Hey y’all, what have you been playing!
I’m still on my Isaac kick, and finally got my PC back to start playing Alan wake 2!
Diablo IV season 3
Currently juggling Enshrouded, Frostpunk, and Remnant 2. Enjoying all of them for very different reasons.
It’s pretty unusual for me since I don’t have as much time to enjoy games as I used to and I tend to remain pretty focused on a single title on my list at a time.
Enshrouded looks cool. What’s your opinion on it?
I am enjoying it so far! The combat is enjoyable, building is robust and the world does call to you for exploration.
Progress is server wide which is strange. My completing a quest completes it for all other players so you probably want to play on a private server.
It definitely has space to improve but I think the devs have a solid foundation here to build something quite enjoyable.
I just finished up Divinity Original Sin 2 this week! I enjoyed Baldur’s Gate 3 immensely, so I thought I would check out something else from Larian Studios, and it had been on my wishlist forever. Loved the combat system in this one, and how you could mix and match different skills and abilities to make interesting combinations. The battles were so much fun to play! I had a hard time keeping track of the story and all the different factions and their motivations, though, and went into the final act of the game not exactly sure what my character should choose. (Especially compared to BG3 I had a harder time keeping track of what was going on for some reason.) Still had a ton of fun playing this one and will probably replay it with a new character and all new party at some point!
I’m also working on my second playthrough of Disco Elysium and playing Cult of the Lamb. And then sometime soon I’m going to start Cyberpunk 2077.
XCOM: Enemy Within. Finished a game over two days because everyone kept missing their attacks, even the planes. Even the enemies.
Gonna do a second wave marathon and then maybe move on to XCOM 2.
APE OUT
Enshrouded and Old School Runescape
Finally got around to Yakuza: Like a Dragon, so I’ve been making my way through that. Enjoying the turn-based RPG game-play a lot more than I was expecting. Focused on the main story right now, but the side-content I’ve dabbled in has been pretty fun. Feels like one of those games I’m going to be chipping away at for a while.
I’ve also been playing Dread Delusion and absolutely loving it. I don’t tend to pick up Early Access games, but hearing it described as a “Morrowind-like” RPG caught my interest and it is the perfect way to describe the game. It really captures that feeling of playing Morrowind for the first time, of being a nobody in a strange land. The game doesn’t even give you a map when you start out. You have to get by on directions and landmarks until you complete the side quest that gives you a map. And even then you have to fill it out as you explore the world. More than that, it’s that sense that you never really know what you’re going to encounter around the next corner. You can wander into a town looking for your contact to continue the main quest only to end up accepting a quest from the atheistic Inquisition to help them hunt down a rogue god and their followers.
Like I said it’s still Early Access so it is a little rough around the edges. There’s more than a handful of bugs and the combat is…fine, but not much else. Then again there’s such a focus on sneaking, talking, and magicing your way around problems that that might be intentional. Still, what I’ve played so far has got me excited for when the finished product releases.
Dread Delusion was one of the best games I’ve played at PAX. I was bummed to see it launch into early access, but I guess they needed funding in a hurry. I’m definitely going to pick it up once it’s done.
BG3 still. Just started Act 3 for the first time. Astarion as my main.
Man, I put 80 hours into it in Act 1 last summer and haven’t picked it back up yet.
I’ll enjoy the rest when I feel like it, still GOTY for me even only playing a third of it.
Yeah. If you’re a conpletionist like me, you just run around picking up junk to sell to vendors so that you can buy one of every available named weapon (and store it in camp and never use it)…
Oh, there’s plot? Sorry, busy systematically looting an entire castle… I kid. A little.
I’m really enjoying how each character has a good arc, and that those arcs feel so substantially different from one another.
It’s an incredible game.
Act 1 just felt like a game unto itself and I was satisfied for the moment.
More Diablo 4, but I’m like 95% done with the season. My Barbarian is level 100, I’ve completed the Season Journey, did Tier 100 Vaults, killed all the Uber Bosses (except Lilith) at least once, etc. I could of course min-max even more, to kill enemies 10ms faster, but I won’t focus on that. I’ll still do some runs here and there, but will try to focus on other games for now.
