Games

I mostly play (really) old games, including Rastan, Wolfenstein 3D, and Another World for my Apple IIGS.

After watching the second season of Fallout. I decided to play the others that I haven't played, starting with 1 [only played 3].

I finished 1 today. It was very good but also very clunky. I wanted to go in completely blind, but I started to get frustrated with some of the games mechanics. Like fixing the pump. I had the parts but didn't know you had to select them, then use them on the generator to get it fixed. I kept seeing the "you need wires" message, and I spent so much time looking for a tool that I thought was needed to help with repairing the pump. The same goes with trying to recruit dogmeat. I expected there to be some sort of dialogue option when you have the correct item in your inventory.

Then there are the cannon fodder companions that get so frustrating trying to keep alive. I gave up near the end. Once you get the Power Armor and high EW you don't need them anymore. Also got blocked from finishing the Miles quest as an NPC stopped at the entrance of his building during the raid and there was no way to move them.

But I shouldn't let the frustrations of the mechanics ruin the image of the game. I can definitely see why it's regarded as one of the greats. There's a lot of customization you can do for your character and how you interact with the world. The characters really sell the experience of living in a apocalyptic wasteland. Like hearing the story of Harold and the interaction with Set. The fact that Set is just a fuck you type of character was such a unique experience. Basically, "Thanks for killing those mutants. Here's your reward, nuka coka. Don't care you almost died. Eat shit."

The combat was pretty fun. While it was frustrating, the way the game just throws you in the wilderness was an interesting experience. Like you and the character actually had to figure out how to navigate the wasteland. It was so unforgiving. You need to save. All. The. Time.

I'm going to replay the end one more time as I skipped the confrontation with the final boss. While I want to play NV+3, Im going to do 2 next to continue the story so I can appreciate the world building and story connections. Im going to be taking a break for a while as the last couple of hours of the game burnt me out.

My last gripe with the game is the implication that China would be the one utilizing bioweapons, when, between the two countries, the US is the only country known to have used them; twice. Then there's the creators of the games saying the reason for the vaults and the FEV is to prepare the human race for space colonization since the world was going to be destroyed. I didn't get that impression from what story there was via the various holodiscs scattered around, but I imagine that'll be more expanded upon in 2 with more involvement with the Enclave.

Fallout New Vegas

because I need to fit the stereotype

Finished all achievements in Hades 2. The Arachne quest in particular took fucking forever, but up until that point I was enjoying myself. Even went back to Hades 1 for a bit and I'm shocked just how much slower it is even with the double dash. It also seems quite a bit harder, but then I haven't been playing it for like 50 hours so who knows maybe I just need to git gud. You definitely get less boons and HP etc; I was routinely ending Hades 2 with over 300 max HP and have yet to get more than 200 in H1.

Other than that, played some more Warframe. Got a double XP booster so finally finished off my last kuva weapon (just in time for them to announce more lmao) and then grinded out Railjack for intrinsics and parts for the weapons I'm missing. Got the Athodai, so now it's just Carmine Penta and Spectra Vandal. Still need like 1k intrinsics so I'll probably finish the farm naturally but I already have a bunch of spare parts I could easily sell and then buy the others.

Tricked one of my coworkers into reading Umineko been having a lot of fun talking with him about it as he progresses. Current thoughts are that witches are real but magic isn't.

pirated nioh 3, game looks and runs like dogshit but it's kinda fun. Difficulty is all over the place; some enemies feel scary yet fair and others are just wipe territory over and over but it doesn't help i am total ass at the game.

Also playing some e33, still pretty early in it maybe ~20 hour or so, but I'm not really sure I like the game, sacrilege I know. Just feels kinda weird to play Idk I'll go into it if anyone is curious but I'd rather not poison the well for anyone else who hasn't played it yet. I'll probably end up finishing it.

also reposting from last gaming day thread: beat TLOU2. brilliant game and the graphics and lighting are incredible, but i have a lot of mixed feelings about the overall story and epilogue/ending. not necessarily because they aren't happy or whatever but i just feel kinda hollow afterwards. idk can't wait for them to complete the trilogy in 20 years.

I have finished Clair obscur expedition 33, I didnt do all the act 3 things, mostly didn't do the endless tower, or finding Simon (whoever that is).

My verdict, it's a fun game, well made, but the story is classic jrpg trash. Specifically this one owes a debt to ffx. The twist specifically takes the wind out of the principle plot you're introduced to, and shifts it to something centred on family trauma (which I really do not care for). While it does make sense of a world that makes no sense, it's unsatisfying for me.

