Games

Finally getting around to playing some gomes I should have a long time ago. I beat Conker's Bad Fur Day, and I just started up Tales of Symphonia.

Other than that I've been in a reading kick, so not much game time outside of Marvel Rivals (I'm a dweeb, I know).

I ended up reluctantly getting a Switch 2 as my partner wanted it, worried about scarcity. We played Mario Kart for a vouple days, but its been gathering dust otherwise. There's only like 2 games out so I guess we'll just wait.

ay mates

i can't play shit anymore, got a job that makes me want to fucking do what the g*mers told me. waste of human flesh they're right about that

tried playing deltarune yesterday. also last weeks i've been playing minecraft modpacks

Playing Ninja Gaiden Ragebound right now

I've played more Elden Ring and am finishing up Silent Hill 2 Remake.

My favorite video game genres are survival horror, platformers, and CRPGs.

As for the questions of the week:

I have completed Dynasty Warriors Origins, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Elden Ring, and almost Silent Hill 2 Remake.

I think the Switch 2 is a great console, from what I've seen , and I aim to play the new Kirby game, but it is sort-of overshadowed by similar handhelds like the Steam Deck and other handheld PCs. Honestly, at times, the OneXSugar seems like just as good of a buy as Switch 2. A sibling of mine has the Switch 2 so I can always play that.

What I would like to see from video games going forward are more CRPGs and especially more "pro-communist" video games like Disco Elysium. Will we see the latter? Probably not.

But honestly, with more games exploring the Soviet Union nowadays, I want to see stuff that's not too judgmental, that lets the setting at least speak for itself. But that would be asking too much of a lot of devs nowadays.

Currently playing:

• Megamek ­— A (free) way to play the battletech tabletop game on the computer, and against ai, has a pretty steep learning curve
• cyberpunkdreams — a free-to-play cyberpunky text based game, only have a few hours in it, but it's pretty sick so far

favorite genres are RPGs (all kinds) and simulators (space and mech)

I'm grinding away at AC4 Black Flag and Kingdom's of Amalur

Recently got back into Team Fortress 2 after several years hiatus. I'm still bad at it but it's still fun enough that I don't care.

Also been replaying Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, my favorite installment in the series. It's not perfect but I'm a huge Grecophile so the setting keeps my attention focused.

Been thinking about replaying its predecessor Origins as well as Far Cry 6 as I also enjoyed those two a lot.

Just finished playing World of Goo 2, was a pretty fun puzzler. In general, I like story based games and roguelikes. I'm not too excited about Switch 2 at the moment, the only game I'd want to play is the new Mario Kart, and just can't justify the cost for that. Mostly been playing stuff on Steam lately, and already have a huge library there.

Finished Death Stranding 2 last week and it'll probably be my GOTY this year. The ending had me laughing out loud at how absurd it was. The day Kojima stops making his weirdass games will be a sad day

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I've recently played/read Raging Loop. I love these kinds of super convoluted, mindblowing stories with like a loop or quantum mechanic reason there's a flowchart, but it wasn't the best in the genre. Spoilers ahead I guess (without details)

Despite these complaints the idea is solid, can't really go wrong with that type of mechanics. I was also surprised that it was basically a game of werewolves (you know, the table game) lol. They're playing a real-life game of werewolves.

Much preferred Virtue's Last Reward, the original ace attorney trilogy (no "restart" mechanic but it's great all the way through), and Paranormasight. Open to suggestions if people have more of these VNs to recommend. My next one is probably going to be ever17, going in blind as always, and I have a bunch more downloaded on my phone. Had to download 3 different emulators and find APKs and sideloaders but I did it lol.

Finished my anual play of Stellaris, now I'm doing my anual replay of the ME trilogy.

I am still playing Influence Android OS app and reading visual novels. I had gotten into Ren'py coding last year to create visual novel.

Symphony of war was a pretty cool game that runs on any hardware.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 was a nice one too, but didn't realise how reactionary the developer/publisher was until reading this...

I've been playing Risk of Rain 2, some Need For Speed Heat with a friend and Final Fantasy VII Remake.

I hope I can unlock the Ethereal skill on Mercenary since the current Prismatic Trial looks to be easy, but hell what a pain the ass to get it, lol.

I don't understand much about cars at all, but my current one on NFS Heat is a Honda S2000 '09 and I'm loving it, really fun car and has a sick painting right now.

FF7 is my first FF and I'm absolutely loving it. I'm on chapter 16 and what a great game, I love doing ecoterrorism against big corpo!!!

I want to start Deltarune after finishing FF7, I only played the first 2 free chapters, I really want to see the new ones.

What do you think of the Switch 2?

Looks underwhelming honestly, I hope it gets jailbroken soon, then it will be cool to see what people can do with it since it's a least a somewhat powerful system, could become a really good emulation machine and even Linux machine.

What would you like to see from video games going forward?

Honestly don't know, more experimentation, but indies tend to do good on that front. I guess better optimization going forward for big titles, but I doubt that will happen. I'm not versed in gamedev to make a good critique, but I have yet to see an UE5 game that is well optimized, every single one I have tried run badly in some way or another. I have a 5700 XT, which is starting to show it's age a little bit, but I expected better.

What Games have you played recently?

Fields of Mistria, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.

What are your favourite genres?

I honestly do not know lol I am clearly an eclectic gamer.

Games completed this year?

Rise of the Tomb Raider. I made a post about it discussing the anti-communist elements within it.

What do you think of the Switch 2?

I honestly want one so i can play Mario Kart World, but unfortunately it is out of my price range right now and I cannot justify the prices of the games. I still have my regular switch and will just play the new Pokémon game on that.

What would you like to see from video games going forward?

I would like them to be more affordable lol I would also like them to be less anti-communist, could you imagine a tomb raider game that isn’t shitting on the USSR and actually did its historical research? That’d be my favourite game ever! Obviously anti-communism in games only come from certain regions on the planet but it’s those games that I have easy access to.

I've been playing a lot of RCT1+2 (OpenRCT2) and some Nethack lately. I'm mostly indifferent about the Switch 2, but I don't like how cartridges that only carry a download key exist.

What would you like to see from video games going forward?

I would love for game developers to experiment with neural nets to implement NPC/Enemy AI. Like a Real Time Strategy or a Turn-based Strategy game with a Computer opponent that can dynamically adapt to and learn from the Player's actions and strategy could be very interesting.

Got back into old school Oblivion modding a bit, once I get my bearings and find energy I hope to release a small mod that I'm surprised no one else bothered in that 20yo game. I want to start small with a concept first since that has the highest likelihood of getting done.

I tried a little Erenshor, its basically single player EQ with minecraft graphics, the AI called me out for ninjalooting which was hilarious, just like RL. Its really grindy though and I lack time for that.

I'm a true gaming champion, 2025 has been a rugged year for me, completed 0 games and like 5 books which are some low numbers for me, what plans and hopes survive being deep-fried by work burnout my migraines put an end to.