So most threads are about a particular game and peter out after a few or a dozen posts, including my own.
So I thought it would be nice if there was a spot where you can talk about games in general, what are you currently playing? What's your favorite game you played last year? What game are you excited for? Does your cat sleep on the keyboard? All relevant.
I personally have been playing Assassins Creed Valhalla (for the a viking) and have been getting back into Expedition 33 since they added the free expansion, which is pretty out there, even for Expedition 33 standards.
Blue Prince- I hate puzzle games but I love Blue Prince. That said it is just as easy to get burnt out on it as it is to burn 4 hours playing it.
One game I've been playing recently is Assassin's Creed Valhalla, I got it pretty cheap with all the DLCs.
It's a pretty fun viking game! Long as f++*, but fun.
It's pretty interesting because right before I started it I'd also started listening to a bunch of history podcasts diving into the Ragnarson invasion of Britain (which the game is loosely based on) so it's pretty fun recognizing the names and places.
Games I plan on actually playing this year are only Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3.
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I've been digging into a few games this year.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is really fun, with buckets of fantasy pirate flavour.
Dredge: A relaxing fishing game, with an undercurrent of lovecraftian horror that runs through it to add some tension.
Replaying L.A. Noire, just because I've been on a bit of a detective game kick and Steam had it on sale for like $5
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Dredge is pretty fun! Not too far into it yet.
I finished the main story of Assassins Creed Valhalla, overall it is very fun, but entirely too long but not as obnoxiously long as Odyssey. That said, I did like the ending, even though I picked up on it fairly early on.
Overall it was a fun game and I loved the historical name drops as a history nerd.
I recommend it, but only if you like kinda grindy open worlds.
If you're a fan of Assassins Creed games then I do not recommend as that whole part of the game made absolutely zero sense and could have easily been excised completely from the game.
New game: Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2 (on Game Pass).
I've also gotten the first season of Fallout on DVD, I'm two episodes in and so far I LOVE the fan service, not just the main stuff like power armor and ghouls and all that but the tiny environmental details like the wind blowing through the container sounds or the various things littering the ground like it would in the game.
That said, I'm only 2 episodes in so no spoilers! I like it so far though.
Yes, it is absolutely amazing! That said don't be afraid to play it on story mode until you get the parry timing down it's surprisingly hard.
That said, it is one of my 5 all time favorite games I can't recommend it enough.
I finished season 1 of Fallout. I absolutely loved it!
I don't have any criticism.
Yeah watching the TV show made me reinstall Fallout 4.
"There is a lot of old tech abandoned here! I'll have to tag it so the brotherhood can pillage it after we're done here" - Paladin Danse, as I'm cramming absolutely everything into my backpack.
After countless hours over however many years I've finally discovered Curie, who is now a synth and pillaged Groknak's Axe from Hubris Comics herself so I let her keep it.
I've also been replaying Fallout 4, in part inspired by the Fallout TV show, which I adore (second season is just as good IMO!). I was going to post to your old Fallout thread but I forgot the thing I was going to say in it. I've been mostly dying a lot in a slightly modded survival mode. I decided to base my character on Scarlet Lake from Alpha Protocol since she's also voiced by Courtenay Taylor and it amuses me.
Also been playing Stardew Valley on my phone.
Theoretically Avowed is getting a massive update tomorrow so I might try a replay or a new game + of that soon. That was truly a really good and highly underrated and underhyped game.
ETA: And holy s%~% I just learned I somehow entirely missed the Outer Worlds 2 coming out last October. So that's a thing I'm gonna have to get. Though I might wait till the DLC comes out.
Outer Worlds 2 is pretty good! Not a fan of the progression system but whatever. I am a fan of them adding 3rd person and customizable prosthetics right out of the gate though and it's still a fun time, I just haven't really gotten to into yet.
I've tried Avowed a few times and I just don't like it.
Avowed has a slow and somewhat frustrating start. I do believe it's worth it to get past the first area; once you get into the main city it gets much better I'm excited about the update because they've added more player races among other things. (And that said, if it's not for you, it's not for you. But if you tried it early on release it has changed notably even prior to this update. Typical Obsidian, I adore them but you almost always need to wait at least 6 months after release to get the real game.)
Glad to hear OW2 has the 3rd person option, that will make it far more likely I will get it. I had to play the first one on handheld for no more than 2 hours at a time with frequent breaks.
Yeah i usually only play for an hour or two at a time.
Any news on a PF2e video game like Starfinder Afterlight?
Edit: amazing-looking game, by the way.
Yeah they've been putting the older Final Fantasy games on Game Pass so I'm going to try out 6.
I haven't played it, I started with 7 (which is actually the only one I've played).
I hope you enjoy it, Captain. Have you played it before?
The graphics were good for the day, but very dated now. The soundtrack is still great; I listen to it from time to time (along with others in the series).
