Halo: Combat Evolved

didn't play/don't care/button - 14 votes

Did a CIV6 game with @mithrandir, @Kang-PrimeTimeline and @rdramamademegay Pretty fun. Also we played Equestria at War for 2 sessions with soren.

Second session of CIV kang was late for so we also did a CS2 game while waiting

Played The Big Catch: the Tacklebox a free 6 hour prequel to the game coming in 2025. Despite being a a free teaser its an easy GOTY contender with tight controls and tricky platforming. Its a 3d platformer for platforming experts which is causing lots of double jump kiddies to b-word and moan about how hard it is since you need to actually think through your movement options rather then having instant momentum resets and hovers. It also has a cool looking protag !furries

A lot of great Steam Nextfest demos

Dungeon Clawer is no Balatro but...

Battle Plan has a certain charm...

SeaFrog is THPS but 2D

Replaying Portal 2. Revolution was good, and it's been so long I forgot how good these games are in general.

Some of the textures are looking quite dated but I forgot how slick this game was for 2011.

Started playing a bit of Fallout 1. Pretty fun though sometimes I don't know where to go. And I am out of the habit of constantly saving my progress which has led to some frustration

Finished Paper Mario this week. It was a good game. I have also been "playing" a game called "Magical Research 2", it is addicting.

Project Zomboid.

It's over Cornette bros. I had set up base in that factory south of Riverside when I heard some zomboids banging on the gate. I was tired but I didn't want them destorying my purdy metal gate while I was sleeping so I'd figure I could take on the two of them, the problem was there was a third one dressed in black and crawling. Lil' fricker grabbed my ankle while the other one bit me on the arm. I took them out but I was bitten so I had so saw my arm off to prevent zombification. Sawed the ol' arm off and then bled to death.

Elden Ring

Getting ready for Shadow of the Erdtree DLC

Encased - Some Russians made a game inspired by Fallout (the real ones, before Bethesda). It's actually really good so far. Interesting setting, good art, good quests. I've heard that they ran out of money and had to release it incomplete so the later parts are rushed, but I've loved what I've seen so far.

Shadow Empire - I'm 80 hours into this game and my bro asks me about some part of the UI and I don't know what he's talking about because I've never even bothered to look at that yet. Very complex but some how it all comes together into a good game.

Space Haven - Kind of like Rimworld and FTL had a baby. It's not great but it's entertaining enough trying to build up my ideal starship.

Troubleshooter - I always play a little of this. Never disappointed.

Still playing a ton of deep rock galactic. New season just dropped.

Finished picrel

Looks super promising and I will probably give a definitive review once 1.0 and chapters 2&3 come out. In early access it's already better than most finished products. Would definitely reccomend to fans of Half-Life

This week has been cursed for me. I've played almost nothing but Fallout 4 and League I did restart Factorio, as I'd like to complete the base game before the expansion comes out, but that's only a slight reprieve. I've definitely hit the point of "not fun" in Fallout 4, the only thing getting me through it now is being able to uninstall it once it's complete. There's just so little in terms of things to do which are even slightly interesting. I've run across some cool locations, sure, but they're inevitably occupied with gun toting thugs, and never have anything more interesting going on. I guess I did play some of the Steam Next Fest demos, including Tactical Breach Wizards, which is very exciting. Other demos I tried were rather less interesting. The Metal Slug demo was very beneficial, as it made it clear that it was not the game for me.

A game getting GOTY give me the ick

!chuds

Selaco. Sick game

Replaying far cry 3. The story had potential but falls a bit short, they could have leaned a lot more into the frat boy - psycho killer besides a few convos.

Also jason's VA lacked balls to pull off the crazy.

Still playing LEGO Hill Climb Racing, I'm shocked I'm still playing it tbh. It's really fun and has a bunch of content. I wish the in game builds had irl sets, because they are actually really cool.

Supposed to be playing Baldur's Gate 3, actually playing Elden Ring again. I wanted to have a new character ready for the DLC.

After a few playthroughs of this long-butt game, I've accepted that most content is skippable and it's fine to keep pushing forward. You don't need to 100% it, or even try. If you forget where some talisman is you can look it up, but for the most part I think you're just expected to build your character out of whatever cowtools you happened to run into. People complaining about bloat or repeated content are like the "people" who did every shrine in BotW even though they were bored 50 shrines ago. You're not supposed to do all of them!

But there is one problem with this: the bell bearings. If you miss one you could end up with an endless supply of smithing stone 5 but not 4 or whatever.

Over the past week, I've sunk 50 hours into Sailwind.

It's Euro Truck Simulator with sailboats and instead of GPS, you have to figure out how to use a [Quadrant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrant_(instrument). The sailing mechanics are nicely detailed (and you need to run around on your boat and adjust everything manually), the rest of it is still pretty much barebones early access jank but man is it good. Just playing around with different sail plans feels nice.

The moment when you've left port, set up your rigging, the sails catch wind and your ship leans into a good heel as it picks up speed feels nice.

The moment when you can finally make out a little bump on the horizon through your spyglass after spending a couple of IRL hours just on the featureless open sea and you were starting to get worried about fricking up your navigation feels very very nice.

This one's already very good and I'm genuinely excited about its future development.

The gameplay is just okay but I really like the graphics and sound design