Weekly “What’re You Playing” Community Thread #5

unable to find joy playing anything other than horizonXI, why are 2000 era private servers and POE the only fun things to play

Tried that rhythm game on Gamepass that the world seems in love with lately... umm... (looks it up) Hi-fi Rush and surprisingly didn't like it. There's so much godawful anime catgirl chit chat breaking up the GAMEPLAY and even what gameplay there is feels kinda janky and clunky. But I haven't given it enough time (~1-2hrs) to get the feel down yet.

Bought Returnal on PC, and I think I'll like it, but there's a weird deal where the triggers on my Xbox controller are not very responsive despite trying some fixes like shutting off Steam input and switching between classic controller and adaptive. If I could just get the triggers responsive I think this'll be good shit.

Also went on a spending spree this week and bought Company of Heroes 3 and Pocky & Rocky Reshrined which I haven't tried yet but really looking forward to both. And Atomic Heart on Gamepass! Gamepass is my neighbor.

Spelunky 2, waiting on other stuff to release and/or get fixed to not be garbage

Playing monster hunter world. It's my first monster hunter game and I'm really enjoying it, though I feel like I'd enjoy it more if I was better at the combat and understood how to take better advantage of items. I'm using the greatsword because I really enjoyed playing with the guts sword in dark souls 3. I just beat the anjanath (t rex guy) story quest and I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of things. I'm excited to get to the higher rank quests where there is a higher population since it seems like the fights would be more fun with other ppl.

Palicos r so 🥰🥰🥰

Also is anybody here into slay the spire or competitive team fortress 2?

Haven't been gaming much this week, but I have my eye on Pizza Tower. I kinda wish it stayed more slow paced (like WarioLand 4) like the sage demo, now it's more like Sonic 1 which is too fast for me. Might pick it up on sale or when the 2nd character The Noise releases.

Soundtrack is filled with bangers though.

Atomic heart since its running surprisingly well on my 10yr old system.

Limbus Company releases on monday. I've been looking forward to it for like a year, wanted to play it on christmas day, but they delayed it to this current date.

Earlier this week I was informed that I'll be spending the entire next week away on some work retreat. And I found out the hotel room they booked doesn't include breakfast.

I’m playing Kerbal space program. The second game just came out and I was playing that but it runs like butt so I played a bit of the first game.

I love that game so much, it literally decided my career

I am bored so I am playing war hammer total war again. Kinda a disappointing game but still pretty fun

Going down the memory lane, and playing Megaman ZX right now. Boy have I gotten rusty.

Anybody played Company of Heroes 3 yet? I heard it is decent.

Civ 6

Mostly fightan like usual.

Lobby nights could be sick but IDK if people want to host games here

Emulating to play Dodonpachi Daioujou. really fun, beautiful visuals and ost but it kicks my butt hard

I bought metal gear rising: revengence, and beat it in a day.

That game is peak kojima nonsense and it makes me sad konami sacked the guy just as he was doing his best work.

I've been emulatormaxxing:

>OG Xbox (Xemu)

Ninja Gaiden Black plays great now. I had to recompile Xemu to fix a bug with water surface textures, but otherwise the game runs really well once you get past the initial shader compilation stutter. Oh and they fixed that bug where Ryu had his fiend texture for the whole game.

Jet Set Radio Future and Panzer Dragoon Orta still have some annoying audio bugs.

DoA2 has bad slowdown on certain stages. I should try Cxbx-Reloaded for this one.

>PS3 (RPCS3)

RPCS3 is amazing You can not only play most games now, you can also force a lot of them to run at 60/120fps.

Games I've tested that all play without issue:

Shadows of the Darned, Drakengard 3, Demon's Souls, Shadow of the Colossus, ICO, Armored Core 4, Super Stardust HD, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Dark Mist

Only disappointment so far is that Pure soft locks all the time I hope this kino SSX-like arcade racer gets rescued soon, it was so good.

Just finished Evergrace (Basically a 2000 caveman's excuse for Dark Souls) and found it very interesting in mechanics and feel, even if the story was too cryptic to understand

I've been glued to Red Dead Online lately, and I picked up Sons Of The Forest yesterday to play with some friends. Red Dead is the cowboy sim I've always wanted. Genuinely having a blast hunting animals and bounties, and just exploring . Sons Of The Forest is cool, it's in early access but it seems to have enough to keep me interested. Played the first game with the same group of friends and it was a great experience. This has been good so far.

Playing MGS3 on PC with mouse and keyboard on Hard difficulty. I've just beaten The Pain. For some reason the camera controls don't even work properly when in first person, but luckily I have 12 key bindings alone for moving the camera. I just have to guess which of them work at any given time lmao.

Still playing Wild Hearts. Tired of the “use springs for the I frames” It’s a pain with how quick the kemono can be

I recently downloaded and installed every game every created for the:

NES

SNES

N64

GB

GBC

GBA

Sega Master System

Sega Genesis

Sega 32x

Sega CD

Sega Saturn

on my Steamdeck, complete with retroachievements integration and a beautiful UI. I am currently playing Banjo Kazooie.

Still kinda on Wow, but mostly been playing Project Zomboid recently. Pretty fun.

Does anyone care about the Dota Lima Major?

I used to be a massive dota whore but haven't played or watched anything in a bit over a year.

Been playing Stoneshard (permadeath) and Wild Hearts.

Considering atomic heart but idk tbqhfam.

Has anyone found a version of Rocksmith that doesn't have aids? It's really fun to play Guitar Hero with the real thing but the selection is butt and RS+ is overpriced for the library it offers.

I'm restarting Nier: Automata since I apparently didn't unlock all the endings when I played a few years ago.

Playing through the best dark souls game again.... dark souls 2