NetHack

didn't play/don't care/button - 37 votes

Insomniac's Spider-Man 2. It's a pretty funny game. Moments that made me laugh out loud:

• Spideman complains about there being a gun club in NYC

• Homecoming proposal for a gay Black and Indian couple

• Do some stupid side mission about GMOs and Spiderman says verbatim, "Profit shouldn't be part of the equation when it comes to basic human necessities."

• Side mission where you play as a deaf black girl spray painting buildings

• BIPOC gets said several times in another mission (apparently it's pronounced bye-pock?)

!chuds why is modern gaming like this

I've been playing Bugsnax. Not a fan of the gameplay but the story is interesting and I'm curious to see how things end.

I haven't played video games in ages so I never comment but I'm actually on a Pokémon kick. Been playing Brilliant Diamond and I love it even though it seems to be the worst Pokemon release according to popular consensus.

I also got Lets Go Eevee because I've never played a Kanto game and it looks gorgeous from what I've seen.

Think I'm going to be a Switch Soyboy now, I just love vibey baby games like Pokemon, Kirby and LEGO Star Wars lol.

Trying a weird formerly fabric gregtech spinoff called modern industrialization pretty fun just needs a lot more content imo.

Just lost a game as Mussolini in Hearts of Iron again

!hoi4

In recent weeks:

• Shadows of Doubt. Immersive sim detective/hired thug game. They made a sweet procgen city block for you to immersive sim in but it feels like they didn't really finish it from Early Access. Big problem is bugs/jank, with the detective nature of the game I have a nagging doubt the whole time if I need to look/think harder or if something got bugged. Second problem is the procgen missions are pretty thin and formulaic. They also lean too hard on the detective stuff, you'll get missions like "This butthole pissed me off too much, trash their apartment. They have type O- blood and their spouse is a chef, find them that way." The smaller voxel style they used is great for the city and props, but horrible for the characters - I don't like it when the detective work requires looking at them a lot. I'm a try to finish out a run if another murder happens soon, another thing making me wonder if it's a bug or not right now.

• Quasimorph. A real traditional roguelike, down to searching the levels for the stairs (elevator here) down. They put the current "metaprogression" definition of roguelike around it. You are a PMC sending solo cloned mercenaries from your spaceship, and as you get the right items you can upgrade the spaceship to produce better clones, more and better equipment, etc. The "quasimorphs" are demons that bust out of enemies when they die, and I think I learned entirely wrong habits of play by staying too long in the noob area that's quasimorph free.

• Dragon Age: Origins. Everyone was talking about shit Dragon Age so I thought I would go back to the one considered good, especially as when it was current I started it twice but twice got pulled away before leaving the first town. This time I got to Orzammar so far and we'll see if I can slog through the rest of that.

• Project Zomboid. Continued playing this, I have actually managed to live and set up a base this time. 2 months+. Training up my mechanic skill so I can fix my car good and try to make it to Louisville.

Starfield

Forza horizon 4

POE 2 is hot trash atm

This is the most based game I have ever seen featured here. I'm going to finally take a break from CK3 and EU4 to play the 1.0 release of Caves of Qud and I will do a couple of nethack runs tonight in honor of this post. I'm going tourist and Wizard respectively. I'll also play some CDDA for the Christmas season.

FROSTPUNK 2

Playing captain difficulty, 100 reloads later reached Chapter 4

no time because of advent of code

Gaylo 1 on Heroic. I haven't played this in ages, and I had to take a break when I hit the Library.

All the "yellow paint discourse" strags are forgetting all the old games that literally just put arrows on the floor. Assault on the Control Room is just the same few copy-pasted rooms and bridges over and over, but the devs figured it a clever way to help you pointed in the right direction.

Inb4 "acktually the ancient nigh-omnipotent alien race that constructed planet-sized megastructures navigated their repetitive identical rooms by following arrows drawn on the floor so it's diagetic"

Started playing league...its pretty fun

playing klondike while listening to cumtown reruns

Caves of Chud was on the Steam Fall Sale.

R*pelay

Back trying to play outward. I played it before but ive never actually played any of the quests. I just run, get magic, get flamethrower

Rain of Reflections

Afaik the game is abandoned and will never be finished (only the 1st chapter released) which makes me kind of sad. The tactical combat is fine, the hacking systems are fun and the story also seems to be okay.

Downside is that it's really on rails. but whatever.

Against the Storm

Balatro

Stacklands

News Tower

Hades II

Slay the Spire

I'd like to be playing the Indiana Jones game right now since it just released for non-paypigs an hour ago, but of course the launch is fricked. Was just sitting at a game loading splash screen for 20 mins even though nothing was actually happening on my end. Then I started fricking with things and made it worse. So after a reboot I'm re-downloading all 113 gb including 4K textures. Maybe that'll do something.

I do like how positive the reception for it has been though, with thoughts ranging from "shocked me how good it is" on the low end to "best AAA game in maybe 10 years" on the high end, when everyone was trying to mog it before it came out. Even notoriously cranky/picky people like Worth A Buy love it.

I remember playing nethack when I was like 8. Had no idea what I was doing and kept dying or getting stuck.

I play pathos and still haven't reached the end to get the amulet and return it

I played a grotesque amount of poe2 over the weekend. It's quite good. I have concerns about item crafting but in general I've had a good time with it.

Reddit is having an absolute melty over it. They complain that it's too hard, and that the loot is bad. I suspect that they're all just r-slurs who are lost without being handheld by build guides. I'm playing a ignite based witch with shitty gear and all I've done on the skill tree is path to fire damage, spell damage, and similar nodes that will scale my ignite. I've been breezing through the game with very little difficulty and having fun, then winding down by taking in the absolute seethe the redditors are putting out. It's truly is the best of both worlds.

God of War Ragnarok on PC and while it continues Sony's perfect record of really optimizing their shit for PC the game is just...... Bad. Kratos is straggy and suddenly against fighting and starting wars with the god, the enemies so far are repeatative and boring many of them are bugs or rats. There's a lot of useless bug hunts and collectables. I just met and freed the Norse god of war Tyr expecting something big to happen but Tyr is also a big lame strag.

Thor and Oden the big bads came off more as mob boss like goons in the opening chapters that you meet them and I havent seen them since in over 10+ hours of playing.

Hopefully it gets better but it's not looking hopeful.

finally finished Sekiro, it was the only modern from game I never did. Playing true draco in master duel now

I've had free Gamepass for a while so I'm grinding out some of the games that interested me. I'm about to start Tunic and I might as well give that Indy game a romp since I won't be paying