What are you playing right now?

I just played that shitty Guardians of the Galaxy game because it was free on epic last year. I quit part way through. I don't know how much longer is left, I was in Chapter 12.

If you're a marvel fanboy who watches retards on youtube soy face to movie trailers and collect funko pops, you'd probably love it. It's more of an interactive telltale game, than an action adventure game. What I mean is, it's essentially more of an episode of a tv show rather than a game. The combat is clunky, unsatisfying, and sparse. Even on the hardest difficulty, it's incredibly easy. It essentially boils down to hold down trigger, and mash your sidekick specials as they come off cooldown, fight over, repeat. The story was kind of interesting at first, but then cutscenes started to drag and drag and draggggggggggggggggggggg pointlessly. All so they could include as many quips and unfunny jokes as possible, this is not a James Gunn script. I started to skip cutscenes and that's when I gave up. I didn't have the desire to launch the game so I just deleted it. Now I have to find something else to play.
 
A number of the games that I got recently suck. Or, rather, i just can't get into them. I mentioned Darkest Dungeon, but I got really, really bored of Sonic Mania really, really quickly. I never played Sonic games besides Shadow the Hedgehog.

Today I started to seriously play Steel Division 2. I got it because I couldn't hack it in Wargame, although Wargame was what I wanted. After all, I already have Company of Heroes 2. Well, it's definitely more playable. A huge chunk of that is just having an interface that isn't retarded. Mark out what the unit actually is instead of assuming the player just magically knows. So then it is pretty self-explanatory what things do and how to deal with problems. Somewhat.

On Medium 1v1, minimum or near minimum starting points, the AI just crumbles. I think it's a problem with it not knowing how to deal (build order wise) without having a big pool of resources. On Hard, it's pretty difficult. I had a match that I was initially winning but ended up losing. Playing against an auto-generated Soviet division with the same division, symmetrical unit rosters to take away a lot of the complexity. The only thing I can really think to say is that at some point they marshalled the forces for a huge armored push into my center and I just couldn't deal with it and it started spiraling downwards. They'd keep chucking tanks at me and I'd chuck tanks back, but of course their tanks would be in a better position and it would be endless. So bit by bit I just kept losing forces. Actually the same thing that happens to me if I bump the difficulty up just one notch on Company of Heroes 2: initially win, and then at some point I just find I can't keep up with the losses and slowly lose everything until there's no army left. It's probably a case of failing to design good defensive lines with good geometry to it.

I like artillery. Whether mortars in Company of Heroes 2 or katyushas in this. I know what rocket artillery is, but I was kind of shocked at how messed up it is seeing a barrage of that stuff land on an infantry position.
 
Have been engrossed in STALKER 2 lately, I am really enjoying it so far. I just got to the factory thing you're meant to go to as part of the Noontide quest with all of the zombies in it, I kinda noped the fuck out for the night but I've been taking my time just exploring the Zone, mostly because I found a Thunderberry as my first legendary artifact and I wanted to get a set of armor where I could actually use it. I've tried to get into the first STALKER game before and it just never clicked with me but now that I'm enjoying this one so much I wanna go back and play the other games to see what I've been missing. I enjoy the total lack of power fantasy this game has compared to other RPG's like Fallout 3 or New Vegas, it makes every encounter more intense knowing you can die at any point regardless of your gear. Wish the performance wasn't doodoofeces though.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Trying to get into Darkest Dungeon. Real hard to like it. In this case it's because the central gimmick is so overdone that I can't take it seriously as a mechanic, it just pisses me off.

The idea of heroes cracking under stress and undermining the party in various ways (Leroy Jenkinsing, cowering, stealing shit, spreading their panic like contagion by freaking out) is great. But it's so over-the-top that it is both aggravating and makes the immersion go up in flames. They get yelled at by a skeleton and suddenly they're on the ground pissing and shitting and crying hysterically.
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I love the art design and lore of DD, but the game itself is so frustrating that I always fall off. I'm not even doing all that poorly, I just find it annoying how easily members of your party can go insane, and how randomly they can develop horrific quirks.

An autistic friend of mine has been asking me to play WolfQuest with her and I find the game really charming.

I'm taking another crack at Book of Hours. There have been several updates and tweaks. My spreadsheet is already a pretty decent size.
 
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Diablo IV is the dumbest game I have ever played, but for some reason I want to get all the gold stars on my gear so I can kill some stupid boss 5% faster. So I don't stop.

I'm also playing some user mods for Panzer Corps 2. Its an excellent game, but after a few hundred hours of moving tanks around on a hex grid, I think I'm about tapped out.
 
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I've been playing TW: Warhammer 3 for most of 2024. Just been playing the sandbox campaign with different factions that I've never played before.

Really ought to start branching out into other games in the backlog, but I have so many options I've got choice paralysis.
 
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right now its Elden Ring on PC,Skyrim on Xbox and Mega Man 3 on emulator, Mega Man 1 and 2 are some of the most difficult NES games ive played so far (2 being the easier one) but it honestly seems like 3 filters you far earlier
 
Going back and doing a run of Borderlands 3 with my brother. Neither one of us have ever beat the game (I never really got into it that much) so good enough excuse to complete it. I’m Moze and he’s Zane.
 
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Drova: Forsaken Kin. It's a Gothic inspired that i've been on the fence about. Just like Gothic, it's made by autistic Germans. Some cringe in it (strong femoids everywhere) but overall a fun experience. Other than that, Balatro and maybe some Dungeons and Degenerates. Card games were the only winners of 2024.
 
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