My corporate overlords decided I get some vacation during this time of year, it being the holidays and all that. With some free days on my hands I'm planning to mess around with a couple games.
First up is Millennia a 4X game kinda like Civ. The twist is there are different ages that go off the rails from real history—so you can get a steampunk age or one where aliens invade and stuff like that. I barely touched it when it came out but now, after 7 updates, I figure I will give it a proper try.
Then theres Songs of Conquest, an indie game with amazing pixel art that’s sorta like the old Heroes of Might and Magic games- I might play this with a friend early next year as well.
EDIT: OK im feeling a bit tired so Im just gonna play my current Crusader Kings 3 save till I go 2 bed. Happy Holidays everyone
What are the fine folks on Hexbear playing 
I picked up Frostpunk 2 and its cool. I just rounded up a faction of fascists and deported them to go work in a coal mine outpost.
FUCK. You make me feel like I need to go and play it right now but I already have so many games
Inkulinati! I'm going to pick up other stuff from sales (probably) but I got Inkulinati and Tactical Breach Wizards.
My partner and I picked up Mouthwashing and played through it over two days. Absolutely loved it, would heavily recommend. Great indie shorter game with excellent visuals, a great story, and phenomenal sound design.
We’re currently progressing through all of the storylines in Class of ‘09: The Re-Up. Edgy early 00s /b/ style humor. Very funny. Might not be for everyone—look up “class of 09 the anime” on the Tube and if you like that, you’ll like the games.
When we’re not playing together, I’m going through the Elden Ring expansion. It is extremely hard but I love it. I was able to beat the first boss on my first try, and the fight was INCREDIBLY well-designed. Loved the monster, loved the music, loved the style… so good. Heart rate when I beat it was 170.
im a certified SEGA gamer, going through Persona 3R and the entire Yakuza series.
I just picked up a little indie game called Dungeons of Hinterburg. So far, it's pretty neat! Got some of that Persona/Stardew social stuff along with 3D zelda (pre-BOTW) dungeons and puzzles. The combat isn't great, but the vibes of the game are interesting and I'm having a really good time with it. The story seems like it might go some interesting places with this town getting exploited by a tourism industry.
Binding BLAAAAAADE (Roy's Departure starts playing).
Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
dwarf fortress, at work, on the company's dime 😎 make me come in on a holiday, I'm gonna milk it for all its worth!
Picked it back up, putting a few minutes into a new fortress every time my baby goes down for a ☼nap☼ over here
Playing a cozy old self modded v44.12
Surprising myself with how much menu diving is muscle memory
i was four years clean of world of warcraft...
i have spent the holidays playing world of warcraft
Do you not get tired of playing the same game for years or do you really not have a choice like in other addictions?
I played it until Wrath came out and then stopped. I tried playing it again a couple years ago and it just seemed so damn boring to go through all of it again. I also have a friend that has never stopped playing, I don't know how you can do it.
eh, they update things often enough that it doesn't get stale to me and i was never actually much good anyway, so its not like i see endgame content enough to get tired of it. tbh i'm a little disquieted by how much things have changed in the past 2/3 expansions that i missed, but i get that thats just me being a boomer.
