During what break? Xmas?
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I finally finished Metal Gear Solid 4 (❤️!). I played a bit of Helldivers 2 with friends. And I'm still working on my first playthrough of Tomb Raider 2 on my Anbernic handheld as my couch game.
Got back into arc raiders just in time to do the expedition, and close to finishing the flickering flames project
WoW Classic and Megabonk - both on the Steam Deck - have been a great holiday time sink.
Got Megabonk working on my Retroid, and can’t stop playing it. I thought I would try getting some other games going, but I just play Megabonk instead.
I got a bunch of games on sale on Steam but I got sucked into a replay of the Nonary games. It's been long enough that I've forgotten most of the puzzles.
Been fucking around with pals in Palworld again. Also trying to get matching free time with a friend so we can play Space Marine 2
My partner and I got Palworld when it came out, played maybe five or six hours…. I tried again solo later and got to level 10 or 15. Just recently, my partner saw me playing Enshrouded and mentioned wanting to try Palworld again… we started it up and put ten hour into it in one day. Yesterday we picked it up again, and put another ten hours in. Having a really fun time.
Alan Wake Remastered, Alan Wake 2, and Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name.
I completed Anomaly in Rimworld. My opinion is that it was awesome. I'm playing at the 3rd easiest setting, so it didn't sting too much.
Does one ever really "complete" Rimworld though?
You all have enough time to play such a variety of games you can pick three best? Damn. I played one game. And it was a mobile one... :(
Skate story has been great, playing it a chapter at a time has been really nice.
I caved and picked up Clair Obscur. It's a genre that I'm really not a fan of, but it's just so exceptionally well made that I'm thoroughly enjoying it anyway.
Aongside that, I've been playing Rogue Trader at last, after my wife has been bugging me to play it for over a year. It's very, very good. Probably one of the best RPGs I've ever played. The degree to which your narrative choices matter is phenomenal. There are scenes in the tutorial that define the entire game. And it nails the setting.
Lastly, I picked up a founders pack for Soulframe. The only bad decision anyone made when working on this game was calling it Soulframe - it is in absolutely no way the "Fantasy Warframe" people are imagining. The designers say their big inspiration was Dragons Dogma. For me, I'd say the gameplay has a lot of the feel of Breath of the Wild. The combat is exceptionally tight. Easily one of the best combat systems I've ever played. There's not a huge amount to do yet, but it's early access, that's understandable, and I think they absolutely made the right choice in nailing the feel of the game before worrying about how much of it there is.
divinity original sin 2: definitive edition(I have to say the full thing every time, so it annoys my partner.)
diddy kong racing (craving chunky bright colored polygons, and racist charicatures flying on carpets gifting golden balloons)
and super mario world. (mandatory)
Outer Wilds has completely absorbed me. I went in knowing absolutely nothing about the game and am so glad I did!
Once you finish the standard game and DLC, check out the mods. There have been annual game jams that do add some stories.
I wish my computer could run this game. On my short list of games I know I'll love.
Runs fine on the Steam Deck, just sayin’. 😁
I also went into the game blind, but the anxiety inducing loop I did not enjoy at all. I may give it another try some day.
Ball X Pit. Just bouncing my baby balls all over the place is the best.
That game is insidious. I started it one day, played six or seven hours a day for a week, hit 30ish hours, and beat the game. I couldn’t do anything else. I was so sucked in. Great game!
Haha, I did the same exact thing. I stopped after I realized it has seemingly infinite NG+
It's perfect for the Steamdeck.
Divinity Original Sin 2. I had this in my library for a while since i played BG3 and loved it. DOS is good too but way more difficult and the story is a bit weaker. Still a great game though.
Still wakes the deep. I love a good horror game and this one scratches the itch. The ambiance is great and the oil rig feels like a real place.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Playing the new DLC trying to cure a plague. Not as good as the other two dlcs but still good because more Henry is always good.
I only played one game, but it has been great: Tunic.
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I've been playing through the Halo series again
Been playing Vintage Story with my brother. Need to find some iron, and bees.
haven't played any games in months. too busy and too tired.
Finishing old games for me:
- Opus Magnum
- Mages of Mystralia
- Trying (and failing) to beat the attack helicopter level in Teardown.
Opus Magnum
That game scratches my brain in such a satisfying way
Guild wars reforged. I was thinking of firing up the old cd roms and then I saw the whole thing was re-released on steam. Been giving it a go - has held up well over 20 years.
I should log on and see if my old Mesmer/Necromancer is still there. I can't think of a single other game where you could build purely around debuffs and have it be fun to play and completely viable in both PvP and PvE.
Been playing kerbal space program on my steam deck. By playing I mean spending all my time editing the controller layout. So far I have an assembling layout, a flying layout, and a i just need to be able to push any letter or number sometimes and the virtual keyboard pops up in the background and dismisses itself if I try to switch to it layout which is radial menus of all the keys. I can switch back and forth between these with action sets. Steam input is kind of amazing tbh. Maybe I'll try to do a mission eventually, just gotta tweak my controller setup a bit more.
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What I'm doing this break: replaying through the trilogy in release order to see if I still hold the same opinion. I finished DMC1 and I'm halfway through DMC2 RN, and yup, I still hold the same opinion so far. Immense respect for the ideas this trilogy introduced, but I don't care what kind of nostalgia glue fans are huffing, there's a reason even Kamiya and Itsuno moved on from fixed cameras, for example.
They're fun games, but I would rather be replaying Bayonetta, DMC4 or 5, Assault Spy, or even Hi-Fi Rush. I enjoy the breadth and freedom all these descendants offer.
Finally diving into Octopath Traveler 2.
Also played some good old Team Fortress 2.
Haven't played yet but soon probably some hilarious lobbies of Lethal Company
Started and beat öoo, such a fun and interesting game, played 1 round of blue prince, and I'm not sure I have the time to invest in it, and I'm working on beating Eiyudean Chronicle Rising before playing the main game.
I expedited 33 obscur clairs (damn, the new area is awesome), rescued some Yoshi eggs in Super Mario World and am now triggering all chronos I can find.
I also played expedition 33 and my god man, I need to talk about it. What a mind fuck and depressing game. It's beautiful and written well, but with dark themes and I came away not sure what to do after finishing it.
Doing a new fallout 4 run. Been a couple years since I played.
Giving WorldWide Rush a solid go.
I was technically driving trains too, as I was playing The Trolley Solution.
I've spent way too much time on Cloverpit this week. And a little bit of Paper Mario TTYD on Switch - finally getting around to playing the remake of one of my all time favorite games.
I finished NecroVision the other day, and I really enjoyed the mid-game part, but endgame is kinda tiring with endless barrage of enemies spawning... currently playing Rogue Trooper and I just unlocked the upgrades so the game got interesting