Teardown

didn't play/don't care/button - 21 votes

Played through the Case of the Golden Idol. Had it on my radar for a while after hearing multiple people describe it as an "Obra-Dinn~ish" experience. Was really surprised with it, even though it does the formula of frozen murder scenes slightly different. Delightful throughout the whole length without too much of a challenge. The DLCs were somewhat underwhelming, but the systems and designs within them show potential for a sequel, which is supposed to come out later this year. Very cohesive game deserving of the comparison with Lucas Pope's opus. Considering it as a debut game from two Latvian brothers, it is a great indie vidya worthy of the awards and praise.

Due to heavy workload can't squeeze much more than an hour or two of civ6 or ck2 sessions per evening.

Booted up GTA4 recently on the Xbone to relive some memories and the emulator Microsoft has makes everything in the distance look like a pointillist painting. Don't remember 360 having these issues, but might be my nostalgia.

Any bethesdrone worth their salt should get familiarized with this gdc talk that came out recently. Confirms a bunch of fan theories about why the games they make are so jank and admits that Starfield's development was hellish because of the bureaucratic hierarchy that Microsoft imposed on them after the acquisition. Had to approve every decision with higher ups and forced to work with lots of other studios from across the globe. Too many cooks spoil the broth and make it extra bland.

Mororwind's dev team looked like this:

The plush I believe represents Michael Kirkbride, the author of much of the Elder Scrolls lore who gets insanely glazed by nerds nowadays.

Watching Evo made me want to play fighting games again and then I remembered I'm basically stuck on WiFi and in a dead region

I've been popping bubble wrap. Much more fun than playing video games. Higher production values. No battle passes.

The Robocop: Rogue City game from last year is major frickin' cool. Lumber around a burnt out Detroit shootin' perps and hearing sob stories from other perps, who you can let off the hook for street cred, or bust their butt for law enforcement cred. Lots of attention to slum neighborhood details in the graphics, I took like 30 screenshots in my first couple hours of play. Really enjoying it.

Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite. It's nice, but I hate that fighters at some point became combo spams rather than being able to just rely on good reflexes and good strategy to get you through. But I'm only casually into fighters, so maybe everything I said here is inaccurate.

Also been messing with the Xenia emulator a lot, the Canary branch. Even though it's not as polished as most emulators it's pretty incredible to be emulating Xbox 360 games this well and in 4K. Can't stop messing with it. Still need to keep messing with settings to get Saints Row 1 working well in 4K.

If I can maintain my sobriety for another 3 days, I promised myself I'm finally buy Red Dead Redemption 2. I've been holding off on it for years, to use as a reward. Wish me luck....

grinding my way through Mario thousand year door. it's fine.

Deeppeepee galactic

They released GameCube retroachievements on dolphin so i'm playing Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus

Just reinstalled CK3:AGOT but haven't started yet. Played a little bit of CK3:AtE a few months ago and had fun, but it updated a couple days into my playthrough and didn't want to start again.

Will probably do some sort of viking/raiding style once I get going, being able to raid and enslave people is pretty fun.

Also been playing a lot of Crimeboss Rockay City, which has been surprisingly so much fun. Glad I gave it a shot because Payday 3 just doesn't do it for me. The roguelike campaign has been keeping me hooked the last month or so. Stealth has always been my favorite part of these types of games and it's been pretty solid and haven't come across too much jank, but there's definitely been some.

Finally got around to playing far cry 5.

Fun game

I played Garou for the tournament

Finally beat radahn and his twink. Going to go bully scadutree avatar and putrescent knight now

I finished Stasis: Bone Totem over the weekend and it has great manmade horrors beyond my comprehension. Also I love the devs for stealing the Dead Space navigation system and implanting it into their own game, not even joking here; I hate pixel hunting and backtracking in puzzle games and more devs need to steal this system for thier own.

Played some This War Of Mine. Got a good start building up water catchers, heaters and beds, and then on night three Pavle got himself killed while raiding a house because of the fricking clunky combat system goddarnt now I remember why I don't play this game.

And then I played some good ol' House Flipper. Bought a house, cleaned it up, painted the walls, sold all the pictures and paintings and replaced them with a plethora of big tiddie anime girl paintings, and then sold the house for a profit of 40k.

Super Robot Wars 30. Its first one in 15 years to get a Western release. Like most not Original Generations (all inhouse originals) SRW Games the plot is a bit silly, its a mishmash of all the series in it's plots. Lelouch is the Emperor of Earth, the Walguru are attacking, Zanscare is working with the Sleeves, while Char Aznable is Quatro Bajeena and working with the AUEG.

As for the game play: turn based strategy. Missions are a solid length and difficulty is good.

I've heard the previous 3 are better, and did get an official English TL copy.

@RWBY @MayflyAlt-98

Now that heihachi is back I'm gonna fricking obliterate my thumbs wavedashing and doing electrics that's what fricking game I'll be playing you b-word

@MAGAshill got me back into no man's sky. I always seem to join back when there's no expedition going on lol

1 week away from submitting a game to a jam.

Been working on it incessantly and I hate it.

Finished a game called Supraland last week. It is basically the perfect game.

Been playing Rage 2. It's very meh. Doesn't really innovate at all but it's dumb fun and that's good enough for me.

PCSX2 got a version 2.0 release so I decided to download it. I been playing Scarface and Urban Chaos on there. Lots of fun, brings me back. I was thinking about buying a modded ps2 but I may just buy a mini pc for emulation.

New Trackmania season

I need to pick a poe build

I'm most of the way through Doom 64 at the moment. Only took me 27 years. I'm playing it via the Doom 64 CE mod for GZDoom, though, purely because it has the shotgun pumping animation. It always bothered me that there was no shotgun pump on the N64 version. I wish Night Dive would have made their version more mod friendly.

Tunnet, if you have factorio autism it's a great game and just $6, highly recommended

Teardown was fun, but at least when I played it in its development i found the lack of npcs to make everything feel barren.

I've been playing Stellaris after a five year break. They've changed virtually every system and the result is a game that isn't really any better than it was 8 years ago.

The UI is atrocious, the AI doesn't know what it's doing and there are lots of dumb bugs as well.

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Still enjoying Cyberpunk - picked it back up a month or so ago and am enjoying it quite a lot. Even the soundt4rack is quite good.

I played a lot of soul caliber 6 and rimworld. Tried getting back into satisfactory yesterday hut apparently 1.0 is going to frick the map so I think I'll wait it out. Probably won't play any vidya during this week because the new PoE league launches on Friday and I'm going to play a lot of that.

I've been playing roboquest and it's quickly becoming one of my all time favourite shooters.

The game is a fast-paced FPS rougelike with borderlands style level ups and weapons plus immaculate movement. You can bunny hop, grind rails, rocket jump, slide, ground pound, super jump, triple jump, jet pack, and grapple hook. The weapons are numerous, diverse, and universally satisfying.

In addition, the game is challenging. Even standard difficulty delivers rushing dopamine as the screen fills with killer robots ready to prey on your every mistake. Melting through them with a late game build never fails to fry my brain.

Very good, I recommend

I don't know anymore

This week I ended up not playing any game that much, though I played a bunch of them Hopefully next week I'll be more focused, probably should take another stab at Lobotomy Corporation so I can have something to say about it next week, though I was told nobody actually plays Lobotomy Corporation unless they want the lore for Library of Ruina