I bought Slay the Spire on a whim during the recent Steam summer sale and it has been a very fun experience.
I never expected a roguelike deckbuilder game like this to be this fun.
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Bought Synthetik on sale recently. Been a lot of fun. Also discovered the joys of Starsector. Oh, and bought the SMT Nocturne HD version on the Switch.
Synthetik and Starsector mentioned in the same comment...
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Synthetik looks like something I would enjoy. I never even knew this existed, thanks for mentioning it.
Added to my list of games to pick up during a future Steam sale.
I wish Atlus would port Persona 5 Royale to PC or Switch so I could actually play it.
I played through the original Persona 5 on PS3 and it was an excellent experience for me.
I am really hoping for a pc or Switch port of Persona 5 Royale along with a pc port/remaster or a remake of Persona 3.
Persona 5 Arena would be cool too.
Out of seven projects, I really hope three of them are these.
I picked up Grim Dawn on a sale recently, it's pretty fun. I'm a sucker for ARPGs that allow me to gun down the undead with firearms.
Also I ran across Death Trash recently. I hate the pseudo-pixelart style that so many indie games use nowadays, but the demo was pretty fun, so I might pick it up when it's out.
Grim Dawn is hands down the best ARPG on the market right now, change my mind.
Path of Exile is great, too, I just don't want to go back to it because every time I do I spend hundreds of hours on it. No shotguns though.
Going through Kingdom Come at the moment and having fun bashing skulls in with a warhammer. It's a bit jank but I like it, having to start from pretty much nothing and learn how to properly fight so you don't get wrecked isn't something I see done to that extent much and I feel it was pretty well done and fits into the game good.
I played Vanquish, highly recommend it, is realy short fun action shooter and a good way to kill time. Currently playing Disciples 3: Reincarnation - is ok but not great. I'm also playing the Resident Evil remake, I've not played the original so I'm not sure if it is a faithful remake or not but the game is great, it is less action then in RE 2 remake and does not look as well either but o boy does it do a better job with the scary atmosphere.
Vanquish is a blast. From a time when everyone was making shooter games and they managed to mix it up and add more fun. I can't think of a game I've played that's faster than Vanquish. I wish that era wasn't dead, now it seems every new FPS/TPS game is mainly just copy/pasted combat with multiplayer lootboxes and a battle royale mode.
Vanquish is a Platinum Games hidden gem.
The first half of the first Resident Evil was awesome. It was just a survival horror game in a creepy mansion with cool unexplained threats.
Then they introduced all the biotechnogy umbrella corporation nonsense and totally ruined the atmosphere and aesthetic. Almost every game in the series follows this stupid narrative trajectory, and I hate it.
I'm still in the first half and I love it. But thinking about it RE2 does suffer from what you described. The police precinct feels like a survival horror but then it kind of drops the horror aspect.
The others I've played, 4 and 5, are not horror at all. I love 4 but is not horror.
I've heard good things about 7 and 8, I have 7 but I'm waiting to finish this one. Have you played them? Are they worth it?
I just beat Wasteland 3, thought it was pretty good. Scarlet Nexus is good, a lot better than I thought it would be. Still playing Nioh 2, trying to beat the harder modes, and I’m trying to get a good New Vegas mod setup without the game crashing every ten minutes or my computer exploding. Lot of DOOM wads, Dragon Quest XI definitive edition, Ghosts n Goblins resurrection, tried the Ninja Gaaiden collection but it’s a pretty shitty port. That’s about it I guess.
Have you played Darkest Dungeon? You might like that if you like Slay the Spire.
I haven't played Darkest Dungeon yet.
Thanks for the recommendation.
I will check it out during a future Steam sale.
If you can, I'd recommend some mods for Darkest Dungeon. It's got a ton on the workshop and custom classes are just scratching the surface with what it can offer. Get the Thorn, she's beautiful as a class in DD.
Man, I've been meaning to play Wasteland 2 but I keep putting it off on my list. I really need to bump it up since I love fallout style games.
Yeah I really liked it, the combat is kind of unbalanced and it drags a little towards the end but I definitely reccomend it if you like Fallout 1 and 2.
Still slogging through Okami. It shall be done, as the motto on the side of the Hafen in VC4 goes. After that, Great Ace Attorney comes out late July, looking forward to that. Beyond that, Blue Reflection TIE is one in late October so there's that on the horizon. A few other things but all in all, some stuff to keep me going.
