Hello everybody. Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. This week i was out of town so not much gaming, but I have put some time into more Elden Ring co-op. I hope you all have a great week ahead!
kinda loving the new Zero Parades game. Obviously not as good as Disco. Will likely finish it on Monday and have more thoughts then.
Please make a thread.
I would love a mostly spoiler free impression
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Started a new kenshi play through with a focus on hiver only and destroying slavery as far as possible.
Playing CIV 7 with the Test of Time update. I need to play it more but I like it so far, I can see the vision. Currently playing as Napoleon and going for a military victory.
Downloaded some arcade roms, was playing MK 1 yesterday. The difficulty in that game is a breeze compared to the ball crushing ai in MK 2.
I saw some high-level MK2 tournament streams recently, after not having played or thought about the game since I was a kid (and was just button-mashing and losing to my friends). My jaw was on the floor watching the Jaxes and Mileenas successfully blocking so many sneaky and counterintuitive combos, pulling off wild upsets with just a chip of life left.
Almost 100 hours into Pathfinder Kingmaker since my last post . Most of things will be spoilers.
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Cascadia is now an officially recognized kingdom by the leaders of the neighboring countries. I have been crowned King and promised to rule for the benefit of the people. We are a thriving utopia compared to everywhere else. I have largely adopted the China policy of “trade with anyone, ignore what they do in their own lands, react harshly if they enter mine”.
I am a mediating force between two rival countries that have now chosen to enter into a three way alliance with me. I saved them both from a barbarian horde (literal barbarians, the class) led by the proclaimed reincarnation of a great hero. He was defeated, and is now my sworn brother who wanders and defends my lands with his tribe, striking back at those that manipulated him.
Hellknights entered my land to interrogate my subjects, and I promptly told them to return home. They did not, so I killed them by punching through their helmets.
Our kingdom not only has schools and a militia, but multiple libraries, teleportation circles in every town, goblin and kobold sanctuaries to protect the races others call ‘lesser’. We are lovers of art and culture, but reject the Shelyn cult so obsessed with beauty as to lay claim to one of mine own companions. They, the beast god Lamashtu, and all other cults have been banished from my realm. Only Erastil and the people’s folk religions remain.
The people have dubbed me “The King from Santa Monica”, as I am a holy Aasimar who roams shirtless, has a blonde manbun and goatee, and who is fond of stretching and practicing karate moves in front of my council.
My subjects are so in awe of me, they know not what to do but vibrate in place. I am literally the main character.
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Playing Subnautica 2 and it immediately recaptures the magic and mystery of the original. Below Zero faltered quite a bit trying to add above-ground content and going in a rather unsatisfying direction with the story (too direct, not enough mystery, AL-AN being in your head cut all the tension), though it was beautiful and added some excellent lore and quality of life improvements that have carried over to the new game.
What impresses me the most so far is the writing, suprisingly. The simple act of integrating respawning (reprinting!) into the actual lore and making it a big part of the story is a massive improvement over the bland handwave respawning in the first game, and the writers are actually grappling with the existential nightmare baggage that comes with it. They actually make use of all the Architect tech they reverse-engineered Below Zero and it paints a pretty bleak picture of the universe and your character’s place in it. Humanity might be extinct from the Kharaa, which was not just a bacterium but an intelligent being that manipulates entire ecosystems to spread itself between worlds to the point that it might have wiped out every civilization that’s ever reached the stars. Surprise! Subnauitica was actually a Natural Selection 2 prequel.
And holy fuck is the game tense. The only leviathan I’ve encountered so far is the one you’ve seen all over the place, the big squid. He grabs your Tadpole if you’re in it and tosses you around a bit, but straight-up eats you if you’re swimming. You have to dodge under cramped overhangs to keep away until it loses interest.
It’s so fucking good.
My PC’s firmware, GPU and Wine are talking properly now, so it is time to play Freelancer again.
It’s got a forgettable plot and stock scifi action-thriller cast, but I keep coming back for the very pretty nebulae and the enjoyable piracy. Zero attempt is made to make the star systems to scale. Also, it has incongruently historically materialist worldbuilding? Descriptions of every pirate/“terrorist” faction explain the historical circumstances and contradictions that gave rise to them, and it boils down to capital abandoning or squeezing workers in like every case. Unfortunately, the story is not about overthrowing the decrepit empires and bringing socialism to the Sirius Sector.
Has any kind of Space GTA that chooses intuitive fun over realistic portrayals of space physics been made since? It would be nice to haul highly illegal space drugs through an ASMR thunderstorm nebula I haven’t been to before.
Has any kind of Space GTA that chooses intuitive fun over realistic portrayals of space physics been made since? It would be nice to haul highly illegal space drugs through an ASMR thunderstorm nebula I haven’t been to before.
closest to freelancer that i’ve played is Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Thank you for the recommend
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Good news!
Oh man I miss Freelancer.
It’s not 3D, but it’s open source: Endless Sky
It’s been a while since I’ve played one, but the X series (like X4 Foundations) might scratch the 3D itch. It lets you even build whole space stations iirc.
Appreciate the recommend
Edit: Oh hey, this looks a lot like Escape Velocity!
It is
inspired by Escape Velocity!
I’ve been playing a bunch of Timberorn this week. It’s got its hooks in me for sure
Started playing metal gear rising lately although I am somewhat bored? Thinking of trying out sonic generations which I always wanted to play as a kid
picked up Pseudoregalia on sale. It’s a 3d platformer with interesting movement mechanics, kinda reminds me of Celeste. It’s fun going back to previous areas after discovering new movement abilities and completing them in a different way. I like it a lot
also my RTT obsession continues. Decided to replay Men of War: Red Tide, god help me
I’ve been playing Windrose and having a lot of fun with it. Always love a survivalcraft and this one’s got pirates and ship combat.
Also I’m way, way better at the ship combat than the melee.
My friend’s coming over today after awhile (busy-nesses, sicknesses, etc.). Might get back to playing Metal Gear Solid 1 today, not sure. I need to tackle my in-progress backlog before I start anything new. Thankfully they’re all pretty short games other than LOZ:TOTK: Scorn, Knuckles’ Chaotix, Silent Hill Origins.
Didn’t think this game would be so heavy in cutscenes, it’s like 1/2 of the gameplay.
When it first came out everybody joked that it was their favorite movie to play.
Not sure! I’ve been trying to tackle my backlog by not playing Space Station.
I finished my Graveyard Keeper playthrough with the DLC since I saw the announcement of the sequel. It was fine. Probably a 7/10. It still has some lingering jank and felt like it leaned into quantity over quality of things to do, but if they can expand and improve on the sequel, I’d enjoy it.
I took a leap and played through Metro 2033 Redux this week. Again, the Metro 2039 trailer got me interested. Overall, a bit jank as I expected, but the game excels at atmosphere and sound design. I’d recommend playing with headphones. I’m not sure about jumping right into Last Light. I might need a pallette cleanser first.
I’m looking at Subnautica, The Alters, Cyberpunk, or giving Kingdom Come a go. Or maybe something like Chained Echoes or Sea of Stars. I don’t know!
Finally got around to playing Zeroranger. I finished White Vanilla on my second attempt though it was pretty close on my second to last life on my last continue.
