Weekly ‘What’re you playing?’ Thread #20: Summer Salestice

Far cry 6. It's pushing the limits of my tolerance for mediocrity even for a mindless coop game. All the ingredients for a fun game are there but they frick it up. I think it's because the combat encounters are too small and broken up by long stretches of tedium

I just played a ton of Soulcalibur 2.

Started a new run of X-Piratez, a free mod for the free OpenXcom engine, which isn based on tech that’s older than Zoomers.

Suck it, Steamcels.

Still playing retail WoW for the occasional fun.

I also started Tender Loving Care. Young me wanted to play it and I forgot about the game for decades.

Any next fest demos you like that I should wishlist? Islands of the Caliph and Into the Necrovale are fun.

Gonna obtain that AEW wrestling game.

Finally started reading aokana now most the fandiscs are out. Also playing through the bioshock games finally.

I'm continuing my Dark Souls 2 human-maxxed run. So far I haven't died that much (other than Shrine of Amana), but I hope I'll make it through the DLC areas okay. I've run into a few players on Saturday afternoon/evenings, including a couple invaders, and I've tried out some of the NPC summons. While I prefer solo-ing as a first experience, DS2 in particular seems like it wants you to engage with the summon system. Lots of areas have NPCs available well before the boss, and the gankier areas are both fairer and more fun with an extra human player. Group mechanics, neat dungeon crawls, and the methodical combat system give DS2 the vibe of an edgy DnD campaign to me. While I understand people's problems with DS2, it has a special place in my heart, with both my favorite early-game and my favorite DLC levels of the series.

I did put nine hours into Anno 1800, good looking game mate

I fricking hate "ubisoft connect" and everyone involved in its development should be sentenced to forced labour in an outer hebridean coal mine

Sherlock Holmes crimes and punishment

New Kairosoft game came out this weekend so I’ve been playing that. It’s a mix of the burger and the airport game but set in a cafe and I like it so far.

My minor gripe is the fact that you don’t restart every time you open up a new cafe. It just makes it way too easy. I wonder how late game will look, if they’ll give you extra objectives or if it’ll be like the airport game where there’s relatively little late game stuff.

Been playing Easy Red 2. It's like RO2/RS but for $9 and single player (there is multi too). Surprisingly developed by one guy. Fun shit.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/

I'm having a blast (hehe) suicide bombing into traffic in Burnout Revenge

I've been playing Lingo Legend. It's a bit like Slay the Spire but while I'm brushing up on my Spanish

Zelda still.

Finally got Ck3 and put 10 hours into it yesterday

I got back into WoW Classic.. again. Its like right on cue when my sub runs out that I want to play. Oh well, gonna try to hit 80 this month, and maybe try out the Hardcore Era PTR

My foid got really into Minecraft cause of her cousin so also been playing that. There is so much new shit idek what is going on anymore lol

Speaking of that, the prices on almost everything in the Nintentdo store are fricking ridiculous. $30 for minecraft?? $60 for Advanced Wars reboot, that new Mario RPG remake is gonna be $60, Mario Kart 8 is still $60. I think it would be cheaper for me to buy a hackable switch than pay for the games I want

Played Starship Troopers with my buddies last night. A little janky because it's still early access but it's got serious potential. No major issues, just the occasional graphic glitch.

I finished Golden Sun and almost got all the achievements

missing a super grindy one and a missable bullshit one.

I’ve started the sequel (The Lost Age) which had a really novel way of carrying over all your shit but I won’t have time to play it more until next week :/ it’s off to a great start though and I am so impressed by the quality of both of these old butt games.

Got Gal Gun 2 in the Steam Sale and been playing that. Highly recommend

Finished Dark Souls with a Giantsdad build lol. Started a bunch of game pass games including Age of Empires 2, which I never played before.

pokémon showdown

Finished Link between worlds.

Considering launching Dyson Sphere Program since the next update will probably be at the end of the year and I've been itching to slave away in my free time.

Stellaris. It's almost 2 months since I returned to it, and honestly the multiplayer burned me out a bit.

It's fun to have other people to play with, but ADHD zoomers can be a bit too much for me in the long run. I much more prefer to play slower games solo.

Aside of that I got the GECK for New Vegas this week, so I'll probably get to playing and modding New Vegas for the next month or so. I don't really like to download mods, I prefer to tweak the games myself.

I'm playing Silent Hill 2 so I can understand just how dirty Bloober Team did it when they inevitably frick up the remake.

I've not got to anything truly scary yet (Just an hour or two in) but the vibe is nicely spooky and I'm really digging what the PS2 can do with it's limited graphics. It's just as good as when I was a kid.

Days Gone cos it was cheap.

It is literally a white trash simulator.

overwatch 2 but I'm gonna uninstall it because I'm spending too much time on it and I'm nowhere near good enough to justify playing it that much

FF16

>buying

Kenshi