TagPro - looks like a really simple webgame, but is honestly one of the best games I’ve ever played. Extremely simple rules, but hard to master. A lot of skillful plays, but also a lot of choas and fun. The community is overall nice and positive (sometimes individual players get a bit frustrated).
If you want to give it a try, go ahead - no account needed. Currently, only the US servers seem to be busy.
It was given away a while ago (by Intel I think?), you could chose one of many and I chose this. My laptop is not powerful so it looked ugly and a little laggy, but it is fun. I was thinking to buy II or I so it could run better in that laptop.
Gekishin Squadra
F2P, but fun. Paid features are cosmetics and unlocking characters immediately, but you can unlock them playing.
I’ve been playing a lot of skirmish matchups with the ai recently. Its a good looking game too so makes great screenshots.
Pikmin
I only have the Emperor Bulblax left to do. I initially started the Nintendo Switch version but changed over to GameCube emulation on the PC so I can test out RetroAchievements. Its been fun and I’ll probably move on to Pikmin 2 soon.
Fable 2
My play through has stalled for a couple weeks now…
I’ve sunk so many hours into Conquest campaigns in Gates of Hell. I’m always a fan of strategy games which showcase artillery, and GoH is among the best in terms of visual and audio design. Of course, it’s a little incongruous when you roll out your big guns, and see they’ve got a range max of 350 meters, but I guess concessions must be made if you’re making a tactical scale RTS.
This was a game earlier today with a great shot overlooking a chapel area in the middle of the map. All the detail is quite overwhelming at the start but its so good when you dig in to it.
I went back and finished Chrono Ark. Well, okay, I still haven’t won a run with every character yet and I have some DLC content to get to if I want. But I reached both endings and the epilogue. Which, as a note for anyone who gets this game because of my recommendation: your game might bug out and unlock the epilogue before you’ve seen both endings (it did for me and I sadly started watching it unbeknownst before reaching the second ending). Try to avoid watching it until at least after seeing the second ending, or it won’t make a lot of sense. Though having watched it now it really would make the most sense after having reached golden friendship with all investigators first.
Anyway, I really loved this game. I’ve already waxed about it in these threads. The gameplay is really fantastic, and while the actual prose itself isn’t always the best (partially due to translation I’ve been told) I really enjoyed the story and several of the themes it touched on. It surprised me at several moments, and even with the prose sometimes lacking it still managed to land the big moments for me.
I do have one small complaint, and that is in the marriage of cinematic storytelling and a challenging roguelike deckbuilder. Now granted, this might be exacerbated by me sucking at the game. But I did find the climax of the story somewhat frustrating since it took me a couple of attempts to clear the final two bosses. And that’s fine in a roguelike usually, you shouldn’t expect to win against the final boss on the first attempt. But here the story and the presentation was all laid out in a way that made the losses feel very bad - I just wanted to see the conclusion of the story. Especially since unlike something like a Souls game or whatever it’s not just like you can gradually work on beating the final boss. You have to invest over three hours into another run just to see if this time maybe your deck is good enough. Though I will say: there is a “Hope” difficulty meant for those who just want the story, and maybe I should have used that when it was time to see the endings. So it might be partially user error.
Having gotten that off my chest though, it still does nothing to tarnish my overall rating of the game. It’s a phenomenal roguelike deckbuilder that will appeal to anyone who likes the genre purely through gameplay, and on top of that it’s a full fledged visual novel with an actually surprisingly interesting story. I will definitely keep playing it, maybe I won’t 100% it but I would like to explore the DLCs and try out some of the team setups and combos I still haven’t tried out.
still bg3. im just finishing up at the last light inn before I head out to the cursed lands. sorta screwed up on my light spell before so gotta play with that.
Just wrapped up the Trails in the Sky FC remake and Trails beyond the Horizon, which means I’m now fully up-to-date with the Trails series! If you like JRPGs I cannot recommend the series enough.
