Weekly ‘What Games Are you Playing?’ Thread #20: Modern Warfare III

Finally got around to playing Granblue Fantasy Versus' campaign/rpg mode.

Honestly? It's cool, it's good. But it could be so, so much more

slay the spire: still working on winning a20h twice in a row on silent. I think i need to get more creative in terms of how i deal with certain issues silent has with certain parts of the game, like time eater for example.

diablo iv: picked this up the other day and have been enjoying it. i've played a little bit of d2/d3 but i never got far in either game. lm playing a whirlwind barb and im enjoying it a lot more than the minion spammer necro i played last time i checked out d3. I don't understand d3 well enough to really comment on the gameplay changes, but i can undoubtedly say the art direction for div is superior in every single way and I think that getting the right vibe is really important for very repetitive games like this. I like how the side quests are short and easy to do while you do the campaign, and the dodge button makes the combat a lot more engaging. I'm sure what people are saying about the end game being shit is correct but i don't really care too much because I plan on playing FFXVI anyway lol

i made this epic tf2 frag video

(i apologize for the low bitrate or whatever it is that makes it look like shit at 1080p lol)

I just got anno 1800 but I think it’s going to be one of those games that I install but never run

I played some Project Cars 2 online last night, that was fun even though I got my butt kicked

Been making a killing in the market on OSRS, like 70mil in the past month just passively flipping. It's been extremely forgiving for some reason, idk what's going on. Also the sailing skill actually looks interesting, and they axed the new prayer book thank god. hopefully they do that with the new forestry bullshit they're trying to push

I gave up on WoW Classic, I guess I forgot yet again how boring it is to level alone. Might try the hardcore servers though, as long as they don't have the r-slurred rules like only running a dungeon once

still on the fence about D4, it looks fun but I've never been big into those kind of games so idk

um ff16 - i get to be a hot anime boy

Finally reached the Epilogue in RDR2. Been playing this game for 6 or 7 weeks now and kinda getting bored with it now, but I intend to finish the main and side missions.

Still playing Afterimage, really enjoying it. Getting pretty close to the end I think, gonna try and 100% it

Didn't play anything this week - got bogged down with work (still in the probationary period). I'm considering getting a Steam Deck + dock to get some Civ6/TW:Warhammer turns done before bed.

Ratchet and Clank 1 for the past two weeks. Nearly finished.

Good game. It throws a ton of mechanics at you and doesn’t allow much use of each (walking upside down, water manipulation, etc). Will be interesting to see what 2 and 3 are like.

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I haven't had time to play any video games this week. Work has been kicking my butt and I just feel pretty wiped out in general. But here are my current thoughts!

• I still want to keep going with Age of Wonders 4. I can't believe it's been like a month since I bought it and I'm still only 50 turns into my first game, even though I've really enjoyed what I've seen so far.

• I made a new skin for my favorite GT3 car in Assetto Corsa and I'm really quite pleased with it.

• I keep thinking about trying to go back and complete Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which I've been playing off-and-on for years at this point. Same goes for Skyrim - I have a save I've been playing since 2018.

• I've got a bunch of Age of Empires 2 campaigns I need to get round to playing.

• Also have a weird urge to play Warcraft III. Well, not that weird because that game is sick. Is the updated version or whatever not shit yet? Or was its shittiness overblown as these things often can be?

They fixed the gears of war 3 servers so ive been playing it a ton. Lots of noobs in horde thanks to gamepass which is just a beautiful site. And beast mode is still as fun as heck

Also playing gears 5 and some 4. Its fun seeing how the series has changed. But I can beat 50 waves with the same group of randoms on gears 3 in less time it takes me to finish 12 waves of horde frenzy on gears 5. Wtf

No gears marseys

Hearthstone

Stellaris for (?)-th week.

But also New Vegas. I haven't played it in a while.

Maybe this time I will finish all the DLC. I stared OWB once but never finished, the same goes for Lonsome Road, and I went trough Honest Hearts after I accidently killed the guide, so it was just an Indigenous people's extermination simulator.

saw yakuza series on sale on gog , never played those so gave yakuza 0 a go, pretty fun so far I like it

I finished my Dark Souls 3 run with the rule that I stay embered whenever possible. I eventually ran out while fighting Friede (I still always popped them when I had a chance afterward). Gael only took me a few tries, and I beat Midir for the first time. Overall a fun experience, but I think the strength of DS3's late game bosses tend to inflate people's overall perception of the game.

