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Nubbys number factory, Soulcalibur, Peak and REPO.

I currently have my left thumb in a splint from surgery so have struggled to play a lot of games. Thankfully with peak and repo, I'm willing to go through the awkwardness to play them with friends and they can help me if I'm finding it too much for something specific. (More so with repo since with peak, i would just instead die, but that's fine).

I'm usually a controller gamer so I've had to readjust back to keyboard and mouse but without the use of a space bar. Sometimes when i can be arsed I get a disability HID set of pedals to use as space, ctrl and shift but sometimes i can get away with binding space to a mouse button.

Last few weeks I played through absolum using my new fight stick which has been a godsend for paying games with my temporary disability. I can cup the stick's ball like a wine glass and never have to use my thumb. So for some games I've even rebinded them fully with the stick. I even played peak a few times with arcade stick for the left hand, mouse with the right hand and pedals for jumping. Its been easier with the previous method i mentioned but that also required me to work up to since for a while my thumb was in the way of my index finger to use a keyboard with.

Sorry for the wall of text. Hopefully someone will find my rambles interesting.

I played Crosscode recently. I found it on the profile of someone who had many hours on a game I like.

Things I like:

• Beautiful beautiful pixel art. Seriously it looks so good 🥺... I wish I could draw like that... or draw at all for that matter

• Pretty fun combat. It's top down, melee/shooter thing and there's this mechanic where you get better loot if you keep a streak of enemies going so it's fun to go on a rampage starting a fight with everything. Health regens when you end combat. Mobs don't attack unless you attack them first.

• Fun puzzles although they get harder and harder

Things I didn't like:

• Hard to understand story. It has a video game within the game, so I never really understood what was real and what was part of the game.

• Single player MMO nature: the world is just hugeeee and there's so many fetch quests and items you use for trading. I eventually started caring less and less because none of the rewards I'd find through exploring were something I could immediately use. I would have loved it so much more if it was a zelda-like affair with limited dungeons and a smaller world.

• Difficulty: apparently the puzzles and combat gets too hard later. At least I was told. I never stuck around long enough to see that. I stopped right after the second dungeon.

I was really into Arc Raiders until this happened. It made me realize that toxicity isn’t for me.

I caught Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 on sale recently and had it sitting in my downloads. I recently switched platforms and it forced me to start from the beginning when I tried it out. The game doesn’t do cross-progression but I’m glad I played it again.

I can’t put it down. While Arc Raiders benefits from being new to the scene, The Division 2 did it better in the first place.

Loot is worth your time and has immediate benefits. There are multiple ways to earn said loot. It’s fun and you choose PvP (Dark Zones) instead of having it forced upon you by insane trolls like in Arc Raiders. Your time in The Division 2 is respected.

Based on this experience playing it a second time I’ll very likely buy The Division 3 when it launches.

Demonschool. I'm really enjoying the tactical combat and seeing how the action plays out after setting everything up. I'm a fan of one of the studio's other games, Into the Breach. Both give you all the info about what's going to happen on the enemies' turn and you get to take the time to figure out what you want to do. In Demonschool you can rewind actions in the current turn as much as you want and retry battles as much as you want. The writing isn't great, but I enjoy the humor and the characters are at least one of my favorite kinds: earnest idiots.

I thought I'd finally played "enough" factorio a long while ago, but then I was just gonna check something real quick in my Space Age save, and suddenly hours had passed.

The next day I was just gonna increase the Gleba science output a little bit and spent an entire day completely rebuilding the entire Gleba base.

Then I wanted to fix some stuff on Aquillo. Then I wanted to get production of Productivity 3 modules up and running.
..which meant redesigning space platforms. And they really should have a better turret setup. Which requires more ammo production.

...etc...

So, I guess it's safe to say I'm back on Cracktorio

Star Ocean: The Second Story, Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu and Mindustry.

Star Control on Genesis (amazing game. Now I have the other 2 on pc to play later too!)

Crysis 3, Gran turismo 2 on ps1, started Nightfire on ps2 (amazing game as well)

Long term, FF12 on pc ps2 emulator. Its gotten hard now though :/ first FF game ive ever played.

StarCraft, Fortnite, and trails in sky fc

Timberborn has had me pretty engrossed, it's actually pretty relaxing

Minecraft, only Minecraft.

Took my buddy out for a round of Planet Crafters for some chill terraforming, did some co-op RE6 with ‘em, and then gave StarRupture a try - pretty good so far! :) Will see how co-op is, but when you want combat and some Satisfactory-esque automation it’s been hitting so far!

StarRupture an Early-Access survival sim/factory builder where the local star is unstable and scorches the planet every now and then, wiping out all objects and creatures but leaving buildings. It's got a very satisfying gameplay loop if you enjoy games like Satisfactory.

Been on a real 7 Days to Die kick lately. Good game to just turn my brain off for a bit and farm resources

DMC 1, GTFO and Valhiem, got a nice mix going for now

Warframe. I've been at home for almost 4 months already after a nasty car accident and I've been looking for a time sink. Warframe got a big update not long ago that make me come back after a while on hiatus. Have to say it's been a lot of fun.

Cat Quest II. It was very fun, very charming, I'd replay it a few years later probably which is something few games get. Don't tell anybody that but I'm actually a dog person.

Returned to WoW classic HC. Right now I'm on 39 lvl and I must say, that HC feels like different game...

Donkey Kong Bananza. Finally getting around to it.

Phoenix Point, Space Marine 2 and World of Tanks

Mostly Rematch with 2-3 friends. We switched to dedicated positions on the field in 4v4 and it seems to work out fine.

I am almost finished with BallXPit, currently just doing the rest of the achievements with the help of The Radical.

Two hours of Project Zomboid with a mate. Beta 42 got Multiplayer support a few weeks ago, but it is still quite buggy. We died to an endless stream of zombies and got frustrated.

I want to jump back into Arc Raiders, but between work and my mates wanting to play Rematch there is not much space for it.

Baldur's Gate 3 for the first time

Empires mod, an old and free game based on the Source game engine.

It is old but still gets updates and balances, its an fps game remiding a bit about old Battlefield but it has one comander per team with rts/base building aspects.

We usually play every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Otherwise the game is empty during the week.

technically ff12 but closer to nothing as I just have been picking it up at moments and going back and forth doing rng on a zone.