Trying to force my way through the last few quests of Final Fantasy XVI. This has been my first FF since the PS2 era and wow… what a let down. It stinks of design by committee. I also started Final Fantasy IX again the other day to see if I’m just being an out of touch old person and no… that game is absolutely magical. Modern FF really is that bad.
I’m playing through Skyrim for the very first time
I didn’t realize someone existed that hasn’t played Skyrim yet. /s
Enjoy! I’ve got 5,600 hours in it, there’s lots of content there. I hope you have fun with it. How far are you? What do you think of it so far?
A couple hours in, I’m level 4 I think. I’m pretty impressed by it so far, but I’m playing on a PS5, I can’t imagine how it felt to play this on the original consoles.
Very slow, that’s how. Load times were notoriously bad on 360/PS3. PC obviously depended on specs. It was a great time though, I do miss those days.
What race are you playing as? And what playstyle?
I am an Imperial named Gord, and I have a few playstyles, as I’m learning which enemies are weaker to certain weapons or spells: generally, though, I’m using a 2h sword as my main DPS, switching to a sword and shield for extra defences, or having flames in one hand and healing in the other for DoT (or against enemies weak to fire)
I love 2H sword, it’s my favourite playstyle. Stealth archer is the cliché build but it’s a ton of fun too, and massively overpowered if you’re into that. It’s worth trying on a second playthrough for sure.
Have you done any major side quests or factions yet? Or just the main story?
The only side quest I did was returning the gold claw to a merchant, but I did that one by accident. Been doing MSQ so far, don’t really want to overwhelm myself with too many quests.
Although, I did find out the very hard way that you could be caught “trespassing” in shops.
Yeah that’s fair. I don’t usually play the main quest these days, just side stuff since that’s imo the best content in any Bethesda game, but on a first playthrough the main quest can be pretty epic. I hope you enjoy your time with it.
Just try not to slip into sneaky Archer. It’s overpowered.
Brotato. It’s always Brotato eventually
I’ve been playing space haven. It’s Rimworld in space with some more story. The basics are a little more complex but at least on normal difficulty staying stable seems easier once you’re established, it doesn’t have quite as much depth I don’t think. I’m really enjoying it. Good cool music. Fun boarding mechanics. Great little game.
I played this for a bit a couple months ago and it’s definitely fun but I’m terrible at keeping my crew fed apparently. They’re constantly falling asleep from hunger but I have no one that can produce anything beyond the level 1 agriculture. I need to get back to it and either just start a new crew or see what happens when I let this crew starve out.
You need the algae food paste thing until you can pick up another crew member or train someone up on the learning station.
This one has been sitting on my wishlist for some time. Great art style and, unlike Rimworld, there’s gamepad support, so I could play this on my Steam Deck. What makes me hesitate each time is that games like this can be really hard to return to after a break. I get the same with city builders. You invest hours into slowly building up this complex ‘machine’, take a break, and upon returning realize you’ve forgotten what your priorities were and mess everything up.
The automation in this one is pretty good. I think the pawns are maybe a bit smarter than Rimworld so you don’t need to manually direct them as often.
Having a bit of a story mode also helps as you’ve usually got a mission objective you can come back to.
I’m like 20 hours in now and still very much enjoying myself.
I recently got UFO50 after initially not thinking it is for me, but hearing about it in Grogpod got me interested. I was born 1990 so games from the 80s really have more of a relic character for me, but it is still really good! I got it on switch because I saw many of the games have a multiplayer mode and that is fun, too!
Some games from it I enjoyed so far:
- Porgi: submarine metroidvania where you need to collect fuel upgrades to dive/explore deeper and deeper
- Party House: roguelike deck builder / boardgame; bit like Dominion and fun game for wife and me but also fun alone
- Devilition: puzzle game
- Avianos: Turn based strategy / boardgame
- Rock on Island: Bloons style TD
- Magic Garden: snake like arcade game
- Golfaria: Golf 2d isometric metroidvania / zeldalike
- Onion delivery: 2d car driving kinda roguelike… reminds me a bit of GTA 2… hard as a brick though
Replayed Blasphemous and Blasphemous 2 for the fourth time since Blasphemous 2 just got a pretty good “legally distinct Castlevania” DLC for free recently.
Blasphemous 2 is still pretty far up on the list of greatest metroidvanias and can be had pretty cheap these days.
I am taking another stab at Rimworld, after a long hiatus. Putting together a mod pack for multiplayer.
Specifically, I’m testing out adding XML mods to the multi-playerable mod pack (with the dev for the MP compat mod maintains themself): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3736544231
Witcher 3! A classic, and there’s a new expansion coming out.
Started up Dead Cells again. Gotten to the Throne Room on a few runs, haven’t beat the Hand of the King yet.
Wife was gifted a 3DS with two games, so my ancient butt is currently playing Pokémon Y
Edit: fixed a typo
Nice! I haven’t played that one in years but I remember really liking it.
Mostly Skyrim but also playing enshrouded with some friends
Things didn’t really improve on my side so a focused playthrough of anything in particular is still a no-go, I did however manage to fix my issue with Division 2.
For some reason, installing Ubisoft Connect through Lutris makes it only work with specific setup and specific version of Proton (GE-Proton 9.27) - that however no longer works correctly with TD2. The app itself launched fine but the game wouldn’t run due to issue with Easy Anti-Cheat not booting. At the same time, changing WINE version failed to launch UC in the first place so I couldn’t even check if it would help with the game.
What was the solution then? Just install UC through the Heroic Launcher, that’s it.
I’m now using GE-Proton 11.1 and the game runs without any issues. I spent so much time trying to make things work as usual and it turned out the solution was this simple. Ehh… At least it works. Mindless slaughter it is (for now)!
