Still very much going on Tears of the Kingdom. My kids love watching me play so I’m not in any real rush to be done with it.
Plus the looks I get at t ball games when my kids are dancing around chanting about the blood moon rising are priceless.
Until Baldur’s Gate 3 comes out I tried some Solasta, but got so bored of the story that I reinstalled Neverwinter Nights and am playing through the first expansion.
Yakuza 0 and the camera sucks.
Stick with it, the Yakuza games are all a little bit jank in their execution but the story and characters make up for it.
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Agreed, they’re some of my favorite games!
Yeah I’m still playing despite not evens facing my opponent in a fight half the time lol. the story is pretty good. I enjoy the goofyness of it all.
God of War 2 (PS2) and Lemmings (SNES). Lemmings is as great as ever, God of War is also great.
I was addicted to lemmings as a kid! I recently just saw a video for a new game called “Humanity” which looks like a modernized play on the same idea, with crowds of people instead of lemmings.
Nice, I’ll look it up! Also, come join [email protected]
Humanity is great! And very similar idea to lemmings. The puzzles are decently challenging, and some give you that great sense of accomplishment when you have that “ah ha!” moment and figure out the trick.
FYI Humanity is currently in the free Game Library on PS+. It’s almost 5am here and my brain isn’t working right, otherwise I’d tell you the specific PS+ tier.
Strangely similar body counts by end of such wildly different games.
Heh, never occurred to me.
I played Plateup. I finally got my restaurant to day 15 and I’m starting to like this game more and more.
Haven’t played this game in about 6 months. I hope they made it easier to automate the cooking.
I don’t know - I haven’t gotten to automation yet. I’m currently in the “I’m new to this and everything is exciting” phase. I saw conveyors, but I have no idea how to effectively utilize them.
Hunt Showdown. The audio cues, gunplay, and strategies you can come up with are second to none. I get destroyed 80% of the time, but that 20% keeps me coming back.
I get you, I still return to it when I have the time.
There’s nothing that quite compares to stalking an enemy group through the bushes for ten minutes trying to avoid getting noticed, while preparing to ambush.
Jagged Alliance 3 and it rocks!
GBA Advance Wars… I missed it first time round, so I’m playing it through on my Miyoo Mini Plus. Absolutely perfect handheld game, ideal to grab for a quick half hour mission.
Finished FF16 yesterday, so damn good
I am thoroughly enjoying it right now. Honestly one of the first Final Fantasy narratives I’ve been deeply invested in for a while. It somehow manages to be over the top but still feel grounded enough to connect with the characters.
Days gone, i like it alot.
Surprisingly good game, I enjoyed it quite a bit a few months ago.
Dumb as a brick story, nothing about anything actually makes sense when you think about it for more than 2 seconds, but it’s fun as hell, hordes are legitimately terrifying at times and it looks great and runs like a dream.
Been playing FF16. Really been enjoying it! It’s really just a movie or TV series with sporadic combat. But I really enjoy storyline in games more than gameplay most times. I like that they added items to make the combat stupid easy for someone like me that has never been good at doing combo moves. I feel like it might be a bit too easy at times, but still fun. I swore to never buy another FF game after 13, but I’m glad they released a demo so I could see how fun the game would be.
I’ve also been playing FF16 recently and been loving it. I can’t really explain what makes it so good because in many ways it just isn’t a great game. But what it does well, it’s doing really well. It’s just so enjoyable to play.
I kind of struggle with the constant cut scenes. There are times when the only gameplay is just walking to another room and then another 5min cut scene starts. There was even a point where the cut scene was so long my controller shut off. I often feel like they could have just released it as a TV series instead of a game.
The graphics are great, the fighting animations are awesome, and the times that I do manually control combat it’s super fun. I do agree that it’s not a great game (it might be better if I stopped being lazy and removed the “cheater” rings) but it is a lot of fun to play!
I talked about this with a friend. From what I’ve seen it’s about the spectacle. It might not have Dark Souls levels of technical and mechanical design mastery, but hot damn, the sheer fucking spectacle of it all!
I think that’s the genius of the game. It’s not meant to be a space for player to hone or practice their action RPG combat skills. It’s meant to blow their minds and make them feel powerful.
Sniper Elite 5. That series is like my sneaky sniper comfort food. I also just got a sonos arc soundbar and subwoofer and tried it out for the first time with the game. In the sonos app, they are now under the media group named, “Boom!Headshot”. lol
Disco Elysium. this game has consumed my life
Me too! First time playing it after hearing a lot of good things. The story and gameplay are interesting but what really hooked me is how the game can surprise me with wild and unexpected dialog choices. I love going for whatever feels like the goofiest possible decision just to see what happens next.
I’m also playing Disco Elysium! It’s fun but so far has yet to completely grab me as it seems to have done for you.
Personally I couldn’t get into the voice acting, feels jarring and within a few minutes I’m hearing completely mispronounced words. Hard to ignore.
Ghost of Tsushima on PS5, loving it.
It is very prone to burnout though. Probably go through the story sidequests only up until the third act.
Battlebit: Remastered.
Even when the game is occasionally “Spawn, Die, Revive, Die” it is surprisingly fun.
And the thing is, everyone playing it is surprised on how fun it is. The voice-chat often is full of “how is this game this fun!?!”
Large to small maps, varieties of weapons and gadgets, vehicles and destructible buildings.
I’ve been having a ton of fun playing it.
The game has so much going for it, like the building mechanic that seems very barebones compared to something like Ace of Spades is actually pretty well realised. Been using it to make stairs, stop/funnel enemy vehicles, build sniper spots etc.