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Space marine 2

It's mid slop

Cannot wait for the katamari thread

Playing the steam version of Dwarf Fortress for the first time in 10+ years, it's very good. I wish it had some QOL features that rimworld has, but dfhack helps with some of these issues.

New Sea Power trailer and a bunch of early gameplay came out and now I am very hyped for November

Star Trucker seemed like a good idea. Back in the day I was a space trucker in EVE and so this sort of game should soothe my autism in a similar way. Unfortunately it was kind of lazily designed and not very fun. And the stylistic choice of literal trucks in space is stupid. You can have space hillbillies if you want without literal copypasting irl stuff, Starcraft have been doing it for years.

Somehow I missed this one when it got released. It's nice and atmospheric and reasonably fun so far. I like the radio chatter over the feeling of emptiness. I wish there were more Homeworld games.

Really pretty game with some horrible writing and voice acting. Couldn't make it past half an hour or so. I don't care if gritty noir story of a hardboiled detective has been done a million times before, it'd have been a cool game if they had just found competent writers and actors.

Walking simulator with some cool voice acting and nice and atmospheric and spooky. Unfortunately it has a bug that crashes the game as soon as you exit an area so I guess I'll never know how it ends.

I'm playing Dirt 4

Runs great on steam deck

Finally got less of a workload so I have more time for vidya (and posting here!)

As I was too busy for any extended playthroughs, I had to be satisfied with smaller experiences and was combing through Gamepass for them. As Dusk Falls was my pick and I somewhat enjoyed it.

Created by former Quantic Dreams devs (David Cage's studio behind Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain), it has decent writing and atmosphere. The art style, or rather the animation style, is the only big filter I can think of. Akin to a comic book or a visual novel (in the non-weeb sense), each frame of animation is separated by a few seconds of real time, forcing you to fill in the blanks of how exactly those motions would look like. I had no issues with it, but apparently plenty of people actually did.

The choices you make matter enough to feel more liberating than a TellTale experience, although that isn't a particularly high bar to reach. At the end of each chapter you get a scene tree showing how your decisions impacted the story, which presentation-wise is lifted directly from Detroit: Become Human. The devs left Quantic Dream before the release of that game, but surely it was it was far enough in its development for them to know about that feature and get "inspired". I was surprised of learning of the developers' origins, as surely creating product this similar to your former employer's is considered to be in poor taste.

After seeing the new Alien film a month ago, I got the craving to revisit Alien: Isolation once again, just to experience a real labour of love, which become increasingly rare in the industry these days. Despite this being my fourth playthrough, I am still amazed by the magnificent use of shadows and lighting, which make this 10 year old game still look incredibly good. After learning that Creative Assembly got access to the original sound banks and concept art of the first Alien film, I understood why it always felt so faithful and in tune with the film. Got the achievement for completing the game with no deaths (with minor reload abuse), so I will probably not return to the game for a long while. I've gotten so used to the xenomorph's behaviour patterns, that I treated it more like a nuisance than a threat during this playthrough, which is not a good sign and is the opposite of how you should feel in an Alien game.

After one space game I have now switched to another and currently doing my second playthrough of Starfield since I finished it roughly a year ago. Hearing about the DLC coming out at the end of the month, I've started a new character as far opposed to my original one as possible. That is how I treated all Bethesda DLCs since Dawnguard - made new characters just so I can experience the new content more cohesively, instead of reloading an old save where I can't even recall my motivations or surroundings. I don't have any hopes on the DLC fixing any issues with the base game, nor do I trust Emil to make House Va'ruun an interesting faction with some form of twisted logic behind its core beliefs. I am just enjoying the ride and hoping that the few good things that Starfield does are carried over to TES VI.

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Got back into Crusader Kings 2 again, and already pulled a few all-nighters.

Last time I played was Horse Lord, seeing all those relics and the new Crusading stuff is pretty cool. My Venice is going to be a super power when I convert it to EU4.

Why do you keep asking you know the answer

I often say that Germans are so weird that they're like an alien species and usually I'm joking, but not when it comes to computer games. They are the weirdest fricking people on the planet. Their idea of what is fun is so bizarre I can't comprehend it. The Anno games have this problem. They take a really interesting premise that's been done successfully a million times, building up your own colony/city, and they include only the boring parts of that. They just really hate fun.

They do have their moments tho. Mad TV is a classic and Europa 1400 was pretty good.

Did a kaiserreich MP game

I finally got ahold of a Magnavox Odyssey, along with several of its games. The games are about as exciting as watching paint dry, of course, but it's a very valuable collector's item since it was the very first video game console.

I'm playing Highfleet, and detuned strings now evoke a trauma response

I'm still playing RDR2.

When I first started playing it, I assumed the designers made the controls deliberately terrible because they hate PC g*mers.

Then I bought an Xbox controller to play it with, and now I realize they're just r-slurs. The controls are better on the controller than KB&M, but only barely.

e.g. You drop your hat and gun, and have to use different buttons to pick them up!

Really looking forward to forever winter release, hope its good

Still going through the kirby games. Finished squeak squad and it wasnt great but had some good stuff. On Return to Dreamland deluxe (will 100%) and epic yarn (wont 100%). Probably will take a break from the kirby games after these to play the starfield expansion in a week.

Still playing Pocket Camp, really hope the next AC is better than NH or someone releases a real competitor (that isn't shit like Cozy Grove). Also playing Trove again, unironically my favorite MMO. Best market system, love all the customization options, and like all the different ways to grind stuff. Only wish it had more players.

