Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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I've been meaning to play some old Japanese games to test my language learning, so I booted up a PC Engine dungeon crawler called Brandish and ended up fistfighting dinosaurs that look suspiciously like a sitting US president
It's been pretty fun so far and I enjoyed some of the ridiculous mechanics that screw you over, like how there is an "HP poison" item that looks completely identical to "HP potion" in your inventory and if you try to stack it onto your normal potions it ruins them lol
Started Playing Baldur's Gate 3 and I'm enjoying it
My kids talked me in to playing minecrap. I'm 46 and I've never played it once before this weekend. Im mining, then I'm crafting.
Also playing the usual, GTA:SA multiplayer. I've been playing it since it released in 2006 or 2007 i think. And i suck at it still.
Im not a g#mer, let alone a G*mer. Ever see people who cannot pass training levels/skill building levels? Where every single jump is a trial by fire for the person holding the controller?
That's me. I grew up w a single button and an 8way joystick. Then i got a Nintendo, which has two buttons. Thats 100% more buttons. I never got past this level of skill. I bought both Zelda TOTK and BOTW because of how cool they looked and how much fun i might have. And Im so bad at those games. I can't remember moves to save my life. Im all thumbs, or all left feet or something. So i just fuck around in SAMP.
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And Im so bad at those games. I can't remember moves to save my life. Im all thumbs, or all left feet or something. So i just fuck around in SAMP.
This is what I do when I play a fighting game.
I just don't have the skill to pull off those timings. Makes immensely frustrated
I won the crab game. 
Blue prince continues to consume me, I am working on what I think is the final big puzzles which require quite a bit of learning the lore of the world to solve which I'm really enjoying.
Finished main storyline missions on No Man's Sky. I was heading back from second galaxy to my main base, flew to a space station and while I was doing stuff, a squiddy boy landed, I did a quick search on the rarity and bought it off the pilot. Turns out, it's the most rare regular exotic in game and some people have been playing for thousands of hours and haven't seen one. I clocked 40 hours at the point that I saw it. Lucky as fuck. It's ugly and I probably will only use it to show off on the Anomaly but it's really cool that I snagged one.
I did "A Servant No Longer" in CK2, taking a young eunuch duke under the Abbasids and ruling an empire of a certain size before he died. I just took over the Abbasids because that was easiest. After I became caliph I became a satanist and grew my dick and balls back but died in battle before I could sire an heir. Still a good time
Now I'm trying to do a bunch of achievements in one run:
My start of choice is the classic Haesteinn in 867. On my current run I've got my kingdom in India set up but having second thoughts about the routing because it's more toward the south of India, so it'll take longer to get to Mongolia. I also only lumped Viking Ummah into this because islam would get me out of gavelkind succession and I don't want to spend tech on increasing legalism until I get my capital settled
Might restart with a slightly more optimized route and defensive pacts off so I can carve a path north easier. Only gotta hope the Western protectorate doesn't blob like it did in my Aladdin game
Hell yeah, Multi-Achievement Sniping is my favorite thing to do in CK/EU/Vicky. Good luck!
Yeah this looks like the way I want to do it because I can lump another cheevo in from taking over Rajasthan
Just installed STALKER Gamma the other day, doing a one life play through as my first
You're hardcore
Thx 😁 I really got into Stalker when Stalker 2 came out (I saved gift card money to be able to afford it) and my love for the setting keeps on growing. Whats your history with the game?
GAMMA was my first Stalker game. I've spent probably a hundred hours in it and would still only consider myself a beginner. Stalker 2 was such a let down coming out of GAMMA, I un-installed 2 after maybe 10 hours and immediately reinstalled GAMMA.
Thats fair, at release 2 was pretty rough but its gotten significantly better, and will continue to do so. What specifically didnt you like about it?
I think the gunsmithing, crafting, base building, scarcity, and survival elements are what sets GAMMA apart. The Zone feels a lot more alive and punishing.
I love the setting and atmosphere too, I just think GAMMA does it so much better.
Thats fair I feel like progressing in Gamma will be way way harder than in Stalker 2. Also, have you read Roadside picnic the old Soviet boom Stalker was based on?
I have not, guessing it’s pretty good given it kinda spawned a genre.
I’ve seen both A Visitor to a Museum and Dead Man’s Letters but not Stalker itself. I’d guess both those movies were pretty heavily inspired by it.
I haven't read it or watched Stalker, I would like read it after college lets out, if you want to put together a watch party for the movie I’d be down, pm me. Also by the by if you want somebody to chill and play games with sometimes hit me up, Ill figure smth out.
Blue Prince is pretty good ngl
Terra Invicta
By the same people who did the Long War XCOM overhaul mod. Anybody into 4x sci-fi solar system simulation/management should check it out. Still in EA but has come a long way from release.
How is it wrt tedium compared to Long War, which imo often felt long for the sake of length itself?
It is incredibly tedious, micromanagey, many confusing and/or obscure mechanics. I wouldn't say its long for the sake of being long, but in the later game the micromanagement required gets a little ridiculous in my experience.
Still scratches a hard sci-fi itch that I haven't found from a game in a long time.
Lol you've confirmed all my worst fears, I'll steer clear and maybe watch a let's play at some point. Thanks!
If you're looking for someone who plays extremely well/efficient and edits their content so its easier to watch than just watching someone play a spreadsheet simulator, I'd go with PerunGamingAU. I think he's considered one of the technically best Youtubers that make content by the community and he cuts out the long boring parts.
