Weekly ‘What’re You Playing’ Thread #6

Didn't play much really besides the occasional Trackmania cup and some CS matches. The announcement of CS2 could have not come at a worse time as me and my friends were on the brink of finally retiring but with a new version on the horizon I guess it's time to play again. I think I told you about this before but I have insanely regressed in skill and due to my old age I just cannot keep up with all the zoomies. Anyways, I'm excited to see what will happen!

Civ V tileslop.

I’m trying to spread my cool new religion to conquer the world

Atomic Heart. Its the most I've enjoyed a newly launched game in actual years. While it is a bit buggy it's nowhere near normal launch status of games now where they simply don't function. And the gameplay is actually fun. Game feels like a mix of a bunch of different games I liked; Soma, bioshock, a bit of mirrors edge climbing but shit, alien isolation... The protagonist is characterized like a 12 year old though, no idea how he's supposed to be a hardened USSR Major lol

Having way more fun with Dead Cells than I expected.

Atelier Elie I'm at the end of my first year and in the middle of building up my fairy alchemy sweatshop

I like the freedom in this game. It does try to respond to your playstyle, whether you work hard to pass your exams or frick off to go adventuring . But I'm also struck by the feeling that these early Atelier games were designed to sell strategy guides. Some of the event triggers can be very obscure

Terra Invicta. Humanity First is the most based and dramapilled option.

still grinding osrs, down to the last quest but I can't be arsed to do it this weekend. might try out Rise of Industry cause it's free on Epic https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/rise-of-industry-0af838

Played Atomic Heart again, really surprised at how much I've ended up liking that game. It has a lot of flaws, but you can feel how much passion they put into making it and I'm really impressed with how it turned out.

Replaying Nier: Automato .

Played it the first month it released so it's a somewhat fresh experience outside of those "oh yeah I remember that happening" moments.

I made the r-slurred decision to play on hard mode where you take quadruple damage so everything 1 - 2 shots you and for some r-slurred reason (apparently it's because saving your game is a major plot point, you play as an Android so saving your game is uploading your memory) dying in the hour plus long intro makes you restart from the main menu making you redo everything .

Despite that road bump i'm having a blast.

Just doing my chores in FF14/BDO/NGS

Just some Endless Space 2 right now. I think I want to play a CRPG next, but I feel like it’s so much reading and new mechanics… idk if I really want to start one.

Boy i chose a great time to start playing destiny 2

Finished replaying Deus Ex HR for the nth time and God do I love that game. Then finally tried playing Mankind Divided cause my old PC couldn't handle it before and felt disappointed. So many aspects of what I loved in HR were stripped down or removed, and the controls and mechanics swapped for ones that make less sense. And that is foregoing the whole thing about the game being cut short in order to deliver a sequel which never came! Darn this whole situation just makes me sad, so much wasted potential here. I just hope I will live to see the next Deus Ex game now knowing that it is planned for the future, and hopefully it will be better.

Besides that picked up Disco Elysium and I feel torn about it because on one side it's a novel and interesting idea and I like the characters and the theme, but on the other it has an agenda which it tries to present in the most awkward way possible with minimal nuance or subtlety and darn is this game slow. I remember playing the first Witcher and thinking that running in circles a hundred times to talk to 50 different people in different corners of the map was tiresome, but this game just cranks it up to 11. Most of my game time is spent just wandering aimlessly across the map checking what options I have available to me because I feel stuck and just want to advance to the next day. It's gotten so bad that I decided to take a break from the game because it bored me out of my mind.

Other than that I'm continuing my Darkest Dungeon playthrough with moderate success and have also picked up the discounted STALKER games off steam, will have to give those a try too in the near future

Wild hearts

F.E.A.R god I love that game

Simcity 4. Still the best classical citybuilder I know of.

You got cucked out of your thread by me

Anyone play pizza tower? I keep hearing it's a goty contender, is it good or just a meme?

Wo Long. Started off great but got boring fast. Just play Nioh 2.

Atomic Heart, and it's ok, like a Russian Bioshock for whatever that's worth. I like that the enemies take some strategy and patience to defeat, though maybe a bit too much if you're playing drunk/high (and who isn't?).

My Golden Tee machine got fixed so was happy to be back playing that last night, also played some of my pinball machines. My house is a boomer playground.

Playing that new wo long game rn, i like it so far

Super Auto Pets. Might try slay the spire again since I never really gave it a fair shake.

GTA SA

I am playing Hitman

Dome Keeper lately which is a good one to waste a few minutes when brain becomes fried with other things

Company Of Heroes 3. I'm mad. Allies have shit balance rn.

I was really addicted to Against the Storm for like a week straight. They basically made the starting part of an Age of Empires game into a gameloop itself. You build up a settlement with a small amount of workers, chopping down trees and gathering food and other supplies to survive the increasingly hostile weather that comes. Each settlement takes between 30 minutes to a couple hours to complete, and after I think 6 settlements it wipes the map and you begin again. Each successful settlement gives different resources that you use to unlock more stuff in a talent tree, and you get more resources for playing on harder difficulties, which adds more challenging game mechanics.

Finished Hogwarts a few days ago, the RPG label means nothing anymore, but it was a fun game.

Been playing Atomic Heart since then but haven't gotten sucked in, might give Elden Ring another chance.

nfs undercover, because I'm a masochist

Hoi4

Leading the Mexican Socialist Republic against the menace

Mass Effect Trilogy replay

assassin creed 3

I started playing The Forest last night after owning it for years. I'm enjoying it

Just finished Panzer Dragoon Saga, considering going through again to get achievements I missed.

I fricked up and accidentally turned Hardcore Mode off when I was playing with settings, so I also have two late game achievements as Softcore only and it is driving me crazy.

Really fantastic game start to finish. Cannot recommend strongly enough. Don’t really want to play anything else now, but I might give another Saturn game a try. PDS will be really hard to follow.

Im playing some weeb game called rabi ribi. Its like a two platformer with bullet heck bosses. Its legit embarrassing to be stuck on a boss that is a cat girl named vanilla who calls everyone master

Finishing up a replay of the Shadowrun games. I like them all but the decking in Hong Kong makes me want to quit every time.

I wish there were more coming though. It's an interesting world.

started playing retail wow again. yeah im a holy paladin

@Aevann post your brawhalla clips

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