Disgaea

didn't play/don't care/button - 40 votes

Sid Meier's Covert Action. I've actually beaten this game, caught all the terrorist leaders in the world. Unfortunately it's a game from 1990 and it took me so many years so it was after 9-11 and we had a new crop of Islamist terrorists in the real world by then.

'The White Tribe: Rhodesia's War 1966-1980'. Really fun solitaire game if you're (really, REALLY) into the diplomatic and political side of the Bush War like me.

I have only cared about this shark and nothing else anymore.

Playing avowed and really enjoying it. Exploration is fun and so is combat. Companion writing is hit or miss but mostly fine I'd say. Don't know anything about poe but I'm enjoying the power fantasy.

Playing fallout 3 after reading @1's steam deck post

I played Never Second in Rome, an RPG-esque sequel to A Legionary's Life. It just came out in early access. It's pretty fun, you're a centurion training a legion so you need to balance being a chad individually with helping your men not to suck and die. You're basically along for the ride with Caesar for the entire Commentaries on the Gallic War—the civil war is to be added later. As far as its early access state goes, it needs some balance and UI improvements.

Apparently this is the main characters...

@Ninjjer @Yang libertarians reported to FBI.

Skyrim > Oblivion > Morrowind

Morrowind has almost no voice acting, way to many exploits, terrible visuals, and the worst combat. Enemies get stuck on things constantly. Dungeons are mostly slim hallways themed to whatever type of dungeon it is. Most interesting plot but not executed properly, you aren't made to care about the interesting bits of the story.

Oblivion has voice acting but there is a lot of issues with it. Not enough actors and bloopers include in the final game diminish the game greatly. The graphics are much higher fidelity but there isn't enough diversity in visuals. Also the designs are too mainstream bland fantasy. Lots of copy paste rooms in dungeons, most obviously that one cave layout that is spammed hundreds of times often within the same dungeon.

Skyrim has the best voice acting of the series. There are games that do it better but not in the scrolls series. The game isn't perfect graphically but it is very good. While Morrowind had good diversity but bad quality and Oblivion had ok quality Skyrim has pretty solid diversity and the highest quality. Dungeons feel less copy paste and more hand crafted. I'm sure there are parts reused but it is less offensive. Spellmaking has been removed which is a loss. Some guild quests are crap, but thieves guild is the best in the series.

Now you might say but muh dumbed down rpg elements but none of the games were good at that. Scrolls games are best as walking simulators where you go to cool places and find cool stuff.

FF7 Rebirth

I played some Bubble Tanks 2 and 3 on my work laptop to relive the past.

Having pre-made tanks in 2 was frustrating. You go from having a very effective shield to a shitty stun in one of the paths. Also the battlefields were so small dodging was impossible with quite a few enemies, so I either got hit multiple times or ejected to a nearby bubble by accident.

Been playing some demos. Both Knights in Tight Spaces and SiegeCaster.

Siege caster seems pretty cool, basically you build a castle and turrets and then manually shoot the turrets at enemies. All of the turrets are aimed at your cursor. The different turrets do different damage to different enemies and have different ballistics which makes it interesting. Expanding your fortress is a balancing act of getting resources you need while not overextending. Nothing groundbreaking but a fun game that is well thought out.

Knights in Tight Spaces is a turn based semi rougelike strategy game. It is similar to into the breach which was very good.

I recommend both of these demos.

Playing Avowed. 8 hours in and I'm still liking it so far. Exploration is fun with a lot to find, in the city you can climb all over the rooftops. The writing is ok, the quippiness mostly appears as dialogue options for your character. The first companion Kai is a little snarky but he's ok, the fact that he's voiced by Garrus helps. The second is a dwarf and I solidly don't like him. He's definitely quippy, I've only had him for an hour and I'm already going to get rid of him as soon as I can. Combats a little stiff but it works and is still miles better than any bethesda game. I like a fair bit of the lore, it makes me want to give POE another go even though I HATE RTWP.

