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Hello everyone. I hope everyone has had a good week and has been staying cool in the summer heat. I have been playing more Nightreign. I have not attempted Purple Fulghor yet because I hadn't beaten regular Fulghor until last night. I hope to try him tonight but I've been busy. Hope you all have a good week.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I found out that a bunch of years old CS boxes I had increased a shit ton in price so I sold it to buy some games. I bought Deltarune and I want to play that, but right now I'm playing 9 Kings and Nubby's Number Factory. 9 Kings in special is addicting as hell.

Also played the new Risk of Rain 2 DLC yesterday for the first time and it was super fun.

Recently I also played ENA's Dream BBQ and I absolutely loved it, can't wait to see the next chapters.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I've almost beaten Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines for the first time. I can see why it's as revered as it is, because the game is excellent.

There's one line of dialog that stuck in my head as being really dumb though. I was talking to the Anarchs early in the game while trying to get the lay of the land for vampire politics. One of them said "Communism always fails for humans, but it would totally work for vampires". Gotta love media from the 2000s.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

That's a great game.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The madman is cooking so hard

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I'm still working on my first playthrough of Disco Elysium and made some decent progress yesterday

  • Had the title drop moment in the church/dance club
  • Uncovered that the 8th Hardie Boy is connected to drug running
  • Learned a civil war might break out from a planned extrajudicial assassination by PMC jackboots
  • Talked to an insufferable European politician
  • Attended my first communist reading group

No spoilers please.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I’ve gotta get back to it! I put maybe 10-15 hours into my first play through of it a few months back but then fell off

[-] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Highly recommend getting back to it! I'm around 30 hours in and the game feels like it opens up after the first couple in-game days and there's a lot more story threads going on

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Kerbal Space Program. I saw it in summer sale for steam for something crazy like $5 and had always wanted to play.

the physics engine and mechanics of advancement in "science" mode are addicting. the tutorials are good for learning the system and it depends my appreciation for the knowledge and achievement of actual space programs.

I have successfully left the atmosphere and have had successful/safe multistage suborbital flights and recorded all of the associated data, but now I finally understand the mechanics of achieving and returning safely from orbital flight.

what a great game.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I came back to Lies of P after playing it for maybe 8 hours about a year ago. I remember getting frustrated with the mechanics but I was also playing a lot of elden ring at the time. I just don't think I realized at the time that rolling constantly is not what you should be doing. I honed in on guarding (and perfect guards which will stagger) and occasionally rolling, and went all in on a Technique build this time. I love it. I'm probably gonna crush the game in about a week, and then move right onto the DLC that just came out

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Borderlands 3, much to my shame.

Why did I do this? I vaguely recall liking the previous games when I was a child. Do not follow the swamp lights of nostalgia my friends, it will drown you.

Its humour is cringe and Reddit brained to an uncomfortable degree, but I'm actually kinda liking the gameplay.

I've already played through with a gunner, and now I'm trying a melee siren build. Don't know If I'll have the patience to try out the other classes, though. The game's starting to wear thin already, and the writing certainly isn't keeping me invested.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

In fairness BL3 has the worst writing in the franchise by far, and the other games aren't exactly a high bar.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Damn I barely made it through one playthrough of the game. The gameplay is good, but they constantly are burying it under horrible exposition, and what passes for a joke to gearbox, and terrible pseudo open world levels that make you learn for the days of the corridor shooter. Don't even get me started on that God awful home base hub ship that seems designed to frustrate you. it's not big but suffers from one of the worst cases of "big town problems" than most RPGs with actual big towns.

I do love me some numbers go up though so maybe I'll dip into Tina's wonderlands some more.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I'm helping a friend move today, but I did finish Super Mario 3D World with my nephew last week. I'm sure we'll tackle Bowser's Fury next.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Started playing Age of Mythology after finding my old copy as I've never actually beat the campaign + the titans expansion. Age of empires/mythology really hits that RTS itch.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Picked up Citizen Sleeper yesterday and played a good amount of it. It's a pretty great narrative game, though it's a little short, and it gives up on the idea of your resources being extremely pressed and restricting pretty quick.

Other than that, been playing a lot of Operation Eight Claw in Warframe. Already have all the legendary arcanes, so now I'm just working my way through the less rare ones. I really like the new event, when it isn't buggy, though IMO the Steel Path version should really give Duviri arcanes because as-is there's not really a reason to do it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Beat my yearly Resident Evil 1 game yesterday, started replaying Final Fantasy VII today. RU Tracker and GOG Games ftw, so many games to choose from.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been playing a bunch of N64 romhacks and I learned the truth of who was behind Dirt_Owl

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'm replaying Morrowind with openmw and the total overhaul modlist minus some stuff I didn't like. It's awesome!

