All the Silksong posting drove me to try out Hollow Knight for the first time. Before that, I've been doing some flight sim in FlightGear.
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Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries
clan dlc is out and i've been going hard into it
Started Persona 5 Royal. It's a JRPG alright. Fucked up (and not to mention shit writing) to have the first arc be about a teacher SAing students, and then to have the second arc require you to force one of those students to seduce someone against her will (and then when that seduction target joins you he never apologizes for being so pushy). The game also really suffers from a lack of MC involvement in dialogue. Like eg I don't even think you were told you couldn't tell anyone about the Velvet Room but I guess that's just not an option.
I find it increasingly funny when it snaps back to Sae in the interrogation room asking "ah so you phantom thieves were really good at eating burgers, you must have had the help of an american!" or whatever every time you get a new confidant.
E: it's also very funny that the politician guy was involved in three scandals that ruined his career, and calling a constituent an idiot is portrayed as an equal offense to embezzling millions of yen.
Silksong. It's everything I wanted from a hollow knight followup. Including getting fucking killed by terrible pogo skills rather than anything else lol. Great boss fights, amazing exploration, and awesome cute little bugs that make me want to help them and cry when I lose them.
Me tomorrow
Psycho Mantis?!
...you're that ninja
All my good impressions are gravely voiced, I kill a Randy Savage or Lemmy. Snake takes some work, but I've gotten the mgs1 take but not how Hayter did it after.
second silksong post. sweating my meaty claws off climbing mount fey
Cataclysm DDA
I generated a new map with the urban density turned all the way up, the whole world is basically suburb and city and industrial parks with very little forest or plains. I managed to recruit my starting NPC and survive the infection I spawned with, and now I'm holed up in a two story house in the suburbs. Found a couple solar backpacks and hoping to turn the balcony into a solar farm, and there's a wrecked RV outside the house that I want to salvage the minifridge from. That's for later, though. Right now I'm hitting as many refrigerators as I can to scavenge for perishables to powder or dehydrate or can before it all spoils.
I finally finished Outer Wilds and I wondered what the echo of the eye was because i missed how to do it during the game and even though I loved most of it i think heart breakingly that i cant be arsed to go back and do the echoes of the eye part. I did the whole base game without looking anything up
i complain a lot and spoiler below. im going to cushion this by saying if you haven’t, go play the game blind. I know people were raving when it came out but it should still be talked about way more than it is all these years later. it’s a great game and deserves more praise.
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except right at the end i was getting fatigued and looked up exactly how to get into the ash twin project because i spent over an hour at the correct spot (the teleporter that gets covered by the sand column) without guessing that i had to hide in the cubby briefly before walking onto it while it was getting sanded. I think it’s an incredible game but i feel like a lot of people just end up looking up some of the puzzles despite all the hints.
I really like the concept of the game but i struggle with some of the execution. Every time I was at the end of a puzzle and got knee capped by the time loop i was so annoyed. Some of the puzzles can be solved by dumb luck but im really hung up on getting into the ash twin. most every other puzzle if you found all the pieces you knew exactly what to do and its this final one and the echoes of the eye stuff where it really wasn’t obvious. I don’t know if that’s good or bad but i think this sort of game without the time loop would be my favorite. if i just had unlimited time to bash my face against puzzles id be happier than being under that kind of pressure in a single player game. The writing is intelligent and funny, the movement is great too. Love the planets, love the art style. but i’m really torn about the time loop cap of 22 mins
that specific issue with that specific puzzle is a common complaint, I think the devs have said they would have handled it differently if they were to do it again
maybe someday you come back to search for the echo, they really managed to pull off the same feat twice
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most every other puzzle if you found all the pieces you knew exactly what to do and its this final one and the echoes of the eye stuff where it really wasn’t obvious.
Honestly I'm not sure how they could give you any more hints about this puzzle without just locking you in a room with essentially a copy of this puzzle and no other way out. The problem is you need to be in a place, and the physics of the Twins prevents you from easily being in that place. So you've gotta just figure out that the trick is to get to that place at the right moment before the physics can move you away. It's a reasonable puzzle imo.
Echoes of the Eye is a really weird DLC that was grafted ungracefully into the game and I honestly wish it was completely separate. You're lucky you didn't stumble into it because I've seen a new player do that and it's so confusing when you don't realize that nothing there has anything to do with anything else in the universe.
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i started a new bg3 run a bit ago and i just started act 3. its an honor mode run so hopefully i can finish it this time
Silksong! I'm about 20 hours in, and am loving it. I do think for most people it's pretty obvious the early game is overtuned, and a lot of environmental hazards deal 2 damage that probably shouldn't, but I'd be lying if I said those were truly bothering me. I'm having a blast, it's the best game I've played in years so far, slowly exploring everywhere and getting everything I can.
