I just wondered what happened to the weekly “What are you playing”-thread and it seems it went on a long summer break. Outdoors. Without electronics. Or Internet.
So, as fall/autumn is around the corner, it’s time to get back in front of your consoles, gaming PCs, smartphones, tablets.
What are you playing this week?
I’ve been going through a hard time, so the Postal series has been very cathartic lately.
BUT I’ve also had a lot of fun with Retro Rewind and Librarian Arcane Library.
The Finals after work with 3 other friends and then Heroes of the Storm at the end of the evening with 4 other friends. This is a daily engagement.
Since the last couple months I have been running both from Linux btw!
Started a coop playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 with my girlfriend (she never played it before). Loving it, though the split screen implementation is a bit jank.
Also playing VHOLUME and Shadow Gambit, both great games
I’m addicted to Grandblue Fantasy Relink. I just finished the extension yesterday but I’m back on it again for more farming haha
Been playing Downwell on phone to fill in gaps between work/commute recently. It’s quite fun. I struggled a little bc it was much faster than a similar game like Tower Fortress, but now managed to get used to it somewhat.
Starfield. I’m a little surprised it’s not more popular. Blows Skyrim away imo as a real time killer.
It’s a good game. Definitely overly hated among outrage-hungry “gamers”. Lovely worldbuilding, excellent quests and random encounters, fun combat. Looks great too apart from characters and facial animations. It’s cozy sci-fi, quite different from the usual cynicism and darkness that is so overwhelming now in gaming.
Super Mario World and Secret of Mana on my RetroPie
I’ve been on Pokopia all summer, really since it came our. Baby has been going through sleep regression this week, so I’ve only been playing this game from the F-droid app store…
Its called BIM! You’re a silly little prince boy and you have to drop a bomb on the other silly prince boys in the yard. Simple mechanics, alpha stage, not too many powerups. But there’s a barrel that you can wear so that you can get bombed once. I don’t think it was the creators intent, but there’s a short time after you lose your barrel where youre fully immune. It feels exploitive of the rules, but its really fun, because you can infinitely drop exploding bombs, allowing you to blitz your opponent by blasting your way through the board or even hunting them down and blowing them up.
I hope the creator embraces the exploit and introduces a foil/counter to it. Because its a blast!
Currently playing Travelers Rest with my Neighbor. Each on their own couch with a Teamspeak server between us as we shout orders at each other, hectically swipe tables or chill while going to the mine or preparing food or drinks.
Got our first chicken coop now so we will start expanding our menu, next is a barns so we can get milk
I’ll go first: Cyberpunk 2077. It still looks great and it still is buggy.
I already played it like five years ago, but bought it again for the Xbox and am having a blast. I play it differently than last time, more slowly and try not to rush but discover more of the coty and story. And I’m looking forward to Phantom Liberty!
I cancelled my Game Pass sub recently and just got home from a Universal trip, so I’ve been doing all kinds of side/collection quests in Hogwarts Legacy. My save file was 3 years old which doesn’t even seem possible. Eventually, I suppose I’ll have to finish the main story.
