Outer Wilds

10 - 40 votes

1 - 3 votes

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

The Shapeshifting Detective.

It's an FMV game like we had in the 1990s except with actual actors, not just random family members of the guy who made it. The gimmick is that you're investigating a crime but you can shapeshift and appear to be one of the other suspects when you talk to someone. It creates a lot of interesting situations where you can ask someone the same question and see how they answer to different people.

This time I actually caught the killer on my first try.

The only problem is !britbongs God help me I might be starting to like the Welsh.

I'm playing fricking Blender and I'm on that mission where you learn to make basic fricking shapes.

Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters

Specifically The Ur-Quan Masters.

I have played it before many times. First time in mid 2000s. But there has been some times since i last played it. Youtube recomended me soundtrack and i rememberd it and had to play it.

I didnt rember how good it is. I always think its masterpiece. But i think it even more highly every time i play it. This time i noticed lot of influence it has had on other games. Mainly mass effect. Reapers are very reminiscent of ur-quan. Especially Kohr-Ah. In ME1 when you talk to sovering. It reminds me of Kohr-Ah. If you know the words. History lesson and reasoning.

Game is such a delight. Its fun and comedic. But extreamly serious and bleak at same time. Orz are best example of this. Silly and strange aliens. But under the hood extreamly distorting. Even if aline race is joke. There is something serius to balance it out. It works extreamly well becouse everything is played straight.

My favorite thing about game is how villain of game is handled. Bad guys are Ur-Quan Kzer-Za. You need to overcome them. But behind them is looming Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah. Even worse news for everyone. But you need to overcome Ur-Quan Kzer-Za otherwise you are powerless to protect yourself.

If you wait long enough to Kohr-Ah threat to manifest. And run into Ur-Quan Kzer-Za. They will plead you to run away and hide. And pray for your survival. Bad guys are pulling for your survival at that point. Its such amazing writing.

Frankly im suprised stellaris hasnt stolen Ur-Quan as end game crisis. Same race but diffrent views. Other wants to subjecute and shield rest of races. Other just blow them up. Then you can have multiple variations of end fame. Endgame where only other shows up. And those where both show up. With those its random which one shows up first

You can play ur-quan master free. https://sc2.sourceforge.net/ open source and all that

I haven't felt like playing anything lately.

I haven't heard from the foid I was playing vidya with in over a month.

i've been playing GTA online lately, for the first time since it was brand new and holy crap it's so different than it used to be. there was like nothing to do in game back then and now there's SO MUCH STUFF.

Oh and I finally full completed AC Odyssey. Surprisingly good for modern? (six years ago ) Ubisoft.

Greece is a cool setting The sailing is back I found myself addicted to the little things like climbing your way up the mercenary ladder or finding cool soldiers to kick in the face and recruit as lieutenants The game is generous enough with xp that you can level up just by peepeeing around. I didn't feel forced to do side quests.

Honestly it made me realize how tired and stale most RPGs are. Most of them follow the same formula of using side quests to pad out the game length. And side quests are the same fetch quest shit they've always been over the past thirty years Odyssey isn't really an exception to this formula, but having so much else to do besides questing and having the game actually reward you for it is more than I can expect out of the usual Triple A release

The differences between Odyssey and other Ubijank collectathons need to be studied. It's not a radically different game, yet the sum of its parts came out so much better than Valhalla, or Shadows, or Far Cry 6, or anything else the company has produced in a while

I started Persona 4 on very hard but after 2 hours of cutscenes I got to the 1st boss and died, and tbh nothing about the game has grabbed me like Persona 3R or 5 did (though the more rural setting is kinda nice, I guess). Gonna push through because people love this game but I'm not feeling it atm.

I played Dredge. It's a simple core game mechanic but I enjoyed it.

I'm tired of playing KCD2 and have put the nonsense aside for now. I thought the game would be over soon, but when I saw the number of remaining main quests I had to slit my throat, because after about 10% of the game you are actually so overpowered that nothing is dangerous anymore and the terribly long and annoying main quest cutscenes followed by unspeakably boring scripted combat moments are no longer engaging.

Instead, I dedicated myself to my actual favorite genre after realizing once again that all story games are absolute shit, namely colony sims. DF, Rimworld and Syx are of course at the top, but with Norland (playing time now just under 25 hours) I have at least found an 8/10 game again after a long time. Well, it would be better if the Russian developer wasn't mentally handicapped and made a few simple decisions in favor of mentally stable people instead of artificially complicating the whole thing for no significant benefit. And it's not even complex, it's just exhausting. Like my post, like the funny shenanigans on this site. Pick your poison, whatever I'll go beat up my foid or something.

Grinded more premier, literally just got an ace 30 mins ago Did a CK2 game where 5 of us all played as the different families of venice, great fun!

And naturally I hosted (and won) this month's kappa tournament.