I recently have been playing Across The Obelisk and I have been having a blast with the game. The game is basically a mix of Slay the Spire roguelike deckbuilder battles and Dungeons and Dragons.
Instead of controlling just one character like in Slay the Spire, you control 4 characters each with different cards to choose from.
The game has four different classes(Tank, Mage, Scout and Healer) with 4 unique characters for each class with a total of 16 unique characters.
You also have progression elements such as perks and town upgrades which persist after every run.
The best part of the game is that it has upto 4 player co-op multiplayer where each person can play a single character.
It is extremely fun playing this with friends. You can also play with just two or three friends and in that case you have each person or one person control two characters.
BTW, Across the Obelisk is currently on sale on Steam in case anyone is interested in it.
What games have you played recently?
I finished Super Metroid a week ago and I loved it. I've been a fan of the Metroid series since Metroid Prime 2 came out almost 20 years ago, and I now understand why this one was so influential. The gameplay and the bosses were great, and the soundtrack was sublime. I'm embarrassed to say that I just found out that my favorite tracks from Metroid Prime were remixes. I just started playing Metroid: Zero Mission, because I don't feel like re-playing the original Metroid, that one was way too tedious the first time.
I also started playing Fallout 4 for the second time. I played it the first time back when it came out on the Xbox, but I found it so boring and ugly that I dropped it halfway. Now that I have a nice computer, I added all the mods I wanted to make it a little bit better. It's still a shitty game when compared to all the other Fallouts, but since it was a gift, I might as well show some appreciation.
On the spicy side of things, I'm currently "playing" through Amakano [アマカノ], which I bought because my favorite VA has one of the main roles, and the other VAs are quite likable. I actually find it quite boring, since it's just a Visual Novel with no real gameplay, but it's good Japanese practice. It's just a lovey-dovey story in a winter town designed to melt your heart.
The other one I'm playing through is Rance IX: The Helman Revolution. Unlike the other entries in the series, this one is a tactical RPG and a lot more linear. If one plays through Mamatoto (1999), one can see all the similarities in the story and the gameplay. The gameplay itself is pretty easy for an experienced gamer like me, and the story so far is decent. The best girls get a ton of scenes and a fair amount of development. The true best girl (Rance) is a bit softer this time, and the most awful shit is optional and you get a warning, which I like as I really don't want to see my girls get gangraped, tortured, killed, etc. I'm playing it in Japanese, just like all the others, because I refuse to give attention or money to the tranny localizers in charge of most translations. Besides, St*iner is a faggot and he can go fuck himself.
What mods are you running/recommend for FO4? I played an inordinate amount of New Vegas but could never get into 4.
General: F4SE, Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch, AWKCR, Achievement Enabler
Gameplay: Scrap Everything, Real throwing weapons
Visual: Darker nights, True Storms, Vivid Fallout
UI: Looks Menu, MCM, Valdacils Item Sorting, Full Dialogue Interface
The core gameplay loop is not that bad, just don't go in expecting old school Fallout.
Is there a consensus best mod for basically wiping out the settlement system? I quit playing when I realized that the game expected me to babysit (or even care about) a bunch of base building nonsense.
I'm afraid I don't know enough about that. You could send all the essential NPCs to a single settlement, never open new ones, and kill all the randos.
I'd actually go the other way and get sim settlements. Its huge and you have to do a little work to set out plots but you dont do the building. You tell your settlers "build a bunch of houses or a store here" and they do it. Its randomized. Adds a lot of character to the settlements that you wouldnt get otherwise. Ion vanilla I always ended up plopping down the same style block house with turrets on the roof for defense once I got bored building fucking everything.