Would recommend (its on gamepass don't spend money on it it'll probably be in humble choice in a year)

Ace Combat 4 on the PS2

Cant make out any of the airplanes on mt TV so im just shooting missiles at Red Squares

I've been playing Kingdom: C*m in Guys 2

faithfully waiting for the remake of fat princess from ps3 to drop on steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2450350/Fat_Goblins/

Frick I need this, fat princess was the best pvp gamemode I've ever played.

@Aevann this is the @Ninjjer approved thread please pin

Personally I've been playing the last of the shitpost Gamepass games that interest me before my sub experies. It's not interesting enough to leave running so I usually just get a month or two at a time every once in a while.

I've been having stupid fun with the Ryse Son of Rome gladiator themed multiplayer though Killing Britons and riling up the crowd never gets old, and the match intro where you walk into the Colosseum is KINO

OP the link to Dwarf Fortress just redirects to the Heroes of the Storm pool.

In recent weeks: Finished up Skyrim. Straight decrease in soul since Morrowind, you hate to see it. Particularly I didn't like how self-insistent the main quest was (in roleplaying terms, I know mechanistically you can frick off at any point). Back in Morrowind Caius Cosades was like "Go investigate Dagoth Ur and Nerevar shit for me while you're earning a living, I'll be chilling shirtless smoking skooma" and then "I'm getting canned for smoking too much skooma, I'm putting you in charge of Dagoth Ur business, do as you like" then in Skyrim it's "A fricking DRAGON is attacking right now do the needful immmediately". If the decline continues I doubt Elder Scrolls VI will be worth it.

Did a freeform run of Frostpunk 2. Fun. My random goal was to hoard vast stockpiles, so after I nearly got deposed during the first two storms it was satisfying to have most of the stockpiles when the third hit and I got my achievement for keeping everyone comfy and toasty during the whole blizzard.

Then I played a few scenarios of old Rollercoaster Tycoon via OpenRCT2. Really held up. At one point I was curious on some point of mechanics and I figured since OpenRCT2 reimplemented it open source I'll just look it up, but it turns out the C++ is written directly after Chris Sawyer's assembly, and it's full assembly style, bit shifting and masking against constants of obscure derivation. Then incidentally I saw that Parkitect is the modernized Rollercoaster Tycoon and been playing that. A little decline in soul here too (no one claps when you win a scenario) but makes up for it with many improvements. The mod to unlock the camera is essential, the mod to have the camera ride the rides is inessential but fun. One thing I appreciate about these games is you can and should definitely approach it as "Make a cool rollercoaster, shake them up but not too rough, do cool rollercoaster moves" rather than caring about the actual formula that calculates your scores.

Fenna start a new GTA4 playthrough. I never got a chance to play the DLCs

Messed with DOS emulation a bunch, which just reminded me the several hundred good DOS games have already gotten DOSBox versions on GOG or Steam or even a '90s console version, and the remaining thousands of games are mostly butt. Mostly. A few hidden gems here and there, like Zyclunt, which is the best name ever.

On PC been playing a recent game called Guns of Fury, which was kind of sold as a Metal Slug homage, and it is definitely not. I mean, nothing is as good as Metal Slug, but this just looks like Metal Slug, it doesn't play like it. It's a metroidvania, not a run & gun. And it's fine as far as those go but too backtrack-y, as many of them are.

Also some UFO 50. I'm up to like 46/50 games played at this point after owning it for months. Lotta value in that if you like NES style games.

Really want to get around to some of the big recent games (Avowed, Stalker 2, Yakuza Hawaii, Kingdom Come 2, Civ VII) but I can't stop tinkering with emulators. Especially the obscure shit that takes some fighting with to get running: DOS, FM Towns, Sharp X1 and x68000, MSX 1 and 2, Amiga, Spectrum ZX, Amstrad. It's like it's filling that need to tinker and build shit outside that I can't do in the winter.

I haven't played anything this week, except a lil Unicorn Overlord, which seems pretty fun.