Expedition 33. One of the few games that lives up to the hype. Lots of fun. Can definitely see its influences from final fantasy, persona, lost odyssey, xenoblades, etc. Give me more story heavy rpgs. This is my shit.

been playing some MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED BATTLE DESTINY REMASTERED (the caps are very important), it’s the first time the (pretty good) gundam seed game from the vita has been in english, saving you switching between the game and a menu translation
don’t recommend unless you have seen seed/seed destiny at least, as it tells you barely anything about the story or the characters lol

Well, I was working on my Dark Urge Honor Mode run in BG3, but I just fucking died thanks to Lae’zel aggroing a Githyanki patrol after failing a persuasion roll. Next time I’m going through the damned goblin camp path.

Edit: Welp, back on the damn horse I guess

Playing twilight princess on the wii, damn this version is silly. Just doing a little wiggle to fight; whereas the mechanics are fleshed out in skyward sword, but I am determined to beat it with the wii controller. This game is highly symbolic of my teenage years when I used to play it all the time, back when I convinced a stranger online to buy it for me on the gamecube (I have since lost that version 😔)

I’ve been taking another shot at Rogue Trader these last couple weeks. Game is really quite good. Previously I had tried it around when it came out and got hard stuck at the chapter 1 boss fight. I don’t know if I just have better builds and comp this time or if the updates since then have made it better, but I managed to get into chapter two now and I’m loving it. The game really does a good job of portraying the strict and monstrous hierarchy of the setting. I know it’s not Owlcat’s first rodeo having a very powerful and important player character, but they are still very good at it. Makes me quite curious about their next 40k crpg where my understanding is you’ll play as more of a nobody.

The game seems to be fucking massive in both length and in scope, which is a double-edged sword - it’s real nice to spend a lot of time in the setting, get to know all the characters, and go on all sorts of adventures, trying all kinds of shit out, but it can also be pretty fatiguing to be presented with yet another set of decisions to make for your ship or your domain or simply leveling up a dozen characters yet again. Still, I’m glad that someone is doing that sort of thing even if the execution is uneven.

The art direction, but especially the music are great, and the writing is generally skillful. There’s a lot of intrigue in the squishiness at the edges of Imperial authority, particularly with a rogue trader involved, and the plots and prose do well in that space. The vocal performance range from adequate to relatively inspired, although it is limited to particular dialogues.

Besides that I have been playing some Darktide, as I am in the grip of 40k. Game is still a solid horde shooter with good action and well-designed missions - it just got some new ones that shake up the format a little too, which is fun. The big improvement from when I played it a year or so ago though is in the gear and character progression, which seem to have been revamped into a much freer and less rng format. For me the game is definitely a casual romp, and I think is performs that role excellently. It’s tremendous fun to explode ogryn heads or cleave through waves of heretics with a big fuck-off sword while trying to avoid getting tackled by mutants. My understanding is that the game has a pretty high difficulty ceiling, if you’re into that sort of thing though.

I have booted up Space Marine 2, but it crashed my graphics card when I lost the tutorial boss fight so I haven’t tried it again. I’m less into the space marines than a lot of other aspects of the setting, but I’ll probably give it another go at some point. I do like the Tyranids at least.

I started Warframe 3 weeks ago and I’ve been glued to it since. Send help

Honestly after sinking far too much time into Destiny 2 before dropping it last year, it’s been refreshing to finally get into a somewhat similar game that feels like it genuinely respects the players and isn’t built purely to drive engagement and lifetime commitment with FOMO and predatory monetization.

Picked up Hollow Knight for real after putting it off all this time, and now hearing about Silksong nonstop lately. Really fantastic game. Difficulty is for real, but it feels pretty fair. Just got the dream-nail and am hunting for essences, so I think I’ve still got a lot to go.

Biggest mistake was picking it up on switch, just because it turns out to be where my kid wants to play all their games too, so finding time to play has been tricky.

I am back at Planetside 2 after a 5 year break.

Been replaying GTA V with my spouse. They never played it and we’ve both been enjoying it, it holds up really well.

Unfortunately Enhanced edition crashes all the fucking time and I can’t find a solution aside from running the game in safe mode

still putting a lot of time into bg3, slowed the exploration pace down because it’s all new act 3 stuff now, didn’t get this far in my last playthrough attempt, I’m also trying to equip everyone in camp with relatively up to date gear so they’re ready for when their story arcs come up, hoping to finish the game by the end of the holiday break but we’ll see how it goes, I feel like I’m 20-25% done with act 3, it’s really been a lot of fun overall, I have a core 3 party and then rotate the 4th spot between a few companions as the frontline person, always ward them too, it’s making me want to try bg1 and 2 after, I played the icewind dale games back in the day, and planescape, but never got far in bg

Foxhole. I’ve been contributing to the effort to keep Kalokai alive as our last stand the past couple of days (in Charlie shard) but alas their frigates remained unchallenged and kept bombarding all our defences with ease. (Un)fortunately didn’t get to see the defeat screen, they actually managed to briefly capture the Baccae Ridge town base, but a few minutes before that someone destroyed one of their unguarded base in a completely different region, giving us enough to recapture and denying them the win. The highlight was definitely franticly hammering inside the base with 20 people as 2 frigates bombard us. Already anticipating the next war to see what the early game is like.

The only game I’ve really gotten into all year has been Total War Warhammer, which I just keep playing for reasons that are beyond me. They redid the vikings completely, so I’m playing as the viking guy, Wulfrick, (I am not buying any DLC until it’s for sale, I am broke) but he has a lot of very obvious gaps in the roster where DLC units are supposed to go.
They have a whole “Oh shit prove how dope you are with all these huge monster fights” thing going on and a bunch of mechanics are built around you recruiting these monsters, but each individual monster takes like 15 turns (And you can only start doing it on turn 8) to recruit and the game is basically over by turn 50. Also they’re trying to tempt me into building altars to chaos to get access to the basic unupgraded infantry of another faction. But teleporting across the world beating people into submission and erecting statues of blood and sex gods in their capitals and then teleporting away once I get bored of fighting one type of enemy is fun.

Timberborn has me right now. Turns out those ziplines not only speed up my beavers, but also greatly increases travel distance. They are basically trains :train-shining: and my Factorio neuron activated :neuron-activation: I’m now building out my inter-colony zipline network. However I’m starting to burn myself out and probably should switch to one of my other in-flight games. Maybe this is the call to get back on my Mass Effect 1 save.

I’ve been going back through Celeste, I want to get into the core. I’ve unlocked enough B sides I just need to beat them. And getting more strawberries because I think 100%ing it would be cool.

Also playing some dispatch, end of episode 4. Feeling a bit bored with the part of the game you actually dispatch your heros and stuff, just very repetitive imo. Getting better at it but I hope they do something to shake up that part of gameplay more. The story is still interesting to me though.

I finally solo’d a boss in Nightreign. I’ve been playing Executor solo to practice with him because I like the parrying. God it’s hard when you’re not a sweaty Souls nerd