Games

RE4 2005, at Castle Salazar currently. I played the remake first a year back and while the original uses tank controls and Leon is more of a goofball (which is jarring compared to Remake Leon’s character), it’s more or less the same in spirit. It’s also funny that I pretty much went through the same motions as with that.

End of Village: Pfft, with the heat I’m packing and skills I picked up, the rest of the game will be easy.

Start of Castle when cultists are swarming me and I’m out of grenades: Welp, Ashley died again, 17 times the charm

The lack of a knife parry doesn’t help.

Been playing some Fallout 3 since I got it running on the handheld. I haven’t played fallout 3 since the 360 days compared to NV which I’ve played intermittently over the years and it turns out there’s a reason. 3 really is inferior to NV in just about every way. What I will give 3 is that I find the world map and settlement design to be more thought out. Although that win makes sense when you compare development times.

I don’t like the portrayal of just about every faction in 3. I don’t like the karma system and how they integrated it into other gameplay aspects. The perks are just bad in a lot of instances (“get 5 points in a skill!”).

Don’t even get me started on the dialogue. Sometimes it’s good but very often it’s just the 4 options from fallout 4 without the voice acting.

So yeah I’m gonna have to nut up and try to actually play morrowind one of these days. I’ve tried so many times but I always feel under leveled to even kill rats in that woman’s basement. I guess that just means it’s grind time

Started expedition 33, and it's clearly good. Just in chapter 2 now and enjoying it. But it's been hyped to such astronomical levels that I don't think it'll ever reach them. It seems like a very standard jrpg with a profoundly weird setting and a fun combat system. I'm playing on easy so I don't have to waste time grinding too much to get through it.

We'll see if gets really good at some point or if it jumps into excellence at some point.

I'm researching JRPG games for an RPG Maker project I'm working on. Currently playing Linda³ for the PSX and I love it.

If anyone has any recommendations for 90's era JRPG's with minimal grinding/interesting battle mechanics, let me know.

I've moved on from Total War Warhammer and on to total war 3 kingdoms.

Lü Bu's gimmick in total war is kinda cool.
Everyone hates you (because you're a dick^1^), you're shit at ruling (Because you're a dick^2^), all your generals are sharpening their knives to stab you in the back (because you're such a dick^3^), but also you literally can't lose combat (No seriously, if you lose with Lü Bu you messed up somewhere, he can personally kill a full army and a reinforcing full army just by charging into) and your main way of doing diplomacy is reminding people that you just personally slaughered the population of a small european state. If you're ever not reminding everyone that you're the biggest baddest guy around by winning battles, all your generals defect and everyone declares war on you.

1: You get a gradually increasing diplomacy malus, which ends up being worse than if you declared war on someone.

2: You get a unique penalty that takes away income, makes all buildings cost more and lets you appoint fewer generals to posts because "Ruling is for weaklings and eunuchs"

3: You get a gradually stacking "satisfaction" penalty up to -50 out of a possible 100, at like 30 your enemies can turn your generals into spies and make them change sides, below that they have like a percentage chance of ditching you or something, and at 0 they automatically turn on you.

I went from cobblemon on Minecraft, to full on playing pokemon ROM hacks. I am trying both unbound and elite redux, and god damn, I will never pay ~~full price~~ for a pokemon game ever again.

ahem adjusts collar I mean- this only makes me wanna buy more pokemon games! looks out window for impending Nintendo ICBM

hit up the ol treasure map and downloaded the new version of Factorio (new to me!) and a game called 'Empires of the Undergrowth' which is a ant colony RTS that's pretty fun for a single player game

i got a secret shiny meowth in pokemmo, i fear its all downhill from here

ive had minecraft for a while, and just started modding vanilla. Even though I can only use stuff like distant horizons very sparingly, it still helps a ton for my enjoyment. I'm basically collecting all the stuff that changes the game in smaller ways, I tried a modpack that overhauled the game too much and I didn't like it. I don't really care about improving the graphics, I want a balance of performance, variations, and features! ☺️

I reinstalled New Vegas and played it for the first time in probably 14 or so years. I was never was into traditional role playing games like D&D, Cyberpunk, etc. I mean I know it's kinda obvious that rpg videogames are computer versions of the analog thing, but I was never exposed to the analog thing. I had no frame or reference for why the game was set up that way. More recently I watched people playing traditional RPG games and it all clicked. I now realize that Ron Perlman's narration is basically just what the DM would say before your campaign. It's kind of endearing how Obsidian didn't try to abstract every mechanic just because it's a computer game. Modern games are so heavy on the abstraction.

