What are you playing right now?

[RussianParasite]

Songs of Syx. It’s an autistic empire builder in early access that is very addicting. If you’re into Rimworld or Dwarf Fortress you will likely enjoy the game for quite some time.

I think it’s one of the few games where you start with a handful of people and can grow it into an actual 100,000+ person empire. I haven’t made it to this stage of the game yet, but supposedly you can have battles with tens of thousands of units. All the updates have been great and I think eventually this 7 or 8 out of 10 will become a 9 or 10 out of 10.

Graphics are old school 90s though. It reminds me of Lords of the Realm 2 quite a bit.

 

[AmpleApricots]

If this is what modern games are like

Yes they are. Games like this are like "Hey enjoy this one game mechanic? Why not do it for the next 400 hours over and over again with slight, often purely cosmetic variations! UNLIMITED OPEN WORLD !!!"

Life is literally too short for this.

Graphics are old school 90s though.

What I like about the graphics of that game is that it isn't "retro pixel art" as a 21 year old zoomer imagines it, but actually looks like something I would need that extra 512 kb of RAM on my Amiga for. This is surprisingly rare.

 

[Jinmen]

Playing the FFXIV queue game while I wait for my CRT adapter to arrive then I'm gonna play some Baldurs Gate.

 

[Darksy DePhil]

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. 0.F-2. I have several characters on different worlds

• "Handy Man" with a shitton of fabrication skill, and equipped with a wooden "Peasant Flail" which is a really good early weapon. Bunkered into a rural house close to a city and a water plantation where i found some really cool military equipment, MREs and dehydrated food (which both last around 4 seasons ingame) near a broken military turret. Also found a solar energy powered vehicle but i can't do much with it since i am surrounded by forests (which take a shitton of time to cut down) and the only way out is the city clogged with zombies and vehicle wreckage
• Old fisherman with 11 intelligence and 7 everything else. I got ridiculously lucky sneaking in a city at night, and found a CBM along with an autodoc to install it, and managed to install a "Ethanol Burner" bionic implant pretty early ingame despite 88% installation failure rate. I think it uses rubbing alcohol as fuel.
• "Shower Victim" + Burning Building scenario because i wanted something even blander and harder than the default Survivor profession. I bullshit my way out of a city surrounded by zombies right after spawning and managed to find a truck with a lot of battery and fuel.

 

[Overcast]

Playing modded New Vegas.

Having a horde of chainsaw and power fist wielding legionaries pour out of the Legate’s camp and getting mowed down in a hail of bullets, lasers, plasma and explosive ordinance created by me, Boone, Veronica, ED-E, a Securitron and the Remnants is so goddamn satisfying. Especially when the last couple of them see the piles of bodies and rightfully run away in terror as we slowly push our way into the camp. Thank God for CCO and JIP.

 

[El Conserje]

I just finished Ace Attorney (2): Justice For All. I've been doing the last case all day and as a result I'm feeling mentally exhausted lol. I still don't know the implications of Franziska stealing the drawing of Maya on De Killer's card but I don't have intentions to start Trials and Tribulations for a while.

Overall, the first AA is way better than the sequel, but still enjoyable. I can't fucking believe no one arrested Franziska for whipping literally everybody in the court and in every case lmao.

 

[Focken Kiwi]

I've redownloaded Monster Hunter World for my PS4. I actually never played Iceborne so I shelled out for the expansion too and plan on starting over from scratch. I'm also going to put down the Insect Glaive and try my hand at the Light Bowgun since I understand it better and I've had a lot of practice with it in Monster Hunter Rise. It should keep me occupied for a while.

 

[Toilet Grenade]

C: The Contra Adventure.

Everyone says that it was terrible, so I gave it a try, and...I have no idea why I like it so much. I seriously have no idea why I like it even when everyone else doesn't, but the third-person levels are leagues better than Rogue Corps.

 

[cease and desist]

I'm replaying Batman: Arkham Asylum

 

[blazeaster]

I replayed the Syberia series since I never finished second part and I wasn't aware of the existence of the third one. After finish the third part I realized there's a demo for 4th part and the 4th part is so horrible that I actually laughed at it. It's like life is strange 2 just waaay worse. Def the most Jewish game I've seen so far. I don't mind they ruined the series I didn't laugh this hard at a video game since I was a teenager can't wait for the full game to come out in March

 

[MachoMan]

Mega Man X Dive. Normally I hate mobile games but its much better than the last few entries, which at this point were basically two decades ago. I can be content that its 'TOTALLY NOT SIGMA' this time and they cranked up the cheesecake to 11, which makes me wonder how, canonically, Capcom would explain why robots need big bouncy titties.

