Patient Gamers

Nearing the end of Lies of P... It exceeded my expectations and I'm very satisfied :D I'm even considering buying a DLC for a game I'm just "renting out!" Aaaaaahh I'm hooked, I need more!

Petition for Silksong to be considered an honorary patient gamer game, given I waited seven years to play it.

Picked up the original Hollow Knight on sale a little while back. With the all the buzz around Silksong I finally booted it up, having a blast so far!

I feel the description of this community fits me to a tee.

I'm playing Silksong.

Heard a song from Wuthering Waves, and it caught me be surprise with how good it was, so I figured I'd give the game a try.

It feels a lot like Genshin Impact, but the world and story feel better, is not Mihoyo, and the voice acting includes the main character. For a F2P experience, it's been fun going through the initial story. To its detriment, however, there's three different gacha currencies. Definitely not worth bothering with beyond freebie pulls. Overall, I'd recommend it, but only the free stuff.

When POE2 came out, I played it for a couple hours, hated it, and went back to Diablo 4. I saw it at PAX a week ago and thought I’d give it a try again since I quit D4 and was jonesing for that fix. It’s doing pretty well so far. I’m in Act 3.

Finally jumped into No Man's Sky.

Still making my way through Skies of Arcadia Legends. Just arrived at Yafutoma but the game is such a slog sometimes with the random encounters :(

Also chilled out and played a little bit of Beat Hazard.

Coral Island! It's been out a while but they had a major update recently. My farming/crafting life sim stretch continues.

Went and tried playing Dark Souls again after leaving it on hold for a few months and this time it clicked HARD. I finally get why people love these games so much. The atmosphere, the combat, the sound effects, how it teaches you to persevere my god what an experience. The only thing I regret is not starting this sooner back when I had more free time lol

Persona 5 Royale on Steam Deck. JRPGs and handhelds are a match made in heaven. My only complaint is every time I think that I've escaped the tutorial, there's more tutorial lol.

I‘ve been playing Legend of Grimrock which had been collecting dust on my account for over a decade, and I can now confidently say that these kinda games are not for me lol

I finished Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time and had a good time with it. Short, old-school feeling chill action game. Probably a must-play if you're a fan of the show, otherwise keep an eye out for Epic giveaways or just pirate it if you think it looks cool. It's not that long, probably 8 hours or so with some cool looking levels and the combat gets pretty fun once you start unlocking skills.

Being unable to resist my recent hyperfixation I went back and started playing through Ninja Gaiden 2 Black with the White mod installed. Still playing on Warrior to have an apples-to-apples comparison. 6 Chapters in now and it feels like a halfway point between vanilla NG2B and OG NG2 so far. Apart from a handful of fights actually being harder in this version it mostly is easier and less dense in fights. There are still places that are empty where there should be fights, I still turn the corner sometimes expecting a fight I remember and being met with silence instead. Having said that, not every omission is negative - the jellyfish bombs in Venice for example I didn't really miss.

Also - and I can't understate this - the game is fucking beautiful. Not only is it visually stunning with the lighting and the blood physics and textures and raytracing and 120 FPS HDR - it is also impressive from an art direction standpoint. It feels just like the original, only sharper. It looks like what the original looked like in my head when I thought back on it. Sometimes remasters or remakes lose the original identity, but here they absolutely nailed it.

So far I'm having a blast with it, even though it doesn't quite deliver that "playable cocaine" vibe that the original was constantly feeding you.

I'm really enjoying shadow legend VR it came out in 2019 and the devs released arken age recently so i checked out their older work. It's really good and i can definitely see the arken age DNA in shadow legend!

Edit: On a completely different note, for whatever reason soundtrack from the first Drakengard game is now available on Steam - remaster/remake incoming?

Ace Combat 7 but maybe I'll go back to Ace Combat Horizon Legacy +... I always seem to find later titles in a series and end up playing them in confusing parallel.

BlazBlue Entropy Effect. This one has been fun and weird. I jumped into it because of the Dead Cells collab and that content feels almost like it could be a Dead Cells 2. This game took a while for me to understand what's going on. I like the gameplay a lot, not so much the overworld stuff.

Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth. I went back to this game and realized that I gave up on the first boss months ago. Might try to beat that boss or I might just start it over. This game is a lot like Blade Chimera (same engine, I think. definitely the same team) but I have nostalgia for Lodoss stuff so I picked it up last year.

Raft and switching back to modded Minecraft again

Still just Animal Crossing on the Switch! If it ain’t broke…

Monument Valley is/was free on Epic. It's a nice little puzzler. I like it, enough to beat the main game and start on the DLC (included). Lightweight, cute, not too many mechanics. It's not nearly as visually impressive or as challenging as my favorite space bending game, Manifold Garden, though.

Phamsmophobia

Just my friend and girlfriend into it. Theyve added a lot of tools, ghost types, and cursed objects since i lastnplayed

Finally booted up no man's sky, after owning it for actual years (picked up for I think 10€ at most at the time). There's recently been an update, reminding me that it exists. It's maybe a bit grindy, but over all I've had quite a bit of fun in the 50 or so hours I've put in so far.

Been emulating Fire Emblem on GBA recently. I’m a recent fan of the series, started with Three Houses, so going back and playing the older ones has been on my to-do list for awhile now. Really enjoying it so far!

Cyberpunk 2077

Apparently the game was such a disaster at launch that shareholders sued the game's producer CD Projekt Red and won a settlement against the company.

I recently picked it up on sale and with the addition of a healthy dose of mods (the game is the fifth most popular on Nexus) it's a truly enjoyable experience. In fact, it sets the standard for open world games so high for me that I don't think I'll be able to enjoy Bethesda games ever again.

Sun Haven on Switch, it finally got an update to make it playable after 7 months and it’s actually quite fun when you can play it properly.

I beat The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.

It was alright. A third person shooter where you are theoretically giving tactical orders to two NPC followers. In reality, good or interesting tactics go out the window in favor of just spamming special abilities as much as possible in a chaotic mess of fights. The story was decent and gets interesting near the end, although for my money after the big reveal it feels like it drags out a bit longer than it needs to. For $3 I got my value.

I'm playing the VR version of Myst. Also recently played the The Room VR. I don't generally play VR games (partly because they don't seem appealing to me, and partly because I can get nauseous surprisingly fast), but I really liked these. Looking forward to Riven next.

Trying to get back into Dragon Age Inquisition. I really didn't care for the combat, but I'm there for the story.

Port Royale 3 from GOG on my Linux machine (I do not run Arch, BTW).

Mind you, I think Port Royale 2 is a better ballanced with less fancy graphics version.

Into the Breach

Jet Set Radio. Having so much fun once I got used to how floaty it can be.

Got some total war cravings and bough total Warhammer III on a sale. It has a very strong "just one more turn" factor and it's been eating up a good chunk of my free time the past week, but I've finally got it out of my system. Warhammer II still has the best factions, but the mechanical improvements in particular how allies work are really nice. If you own all three games you can play the "immortal empires" campaign including the whole old Warhammer fantasy world and all races. This is an absolutely massive game world, at the start of the game there are 280 factions, although this count decreases quickly

I'm in a Monster Hunter Rise shaped hole, this game is a marathon!

I'm motivated to 'finish' it because I want to try out Monster Hunter World, but I'm not sure that healthy.

About 120 hours in so far, I've just got the end credits for the DLC at Master Rank 5 for killing the Arch Demon, according to people in the community I've just finished the tutorial 🥲

Other than Hollow Knight (thanks Gog sale)

Metroid Fusion and dread. Picked it up and haven’t put it down