I was playing OoT Remake, but I got bored once I reached the Shadow Temple. Don't get me wrong, Ocarina of Time is a phenomenal game, but the remake doesn't change, well, anything really. Ive already player OoT before - pretty graphics isn't enough for me to want to continue. I could have played the original and gotten the same feeling.

So I started playing FF7Remake, which is more of a sequel than a remake. While sometimes I find the arbiters of faith a little goofy (or whatever they are called), their existence makes the game pretty unique compared to the original. I still prefer the original because of the themes, but Remake is legitimately a different game - a completely different experience.

OoT Remake is too safe. The original has been considered among the top 10 for decades. The remake feels the exact same but with a fresh coat of paint, nothing more. The best Nintendo remakes were the Pokemon ones [HGSS are my favs] and Metroid Zero Mission - they are the same games as the original and still more enough to stand on their own.

Cyberpunk 2077 since I dropped it after like 4 hours on launch due to bugs.

Will say that after 6 years of patches it's pretty good! Only the occasional crash, and nothing game breaking yet, just one really annoying one that keeps switching my tracked quest when I get in and out of a car.

Overall it's about 0.7 Bethesdas so well within limits and a lot of the bugs are fun like a car launching in the air and slamming into others and then starting a whole fight.

The dialogue is great, the whole active system is really slick once you get used to it and I'd say it's the best dialogue system I've ever seen in an RPG. specifically because you're able to kinda move around and block out your character during the talking portion. Also super neat that they unlock your weapon control pretty frequently, so you can draw weapons while talking and just blast someone before they finish talking.

ive been playing lots of space marine 2 & caves of qud recently, very nice

small amount of slay the spire 2 on the side

finished sw zero company and completed 40/40 stuff in poe league (300mil dps really is lmao mode). zero company is fun, if a bit too simple and short. now playing sinking star, a little isometric puzzle game to relax and study to watch some slop on the side.

Queens Domain has consumed me. I want to explore everything. I press the button against every wall everywhere. I jump off every cliff looking for secret tunnels or other things to discover. I try desperately to air dash to things that are very far away! I am trying to max out every weapon I have in order to discover evolutions.

I picked up a Miyoo Mini Flip on sale to live in my pocket at work to play instead of looking at bullshit on my phone (oh but not you all). I just shoved the sd card from my miyoo mini+ and it pretty much works without issue.

Mostly been playing the translated snes SMT1. Almost to the apocalypse but the grind has been good for playing in between work tasks.

Other than that I started Oracle of Season again while on a 5 hour train ride. I got through the second dungeon but also napped a bunch on the train. I loved the oracle games (and LA) as a kid but never got very far into them. In hindsight there were some reading comprehension barriers but ultimately I think I was just too lazy to search the maps for dungeons.

Tenebris Somnia - Retro style horror game with FMV cutscenes. It’s really good!

Dwarf Fortress - Finally starting to figure out what I’m doing in this game

Dark Souls 1 - Working on a 100% achievement run on the Steam Deck

Victoria 3 - Fell off of my big Turtle Island run. Now waiting for a couple mods to update now that the State and Revolution DLC is out. They added the big man

Im a dumb chud and let my friends peerpressure me into playin wow forever. Solid game to just hangout with friends in

A couple games running simultaneously for me.

Ocarina of Time Remake - I've got about 10 or so hours into it. Other companies should honestly take note. If you're going to remake a game, this is how you remake it. Buttery smooth controls. Gorgeous environments. Everything added or changed feels like it belongs and has always been there. I haven't checked reviews on this, but I wouldn't be surprised to see an aggregate score of high 90s. It's amazing.

WoW Forever - This one isn't so bad. It's more or less what I expected. Vanilla WoW with a modern take. It's enjoyable and grindy. It's what an MMO used to be. I'm very curious how sustainable this model will be though. MMOs have evolved over time for a reason. Will enough of a playerbase persist to take a liking to this style of gameplay or will it fizzle out in a few months? Suppose we'll see.

Tried out Luanti because mikkkro$$lop stole my minecraft account because I didn't touch it for a couple of years.

Playing a modpack/subgame called Skyblock: Zero, it's like skyblock but darker and with no twerking at trees

Queen's Domain- Heavily inspired by King's Field. So far its actually been fun. I generally like the trend of PS1 era graphics coming back with indie games.

