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Whispers of a Machine.

What can I say, I love pointy-clicky adventures and this one passed me by last year. I was skeptical at first because it was from the same devs as the distinctly underwhelming Kathy Rain - which wasn't bad but did feel awfully like a retread of the original Gabriel Knight an awful lot. Whispers, however, is far better. It's basically a Scandi Noir crime drama set in a future post-technological collapse where all computer technology is banned.

I recommend.
 
Apart from my daily dose of Animal Crossing I've been playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses. I never got into Fire Emblem despite being a big Shining Force fan but I think this is the game that finally made the series click with me. I love the academy aspects and I've started to become attached to my (how do I get through to these) kids.
 
Been playing Shinobi III. Great art and the action feels responsive but also loose. Learning how to get through a level without taking damage is fun.

Also been playing The Legend of Heroes - Trails of Cold Steel. The straightforward jrpg segments mixed with the daily life anime highschool stuff has been pretty comfy. Combat is fun even if it takes a little too long, and I'm slowly warming to annoying characters I used to hate. The ingame logic is the teacher forces idiots who hate each other to do chores together so they'll become friends and it's kind of working on me.
 
Finally got PSO2 to come out in the west and I don't have to play on JP after eight years, but the monkey paw was in full effect and Microsoft being the producer on the NA release meant it was locked behind their shitty fucking windows store. Which meant the game could nuke it's own files because of weird permission errors and also make backups of the game hidden in folders you can't access by default. I had 100 gigs of dead game hidden in some shitty unaccessible hidden windows app folder. Luckily the madlads who made the English patcher for the JP version released a non fucked launcher that downloads the game and circumvents the microshaft store and fixes some of the weird code the default launcher has. If you want to try a good mmo that has action combat instead of tab targeting I highly recommend it. It's also FREE and the only thing you have to pay for is extra character slots (game lets you play all classes on one character anyway, but your skil trees are hard to reset) and cosmetics.

Other than that, just some Smash, KoF 14 and Killing floor 2.
 
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a friend of mine told me to play a game on the gamecube called pikman and its pretty fun. for a kids game its pretty terrifying.
 
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PSO2 is a great MMO-lite if you can get your PC version to work. I only had issues on launch day, but I know some people are still struggling with it. Works fine on Xbone. Game is free with premium currency. Played it on JP for ages and it's fairly fun!

If you want something to shake things up, check out Cultist Simulator. Not for the smoothbrained or stoned, as there is a LOT of text and no tutorial.

Spin Rhythm XD is a really addicting new rhythm game designed for KB&M. You can download custom tracks from SpinShare.

Also Minecraft Dungeons, my dudes.
 
I'm playing WazHack, which is a graphical roguelike side-scroller (makes sense once you play it.) Being graphical and side-scrolling is a departure from the genre but it cleaves really hard to the spirit of roguelikes (permadeath, procedurally generated dungeons, hard as fuck.) Incredibly frustrating (I wanted to scream "YOU GOD DAMN DOUBLE NIGGER" the other day after my barbarian who'd finally found armor that fits and had a +7 sword and two amulets of life saving was rapidly taken down by a group of mobs that he was able to vanquish with the help of the amulets but then was murdered by a dust vortex.)
 
I heard about the remaster of Kingdoms of Amalur, which they're going to call "Re-Reckoning," so I gave it a reinstall. Amalur, for those who don't know, is the game that nearly bankrupted Rhode Island.

I had forgotten just how awesome it was. I'm gonna go for a universalist build this time out. The disadvantage of taking every class is that you never get the highest class abilities, but this is made up for by the unique advantage of gaining bonus levels in all non-combat skills and reduced level requirements for gear so you can be crazy prepared.

Unfortunately since last I played it I got a 4K screen and there's no ability to rescale the interface so it's tiny text everywhere. And I can't find a mod to fix that either.

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(I wanted to scream "YOU GOD DAMN DOUBLE NIGGER" the other day after my barbarian who'd finally found armor that fits and had a +7 sword and two amulets of life saving was rapidly taken down by a group of mobs that he was able to vanquish with the help of the amulets but then was murdered by a dust vortex.)
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Currently splitting my time between Journey to the Savage Planet and Remnant: From the Ashes.
Recently finished Deliver Us the Moon, too; better than I expected.
 
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Picked up Age of Wonders Planetfall after it was on sale last month. Slowly been adding on the DLC as well. It's an enjoyable 4x/turn based tactical game. Still needs more content.
 
Just getting back into PC gaming. I'm currently playing The Witcher 3; both expansions purchased, still playing my first run and currently at level 19. Granted, I spend too much time taking screenshots of the gorgeous horizons and sunsets like a star-struck tourist. No complaints. It's pretty, interesting and immersive. Along with that, I'll give Path of Exile some love. I really enjoy PoE, although I don't have a lot of hours in the game. Makes my Diablo simp heart swell.
 
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I'm in the middle of the most retardedly OP run ever. Ran into two wands of wishing (recharged twice with scroll of charging) and, count 'em, nine amulets of life saving (including three obtained via a wish.) I don't wanna jinx it but :cunningpepe: It almost feels like cheating...
 
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. Love the darker setting of this one, but I am terrible at this game. Was never good at SRPGs.

Also picking at Super Paper Mario. It's an interesting idea, but I definitely don't love it like I enjoyed PM64 and TTYD.
 
I got back into Horizon Zero Dawn. I had honestly forgotten just how ungodly beautiful this game is, or how satisfying it was to knock down spear strike a sawtooth.
 
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