Dwarf Fortress

BIG DADDY @Redactor0's POST ON MUDS AND ME PLAYING RITES OF WAR TIPPED ME OVER THE EDGE, STARTING A NEW CHARACTER IN ACHAEA, AGAIN. YOU ALL SHOULD FREE YOURSELVES OF GOYSLOP AND PLAY ACHAEA too...

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Started Yakuza 0 last week upon my sister's recommendation. Completely slated my desire to play the foiddew valley 1.6 update.

Can't believe I hadn't played this game series sooner. Absolutely loving it and the ability to switch between fighting and stupid bowling/arcade minigames.

Still Touhou,

FOR THE THIRD FRICKING TIME I MISS A 1CC ON KANAKO'S LAST SPELL IN MoF.

FRICK YOU B-WORD.

I can get Normal 1CCs on the easy games now, starting to practice Hards and PCB's extra stage.

Finished all of Skyrim's achievements, so I set out for new horizons. I saw that the Stalker trilogy got ported on consoles, which struck me as incredibly funny, considering how often those games sit on PC Master Race lists. As a fan of torturing myself, as evident from my obsession with Bethesda games, I chose my first time with Stalker to be on console, despite owning the trilogy on GoG for years and never booting them up.

Already finished SoC and I can definitely understand why these games are beloved by many. The atmosphere of desolate post-soviet living is really strong and the various groups trying to make something out of the terrible situation has a certain charm to it. The shooting is fun, although I am playing on vanilla and apparently it is one of the first things people mod out, so I guess I am in a minority yet again.

Currently finished the swamps in Clear Sky, so can't say much about the game yet. Some things they changed I like, the others I already miss. The ratings board was a nice thing to waste some time over as your character is catching their breath after a long run and it pleased one of the neurodivergent parts of my brain quite nicely, so I am sad to see it go. The nights are also way darker than they were in the first game, realistically so. Now roving packs of dogs are an even larger threat, as you might not see them before too late.

Dwarf Fortress was a lighting in a bottle, which was kept in for so long that it began to fizzle out. It feels like Rimworld has unironically taken over in popularity both in mainstream and niche spaces. Easier to learn and mod, I assume, but also more comprehensible. After a while of reading the epic Dwarf Fortress sagas, you begin to notice how about 40% of what happens in them is player head-canon and rationalisation of what happened, as the game didn't telegraph or even mention what truly took place.

Tynan won

Tarn lost

Don't have much free time currently so just the occasional tf2 match, but I really feel like I'm getting better. Those triple digit hours on soldier are starting to pay off

Yugioh stairway to the destined duel

I bought the $600 steam deck and $100 worth of games to play on it and have used it twice to only play Balatro

I played Arkham City and the ending was something else. My reactions, in order:

I'm playing Tunnet, an extremely neurodivergent game about network packet routing. You dig underground tunnels to build your own internet between a series of buried bomb shelters. Figuring out how to connect all the shelters to each other in an efficient way that minimizes packet loss is an enjoyable puzzle in the managing chaos and cleaning up your own messes genre. You have to optimize your network around the different characteristics of each subnet's traffic so that, for example, you don't have a big clog of outbound traffic that prevents packets from getting through, sensitive data doesn't get sent to the wrong endpoint, packets with a limited number of times you can check their characteristics get where they're going without degrading, etc. Unfortunately the game is programmed in Rust so you do have to choose your pronouns, and there are minor jumpscare horror elements that just detract from the experience. You can turn the horror monsters off, and I recommend doing so. A solid 7/10, worth it considering it only costs 8 maplebucks. You should play on the steam beta branch as it has several important quality of life features such as different cable colours.

Ive been playing the pikmin series for the first time. Currently on 2 and some of those caves are awful but I love it.

Whats everyones feeling on ff7 rebirth? I ended up skipping cuz I dont have much of an attachment to ff and havent played the dlc for the remake? Is the multiverse as awful as it sounds or is it contained well?

I've been playing Balatro on a degen grind. Been pretty fun so far. Besides that I've gotten the Gold Box DnD collection from the spring sale and Triangle Strategy so I'm flush with tactical RPGs to sink my teeth into. The guys behind Age of Decadence put Colony Ship on sale too so I have that to finally for real.

Lots of gaming this week for me, too lazy to write actual reviews.

Finished:

• Tyranny (18 Hours): Cool premise, good factions, good execution of its content, fights and combat are a bit boring, a bit too hard imo, lots of useless features (spires + crafting??), companions whatever, seems unfinished as the game ends somewhere in the middle of a larger act, cool concepts, typical words worsd words dialogues and lore, I'll give it a 7.

• Pentiment (11.5 Hours): Plays and feels like a VN, very good premise, decent execution, gripping narrative in the first two acts, however overstays its welcome a lot during the last act, very weird tonal shifts, lots of unnecessary shit in this, especially conversations about (i) nothing or (ii) things you already know, not sure if that was intended, another "choice-heavy" game where your choices literally don't matter, at least no religion = bad, well somewhat, I'll give a low 7.

Playing:

• Tactics Ogre (13 Hours): Much of the same as previous week. Level cap is r-slurred doe.

• DMC 3 (5 Hours): Killed Leviathan and the Succubus boss. Will probably finish this week.

Next:

• Final Fantasy 8: It's about time honestly.

