What are you playing right now?

Cougar Pump said:
Planet Crafter got it's teeth into me (last mention I can see was @DrearyDoomguy a couple years back but I doubt it's still got him hooked).

Pirated initially then on Day 2 it wouldn't fire up (the finest quality fitgirl crack engineering at work) so I just bought it on Steam.
Not most amazing thing visually, and one of those games that's been built up from a fairly shonky base in Unity. But a solid 'make line go up' progression game that'll keep me glued for maybe a week.
Farming Simulator 22 went free on EGS a few days ago so perhaps Farming Simulator 24 will drop soon so I can autism into that next :optimistic:
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It ended up being two weeks (30h gameplay, 20h grind/idle) to 100% it. Good game, got better as time went on. Not as involved on the base building/crafting side as I had hoped but the progression was far better than expected and there was even a bunch of lore which made sense and tied everything together. Endings (multiple) were very 'and then u win da gaem lmao' tacked on.

7/10 good little game for fairly cheap and not nearly as cobbled-together as I initially believed.
 
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I need to get back to playing Manhunt for the PS2, since I’ve been forgetting about it for more than a few months. It’s not because I get scared of the disturbing and eerie imagery surrounding the torture scenes and what not; it’s more so that I just keep forgetting.

I actually like the game, and I found out MyAbandonedWare has the download for Manhunt 2.
 
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Megaton Musashi W, Switch version. The gameplay loop of mecha fight > lots of dialogue scenes > mecha fight is super basic, but the game's got a good energy to it and there's a TON of customization (it's actually a little overwhelming how much there is) so it's fine to play in short 30 minute or so bursts.

Plus, they keep adding famous mecha like Mazinger Z, which is cool.
 

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The Ugly One said:
Serf City / Siedlers / Settlers 1.

It's a fun, kind of silly sim domain game. It doesn't have a lot of tricks up its sleeves and always wears out its welcome after about three maps, but it's fun nonetheless.
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Always preferred settlers 2 tbh, though its a wonky game with weird combat mechanics. Plus I always had the sneaking suspicion that the devs were deliberately fucking with people with the way the maps were designed. Like having stone run out too easily on like the 4th map so you can't build anything or expand anymore but if you somehow still get through that map the next one is an underground area literally filled to the brim with stone to the point its impossible to run out of it

I also suspect that issues like that were the main reason they introduced the magic mechanic in settlers 4

That said I picked up jagged alliance 3 on sale recently for like $20 and have been playing it for awhile. While it is certainly easier than the previous games I can't say i'm impressed at all. It looks and plays exactly like it was designed for mobile and then someone got the idea to say screw that and released it as a pc port instead

I've been thinking about getting grand tactician: civil war but it seems really, really overpriced. $84 for the base game and expansion seems way overpriced for what it is. Maybe if it gets a decent sale when the summer sale comes up (starts june 27th if anyone was unaware)
 
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Crime Boss: Rockay City

I love this game. I grabbed it cheap when it finally came out on Steam. The campaign is a lot of fun and the AI team does a decent job assisiting you. There is quite a lot of depth in how you set up your team and invest. There is also a great deal of replayability with the rougelike/randomization of levels and placements of everything.

Best purchase I've made all year
 
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Myst (2020)

Never played the original, but can see how much love clearly went into it as a remaster/remake turning the old pre-rendered point and click landscapes into 3d spaces. Only took about 5h to clear the whole game, less than expected. I thought the number of puzzles would be higher although there was more of a world to explore than I expected. The only time I had to look up a guide was for
A puzzle that I realized was not possible to solve without some unknown method (which turned out to be: hold a particular lever down longer than normal to make something work completely differently for no reason)
7/10, now on to Riven.
 
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Jumping between games as usual, but still chipping away at Ys 8 right now. I'm pushing through with sheer stubbornness, it's kind of a slog.

Drinky Crow said:
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2. Beat the first arc on regular, had to pussy out and go easier diff for the other 2 passes. Now going to do it right and beat all 3 on normal.
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Is it just me or is BS2 way harder than BS1? I never actually beat this one.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
Jumping between games as usual, but still chipping away at Ys 8 right now. I'm pushing through with sheer stubbornness, it's kind of a slog.


Is it just me or is BS2 way harder than BS1? I never actually beat this one.
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Curse of the Moon? Oh it's not you, the second one is exponentially harder.
 
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Curse of the Moon? Oh it's not you, the second one is exponentially harder.
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Yeah. I see, I'm glad I'm not just crap at it lol. I feel like even on the higher difficulty the original was easier than the sequel is on normal. I don't wanna drop to easy mode but I'll probably have to.
 
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Yeah. I see, I'm glad I'm not just crap at it lol. I feel like even on the higher difficulty the original was easier than the sequel is on normal. I don't wanna drop to easy mode but I'll probably have to.
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I'd say go ahead and do easy for the second/third go through just so you can acclimate to the platforming and boss patterns, then try again on normal. That fucking lava level though....rrg...
 
Unicorn Overlord.

Faggy name but the art style is simply peerless which is why I bought it in the first place (thanks vanillaware). The gameplay is pretty unique and RTS fans will probably dig the mountain of OCD management stuff to do. Haven't really gotten into the weeds of it yet. The story seems like it may have some interesting fantasy bits in it later, but for now it's the japanese version of "baby's first war game"... The red-colored "ontologically evil" badass empire (with troops kept as faceless as possible so players won't feel as guilty when slaughtering them) vs. the blue-colored "noble underdog" rebels (with bright and colorful characters used to make you like them as quickly as possible). Red team comes off as comically evil, and is likely led by a literal demon-possessed man. And Blue team comes off as holier-than-thou and is unrealistically led by goodie-goodie teenagers. It's far too predictable, at least that's the vibe so far.

All I could think about was what the initial "villain" of Lodoss War said, >Forced Unification and Bloody Conquest< are the Exact Same Thing. Whether you're killing to Unify a people or killing to Pacify a people - it's all the same, no side has the moral high ground. Oh, and the dub has some obvious nog VAs in it which break the immersion with every line of bastardized southern drawl spoken. Thanks NoA dieversity quotas, very cool.
 
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Picked up Persona 3 Reloaded on sale and I’m really enjoying it. Tried a couple times to get into 5 and just didn’t like it. There was a post in the funny pictures thread a while back about naming your JRPG character “I Say” so all dialogue devolves into a Foghorn Leghorn routine so I took that advice and called my player character “I Say I Say” and it’s brilliant.
 
still struggling to get through Mega Man 1, Guts Man was filtering me so im going to do Elec Mans stage to get the mag beam, also want to start Assassins Creed Unity soon (im a sucker for French Revolution/Napoleonic era games), and playing my usual lineup of multiplayer games as always
 
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