FFXIV and Yakuza: Like A Dragon. Like A Dragon is the right amount of humor and seriousness I craved in a game in a long time. FF due to friends and occasional mindless grind ( going for Artifact weapons.)
I heard that the Like A Dragon battles will become the mainline Yakuza game system from now on, and the real-time beat-em-up gameplay will be used in side story games.
That is true. From an April Fool’s joke to being a staple, the developers really did listen to the fans this time around.
The combat is really fun as most abilities have a short, quick time event to do full damage (think of it as a dumbed down Super Mario RPG combat.)
Yep, Yakuza Like a Dragon is great! Protagonist Ichiban Kasuga is so likeable.
Dragon Quest XI S mainly right now, with a little bit of Xenoblade Chronicles and Yakuza 3 mixed in. I didn't expect to enjoy Dragon Quest anywhere close to as much as I do. I've been playing Xenoblade for over a year. I love it but seem to play it in 10 hour spurts. Actually sort of the same with Yakuza, I think the last time I posted about games I was on Kiwami 2.
Been on a bit of a JRPG mode lately, which is funny because a few months ago I wasn't interested in slogging through RPGs at all. On that note, anyone played any of the Tales games? I was thinking of trying one of those but I can't get a feel for what they are.
DQ 11 is excellent. I played the original and loved it. Jade best girl.
Tales games are fun jrpgs with real time action gameplay.
I would recommend Tales of Berseria and Tales of Vesperia.
They both have a great cast of characters and a good story along with fun gameplay.
Berseria was my first Tales game and I really loved it. I picked up Vesperia soon after and it was great too.
Rimworld just dropped an expansion that gives it an actual functioning slavery system, yay. Watch out, humans, the Racc Nation is on the rise. I can make them supremacists now.
A game that is hard to recommend, Black & White. I played it once 15 years ago and got bored quickly but now I'm finally appreciating it with flaws and all. Up next, Black & White 2, hopefully this one will not be as frustrating as the first.
Just finished a run of Sunless Skies. It's a trading and resource management game with horror elements (it's set in a Victorian England with angry otherworldly entities) and the writing is just superb. It starts off pretty tough - you have to explore the map blindly, so it's pretty easy to run out of fuel or supplies trying to find a port - but it quickly settles into a rhythm of "slightly challenging." I'll probably go back to it for other endings, but will probably work on my backlog first.
Recently got Roguebook which is decently fun. Its the Slay The Spire card battler formula with pretty graphics and a hex map.
Managing resources to optimize unlocking the map adds a strategic portion to the game.
Felt a bit easy but ive played tons of card battlers.
Guess I will check out Roguebook during a future Steam sale.
Just played Call of Cthulhu. Suitably unwoke.
Mainly modded Skyrim on PC. Sometimes madden, MLB and the Sims. Probably wIt till Starfield before getting a new game
I picked up X-Wing Ultimate Alliance, the Tie Fighter Total Conversion, and have been playing it in VR. Though I also had to buy a new joystick, since the stick for my X-52 pro broke and was giving me constant yaw commands.
Been replaying/catching up on all the Persona games since the lockdowns hit hard last summer. Redid FES, P3P, P4G, and played PQ, Arena and the Dancing games for the first time. Finally time to move onto P5 for the first time.
I play Black Desert Online, has zero rainbow stuff. I play a little bit of Escape From Tarkov, also no rainbow stuff.
Strangely.. overwatch, despite its lgbt bullshit with its characters, decided to bring out a bikini skin for Ashe today. So i shall go check it out. Probably not play very much and use points i accumulated to buy the skin.
I looked at it just to see how blizzard could fuck up a bikini. Mission accomplished. Her top is a uniboob with no definition whatsoever.
Binding of Isaac. RNGesus saves.
DCS still. Been doing a lot with the liberation dynamic campaign engine.
External program that manages the campaign then generates the mission to fly. Not perfect because DCS AI is still shit, but closest to BMS so far. Liberation has a GUI to frag missions and set strategy then watch it all fall apart in mission because the AI flies into mountains or has helos flying at 20000 ft….
There’s been some interesting things baked into the Syria and new Guam maps that have to be there for the internal campaign engine ED is building. For instance all the power plants in Syria are there as part of scenery.