There is a time-limited event, that’s starting in a few days, that I’ll check out, but dunno how much there is to do.
The Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster games are on sale at last, so I’ve snatched those up on Steam and played through the first game. I was surprised how much of the typical FF DNA was already in this. Some of the mechanics and game design are somewhat antiquated, which is to be expected for a 35+ year old game, but the QoL additions really help, to make most pretty much a non-issue.
I played Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin previously, so seeing / reading all those familiar names and locations really make me want to go back to that game.
I want to play through FF2 next week, but we’ll see if the D4 event hooks me, or I find anything else.
Spent most of my time this week, as per the ushe, playing Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition and doing setup for the Saturday campaign I run every week using the game’s DM client.
Great fun.
If anyone out there is into D&D and has free time on Saturdays, the game is cheap and you’d be welcome to join us. The server name is ALFA Sea of Swords 034: Daggerford.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/704450/Neverwinter_Nights_Enhanced_Edition/
Also picked up Sands of Aura, which is an indie soulslike and I’m just starting on that today. The reviews speak to excellent level design, and I love a game I can explore.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
I think I might play the Tomb Raider Legend/Anniversary/Underworld trilogy. Just to get ready for the I - III remasters.
As much as I enjoy the newer trilogy, I really miss old campy Lara. The fun adventures that don’t take themselves too seriously.
Edit: Man, I forgot how finicky the controls of these games can be.
Edit 2: No, seriously, fuck these controls. Anniversary feels like a nightmare to play. Legend had its control problems, but at least there wasn’t platforming in literally every room. I can appreciate that it’s got waaaaay more puzzles (I mean, it’s a remake of the original), but that doesn’t matter if the controls make the puzzles unnecessarily frustrating.
Got my Deck back from RMA, so doing another run of Neurovoider. Then, I’ll probably finish Dragon Age Inquisition on Desktop.
I played a few hours of Palworld, and it’s serving the role of a podcast or second-screen game quite well. It’s still early goings, and I’m around level 10 or so, but it’s doing for me what Pokemon hasn’t done in decades while simultaneously combining it with aspects I really enjoy from Factorio.
I’m also coming close to the end of Pillars of Eternity, I think. I’m in the second DLC, and I hit a huge difficulty spike, as quests available around my level have seemingly started to dry up, but I ended up grinding a few bounties and got to level 14, which got me over one difficulty spike and hopefully paved the way to keep me moving.
Besides that, I picked up Tekken 8. This is the most I’ve enjoyed Tekken since the third game, and I also think I’m done with it. A lot of the game makes sense to me in a way that Tekken 7 didn’t, and I’ve come to respect it more than its predecessor for that and other reasons, but I don’t think it’s for me as far as being a fighting game I’d like to compete in. I can see the path to improving from here, and it looks like a lot of memorization rather than application, where I just need to know what each move or string looks like to be ready to defend it, and until I reach that point, it’s just a lot of frustration. So instead, I choose to avoid that frustration and go back to fighters that I enjoy more. It’s a lot of fun at a casual level and in single player mode though.
Diablo 3: Season 30 - Still working on the Destroyer chapter. Thinking about trying out a different build for my Monk, so I’m farming Nephalem Rifts and gambling blood shards at Kadala for specific legendary items.
Alan Wake 2 - Finally finished The Final Draft aka new game plus. Very happy that I replayed it immediately, because the ending made it worth it. Even with all the problems this game has, I’m eager to see what comes next. There’s been a patch that just came out that apparently fixes a lot of bugs, but I finished the game too soon to see any of it.
Diablo 4: Season 3 - Working on Chapter 4 of the season journey and my endgame Barbarian build. Finally moved myself to World Tier 3 because things were getting too easy. I did have a little trouble until I got better gear, and now things are back to being easy again lol. If I get too comfortable, I might have to attempt the capstone dungeon for World Tier 4 to humble myself. Either that or face one of the endgame bosses on my own.
Vampyr - Been having a shit couple days and decided the best way to combat it was by being a moody vampire doctor running around London.