I'm playing this cute little guy With a custom "abolitionist" class and going around killing slavers and liberating slaves, with a never kill a beast race rule. He rizzes people up to like him and get good deals or info, or talks shit to start a fight, then stabs them with a spear that heals him. Desecrates dunmer tombs, sneaks around and will rob you blind if you're a dick, and since all the locals think he's a disgusting farm implement, he's rich as hell. Big recommend!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

The more I think, the less I remember there being many beast race NPCs that are actually hostile. Its almost always Dunmer, Bosmer, Imperials, or Nords.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I really have yet to find one yet

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I beat Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer on the DS a month and a half ago and moved on to playing the English translation of Shiren the Wanderer: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel on PSP. It's the same base Shiren-style game but with more feature like equipment upgrades, runes for weapons, new items, new enemies and the ability to tag and retrieve lost equipment. A nice graphical upgrade too with it being on PSP.

I appreciate all the QoL features which streamlines the experience trememndously. Allies will now walkthrough NPCs without getting stuck behind them, there's new revival and escape herbs that allow you to revive if you do or escape back to the beginning with all your items if you hit a difficult snag.

At this point, playing for over a month, I'd say it's the best Shiren game I've played yet. I do have the new one that just released on PC and Switch but haven't gotten to it yet. Honestly, the 3D chibi graphics put me off a bit too. I'll play it eventually but I'm not in a rush. For me Shiren is a pickup and play handheld game. I play it in 15-20 min bursts on the bus.

Also contemplating playing Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura on my laptop, especially since I'm GMing a Steampunk tabletop game on Discord, but I don't know if I have the stamina for an old school CRPG right now.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

i keep playing jedi survivor, the combat is pog, hate the attempting of hub system, and don't know why they keep so many options for lightsaber customization, you can't see the fucking thing anyway, the story is so-so, but by starwars standards fine.

also latest vikky patch is halfpog half meh, treaties to buy out regions are nice as well as doing shenanigans with trade with subsidies, but still infamy gen and electricity gives headaches (why on earth demanding reparations while being attacked gives as much infamy as just straight annexing parts of countries meow-tableflip). electricity in big countries is just headache inducing. why demanding to ban slavery gives infamy in 20th century?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

My sister got me Cyberpunk 2077 as a belated birthday gift. I remember back in 2020, she tried to convince me to "trade birthday gift requests" so she could get Animal Crossing earlier than her birthday but the only video game I was willing to trade on was Cyberpunk and it had just got delayed again.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Alternating between horizon forbidden west and my Kotor 2 playthroughs (playing along with more civilized age, so I'm doing light and dark side).

Finished lies of P Overture, and it's really great. The initial release was insanely overtuned and boss would basically kill you in a single hit. They added difficulty modes so turning it down did result in you surviving two attacks but that was it. The patch that came out after week basically fixed them below new game plus 3, so you didn't have to perfect parry their entire movement to win the fight. I liked it and it establishes some more cool lore for that setting.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I've been playing The Finals recently and holy shit it's a hidden gem. It's an fps with fully destructible environments and a great movement and the utility system is a lot of fun. But since I'm away from my PC this weekend, probably Love and Deepspace for me.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks for making the thread isaac-pog

Im gonna start playing Legends of Amberland 2 in a bit. Its a dungeon crawler inspired by classics such as Wizardry and Ultima. I actually never played any dungeon crawlers but this one came recommend by a friend since its on the easier and shorter side. Hope to break into the gerne (dungeon crawlers) with this game.

I heard the devs behind Amberland 2 are working on a 3rd game as well. So I hope that turns out good for them

Hope everyone is having a fantastic Sunday.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Looks cool! I've been getting into dungeon crawlers a little bit too, I'll have to check this one out at some point. I feel like I've been seeing more and more people get into the genre recently.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Even though I'm an old head, I never played any of those early PC RPGs like Ultima or Wizardry since I was a console kid. I've always been curious about them though. I've been watching a YouTube series by Majuular he's been working on for months and months where he's playing through all the Ultima games and doing retrospectives including information on the development and all that. It's really interesting IMO. It really feels like it was the bleeding edge of RPG gaming back then that I totally missed out on.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

One of my favorite bits of gaming history is how much Japan apparently loved those old Western RPGs. The first JRPGs from the likes of Square and Falcom took obvious inspiration from them + D&D, and there were even Japan-exclusive Wizardry games made after the series ended in the West.

