Alstein
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Doing crossplay was a smart move, it’s going to give the game some more life. It’s going to suffer hard from all the post EVO content though (SF getting 3 new chars even if they play just like every other boring SF5 character, SC getting Cassie+S2, and Tekken getting new stuff soon)
SF and SC are the easiest to get into traditional fighters so they’d eat into Fantasy Strike a bit more. (I remember discussing SC6’s system with Sirlin at PAX South, he was pretty accurate on how most of the game turned out, though he ended up too negative, SC6 is great)
Alas, not till after next weekend, the 13th. Well, assuming you were referring to the upcoming RG: Outlaw.
Speaking of the previous game, though, that’s what I played, and actually advanced the plot a bit.
I am not sure what happened Sunday night, but I ended up re-installing GTA5, and apparently I am near the end of the game (its been at least 2 years since I last played) and I will probably finish it this month!
:D
Turns out Shadow of War is really good - it takes everything that was great about Shadow of Mordor, refines it, then adds a quasi-strategic orc management and fortress assault/defense layer on top of it. I’m really digging it.
Yeah, SoW is pretty great. It’s just the end game that starts to be hella grindy, if you want to see the “real ending”. The devs patched away the worst of the grind, but it’s still there.
Yeah, I may wear out on it before the end, but I’m certainly enjoying the hell out of it right now.
You’ll know when you hit the grindy part. The game up until then is plenty long and really great, and does have an ending that I could live with (and then go on youtube to see the end if I had wanted to grind it out.)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
and dip back into Final Fantasy XIV for a bit while they have 5 days free for returning players.
Otagan
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Metal Wolf Chaos XD, in which I will prove once again that, yes, the sword is still mightier than the pen!
schurem
4806
Xcom2, once the kids are asleep. Scary aliens be scary.
The strangely absorbing Fire Emblem, to chill out after intense sessions of Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, the game that never stops surprising and giving!
I’m playing “attending my nephew’s Bar-Mitzvah in San Francisco*” today and traveling back tomorrow evening. Luckily I have a Decompression Monday scheduled for when I get back to Portland.
*ironically my brother, despite he and his wife being relatively prosperous and living in the Bay Area, has the shittiest internet imaginable. It’s basically DSL speed, at least the WiFi.
Limited free time this weekend due to work, but I hope to squeeze in more playtime with this gem:
Someone has to deliver the mail!
Probably a good bit of Age of Wonders: Planetfall, but likely something else too. Still deciding what though.
robc04
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I’ll probably play another skirmish game of Age of Wonders: Planetfall. It’s been a while since I made some progress on God of War, which is really good, so maybe I’ll play some of that too.
kerzain
4812
I’ve been playing this all week to keep my appetite for Fire Emblem Three Houses sated. There’s a ton of games that just released, and I don’t want to blow hundreds of dollars, so I’ve been tricking myself into thinking I’m playing the newest entry by replaying older entries. So far this is only sort of working.
This is an open world RPG that I just picked up on sale. Normally a $60 game, it was half off recently in the Nintendo eShop, and I had another $8 in reward coins sitting around from a couple recent purchases I made with the Nintendo Online vouchers, so in the end I spent about $22 on this game. The game feels janky as hell, it’s super pixelated, and feels like a game made for a portable system instead of a dedicated TV Console like my Switch which remains docked 100% of the time, but so far it seems okay. I expect things to flesh out more as I progress.
Right now the biggest issue with the game is that it has fishing.
Age of Wonders III: Halflings Forever (Steam)
I’ve been trying to keep myself from buying Age of Wonders: Planetfall until any potential release technical and balance issues are ironed out. Plus I’ve been caught in indecision between buying an Xbox One or PC version, and honestly if i didn’t have to make such a choice I would have purchased Planetfall already. But in the meantime, I’ll be playing the best Age of Wonders race ever (Halflings, duh), which isn’t yet available in Planetfall.
I got my first taste of GOG Galaxy 2.0’s playtime tracking this weekend. 14 hours, 19 minutes of Red Alert 2, a game I haven’t played since I was maybe 6 years old. I don’t remember the last game I struggled to pull myself away from like this. It can be a little hard to select one specific type of unit e.g. tanks if they’re standing mixed with other units, but that’s only a problem until you assign control groups. Other than that, losing the ant-sized hero-unit in a fight and insta-failing the mission is pretty lame, but maybe I shouldn’t be playing at 1080p. The missions rely a little too much on limiting what you can build or giving you just a few overpowered units to shepherd around. Hope the expansion has more scenarios that just let me turtle and slowly blob my way around the map, but clearly enjoying myself.
Otagan
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You might want skirmish for turtling and blobbing, since I think most of the missions in the expansion were rather gimmicky in nature.