Im definitely going to buy Silksong but im waiting for a bit
Prob a good choice! I can see it getting a balance passthrough.
Got into a kick of playing some GBA games, taking a break from fighting games, currently working through CV HOD, almost done with it. The game is pretty cool, I can see why it's gets a bad rep because if you don't know the optimal route to follow you can get lost easy. I love some Igavania but I've beat SOTN so many times now I wanted to try something I haven't yet.
I am almost done on Balatro. All I have left is black deck black stake and up, then completing gold stake with each joker.
That second part is going to be a lot.
i folded at orange stake. that game had a stranglehold on me for 2 solid weeks meaning playing everyday
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Update: only orange and gold left on black deck. I also forgot I still had gold stake nebula deck to do. Still. Very close.
I finally bought the bullet and bought Baldur's Gate 3.
It's good, but I'm experienced with NWN-type games and the D&D 5e system, and I still can't quite figure out how the two have been reconciled here.
Also I've been playing for less than ten hours and I've encountered at least one quest-breaking bug already. In a game that's more than two years old.
This is why I usually avoid AAA titles.
I'm experienced with NWN-type games and the D&D 5e system, and I still can't quite figure out how the two have been reconciled here.
I'm in the same boat comrade. It feels really weird all around. And some of the adjustments made because the game designers working on Baldur's Gate 3 realized 5e's rules just don't work make it especially weird. Like how the changes to jumping make it practically the most effective method of locomotion in the game. Not enough movement to get anywhere near that enemy? Just jump, it solves all your problems.
And if you don't need to jump, then bonus action potion chugging makes you practically immortal.
I'm playing on the hardest difficulty because I knew my familiarity with the genre and with 5e would make the game too easy, but it's even easier than I thought. The game is straight up cheating, like every enemy gets like an arbitrary +10 to every roll (bounded numbers mean this basically guarantees every attack roll hits always) and the game is still too easy. My friend is a goblin ass barrel hoarder and if we ever run into a situation that's tricky to handle conventionally we drop 3 explosive barrels and autowin.
It's just a weird game from so many angles
Going through Silksong; currently on Act 2. My only annoyance so far is having to go through areas without a map. Makes me feel so lost. Also, check out my cheaty ass mod https://www.nexusmods.com/hollowknightsilksong/mods/24
Got Cronos on queue after that, looking forward to that.
Cyberpunk 2077 at an excruciatingly slow pace because I want to see everything!
When I'm in more of a relaxed mode, I boot up XCOM or Tactics Ogre
LAD Gaiden, been enjoying it. Might do some disco eylisum for the vibes tonight
I'm 108 hours deep into Death Stranding 2, and am still incredibly conflicted about recommending it to anyone who doesn't have an identical taste in games. It isn't a walking simulator, it's a driving sim and a resource management game, but it's gorgeous and I love the ambiance.
I'm only about 30 hours in myself. I replayed DS1 right before and thought it was still a great looking game, but damn I did the 
at the screen when gameplay started in DS2. The game is gorgeous.
Silksong update, some of these boss runbacks were designed in a lab to piss me off.
I've been playing more Skyward Sword HD and also Custom Robo V2. Also I've been a little hooked on UFO 50's Onion Delivery
The release of Gears of War: Reloaded got me to replay the entire series, or at least the ones Epic made. Actually, you know what, I might actually finally play Judgment too, fuck it. I'm currently playing 2 and I'm about to reach the GIANT WORM moment 
I just love these dumb Xbox 360-ass games. Every single molecule in my body was vibrating with Gears of War 2 hype back in 2008 and the campaign is still really fun and a massive improvement over the first game in every single department, making the first Gears of War feel like a slow, janky prototype.
I'm emulating 2 and 3 with Xenia because Microsoft sucks ass and still hasn't released the entire series on PC. People were speculating for years about a Master Chief Collection-style compilation of the Gears of War games but instead we just got a rerelease and a PS5 port of the 2015 UE4 facelift of the first Gears of War. Fuck youuuuuu
Silksong, and Monsters are Coming demo are new this week, still loving Death Stranding 2 and Hades 2
Still playing Void Stranger. It's hard as balls, I was beating rooms in about two to five minutes, now it's taking me ten to twenty.
It's good money for content though. I'm at hour twentyish and the end still isn't in sight. I like that you can close out at any time and not lose progress so it lets you take it at your own pace.
there's lots of secrets in this game, you should play it blind if you can.