Falcom supposedly got sued for ripping off the Ultima III manual to make character artwork for Xanadu, their biggest hit at that point.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

100%! I knew that D&D was influential on gaming from things like Baldur's Gate, but I didn't realize just how much of an influence it had not just in the US but in Japan as well. The divide between CRPG and JRPG was very narrow back then.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah I never got around playing anything like Wizardry, so im curious about the gerne. Amberland 2 is very much oldschool inspired but a tad cleaner/ more user friendly . You have fast travel and other things that make it more modern in some aspects.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah! I never heard of it, but I like the look. I might have to check it out. I'd like to get into blobbers more.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I fell off from Breath of the Wild after around 20 hours. It's a great game and I'll come back to it. But I started playing it as my spring game and now it's summer so I want to play something with summer vibes - I started playing Cyberpunk for the first time. I'm 10 hours in and so far it hasn't really grabbed me but I'll keep playing it

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm at the monolith in Clair obscur, might pause for another Victoria communism run. Or a bout in balatro. Or maybe a few days in the life of Dave the Diver.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Ultrakill. I hadn't played until now because I assumed it was super difficult, and I suck at fps aim, but it's actually quite easy so far

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's truly the GOAT of difficulty in video games. You can play through the whole game without ever really needing to get sweaty, but if you want to get sweaty it'll reward the hell out of you for going back and P-ranking the whole game, and soon enough you'll be hearing Free Bird playing constantly in your head.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

if you haven't played The Alters you're missing out. it's a really novel idea and the story is pretty cool

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

what kind of gameplay?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

After playing Remnants all week with two buddies, we're going into the second one tonight and I can't wait ! I like the difficult aspect of it and trying together and find solutions.

The first one is already quite good, I really hope the second holds up, but I saw the name of gearbox as the publisher and I worry a little bit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I got an Anbernic RG28XX as a gift for myself recently after someone here mentioned them and I've fallen in love with it, so I've just been putting random shit on it for quick pick up and play sessions. Mostly I've been trying the UFO 50 games on it since it's basically the perfect collection for a pocket handheld IMO. Some of the games in the collection run poorly (no Grimstone spamton-pain) but most feel great. I want to start a longer game too but I'm not sure what I want to commit to yet. Right now I'm leaning towards Madou Monogatari (the Mega Drive version) but I'm also thinking maybe Dragon Quest or Moon? IDK yet.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Maze Mice (by the creator of Luck Be a Landlord): if Vampire Survivors, Pac-Man CE, and Mystery Dungeon had a baby

Nubby's Number Factory: A paremovedo roguelike with 1997 CD-ROM game characteristics

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm playing Minecrap with my kids.

I'm not an actual g*mer.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Derail valley and openfront.io

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Umamusume. The grind feels good.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Breath of Fire IV. I've only just started it today, and it's... umm, it feels old, even by the standards of when it was first released. The translation is also pretty dodgy, of course, but... So far, I'm enjoying it. The music is alright and the villain guy is pretty engaging.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I’ve been playing space marine remastered, some decent mindless fun. Definitely shows its age in terms of gameplay, not that it’s bad but definitely of its time.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

A whole lot of Anbennar.

Arg-Ôrdstun is fun if you like a whole lot of noble rebels, assuming direct control of Aul-Dwarov, being completely out of touch and creating a monopoly of precious gems. Its certainly more fun than Orlghovar, whole thing was kind of a let down tbh, a whole lot of pain for some fairly strong buffs, but nothing quite worth the effort. Though my baseline of "strong buffs" is Ovdal Kanzad.

And the only other country to impress me was Feiten with its crazy modifiers (+6 movement speed to fleets? You can sail around the world in 4 months! Don't forget to click "the funny decision" to instantly win any siege with your special merc comapny.) I should play Feiten again.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Life stresses got me wanting a win... so I've gone back to Master of Orion 1.

Fuck the AI "diplomacy" to all the hells though...

Let me rock out (Silicoids) in peace. Its not like you're gonna get too much outta that irradiated planet Mr. Bulrathi, ain't to trees and berries for you bears, why you declaring war on me for "expanding" all the fuckin time.

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