Og oblivion with a modified layout that works fairly well for steam deck. I just got lvl 17 and ran across my first glitch (land dreugh in the ceiling of a cave) and maybe my tenth crash. Soooo glad to say it’s running better than it ever did on my 360!
I got sucked back into Warframe.
Total War: Empire. I’ve previously played Rome 1/2, Medieval 1/2, and Atilla. For anyone who’s played other total war games, there are a couple of game mechanics that are new in Empire.
There are actual naval battles, where you put ships into a battle line, and you can board enemy ships. It’s cool but hard (for me) to control. Also many of the buildings in a territory aren’t located in the capital because it’s meant to represent colonial holdings, so you can have a sugar plantation or something outside the protection of a city, and a lot of the warfare ends up being small skirmishes sacking outlying buildings.
Recently modded my gba to have a laminated ips screen and over the past week I’ve dove into fire emblem advance wars and ff4
Concerned ape said he wouldn’t be updating SDV any more, or at least until haunted chocolatier was out, so I thought it’d be a good idea to dust off the old mod collection and start a new farm
I just fell back into it a month or two ago. Be prepared for some interesting updates of you’ve been out of it for like a year.
Playing Oblivion. I don’t remember liking it this much when I first played it way back when. And there’s a lot I don’t remember, so maybe I never got that far into it. I just discovered that the Daedra shrines give you crazy powerful magic items, so now I’m tracking all those down. Although I contacted vampirism during one of the missions, which is starting to suck.
Do you want a hint about vampirism that doesn’t give too much away?
Streets of Rage on my little handheld emulator that I bought last week. I’d forgotten how long it’s been since I last played!
If you haven’t tried four yet, it is a fantastic revisit to the roots of the game.
I‘ve been getting into Shadow of War.
I liked the first game more when I played it and I feel like I‘m constantly fighting the controls (don‘t jump there! don‘t drain that guy! what are you stuck on now?!), but it‘s fun regardless; and thanks to how bs gaming patents are, it‘s still very unique in the way it plays lol
I’ve managed to stall starting Act 3 of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for an entire week. I’m in this position I get into sometimes with games where I completely avoid starting the final stretch of the story because I love the game so much that I just don’t want it to end. I’ve probably done every bit of side content at this point, vacuumed every optional area and explored every inch of the map - besides the last one I unlocked that starts Act 3 proper. I’m now grossly overleveled and overpowered for the main story, so much so that I need to work out ways to gimp myself to make the story bosses more impactful.
Anyway, the game is absolutely amazing and you should play it. It will make a very compelling case for Game of the Year, and it is certainly one of the best games I’ve played. I run out of superlatives when talking about this game, from the art direction to the story to the music and the voice acting (in both English and French, both are stellar!) to the combat and gameplay design, every piece that matters hits it out of the park.
Yes, you are some AA-jank every now and then. The lip syncing isn’t great. But you know what? None of it actually matters.
It’s a wonderful, wonderful game.
I will probably play it, but this is not patient at all.
I have confessed my sins previous weeks so I forgot about adding a disclaimer about the same game this week. You can’t be patient all the time, sometimes it’s fun to participate in the zeitgeist. This game is good enough to merit it, it’s not even a full price game to begin with and they even had a release week sale.
I’ll be back to the regularly scheduled programming soon enough. I have my Mankind Divided playthrough to return to and I have already installed F.E.A.R. as my next game.
I picked up the Definitive Edition of Age of Empires 2 on sale last week after they released a new dlc update. It was still a bit overpriced for a 25 year old game at like $(US)10, but I’ve definitely gotten my money’s worth so far.
I’m definitely not an RTS gamer and I’m not really interested in the multiplayer but the campaigns have been a lot of fun. I really wasn’t expecting there to hundreds of hours of just campaigns content so it’s been a pleasant surprise.
The new campaign missions seem a lot longer than what I remembered of the original campaigns. I like that they tutorials now give you some strategy, too.
Planning to finish Dragon age 1 this week. I’m really looking forward to Clair Obscure but I’ll try to finish one RPG first
Do you plan on finishing expansion as well? How do you like the game so far?
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For me later parts of the game were underwhelming and railroaded, also following games made everything inconsequential and small-scale.
It doesn’t help that lorewise every blight before was huge and took multiple years, sometimes decades to end.
While you as a hero disadvantaged every possible way, country - sparsely populated, just 20 years after the last big war, already lost one huge battle, there is low-key civil war going on; circle of magi - broken half of the people dead; dwarfs - reluctant to help; elves - there is like ten of them.
Yet my party wins. First time I’ve played, there was hope that in the end we would at best win some time at worst fail completely.
I’m planning on playing the whole series including the expansion for the first one. But my fingers are really itching for the other RPG and I don’t want to pressure me into playing the expansion. Better to play Clair Obscure in between and enjoy the expansion afterwards.
So far I’m liking the game a lot. I’ve not played any in the series before but I have to say that Baldurs gate 3 seems to be the best part on the series. It’s brilliant how many great parallels can be drawn between the games and im glad for both of them
I recently played Origins and the expansion back to back. The expansion is really good, but there are some stark similarities to the main campaign, especially later on, so I would maybe recommend taking a break after the main campaign, just so the expansion feels more fresh.