Silent Hill 2 Remake- I've taken forever with this one for various reasons, but got back to it recently ahead of Halloween and getting close and closer to the end game. Also funny enough running this on a jailbroken PS5 using Steam.

Various Pokemon Romhack- Recently started getting into RomHacks and I've been missing out on so much. Right now I'm just trying different ones across various emulators. Right now I've stuck with Pokemon GhostGrey and I've also played a bit of Pokemon Brown and Origin HeartGold.

I've been practicing Path of Exile for the Path of Exile 3.30 expansion release next Friday, November 13.

Path of Exile convention was on Friday and Saturday in New Zealand, November 6 & 7. At the convention, there was a presentation for the new POE 1 expansion and a less than 30 minute gameplay demo. On the second day, there was a 1 hour Q&A with the POE 1 lead devs. The rest of the convention was POE 2 stuff.

GGG (game developers) delayed the patch notes release until Tuesday. Instead of publishing the expansion patch notes with the game trailer like they usually do, the game developers printed out the patch notes, cut each line into slips of paper, and passed out the slips of paper to random people at the convention.

Baldur's Gate 3, I have a multiplayer gayme going with a friend where I (800h played) lead her(not 800h played) around all the secrets. I also started a solo run with a bunch of mods, also someone made a mod that has the Forsaken starting zone from WoW and that's been a lovely trip down memory lane. You can actually roleplay in a warcraft setting! Wild, I know.

Since the last time i posted:

• EU5 across the pillars - Still sucks. Completely unfocused and unrefined game with tons of clashing and useless sim systems. Just an awful game all around
• Victoria 3 state and revolution - New content is, of course, completely buggy and unplayable. Ran russia game and didnt get a single vanguardist so I could never do a revolution. Game also still chugs to a stop around 1880 so still haven't played past that date.
• Hellraiser Revival - Didn't expect to like this that much, since it feels a lot like UE5 slop, but actually had a decent time of it. Never watched the movies, though.
• Onimusha way of the sword - An okay game with way too much AAA garbage, completely unnecessary open world shit, very slow unskippable dialogues that amount to just 'Go to that shrine and purify it'. Boss fights are pretty fun at least.
• Planescape Torment - Replayed this game again recently. Fucking loved it. Rekindled my love of deep, well written games.

Also getting started on emulating switch 2 games. Got OOT remake working in Lichii emulator. It works actually surprisingly well (seems switch 2 is the same as switch 1 software, so the old emulators mostly work lol). I haven't gotten far yet, but I already see I'm probably not going to like most of the changes they made. I can say the art direction is at least, unique, but i have to say the characters look terrible. Very weird eyes, I don't like it. Also they went a bit crazy on textures. I can see some people online also posting about the changes and how lots of unique things were cut, which is super disappointing.

It's been an extremely indecisive weekend for me, gaming wise.

Animal Well - how the hell do you fit so much game into 100MB? what is this, the Super NES?

Blasphemous - came for the freakish baroque imagery, stayed for the fantastic boss fights.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - just started. gameplay feels simplistic, levels uninspired. looks pretty, though. main character dresses like a stripper. how could anyone guess this was made by a Japanese man.

Dave the Diver - just started. good, but feels overrated.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - wait, I didn't play this one because it's too goddamned hard.

Hollow Knight - working on third playthrough, it's just that good.

Outer Wilds - is there an ending to this game? because I have zero idea where to go or what to do.

Seven - sick af presentation, amazing worldbuilding, running around like a ninja feels amazing. wait, is this an rpg or not?

Steamworld Heist - fun until you miss one shot and then two of your guys get domed. maybe I need to git gud.

I'm going hog wild in "Probably Stolen". Pissed the pigs off in the first week, which pissed me off because I didn't know how to lower my suspicion rate and kept getting random inspections while holding illicit goods without a smuggler's stash and decided to dedicate the rest of my playthrough to helping the Revolution. many game weeks later, I'm maxed out with the lower deck denizens, the Revolution, and the Boogie nerds and the smugglers like me. I also got my shit together in terms of hiding my illegal shit and slowly got security off my back. Sadly I'm now running so many goods for the legal and illegal market I'm running out of space for holding locked crates and my other stuff while waiting for the key printer to finish to open them one at a time, that I'm worried I may get randomly searched and ticketed by the pigs for having stolen ice cream, pilk, and several highly illegal firearms I'm waiting to stuff into smuggler boxes I either buy or free up space in my current stash.

