Hades

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been playing half minute hero on the PSP. good game. i've also been messing around with gran turismo also on the psp but if anything its making me wanna play through the actually good GT games on the ps2.

I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077 - it's actually very good now even though I have problems with the new level scaling mechanic (and dislike that they removed some more interesting 'preparation' elements of a stealth-hacking playstyle like breach protocol)

(not my gameplay but I'm too lazy to record any )

Major recommend right now even if it's a bit janky. It's really fun and it's got a great story with loads of atmosphere. Bonus "le epic graphisk" if you have a $500+ nvidia brick

If you want to play a GOAT cyberpunk RPG / immersive sim and haven't played Deus Ex, make sure to grab it on steam while it's $0.97, then use these mods:

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I've also played Amnesia: The Bunker - which is now my favorite Frictional Games project and the best Amnesia by far. It's a lot more open-ended and feels like an immersive sim + a 'single creature' horror game like Alien: Isolation. It's genuinely excellent and since the gameplay revolves around exploration (of both the environment and the mechanics) I won't spoil it here. Just check it out, even if you're not usually a fan of survival horror.

(It was so impactful to me that I was 'inspired' by many of it's mechanics for my most recent game jam project)

thanks for the thread mr losercel

FF 7 Remake... But I'm a braincel and the fricking materia is too much choice for me. I don't know which ones to use, my build is shit, and I get beat up by anything more threatening than basic enemies.

Great times!

Yay! These threads are back.

I'm still playing RimWorld! I'm starting to consider the endgame since I have all of the spaceship parts researched now, but my colony is massive. So far I've got 70+ colonists and about 400 animals. Food is getting a bit tricky to balance at this stage; I'm having to put my colonists on vegan diets because the majority of my meat production is going towards feeding my carnivorous animals. I have 20 cougars, 50 wargs, 50 wolves and 30 cats, so it doesn't leave much room - especially since my chickens were almost wiped out by a brutal cold snap with temperatures reaching like -30 centigrade.

Other than that, I'm still playing Grounded with my friend. I kinda just want it to be over, despite how good the game is compared to other entries in the genre.

We also played Crab Champions recently - very fun game, but I feel like we basically saw all it had to offer in a single session.

I also played a little of The Binding of Isaac after getting whatever the most recent DLC was, but bounced off it quickly. I'm too rusty to handle the difficulty level of the save I have and couldn't get past the second set of levels after like 4 attempts.

Been playing SimCity 4 and Star Valor on my laptop. SimCity 4 continues to be a masterpiece and I've been experimenting with weird city layouts, with some degree of success. I'm unsure about Star Valor. I played a few hours and it felt like I'd already seen everything. It seemed like a less interesting Starsector, and if I just wanted a space-themed ARPG I'd play Drox Operative.

I also need to go finish the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. I'm up to the last boss in the last game so really just need to bang that out. I cannot recommend this collection enough. The visuals, audio and just the vibes in general are impeccable.

I also bought Forza Horizon 5 and Anno 1800 in the Steam sale. Excited to play these with my friend. Does anybody have some co-op tips for either of those?

Thinking about buying Songs of Syx, Dwarf Fortress, Kenshin and maybe also SimCity 3000 soon. I also recently uncovered my trove of Skyrim mods and save files, so I might get back into a run I've been playing since 2018.

Bought the Master Chief Collection on Steam. Never actually played the campaigns, just blood gulch sporadically when over at friends homes.

Gonna see what the Halo hype is about.

A dramatard introduced me to Geshin Impact, and I have been grinding that lately. I havent been playing much of anything before this so its been a nice intro back into vidya games.

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Skyrim permadeath.

Back to Conquest of Elysium. The Enchanter faction just turns invincible when you make it to the endgame, your constructs have massive HP, high armor and are completely immune to like 80% of the spells in the game. I think I might go murder all the gods on the various planes and make an effort/shillpost about it if I find the time

Finished AC6 with all three endings. Really enjoyable and it feels good to actually complete a game once in a while.

Witcher 3.

Played up until I beat the griffin the first 2 times but never continued after that. This is my first actual playthrough and it's prettttty good.

Recently I played Phoenix Point, an X-Com successor led by the creator of the original. A Lovecraftian mist has covered the land, billions have walked into the sea, they have returned as horrible crabmen, centipedewomen, etc., and the apocalypse is well underway. You lead the Phoenix Project which is militantly opposed to this state of affairs.

It would be amazing if it wasn't so flawed. The key new thing it does is have free aiming for bursts of fire with individual rounds simulated. So you take your guy's POV and have circles indicating your aiming cone. There's location based damage. When it works it's great. Where "flanking" in new XCOM is a board-game-like matter of the relative positions of the two units and the cover on a grid, "flanking" in Phoenix Point means actually getting a good angle to bypass cover or hit a weaker spot.

But it doesn't always work. There's a "quick aim" you should be able to use for dead easy shots, but it's too risky since it does something stupid too often. I had a guy up on a roof behind a low parapet, and aimed down at a horrid crabman. The crabman filled my reticle, a sure shot by all indications, but when I fired my guy simply unloaded his machine gun into the wall in front of him. I had a guy standing adjacent to a stationary target I needed to destroy, so I risked the quick aim. Miss. I used the manual aim. Miss. I figured out that the tip of my guy's barrel was inside the target, so the hits weren't registering. There's a risk of friendly fire, generally cool, but I also once stood two snipers next to each other overwatching a downrange choke point and had one shoot the other directly in the back.

