driving has had a lot of my free time. Semi emergent narrative, with rogue lite elements and semi Oregon Trail elements. Amazing soundtrack, great art. Just all around fun game.
Beat Avowed. Replaying Jedi Survivor.
a bit late to the party but this week I finished Shadowrun Dragonfall, which I had to park at the final showdown about two weeks ago. I finished Shadowrun Returns a few weeks before and will get into Hong Kong soon.
I loved both, they are incredibly well written games to me, much better than they need to be, but where SRR feels a bit shorter than i would have liked, SRDF missions felt a bit fluffy at times. I look forward to SRHK.
I will probably round up this weekend trying out Robocop Rogue City or something from the Steam sale though, I need a break from tiny isometric characters that I care too much about 😂
Installed Crossover so I can play Last Epoch. Played a couple hours of the campaign this morning. So far so good.
Kill Knight
Demon's Souls
The Last Campfire
I love my Hello Kitty game. It was originally called Hello Sweet Days and they changed it to the most unfortunate acronyms HKDV... Hello Kitty Dream Village. Yes I am a middle aged woman playing a Hello Kitty gacha game but I love it.