I totally forgot to post this last week and didn't remember until middle of the week. Anyway I've been playing the Binding of Isaac but I am at my parents house for the holidays so I've not been Gaming the past couple days. Happy Holidays everyone 🫡
Almost done Halls of Torment, and picked up the Brotato DLC and Vampire Survivors Castlevania DLC so I'm set for when that's done.
Also did a test of my wargame rules for my an upcoming TTRPG campaign in TTS and it went pretty well!
I think I might be getting into a boomer shooter mood. Right now I'm playing Prodeus again and I just love this stupid game. I play on easiest mode so I can turn my brain off and just mow down baddies. It's really becoming a comfort game to me lol.
I also redownloaded a few others I'm hoping to get to. I never gave Forgive Me Father 2 a real chance so I think that might be next up unless I grab something on the Steam sale. Right now my cart, after adjusting some, has Selaco, Dusk, Cultic, and Amid Evil. Still waffling over what to get. I really can't afford a lot and Selcao on there being $18 really weighs down the cart page. Been looking up reviews by G@mers on reddit trying to help me decide.
I also have the Blood and Powersl*ve remasters on my radar but I think I'm after something a bit more modern for now.
E: went with Selaco, Dusk, Cultic, and Amid Evil.
I've first played The Indigo Parallel these past few days, I've now got around 3h in it. It's a pretty stange game, it feels a bit like it wants to be random for random's sake but it still somehow has a kind of plot, and regardless of whether of not the randomness feels forced I still enjoy it. Some of the bits are pretty funny.
Very minor spoiler, not plot-related
The part when the voices in your head say "hehehe Petah" is peak comedy.
currently started playing Ys: Memories of Celceta, now that I beat Ys X: Nordics. it's the next Ys game chronologically.
asides from Ys 2, you can play any of the Ys games in however order you like, but I decided to follow a chronological order... mostly. after I beat Felghana (next chronological game after Celceta), I'm going to play in my own order: SEVEN, VI: Naphistim, V: Kefin. Then I'll move onto the more darker/emotionally charged Ys games like VIII: Lacrimosa and IX: Monstrum.
anyway, Celceta's nice, just as Nordics was nice. might play another game alongside Celceta, who knows. i might start one of the Atelier games i got lying around, or continue playing this typing adventure game called Nanotale at least until I can find a save point. fucking hell, games should come with fromsoftware's "the game will resume where you left off" philosophy, or let you save pretty much whenever you want like the Ys games do.
Ys X and Celceta are great, but Seven is definitely going to feel rough after those, and VI after Felghana too. V is just bad.
it's fine, i think i'll be able to handle them.
did you play the games? /genq, nm
I've played every Ys game in some form and also finished most of them. VI I couldn't finish because the dash jump maneuver was so annoying and mandatory to play the game, thankfully Felghana has a regular double jump. V is infamously a piss easy game, so it wouldn't have been too much effort to finish it, I just found the art style terrible and the combat too boring to continue. I got annoyed at some boss fight in the PC Engine IV: Dawn of Ys and stopped playing, but Celceta is now the canonical IV anyway. Still working on X, but I'm loving it so far.
VIII is by far my favorite in the series, probably followed by Celceta or X, Origin and I&II. I think most entries are at least worth playing.
V Rising, at least when I can get people to play with me, and doing some coop Sniper Elite 4 which was just on sale for like $6
Silent Hill 2. It's my first playthrough and I am absolutely losing my mind trying to figure out what's real and what's in my head. Also, abstract daddy is terrifying.
Trying to stay motivated to finish Final Fantasy 6, I'm really loving it but my brain is ready to move on to something else. Otherwise I've been playing a bit of the full release of Halls of Torment. I gave Dungeons of Blood and Dream a try, it's got a cool aesthetic but I don't know if this one is for me. The game itself didn't really hook me, plus the controller support isn't great and playing on m/kb was hurting my hands. I tried Balatro too, it's pretty fun. I think I was expecting more because so many people were talking about how amazing it is.
Friend came over so we played more Silent Hill 3 (like 1/2 through now maybe?) and then we started Metal Gear Solid Integral and did the first 2 bosses. MGS1's kinda' janky, honestly, but outside that it's super good. I really like it.
On my own I'm playing Captain Toad Treasure Tracker on the Nintendo Switch (hacked) since I never played the Switch-exclusive levels and that Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics thing Nintendo also did. Which is actually a cool way to introduce someone to a bunch of board/dice/card games. Never played Hanafuda before (could probably dig it if the cards were marked more visibly like standard playing cards). Mancala is really fun, might actually get a physical board of that sometime soon.
Wanna' finish Far: Changing Tides and the Elden Ring DLC which I recently got back into at some point after stalling out since October.
Beat all decks on Gold difficulty finally for Balatro. The Black and Nebula decks were the last two and took a lot of tries. Now it's on to beating each challenge and getting Gold on all jokers.
Started Dragon Age 2. It's immediately apparent that it was lower budget and lower quality than the first game, which I completed all 100+ hours of after all the DLC a while back. But I'm still having fun. I never played it because of the negative reviews around its release, but I've been done listening to gamers for a long time. They don't actually read anything but RPG quest text and Twitter posts, so they can't tell good writing from a dollar store novel. And too many of the opinions about these games revolve around character sexuality.
I'm here for the rock armor and pretending I'm an earthbender while I shoot stone fists at people. Working my way up to Veilguard because I tried to start it and was already lost at the descriptions of all the character backgrounds and choices that depend on what you did in Inquisition.
So close to 100%ing Unicorn Overlord. It's kinda fun but gets pretty same-y 2/3 of the way through. Fun overworld to run around on and quests. Battles can be skipped so that's nice too!
After weeks of back and forth procrastination, I've finally started Path of Exile 2. I've finally got my witch to where I can melt down mobs. Still in Act 1 normal mode, but at least I'm not rage quitting after my 50th death. Now I die only 4 or 5 times in a zone.
I started a trans and nb poker game and we are getting together on xmas eve, 7-8 of us will be there!
It's mostly been teaching oriented so we have played 5 and 7 card draw, hold 'em, pineapple, crazy pineapple and a little bit of low ball. Showing them Omaha and maybe Razz this week.
One of my 'students' cleaned up at her office christmas party where they had a poker game for raffle tickets!
I've been playing a lot of Half Life 2. That shit is so awesome. I absolutely have fallen in love with it. Played it for the first time at the beginning of this month, beat it a while ago, and about to move onto HL2: Episode 1.
Definitely get black mesa source too. It's HL:1 completely remade in the source engine and it slaps.
In source? I thought it was an unreal or unity project
It's amazing how good Source still looks 20 years later. Most of the work is done by just having nice textures. Shame we will never get HL3.