Yeah, I remember playing Final Fantasy 6 back in the 1990s, and feeling that of all the many computer games I've ever played, FF6 had the best music.
I've been out of the computer game scene since Nintendo discontinued the 16-bit Super NES. (The only 21st-century computer game I ever bought was the 2007 game Portal, which is awesome.) But for decades I continued to hold that opinion about FF6's music, and I would sometimes listen to it while I worked. But lately, I've been surprised to find that I would more frequently choose the Chrono Trigger soundtrack instead. I played THAT game a lot in the 1990s as well. Now I'm starting to wonder if I should name THAT as having the greatest music of any computer game I played.
Well, I like ONE song from the Final Fantasy XV soundtrack, anyway: the Ifrit Boss theme.
I'm a big fan of both the Elden Ring and Expedition 33 soundtracks.
I haven't started FF6, been grinding through the playlists on Forza horizon 6, playing Far Cry 6, and trying to beat a stupid boss in (wait for it) Armored Core 6.
I beat Elden Ring for the 6th time so I just have the main boss for the DLC.
Also I'm now over 1,000 hours played.
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I am not sure why I just bought the remastered Oblivion because despite its reputation I never liked it all THAT much. But I never finished it and I always kind of wanted to. So here we are.
I've always liked the quests and look of Oblivion more than I did Skyrim, but I tried playing Oblivion after years of playing Skyrim, and the playstyle was just too... I feel like going back to Oblivion was regressing.
I did buy the Oblivion Remastered off of Steam, but I had to return it because my machine is too old to play it.
My main issue with Oblivion was always the enemy difficulty spikes at mid level.
And the Oblivion gates became a real grind.
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Agree on both counts. The game is infamous for the way players can abuse the Skills system to get absurdly high skills, but the flip-side to that is that unless you're paying attention, it's easy to get sub-optimal skills and fall behind in power level.
I've been hearing for years about the Skyblivion mod that will recreate Oblivion with Skyrim's engine. But I've also been hearing for quite a while that it's almost done, so we'll see.
What I like about Oblivion is the more varied environment (trees, terrain, weather, aesthetic of the cities) compared to Skyrim and the more complex quests. Skyrim has always felt like a dumbed down version of Oblivion. But like I said above, I tried to go back to it, and it just wasn't as fun.
Yeah, i tried playing Skyrim after playing Elden Ring and I just couldn't do it.
I will never understand why they made the shooting trigger the opposite of the talking trigger in Red Dead Redemption 2.
*crosses off another town he can never visit for... various reasons*
Also, you never realize how b*%&!*~ insane the beginning of Baldur's Gate 3 is until you have to write it down in your travel notes for work (with accompanying screenshots, of course).
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Agree on both counts. The game is infamous for the way players can abuse the Skills system to get absurdly high skills, but the flip-side to that is that unless you're paying attention, it's easy to get sub-optimal skills and fall behind in power level.
Yeah I'm likely to screw myself over by jumping around too much and over leveling Acrobatics.
I've been hearing for years about the Skyblivion mod that will recreate Oblivion with Skyrim's engine. But I've also been hearing for quite a while that it's almost done, so we'll see.
It's also IMO nearly pointless now that Oblivion remastered is out. Would it still be cool too see in the Skyrim engine? Sure. All the moreso if it was using the Skyrim leveling system, which I preferred, but I think they're not using that anyway. The devs seem to spend all their time on getting the a teeny tiny engraving right on the armor plates or whatever rather than making a game/mod that is finished and works, so while I used to be interested, I've pretty much given up on it. (Skywind I was also interested in, but also seems trapped in a hell held by people obsessed with pointless details instead of the big picture... I mean Bethesda went and added a ton of official Morrowind art assets for the Dragonborn DLC to work perfectly in the engine and look great, and the Skywind people are like "nah, we'll make our own." I think both projects are excuses for obsessive designers to have fun making s$** and neither are interested in finishing a game. I respect that THEY care that the Daedric armor looks exactly liked it looked in previous games. And that's their prerogative and I wish them the best of luck. But I'd rather have the already existing asset that came with the game and get on with things, so I'm not following their work anymore.)
What I like about Oblivion is the more varied environment (trees, terrain, weather, aesthetic of the cities) compared to Skyrim and the more complex quests. Skyrim has always felt like a dumbed down version of Oblivion. But like I said above, I tried to go back to it, and it just wasn't as fun.
I will say it is a lovely world to walk around in. I like the town designs too.
I've been playing Elden Ring again since they added horse armor for Torrent.
They also added some new classes, weapons and whatever, but none of it compares to the bling for Torrent.
And I found a divine tower i can die in as i parkour to the bottom.
By the way, how i overcame a lifelong debilitating fear of heights. Playing Elden Ring.