Nice, thanks for the rec, might check it out when I get home 
i just got off work and made dinner but then I played a game of Super Mega Baseball 3 and listened to "Type 56: The Story of China's Army" youtube channel
I'm almost through Chrono Trigger for the first time in 25ish years.
Oblivion is as good as it was when I was in high school.
unsure if good or bad thing.
Finished up the main campaign for Battletech (2018) and now I'm kinda bouncing between things trying find the next thing to stick with.
Andor hype had me playing Partisans 1941 a bit. Set up a PS3 emulator and played a little MGS4. Just plinking away at games until something grabs me lol.
Would you recommend Battletech? I've heard a lot of people hype up Roguetech, but not much about the base game itself.
It delivers on the whole "running a mercenary outfit" fantasy imo. The tactical combat is pretty similar to the tabletop game, and there's a light management layer. The pilots have little to no interaction (just random single choice events), but there's a support cast that have a little more flavor.
I had to restart once since it felt like some of the pilot builds were a lot more useful than others - it took quite a few mistakes to figure out what worked well. The mechs are simple enough to respec, so it invites experimentation - pilots can't respec and are kinda annoying to replace (maybe I was running too lean of a crew idk)
Overall, if that sounds appealing, it's probably worth it on discount or 
Give more Mario party like games. I think most of my game related posts are rts related. But all I desire is a smash ultimate/mario kart 8 deluxe Mario party game. Give me 20 boards with 200+ minigames
There's Fusion Frenzy on the original Xbox - I don't remember it being particularly good though
Playing Pokemon Silver because it dawned on me that I never ran Sudowoodo for more than one gym, despite it being a major player for a large chunk of your quest. Also tired af after a long work week and plenty of exercise.
Currently seeing if I can make Ledyba work, but even Sunkern has been more reliable on story modes. Why is Ledian's evolution so far away? It's not like it evolves into a good Poke? Great visual design, so I soldier on.
Taking a break from Baldur's Gate 3 on the urge to play War for the Overworld DLC. I beat the main campaign years ago, so this was an effort to finish up the rest of the game.
Getting back into Besiege after having dropped it for nearly a decade. I was hoping to prove myself an engineering genius, but at the moment I feel more like Wile E. Coyote.
Ended up getting the full game of First Beserker: Khazan after enjoying the demo.
I had really been wanting to play Clair Obscur: Expidition 33 after seeing all trailers, but haven't started yet and not sure if I will if I stick with FSB in the mean time.
I have been obsessed with vintage story recently. I have been trying to search for mature fruit trees to take saplings back to my base AND trying to insulate my wooden home from lighting strikes by covering it with cob.
Mostly Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate lately. I got Pretendo set up so I can do online lobbies at some point but I’m not sure when that will actually happen. I also started Metroid Prime a week ago but haven’t played it since… I keep thinking about it but then losing motivation.
TIL what Pretendo is. Nice.
Still grinding for coins in MK8 on Wii U. I only gotta' do it for another 2 hours I think and then I'm done. Then I'm gunna go back to playing LSD: Dream Emulator. I was doing a little bit of that game every day but I fell off and I think I'll just try to power through until I beat the 365 in-game days. I'm around day 60 in it I think.
New V rising free expansion just came out. There's some cool new cosmetic sets too, but I can't be buyin shit rn
Marvel Rivals - Started playing with some of my wow guild mates, v fun. I don’t get super into hero shooters but it’s a fun thing to do with friends.
Dredge - Finally got around to pirating it, nice game to play while my spouse and I listen to a podcast
Baldur’s Gate 3 - Slow progress, don’t have that much time I can really sit down with headphones on and focus on something but it’s so good.
been getting back into rhythm games for a while now. this week's been mostly noisz st∆rlivht and sound voltex. also played a bit of vivid/stasis
Playing through bloodborne finally and honestly while i love it its honestly not in my top 3 fromsoft games
I would put it on par with ds3 but below sekiro and elden ring
played some MW3 (2011) survival mode, forgot how good the MP9 is earlier rounds and managed to down both AH-6s with one airstrike on a helicopter round which was pretty cool
the setup on Underground where you put two grenade launcher sentries in the bus stop at the top of the map and they just demolish anyone coming up the stairs of the station across the street is really fun lol, enemies just flying around ragdolling everywhere with a ton of explosions going off, you can pretty much coast until the mid 20s that way
Picked up the new DLC and started a new Tropico6 sandbox island. So far so good.
The eternal grind continues in Warframe. Got Grendel, and his Prime, Xaku Prime, Hildryn, and Gyre all cooking/done. Done the bulk of the 1999 content, though still need Temple and a bunch of the Coda weapons. Fuck Kuva Liches, and double fuck Sisters of Parvos, I hate the Granum Void. Probably pick up Qorvex next, only missing one of his parts, then Sevagoth, and slowly continue the 1/wk missions for Styanax (which suck). Might also just grind out Vox Solaris to get Baruuk by running Exploiter Orb while the thermia fissures event is active.
Soon, though, I'll be into The Bad Times because all the frames I need will only drop from a single super-repetitive mission. Koumei, Citrine, Jade, Temple, and Protea are all miserable farms. Voruna didn't feel as bad because at least her mission can double as an Omnia Fissure.