Hello everyone. Sorry I forgot to post this last week. I had family visiting me and my mind was occupied. Then I meant to post it on Monday and forgot again, so I just said “ah fuck it” and wait until today. Anyway, this week I continued with my playthrough of Pokémon Omega Ruby. I have finished getting all the gym badges, but instead of marching straight to the elite 4 I am doing some clean up while powerleveling my newly caught Bagon (now a Shelgon) in to Salamence, which is one of my favorite pokemon all time. I also finally resumed my Elden Ring seamless co-op playthrough with my brother. We are fully ensconced in the DLC, and have beaten the Dancing Lion and Rellana. I hope you all have a good week!
ive been playing 40k darktide with my wife (as i do most weeks) and i started playing the witcher 3 only to find out they are releasing a free remaster update at the end of the month so im just gonna wait for that
also been big walking with my sisters which has been fun
anddd i tried out iron nest which is surprisingly fun for a game thats essentially just sitting in an artillery cannon plotting firing trajectories. not sure how i feel about the aesthetics of the game but its cool
a game thats essentially just sitting in an artillery cannon plotting firing trajectories
Artillery autism simulator
Been playing Darktide as well. I usually main Skittles but since I got all penances for that class, I’m now maining the
instead.Been thinking of going back to Vermintide 2 which I played a lot before (though without the Beastmen DLC).
Unfortunately(?) they have made a good Star Wars game for the first time in like 20 years so I’ve been playing the hell out of that. The writing is surprisingly good also, very funny game.
Arknights is getting its Russian Revolution-themed story update in a couple days, complete with a trailer set to post Soviet rock. Always interesting to see how Chinese devs tackle topics like this. The new characters should have an option for Russian voice acting too.
Also, Danganronpa 2x2 has a release date (late January). 2014 is back baby
How is the performance of Zero Company? I am an XCOM sicko and want to get it but I never buy games at launch since most new games need a bit more time in the oven
Better than on launch but still pretty bad. I’ve just been playing on low and it still looks fine so it hasn’t really bothered me.
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my partner has been doing lots of the sims and even got us the furry mod which has been super fun (only wish it was easier to make our fursonas more accurately but they’re close enough). she gets our sims lots of money by making them do their tasks and then i get to use it to decorate our little house.
Finished fire emblem three houses with golden deer; very satisfying conclusion. About half way through zero company now, really enjoying it.
Mostly waiting on new fire emblem game next week.
I’ve been looking forward to zero company since the reviews have been pretty good!
Been playing Tales Of Destiny, I’m 6 hours into it. I really like the battle system, it’s like a mix of turn based combat and side scrolling beat 'em up.
Children of Morta is 90% off on Steam so I’ll jump into that. I’ve already played it before and it’s a banger! Beautiful pixel art and fun gameplay.
I’ve been playing a roguelike deckbuilder on my phone called Dawncaster. I never play mobile games but this one is great. I highly recommend it to the deckbuilder sickos out there
Not all Sundays are Gaming Days…
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
This here is the Commodore 64 version, which supports the Commodore 1764 RAM Expansion Module. Non-shockingly, Wizardry fucking rules. I’ve been mapping some of the floors myself, it’s a very chill game to just play for hours. If I was in 1981 I would have become a Wizardry addict tbh.
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Nice photo screenshot lol
Photographing a tube tv with a phone is pretty difficult :/
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Yeah, it’s hard not to get shit reflected on the CRT.
I bet playing Wizardry in the 80s while blasting cigs inside and playing some prog on a shitty tape deck would be fun as shit.
Getting party wiped by a gas dragon breath attack with Hawkwind playing in the background
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I started playing Black Mesa. I’ve never played half life before, it’s and oldy but fun
making my way through Horizon Forbidden West
like 80% through with the main story
I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit. But it’s pretty long so I’m also looking forward to seeing the game wrap up now.
Finished getting the last Nioh 2 achievement, had to go all the way to NG+4 to get good enough gear to beat the challenge mission on NG+2. Was a pretty fun time, but the way that builds don’t really even exist until NG+ is completely ludicrous. Add on that Graces don’t even exist until NG+3, never mind that the good ones are all NG+4, and you have a good difficulty curve where yeah you keep pace while it ramps up, but it means that the VAST majority of players will never have to engage with it at all, which is odd. It is extremely funny for the challenge mission to have back to back fights with Otakemaru and then Otakemaru: Now With Pants!
Also playing some Warframe, not really going to engage with Plague Star because fuck me that mission is boring. It is telling, I think, that the only time DE allows farming of built forma is by playing a mode that everyone hates. The new 6-person no matchmaking mode is something I will never play so I’m pretty disappointed in that. Pretty much done all the grinds I’m interested in, so probably going to pick up Citrine Prime and Narin when they come out, and then drop it for a while.
I cannot imagine getting to new game plus 4 in nioh 2. A game I spent like 60 hours just finishing the regular game, and was exhausted by the end of the dlc stuff.