Picked up Hitman 2 and having a lot of fun playing through it all. Miami is some fucking incredible level design. And of course Blood Money.
I also broke down and picked up one of those gaming mice. Originally I just wanted it for the numeric thumbpad and figured the DPI stuff was a marketing gimmick, and the raw numbers probably are a marketing gimmick; but the higher sensitivity does seem to make a difference compared to the cheap POS mouse that came with the computer. If I turn the DPI up and the in-game sensitivity down so everything feels the same, I seem to get better precision.
iRacing! It's not exactly a game in the traditional sense, there is no "gamification" and no artificial skill ceiling. You get out what you put in. It's like a geometry puzzle, trying to determine the fastest way around a corner/track mixed with the constant risk vs reward calculations during a race. Get careless with an overtake, defense or just too optimistic into a corner and the race can be over. It's this consequence that makes it more exciting, can't rewind or re-set, you've got to decide how much to risk.
Built by actual racing fans like the co-founder John Henry who is also the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football club. He built the game out of actual money for him and his friends to play when the last online racing sim got shuttered. Didn't make any money for years, didn't care. Now has far and away the most active online racing sim played by more IRL Formula 1 stars than I can count. Lando Norris, Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz jr, Alex Albon (is he a star?), Rubens Barrichello and a bunch more. Nevermind IRL oval or GT racers.
iRacing is expensive, sim racing is expensive, so is PC gaming in general. If you are fortunate enough to be able to give it a go I highly recommend. Got me started in racing IRL, thx iR!
I've thought about trying it. Is it even remotely beginner friendly? It's my understanding you start at lower levels which I envision as a 100 hour grind where half the cars intentionally trying to crash you every race and the other half are getting lapped 30x by pay to win Nikita Mazepin having spent $10k on virtual car upgrades so he can actually win something. Maybe I've just always had a bad experience with any semblance of online racing.
The most difficult of my experience to this point is the F1 game with most of the driver aids off. I'm at the point where I can get around the track with zero electronic nannies but with severely suffering lap times compared to having them on their lightest settings.
Surprisingly, yes. There is a match making system with separate scores for speed and safety. You will get placed in races with other drives around your speed and safety level. If you wreck other drivers intentionally you will get banned sooner or later, wreckers don't last. Even if you're an IRL pro like Scott Speed.
Other drivers are pretty darn cool majority of the time.
There are rookie series that are not open to drivers with more exp as well. If you want to learn about real racing and race craft check it out, there are usually promos for new members.
I may give it a try. I bought a wheel and pedal setup I think two years ago and was surprised how bad the driving dynamics are in the mainstream games like Forza. Things like I'm driving a car I actually own IRL on roads at regular road speeds and it's trying to spin me like the game put oil all over my tires. So, I've tried a handful of games just to find ones where the cars actually work like they should.
Tempest, a pirate rpg
Elder Scrolls Online
I'm at 150 hours in Cyberpunk 2077 so far. It's alright. That number is probably inflated a little from me leaving the game running while AFK.
I just bought Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night in the Steam sale, and I'll be playing that or Shenmue next.
I never saw Fallout 4 to the end of the main quest. I managed to get a beastly video card a few months ago so I've been restarting it.
Still shocked at all the bugs even that game shipped with. It seems like it's gotten worse over the years? Crashing for weapon particle effects, NPCs getting stuck on geometry, tried using a terminal and got stuck as the camera starts shaking all around a few square cm trying the find the "right" spot to start zooming in to the screen.
Maybe I'm more of masochist than I thought.
Tekken 7...honestly, I'm tired of long cut scenes followed by short gameplay segments. I miss the thrill of just playing a game and not being bombarded by an overlong sequence of cut scenes...so Tekken 7 online has been great for that.
I'm sure I will go back to something story based/single player based at some point, but yeah, just a bit over games with long cut scenes and long story telling in general.
City of Heroes: Homecoming. Never really played it the first time around, though I had a friend who played for years. It's been a blast so far.
Blade of Agony. It's completely free, very varied WW2 FPS on the GzDoom engine.
Well, I recently finished Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, and I'm currently playing through Control: Ultimate Edition.
Dyson sphere program.
If you like satisfactory, or Factorio, do yourself a favor and get it.
Best thing out of China since kung-pao chicken