I'm not Soulsed out yet, so I moved on to DS2. The always human rule will be harder here because if I run out, I'll be eating a health debuff every time I die with no way to counteract it. Fortunately, I'm pretty good at 2. Dex/Int is a fun way to play here, while I mostly do Str in the other games.

Trying to get back into nms but it’s been so long I forgot what to do or how to do it. Trying to get my settlement reorganized and figure out how to get modules for my living ship.

@carpathianflorist any advice?

Death road to Canada and thinking about getting the new Zelda

Still going strong on the new Zelda

Forza Horizon 5

Kotor for og xbox

Splinter Cell for og xbox

Downloaded the Final Fantasy 16 demo, didn't get very far in it without getting bored by establishing the lore and world-building, will prolly try to play again soon

I bought the meme game Only Up and it’s better enjoyed watching than playing. It’s just…dull to play by yourself.

Started TOTK finally, and I really like it, I’m having fun but IDK maybe I waited too long and got too hyped or I’m too r-slurred to make anything crazy with what I have access to.

started playing tears of the kingdom

it's so much better than botw

i am still addicted to town of salem 2

Jedi Survivor. It’s great and as good or better than the first. Playing on PC and I guess they patched it because it’s perfectly smooth at 4K / 60 fps on my machine.

oblivion

I started Dark Souls Remastered after picking it up on sale. It’s my first game of this type.

I’m getting through it so far. I already placed the lordsvessel and defeated two of the bosses for it, so I think it’s starting to wrap up? My guy is a heavy tank but funnily enough I didn’t plan it that way. In the beginning I’d just use my strongest weapon, and so when I found the zweihander I had to switch to heavy armor because I had to two hand it. Now I have too many points into strength and endurance to be anything else.

One question, does new game plus give you easy level ups or does it still costs thousands of souls each time? Can your new game plus character be guided into another play style entirely without a massive grind? (Something like warrior into miracle user?)

I'm currently playing the 2012 XCOM reboot, I only ever finished it vanilla so now running it with the Enemy Within expansion. It's a fun game. And also In parallel I've been replaying the 2016 DOOM, trying to 100% it on Nightmare difficulty. I mostly switch to it when one of my XCOM troops dies and I need to vent off some steam

Picked up Evil West on sale right now on ps store. Very surprised at how good it's been so far, it's basically wild west zombie GOW without the smug cutscenes (and without the soy of Ragingcöck). Combat is a lot of fun.

Been busy so I'm still playing through the updated version of Quake on Steam. There's a ton of expansions added in, and you know what?

They're all really good.

The amount of creativity on display given the engine's tool-set is extremely impressive.

Still dunking all over Capellans in Mechwarrior 5

I love to rock binary lasers and boy howdy it’s getting hot in here

I've been away from home and keyboard, so I've been digging into my switch backlog.

so far:

Fire Emblem - 3 Houses, honestly a ton of fun. The permadeath thing seems a lil dumb atm with how accessible save points are, but maybe it matters more later. Combat is an interesting puzzle, the characters are enjoyable, easy 8/10.

Touhou Sunken Fossil World. Interesting boss rush platformer-ish game. Super good music, and the art is done by someone who can actually draw. 7/10.

SMT5 I don't understand this game, there's about 6 million little mechanics. Currently sticking it out, but I'm really lost on how all this shit actually works. Hopefully it either gets properly challenging, or the storyline gets more engaging. Still early on, so we'll see ?/10

Cyberpunk was on sale so I gave it a spin. Expectations were low but i still was vaguely disappointed even at less than half price. Can't imagine how pissed I would have been if I'd cared enough to buy it at launch.

Picked up Stray in the same sale though. It's comfy and I like it so far.

Also replaying MGSV to try and finally finish it, and perpetually chasing the dragon on MTG arena.

Played a couple of hours of Encased. It's alright I guess so far. A bit heavy on looting everything but maybe that will change.

I’m playing dead space remake and wow they actually fixed the weapon balancing and the power mode system. I do prefer the original art style (it looked more like a hellish medieval torture chamber) but the set pieces are gorgeous now and lighting plays a huge part in gameplay. Some of the zero g scenes are jaw dropping in how everything looks floating around. The performance is still bad but at-least the stutters are only In loading zones. It also does the single camera take better then dad of bore.

Recent current events inspired me to fire up some UBOAT.

I tried playing a bit of TF2 after a 3~ year hiatus.

Also tried out World of Horror, name is misleading . I find it fun.

Just set difficulty to peaceful

valorant total war attila and battlebit

I’ve been playing Golden Sun