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Revisiting Sekiro. I thought my skills would have waned over time but I picked it up after years of not playing, and I've still got it. 3 attempts max on each boss, most were first try. I just defeated the
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Corrupt Monk. No sign of slowing down!
The only game I have been playing is The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on my 3DS.
Hades (finally got out after 22 runs), Silent Hill 2 Remake (I didn't remember there was a boss literally shaped like child rape), and some Expedition 33 (love it, but it's a JRPG to a fault, including cursed platforming sections).
I have been spending a bit of time enjoying the Nords in Race Room Racing Experience, the game is a lot of fun and really enjoying their new ranked races.
I have also spent some time in Le Mans Ultimate, but have had a bad time since the last update, which had been turning me off it. Turns out the update broke something so it no longer matched the driver for wheel rotation, and manually setting the has fixed everything. Bring on the 6hrs of Monza this weekend.
The Finals has been my go to multiplayer game and is amazing fun. Love the 3v3v3v3 capture and hold with all the destruction.
I also picked up Escape from Duckov in the sale, that has been a lot of fun and has been very satisfying to chill out with after racing or a few rounds of the finals.
As much as I absolutely hate the game, the open beta of Oaken Tower has been a game I find myself coming back to. It doesn't make me nearly as angry as when I first started playing the beta demo thing, but it's still enough to make me hate it just enough I keep coming back.
Completely different story for the KilaFlow demo, which has been real fun running and platforming at high speed, avoiding the viruses when possible. Great for not making me want to reach into the screen and strangle the game to death, all metaphorically. Too bad my desktop cannot run the demo all too well and I need my deck to do play it.
Outer Wilds has completely absorbed me. I went in knowing absolutely nothing about the game and am so glad I did!
Once you finish the standard game and DLC, check out the mods. There have been annual game jams that do add some stories.
I wish my computer could run this game. On my short list of games I know I'll love.
Runs fine on the Steam Deck, just sayin’. 😁
I also went into the game blind, but the anxiety inducing loop I did not enjoy at all. I may give it another try some day.
I caved and picked up Clair Obscur. It's a genre that I'm really not a fan of, but it's just so exceptionally well made that I'm thoroughly enjoying it anyway.
Aongside that, I've been playing Rogue Trader at last, after my wife has been bugging me to play it for over a year. It's very, very good. Probably one of the best RPGs I've ever played. The degree to which your narrative choices matter is phenomenal. There are scenes in the tutorial that define the entire game. And it nails the setting.
Lastly, I picked up a founders pack for Soulframe. The only bad decision anyone made when working on this game was calling it Soulframe - it is in absolutely no way the "Fantasy Warframe" people are imagining. The designers say their big inspiration was Dragons Dogma. For me, I'd say the gameplay has a lot of the feel of Breath of the Wild. The combat is exceptionally tight. Easily one of the best combat systems I've ever played. There's not a huge amount to do yet, but it's early access, that's understandable, and I think they absolutely made the right choice in nailing the feel of the game before worrying about how much of it there is.
Finally diving into Octopath Traveler 2.
Also played some good old Team Fortress 2.
Haven't played yet but soon probably some hilarious lobbies of Lethal Company
Guild wars reforged. I was thinking of firing up the old cd roms and then I saw the whole thing was re-released on steam. Been giving it a go - has held up well over 20 years.
I should log on and see if my old Mesmer/Necromancer is still there. I can't think of a single other game where you could build purely around debuffs and have it be fun to play and completely viable in both PvP and PvE.
Doing a new fallout 4 run. Been a couple years since I played.
Giving WorldWide Rush a solid go.
Divinity Original Sin 2. I had this in my library for a while since i played BG3 and loved it. DOS is good too but way more difficult and the story is a bit weaker. Still a great game though.
Still wakes the deep. I love a good horror game and this one scratches the itch. The ambiance is great and the oil rig feels like a real place.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Playing the new DLC trying to cure a plague. Not as good as the other two dlcs but still good because more Henry is always good.
divinity original sin 2: definitive edition(I have to say the full thing every time, so it annoys my partner.)
diddy kong racing (craving chunky bright colored polygons, and racist charicatures flying on carpets gifting golden balloons)
and super mario world. (mandatory)
WoW Classic and Megabonk - both on the Steam Deck - have been a great holiday time sink.
