Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing?’ thread #24: Lot of stuff coming out all of a sudden, feels like

I've been playing more Warcraft 3. I'm up to the Night Elves campaign and god darn it, I hate the Night Elves so much. I hate the way they look, I hate the way they sound, and I hate that they're so darn squishy. I need to power through it because I know that on the other side it gets better.

I've also been playing Age of Empires 4. Yup, it's an Age of Empires game. I like that each faction has its own unit designs, so the units actually look appropriate to the faction you're playing. Also, the campaign is fun because as you play through it, you unlock little documentary videos about the medieval world. I unlocked one about how paint was made yesterday!

But if I had to choose, I'd still go for Age of Empires 2. Apparently the team that did the 'Definitive Edition' of 1, 2 and 3 are doing Age of Mythology next, so I'm really looking forward to that.

Niko and his friends are so shit they almost lost to complexity. I need a new team to support but all top teams are either Reddit, Russians, literal whos, or Russian literal whos.

WoW. New megadungeon was/is fun and the quests to unlock old Nax was as well. Also baby dragon daycare (though I'm not really far with that one). Good casual game

I'm eyeing Jagged Alliance 3, but will probably wait until Christmas season for more free time for that. To much hiking & grilling going on atm for it.

The Destroy All Humans 2 Remake is awesome

FFXVI: I'm about a 3rd of the way though. I like that its a very cinematic, cutscene heavy game, but the combat is pretty braindead, exploration sucks, and the RPG elements are severely lacking. That being said, I wouldn't mind the flaws nearly as much if there was an actual party system. A shallow action rpg could be way more interesting with a whole party to deck out and optimize and the one thing that makes a final fantasy game a final fantasy game is the party. I heard the combat is actually good on new game plus but I have no desire to experience the same game with better combat.

Street Fighter 6: This is the first fighting game I've really tried to get into and i'm having a blast. I'm playing chun li with classic controls(keyboard) because I am both a thigh fetishist and I like playing challenging classes/characters in games. I'm a shitty iron player but I think my inputs are getting more consistent. I definitely have some bad noob habits like jumping in to attack a lot and panic mashing so i really need to work on that. I'm also horrible at reacting to drive impacts, and i need to focus my eyes more on the opponent's character and not my own so I can react to things better. I have mixed feelings about modern controls because it sucks getting autocombo'd by some other noob, but at the same time it means I get to practice against more challenging opponents at low rank. I am too bad to comment on the games' balance, but I along with many other players think getting pushed into the corner is too punishing. If the stages were a little wider it would at least feel like you deserve it when you get someone in the corner.

I started playing LISA after enough dramatards shilled it in this dramapost

I was fully expecting to hate it for a solid hour or so but I have to admit it's good, I was misled into thinking it is anything remotely like Earthbound or Undertale.

RPG with a huge roster of characters that are at risk of unexpected permadeath is a good bit, I'm glad I played it on Pain but wish I could turn off the minmaxing autist part of my brain that makes me savescum out of bad choices. The version currently on Steam says "Definitive Edition" so I was worried it was censored but can confirm it's still racist. Being an indiegame I was expecting gratuitous pop culture meme references, but they've only been about wrestling. Considering this based.

Exoprimal is a very fun game about fighting hordes of dinosaurs with a team. You're stuck in a dimensional time loop running wargame simulations for a rogue AI. The exosuits are satisfying to use and the overall vibe is kino.

It's an odd mix of PvE and PvP. Every mission you compete against a second team in a mirrored dimension to see who can finish first. Sometimes(or all the time if you select the matchmaking optoin) you get put into the same dimension and have to fight against the enemy exosuits as well.

My only gripes are it takes a bit too long at the start to get to new content(still fun!) and people who decide running 4 tanks is a good idea.

Someone ping dinochads for me.

Forgot to mention it's on Gamepass.

Started another bloodborne playthrough, i get that itch every few months

Also hoi4 bcuz

Pikmin 2 cuz I'm poor lol. It's good! I love how colorful and obnoxious the graphics are Tried to play it a year ago but couldn't get it on switch after pikmin 3

Played a crapload of Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 1 this week while listening to podcasts; it confirmed that, to me, they are still more fun than Battlebit. I think I'm just not into the milsim stuff they added to battlebit (though I appreciate it) as well as honestly hating the graphics/artstyle.

As for this weekend, my EZflash came in today (it's basically a gameboy advance cart that you can put roms on) and plan to do a cozy day tomorrow just playing some Pokémon or something

Heroes of Might and Magic 5.5

Necropolis rules

Started a new character on diablo 4 since seasonal just dropped.

Can't wait until they nerf this one too.

Dave the Diver. He's fat but loveable.

Just finished FF16 and want to kill myself

I have been playing Pikmin 4. It is a very relaxing game to play on a lazy Saturday.

I hadn't played Oxygen Not Included in awhile so I didn't realize that the new private bedroom requirements call for the ceiling to be at least four tiles off the floor, so I had to rebuild my fricking living area. I also didn't realize that the room needs to be at least 24 tiles so I need to rebuild it again. I still give it best survival building game/10.

Mostly Workers and Resources. Still one of the best games ever made imo. Also picked up Two Point Campus last night, fairly interesting management sim. Also been playing more of Airport CEO, the game has grown on me, but there's quite a few strange pieces which simply don't exist, and many features which aren't properly explained.

Finally got around to playing control. Fun gameplay, but I've come to appreciate Gordon Freeman being a silent protagonist.

Played Katana Zero on my

Cheers whoever here recommended it to me

Wu long and terminator resistance

I finally started Zelda. So far I'm enjoying it. Last night I did my first traditional dungeon. Overall an improvement over the divine beasts, with a larger area, more navigational challenge, and the ability to climb. They've still got the unfortunate lack of normal enemies, though. It was just one at a time, and never an interesting or challenging encounter. And I miss dungeon items.

While I really loved BotW and am excited by how much they've added, I already feel the game might be a bit overstuffed. I'm not going to book it for the endgame, but I'm okay with not exploring every corner of the map this time. BotW was too much of a hit to not make another in its style, but I also hope we get another more traditional Zelda in the future.

My kenshi solo playthrough is going well. Starving bandits have beaten my butt 15 times but I haven’t been enslaved or permanently crippled.

Got a house in Quinn and am now a rich miner.

Digimon Cyber Sleuth (haven't been a Digimon fan in 20 years but it's fun)

Half Life 2. I skipped Half Life 1 because I wasn't enjoying how it played. Haven't played Half Life 2 since The Orange Box came out. Looks incredible for its age. The opening is kino as well. Gameplay hasn't aged too well, but it's not terrible.

Still playing Battlebit as well. Playing it a little less now, going through one of those phases where I don't feel like multilayer games.

Trepang2 , Amnesia: The Bunker , Vintage Story , Way too much Pavlov VR , and some VR Walkabout Mini Golf

Finished chapter 8 of INFRA, it is seriously the most amazing game I have ever played. Also found out that Amnesia TDD got steam workshop integration for custom stories, might try out a couple of the highly rated ones.

I´m doing the new blue mage stuff on ff14.

Too busy to play much else atm.

I bought strangers of paradise last steam sale and I should get around to playing it because it´s hilariously edgy.

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