Star Sector. It's like a space combat mount and blade warband. I put together a little high tech bounty hunter fleet with money made from raiding fascist Syndrian Diktat space stations and hitting their trade convoys en route through hyper space. The ship customization is so insanely addictive. So many weapons, hulls, fighters/bombers, missiles, lasers, and unique ship abilities. And the AI is actually kinda impressive in battle. I have a little swarm of high tech frigates with this zappy emp ability that will disable engines and weapons if it hits an unshielded target. They swarm and disable much larger and powerful ships until my main fleet arrives and unleashes a constant barrage of beam weaponry to finish them off. Addicted.

Been playing Hytale and 2XKO. Hytale has been great even tho it's early access and there isn't really much endgame. I just crafted the highest gear you can at the moment, and have been having a blast just exploring and crafting and upgrading at the benches, this game has huge potential, my only worry is that the TOS/EULA kind of allows for paid mods and stuff, which is not good and I hope changes in the future, also Curseforge is the current way of getting mods but I hope an alternative gets popular, like Modrinth with Minecraft.

I really like the little house I did, but it's rather small and basic, I want to try doing something actually cool, but I'm dumb and can't construct for the life of me

For 2XKO I have been playing duos with my brother and it has been super fun, I play Jinx and Vi, he plays Teemo and sometimes Blitz. I hope we get good at this so I can convince him to play SF6. I haven't played it in a while, but I really want to get back into it.

Also I'm watching Frosty Faustings right now and it's pretty cool, the top 8 is just starting right now. My only complaint is that there is a fucking Pissraeli in the top 8, why the fuck is a colonizer allowed to enter the tournament? Fuck that. On the official 2XKO channel mentions of Palestine were even deleted from the chat.

Im playing Dwarf Fortress and making decent progress. I suck at the game but I feel like I got the general idea. (After playing it for 20h)

Its a very cool game but im not sure for how long I will keep it going.

I also started Stardew Valley (I know im very late to the party) but I had that on my to DO list forever. Im still super early on though.

Went back to ZEPHON out of curiosity and it's pretty cool. I had previously complained about the lack of progression but it does have a lot of lategame stuff that I hadn't realized. The game actually has a pretty huge emphasis on econ, not just combat, and if you make mistakes when managing your economy you'll be far worse off than making unit micromanagent errors.

I am also playing Oddsparks. I think this game is the best automation game out there right now, which is probably a super controversial statement. Unlike Factorio, Satisfactory, and Dyson Sphere Program, Oddsparks doesn't really care about scaling up your factories very much. You don't need to transport hundreds of materials or anything. It's really all about the fact that the game gives you interesting puzzles to figure out because getting the items around is a non-trivial task. There's a lot of tech for hauling things around, there's a logic system that actually is quite relevant unlike Factorio's (which I'm aware can be a little useful but not universally) because it can be used for designs that make much better use of space for getting items around.

Still on my Sonic beat, 100% sonic r, playing around with mods in sonic 3 air, I also downloaded nights into dreams which is sonic adjacent.

Started baldurs gay 3 and finishing delty rune chapter 4. And lots of dirt rally cos rally games are like crack for me, very moreish

Back on my playthrough of the 2022 PC remake of Live A Live. I haven't had a lot of time to throw at it, and I'm basically dreading the Feudal Japan scenario because 1.) I want to try a pacifist run this time around, and 2.) that means it's going to be potentially like a 5-6 hour ordeal best done in one sitting, and I've been too busy with work to block out that much time lately. So I'm just doing all the other chapters first. Sorry, Oboromaru. Looks like you're on the fucking backburner until next weekend.

Been playing a ton of Hades 2. It is a very good game, easily my GOTY for 2025 over E33. Probably going to go back to Hades 1 after finishing all the achievements because it's reminded me just how good it was.

Played the first few levels of Ace Combat 7. As a franchise so famous for its "so bad it's good" political nonsense in a fake world, I incorrectly assumed that all the planes would be similarly fake, but no, it's straight-up US air force recruitment propaganda where you can equip special livery from real-life war criminals on your F-16. Gameplay is fine, I guess, but I'm so put off by the chudliness that I don't know if I'll go back.

More Warframe, basically just doing my nightwave + a daily round of ESO now. Vandal drops, plz.

Just beat Expedition 33. Good stuff. Took forever because I had to use that cloud gaming shit on Xbox One and it barely ever works correctly.

About 3-4 hours in Death Stranding and enjoying it.

Finished blue prince and had an alright time with it. Not great but not awful.

Thinking about giving 1000x Resist a go here soon.

Was playing Cross Code recently and lost interest in it before even making it out of the main area. Don't think I'll pick it back up.

Not really sure what to play next.