having played wow (sometimes obsessively) for 15 fucking years from launch when i was 6 years old, azeroth just feels like home to me. its a comfort and anxiety thing i guess. i hear the stormwind or teldrassil ambient music and i could fucking cry. i have no idea whether its a healthy coping mechanism, but being able to go to azeroth (nice, i know whats going on, people like me) after a day of real life (terrifying and depressing) is what got me through school and my home situation. a video game thats designed so that people can comfortably spend 12 hours a day in it doesn't necessarily have to be good, it just has to be better than the alternative of dealing with real life. very comfort blanket vibes ig, and i probably should have outgrown it. after covid isolation i thought i had outgrown it but evidently not
I’m this way with XIV. I think it’s more common than not. In real life I have to confront unmasked faces every day in the middle of a once in a lifetime pandemic, massive -isms from everyone around me at all times without end, a world that does not give a shit if I live or die or get to work in time (or at all for that matter), and somehow even further alienation from living in the only place affordable to me: rent controlled housing in a way-the-fuck-out-there suburb with a once an hour bus schedule to get anywhere. Life fucking sucks for a lot of people and even having a support network or a decent org or whatever else doesn't really change that for me — hell a lot of the time they’re just as much a part of the problems, too, with the way things are in this stupid country. It is nice to have this thing that I can return to however frequently or infrequently I want and get lost in an evocative and equally-alive otherworld where at least people aren’t champing at the bit to hate crime me or give me the fucking pox for walking to the grocery store or, even worse, daring to suggest the real world be a little bit different. It is 100% a comfort thing to me, too. I get it. And every now and then new stuff comes along and once every few years a bunch of new stuff comes along and all it takes is spending 15 bucks a month and maybe 30-40 bucks every two years, which is somehow still so, so much cheaper than trying to keep up with the rest of modern gaming.
unironically yes. its comforting to be able to log on to a world i understand after each day of staying with family and having to endure the loud, non-optional festive bullshit. i just also know that i probably shouldn't be giving activision money and i should go outside or something instead of being a terminal G*mer again
There's a lot of things way worse to do than give them a bit of cash in exchange for a comfortable moment in an uncomfortable time
I'm glad you were able to have that <3
I'm 4 years in my relapse of Wow, exclusively classic with a bunch of nice folks, kinda wholesome too because we used to have a trans guild lead and everyone was fine with it.
I have up and downs with how much time I spend on it on a weekly basis.
Fractal Block world is sick as hell
fractal based world geometry with the main mechanic being growing or shrinking by a factor of 16x
you start in the tutorial rooms and then shortly after it has you grow a couple times and it turns out the whole tutorial area was a few tiny boxes in this other tutorial room.
Then you realize the corner of your screen says level 28 now when it used to say level 30, which means the box you're in NOW is ALSO a tiny little room inside another tiny little room on an insignificant speck inside an insignificant speck on the edge of a mote of dust in the middle of nothing, and you can keep going deeper yet! (or you can also get BIGGER and see what's that way (its wild))
Most areas are recursive and interlinked between eachother in a fascinating way that feels like getting sucked down into infinity (there are also amazing areas like the Menger Sponge fractal you can just explore around and have fun!
I recommend everyone who sees this post buy it and play it if you have the means, it could run on a potato and is currently on sale for like 4 bucks on steam
amazing, fascinating game that I can't get enough of conceptually.
Its rough around the edges combat wise, so I recommend you just play on tranquility mode so you don't have to fight or grind mazes to level up(unless you like that kind of thing like I do in which case watch out this could eat your life lol), you can just explore this amazing and bizarre world
give it a look
Isshin and Gael are the two most
bossfights in all of gaming
I won a run of modded FTL earlier today
Building a new PC with the help of my friend tomorrow after work. Gonna play the Half Sword playtest and probably torrent cyberpunk first lol
Baldurs gate 3, just got to a choice to join the mind flayers and I'm really torn as to what to do. Also walkabout mini golf and jaws pinball in VR
Armored Core VI is so fucking good
This and Sekiro has me convinced Fromsoft needs to stop making Soulslikes and needs to branch out like this instead
I too am playing binging ac6 atm, it really captures fast anime mech fighting in video game form perfectly and as always the art direction is flawless.
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Then theres Songs of Conquest, an indie game with amazing pixel art that’s sorta like the old Heroes of Might and Magic games- I might play this with a friend early next year as well.
Huh i played this but while game itself is actually quite good, i think the pixel art is horrible, both shapes and colours are blurry and i can't even understand what i see for quite a lot of times. I seen a lot of bad pixel art (and some good) in last few years but this one is one of the worst ones.
I could probably link a dozen games with (in my opinion worse pixel art). I myself like it quite a bit and have 0 problem discerning what Im seeing, but thats the thing with art—highly subjective.