• Catherine: Will play after finishing DMC 3 as I always play one controller + one mk game.

Quit CS2 because valve is r-slurred and my friends switched to Valorant or PUBG - both of which I dislike.

I'm playing bingle bingle.

Cities Skylines 2 got a new update it seems so I will try that but I was playing Delivering Mars last weekend

Escape From Tarkov GIVE ME YOUR CAR BATTERIES

Helldivers

Fortnite Too

My one friend hates Helldivers since he hates coordinating anything. Started playing without him and it's much more fun.

Debated going back to Baldurs gate but the combat and traps are so terribly unfun that I don't want to

playing dota while I wait for the new PoE league

I'm playing Battle Brothers again. I was tricked into going to a graveyard and fighting the undead again. They told me it was graverobbers and I only got 450 gold for it. RIP Torleif, Mad Harald and Olaf the Eunuch.

I've been playing Dragon's Dogma 2. My PC is powerful enough to deal with the performance issues, and the microtransaction stuff is completely invisible. The main problem, as it happens, is that the game just isn't very good. Pretty bummed since that was the only game I'm looking forward to this year.

Its shortcomings are put in more stark relief by the fact that I'm continuing to play through Elden Ring using the seamless co-op mod with my friend and that game is really, really good. Although the coop mod trivializes parts of the game, I am however surprised how quickly we're breezing through it. We killed Radahn on our second attempt tonight. I'm hoping we can get through the entire thing before the DLC drops in late June.

I've also been playing through StarCraft 2's campaigns on my laptop and it also continues to be a very good game, although right now I'm on the Protoss mini-campaign in Wings of Liberty, which I found a bit boring compared to the rest. I'm hoping to finish up WoL soon so I can move on to the later campaigns.

Other than all of the above, I really want to finish up my run of RimWorld before the new DLC and I want to get back into the swing with Assetto Corsa. I've been spending a lot of my downtime making skins for it recently.

Just started the new Contra tonight (Contra: Operation Galuga) and it's serious chad shit. It's kind of the original Contra remastered, but it also isn't. Great guns, good level design, lots of different modes and options and throwbacks to old Konami classics. Old school goodness

Been playing Callisto Protocol and enjoying it more than I did the Dead Space remake. Another reminder to never trust reviews, especially on nostalgia bait titles.

I played Street Fighter 3 at this month's /h/kappa tournament.

Finally won a game of civ VI on the vanilla ruleset. Alexander declared war on me (Kongo) when I out teched him, then proceeded to refuse surrender, so I ended up removing him. Two civs worth of cities made for a very easy cultural victory, though it felt pretty cheap. Now to play with the expansion rulesets.

Otherwise, I finally convinced my friends to get DRG, so playing lots of that, and Fallout New Vegas, which doesn't run vanilla on my now, so I installed an extensive set of mods and it works better than ever. Lastly, I've been playing Sixty Four, a rather unique take on the clicker genre.

Timberborn, Humankind, SimCity 4, C&C Generals. I have been juggling games this past week, for maximum efficiency.

It was really nice to return to Timberborn after new patch. Some people complain about badtides but for me they greatly improve the game by adding another danger other than droughts. Working around them was engaging.

Beat dino crisis

Dropped olliolli world because despite being good the stage goals got really insane 2/3s through the game basically ruining the game for me

Dropped strange horticulture halfway through too repetitive but okay game

Beat Pokemon Uranium fun

Beat bloodstained curse of the moon 1, good call back just as frustrating as castlevania 1

Beat pokemon flower jam a 3 hour fan game where only flower pokemon exist with 5 fakemon including a cool grass dragon which of course i named weedragon.

Playing:

dave the diver

unicorn overlord switch emulator

Unicorn overlord isn't getting much buzz because it's only on consoles atm but it's basically tactical game of the century. More or less ogre battle but with kino high quality sprites inspired by fire emblem. This game has like 60 classes. I've been playing for like 16h and I'm only 25% done according to map completion. You can hire more of the same unit and just as an example be all wyvern riders or swordsman or beefyboys or thieves if you really want. You can even pick their voices, colors and name. It's kinda sick ngl. Also there's no real point but you can execute your enemies instead of telling them to join you. You get money but the unit is always better than that. I assume it's just a roleplay thing since no one has discovered any genocide run secrets. But yes genocide and replacing them with hired mercs is basically a hard mode genocide run any% speedrun category probably.

Also the voice acting is top notch. This game is shockingly good.

Bluey the video game

Megaman Legends 1 - got the itch to play the whole series.

In a dark fiber cable, cool memes in the air

Warm smell of mtn dew , rising up from my hair

Up ahead in the distance, I saw a couple chuds

My eyes grew heavy and my DC grew light

I had to stop for the night

There krayon (sister toucher) stood in my DMs

I saw the little red bell

And I was thinking to myself

"This could be marsey or this could be heck"

Then they lit up that soyboy and they showed me the gays

They were flaming up and down the board

I thought I heard them say

Welcome to the homosexual cat site

Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)

Such a lovely face

Plenty of room at the gay dating cat site

Any time of year (Any time of year)

You'll find festive our cheer

Her mind is stuck on the dogpill, she got the marsey41 loaded up

She got a lot of big butt neckbeards she calls simps

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Just finished Half Life for the first time an hour ago. phew!