Up next will be Dread Delusion. I’ve heard the gameplay isn’t fantastic but the world looks very interesting to explore.
made a bit of progress in every class and one promotion, still learning the game tho a definitely a long road a head of me before I even think of jumping into higher difficulties. it’s nice to play, even with random dwarves in every run
Shadow gambit the cursed crew
got that tactical, sneaking itch to strach, and the game doing it very well for now. I enjoy the story quite a bit, the humor is a nice addition as well, so overall I can only recommend. Crew arcs between mission is great element to explore backstories
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader. If you liked Owlcat’s other RPGs, definitely give this one a try. It’s strictly turn-based, more like their Pathfinder game had a baby with XCOM, but it feels faster than playing Wrath of the Righteous in turn-based. Story is pretty engaging so far, even though I went in knowing very little about Warhammer. Loving some of the characters, which I feel is always one of Owlcat’s strong suits.
Open source factory tower defense. What more can I say?
Forza Horizon 5
When I only have a short time to play, I’ll open this up for some dumb fun. Just recently got the Hot Wheels DLC, and that’s definitely worth trying. Takes a normally half-serious racing game and adds loops and boosters and upside down track and all kinds of other bonkers shit. So now you’re taking real-life serious cars on completely ludicrous, impossible tracks through cool scenery. Huge smiles were had.
Very old indeed but I’ve been on Carrion Fields a lot lately, revisiting old haubts, and it’s still as fun as I recall. Uniquely for a MUD they even released on Steam with a client package and everything.
In the past I took characters very seriously and any time I died (let alone faced down the inevitable permadeath), it was emotionally crippling. This time around I’m mature enough to see the silly and just have fun with it.
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MGS: Peace Walker which so far has the best gameplay out of all MGS games I’ve played but I hate the boss fight
Drakengard 1: I like the story but the gameplay gets kinda boring but I’m still close to the beginning
Resident Evil 1 (PSX): I finally get why people love this series, I hated REmake but this makes actually want to play other RE games
TagPro - looks like a really simple webgame, but is honestly one of the best games I’ve ever played. Extremely simple rules, but hard to master. A lot of skillful plays, but also a lot of choas and fun. The community is overall nice and positive (sometimes individual players get a bit frustrated).
If you want to give it a try, go ahead - no account needed. Currently, only the US servers seem to be busy.
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Total War: Warhammer III
It was given away a while ago (by Intel I think?), you could chose one of many and I chose this. My laptop is not powerful so it looked ugly and a little laggy, but it is fun. I was thinking to buy II or I so it could run better in that laptop.
Gekishin Squadra
F2P, but fun. Paid features are cosmetics and unlocking characters immediately, but you can unlock them playing.
Anomaly Agent. Nice game.
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Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
I’ve been playing a lot of skirmish matchups with the ai recently. Its a good looking game too so makes great screenshots.
Pikmin
I only have the Emperor Bulblax left to do. I initially started the Nintendo Switch version but changed over to GameCube emulation on the PC so I can test out RetroAchievements. Its been fun and I’ll probably move on to Pikmin 2 soon.
Fable 2
My play through has stalled for a couple weeks now…
I’ve sunk so many hours into Conquest campaigns in Gates of Hell. I’m always a fan of strategy games which showcase artillery, and GoH is among the best in terms of visual and audio design. Of course, it’s a little incongruous when you roll out your big guns, and see they’ve got a range max of 350 meters, but I guess concessions must be made if you’re making a tactical scale RTS.
This was a game earlier today with a great shot overlooking a chapel area in the middle of the map. All the detail is quite overwhelming at the start but its so good when you dig in to it.
Marathon. I play(ed) Destiny before and avoided PvP but Marathon is a great game.
I’m enjoying being free from gear fear. I’ve let it all go, just playing for fun. It’s great.
I think it’s kinda boring personally, but I do get what you’re saying.
Oh the new one, not the original I assume?
Yeah, new one.