Bits of this and that. Finished up both the story mode and arcade mode in Contra Operation Galuga. Some Geometry Wars 3. Started Turmoil, which is a pretty fun and popular oil rig time management sorta game.

Also Carp's posting made me re-install Vampire Survivors for the first time in about 2 years. Started playing, and wait a minute, why don't I have any characters and levels unlocked? WTF, I spent like 16+ hours unlocking everything and had like half the achievements. Motherlover. I don't know if this is another case of the Steam cloud saves eating butt, or was the game progress universally reset at some point? Probably the former. It's not talked about enough how semi-frequently the Steam cloud saves just glitch.

I don't know but I've been told,

Deirdre's got a Network Node.

Likes to press the on-off switch,

Dig that crazy Gaian witch!

I've been playing Alpha Centauri. It's a lot of fun, possibly the most complicated version of Civ. Custom units, actual 3D terrain, and no fricking Barbarians. Still suck at it though. Otherwise, been playing some more Mashinky, as well as Plan B: Terraform, which is a very casual automation game, but seeing the results of your labors is still interesting, as it has a pretty complicated climate simulation behind it.

Soon Boroshiki will be added to Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections

The next character might be Code

Trying metro exodus but I have bo idea how to kill tsar fish.

Playing dnd from 1975, a PLATO game and among the first vidya RPGs. Likely has the first boss in a video game ever.

Rdr2 (still)

Chapter 6 now, getting pretty close to the epilogue.

Also been playing peglin. Its a pretty cool game.

I beat Fire Emblem 4: Genealogy of the Holy War. It was cool, but darn was it a slog moving everyone across those giant maps. I'll play Thracia eventually, but right now I'm doing this Skyrim mod Enderal.

Just tried out Witchfire it's kino

Cosmoteer, it's one of those spaceship combat games where you build a spaceship room by room and then combat destroys individual pieces rather than hitting a general health pool.

Unfortunately the optimal strategy is to build a ship with tons of backwards-facing engines, then equip the longest range gun and fight by backing up while shooting at guys too short-ranged to hit you and too slow to catch you.

Satisfactory. I'm getting really annoyed with how much time I'm spending traveling around 35 hours in and the "combat" feels so tacked on it's more annoying than anything else. The vehicle physics is pretty fricked too which only exacerbates the issue since I'm spending so much time in one to get from place to place in a reasonable amount of time and avoid the stupid combat. It's getting to me enough that I'm teetering on just dropping the game. Getting my first train set up helped but that was just getting oil field products hooked up to the Manufacturer chain section for rubber and plastic

I haven't played any other factory/engineering/logistics games besides Mindustry and Kerbal so I'm not sure which I'll pick up as a substitute.

I finished Age of Mythology Retold's campaigns last weekend. I really enjoyed my time with it. While the campaigns are not quite as novel as Bilzzard RTS campaigns, they're still really entertaining and don't get bogged down in the way that Warcraft 3 does with the Night Elf campaign, or StarCraft 2 does with the back half of Legacy of the Void. I'm not much of a skirmish/multiplayer player but I've also been enjoying the way faster, more aggressive gameplay compared to the Age of Empires games.

Other than that, I've been playing around with PCSX2, which has mostly meant a lot of Gran Turismo 4. Outside of pure driving games, there isn't much on that platform that hasn't been totally superseded by more recent games, typically from the PS3/360 era. Camera control in full 3D games is still often frustrating since despite devs of the time finally figuring out that right analog stick should be used for camera control (instead of just being completely unused), they seem to think that up/down should be a zoom instead of, you know, making the camera move up or down.

I want to play some Assetto Corsa since I found a totally sick conversion of Grand Valley from GT, but the cat keeps stealing my chair every time I get my wheel set up.

reinstalled WoTR to finally play season 2 of the DLC. probably going to do another angel playthrough tbh

oh, and i'm furnishing a hugeass vampire castle in the sims. it's taking so long...

game

It's very nostalgic to me, having played the PS HP games.

playing BG3 second run with all the updates and some mods. I also started a multiplayer campaign with some friends. If I'd known they were going to play as chaotically gonzo as possible I woulda made a different character but oh well.

Dark Souls.

On topic discussion about Anno: it's not fun. The gameplay just isn't fun. Trying to balance all the shit isn't fun. It's counterintuitive that you have to build more houses to attract more people to make your economy work. As if there's pent up demand to move to your dysfunctional shithole if only you'd build more houses.

I was expecting Tropico but a bit more serious, but instead it's autismo spreadsheet simulator.

minetest

Finished Enotria last night. Pretty good souls knockoff imo

Frostpunk 2. I was a little skeptical of the change but enjoyed it the more I played. Unfortunately they released some patch that crippled the performance to the point it's unplayable at the moment in the later acts.

I tried to get into Anno but last time I did years ago I had to deal with some ubisoft bullshit and I stopped.

Uplay seriously should be just called udontplay

Well I'm telling you I'm not mad, I couldn't give a single frick if you believe me or not. Your opinion means literally less than nothing to me lol. But, so what what if I was mad? So fricking what? Aren't people allowed to be mad about shit?

You're probably some shit-kid that thinks they're 'too cool' to show emotions, so you just go through life expressing 'neutral' reactions to shit you love or hate.