Gaming

No man’s sky for the first time. It’s fun for a bit I think. Dunno if it’s “I’m gonna play this forever” fun - seems a bit repetitive. But it was on sale and it’s amusing enough. I tried it out because I thought starfield was so boring, and felt like playing a space game.

Been plugging away at Armored Core 6. I'm kind of over it. It's been a fairly average experience and at this point I'd like to wrap up the story and move on to something with a little more meat.

If you haven't played the Robocop: Rogue City demo yet, you have 10 seconds to comply. Your move, creep.

Lego Jurassic World on the Switch. I bought a Switch for me and my kid for Christmas, and have picked up a few games for the two of us to take it in turns on. I haven't played a Lego game properly before, but this has hooked me.

It's got a few downsides, like the rolling ball level looked like a cutscene at first, so I didn't even try to control it, and some levels are made for you to come back to later with a different character, so it feels like you're stuck when you're not sometimes.

They're easy to overlook though because the gameplay is good, and it's got dinosaurs :D

I've been crushing maggot-filled mutant satanist-skulls.
The latest patch for Darktide finally made it functional for me.
If I cap it at 60 fps it does not crash every 20min anymore.
Darktide really did not like my Ryzen 9 3900x and rtx3080 "ufo rated" rig.
But now it works at least, and it's fun.
Maybe a bit boring maps though.

GT7 mainly running Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. There is a race there this weekend and it makes me feel slightly better when I see pro drivers mess up the same corner I do.

Uhm I'm new here. Do I tell about the game I've played in this week, or what will be played on the next week?

If it's the first one, then I'm in the middle of siphoning as many titles as possible from the Karling and Makedon dynasty in Crusader Kings 3 as the Piast family with Polania/Poland. Somehow I've managed to create an heir from the Piast family to the Byzantine Empire just with marriage. Karling dynasty still has 2+ kingdoms and several duchies. Another priority is to take Jerusalem from the Muslims.

I love violence and superior gene breedings. :3

Dragon Age: Origins and Fallout 76.

The former is a masterpiece and the latter I'm having fun with but required a massive perspective shift and 3 play attempts to do so compared to previous Fallout games (even FO4).

I'm still working through Phantom Liberty. It's so well done, a step up even from the original game.

I'm quite sad that Cyberpunk 2077 is all done now, but I'm excited that they have started production on the sequel. Say what you will about CDPR and how they botched the launch of CP2077, they game as it stands now is fantastic and probably one of my favorite games of the last decade.

On the side, I've been playing a fun little indy twin-stick shooter rogue-lite called "Shape Shifter: Formations". I tend to pick up a lot of these kinds of rogue-likes... they're generally dirt cheap so it doesn't take many hours of fun to feel like I got my money's worth. I'm 20 hours into this one so far... $6 well spent!

Wuppo.... Let's see. Metroidvania... Steam Deck verified... On sale for $1.49

Yup, thanks for this! Looks like I'm playing Wuppo!

Nothing. Don't have the time.

After a Pirates of the Caribbean drinking game, I'm getting into sea of thieves.

The new Talos Principle 2 demo. Wanted to make sure it plays Ok on Ubuntu and it does!

Shameless plug for the new community I started so i could discuss all of the TTP games with people:

!the_talos_principle@lemm.ee

That's awesome. I'm at the tail end of my first playthrough, but I'm already thinking about and all druid run with Halsin, Jaheira, Tav, and a respecced origin. I think druid is flexible enough to pull it off. How are you finding system shock, then? I never played it originally but have played many of its 'spiritual sequels' in terms of immersive sims. I was tempted to harken back when the remake came out but never bit the bullet.

Gotham Knights.

It's not terrible, but it's pretty much what I was expecting.

Could really do without the crafting shit and leveling system. I know the Arkham games also had skill trees and what have you, but it wasn't ever as bad as this.

I do think I fucked myself over a bit in not focusing on the main story early on, because I very nearly burned myself out on the side activities.