But I just saw in the thread vic 3 Commie update just dropped so I'm gonna play that now

PacMan championship DX+ top 10%. Closest i've felt to autonomous ultra instinct.

Finished Talos Principle 2. Had a pretty good time overall, puzzles continued to be solid and never got ridiculous. The writing did not, in fact, ever do the classic "ah but communism bad" thing I was expecting, instead choosing to never once say the words "communism", "socialism", or "capitalism". Including a very tortured paraphrasing of the famous Mark Fisher quote: "we find it easier to imagine the decline of civilization than to imagine a civilization worth living in". Will probably pick up the DLC and the first game when they go on a deep discount. I must note that it has truly horrendous performance.

Started Battletech, and I really just have to turn off all the "cinematic" and "chase cam" options because hoowee they slow the game down by an unbearable amount. Very early in, just did the first main story mission after the open world section started, and so far it seems that there's not actually much tactics. At the conclusion of said story mission, my lance just sat in front of the enemy shooting it for 3 turns while he shot back and happened to randomly headshot my commander, so now he's out for 2 weeks. Also the UI for the mech customization is missing the incredibly necessary tonnage of every piece of equipment. You either have to mouse over an equipment for like 2 seconds, or just slot it and hope, very poor design.

Played a little more Warframe but might just about be finished with it for now.

Look Outside: 10 hours deep, delving the sewers right now. This game feels like it could fucking never end at this point (positive.) Accidentally looked a little bit up, deciding if I wanna act on that.

ARC Raiders: As always with these live service games its usually more fun after taking breaks and getting some novelty. Genuinely so fucking funny to me to come back after months off, play, and then read the reviews; every change so far has seemed to make the game better but the player scores continue to tank because peoples' expectations for these games seems to be "Infinitely replayable while constantly providing novel experiences at 60 hours a week years after the intial launch." Rant over, its fun, I like shooting robots and assholes.

IMMORTALITY: What started slowly has become me running full tilt into my movie guy phase. Given my proclivities towards the occult, esoterica, and ARGs, this one was made to grab me. Phenomenal performances from the cast!

Outer Wilds: In the end game here. Took a huge break from this one, have to remember precisely what I was doing but I know I'm near the end. So gorgeous but I worry if the Proper Credits Roll Ending will land for me! No idea what it is I havent been spoiled.

more palia with my lovely fiancée, still a nice cozy mmo

we both started playing pokemon legends z-a too, it's been pretty fun, but it is a thoroughly modern pokemon game for both good and bad (lots of clothing options and quality of life but extreme hand-holding that would feel patronizing to a 7 year old etc.)

also tried out some more decomps/recomps/source ports, the pokemon snap one is pretty good, and the lord of the rings two towers one is also pretty sick
my benchmark for quality for these things is the OoT and starfox ones from the harbour masters team and they come pretty close tbh

I'm replaying Arkham City and Vampyr. I started Vampyr during spooky season, and forgot how much I enjoyed it. I like being a vampire.

Mega Man Legends on my Retroid Pocket Nova. Why didn't I know how great this game is? The facial expressions on the characters in the cutscenes feel way ahead of its time despite just being sprites swapped out on a simple cel shaded model. The cartoon aesthetics stand out so well and bring to mind my favorite toon style animation from the following console generation, Wind Waker and Jak and Daxter.

Sure, controls are janky, but this game is impressive so far. In the first area beyond the tutorial, the game throws the following at me back to back:

• An objective-based boss fight where you only have to defeat one of three enemies trading the macguffin back and forth.
• A standard single opponent boss fight with (I think) no fewer than 6 attack patterns.
• A defense mission where a whole town is under attack by several types of enemies as a news reporter updates you as it progresses depending on how much of the town has been destroyed.
• Another single target boss fight that attacks fast from above.

I haven't even gotten to what I think is going to be the primary gameplay loop of dungeon crawling for gear, but I'm hooked.