Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 26th

Dark Souls 2. I chose Sorcerer class and I'm getting my ass kicked regularly. Great fun though.

Decided to go back to Dwarf Fortress after a long while, I've been basically re-learning the game and trying some !!fun!! stuff I've never done before. Funnily enough I think I just built my most successful fortress, outside of a really nasty tavern fight that resulted in the death of two children, one dwarf and their cat (the drunkard literally grabbed the poor sod by the tail and smashed it into a statue to death LOL), everything went rather smoothly. Lots of forgotten beasts passing through the caves, one got in while I wasn't looking (lol) but was dispatched easily without casualties.

Thinking about building a fort on a volcano next, see if I can do some crazy magma wizardry.

Picked up Slay the Spire on sale on Friday and I've put 30 hours into it this weekend.

Not an easy game, but fun.

Still having lots of fun with Diablo 4 season 4.

Finished up Wind Waker HD last week so I am in between games. Might get back to Skyward Sword.

Put a shocking amount of time into Unicorn Overlord last week.

I think they executed the cross between Fire Emblem and Ogre Battle very well. Squad composition makes up for the lack of individual customization that is typical of the FE lineage of strategy RPGs (as opposed to the FFT/Tactics Ogre line). The overworld management is a fun exploration side activity that isn't as time-consuming as Three Houses's social stuff. Basiscape brought its usual excellent soundtrack, and Vanillaware their usual impressively detailed art. Plot is whatever, I don't play these games for the plot, I play them to make anime sprites stab each other so numbers go up. So, yeah, it's fun.

(No, I don't actually like Disgaea that much, mostly because "figuring out how to break the game is the game" doesn't appeal to me.)

I finished Arthur's act for We Happy Few, and now I kind of remember why I stopped playing the first time. Just finishing the first act feels like a complete game in itself, and it definitely takes up enough time to be a complete game, especially with how large the map is and with as many side quests as there are. It feels rather daunting to start all over again from scratch as Sally. I thought about playing another game before starting Sally's story, but I'm afraid that I'll do the same thing I did last time and end up not finishing it again.

I got randomly recommend "Kena: Bridge of Spirits" recently by Steam and decided to go for it. I just finished the story and it was definitely a good recommendation. Hard enough to make me work for it, which I always like. It is kinda short though, finished it in like 12 hours. It's a bit janky at times with the camera and jumping, but overall a great experience.

Manor Lords all the way. There's a big Cities Skylines II patch coming out this week (I hope). I might fire it up and check it out. It's getting close to "release quality" after pretty crappy release.

I've been getting back into anarchy Minecraft as an old buddy of mine is kinda resurrecting a base I used to be active at.

The scene is mostly dead, on our main server it's 2 to 4 players on average which is crazy to me. It used to be from 50 to 100 most evenings.

Now I've got a 2 million blocks trip to make, even auto walking on the nether roof that's gonna take some time. But it's also an occasion to revisit some historic milestones along the way! I was able to get my hands on one signed book a friend had given me some time before passing away so it's also kind of an emotional journey.

My friend invited me to VRChat. It was pretty great to play with his friends, since I'm way too anxious to meet other people in VR in public lobbies.

He reignited my desire to this game :3

I am between games at the moment. Having finished university until September, I have a wide open summer, and a huge list of games... and am thus suffering from choice overload, not certain what I want to play.

Halo MCC with a buddy of mine. It's a blast. Halo 2 right now and will slowly move up till Halo 4.

Managed to fix the CO-OP issue faced by linux users and now working fine.

Picked up Paper Mario TTYD on Switch to see what all the hype is about, and yeah honestly all the OG fans were right about it. It's the best one I've played in the series by a longshot.

Without context, I would assume Sticker Star and Color Splash released before TTYD - as if they were still figuring out where to go with the series, and would eventually evolve into something better as technology advanced. Then TTYD comes along, and not only has more mechanical depth, but also so much more life and creativity in it.

Going back and forth between Little Kitty, Big City and Tape to Tape.

There are quite a few post-game things I need to do in LKBC but I'm trying to spread things out so I don't rush through it all.

I've maxed out just about everything in Tape to Tape but still have some achievements left.

Like a dragon : Ishin !

Great game

Started Farming Simulator 22. It works incredibly well under Wayland but you should disable V-sync for that.

I finished DMC 5 SE sometime last week (or the "primary" arc at least) and it was fun as heck.
I moved on to Stellar Blade, combat is very fun/engaging, but story is utter sh*t (so comparisons with NieR were definitely unwarranted IMO, seeing as it's pretty much the opposite of my experience with Automata).

As far as this weekend goes, I am playing Hellblade II, which was probably my most anticipated game of the year. I am loving it so far!

Something is very wrong with me... I've been playing Overwatch and... enjoying it? Still a shell of its former self, but it's not always too terrible.

I need to get away from the computer desk and mouse/keyboard for a while, though, so I'm thinking of either giving Fallout 76 a shot or starting up a new playthrough of New Vegas and going for a different ending.

Got a few new mods to try, particularly new radio stations and other goodies, but I'm wondering if I should use that "make your own radio" mod to add some old time radio shows like The Shadow(*) and sci-fi podcasts that fit the theme.

Sure there are a bunch of mods with great shows like Dimension X already, but after hearing the same episodes over and over again, it might be nice to listen to other popular shows (e.g. The Shadow) or more obscure ones (e.g. Candy Matson).

Might actually just use one of the other radio mods as a base and make my own mod entirely. Did that with Skyrim to much success (power metal when dragons appear, bardcore in the taverns, all kinds of fun).

(*) (I mean, that's pretty much what The Silver Shroud in FO4 was, which I should maybe also try and get into my NV radio because I enjoyed that as well.)

Trying to finish the Horizon Forbidden West story, but it's a bit meh. Really sad about that! The HZD stories were great, and the world is as beautiful as ever, but I stopped caring at some point with the newest one. Other than that, I just bought the Age of Wonders 4 season pass and am trying out the new races and traits.

I finally got around to the Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door remake, and it has been amazing so far.

Still on that World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria grind. I just finished upgrading all my gear, so now I'll focus on unlocking all the cosmetics and stuff. I also started a second character, a Priest, but I don't really enjoy it right now. So, I'll probably just use this mode to speedlevel a few characters, that I'll never touch again.

Sekiro. I immediately started ng+ after finishing it. It's a great game.