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.

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.

1. I finished Ori and the Will of Wisps. The story is nu-pixar-tier emotionally manipulative libslop which might sound surprising for such a simple family-targeted game but the villain is one of those "I was rejected by society as a minority so... I will destroy everything" types. The platforming and bosses were really good though, it just didn't grab me as anything beyond a good toy I guess. So it was an 8.3/10 for me.

2. I played Minishoot' Adventures and shelved it after beating the true last boss. Don't get me wrong, it's a good twin-stick shooter and decent metroidvania with addicting exploration, however I find the artstyle a bit bland and the story is pretty much non-existent, so I can't be assed to do the optional post-game battle challenges without any exploration in new areas sprinkled in. It was a 7.5/10 for me pretty much.

3. I also tried Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo after trying and liking the demo, but the actual game didn't manage to grab me so I refunded it. I didn't really like the yoyo combat which utilizes sloped walls to pierce through many enemies, also the town you explore throughout the game was a bit boring for me.

Picked up Total War: Three Kingdoms a few days ago and will probably put a few hours into it until i have to make dinner.

Finished RF Guardians of Azuma yesterday. Very below average RF game. Hoping they eventually remake Tides of Destiny

I started playing Battlefront 2, the newer one, with some friends because it was 4 dollars on Steam. I think it sucks, even with all the micro transaction stuff pulled out.

The visuals and sounds and vibes of Star Wars are excellent.

But heroes ruin any big game mode because they aren't a special powerful unit that shows up once or twice a match, there is almost no delay in someone being defeated as a hero and someone else being able to spawn as them if they have the points. So you get a constant stream of Jedi bullshit all game that let's the winning team steamroll even harder.

Factions are not balanced, especially with randoms. A few Droideka rolling into an objective wins half the CIS matches. Super Battle Droids are in every way superior to Empire troops.

Star Cards are still grindy to unlock, making small game modes also suck. You aren't winning a 1v1 against someone who just has 40% more health than you. Let alone a squad of them all working together with maxed cards.

Spawns are an issue where you can spawn in the line of fire and die instantly or have someone spawn immediately to your left.

For 4 dollars I got my money's worth but I think it's a bad game in almost every respect and I probably won't play it any more after this second week.

I accidentally deleted my armored core 3 data so I had to restart (again). And i'm doing much, much better the third time, especially once I got over my fear of selling the starter parts, which are garbage. I've got a super fast lightweight build and i stomped the arena so now i'm stacked on cash which is good because it feels like the early missions dont give you much. I've also gotten better at using the controls and it's very rewarding. Old gen is clunky as hell until you learn to move smoothly by not landing hard and not killing your booster on the ground. I love it.

I've also been playing armored core 6 multiplayer again and to be honest, after coming back from old gen I actually kind of hate the stagger mechanic (at least in multiplayer)