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Forza Horizon 4, The Division, Sims 4, Football Manager 24… Always on PC
–Halls of Torment –Metaphor Refantazio –UFO 50
I’m currently playing Halls of Torment. I’ve tried a few times before but it has finally clicked. I’m liking it a lot. It is more Diablo than people had led me to believe. I love how different all the character are, and all the achievements that unlock things. I feel I could be playing it for quite a while
On a slightly related note, I just saw Vampire Survivors is getting a Castlevania DLC on the 31st and I’m so excited. I’ve been hoping for this for so long. 20 new characters, 40 weapons, and their biggest map yet. Sounds like it will have the most content out of any of their other DLCs
I’m so hyped for that DLC. I’m hoping it makes VS even more expensive and fun. It’s a match made in heaven.
Metaphor ReFantazio is amazing.
I doesn’t look like it needs my help, because it’s doing pretty well, but damn, it’s good.
Maybe too much anxiety to play a game in which you’re running for office in a fantasy land, at least until November, but… yeah, it’s bonkers and it’s well written and it’s by far the most political game the Persona-adjacent studios have ever done in some really fun ways.
Also a triumph of UI. Not only does it look great, it’s so frictionless. It’s a turn-based JRPG and it plays faster and more smoothly than that abomination of an action game Square tried to pass as a Final Fantasy VII remake by orders of magnitude. Seriously, go play it if you’re at all interested in that corner of gaming.
All calendar based anxiety went out the window for me after getting the Merchant and Thief classes.
Just because you can grind money easily or some other reason?
In any case on Normal I haven’t felt it at all, mostly because I’ve been single-day completing most dungeons and that gets you a bit overleveled.
But it’s still a lot faster and tighter than Persona on that front. And more flexible and nonlinear, too. For what looks like a long game, this thing moves. Much fewer, shorter stretches of just visual novelling with friends (although there’s plenty of that, too).
Money grinding is pretty efficient, but I was referring to the high rate of item drops. There’s a pretty common enemy that drops a mp recovery item. I’m blasting through dungeons in one go.
Ah, yeah, but the fun bit is that there are a ton of builds that let you get there. HP-based skills are powerful in this, and you can heal for cheap, so you can get there that way, and once you get a bit overlevelled and can kill mobs out of turn-based combat you’re just cruising.
I may see what happens on harder difficulties, but I genuinely don’t care too much, because just the mechanics of figuring out the sequence for each dungeon and enemy type is so fun to do with the brilliant UI that I just… enjoy doing it, kinda like you enjoy clicking things on Diablo or something. Truly smooth design.
I just wish they had figured out antialiasing better, because woof. I ended up injecting better AA through ReShade and never looked back.
can kill mobs out of turn-based combat you’re just cruising.
That’s what I was referring to. Once you’re able to defeat enemies in the overworld you can farm all sorts of recovery items and make bank.
I wish Metaphor had amounted to more, and I’m frustrated to see yet another calendar RPG.
It’s not a bad game, but it’s the same food they’ve made for decades.
That’s fair. I do see how it being nominally a new IP instead of a numbered sequel the ways it overlaps with Persona feel like a bit of treading water.
For me there is way more than enough to separate it, though. The bonkers story alone and the super political spin on it are crazy, plus the gameplay ends up being different enough.
But yeah, it’s pretty much one of those. Still better than going full action RPG like Square has done with its franchises, though.
I’m playing it too, mostly I’m just struggling to go whack Heismay and instead just playing Monster’s Expedition yet again.
Monster’s Expedition never gets old.
I was playing Dwarf Fortress, but the bugs made me shelve the game for the foreseeable future. It’s great until the bugs kill your game.
Were you playing the stable or beta adventure version?
Stable release via Steam. Really enjoy the game until the bugs creep in.
Satisfactory!! 1.0 is great
I always describe satisfactory as subnautica but about automating machinery like a tycoon game but with more reminiscent of portal. Needless to say its really fun!
I’ve played a bit of Factorio and enjoyed it a little too much, but watching some video clips of Satisfactory a couple of years ago really didn’t grab me. Do you think it’s likely that either watching the game have a very poor sense of what it’s like (for someone already familiar with Factorio), or that the game has gotten a whole heap better over the last 2ish years?
Hmmmm, good question, bit of both, it has changed a lot, but there is also heavy focus on the building mechanics also if that’s your thing, rather than just straight up automation. So like you can make some very very impressive structures in the game. Saying that, you can mostly ignore the building for pretty and just go full on factory just grow mode.
I guess also depends how much you like/are comfortable with the fps view point vs top down? If you like automation and or crafting games, def worth giving it Whirl IMHO!
Completely agree. It’s utterly addictive, and the further you get, more and more fun tech gets unlocked. Been playing it with some friends, and we’re all hooked.
I saw that it released but I haven’t checked it out yet, I’ll have to make sure I do
Replaying Final Fantasy IX. I’m trying if I can make it through the Excalibur II perfect game guide by Atomos199 with the help of the built-in cheats in the Steam version of the game.
Satisfactory
Super Mario Bros 3 and GTA V!
Factorio Space Age! It was Satisfactory 1.0, but I got distracted 😅
Same! I finally “beat” satisfactory by delivering all the project parts. In early access I unlocked all milestones but never delivered the final project part.
Starting space age, only got up to automating green science, working on military science now. Probably won’t be able to play much this week though.
My group is roughly about to head to space for the first time or launch our first rocket so that’s exciting
Been giving deadlock a shot, still plaint dead by daylight, and for solo efforts I have Total War, Tomb Raider, and Rogue Trader going
Mind me asking how you get access to deadlock? I wanna give it a shot, too.
I was lucky enough to have a friend send me an invite to the playtest. I’m not sure if that is the only way in or not
Someone in the playtest has to invite you.
You can ask for someone willing to do that over on [email protected]. That’s how I got in.
Just started Baldur’s Gate 3. Never played a CRPG before (does Disco Elysium count?) so it has been quite the learning curve for combat. Pretty stuck in the Underdark, it seems. Looks like I’ll have to help out a slavetrader Gekh in order to proceed because I don’t think I can defeat him and his buddies…
Disco Elysium absolutely counts.
I hope that you’re having so much fun with BG3, after I finished it’s definitely one of my favorites. The underdark is tough, I wish you good luck.
Thanks :)
What are you playing, bpt11?
I’ve been doing a replay of Omori
If you don’t want to help the slavers, here is a tip: you can destroy ladders.
pokemon emerald rogue, scream fortress, skyrim with bunch of mods thanks to wabbajack.
Thank you for bringing Pokemon Emerald Rogue to my attention. I’ve got it patched, but I haven’t tried it yet. I’m super stoked
Roots of Pacha - well polished, stress free farming sim. Highly recommended if you like Stardew Valley or Story of Seasons.
Old School Runescape.
This will always be my answer. Other games are just xp waste.
Silent Hill 2 Remake. It’s been absolutely amazing so far. Bloober team knocked this one out of the park, and I’m really looking forward to Cronos: The New Dawn.