But the most incomprehensible decision with the aiming i that they made the units' idle animations significant to gameplay. They keep moving while you aim, just slowed down. For the typical unit with slow idle animations, this means sometimes you're zooming in and out of the manual aim to advance it to a point where you have a good angle on the head or whatever. Some units have more spastic idle animations, so they're still going pretty fast when it slows down, and then you have a little bit of shitty FPS in your X-Com.

The strategic pacing seemed off to me - I only saw one of the biggest non-boss monstrosity, in the last mission, and of the second biggest enemy, an artillery crab, I only saw a weak harassment version until the penultimate mission. And they were great enemies. I had my guys in a 4 story building defending a moon launch and the full-power artillery crab just knocked down half the building.

It's a shame, there are a lot of good ideas in this game.

My second playthrough of BG3, then cyberpunk, then my third BG3 playthrough.

I've picked up Dead Space (2023), Cyberpunk, and the DLC for Horizon Forbidden West.

I'm also in the middle of my second grounded difficulty Last of Us 2 playthrough.

I've played and finished Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga recently and while I have some complaints about it, I genuinely believe this is a great title. In short, it's a fun blend of older titles such as Ogre mixed with Fire Emblem. You can create your own squads by filling them up with named heroes and other units providing them with battle tactics, stats and even artifacts to enhance their performance, and feel like a grand strategist or something. The story and characters are borderline insufferable but you can skip the cutscenes and stuff so the army organization between the battles is actually really fun. It is prone to min/maxxing (especially on higher difficulties and some achievements) although you don't really have to do it.

Like a dragon genjin, persona tactica and Honkai rail. Next game will be avatar or Gungrave

I recently bought Sekiro and so far am really impressed

I'm only like 2-3 hours in, so everything is still largely a mystery to me, but I like how different the narrative style is

All I knew going in is that combat is parry-focused, there's a mechanic that kills off NPCs, and that it was more "linear" (as in, not an RPG with complex point distributions).

But once I started noooticing the level of exposition in this game (eavesdropping, way more cutscenes, a lot of NPCs to talk to, etc.) something clicked in my head; FromSoft is trying out all the Western-style themes as well as "genres" with their games. Dark Souls is a Western-themed action RPG, then they do the Gothic Horror (aka western) themed game, then they literally do their own version of a God of War/Uncharted, "cinematic" Sonyshit style game (with their own unique Jap style/charm intertwined), and finally Elden Ring doing the (western) openworldslop style (with their own unique Jap style/charm intertwined).

(and yes, I know Sony isn't "western," but the westerners specifically gobble up their unique brand of wannabe movie-type games, and I think a lot of them are even from western studios)

I don't even think I've gotten to an actual boss yet, but the world is cool and I can see myself enjoying the combat

Got so badly fricked by demon of hatred that i gave up and cheesed it by baiting it off the cliff. Frick that dogshit boss i'll beat him properly later during the shura gauntlet or ng2+ whichever happens first. Isshin deserves every bit of the hype, 26 tries to kill him with demon bell.

Lies of P the world, lore, and art design are all top notch.

But the combat is a little too easy. It's missing a certain element that makes FromSoft games excruciating but rewarding

I think the game shipped with a harder difficulty, and they later nerfed it in patches

It's on sale on during bipoc friday, so if youre thinking of getting it, do it now

I need to finish Little Goodie Two Shoes so I can get the alternate endings for Freya and Lebkuchen but I feel no motivation to play the Witching Hour bits because they're hard yet I've already done them so it feels tedious. At least I can skip text I've already read.

I want to play the Yohane platformer but I have to finish LGTS first and I have no money since I'm moving.

I've also been forced to play Soda Dungeon 2 since the original was so old it's been removed from the App Store. The original barely counted as a video game but I found it a lot of fun and the second one adds needless complexity I don't really like even if it actually adds a bit of story.

But the real answer is: I haven't really been having time to play anything I've been too busy pumping out chapters so I can get my book contracted so I can make neetbux or working on double math classes.

Nothing. I was playing Terraria not long ago but dropped it.

I did a calamity revengeance (summoner) run and then tried the calamity infernum mod (magic this time), but post moon lord is a slog. The bosses are usually more interesting in infernum, but old duke was "dodge at a regular pace for a few minutes" on the end of the fight, and the next boss, devourer of gods, seemed to be the same thing for much longer.

So I just stopped.

Cyberpunk 2077 w Phantom Liberty DLC. Holy shit did they finally deliver in the end the game is incredible. I played it on PC day 1 launch and really had no issues with it then but it's so much more fleshed out and complete now.

Played as a tank last time but this time as a netrunner.

Pokemon liquid crystal. Im at a part with endless fetch quests and pissed off because it doesn't even really explain what i need to do so i keep having to google where to go

I just wanna battle pokemon, man. This is straight up bad game design

Sekiro and PoE.

PoE will end the current league soon.

Why the frick did Fromsoft put the Headless AFTER Snake Eyes? 2 shit bosses back to back.

I just beat the new pathfinder wrath of the righteous dlc (pretty good, way better then their previous one) and am playing a new campaign. Only beat it once, so there's still a lot of content I haven't seen

I have jumped back into Control. Goddam it's good. Gameplay really hits the spot and blasting foes feels impactful. I love the brutalist design of the Oldest House and the SCP inspired story is just Remedy is beyond based