Hello everyone. Hope you all had a good week and relaxing weekend. I have been traveling all week so the only gaming I’ve been doing it playing Balatro on my phone. Have a great week
I assumed Clair Obscur was going to be slop, I am so glad I gave it a shot anyway. I was so wrong. The intro hits so hard it sold me immediately. I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in a games characters.
The acting and VO are incredible, the writing is top notch, and the gameplay is a modern take on an old school RPG.
I’m more or less finished but I’m just dicking around. I don’t want to leave, it similar to when you finish a good book and don’t know what to do with yourself afterwards.
The last game I started playing was Breath of the Wild on my PC. Turns out that emulators have gotten really good, both the graphics and performance are amazing
CEMU or one of the Switch emus?
I’m using CEMU, the best part is that I didn’t need to spend a bunch of time to figure it out, I found a preinstalled torrent with everything already configured
Finished Rogue Trader recently, shit goes so incredibly hard. Going back for my first real BG3 playthrough since release and while it’s still great, it REALLY highlights the strengths of Rogue Trader
Worth trying the Pathfinder games if you liked Rogue Trader. Bit more complex in the character build department, but similar size to the story and strength of lore.
Already played wotr (twice). What really impressed me about RT was more the mechanics. Writing and all was great too (better than wotr imo) but the mechanics are truly excellent
Coming Thursday well get a new announcement from Owlcat (almost certainly another warhammer/40k related project)
I had no idea! Exciting!
Mmm, that’s very true, the combat in RT is definitely a lot more elegant and tactical than Pathfinder’s. I’m hoping that when Owlcat eventually make a PF2e game the combat feels a bit more like RT’s.
Still trying to figure out Citizen Sleeper
…and Fortnite. I can’t wait until the Star Wars month is over.
Citizen Sleeper is next on my list. Got it for Christmas, but there’s been a bottleneck on the Switch since my child started really getting into Minecraft.
Trying out different abandonware games I’ve found, so far I have like close to 40 some odd games bookmarked to try out.
I’m actually playing Yugioh The Power Of Chaos and Dynasty Warrior 4 Hyper. I love ygo and playing against an ai that’s at least somewhat competent is fun, and DW is great, it’s funny because I used to hate musou games but I’m learning to enjoy the hack and slash fun.
tears of the kingdom. 'ate the story, luv the gameplay. simple as
Down to 7 jokers for Gold Stake difficulty and 2 challenges in Balatro. Once I have those, it will be a 100% competition for achievements.
Debating how involved I want to get with a new game shop in my town. It’s a leftist space, but I fear they have anarkkkidie NATO YouTube brainworms.
Do you take advantage of anaglyph deck + negative joker tag for getting gold stickers or are you a true sicko
I rarely use that deck. I mostly use Magic, Ghost, Abandoned, Checkered, Painted, Plasma, and Erratic. It depends on which jokers I’m trying to get. Plasma makes all the +chips jokers a lot easier, for example.
I used this with pocket pack skips in pokermon to find all the mega evolutions
I been playing cs2 pretty regularly again. Shits fun but maaan the community is pretty ass
I have yet to have a good interaction on CS2 VC
Replaying Deltarune in preparation for chapters 3 and 4 next month, it’s still so much fun. I’ve forgotten a lot of the jokes so they’re funny to me again. I’ve noticed this time that I really appreciate the visual design of chapter one a lot more. The music is obviously amazing, I don’t get annoyed running into fights accidentally because Rude Buster is like a top 5 Toby Fox song. Field of Hopes and Dreams is also up there.
chapters 3 and 4 next month
wait WHAT
Deltarune tomorrow! By which I mean June 5th
Specifically June 5th at midnight Japan time, so effectively June 4th for a lot of people
Been playing a lot of Enter the Gungeon lately, it’s an awesome game to play local coop.
When playing alone, I’ve been hitting War Thunder. I know it’s disgustang, but you gotta admit that playing Soviet tanks and destroying Nazi era / US cold-war era vehicles is satisfying.
Pokémon Emerald Rogue - Turns Pokémon into a roguelike. If you’ve played lots of Pokémon over the years and want a version that mixes things up, I cant recommend it enough.
Baldurs Gate 3 - Still making my way through, just finished the goblin camp.
World of Warcraft - Currently logging in once a day to give an item to a ghost horse so that in a week I can unlock the ghost horse as a mount.
Been playing Warframe a lot again. Since the new creative director took over, the game has been making a ton of improvements. Really digging the way they’re taking the game.
Me and my best mate finally hopped onto darktide after a few years of vermintide 2. Seems like the game’s in a good place now, as I mostly find complaints about old systems when instead of the info I want about the current systems when Im trying to look stuff up.
Anyway, the ogryn with the grenade launcher gauntlet has me absolutely hooked, because the size of the character and weapon make it feel like you’re playing scorch from Titanfall 2. I miss my big thermite boy so much.
I’m a sicko, so I’m neck deep in Last Defense Academy. The choices actually do matter is super refreshing. The included story flowchart branching at your choices reminds me of Radiant Historia in terms of bouncing around trying things out. Thankfully Kodaka is not too precious about anything and so the melodrama works. I doubt I get all 100 endings, but I’m going to get way more than I thought I would when I first heard about the concept.
The tactical RPG gameplay itself is fairly straightforward, but as someone that plays every Fire Emblem game at launch, I enjoy it. I should maybe be playing on a higher difficulty than normal, I’ve gotten an S rating for every battle I’ve done outside of two of them, but honestly being able to just shred through it has it’s own fun to it.
The visual novel type gameplay between battles is good enough. I wish it had just a little more depth, maybe some extra power-ups unlocked for getting friendship points ala Persona would be nice. But it doesn’t punish you too much for not min-maxing, which I’m sure most people will appreciate.
I do appreciate just how many gameplay systems have in game lore and plotting attached to them. It doesn’t feel like gameplay is divorced from story at all. The way your character navigates the flowchart to the way character death is handled during the tactics RPG sections all tie back into the main story, which makes it feel less discrete than some games that just sort of have story and have gameplay and never the two shall meet kind of stuff.
This seems super cool, I need to keep it on my radar
I personally think it rules, but I am aware that the hyper anime aesthetic complete with occasional fan service (though to a much lesser degree than other Kodaka games) is not for everyone. So, I don’t blanket recommend it to anyone, but if you enjoy or at least tolerate that part of it, the rest of the game is tight.
One thing to know going through it is that the very first play through there are no meaningful choices (aside from a joke bad end choice). You don’t get to the branching narrative until you experience the 100 days once through. But even that has an in game lore, characterization reasoning behind it, which I thought was pretty clever.
Still working on FF7 Rebirth - I think I’m on like chapter 8 or so, and still enjoying it a lot. Seems like the right type of open world slop for me.
My kid has Hello Kitty Happiness Parade and wants to play as Kuromi, so I’ve been working on this since she’s the hardest character to unlock. It’s a cute enough game.
Played the new Hondo DLC a bit for Star Wars Outlaws. Surprised to see they finally added some desperately needed QoL features like being able to shoot from the bike and being able to holster found weaponry. More proof that you shouldn’t play a Ubisoft game until a year or two after launch lmao