Basically, I can understand why people adore the game, but I feel about it as I do for people who exclaimed that ffx was the greatest ever, or those who exclaimed about ff7 being the greatest. They're all fairly mid and your first one will hit you hard.

Been waiting for like 11 years for Mewgenics and it comes out in 2 days. I'm restless at this point and cant focus on any game

I've mostly just been playing Picross before bed lately, but I've also been slowly working my way through Sonic Adventure. I've finished the Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles stories so far. I've been meaning to play Terraria as well but every time I think about playing on a mouse and keyboard it kills my motivation lol.

Not today. But tomorrow Im playing Helldivers 2 again with my buddy (on Fedora btw)

I'm not sure it even qualifies as a game, but I've been having fun tinkering with The Farmer Was Replaced.

I'm currently tackling mazes. The urge to dredge up some existing solution is powerful. However, I've resisted thus far and have managed to write something that walks the maze and only gets stuck sometimes. I have some ideas why.

After that it's sorting!

Almost finished with Resident Evil Village. I didn't really like 7 and I would describe Village as a more refined version of 7, continuing the story and iterating on the first-person view and other mechanics they were going for in 7. It certainly feels betters to play. Thought I'd finish it before Requiem comes out, since I've beaten every other new gen RE game starting with the original Resident Evil 4 and beyond. 4 is very good and I think the RE Engine is one of the best around and has always had really smooth gameplay and performance while looking pretty. The games even give you previews of the graphical settings in the Options, which should be normalized. So while I don't know if I'd say it's my favorite series, every game is very tight and none of them (except 6) are bad. Recommend folks jump in at any point with either 4 remake, 2 remake, 5, or 7, since those are the start of different 'arcs' or are standalone.

been playing a lot of netrunner on a solo online client since i'm quitting mtg, its lots of fun. also been playing klonoa 2 on my handheld when i get the chance. not as visually stunning as the first but pretty decent otherwise, some nice gameplay changes

I've been going through my SNES and NES flashcarts to doublecheck the translations and ROM hacks actually boot on them at least and on NES found a bunch that don't because they use exotic mappers that are unsupported and then one SNES game because its chip hasn't been worked out yet for flashcarts (I wonder if it runs on those MiSTER devices). Found an NES emulator that runs on GameCube so I can still play NES games in a CRT. Sadly the SNES emulator on GC that some guy on YT compiled to work doesn't support that SNES game Tengai Makyou Zero (translated).

Kinda' want to start playing an Animal Crossing, but not sure which one. I need to replace the GC's CMOS battery so maybe I'll do that and them play AC on that since it's annoying to have to set the system clock on each boot for it.

I've been playing planet crafter. It's a bit slow paced but the way the world changes is incredibly satisfying.

It's essentially a survival crafter with a "terraform the planet" theme. The world changes substantially both visually and how you traverse the terrain/map as you progress

something reactivated my latent love of shop/tavern management games so i've been dabbling in a bunch of them

Tavern Manager Simulator, Ale and Tale Tavern, Shoppe Keep 1 & 2 are all very similar and probably unfun unless you have similar tolerance for these things as i do

Tavern Master is different in that it isn't a 3d first person thing and is instead a top-down buildy thing plays a little like an idle game at a certain point as there's a lot of waiting

might dust off Recetteer again, though i've played that to death over the years

Realized I never got around to finishing Disco Elysium and started replaying it only for it to crash every time I make significant progress. Gotta be an issue with the Switch version or something but it's basically impossible to play without saving constantly, which would be fine, but I always get engrossed in the conversations and forget and then lose an hour or so of progress.

Been playing South of Midnight, which I really want to like, but it kinda feels like a glorified mobile game. I don't know how to explain it but it just feels kinda .. incomplete? I want this game to succeed though because the setting and characters are some we never really get to see represented in games.

I've been playing Death Road to Canada, Half-Earth Socialism, Fallout 2, and more. I am currently working on turning my 2011 workstation I got for free into a gaming PC using Linux Mint, and it's going over pretty well.

Hoping I can finish reassembling my PC after getting a new case (Lian Li Dan a3-mATX w/ wood front panel 🤤). Maybe a little unc raiders? Or a smidge of modded Minecraft? Trying not to lose the plot on what I'm doing in Cuboid Outpost 1.20 edition between sessions

I gotta play this stupid game in a big field where I smash myself into team called the patriots or something idk. I hear its a big deal but I can't remember why because of all the head injuries.

I'm still playing Where Winds Meet. I'm almost at max level but my martial arts development is still lagging behind.

I've also been playing this phone idle game called The Tower, which has many numbers going up.

Expedition 33, which I picked up again after many months. The FRPG is good, folks

Also, maybe Cairn if I need a break