Games

I've been almost obsessively making a game instead of playing any this past week. It's a space shooter that's gonna borrow elements of Defender, Galaga, and Sinistar (and asteroids and missile command to a lesser extent), and see the player flying through three game screens with unique challenges and objectives. You've got to protect your planet while building up bombs, and then take the bombs out into space to blow up the boss. It's gonna use a classic level-style arcade progression, with two high score systems, one for points and one for speed.

I've spent most of my time so far tweaking the movement and really focusing on making the player ship satisfying to fly and shoot with, and right now I'm trying to come up with a pleasing set of arcadey boops and beeps.

Picked up Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic again last week. Started building a city on the DPRK map. Restarted it on Monday, with a bit more forward planning. Space for rail transportation, an industrial district, better utility grids all around. Been working on it all week and nobody has even settled yet, but it is very close.

Restarted Yakuza 7 on legend ng+, it's fun mostly wanna get through the story. I think that's what I need to play a lot of dragon quest and then to join a gang

Im gonna start hades 2

Got my first capital ship built in my current run of Cosmoteer. It's a proven design. But, it's more of a secondary, long-range support ship and not a flagship. I'll have to come up with something else for that role in my fleet. I might try deck guns or mass lasers that sit behind several layers of armor.

So far, though, I haven't encountered anything I can't handle with only one ship. I think the next difficulty is where I'll have to build another capital ship.

Love New Vegas! Might have to give it yet another replay.

I 100%'d Silksong. Game of the decade so far. It isn't for everyone, but it improved and iterated on Hollow Knight in every way I wanted it to.

Right now I'm switching between Clair Obscur and Dead Space. The former is fun with a good story and soundtrack so far, the latter is great for spooky season.

I finished the Japanese campaign in age of mythology, it was really good its in the top 2 of all the campaigns

I started playing the gauntlet mod and it been fun, its like a normal skirmisher but with special bonus you pick

Also last week i played as the black eagles in FE three houses, im at chapter 8 and im building edelgard as a dark knight

i have recruited mercedes, ingrid, sylvain, lysithea. Its been pretty fun

Also i played nubbys number factory and beat the exploding nubby challange, i mostly used the dolphin plus a bunch of items that pop pegs

I haven't played much as I've been pretty hungover from a friend's birthday, but I played about an hour of State of Decay 2 which is my go-to brain off / audiobook comfort game basically.

I might start Alan Wake 2 tonight if I'm not too tired. I'm excited to start it but don't want to if I'm not in the mood.

Moonbreaker. Wish there were still an online scene, that game burned out too quick.

Black Orchestra mod for rising storm 2 Vietnam. A team ported Red Orchestra 2 and mods for it over to the rising storm 2 engine

Uh... I finished a round of void war as the assassin and took a break for more modded Victoria 3 trying to see what achievements I can get while trying to min-max towards communism.

Also did a few rounds of Tarkov PvE, two rounds in ground zero and one in the factory. Managed to barely survive all three runs.

Also gave the Japanese campaign of age of mythology brief try. Gotta wait for next weekend to chew through more of it.

Oh yeah the last one I played was Long Gone Days. Very interesting game I say

Been playin' my boojie game Pokémon Canada: Zed, Eh? It's a real hoot.

Blowing through a bunch of sick Next Fest Demos. Despite the crash in big name gaming I think the future looks bright, judging by the massive amounts of ideas for games.

Just to start with: Final sentence is pretty funny, a battle royale typing game is pretty clever and they dress it up kinda like Buckshot Roulette or the like. Kinda unbalanced if you end up in a game with just a really good typist lol.

-Death in abyss gives vague impressions of Star Fox 64 except it comes in a underwater horror vibe as you play as a sort of deep sea combat drone on a mission to cleanse the sea of beastie monsters. Kinda sparse for a demo but played pretty fun and I like to see people pick up old game styles where the big name devs have left them several iterations ago.

-The Yapyap demo is fun, 4 player co-op slop where you play as a mischievous little magic fella who is meant to vandalize some bum mage's tower using wacky spell infused wands. You can find a wand that works like the piss stream back in ye olde Conkers Bad Fur Day.

-Tears of Metal is a northern European/Scottish themed Dynasty warriors expy with a cool art style, kinda slow and I didn't play it much but it seems promising.

-Fat Goblins is a new version of Fat Princess, only goblin themed. Basically a team based CTF game where the flag is actually a rotund princess who your team can feed to make them bigger and thus, harder for the opponents to capture.

