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Nier Autonama. It took me nearly an hour to make it to what I assume is the final phase of the first boss, then I died and it gave the bad ending shtick with the credits whizzing by.

Haha, okay, that's fine, I'll just load my game and start again, I know it says it doesn't auto save but I found no way to manually save, so surely when I load my file again it'll bring me back to the boss... right?

No. Back to beginning. What the fuck is this bullshit...? I'm about to change the difficulty from Normal to Easy just to avoid this shit ever happening again. Can't say the game is making a good first impression, which sucks because I went in with fairly high expectations, but it's just alright aside from this saving nonsense.
 
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One of the games I've been playing in short bursts is Super Mario World. I never beat it back when I was a little kid (I'm not some boomer, I just had access to an SNES in an era were it was already considered long obselete). I have attempted it from time to time via emulation as I got older, but this time I've gotten farther than ever.
 
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Been grinding hard in World of Warships as of late. Just started the second British battleship line, partially becausei had a high level captain ready to go from a previous event. On tier V Tiger right now. The unique feature of this line is these battleships have torpedoes. Good finishers, help mix up the battle.
 
I'm slow burning through the Witcher 3 again while waiting on Brighter Shores. I'm currently level 18 on Death March difficulty and I haven't touched the main story yet. I've hit every point of interest not locked behind quests in Velen including the ones in the north-east with level 30+ enemies. Currently, I'm in Skellige to do the same there. There's no telling what level I'll be by the end.
 
Despite its chink vibes, My Time at Sandrock is pretty cozy. Easy, got some building to it, but not enough that you end up feeling overwhelmed. It's also very nice how doing a one-off sidequest for a villager replacing their oven actually replaces their oven, so slowly over time you see the city change appearance.

I can't however sit here being all cozy for 8 hours in a row without ending up just wanting a simple-ass action game. Then I drop into Valkyria Chronicles, spend an hour beating one mission, then immediately see another mission and just feel like it's too exhausting to even start. It's a thing that happens to me constantly in these xcom-like mission games. Rarely do I just jump straight into the next one because it's such an undertaking. TTRPGs are like this but 5 times as bad.

Monster Hunter in comparison also got lengthy 'missions' but they're never straight-up daunting like this. I keep unhiding my entire Steam library and then hiding the games I know I don't wanna play right now, and every time I do it the result is different. And then I default back to the same 3 games. It's hell.

Anyway: Last Train Home looks interesting, we'll see.
 
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I've started playing Robocop. They have really nailed the aesthetic and the dialogues, also amazing job on the sound design.
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I've been playing Pokémon Scarlet, Pokémon Shield, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lately thanks to a neat 3rd party game cart "multitap" accessory that a friend of mine gifted to me a few weeks ago.

I also picked up a copy of Astro Bot on Friday whilst traveling back from the Pacific Northwest and I was going to play it when I got home but I can't find my Dualsense controller even after turning my home upside-down to find it. I have a sneaking suspicion that that went full retard and packed it for the trip and lost it while shuffling the contents of my luggage around. Either way I was planning on replacing it anyways, I do remember it having a nasty case of stick drift when trying to use it on my PC.
 
Red Dead Redemption 1. Seems fine. Good way to kill some time. Learned that any time someone shouts for help either ride away as fast as possible or just shoot them. Usually it's the right move.
 
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davids877 said:
Red Dead Redemption 1. Seems fine. Good way to kill some time. Learned that any time someone shouts for help either ride away as fast as possible or just shoot them. Usually it's the right move.
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It's not going to blow your dick off in the Year of Our Lord 2024 like it did people's back when it came out.
 
Lone Wandering Courier said:
One of the games I've been playing in short bursts is Super Mario World. I never beat it back when I was a little kid (I'm not some boomer, I just had access to an SNES in an era were it was already considered long obselete). I have attempted it from time to time via emulation as I got older, but this time I've gotten farther than ever.
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After beating bowser in SMW, I decided to go a bit backwards and check out Super Mario Land 2 again. Previously when I tried it on PC it looked too zoomed in and gave me a bit of a headache, Trying it on a softmodded PSP though, provided a better experience and found myself engaged for longer lengths of time without the distractions I have in the background on my PC.
 
I'm playing the Dead Space remake right now which I am enjoying despite the not-so-subtle woke propaganda in the game i.e. black women are on almost every sign you see on the ship, "all gender" tranny inclusive bathrooms, and most of the female characters have been uglified compared to how they looked in the OG etc.
 
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5 hours deep into Ufo50. Theres a charm to going into these games blind and learning them. I am sure ill get my monies worth out of it.
 
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Cleaning up some of the main sequence levels in the latest/last Ryujinx in Mario Wonder. I'm overdue for a replay of NSMB Wii. Only completed that once, and wanted it for calibration before starting into NSMBU which I've never played more than a minute or two of.
 
Lone Wandering Courier said:
After beating bowser in SMW, I decided to go a bit backwards and check out Super Mario Land 2 again. Previously when I tried it on PC it looked too zoomed in and gave me a bit of a headache, Trying it on a softmodded PSP though, provided a better experience and found myself engaged for longer lengths of time without the distractions I have in the background on my PC.
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SML2 is pretty good, lots more creativity and uniqueness than most 2D Mario games. It's a tad clunky but holds up well imo.
 
Been going through the Castlevania Dominus Collection as the DS games were great.

Not gonna lie, if Konami keeps sticking to making retro collections like this I'd be happy.
 
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Just started playing the original Baldur's Gate (classic edition) and god, all I can say is WHERE HAS IT BEEN ALL MY LIFE?

This is the kind of shit I would've wasted my entire life on as a kid, the fact that I was too lazy to figure out how to play this earlier is a tragedy. I've barely even played an hour of the damn thing but I love how every part of the game clearly had a lot of love and effort put into it. Voiced lines for every single character, cute ultra-compressed cutscenes of important events in both dated CGI and in-game assets, a very elaborate UI with engravings and details on every single part of it, fuuuuuck man. I wish games still made their UIs look this good.

The ambience, too. As I said, I've barely even played an hour of this. I've gotten up to the second inn by now and formed a party of four, and yet within that time I've also
  • died to a pack of wild dogs because I went the wrong way
  • decided to spend some time exploring around to stall out healing, ended up convincing a guy not to kill himself by telling him to do a flip
  • accidentally wasted all my gold on drinks and had to reset
  • just spent some time walking around enjoying things as birdsong played in the background and waves lapped onto shore
I've basically done nothing so far and yet I've had more fun just existing in this world than I have in almost any other, more recent RPG. Absolutely love it to bits.

The only downside is that I hate a lot of the default character portraits (I just don't like the art style, they're ugly to me), so I went and made my own of the wonderful SHMUCK THE CONQUEROR.
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He is an enormously evil gnome Fighter with more intelligence than a peanut but less than a dog. His soul speaks of nothing but hedonism and his voice is akin to the most thickly-accented drunken Welshman you will ever meet. Despite this, everyone he meets seems to tolerate him and the only people who want him dead are creepy weirdos who dress exclusively in black robes.

I love him dearly.
 
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Finally got into Deadlock after a long wait. Game seems alright but some characters feel underdeveloped. Feels like a grind at times and the jungling is boring too.
 
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