Weekly "What are you playing thread?!" #43

Started a survival Skyrim playthrough as a Breton paladin (heavy armor, claymores, restoration) been pretty fun had never actually done a survival playthrough but I had to add mods for additional carriage stops because I'm not that neurodivergent

!nwahs

Picked up Black Mesa in the Steam sale, not bad for £3

Finally finished Red Alert 3 (Uprising). Second Empire mission took me around 7/8 tries . Still, I'm really surprised how much I enjoyed this game, especially when it's by many considered the worst C&C, and my prior bad experience with it.

I even enjoyed the skirmish games more than before, support power abuse is probably the biggest joy killer there is, so you need to rush before late game powers come online. If they were nerfed the game would be more in my ballpark. Also, if base defences were not borderline useless. I just prefer to take some time instead of going super fast all the time, but I have to accept that's not how this game was designed.

Also it has the best AI from any RTS game I've played. It's really responsive.

And the OST is great. Choir of mecha storm has been playing on repeat in my head since yesterday.

Started a new Factorio save this week. I'll finish this one, mark my words

Started playing RE4 Remake and I like it a lot, but I do have some complaints.

1. It's poorly optimized. I get fps drops sometimes using a 3070ti.

2. Sound is broken even though I selected the Headphones option. When enemies make noises I can hear they are very close to me when in reality they are actually far away.

3. It didn't scare me at all and I'm at chapter 4 already.

With my peepee

i bought peggle deluxe on steam

gemmed game

Modded Medieval 2: Total War

absolutely amazing how badly total war games have fallen off over the last ten years

@Losercel is too busy being a christcuck

What does that mean? Did he decide to take on a pilgrimage or something?

Also I'm playing Dishonored 2 and Signal State ()

Can recommend both

Some kid I work with gifted me Lies of P. I'm loving it. I wish it wasn't so linear but it is what it is.

Destiny 2 but only because I am addicted at this point.

Thanks for the WHIII mod recommendations. I was trying the Old World mod which had been trending on the subreddit.

I actually think it's fricking awful. There is way too much distance between each province and the new minor factions just sit there never declaring war. It's so boring.

Got Boltgun on the steam sale and cannot recommend it enough. Even if you don't give a shit about 40k (although you're lame if you don't) it's an excellent boomer shooter.

Playing some TNO america. It's fun but holy shit if you don't wrap up the proxies in a reasonable timeframe, you'll find yourself fighting like 4 different wars at the same time.

I've been playing Tales of Arise. It's so-so. While I feel the gameplay is a slight improvement over Tales of Berseria, the story is not as good. Velvet was a much better protagonist than Alphen.

Went back to civ 5 for a couple of games. Spain on deity is so much fun

I played the first hour of Guardians of the Galaxy. It's nicely polished, good dialogue and voice acting. I probably won't finish it though, it's not my kind of game.

Played +R and 3s with a dramatard, grinding cs2 a bit, and I tried this mod for minecraft called better than wolves which is actually very interesting.

Gigabash and astrea six sided oracles

Soon to be probably pokemon uranium or pokemon soulstones 2 and Kingsvein

Was doing a 100 percent run of San Andreas and I glitched the game in a way that would've been super annoying to complete

Playing lost judgement and speedrunning infuriated% on randos on faceboom

Pirated AC 6 to try it out, I missed the sale.

My pirated version is ver 1.00, and my god Balteus is a complete bastard back then.

Hopefully there will be a Spring sale.

Other than that, PoE. Still have no idea where the King of mist stronghold is supposed to be.

Discovered Book of Hours came out, so I've been playing that. Pretty chill stuff though it's still so confusing for me. Also been playing stellaris, which is always a mistake. I enjoy it a lot, but it always feels over long before it's actually over.

Got Guardians of the Galaxy from EGS.

It's ok for a capeshit AAA goyslop. I never feel challenged and the game feels dull and butonmashy, so eh.

Cave Blazers is still amazing.

Gonna try to finish up twials of mana before i go on to other jerpergers. Speaking of, anyone have some recommendations for more jerpergers (jrpgs)?

Symphony of the Night. Ever played a game that completely envelops you? Yeah, it's one of those.

It's rare for a game to feel magical like when I was a kid but this is it

Wish I'd played it when I was younger because being able to turn into a wolf would've caused my pre-teen edgelord self to soypog

I have my Steam Deck now but I'm only just getting it set up

I'm thinking of getting back into Empire At War since the total conversion mods are so good and have come even further then when I played in the mid 2010's.

And in general I'm happy to get emudeck so I can play my boomer games

Kingsvein coming out in like 3 days. Same guy who made voidspire and the other tactics games. New one in his series is the grimdark archtype. The 4 are basically:

Straight rpg adventure

Roguelite inside giant monster

Openworld with open sea

Grimdark mega castle spelunk

All Tactics grid based rpgs like ogre/fft

Also Mario Wonder, only played 3 levels but it's already great. The world is strange though. There's lines of sequential levels but then they randomly lead to open areas like in Mario 3d world? Weird compared to older ones but it's cool just play any level you want in any order.

AGOT CK3 it's pretty neato. I still don't really know how to play CK3 but I'm fingering it out.

Played through the early access portion of gloomwood. That was a lot of fun. Excited for the full game to come out in ten years

Now im trying to play through the thief series. Just got through the bonehoard mission in the first game. That sucked. Game is way better when you are not constantly being chased by zomboids and dying from falling off ledges and ropes and ladders

the armored core series

do i have a sign in front of my house that says dead zigger storage?

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