What are you playing right now?

Got Oculus Quest 2 and after signing all my data over to Zucc. I played H3VR, spend a couple hours just shooting at the range.
 
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The Outer Worlds. M'yes, fairly reminiscent of Fallout NV but feels very 'safe'. I'd say it feels more like Fallout 4 but even Fallout 4 has more content to it - I can't even romance my companions, not that any of them are particularly remarkable. And there's only 6 of them. I'm also oretty sure I've spent acquarter of my current gameplay waiting on the fucking loading screens. Oh my god.

My character has sustained a permanent concussion so I have a dumb dialogue option for almost every conversation. The concept of coporations becoming oppressive planetary states is interesting.

Martin McCallahan for Chairman. Actually, why couldn't I have had him as a companion? I'd trade Parvarti for him.
 
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Just found out that the XBOX 360 version is a whole different game than the PC/PS2 version.
 
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Likewise. "Time is not your enemy, forever is."

I'm replaying Greedfall as I said above. This time, I am Madame de Sardet, and doing a sort of rapier in one hand, spell-slinging in the other build. Maybe this time I can get the golden ending.

I wish there were more RPGs in a Renaissance / Age of Sail setting. There's Greedfall, and Pillars of Eternity 2, and that's all I can think of off hand. Maybe some mad Eurojank developer will do a historical RPG set during the French Wars of Religion. Now that would be fucking awesome as a vidya. It's 1573 and you are a young gentleman or lady in Paris trying to make your way in a world of sectarian intrigue. You foster relations with power brokers and get things done and via combat, diplomacy, or stealth get to the attention of either the powerful and malevolent yet psychotically Catholic Duke of Guise, the Huguenot admiral Gaspard de Coligny, or the stuck in the middle queen regent Catherine de Medici. It could be on a timer and after a certain number of quests, the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre happens and you have to decide not only your side but also what you do with those you have forged relationships with and how you deal with the fact that your behind the scenes dirty work might inexorably have led to this.

Oh, and there would have to absolutely be a celebrity appearance from Ambroise Paré, the father of modern surgery, preferably played by John Cleese. And an obligatory virginity testing scene as well, because the French were weird about virginity at that time.
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Is the Golden Ending "colonists realise the natives were right all along and the entire world adopts their shamanic ways, thereby ending the Malichor", because that's the kind of cringe I was expecting near the end. I got the moderately shit ending because I backed the sellout chief but didn't replay yet. Too bad the age of sail setting is so rare these days, it's basically Assassin's Creed, this game, and New World (lol) if you like that aesthetic outside of strategy games.

Also I'm playing Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord atm with a bunch of mods, the most important of which are Realistic Battle Mod & De Re Militari. It's a pretty great warlord simulator so far, the 2h axe against lightly armoured enemies is especially fun to use. You can also starve a town into submission and then sell them grain for double or triple the usual rate. The Empire (which is basically mega-Byzantium undergoing a 3 way civil war) fits very well with Yugoslav turbofolk songs. Unfortunately the entire continent of Calradia worships Khorne so the battles can get a little repetitive. They fight so often and retreat so rarely that the chance of commanding nobles who get wounded in battle actually dying had to be dropped to 2% so the clans wouldn't go extinct.
 
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Is the Golden Ending "colonists realise the natives were right all along and the entire world adopts their shamanic ways, thereby ending the Malichor", because that's the kind of cringe I was expecting near the end. I got the moderately shit ending because I backed the sellout chief but didn't replay yet.
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I also got the "Island for sale "ending the first time. I think the golden ending is the one where you manage to keep everyone on side and pick Dunncas as the High King. It's quite hard to get because you need to actually act like a diplomat and have friendly relations with every faction by the endgame.

The "everyone realises the natives were right" ending is one of the dodgy ones in that basically everyone on the mainland dies while you and your mates all prance around naked in the wilderness with the islanders.

I do like the Age of Sail as a setting. Come to think of it, I fancy reinstalling Sid Meier's Pirates.
 
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Recently got myself a used Xbox one X. Been playing through the entire Halo and Gears a' War series and having a pretty good time with both of 'em. There are some physical games I wanna get for backwards compatibility sake ( Ninja Gaiden 2, RDR 1 ) and right now game pass has given me some good shit ( Wolfenstien 2014 ).
 
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I've been playing Ragnarock on my Quest 2. I need to clear space in my basement before I get into anything require a ton of movement.

Besides that, I've grown bored with new stuff again so I'm starting a playthrough of Guardians Crusade on PS1 cause it popped into my head. Might play some Alundra too.
 
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I've been playing Hard Reset ( the original release, not the Redux). It is quite an interesting tittle, really one of those unforgiving old school style FPS, reminds me on occasion to the original Serious Sam in the way the game throws crowds of enemies that bum rush the player, a lot of cheap deaths due to this cheap tactic and a lot of trail and error based progress. Hard Reset arsenal is better suited to deal with precisely such enemy rushes ( more so once you start upgrading your weapons.) Game looks great despite its age even on Medium settings and weirdly enough looks better than the Redux version. Runs on potato PCs too. The cinematics look like shit though.
 
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I realized the other day that I bought Atelier Ryza when it came out and never played more than about 5 hours, so I started to rectify that. I like games about collecting and crafting, and the real time element to the gathering makes it pretty nice.

I don’t like the real time battles so much, though. I wouldn’t mind if it had pause-on-select, but full real time is a pain,

also, the story makes me feel a little old, being about a teenage girl sneaking out of her house to go on adventures and her parents scolding her and trying to get her to think about her future.
 
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I've been picking up the monthly free game from Epic Games for about a year but I've never actually booted it up to play any until recently. I was finally curious enough to do so when Loop Hero was given out. It's pretty interesting, a semi-roguelike of the school that allows you to make permanent upgrades to future attempts. Each game is dictated by a deck of cards you can choose and unlock new ones to customize the game. I feel like you can kind of solve the game fairly quickly by choosing the least threatening ones, though you sometimes need different ones if you want to unlock some of the permanent upgrade stuff. Enemies also gain new abilities in each new chapter, so some just become too annoying to even consider (enemy has a 5% to destroy a piece of your gear... no thanks). It's kind of not suitable for too long as it gets repetitive and once you know the right combos it can be easy to clear the 4 different chapters.

Also, all the boss themes are absolute bangers.
 
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Been playing a ton of Dorfromantik, which is far more addictive than it has any right to be:


Other than that, finally got round to playing Resident Evil 2 - honestly loving the hell out of it so far, only just got to the Umbrella laboratories, so I'm kinda bummed to have left the police station behind now.

Played the first couple hours of Psychonauts 2 which seems okay so far. Pacing is a bit uneven, but I'm liking the art style and overall vibe of it.

And then I seem to just be bouncing between Dirt Rally 2 and PGA Tour 2K21, for some reason.
 
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Got myself hooked to elder scrolls online again. Quite a lot more female toons with max tits and max ass size than I last remember.
 
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Minecraft Dungeons, of all things. Despite some if the levels being way too vast for their own good (although I hear the Ancient Hunts are much shorter once you get into a rhythm), they've hugely expanded and improved the game since launch. It's autistically addictive.
 
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