Hello everybody. Hope you all have had a good week and weekend. This week I’ve continued my Elden Ring Seamless co op mod playthrough with my brother, and finished my OG Rome Total War campaign as the Scipii with conquering the entire map. I have put 1000s of hours in RTW since I was a kid, but while taking stock near the end of my campaign I noticed I had a governor in Spain that was 95 years old, which to my memory is the oldest character I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately he died right before I conquered the final region.
Anyway, hope you all have been doing well. Happy Gaming
SPIRAL KNIGHTS IS BACK BABY!!! EVERYONE GET IN THE SPIRAL AND INTO THAT ARCADE!!!
Anyone have any recommendations for mobile games? Burnt out on Balatro, would rather not slough aimlessly through the microtransactions/ad-slop games to find something decent. Don’t mind shelling out some money to buy the game if it means avoiding that.
If you want more roguelikes, Slay The Spire is also available on mobile
Warframe has its hooks in me, man.
I’m thoroughly impressed by the balance of power fantasy gameplay, grimbright world building, and just enough spreadsheet simulator to scratch my autism. Even rank and file daily quests feel satisfying and useful. Do rebind crouch to Caps Lock, though. Your pinky may fall off otherwise.
Hell yeag, more Tennos here! The sheer amount of content the game has right now is truly impressive.
I have it on E with melee attack switched to mouse 4, and a dedicated roll button on left alt. My pinky still gets tired holding shift to occasionally lol.
2 more days till the new frames!
Still slogging through my Octopath Traveler 0 playthrough; I’m a little over 90 hours in, again, because I spend an inordinate amount of time fucking around and seeing if I can go to places I’m not supposed to be able to reach yet. It has paid off more than a few times already, and I think I’m about 2/3 of the way through the main storyline. I have recruited a cat who specializes in dropping neutron bombs on unsuspecting enemies, as well as a samurai waifu that was, quite frankly, the most terrifying boss fight I’ve experienced in the entire game so far.
So now I’m on a “return some overdue library books” subplot, and… Say what, motherfucker???
God damn it.
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, it feels a lot slower paced than the first two games but the class trials are significantly better (at least so far). I finished the second trial not too long ago;
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Still in shock at the plot twists so far, definitely wasn’t expecting KAEDE to be the murderer and Shuichi to become the new protagonist, and I didn’t realize Kirumi was the murderer for trial 2 until the dialogue pointed it out to me after I made too many wrong guesses. I was kind of onto Maki being the Ultimate Assassin instead of the Ultimate Child Caregiver, I felt like she didn’t meet the personality of her ultimate at all. Also, the perjury mechanic is so cool
Still on Warframe, I have progressed a bunch! I have now built Atlas, Xaku, Mesa (fucking finally!), Wisp, Ivara and Wukong. Ivara’s ult is pretty fun, but I don’t really like her kit that much, even if she looks so cool. Xaku is also pretty fun, I mostly built them because I want to farm the Parallax ship on Zariman and I didn’t vibe with Limbo at all. Now I want to farm their prime version, I already had the Neuroptics and Chassis blueprints, I just need to farm the relics for the main blueprint and the Systems. Next I’ll be playing and leveling up Mesa since I wanted to have her for years, but the RNG just hated me for some reason.
Outside of that I have also played Street Fighter 6, I just suddenly got the urge to play it yesterday, so I opened the game, went directly to training to be sure I remembered the basics of Ed, immediately got bored, so I jumped online to ranked, and immediately had a blast! I had to remember a few things on the spot, but it was so much fun, I’m now silver 4 on Ed iirc.
And today I have also gone back to BG3, I stopped playing a bit since Warframe and managed to rescue Halsin without killing the 2 goblin kids, instead just knocked them so they couldn’t call the rest of the camp. Now I need to knock Minthara so I can recruit her later and also same the Grove, and need to find a way to kill Razglin.
Subnatica below zero. Just finished FF16 and was pleasently surprised by it. It was nice to play a true to form final fantasy game again, though while the combat was fun I do miss the classic open world turned based combat.
Got a new thinkpad so I’ve been testing out some retro windows titles, like arma 2, lost planet, ffxi (all demos and benchmarks so far) gonna load up Diablo 1 shareware today on devilutionx.
Lost Planet 2 also has a benchmark and may be playable. It’s my favorite in the series.
If you have any emulation-related questions feel free to hit me up ideally through replies here in case it also could help someone else
Playing through the dishonored series, currently finishing Knife of Dunwall and then on to the Brigmore Witches. Very solid game and honestly love playing the DLC since I never tried that. Trying out some new demos on steam as well, Burn-9 seems interesting you play as the operator for a Solid Snake style figure in a mission that’s gone FUBAR. It’s by the same peeps that did Citizen Sleeper so the writing seems to be good/going somewhere
Dishonored series is fucking P E A K
It really is, it’s got an art direction that’s timeless and the vibes of gritty gloomy streets are just immaculate. Looking forward to Dishonored 2 once I’m done with the first.
Oh yeah the level design is WILD shit in the second game . The first game is almost grounded by comparison. Also the artstyle really helps the game feel timeless
007, did play it to the first mission but it is not for me. Now playing Gothic remake, got cheeky at the first gate and got my ass handed to me swiftly. Another go tonight.
After finishing first light i went on a 007 binge and completed a bunch of games in the series but burned out half way through 007 goldeneye reloaded
shadows of colossus, i never finished it back in the day so i’m just going for a fresh start run through. i like the lack of mook bashing and the focus being on these singular puzzle fights, nice to play with my mind half focused on other stuff.
Love SOTC
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood : Solid buy if you get it for $5 or less. I knew going in that it was supposed to be mediocre, but I what I didn’t know was it’s relation to the Vampire: The Masquerade series, so that was a fun rabbit-hole to explore.
The gameplay is very sloppy but mostly decent fun, split between very bland stealth segments and gigantic hulking werewolf action segments that kind of remind me of the combat in games like Prototype, if people remember that game (you’re a super-hero / bio-horror in an open-world setting).
The premise of the story is great, in that you’re a band of werewolf eco-terrorists who … do werewolf eco-terrorism. The game was either unwilling or unable to fully actualize this vision in the actual plot. Might have been publisher squeamishness, might have been EU arts funding stipulation.
Most of the other characters you have relationships with have models that look multiple console-generations older than the protagonist (who to the game’s credit looks pretty good in human and werewolf forms), and this makes some of the attempts at emotional cut-scenes very funny. One of the main allies you have looks like she was purchased from the Unity asset store and they forgot to add anything to her model.
Environments look great though, shout-out to the environmental artist. The first area is my favorite: pacific northwestern forest at night with a full moon looking gorgeous, realistically rendered but with some stylization in its presentation to give it a more mystical vibe, but then inter-cut with scenes of a devastating logging operation, oil-rigs visible off the coast, hastily build roads carving through to facilitate the continued extraction.
It’s alright.
vtm/werewolf/mages are some of the most fun ttrpg’s to play with people you know and trust and perhaps the worst to play with randos in all of gaming. i did like earthblood well enough though, i agree with the plot compromises and gameplay clunk but like you say it was a decent romp for what it is, the background lore is a lot of fun, and the game world is pretty.
still going on that punch build elden ring run. made it to the capital, went through under around all over that MF, found the star fists (goodbye spiked caestus!), found the nomads, beat the shit out of Morgott & Mogh (capital version), god i love this fucking game
Waiting for Stellaris Nomads tomorrow.
is that tomorrow? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck gotta wait a couple weeks anyway for all my mods to update
