Weekly ‘What are you playing?’ Thread: #10: Whooaaaa Those are some HILARIOUS patch notes edition

I'm still playing through Microsoft Flight Sim and Burnout Paradise. Had a very pleasant flight earlier today in which I went direct from Geneva, over the Alps, and then landed in Genoa. It's a real looker, that game.

On top of that, I bought Spyro Reignited Trilogy on sale after completing the original game on PSX a few weeks ago. I don't have so much nostalgia for 2 and 3, but I'm about a third of the way through Spyro 2 and I'm liking what I've played so far. They're really comfy games and in revisiting them, it's impressive how well they've held up. For its part, the remake seems nicely done and just having modern right stick camera controls is well worth the price of admission.

But what's really grabbed my attention recently is Cosmoteer. It's basically one of those factory games but in service of making a big spaceship. It's the first game in quite a while that I've played for a long session - it checks so many boxes for me. However, it is Early Access, so there is the palpable feeling that at some point the content is just going to run out without any satisfying conclusion.

G*mers get the bullet too

I just play Civ 4

Just beat Metro Exodus. Probably going to try pirating Last of Us Part 1 unless another performance update is coming out soon.

Might also try the old thief games.

Last Epoch this week until PoE 3.21 autism commences next week.

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Playing MGS4 through an emulator. Can run it at a constant 60 fps with rare drops.

I've played 1, 2 and 3 and so far 4 is my favourite, but we'll see if it keeps up until the end.

MMO: OSRS as usual, making some solid gainz. hopefully hit 2000 total level by winter

Racing: My dad got a direct drive wheel for his sim setup and it's sick. Sooo much better than the normal consumer grade stuff. Assetto Corsa looks jank but it's pretty realistic. The campaign starts you out in some dogshit cars on glorified go kart tracks and you have to claw your way up, even at 90% difficulty I'm having a hard time

Single player/RPG: Started Neir:Automata, it's pretty interesting and art style is incredible but I can't help but feel like I'm getting destroyed even through the first level and missing a lot of stuff. idk I'll keep playing and see if I feel different

Backburner: WoW classic, can't seem to consistently play as leveling at this point is like playing a single player game. Hopefully we get a SoM 2 soon. And Borderlands 1, just a bit dated and the gameplay loop gets repetitive fast. I'll eventually slog through it cause I heard 2 is really good

Still playing subnautica

Last week I said that it's not engaging me, but I take it back, the game has grown on me

It's nothing spectacular, but it's interesting enough to keep me going

Im still hopelessly addicted to Total War Warhammer 3, and that not going to change with the upcoming DLC, but i wish more of my friends played PC because Sons of the Forest is out in beta and its fantastic.

Satisfactory

FORTNITE

I played the new Lego Star Wars for an hour and I really didn't enjoy it. I thought it would be a nice couch game, haven't played a lego game in 15 years or something. Gameplay wasn't fun, and it seemed to rely on open world bullshit too much. I'd do a mission that took maybe 2 or 3 minutes then it would put me in a hub world with probably an hours worth of content. Don't know what I was expecting tbh. Steam rejected my refund

genshin impact

way too little booba for my taste

Played through the Resident Evil 4 Remake over the past week, it was fricking great. My only complaint is that the difficulty description for "hardcore" mode implies that if you've played the original, you should play hardcore. Shit was wayyy harder than even the professional difficulty in the OG. They developed characters way better, Ashley is actually cool/funny and Luis is way more involved as well. Ada's VA is unanimously considered dog doodoo, but she's not very present anyway.

I'll probably be playing through it again a few times over the year to unlock the bonus weapons.

Other than that just practicing BnBs in Guilty Gear +R

Didn't play much this week, just a couple more hours of Fire Emblem Engage. Hard/Classic actually started to feel a bit challenging in one early mission, but it was mostly my fault for splitting the party (afaict almost always a bad idea unless the game forces you to do it). Had to use the turn wheel thing a bit. One early cutscene seemed to show an enemy character conspicuously dropping the item you use for turn wheeling, which seems kind of sus. Hope there's like some kind of Sekiro "bad ending" that punishes you for using it too much or something

The april fools voicelines in OW2 are actually pretty funny ngl

oh wait both the patch notes i thought were jokes were for real patches

Hitman II, I'm doing the SASO challenges for all the missions.

It's pretty fun, but really hard, and the loading times on the PS4 make it sometimes a b-word when you just keep on failing

Tales series binge, currently on Graces f. Dug out the old PS3 for it and everything. Pretty fun, has a lot of very cool ideas, plot is rather meh, mechanics are infuriatingly obscured.

Ace combat 5 but im about to finish it and dont know that to play next

Finished Black Mesa, everyone said that Interloper dragged on for too long but it honestly wasn't as bad as I thought it would be (though maybe that is because I didn't play it in one go.), however I did think the first Xen chapter did go on for way too long.

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous is a fricking awesome old school RPG but man frick the Crusade mechanics in it I hate it so much. I’ve already put almost 40 hours into it and I’m too invested to quit because of the stupid crusade mode.

April Fools day from video game companies are always super boring.

Still haven’t played anything since chrono cross sucked so bad

Been like 3 weeks

Considering streaming donkey kong country 1-3 but I don’t know how to stream

been playing a lot of snowrunner lately. the tasks are kinda tedious but at the same time its kinda relaxing to play while watching youtube vids or some movies

might just be my autism

I finished PoE this week and despite my complaints in the last iterations of this thread, I think it was a solid game. Neither great nor particularly terrible, it was just fine and sometimes fine is just good enough.

To finish my quest of playing all unplayed games in my steam library the RNG gods have decided I should start Ori and so far it is quite fun. I dislike the backtracking already and I think it will get a lot worse whenever I unlock new abilities, but that's for future me to worry about.

Also carp pin this thread please

I finished The Surge a few days ago. I was surprised by how much I liked it. I didn't care for the last area or the cowboy DLC but the rest was great.

Debating whether to get back into Path Of Exile with the new league. The weapon trees look awesome

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