Ball X Pit. Just bouncing my baby balls all over the place is the best.
I expedited 33 obscur clairs (damn, the new area is awesome), rescued some Yoshi eggs in Super Mario World and am now triggering all chronos I can find.
I also played expedition 33 and my god man, I need to talk about it. What a mind fuck and depressing game. It's beautiful and written well, but with dark themes and I came away not sure what to do after finishing it.
I was technically driving trains too, as I was playing The Trolley Solution.
Finishing old games for me:
I've been playing mega bonk. It's very addicting and fun
Same, it's a nice expansion on the vampire survivors formula
Background: I've never been a fan of the original Devil May Cry trilogy. I think they're foundational to what's probably my favorite genre, but as with a lot of foundational games, what came later surpassed them in most aspects.
What I'm doing this break: replaying through the trilogy in release order to see if I still hold the same opinion. I finished DMC1 and I'm halfway through DMC2 RN, and yup, I still hold the same opinion so far. Immense respect for the ideas this trilogy introduced, but I don't care what kind of nostalgia glue fans are huffing, there's a reason even Kamiya and Itsuno moved on from fixed cameras, for example.
They're fun games, but I would rather be replaying Bayonetta, DMC4 or 5, Assault Spy, or even Hi-Fi Rush. I enjoy the breadth and freedom all these descendants offer.
Been playing kerbal space program on my steam deck. By playing I mean spending all my time editing the controller layout. So far I have an assembling layout, a flying layout, and a i just need to be able to push any letter or number sometimes and the virtual keyboard pops up in the background and dismisses itself if I try to switch to it layout which is radial menus of all the keys. I can switch back and forth between these with action sets. Steam input is kind of amazing tbh. Maybe I'll try to do a mission eventually, just gotta tweak my controller setup a bit more.
Factorio Minecraft and rimworld
But that's been the same for last few years so shrugs
Been playing Vintage Story with my brother. Need to find some iron, and bees.
You all have enough time to play such a variety of games you can pick three best? Damn. I played one game. And it was a mobile one... :(
Been fucking around with pals in Palworld again. Also trying to get matching free time with a friend so we can play Space Marine 2
Got expedition 33 running on the steam deck (with some amount of tweaking to make it run smooth - valve should not be marking that game as verified) and it has absorbed every moment of free time I have. Fully understand the hype now. Apart from that, Outer Wilds had been sitting in my library since the summer sale untouched and I've finally gotten into it, and Dispatch was really fun and beautifully animated.
I've spent way too much time on Cloverpit this week. And a little bit of Paper Mario TTYD on Switch - finally getting around to playing the remake of one of my all time favorite games.
I only played one game, but it has been great: Tunic.
haven't played any games in months. too busy and too tired.
I've been burning through some Gamepass offerings that I've passed over.
The Wolf Among Us is a fun Telltale game.
Superliminal is a good mindfuck puzzle game. There were a few times that it took me a while to find the key to the puzzle, but I never felt "stumped" throughout the game.
and I'm a few hours into Monster Sanctuary which is essentially Pokemon in a classic Metroid map. Having fun so far and planning on sticking with it for a while.
Yugioh legacy of the duelist is about all I’ve played for like the last month
Skate story has been great, playing it a chapter at a time has been really nice.
I got a bunch of games on sale on Steam but I got sucked into a replay of the Nonary games. It's been long enough that I've forgotten most of the puzzles.
Got Megabonk working on my Retroid, and can’t stop playing it. I thought I would try getting some other games going, but I just play Megabonk instead.
Got back into arc raiders just in time to do the expedition, and close to finishing the flickering flames project
I finally finished Metal Gear Solid 4 (❤️!). I played a bit of Helldivers 2 with friends. And I'm still working on my first playthrough of Tomb Raider 2 on my Anbernic handheld as my couch game.