AGE OF EMPIRES 2

I want to get back into AoE2 especially since i bought the fancy new version, but i have to finish RDR2 first. I have too many Christmas and car projects going on right now to even play that.

Best Christmas ever was when I got both AoE2 and The Conquerors expansion -- mom admitted she accidentally bought the expansion before the base game.

I got banned from the MSN servers once because i was under 13 playing multiplayer.

The new versions look good but I hate how they merged all the expansions together so i don't know what order to play anymore. I tried transitioning halfway through a playthrough and didn't know which I'd already completed

A game called Knuckle Sandwich. Haven't been able to play much since I have an exam tomorrow.

Doing my annual New Vegas Christmas playthrough. The tradition started in 2017, when I accidentally chose to replay New Vegas during the holidays and had such a good time, that I've decided to try and recreate it every year. At this point, New Vegas gameplay for me is forever associated with Christmas tunes playing softly in an adjacent room, roasted chestnuts and the smell of a Christmas tree. Going on the sixth year of my tradition, I finally chose to do all of the GRA star challenges, which I ignored during the previous runs. So far it is quite fun and adds a whole new layer of planning to the game. To fully realise my plans for the endgame I need a lot of caps so for the first time ever I am actually doing Dead Money for the gold reward at the end. Usually I just do it for the holorifle, which after being fully modded out is the best energy weapon in the game, but this year my eyes are on a bigger prize. Feels a bit sleazy, but it is also supposed to be the standard motivation for your character. I am currently going through the ghost people nest in the church as I finish writing this comment. Wish me luck!

Last Train Home. I'm enjoying it. I wish the combat was more Xcom and less CoH though.

Having a puppy put me so so far behind on games! She finally chills out, so I'm tryina catch up. Downside is I chose Assassin's Creed Valhalla and last AC game I played took me 6 months to finish because my autismo self had to get every extra item on the map.

Bailed on ds3 and picked up hades, and after 10 runs figured out that i need to point at the enemy to attack in that direction not that zagreus has to be facing that direction at the moment. 17 runs later reached hades but died to him. Good game, fanbase is useless so another Ultrakill situation for me.

@NoUntakenNames01 layer 7 in less than 2 weeks or even earlier, the wait is about to end.

Honestly just been trying the new TF2 holiday maps and that's it. I can't be the only one who absolutely hates the player destruction gamemode, right? Also my enjoyment has been significantly impeded by the crazy amount of bots, but as Alexander the Great once said: Sometimes it is you who plays a game, and somethimes it is the game that plays you

I've fallen down the Rimworld rabbit hole again, what should I do for a colony ideology? I am thinking of Vampires.

Biotech so far I think is the best DLC. I do wish xenotypes were easier to get.

i'll always be playing tetris but recently I've been playing a lot of Tohou Project

The Long Dark. I play some of this Leaf Life Simulator each winter to contemplate the cold. Funded by one of their ministries of propaganda, you can drink jugs of maple syrup to stay alive and they call a knit cap a "toque". Years back I played the first episode or two of storyline mode and since then I've played the freeform survival mode waiting for them to finish the whole storyline, maybe next winter.

I appreciate the stylized, bordering on impressionist visual style, and especially the attention paid to weather. I like a game where your ability to see shit is important, here you have vision obscured by fog, snow, or moonless or underground darkness. In pic it's foggy and I can only navigate by following that road, if a wolf chases me off the road or something, then I'm lost.

The best RPG to come this year

Archolos

I didn't get much time to play video games last week, but I've had a bit more time this week!

I've been continuing to pick up where I left off with Skyrim, and have now finished the Dark Brotherhood quests, in addition to the main quest. I was surprised at how quickly the main quest wrapped up - from capturing Odahviing to defeating Alduin is pretty much one straight shot. I also did the Companions questline, but it was pretty short and all told I rushed through it because I didn't like being a werewolf!

This leaves me with just the civil war and a few side quests to finish up, before I do the Dragonborn DLC and finish the game in its totality. So far I've clocked in an embarrassing 300 hours over 5 years with this save, and the crazy thing is I kinda want to do it all over again.

But instead, perhaps I will finally go to the effort of modding Oblivion to the point where it's playable today. I did actually get most of the way there with that project like maybe 7 or 8 years ago, but there was still stuff to do. What I never got round to doing was changing the terrible leveling system, by which I mean both that leveling your skills was completely counterintuitive and that past a certain level, every random bandit would be running around with top-tier gear.

Other than that, I've played a little Assetto Corsa since there have been some pretty interesting mods drop recently (some 90s touring cars and 60s sports cars) - and I played some more Forza Horizon 5 and Anno 1800 with my friends. The difficulty in Forza Horizon 5 seems super uneven, but at least on this go around we didn't have terrible network problems like last time.

Wanna get back to RimWorld as soon as I get a big block of free time, perhaps over the Christmas holiday. But I've got a few other things I really want to check out too.

I'm probably like 30-40% through Rogue Trader. I am pleasantly surprised by the writing so far. I think it's owlcats best written gameso far, at least as far as dialogue is concerned.

The combat is little more meh. The systems work fine, but all the combat encounters seem too similar to eachother. There's way less enemy diversity compared to their pathfinder games.

Still, definitely one of the best RPGs I've played this year

It's gotten cold around here so I decided to replay The Long Dark.

I spent days almost dying in snow storms but I finally made it to the Misty Lake and brother, I fricking hate wolves with a passion now.

Snapshots:

clip from a S-tier qualifier game:

• undelete.pullpush.io

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

Age of Empire 2:

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• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

Sea of Thieves

Also I'm going to try out Wo Long Fallen Dynasty

THE FINALS is a really interesting game and it's weird to even be talking about it because I generally hate modern AAA multiplayer games, and THE FINALS is a really unfortunate case of a great game wrapped in awful packaging.

The game itself looks, sounds and even feels generic at first glance (free to play battle royale gameshow with quirky humor and colorful characters!!! so original!! ) but mechanically it's actually quite unique in the multiplayer space.

First off, it's not a battle royale or extraction shooter, it's (3v3v3) or (3v3v3v3) depending on the gamemode. Objectives in the gamemodes generally revolve around a device you have to get to and use, like a drop point or cash box, etc. The interesting part comes in when you realize:

To avoid more , I'll summarize by saying it feels like fast-paced like Apex/Titanfall and highly dynamic like an Arkane game (Like Prey or Dishonored - not their new shit) with what I'd call light immersive-sim elements.

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Started Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake because I wanted to get into the MGS games.

Hunt showdown with friends.

It's actually the only 'competetive' shooter that I can keep coming back to. Crytek has been doing some nice events.

The game is constantly on sale, can only truly recommend it if U have people to play with though. All the DLC are purely cosmetic

With myself most of the time desu