Turns out that a lot of my issues are kind of addressed at key points in the main story as well, so I really should focus on it more (like getting the glider thingy from Lucius, which I had no idea existed and would have been a tremendous help earlier on when I was navigating the unnecessarily large - and, to be honest, very boring - open world).

Baldur's Gate (in act 3 now), Lies of P, and just dipped my toe into Warhammer 40k Darktide. It's quite nice having very different games to bounce between.

I've got Cocoon waiting a well. I heard it's quite short so maybe I'll boot it up on an evening where Lies of P is kicking my arse too much lol

Between Diablo sessions, I've been replaying Metro: Last Light (the original, not redux), and man, I am having a blast. I absolutely love that game. Out of the three Metro games, it's probably my favorite. Even choosing to be stealthy is a lot of fun. I've been playing with a silent revolver/Kalash/Ashot combo, and I can't wait to get my/Artyom's hands on the Kalash 2012.

Finished Divinity Original Sin 2.

Now trying MW5.

Warframe and grime.

The update coming to warframe mid October solves a lot of qol issues and should make it one of the bets mmorpg grind game.

I loved Wuppo, but the clearly Dutch names for all the creatures threw me off a little. Their names are sometimes a little bit too literal for my taste (for example, a blusser literally means extinguisher).
Anyway, I've stopped my first play-through of Baldur's Gate 3 and started over as The Dark Urge. It has been... interesting :)
Other than that, I've tried to get back into my play-through of Lost Judgment, but I've completely lost the plot.

Finished Divinity: Original Sin 2. Beast became a god and everyone loved him. Some of the fights in the final act were kind of bad, and I wasn't a fan of the "twists" at the end. Still good overall, and I'm glad I finally beat it after over six years.

Quake 2 got patched and the game-breaking bug I had got fixed (constant CTD in a specific room in a level), so I can finally play it again. I mopped up the rest of the levels for the second expansion, Ground Zero, which had a disappointing final boss. The levels also got a bit more confusing for me, but the remaster added a compass, which shows you where to go next, so it wasn't a big deal. Now only the new campaign, that was made for the remaster, is left, and I'll try to finish that this week.

Now I'm debating whether to start Pathfinder: Kingmaker or go through the Pillars of Eternity expansions. I kinda want to play Pathfinder more, but I just put 150h into D:OS2, so going straight into another one of these massive RPGs might just lead to some burnout (I did want Divinity to be over by the end, but that was also because parts at the end weren't that fun for me). The White March expansions for Pillars 1 might just be different enough to serve as a pallet cleanser (even though it's still a CRPG).

Just picked up Darktide again. They released an update that overhauled the class system and rebalanced a lot of the weapons.

• I tried Star Ocean The Divine Force, up until the port town when they introduced a very anime character (after getting the healer), that I stopped.
  • The story didn't grab me, and while I like how fast the combat and how agile the DUMA are, ultimately the combat feels very simplistic, even with the skill upgrades. It's really a middling game
  • The only other Star Ocean game that I've played is Last Hope International, and I really dislike that game, because of Lymle.
  • tri-Ace has been insolvent, and it's sad to see them struggling both financially, and in making good Star Ocean games. Maybe they should have gone back to 2D style to reduce budget, and to rely less on the exaggerated anime character animation style
  • Star Ocean 2 remake is coming out, and that HD-2D looks really good, hopefully that would help the dev a bit.

• Replaying the original Wild Arms
  • The music is still really good in this game
  • The battle still feels very simplistic compared to Final Fantasy
  • Story wise, it's less memorable than others, but there are parts that do feel melancholic
  • I found out that Media.Vision has 5 titles in development as in 2022, the last game they co-developed was Valkyria Chronicles 4

@chloyster been playing Cyberpunk now that is in a good state.

I've played through BG3 around launch, and have been lurking the web, looking at what others have done. Right now, I'm also watching a streamer play through the game, and everything I've seen really makes me want to do another playthrough. Act 3 was a bit rough at times though, so I think I'll wait for some more patches or a Definitive Edition, if Larian does it like Divinity.