Broforce

didn't play/don't care/button - 18 votes

Finished Shadwen - a stealth game which was ok but mediocre - had a mechanic which time paused whenever the character stopped moving at all, thus allowing some strategic planning when trying to move away from enemies through stealth

Started Star Wars - Empire at War. It's an RTS from 2006, which is.......18 years ago? Good grief it has mode to play on planets, as well as fighting with fleets of space ships in outer space which is pretty neat.

Video games are for juveniles. Read a book you man-children.

Call of Duty 1 is really hard Zoomers don't even know

I've mostly been playing old shit this week, Saturn, arcade, some SNES and NES and Genesis, with the new 8bitDo M30 I just got on BIPOC Friday sale for $23.

https://www.amazon.com/8Bitdo-Bluetooth-Gamepad-Nintendo-Android-Genesis/dp/B0C6MW2748?th=1

Very highly rated and it is a kick butt controller. Killer D-pad, really responsive and wide enough your thumb doesn't slip off. Perfect for everything pre-analog stick or modern games that don't need them. My only complaint is it's small, but it's a world of tiny handed manlets out there, what are you gonna do.

I r*ped two turks simultaneously in hoi4 and did some COH 1v1s

Played Marathon, currently halfway through Marathon 2.

Marathon does a bunch of weird shit. There's no jumping, but you can just run across small gaps, and you move in whatever direction you're currently facing while in the air so you can do this

You can grenade jump, and the game often requires you to do this for secrets and sometimes for necessary progression. This is really fricking awkward to do since you do it with a grenade launcher that detonates on impact but you can only aim down by about 45 degrees at most. It wasn't until I started playing 2 that I figured out how to do it properly: sprint diagonally then do a little twist to shoot behind yourself and redirect your momentum in midair. It also hurts yourself a shitload to do it, and I think the self-damage is determined by difficulty. A single grenade does over half your health on hard in M2. You can also rocket jump but you need a triple overshield in order to survive that.

The game fricking loves switches, and its unclear what most of them do. Some of them just operate the lights, sometimes they open doors in different parts of the level, some of them seem to do nothing at all. You can also operate switches by shooting them with the grenade launcher, but of course this is never told to you but is necessary to progress a few times. There is an infamous level "Colony ship for sale, cheap" which involves a puzzle where you have to raise 6 platforms to specific heights to use them as a set of stairs. Which is hard to do since you can only "climb" onto platforms that are a tiny bit higher than you. So they need to be arranged very specifically, which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that the switches are spread across 3 separate rooms that are literally spaced out across the entire map so depending on which platforms you frick up you may have to run back through the entire map. Oh and along the way there's a timed door that needs to be operated by shooting a switch with a grenade (this is literally the only door in the whole fricking game like this). My problem with the level wasn't actually getting the positioning of the platforms right, I managed to get it right the first time, my problem was figuring out how to set their height in the first place. They're controlled by switches which seem to just make the platforms go up and down. What I didn't realise was that if you hit the switch again while the platform is moving it stops in place. I think this is only used in one other place in the game and you don't even need to figure out how the switches work to progress in that case. So I spent probably 15-20 minutes just running back and forth through the level trying to figure out what to do and also trying to figure out how to access the room that contains a bunch of ammo and a rocket launcher and flamethrower (it is literally inaccessible and is there to troll you lmao frick you cute twink.)

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I finished Black Ops 6's campaign and I appreciate the effort Treyarch put into it. MW3 (2) was a low point for the series since the campaign was literally reused Warzone maps, so I'm glad Treyarch's bringing it back.

Idk why people say COD campaigns are afterthoughts because outside of last year that's never been true. If anything COD or at least Treyarch is still keeping it alive when every other shooter is moving towards multiplayer only. COD campaigns are like comfy time capsules of a bygone era.

I appreciate that Treyarch is still continuing the storyline that began way back in World at War even though that was before most Alphags were even playing.

I've been playing Saints Row The Third this week.

Not only is it a really fun GTA clone, but it's something of a time capsule due to how unabashedly vulgar and low brow it is, released just a few years before it became a widespread competitive sport to be offended and touchy about everything. It's also quite short; looking at my previous saves, you can pretty much 100% the game in around 30 hours.

Other than that, I've been playing Drox Operative 2. There's not much to say other than it's a pretty old school ARPG in spaaaaaace. It's basically just an updated version of the first Drox Operative but overall I think the refinements make it better in most respects to the first game.

As an aside, it's been a pretty boring year of releases. Other than Age of Mythology remake, the only 2024 game I've played is Dragon's Dogma 2 and that was a total wet fart.

Cuckold Simulator. I can relate to the main character of this game.

This week I finally got my new gaming PC working. Been playing a lot of Old World

SULFUR is very fun.

Trying to run Watch dogs 1 ultra settings on a 40 GB, 12900 i9, 3070 ti laptop lol

Playing the Red dead redemption PC remaster on the Deck

STALKER 2

Been playing Oxygen not Included during the weekend (it was free)

It's fun until the ai gets tangled on itself and gets stuck in its endless routines.

Also you have to build power line/air vents and that's just not fun...

Decided to play Rogue Trader

Pretty good so far

Once Human

Beat the cute twink Raphael in BG3 after beating his boy toy. For once I had to think and use elixirs.

Brotato, it hits the dopamine just right as a survivor-like but actually has deep and meaningful difficulty (unlike Vampire Survivor)

Finished Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Liked it, but I am always ready to be done with a 100-hour JRPG by the end. Ichiban and company sure are likeable, though.

Started Armored Core 6 right after. Never played a mech game before, so got my butt kicked a good half dozen times by the boss in the first mission, but I think I am getting the hang of it.

Stalker 2 came out this week, so I'm playing Stalker: Anomaly.

What a fricking stupid repair system this mod has. You need high quality parts compatible with your gun, repair kit compatible with your gun, and a technician lvl 1 which requires an item that's random loot.

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Playing darksiders 1, it's okay. Also playing blood omen legacy of kain and holy frick this control scheme and loading screens everytime I fricking pause is bullshit but still interesting enough for me to press on.