Pokemon Luminescent Platinum (Brilliant Diamond).
Just finished mazebound and loved it, short janky game but it has its charm, really fun with a friend.
IRON NEST
if you’re autistic it’s bombastic, a good little game.
Also, wardogs
Enshrouded having a blast building our new base. We started with 1.0 and it’s great. Huge open world which is handcrafted, great exploration and the crafting and building part of the game is very solid. It doesn’t feel as grindy as other survival games and overall it’s a great experience.
I love enshrouded. I’m just under 1k hours
Tried to get into it after I had enough of Valheim, but somehow it didn’t work for me. For some reason the Valheim build system is at the perfect spot for me, all other games that I tried to scratch that itch, fell short 😭
Felt the same about the building at first but it is very solid and lots of stuff that seems complicated at first makes sense when you think about it. I would give it a second chance. We played Valheim first and having a blast in Enshrouded!
Just finished Dark Messiah. Loved it.
Now maybe I’ll go with Dishonored 2, to keep the Arkane vibe going.
Nice, just finished Dishonored 2 like two weeks ago, great game. Better flow than the first one, little less interesting story-wise. Anyway, enjoy.
I’m liking it very much. I find the choice you have to make early on (play as Corvo or Emily) will make want to play this twice. Nice touch.
Still have not gotten much time to play the newest update of No Man’s Sky… does that count? It is over 10 years old, but gets regular content updates.
You just caused me psychic damage. Was sure there was no way NMS was older than 5-6 years. Getting ready to set it up for VR today to check out the new update myself.
Cosmos was their 10 year anniversary update and expedition.
It’s personally too much, I can’t concentrate on any of the bazillion new mechanics.
Heaven’s Vault! They announced a writing contest and a tabletop role-playing game Kickstarter so that’s cool. I’ll never get another video game. I must accept this, alas.
Excellent adventure game.
I get so excited every time an artifact has something written on it, and get so sad whenever Aliyah is like ”They put nothing on here”!
I thought I’d finally escaped World of Warcraft after a decade and a half of playing it. I haven’t touched it in years. That was mostly thanks to Activision ruining Blizzard ever since they bought them out; made it real easy to dump the whole company and all their games.
Then a buddy of mine started raving about the new WoW: Forever that’s about to drop in a few days (which is supposedly just a remastered alternate version of WoW, adding tons of new content and fixing all the story/gameplay mistakes the devs felt they made with the MMO over the years) and it got me curious. Now I’m back in WoW, exploring all the content I’ve missed these past few years. It did get a little better since I left.
I’ve never been a hardcore raiding/leveling/grinding kind of MMO player. I like to get immersed in the world and the lore. With vanilla WoW, it took me over a year to reach max level because I was enjoying just running around and exploring every corner of the map. I had my own character backstory built, like a D&D session, and added my own personal lore alongside the game’s content. Heck, I had a last-minute grind session the night The Burning Crusade dropped, just to finally make it to max level so I could enjoy the first expansion.
Supposedly, WoW: Forever plans to emulate that experience, forcing you to actually explore the world and get immersed in the lore and story. No more grinding for max levels, no more flying mounts to get from point A to B without experiencing the world under you.
You’re encouraged to develop more complex professions and skills to benefit other players. You can supposedly set up campsites in the world and drop resources for others to take advantage of. And I guess they’re claiming that the max level is 100% the max level now. No matter what new content drops for it, you’ll never level up again. Gaining levels isn’t the point of this game.
It has me intrigued, so I plan to check it out in a few days.
I am continuing my Persona 3 Reload Playthrough, i feel like it was pretty decent so far, but at month 6 or also due to my break for a month, it feels even better now!
Factorio Space Age! I’ve always loved Factorio but would usually get bored by like mid game. But that’s not the case with Space Age. All the different planets are so fun. I love Vulcanus and Fulgora, Gleba not so much lol. I still haven’t been to Aquilo yet.
I would also recommend trying the Rampant mod! Made factorio into a crazy tower defense game that put new life into it for me.
Having a bit of a hard time resetting after my NextFest adventures, which I did end up writing a full report on. Played a bit more of the Ablahshikar demo just to try and figure out what the hell is going on with that game. Will probably buy the early access when it starts soon, partly because it’ll be cheaper than the full release and partly because I want to support the artistry of this developer.
Got back to playing a bit more Withering Realms today, which is also woefully impatient of me I know. I’m really flying in the face of this community’s values. Anyway. Game is good, it’s getting better with every patch. I think it will be fantastic once it releases next spring. Puzzles are quite a bit harder than Withering Rooms, though. Especially since the clues are much more spread out, and it’s much harder to know if you have access to all the required information or not. I’m stumped a bit on a particular puzzle at the moment, will probably have to backtrack a lot and see if I missed something.
