games

Recently beat Super Mario Wonder. I have mixed feelings about the game in that I really enjoyed my first playthrough but think going back to it would be a chore. That said I think speedrunners will have a field day with it because of badge tech so I'm happy for them.

Currently playing a combination of Team Fortress 2, Battlebit Remastered, Factorio (Space Exploration mod), and various Portal 2 custom co-op levels with a friend (soon to be Portal: Reloaded co-op once a friend beats the base game).

2023 has been great for me in that spiritual successors/actual successors/revivals of my favorite older games have occured (Battlebit taking the older battlefield mantle up, Team Fortress 2 having a player resurgence, Tribes 3 Rivals on the horizon).

Going forward I expect a lot of time in Factorio and Tribes 3 assuming they make some fairly substantial (and expected) changes to jetpack mechanics (increasing the strength and duration for next week's alpha test as well as testing out 1X vs 1X lobby sizes).

Nuclear throne for single player

TF2 for multiplayer. I wish I had an actual group to play with though.

I've been playing and enjoying Xenoblade Chronicles 2 lately. I tried it when I first got and hacked my Switch and bounced off it completely because I didn't really understand the complexity of the combat. I watched a few tips videos and now that I understand a bit more about how to engage with its systems I'm enjoying it.

Was playing Terminator: Resistance, in which there are Terminators, and you resist them

Played a million different games over the year, always come back to Pokemon and Minecraft.

In Stars and Time - Indie rpg about a time loop. The game starts with the party resting in town the day before they enter the final dungeon. They trigger a trap early in the dungeon and the main character finds themself sent back to the previous day. They're happy to have another chance to save the party, but their mental health starts to degrade as the number of times they're forced to repeat the time loop increases. The party is very wholesome, and the time loop story is the best I've seen in any game. Highly recommend.

Recently ive been busy so, I've only really been playing guilty gear strive. I intend to go back to outer wilds after exams tho.

2023 is absurdly stacked as a year it had:

• Pizza Tower
• Baldurs gate3
• Armored core 6
• Street fighter 6
• Tears if the kingdom

Any of which couldve made goty for me in a weaker year.

i have had a minecraft addiction for months and it aint stopping

Mostly been playing Spider-Man 2 lately. Fantastic game. I’m so tired of superhero stuff with the sole exception of Spider-Man, fuckin’ love Spider-Man. Finished the main story a couple days ago, now just swinging around getting the last collectibles and achievements, want to get platinum in it like I did with 1 and Miles Morales.

Also been playing a modded Minecraft game with my partner when we just want to chill and listen to a podcast.

Once I finish Spider-Man I plan to go back and finish Tears of the Kingdom and Baldur’s Gate 3. Biggest problem with Baldur’s Gate is I need to like, actually pay attention to it lol.

Doom via GZDoom. It still slaps. Gonna play some newish WADs after I get through Doom 1&2

Lol, so I actually don't do much in the way of regular gaming on my own nowadays. I'm big into the potentials of VR, but I'm also poor, so when I do play it tends to be HalfLife:Alyx again or some campaign someone made for it.

I'm playing the Talos Principle II. It started out really strong posing what I thought was an interesting & pertinent dilemma about degrowth/living in harmony with nature and expanding exponentially. Unfortunately past hour 5 or so the game really just starts fully leaning into the whole "anything other than exponential growth spreading the nuclear-powered light of consciousness to the universe is death, nature has no inherent value unless witnessed by a conscious entity" so whatever, I'm going along with the puzzles at this point because they're pretty good.