Can’t afford battlefield 6, so playing delta force. Pretty nice. I just wish it had a mode without all the operator powers.
Other than that, trying to 100% shadow of mordor. Just started bright lord dlc.
Delta force as in the Novalogic game??? If so I had the demo as a kid and played the crap out of the pyramid level where you get flown in on a Blackhawk and go into a burial tomb.
Shadow or Mordor is so good. I put like 80 hours into it and have been toying with the idea of starting again.
Not the old ones. But I’ve played almost all of the old ones. Black hawk down was amazing. I was talking about the newer one which is f2p.
Ya the Blackhawk game I played once and it was super cool. I wasn’t good at it though haha.
Would you recommend the new one?
Its pretty much like battlefield: 32v32 team match with classes. Each class has around 4 operators with different abilities. Not too unrealistic but can be jarring for someone coming from battlefield. Overall, its good for a free game and I don’t think I’ve encountered any cheaters.
I’m playing StarRupture. I’m at 80 hrs now. I want them to not show hours played on the save file. It’s like telling me I’m playing too much. But the factory needs to grow!
Dungeon Keeper. 1997 was just a couple of years ago… right?
This week i played EXD - extra dimentional. It’s a new VR game about a megazon worker that falls into a portal and needs to save that world while and get back to his daughter. It was really good and i’m looking forward to the next episodes or whatever they end up doing to continue the story.
Onirism. GOD, that is an enormous game. There are JRPGs I’ve finished with less playtime, even being a completionist.
For reference, it’s an adventure shooter with dozens of weapons, boss fights, giant levels across numerous locales, vehicles, etc.
It is also very glitchy and basically still an early access title, but I still found it worth the asking price for being so ambitious as an indie.
Just installed and tried out Echoes of the End. After having played extremely story driven titles - like the two Horizon games - I just couldn’t learn to love this one. Which is weird, since I LOVED Nier:Automata, for instance.
On another note, this week, I also installed and beat three times, MiSide. I’m absolutely in love. What is wrong with me. 🤣
On yet another note, anybody going to this: https://www.musicofsquareenix.com/tour
The DOOM reboot from 2016. Grabbed it on sale for a few dollars and it’s quite fun
Imo it’s the best doom. Many people will disagree, but they’re wrong.
It’s pretty comforting how straightforward it is. You just go blasting. After the main story, replaying levels in arcade mode is also good fun.
Agreed. It is horrendously violent, yet almost cozy? I mean, sure there’s a bunch of demons running amok and jumping out at you, but there’s a great comfort when one’s wielding a chainsaw lubed with the blood of their fallen comrades. Like a big blanket of purring kittens. Cozy.
No moral dilemmas, no romancing, just good ol’ fashioned rip n’ tearing 'til it’s done.
Dredge. It was on sale and I like fishing. Very good and normal fishing.
I like very good and normal fishing, maybe I should try it then.
Extremely normal fish, no really fucked up things here!
(In case my silliness is not coming across, ostensibly is horror but you can absolutely play it calmly and just fish during the day and be normal! But there’s horror)
I haven’t played it before but I have heard of it, I think it’s on my wishlist too. I didn’t know you can play it calmly though, that’s neat.
I’ve been burnt out by Star Wars and was in the search for more sci-fi lore so I’ve been getting into Warhammer 40k games.
Currently playing Space Marine and Mechanicus. Mechanicus is the first turn based tactics game I’ve played and I’m loving it. Very straightforward without a big learning curve, big and non-complicated UI, fun mechanics.
Lovely for a casual session.
Walkscape on my phone and Graveyard Keeper on my computer. GK is really fun.
+1 for WalkScape. amazing game that’s motivating me to walk more 👍
I was a day away from the “get all skills to 50” achievement but then they added two new skills! Grr…
I played a bit more Evolve this week. I unlocked the rest of the hunters and monsters now. Not really sure what to work towards next, maybe getting legendary skins for everyone. That’ll take a while though.