It wasn’t that bad, going up an NG+ cycle just requires beating 20 missions and then the final boss of the base game. You can also just catwalk/suppa all the way to the end of most missions (with the caveat that higher NG+ cycles start to have more spirit foxes around that nullify invisibility so you have to be more careful), so it’s pretty quick. You do get to fun scenarios like the start of NG+4 where if you fight Gozuki you get like 1.2 billion amrita and can immediately level 30 times.
E: I’m around 100 hours but that’s including two partial coop campaigns, probably closer to 80 on my main solo character.
Been trying to get an eve escape vehicle working on Kerbal Space program and it’s kicking my butt
Finished Knuckle’s Chaotix last night. Mostly sucked but looked and sounded very nice. Kept waiting for it to do anything interesting with its mechanics.
Been playing Borderdown as an excuse to try to recharge the new clock battery on the Dreamcast I installed. Very hard. I really like it, but there don’t seem to be continues in the console remix mode. And both remix and arcade mode feature the birder system where each stage has 3 versions and you get bumped down to the 2 others if you die. So it’s a lot to learn at first. OST is literally one of the best VGM OSTs of all time with synthy jazz fusion.
Warframe. Was finally able to switch back to kde, and the grind will not stop.
Got to the end of Torna in my switch to xbc replay. Decided to get back into bloodborne. Running a skill build and it’s fun to to riposte
I’m playing Lies of P for the first time! I love a good souslike but I never buy a game for over $20, I just can’t justify the expense when I can barely afford food for my cat. So I’ve been wanting to play it for years, patiently waiting for a deep sale, knowing how much everyone raves about how great of a game it is. But since it is such a beloved title, it has stayed expensive (I still haven’t played Elden Ring for the same reason). LoP did finally go on sale for $30 recently - half off with no DLC. And it probably won’t get any cheaper than that for another couple years. I couldn’t resist so I splurged and got it.
small note.
And yes, I wholeheartedly advocate for pirating anything and everything one can. I never even watch a movie or TV show unless it’s pirated. But I don’t have a PC capable of running games and there’s no piracy on console, so to my bitter shame, I do buy games.
I’m only a couple hours in having just started playing it yesterday, so I can’t give a fair assessment yet, but I am definitely enjoying it so far.
I like the “guard regain” mechanic for earning back hp via attacks, encouraging pro-active and aggressive playstyle, like Bloodborne had and did, but with LoP tying the health-regain specifically to damage you take while guarding (blocking) which BB did not have is a cool way of doing it. Kinda like having your cake and eating it too wrt pushing that fast and aggressive play while also retaining blocking as a valid, even necessary form of defense. It’s very satisfying combat, responsive but weighty enough to feel the oomph, “crunchy.”
I haven’t figured out the handle/blade mix’n’match mechanic yet (it was only just now introduced) but it looks interesting and promising, same with the legion arm mechanic and to a much smaller degree the “defense parts” which breaks up the way armor traditionally worked. The aesthetic isn’t quite as cool as I remember Bloodborne’s in terms of weird, dark, victorian-gothic vibe, but I wouldn’t expect it to be, with LoP leaning a little more towards steampunk rather than cosmic horror. That’s not to say the artistic design isn’t great, because it is, and there’s plenty of room for either aesthetic to flourish, so we’ll see. Level design is extremely important to me, though I guess that’s true for most people, and I know that’s supposed to be one of the reasons Lies of P is considered such a great game, so I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with that.
Anyway, I’m stoked to finally be playing it. (Do people still say “stoked”?)
I really loved Lies of P. The expansion is also fantastic!
I’m currently reading through Pinocchio with my kid, and might revisit the game after finishing it.
I wanted to get the edition that included the expansion but it was $90…
I’ll get the DLC someday when it goes on sale digitally.That’s really cool you’re reading the original story with your kid. What do you think of Collodi’s writing? As is probably the case with most people in Burgerland, my only associations with the title Pinocchio were via the disney slop. Enough so that it seemed like a bizarre choice for setting a grimdark soulslike game at first. But I bet it makes a lot more sense after reading the 1880’s Italian original.
It’s a weird book, and a bit of an old fashioned translation. It has been fun to explain what some of the stuff in the book is (like a primer) to a child of the 21st century lol. There are parts that are questionable, but compared to the shit kids can be exposed to on YouTube it’s decent (and at least has some sense of trying to teach kids some basic, but dated morals). Honestly worth a read if you like the game, if only to have the
moments.I haven’t watched the Disney films (I’ve heard the original one is solid), but the recent Guillermo del Toro movie is pretty great. The del Toro movie seems to embrace that kids are a little rebellious and chaotic (as a good thing) more than the original book. It’s also set in fascist Italy, and Pinocchio sings a poop fart song about
to his face.I do like scifi Pinocchio as a concept (like how it’s lightly the inspiration for Astro Boy).
