Hello everybody. Hope you all had a good weekend so far. I’ve made some major progress in Morrowind. Also been playing more casual Balatro on my phone. Have a great week!
Fallout New Vegas
because I need to fit the stereotype
finally gonna install it on my Linux machine since SALVO 2 dropped, looking forward to getting back into things, it clicked with me for the first time last year (not normally an open world guy) and i sunk like 10-20 hours in a week
pirated nioh 3, game looks and runs like dogshit but it’s kinda fun. Difficulty is all over the place; some enemies feel scary yet fair and others are just wipe territory over and over but it doesn’t help i am total ass at the game.
Also playing some e33, still pretty early in it maybe ~20 hour or so, but I’m not really sure I like the game, sacrilege I know. Just feels kinda weird to play Idk I’ll go into it if anyone is curious but I’d rather not poison the well for anyone else who hasn’t played it yet. I’ll probably end up finishing it.
also reposting from last gaming day thread: beat TLOU2. brilliant game and the graphics and lighting are incredible, but i have a lot of mixed feelings about the overall story and epilogue/ending. not necessarily because they aren’t happy or whatever but i just feel kinda hollow afterwards. idk can’t wait for them to complete the trilogy in 20 years.
I haven’t played but I’m a E33 skeptic. Please elaborate.
omg I’ve typed this up like 3 times lol i kept deleting it
tl;dr feels like 5 separate games smashed together with a jrpg coat of paint (light spoilers for around 20 hours of e33)
There’s no contrast, I can’t see shit on the world map or zone maps. There are literal dust motes colored the same as item pickups on the ground, so there’s tons of camera spinning wondering if something is anything and it’s usually not. I love exploration in games and I honestly just get a bit of a headache cuz nothing pops visually. Movement is clunky as fuck sometimes and I want to have a talk with whoever decided to add jank platforming sections to the game.
The battles are fun, I guess, but I take issue with people calling it turn based JRPG. Yeah it is, but it is way more active; there are parries and dodges and QTE events for every skill (even healing!) I prefer my JRPGs a bit lazy so I can think and take my time and it’s not really like that, you’re always paying attention in battles, and yeah you can turn the QTE shit off in accessibility options but I’m not admitting defeat like that (cuz it’s not like they’re hard for me just a bit tedious). Def feel a bit cheated with everyone saying OMG TURN BASED GAME ??? SO GOOD ??? cuz it’s uhh not really like that imo.
There are so many fucking pictos (skill augment things) and I get a headache trying to manage it so I turn off my brain and just faceroll the encounters anyway. Seems most of hard enemies are just learning the parry/dodge dance than it is party and skill comp though that does help.
Story is whatever. Might just be me but I don’t give a fuck about the characters or their motivations or anything. The only drive I have is seeing where the mystery will go and supposedly there’s some twist coming up so we’ll see how that hits.
But some of the characters are super fit and attractive and you can put them in bathing suits or other goofy shit. I had Lune in one for a bit but got so distracted by her butt I had to switch to a different costume lmao. Currently Gustave has a mullet and a baguette, kinda roleplaying him as a crust punk in my head. Speaking of characters, I feel zero incentive to level up any of the extra characters you get outside of the first three since you only get 3 party slots. Wish they’d allow you to swap out mid battle a la P5R, or maybe they’ll purposefully break up the party in order to diversify party comp a la DQ11, we’ll see.
Overall, it’s fine, I guess. I might be too critical because of the hype (I got it online and IRL from friends). Pirate it if you’re a PC player and make your own conclusions.
o7 thanks for the in depth review!
I’ve mostly just been playing Picross before bed lately, but I’ve also been slowly working my way through Sonic Adventure. I’ve finished the Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles stories so far. I’ve been meaning to play Terraria as well but every time I think about playing on a mouse and keyboard it kills my motivation lol.
I’m not sure it even qualifies as a game, but I’ve been having fun tinkering with The Farmer Was Replaced.
I’m currently tackling mazes. The urge to dredge up some existing solution is powerful. However, I’ve resisted thus far and have managed to write something that walks the maze and only gets stuck sometimes. I have some ideas why.
After that it’s sorting!
Not today. But tomorrow Im playing Helldivers 2 again with my buddy (on Fedora btw)
Been waiting for like 11 years for Mewgenics and it comes out in 2 days. I’m restless at this point and cant focus on any game
something reactivated my latent love of shop/tavern management games so i’ve been dabbling in a bunch of them
Tavern Manager Simulator, Ale and Tale Tavern, Shoppe Keep 1 & 2 are all very similar and probably unfun unless you have similar tolerance for these things as i do
Tavern Master is different in that it isn’t a 3d first person thing and is instead a top-down buildy thing plays a little like an idle game at a certain point as there’s a lot of waiting
might dust off Recetteer again, though i’ve played that to death over the years
been playing a lot of netrunner on a solo online client since i’m quitting mtg, its lots of fun. also been playing klonoa 2 on my handheld when i get the chance. not as visually stunning as the first but pretty decent otherwise, some nice gameplay changes
Realized I never got around to finishing Disco Elysium and started replaying it only for it to crash every time I make significant progress. Gotta be an issue with the Switch version or something but it’s basically impossible to play without saving constantly, which would be fine, but I always get engrossed in the conversations and forget and then lose an hour or so of progress.