I couldn’t get into withering rooms. I like it, it’s well made, but it’s just not my game I guess.
Check out Outcast Tales. It’s free. A new publisher bought the game and they’re just giving it away because the last publisher screwed them I guess.
It’s a rogue lite tactical RPG with lots of character.
CP2077…on sale for $20 finally trying it
Just finished playing Darkwood. Was a very unique little game.
Planning on playing Baurotrauma or Zomboid next if I can wrangle some friends
Darkwood is definitely an experience. One of the few games that’s ever managed to get under my skin. Are you hyped for the sequel?
Absolutely will be playing it haha. Interested to see how they’ll improve it. Got a slight bit completionist/grindy by the end once I “figured it out”. But sometimes that’s the nature of survival games where you feel like you gotta gather every last scrap
Yeah, I feel that. I think Darkwood really benefits from the semi-permadeath of Hard mode to keep the tension and fear up (even though I was too much of a wuss to go through with that). But even without the atmosphere was just so unsettling.
Been playing SSX Tricky for the past few days as it was an old nostalgia game of mine. It’s been real fun, but the NPCs are way more obnoxious than I remembered. Also the way that the devs put alternative courses inside each course so you could go “off trail” is actually really cool
Phew, it has been years since I have thought about SSX. Started playing with Tricky, then spent a lot of time playing SSX3 when it launched. I enjoyed that SSX3 made each mountain into one cohesive slope, so you could literally do a mega-run where you start at the very top and run all the way down the entire mountain without stopping. Learning the individual courses is great, and then putting it all into practice with a mega-run feels fantastic.
I bought a bunch of games in the recent GOG sale. So instead of playing them I’ve been playing Just Cause 3.
I honestly think this is one of my all time favourite games. It wouldn’t win any awards from critics. Wikipedia says “Just Cause 3 received “mixed or average” reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.”. But it’s just so fun.
You can play it without need to pay much attention, just going around blowing up shit to liberate bases. A hero in an uprising against a dictator.
Anyone got recommendations for other games that are really enjoyable to play even if they aren’t award worthy games?
I’ve been meaning to try that game. Your review sold it for me. I’ll strongly consider checking it out soon.
I have no idea how much is nostalgia but it’s recent enough to have normal controls, graphics are decent, and gameplay is fun, especially after you do a few missions to unlock the core gear.
I’ve been mostly playing Morrowind recently but I sometimes want a game where I can just shut off my brain for a while.
Just cause 3 is such a wildly awesome game, especially in comparison to JC2. Wingsuit amazing, better hook amazing, challenges amazing, also freeing the entire map is actually an attainable goal
Buying games on sale is so much more satisfying than actually playing them, isn’t it? All that potential joy at your fingertips, all those dollars you gigglingly save… Much better than actually cashing it in by playing them. I know that feeling.
I’ve never played Just Cause, but that sounds like something adjacent to Ubisoft open worlds? You could try some Assassins Creed game (I actually quite like Unity, otherwise the Black Flag remake maybe?), Ghost of Tsushima sounds similar, Sleeping Dogs perhaps (although more of a GTA-like)? Otherwise there are several Far Cry games that maybe can give you that loop of clearing out outposts?
I’ve played a lot of Assassin’s Creed, I do enjoy that Ubisoft cut and paste from time to time. I also enjoyed Sleeping Dogs. And Ghosts of Tsushima is on my wish list! You know me well 😆
I never really liked the Far Cry games I tried but magbe it’s time to give it another go.
Just Cause 3 is fun because it lets you mess around. The mechanic of clearing bases isn’t really the drawcard, it’s how you have a wingsuit and a grappling gun and just fly around blowing shit up. Then helicopters come to try to stop you and you can grapple to them and pull the pilot out and take over. Or reprogram the SAMs to shoot at them instead of you. You can grapple an explosive barrel to a fuel tank and pull them together. It’s just a fun world to mess around in, and the base clearing gives you something to aim for. It also fits into the storyline, which isn’t a bad story really.
Well, let me think. Apart from the Far Crys there is also the Saint’s Row games and maybe… Ghost Recon: Wildlands?
Oh yes I enjoyed the Saints Rows for the most part.
I don’t think I have played any Ghost Recons. I’ll put that one on my wishlist, thanks!
Also maybe Teardown?
Oh that looks interesting with good reviews, I’ve wishlited, thanks!