 

[LightDragonman1]

Still going through Final Fantasy VII (using the PS4 cheats as I am a complete *****).

It is definitely still an amazing game after all these years, and comes from a different era in gaming. When huge budgets and massive marketing campaigns were real events and only reserved for titles that actually deserved such funding. FFVII still ranks as one of the most expensive games ever made when adjusted for inflation, yet you can feel every cent of it being used effectively when playing the game, especially compared to all the titles from triple-A publishers being churned out nowadays that have exorbitant marketing and development budgets, yet come out as unpolished and overly corporate.

Makes me feel rather melancholy.

 

[Jimmy Olsen]

Fucking Style Savvy. I used to play it when I was younger, and now I've got it running on a 3ds emulator. It's certainly a trip down memory lane. I feel like I'm stuck on long car drive already!

 

[Roast Chicken]

We Happy Few: We All Fall Down DLC. I play a lady who's the daughter of a powerful general in a world going to shit. She's been forcefully taken off her happy meds and can see that everyone's starving, so she decides to cut their supply of happy meds.

She also has a nice whip which can be used to leap up onto ledges and bitch-slap enemies but the run and grab mechanic is infuriating. The DLC overall reminds me of Dishonored with its stealth tactics and moving atop buildings.

 

[ComStar]

Cyberpunk 2077. Pretty decent overall, despite the jank. Good world design


Also toying with the idea of firing up Galactic Civilizations 3 again

 

[Overcast]

Playing Shadow of Rome for the first time on the PS2. The combat is taking some getting used to, but I enjoy how a big part of the game is putting on a good show as well as killing your foes. It also looks damn good for something that came out of 2005.

The stealth segments are a little tedious, but I do appreciate how you gotta walk while in disguise as well as answer questions guards might have in order to keep your cover.

 

[Stasi]

Just finished the last level on Pathway. I'm disappointed more than anything, its a game with a lot of missed potential that just seemed half baked.

Its a neat idea, an Indiana Jones inspired turn based adventure? Sign me the fuck up! Sadly its plagued with issues and overall just lacks polish. I had a bunch of crashes, the interface is a bit shit and missing a lot of quality of life stuff you expect in a modern game. Also, it took them over a year to patch in controller support on PC even through it has a switch port so I dunno what the fuck the issue was. Maybe the devs are just incompetent. The art direction can best be described as inconsistent. The pixel art style looks nice in places but in others it makes the game borderline unplayable. Like in some indoor areas you can't tell what is part of the level and what you can't pass/step through.

Its also piss easy. I saw some reviews talking about difficulty but it must be typical gormless journos. I had a character die once in my whole playthrough - on the final level when I got bored and YOLOd him into a group of enemies.

Its like a 6/10 if I had to put a number on it? If you really like turn based games and have nothing else to play give it a shot but otherwise its pretty meh. Thank you for reading my review.

 

[Cod of War]

DEEER Simlulator. Name probably has more Es

 

[East_Clintwood]

Just reinstalled The Division 2 in time for the holiday event, and to get ready for the new update that was due in Feb. Unfortunately the devs are not just incompetent at coding, but at project management since both the update, and the holiday themed event have been postponed til sometime later next year. I mean the game hasn't had an update in forever, their last major content update is generally considered to be shit, and their last apparel event was an absolute fucking joke so I'm not sure why I'm surprised. Honestly the only fun thing about Massive these days is knowing how utterly shit on their going to be when they inevitably fuck up the Star Wars game they're making.

 

[Miller]

I wanted to play the weekly challenge in Zombie Army 4 but the Game Pass on PC decided to shit the bed (it refuses to download the update and I don't want to re-download the entire game).
I'm going to play some Dying Light instead.

Just reinstalled The Division 2 in time for the holiday event, and to get ready for the new update that was due in Feb. Unfortunately the devs are not just incompetent at coding, but at project management since both the update, and the holiday themed event have been postponed til sometime later next year. I mean the game hasn't had an update in forever, their last major content update is generally considered to be shit, and their last apparel event was an absolute fucking joke so I'm not sure why I'm surprised. Honestly the only fun thing about Massive these days is knowing how utterly shit on their going to be when they inevitably fuck up the Star Wars game they're making.

They pretend to work on the game but it's pretty clear that since Massive left to make an Avatar and a SW game, the other studio has no idea of what to do with The Division 2. The whole thing was a huge letdown, instead of creating expansions like they originally promised, Massive decided to go the easy way by turning the 3rd free expansion into a series of Battle Passes, less story, more unnecessary grind a pointless loot.