Besides that me and the lads have picked up Sniper Elite 4 so we can get on some wholesome WW2 Nazi balls shooting. It's kinda funny, but I kinda wish we had more WW2 games, I'm in a mood that Company of Heroes 2's terrible campaign can't fix.

Persona 5 Royal, finished Palace 8 and am now just doing social stuff waiting for the days to tick down. Doing hang-outs with friends during the day to get decorations and forcing Faith to the Jazz Club 6 days a week to get her stats up (Sundays are for Hermit to get her support skills). I really feel like the writing of the post-game has been a massive missed opportunity so far with no real explanation why the villain is actually bad. At most it seems to be process complaints like "oh well he didn't solve everyone's problems in the world immediately". Hoping in the confrontation he mentions that he's ended war and poverty and millions of people are living the best lives they ever have. Also IMO it would have been better if at least one of the PThieves got actually angry with the MC and refused to join. Most obvious would be Empress, but I think Priestess would be the better choice.

Warframe, on that shroomset, I have first Nokko but what about second Nokko? The arbuceps grind is somehow much worse.

Trying to get my mom to learn to play Silent Hill 1. She has this boomer fixation with gaming like they do with phones where they want the shiny new thing, but will put absolutely zero effort into learning how to use it and demand I spoonfeed them every single bit of help or else they'll likely buy their way out of the problem (in this case, buy another game that they drop in 1-2 hours because they refuse to learn that game's mechanics as well).

Been playing Nightingale. It actually runs properly on my new rig, so that's nice. Turns out combat is a lot easier when the game doesn't hitch whenever I turn too fast.

Kingdom Hearts, again. I always dive back into my PS2 favorites at least a couple times a year. This one inspired by watching the voice actor of Riku streaming his first playthrough ever of the series. It's been fun watching him discover the context of his own dialogue 20-something years after recording it as a teenager.

It’s Halloween so I booted up Have A Nice Death. I’m ass at it and I can’t get past Waldo (lil capitalist shit spams chainsaws) but it’s a fun game and satirizes work culture.

watching someone play the new Donkey Kong game and every time the character "Architectone" pops up I am reminded of that one awful CHUD streamer

I finished Dredge, a Cthulhuesque fishing game. Its a chill, slowburn experience where you gradually upgrade your lil boat and catch strange fish. Its not really a proper horror game, but it fits perfectly for the spooky season. Took me about 10h including fiddling around with one dlc.

Another game I played through a couple of endings of is No, Im Not a Human . It has a fun setting and atmosphere another good pick for the spooky season. This one is really short even if you go for multiple endings.

farthest frontier and bu$tafellows

not much on the video games this week and ttrpgs have been slowing down from scheduling issues so i've been reviving my love of solo rpg-ing
running into the same issue i always used to though, i like to write it all out long-form so a single scene can take upwards of an hour if i'm stuck for wording lol

Kenshi. Have a nice large city made in Shem now. Have spun up sufficient agriculture to feed my people and am cranking up the hemp fields. For fabric. Definitely.

I haven't resumed my trading caravans yet due to citybuilding focus, and definitely miss the guaranteed 100k/day from the Squin traders. The random spending for my out-and-about squads is wearing down the bank. But I'm also unintentionally free of folks I have to spend money on to keep alive--i had two chars get proper stuck under the building during the great white gorillo fight and had to reset squad positions, so everybody's instantly home and I was robbed of a couple adventures. I had had folks stationed in a few different cities around the map just chilling/reconning/training.

My city is pretty neat provided the pathing demons are kept at bay; I built around a crossroads but walled off each section of the city separately. Raids functionally need to walk to the exact center of my city to even announce that they are a raid, at which point they are already surrounded on all sides by the horde. I have never bothered to close my gates yet. I liked the wall-less city idea but couldn't commit to it, too scared.

Hot take: Microsoft has had a whole decade to eat Nintendo's lunch and wasted it chasing the AI dragon.

All they had to do was release a handheld console running a barebones version of Windows, and call it the new Xbox. Marketing freebie from me: NeXbox.

All your PC games? It runs them. Xbox games? It runs them. Steam, Epic, Itch? It runs them.

What a fucking fumble.

So, based off the last two posts I've done, you might be wondering if I'm obsessed with HOI4? The answer is yes, and my life is irreparably damaged.

It's not that I can't do other stuff in the day but the game sucks off my lifeforce and time that by the time I'm done with a session, I'm tired and hungry.

Paradox games suck you in like that, huh?

It wears off after a while but holy hell I'm having fun while doing so.