I learned there's a second chapter! The second chapter is hard mode! And at some point they did an ARG or something that added an EX mode that's even harder to the game!?
chapter 1 ends in a triumphant race to the finish after you get all of the metroidvania items and you can crush every single level in the game like it's nothing. You fight a boss, then make a breakneck sprint to the final level, and get the first main ending.
It's really unsatisfying, but I think that's intentional. The game seems to indicate that the main character passed her quest on to her adoptive daughter? I still haven't seen all the cutscenes for this part yet tho so maybe that's not it.
Anyway after blitzing the end of chapter one you're onto chapter two and none of the metroidvania items are in the same place that they used to be, even though some things like the shortcuts are the same as before.
I know that there's other endings beside the main one (I found two of them!) but once I beat the main story path I'm just gonna look that shit up cuz I want to finish this game and get on to its sister ZeroRanger.
i have beaten silksong, until tomorrow, when i try to figure out if there is a different ending and how to get it
I'm wandering through my steam library trying some of the games that showed up there but never got played. I'm on Wizards of Legend right now and it's okay but I am struggling to really get into it.
love WoL, if you got any questions I can probably give answers
Thanks, I think the big problem right now is more that I kinda suck and take a ton of chip damage more than that I'm missing a skill interaction. Can reliably beat the boss/councilor for the first biome and then just scrub out on the following ministage boss
edit: scratch that, are multi-element builds viable or are you better off stacking single? Seems like they would be abut all the flavor text makes it sound like not
there's relics that benefit single-element or multi-element builds, but there's no innate benefit to matching elements. if your relics don't care then you're free to use whatever
imo the toughest part of the game is breaking the habit of trying to dash through attacks, not having i-frames on the dash is so unusual for the genre and still fucks me up sometimes
godspeed 
I dusted off the OG hollow knight. I got all the way to the end when I played it then didn’t beat the radiance. Figured I should do that before I buy the new one
Im reading the Nightlord Omnibus (40k books about pretty bad guys) but it came recommended. I enjoy it so far quite a bit ...but I do like stories with evil protagonists. Will finish it later I think .
If you know nothing bout 40k (The Nightlords are basically very evil space pirates in this)
Silking it hard right now. IN LOVE with this game. It's huge, there's so much to do now that i've got (maybe) all the movement upgrades like double-jump and stuff.
Thanks to @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net I'm playing a game for the first time in a long while—the original Castlevania for the NES! I'd only ever played the post-Symphony-of-the-Night Igavania games, so it's been interesting to see where the series began, and it's a lot of fun! I really appreciate the simplicity of not worry about item drops, backtracking, or gear—just Simon Belmont, his trusty Vampire Killer, and a handful of subweapons. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten the chance to play again since that first session, but I'm hoping to get in a bit of playtime tomorrow.
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Silksong,silksong, silksong!
I 100%ed Promise Masoct Agency earlier this week, that was kind of a fun 20 hours
Lord of the Rings: The Battle For Middle Earth 2, The Rise of the Witch King my all time most played game
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I have been playing the FUCK out of Valve's 3rd person MOBA - Deadlock. It's in beta and requires a player to player invite. They just released 6 new characters in the space of 12 days and it's been great. Really hard but I'm excited for it to launch.
I have also been playing Delta Force - a really wonderful Chinese clone of Battlefield (with other non-battlefield game modes I don't play). The weapon customization is awesome and pretty free-form and allows for a lot of different very fun playstyles. It's basically just a successful Battlefield 2042. They even fucking nailed the characters - in Delta Force the operators are fun B-movie style action heroes, while in Battlefield the operators are more like action heroes from a property insurance commercial.
Also recently finally picked up Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It's honestly incredible. My jaw DROPPED repeatedly, it's so fucking sick. It's partly a love letter to mid-2000's FPS games and it's absolutely hilarious and badass. Rough around the edges yes but oh my god, buy the fucking game now
Thronefall. It's so good. It's a tower defense wave style game with a medieval fantasy theme and cute chonky simple graphics. You also control a little hero unit guy so it's not just sitting and watching. You can make it difficult as fuck (only if you want to). Such a banger. I;ve been playing the infinite mode trying to survive really long.
It was gonna be Silksong but controller issues decided to ruin my already pitiful current life. So I guess it's gonna be No Man's Sky for a bit longer.
Hollow Knight because of friends frothing Silksong and I never finished it on switch.
Now playing it on PC with an xbox controller and I get it. I don't even think I beat Hornet on switch lmao
I want to start a new playthrough of “Lost Records: Bloom and Rage”. It’s one of those Telltale-like choice based games developed by Dontnod (of Life is Strange) except your choices actually have an impact and there is replayability. This will be my fourth playthrough.
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