Just started Blue Prince
“Patient Gamers” qualified, but what a game. I actually had to break out a notebook to take notes. Seriously worth a try if you like slow/puzzle games.
Was my GOTY last year by a mile (and yes I also played E33). Absolutely incredible game, and also a super underrated but phenomenal OST, Trigg & Gusset really killed it. Great showcase of the bass clarinet.
Physical notes are absolutely vital, I ended the game with like 50 pages of notes and hundreds of screenshots!
Football Manager 26 was free on Steam this past weekend so my current playthroughs of other games got derailed as I lost a good couple of days to it, fully feeling the addiction seeping in again. I would still recommend FM 2024 over it all things told, but I have to admit the new tactics engine in 26 allowing for different formations in and out of possession is both realistic and a lot of fun to play with.
Otherwise before and after the weekend it’s been more of Death Howl. I’m having a good time with it so far. The art is absolutely beautiful, a gorgeous minimalistic but expressive pixel art in a very distinctive muted color palette. I have some complaints here and there with the gameplay but mechanically the turn based Soulslike grid-based strategy deckbuilder genre soup is a nice mix and the combat is very challenging but doable. I’m constantly just about scraping by between bonfires. On the deckbuilding side it’s not a game that puts a premium on creativity so far, and instead it seems more constructed like a series of small puzzles. Each zone has its own set of cards and its own set of encounters and it’s up to you to find the “correct” deck and approach for each encounter.
The story has been pretty mediocre so far, which is unfortunate. It’s ostensibly framed as this Orpheus tale of a mother going into the spirit world to rescue her child from death, but it’s very obviously actually a tale of a mother’s journey towards accepting the death of her child, with each zone representing one stage of grief. Maybe it hits different if you don’t pick this up right away, but me personally I’m mostly drumming my fingers as the story unfolds, waiting for the penny to drop for the protagonist.
It’s not really been story heavy though in fairness, so the majority of playtime is spent in battles, and those are still fun.
Football Manager 26 feels like a step backwards in usability. I always feel like I’m fighting the UI for basic tasks.
Been chipping away with Elden Ring, but I do use seamless coop for the off chance my friends want to join, and some easymode mod because I am so unbelievably bad at these games.
Having fun, but it’s funny when every time I think I could do with less easymode, some enemy absolutely curbstomps me. Maybe one day I can manage without:P
I do like how there’s very little waypoint-guidance, but some todo-list for things I have agreed to would be nice. But that’s the style, I guess.
I played my first playthrough alos with easy mode. I just have reflexes of a donkey and no one is ever going to congratulate me or care how i played elden ring back in 2022. But man the open world still itches me. No other game besides maybe subnautica hooked my will to explore like that. Tried second one without and got to ~80% of the game and gave up.
I kinda wish the game would detect modding, or the easymode at minimum, and hold the achievements. I don’t particularly care one way or the other, but some soulslike-folks probably will get their panties in a twist for dilluting the global achievement-stats… maybe? But oh well.
The exploration aspect is pretty cool, there’s hidden tomb-dungeons etc everywhere. Other games where I’ve felt exploration was fun were Skyrim, Cyberpunk and (similarly to you) Subnautica.
I played my first playthrough alos with easy mode. I just have reflexes of a donkey and no one is ever going to congratulate me or care how i played elden ring back in 2022. But man the open world still itches me. No other game besides maybe subnautica hooked my will to explore like that. Tried second one without and got to ~80% of the game and gave up.
Not me, but over the weekend a buddy of mine asked me which Zelda is best to play all the way through. He’s never played a Zelda game before. So he’s emulating Ocarina of Time on Steam Deck and I’m following his progress through it.
He’s committed himself to not looking anything up, though he’s allowing himself to ask me for hints which I’m gladly giving. I feel like the Nintendo Power Line guy.
He keeps me updated with these little gems every now and then like “this owl is really annoying” and “fuck Mido, all my homies hate Mido” which I’m really appreciating.
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