Happy weekend everybody. I finished a playthrough of XCOM 2 and now have started a new playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3, as “The Dark Urge”. Hope everyone’s summer has been going well
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I finally beat the final campaign level in Brigador (a top down isometric mech game with crazy good art, atmosphere, and writing, albeit made by at least one bigot) and Im thinking of seeing whats new in Zero Sievert (a top down 2D survival shooter with rpg elements that draws heavily from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Escape From Tarkov) tonight since I haven’t checked in on that game in a hot minute. I really wanted to get started on Heaven Will Be Mine (space lesbian mech pilot visual novel, the @halimede twitter account is based off of a character from this) but it just doesnt want to run through proton and now Im kicking myself for not getting the version on itch.io thats built to be linux compatible.
If you already paid for it i would yarr that version.
That’s so real, good point
Same as last week, I’m about to make these threads boring as hell. Continuing SWTOR, trying to achieve a faux Legendary status by finishing the stories on two servers
Pirate copy of Wreckfest doing figure 8 demolition racing in my armored up not an El Camino
Got 100% completion in Supraland the other day and started Six Inches Under. Might push for 100% on it as well just for completeness.
I’m playing more and more indie metroidvania. I’m switching between “9 Years of Shadows” for the first time and once again playing “Blasphemous 2”
A coworker started bringing dominos to play at break. I hadn’t played dominos in over a decade. Then on Friday I picked up a chess board and improvised some pieces to play martian chess.
Hades 2 early access
Balatro has been eating up a lot of my time. Was playing Hardcore on Diablo 3, but then the server crashed and killed my monk (wasn’t even anywhere dangerous). So I got tilted back to Balatro. Gonna finish up my draft on Magic Arena then play some Vermintide 2.
Last week, after 137 hours, I finally finished Trails into Reverie. It was good. It’s a pure fanservice game and a pretty okay epilogue for the Cold Steel and Crossbell characters. The cast for Cold Steel/Crossbell has ballooned to 40+ characters and it was nice to be able to play as them all and create teams for whoever you liked. It’s more a third Crossbell game than a Cold Steel game and you finally get some much needed closure for the Crossbell characters and their battle for independence. The story did get kinda wacky at times lol, but I’m glad to finally move onto Trails through Daybreak and onto another new country/story arc.
I’m currently playing the first Ace Attorney trilogy and enjoying it. I’m replaying AA1 after many years and can’t wait to play the other games in the trilogy. I’m on the final case of AA1 and will try to finish it tonight.
My partner and I got into Diablo IV on Xbox because it is on game pass and can be played split screen. Probably more of that and trying out the Hexcraft server later
Yes, Your Grace.
The name made me fearful that this game would be cringe. However, the trailer assured me that it would be awesome. It’s very story-driven, and while the narrative is pretty set on rails/linear you do have “importance” of choices when it comes to resource management.
The game has a lot of great humor and music throughout. It even will K.O. punch you right in the feels.
The game also “respects your time” which is great these days…
Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES. It’s good, folks. I don’t want to hype it up too much, but I’m pretty stoked for it. It has a lot of cool systems, some of which are pretty different from other total wars, like the resource system. From a technical standpoint, it runs buttery smooth, with large battles hitting over 100 FPS.
Plus I consider the Bronze Age just a super underused setting. I legit think this could become a top 3 historical total war for me.
Big Total War fan? I’d be interested to know how it compares to Warhammer 3 and 3K. I played a ton of Warhammer 2, Shogun 2, and Attila but kind of fell off when they killed 3K early (rip my baby) and started milking the WH3 DLC super hard.
I would say im a big Total War fan. My favorite historical Total War game is Attila, though the only thing I disliked about Attila was the performance.
Now, the truth is, I don’t want to recommend Pharaoh Dynasties just (YET) because I’ve only played it for a couple of hours. However, everything I’ve seen, heard, and read so far looks amazing. Keep in mind the game is very infantry-focused, but the infantry feels quite varied. Battles seem more fluid to me than in Total Warhammer, and movement and positioning feel more important. While Warhammers combat offers a wider range of options, Pharaoh feels deeper—like how rain can create mud that slows down troops. There are loads of weather and terrain interactions, and characters can die in combat or from old age.
Pharaoh also has a lot more systems and mechanics than Rome 2 or Shogun. You actually have to trade extensively with other factions to get the most out of the resource system. It’s also the most adaptable Total War game to date, with tons of pre-game options such as Ironman mode, the rate at which years pass, and lethality settings. In my opinion, Pharaoh is also harder than Total Warhammer 3 (and I’ve played Warhammer 3 on Legendary from time to time).
Take some of these observations with a grain of salt but I think Creative Assembly really cooked with Pharaoh Dynasties.
I will make a thread about Pharaoh Dynasties after I played it for one or two full campaigns.
If you have any questions feel free to ask
That all sounds great. 3K was my favorite because of the setting (it was really surreal to see Three Kingdoms memes on the English speaking internet), but Attila is a close second because of things like the family trees. The slow pace and more stuff happening outside of battles made it more personal. I like Warhammer a lot too, but like, I’m not gonna empathize with my orc warboss. I couldn’t care less if he dies on an emotional level. So having stuff like trade and diplomacy be important, which it was in 3K also, is a huge benefit. I’ve been hearing the positive buzz about it too but was skeptical because of how CA has been these last few years and because of how Pharaoh was received on launch, so I’ll probably look into Pharaoh as my gateway before they launch 3K2 (eventually… )
Victoria 3, finished my Japan playthrough and started a Prussia->Germany playthrough to try for the Hegemony goals achievement. While I wasn’t paying attention, Great Britain has conquered Vietnam before 1880, and now they’re trying to protectorate Egypt which seems… a bit much. Heavenly Kingdom shattered Qing so I’ve been going in and picking up some of the smaller countries as protectorates to get ready for the “control 40% of the world’s population” goals. Might try to grab some GB stuff by joining in the Egypt war, idk.
My economy is so bad lmao -300k, way into the red, but interest is only like -5k so who cares, build more fuckin’ iron mines.
L4d2 I had this game in my library for way too long and I couldn’t get into the multiplayer modes Turns out it’s still enjoyable single player
Last night I drank a bit to much beer and went on a bit of a gaming binge, played about an hour of Stardew, fifteen minutes of Brigador, half an hour of Workers and Resources and then did one Hades run. Overall pretty fun night but I hit the hay a little late and woke up mildly hungover.
Incredibly impressed that you can play Workers and Resources for only half an hour at a time.
My Republic is pretty built out at this point, so now I’m mostly tweaking things, like trying to produce more goods for export to pay off a loan I took from the Soviet Bloc.
I find the real time sink is when you get things started, once you got a decent layout for the main industry trees you can kind of let things run for a bit.
Edit: also fyi I’m playing on a pretty easy mode.
BRIGADOR MENTIONED
Fucking love that game, its a hidden gem of a title!