Been playing South of Midnight, which I really want to like, but it kinda feels like a glorified mobile game. I don’t know how to explain it but it just feels kinda … incomplete? I want this game to succeed though because the setting and characters are some we never really get to see represented in games.
The Switch version of DE is the absolute worst one. My wife played from beginning to end and had nearly 20 crashes. The last crashed occurred 2 seconds before the credits rolled.
She switched to the PS4 version for her second playthrough and didn’t experience a crash. It sucked because the Switch is the perfect console for this type of game. Yet it’s the most expensive piece of garbage on the console.
Almost finished with Resident Evil Village. I didn’t really like 7 and I would describe Village as a more refined version of 7, continuing the story and iterating on the first-person view and other mechanics they were going for in 7. It certainly feels betters to play. Thought I’d finish it before Requiem comes out, since I’ve beaten every other new gen RE game starting with the original Resident Evil 4 and beyond. 4 is very good and I think the RE Engine is one of the best around and has always had really smooth gameplay and performance while looking pretty. The games even give you previews of the graphical settings in the Options, which should be normalized. So while I don’t know if I’d say it’s my favorite series, every game is very tight and none of them (except 6) are bad. Recommend folks jump in at any point with either 4 remake, 2 remake, 5, or 7, since those are the start of different ‘arcs’ or are standalone.
I also just finished a replay of RE Village. RE Engine does have probably the best lighting in a game engine I’ve seen. Playing at max quality, with ray tracing and DLAA, I frequently stopped in game to appreciate various set pieces.
I’ve been playing planet crafter. It’s a bit slow paced but the way the world changes is incredibly satisfying.
It’s essentially a survival crafter with a “terraform the planet” theme. The world changes substantially both visually and how you traverse the terrain/map as you progress
I’ve been playing Death Road to Canada, Half-Earth Socialism, Fallout 2, and more. I am currently working on turning my 2011 workstation I got for free into a gaming PC using Linux Mint, and it’s going over pretty well.
I’ve been going through my SNES and NES flashcarts to doublecheck the translations and ROM hacks actually boot on them at least and on NES found a bunch that don’t because they use exotic mappers that are unsupported and then one SNES game because its chip hasn’t been worked out yet for flashcarts (I wonder if it runs on those MiSTER devices). Found an NES emulator that runs on GameCube so I can still play NES games in a CRT. Sadly the SNES emulator on GC that some guy on YT compiled to work doesn’t support that SNES game Tengai Makyou Zero (translated).
Kinda’ want to start playing an Animal Crossing, but not sure which one. I need to replace the GC’s CMOS battery so maybe I’ll do that and them play AC on that since it’s annoying to have to set the system clock on each boot for it.
Hoping I can finish reassembling my PC after getting a new case (Lian Li Dan a3-mATX w/ wood front panel 🤤). Maybe a little unc raiders? Or a smidge of modded Minecraft? Trying not to lose the plot on what I’m doing in Cuboid Outpost 1.20 edition between sessions
Finished all achievements in Hades 2. The Arachne quest in particular took fucking forever, but up until that point I was enjoying myself. Even went back to Hades 1 for a bit and I’m shocked just how much slower it is even with the double dash. It also seems quite a bit harder, but then I haven’t been playing it for like 50 hours so who knows maybe I just need to git gud. You definitely get less boons and HP etc; I was routinely ending Hades 2 with over 300 max HP and have yet to get more than 200 in H1.
Other than that, played some more Warframe. Got a double XP booster so finally finished off my last kuva weapon (just in time for them to announce more lmao) and then grinded out Railjack for intrinsics and parts for the weapons I’m missing. Got the Athodai, so now it’s just Carmine Penta and Spectra Vandal. Still need like 1k intrinsics so I’ll probably finish the farm naturally but I already have a bunch of spare parts I could easily sell and then buy the others.
Tricked one of my coworkers into reading Umineko
been having a lot of fun talking with him about it as he progresses. Current thoughts are that witches are real but magic isn’t. 
do you think battler ever tried the enlightened centrist approach
spoiler
Nah, but he would if Beatrice pressed him on whether the meta-space exists. Something along the lines of “magic is real here but not there”.
