“Norman’s Sky, I wish I knew how to quit you.”
I’m currently reading Hugo-nominated Chuck Tingle’s Pounded in the Ass by the Undying Emperor, aka WH3K Inquisition. What a great, overlooked ARPG this is.
Kelan
6504
9th Dawn III has caught all of my gaming attention this weekend, other than the few times I pop into ARK to feed my dinos and hatch my new super dinos!
I’ve been playing No Man’s Sky (PC VR), and progressing some sories in 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (PS4).
Today I feel I should kill myself a few times in Spelunky 2 (PC) as well. But now I find myself installing Assassin’s Creed: Unity for a look. Had it for an age, never played it.
After the mainstreaming and mainlining of the AC: Origins & Odyssey games, I can’t go back to the clunkiness of the earlier games. I tried, actually, the way you are here with Unity and I lastest about 30 minutes. Blech. And, I mean, I liked the Ezio games, too.
You’ll probably end up playing Hades then too!
I prefer Dead Cells animation and combat but I got tired of it much sooner than Hades, which is more like comfort food.
I suspect I’ll be the same, as I prefer the modern gameplay. But I wanted to check out the art and the bigger crowds. And at least say I tried it, though I think I got it real cheap, or even free. It was long ago. :P
geewhiz
6510
BG3
Solitaire Conspiracy
Troubleshooter Abandoned Children
Phoenix Point
I had a lot of vacation left so I took off every Monday to the end of the year. A lot of long weekends! And my wife is visiting her aunt this weekend = a bunch of gaming and reading.
A mix of Spelunky 2 (trying to overcome my terribleness at it), Vaporum: Lockdown (one of those “I don’t want this to end” kind of games), Pathfinder: Kingmaker (I wish they’d fix the bug with the combat music), and The Falconeer (beta build with only a few missions, but I want it so much).
Razgon
6512
I’ve had surgery this friday, so cant lift anything, and have to use the big screen only, since I cant move my laptop to my…lap.
Since I have a weeks sickleave, I decided to try out Final Fantasy 14 again, and its very fun! Only level 20 so far, Arcanist, but its really great, and works quite well with controller.
Playing Battletech story campaign mostly. Ended up doing a lengthy Sea of Thieves session. A friend was streaming it so here’s our epic 2 on 1 battle with a galleon that jumped us!
Excellent, I did buy Hades! So looking forward to that then. I haven’t gotten bored of dead cells yet! ;-)
Well, this seems to be humans vs machines weekend for me. Watched the full three hours of the Battlestar Galactica 2003 miniseries I have in DVD (and it’s even better than I remembered; soooo good), and played a bit of Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock. Also played a good bit of Horizon: Zero Dawn.
I might close the day with a bit of AI War 2 for good measure. It makes sense to do so. ;)
Went as expected. Played Crusader Kings 3 until I got frustrated at the AI in combat and bugs. Then switched to Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord to enjoy the combat, until I got bored with no story yet.
Tried some No Man’s Sky again, and realized I really want a new graphics card. Just rebuilt PC (it was 5-6 yrs old and died) this year but kept the old graphics card. I have saved for it, but the new card I want is on backorder. I really want to see the new stuff with the settings turned back up though.
Played some Starters Orders 7 until I remembers that save was to test a bug, which popped back up. And is not patched yet.
Nesrie
6517
Crusader Kings 3
Rogue Heroes - Demo
Red Solstices 2 - Demo
Tried TW2, but umm because I share my library with my young nephew so they can just test games out with the 6 year old, apparently they can’t do free weekends without turning that off which is… dumb, and a known issue
Shadow Empire remains the main time sink. What a joy, as / once you learn it’s systems. I’ve got the economics figured out decently, but am woefully remedial on combat, so there is still much to master. And I’m still on the easier settings, look forward to increasing the difficulty and see how that changes the dynamics.
The Wolf Among Us remains a good palate cleanser, 20 minutes at a time.
I ended up playing a ton of Star Fleet II on my phone after installing Magic DOSBox. I’m not addicted. Nope.
CraigM
6520
Yessss!
How far are you? Hop on over to the game thread perhaps and discuss, its one of my favorite recent games, perhaps my favorite game to come out since EU IV.
I finished Battletech’s story finally. Dove straight into Yakuza 0, which is very story heavy so far. The combat is entertaining though. Hoping the world opens up soon.