That’s cool, I quite enjoyed Destiny’s PVP back in the day so I’m quietly, and perhaps naively, excited for it
Chrono Ark
I went back and finished Chrono Ark. Well, okay, I still haven’t won a run with every character yet and I have some DLC content to get to if I want. But I reached both endings and the epilogue. Which, as a note for anyone who gets this game because of my recommendation: your game might bug out and unlock the epilogue before you’ve seen both endings (it did for me and I sadly started watching it unbeknownst before reaching the second ending). Try to avoid watching it until at least after seeing the second ending, or it won’t make a lot of sense. Though having watched it now it really would make the most sense after having reached golden friendship with all investigators first.
Anyway, I really loved this game. I’ve already waxed about it in these threads. The gameplay is really fantastic, and while the actual prose itself isn’t always the best (partially due to translation I’ve been told) I really enjoyed the story and several of the themes it touched on. It surprised me at several moments, and even with the prose sometimes lacking it still managed to land the big moments for me.
I do have one small complaint, and that is in the marriage of cinematic storytelling and a challenging roguelike deckbuilder. Now granted, this might be exacerbated by me sucking at the game. But I did find the climax of the story somewhat frustrating since it took me a couple of attempts to clear the final two bosses. And that’s fine in a roguelike usually, you shouldn’t expect to win against the final boss on the first attempt. But here the story and the presentation was all laid out in a way that made the losses feel very bad - I just wanted to see the conclusion of the story. Especially since unlike something like a Souls game or whatever it’s not just like you can gradually work on beating the final boss. You have to invest over three hours into another run just to see if this time maybe your deck is good enough. Though I will say: there is a “Hope” difficulty meant for those who just want the story, and maybe I should have used that when it was time to see the endings. So it might be partially user error.
Having gotten that off my chest though, it still does nothing to tarnish my overall rating of the game. It’s a phenomenal roguelike deckbuilder that will appeal to anyone who likes the genre purely through gameplay, and on top of that it’s a full fledged visual novel with an actually surprisingly interesting story. I will definitely keep playing it, maybe I won’t 100% it but I would like to explore the DLCs and try out some of the team setups and combos I still haven’t tried out.
still bg3. im just finishing up at the last light inn before I head out to the cursed lands. sorta screwed up on my light spell before so gotta play with that.
Just wrapped up the Trails in the Sky FC remake and Trails beyond the Horizon, which means I’m now fully up-to-date with the Trails series! If you like JRPGs I cannot recommend the series enough.
Up next will be Dread Delusion. I’ve heard the gameplay isn’t fantastic but the world looks very interesting to explore.
Death Stranding 2 just released on Steam so that’s what the next 4 business weeks will go towards
Deep rock galactic
made a bit of progress in every class and one promotion, still learning the game tho a definitely a long road a head of me before I even think of jumping into higher difficulties. it’s nice to play, even with random dwarves in every run
Shadow gambit the cursed crew
got that tactical, sneaking itch to strach, and the game doing it very well for now. I enjoy the story quite a bit, the humor is a nice addition as well, so overall I can only recommend. Crew arcs between mission is great element to explore backstories
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader. If you liked Owlcat’s other RPGs, definitely give this one a try. It’s strictly turn-based, more like their Pathfinder game had a baby with XCOM, but it feels faster than playing Wrath of the Righteous in turn-based. Story is pretty engaging so far, even though I went in knowing very little about Warhammer. Loving some of the characters, which I feel is always one of Owlcat’s strong suits.
Rogue Trader RPG mentioned!
This week, I been playing…
Mindustry
Open source factory tower defense. What more can I say?
Forza Horizon 5
When I only have a short time to play, I’ll open this up for some dumb fun. Just recently got the Hot Wheels DLC, and that’s definitely worth trying. Takes a normally half-serious racing game and adds loops and boosters and upside down track and all kinds of other bonkers shit. So now you’re taking real-life serious cars on completely ludicrous, impossible tracks through cool scenery. Huge smiles were had.
Very old indeed but I’ve been on Carrion Fields a lot lately, revisiting old haubts, and it’s still as fun as I recall. Uniquely for a MUD they even released on Steam with a client package and everything.
In the past I took characters very seriously and any time I died (let alone faced down the inevitable permadeath), it was emotionally crippling. This time around I’m mature enough to see the silly and just have fun with it.