I've been playing Dark Souls for a couple weeks on and off. First time playing any game like that. Took me a long time to get any idea what I should be doing, but I'm getting the hang of it. I think I'm in the mid game now.

That game is obtuse af. It gives off a vibe similar to a difficult, shoddy, cryptic retro game sometimes, but a lot of it is obviously designed with excellent attention to detail. So is all of that intentional? I don't know. Even if all or most of it is intentional, I'm not sure it's actually good design.

I do like it though.

I've been playing ttrpgs all weekend. Did a session of an ongoing Forbidden Lands campaign on Saturday where I'm playing a halfling rogue who wants to abolish halfling/goblin apartheid. On Sunday I played an elf wanting to spread wisdom to the humans dropping into my friend's ongoing Torchbearer game and then started a two person co-op game of Starbound where we shot some cops and freed their patrol ship's shackled AI and got it to join the party.

Finished stalker SoC and clear sky and starting call of pripyat. CoP is the only one i still haven't finished mostly because i just found the level design really boring even if it is mechanically superior to the previous two games.

very regrettably, i booted up EU4 for the first time in fuck knows how long

got a good Inca run going though

Spent a good chunk of Thanksgiving week beating the original 1994 XCOM again. It's amazing how well that game's held up over so many years.

I started Ultima, the very first, the OG, to see where the series started. It's a good game for 1985 but for 2024 it really doesn't pass the sniff test. Namely to even really begin and set forth on the adventure to kill the evil wizard you need to grind, and a lot, to get max level and hit points. Then there's like 4 real "quests" (go to a dungeon, any dungeon, reach floor x and kill y creature) you do to get the key items to progress and face the final boss. Do that, reach space, time travel, and fight the baddie and you win.

I had much the same problem with Wizardry 1, in that there's no real meat on the bone in the game once you know you can power level on floor one then warp to the end and kill the final boss in a few hits.

Like I said I can see how this would have been groundbreaking in 1985 but I'm spoiled in 2024.

Tiny Tina’s, Deadlock, and Mechabellum while I wait for POE 2 to release.

FYI, be sure to set a FPS limit on deadlock or it’ll try and run w 250+ fps which made my cpu get too hot

Currently playing Sulfur when I do play, which isn't often. Haven't gotten very far but it is alright so far.

Got it gifted for my birthday by an aquaintance who knows the devs. Kind of a cute/grotesque boomer shooter roguelike.

Back on Sims 3 again. I swear to god I play the same 3 or 4 games in rotation, switching between them every few months. I've been spending more time troubleshooting this game than playing it though. EA fucking sucks and I can't wait for all the other life simulators due out soon so I can drop this fucking game once and for all.

I have been playing Witcher 3. I started it a few years ago but decided to take another run at it on my steamdeck. I feel like it has the winter vibes I need right now haha

I've definitely been playing nothing at all...

FE: The Morrow's Golden Country. It's such a good game, and it's only been getting better. At this point I don't know how I'm going to go back to some of the official Fire Emblem games, these romhacks are just more fun and made so well.

Ghost of Tsushima is very pretty, I got it during the recent sale. The lethal difficulty is fun, I probably should have started on the an intended difficulty level rather than the gimmick level but I'm afraid to change it.

Played a little bit of Echo Point Nova, a... movement based first person shooter with a (small) open world level design? Highly recommend it, I 100%ed it in 8 hours and go back every now and then. The dev also did Severed Steel, which had some pretty decent post launch support and game types, and the dev seems to be shooting for the stars with additional content.

Trying to 100% achievements for Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen after getting it in DD2, and did it on the Xbox years ago. Trying to kill Death pre max level sure is something. Doing it max level without items is already a pain. Losing interest in continuing, but I gotta see it through eventually.

Got Space Marine II to play with friends eventually, it just seems ok. The defensive quick time events don't seem to be very responsive? I'll have to try it with a controller sometime.

started playing both Ultrakill and Fields of Mistria, which feels like two completely opposite ends of the spectrum lmao

I got alien isolation on steam sale so playing that on the deck. It is scary oven on a tiny screen lol. Desktop is baldurs gate 3.

I just finished a Half-Life 2 Hard run. I have tons of nostalgia for the Half-Life series, and the game mostly holds up except two major bugs. The end sequence in the Citadel is still as satisfying as ever.

I was too busy with life and work stuff to play this weekend (unless you count doing crosswords while sitting on hold). But I'm two hours into starting Persona 3 Reload right now instead of going to bed. I've played 5 but none of the others.

Ori And The Blind Forent, it's really cool how many different mechanics they came up with, and the artwork is great

Picked up Slime Rancher in the steam sale, played an hour or so. It's cute but might not hold my attention because it seems pretty simple: find the two most expensive slimes you can and crossbreed them.

A bunch more content got added to Holocure (some characters, 2 stages, the casino, a fucking Jump King minigame) and Soulstone Survivors (1 character) when I wasn't looking so I went back and 100%'d all the new stuff.