What are you playing currently?

Well, I finally picked up Factorio. Haven't had much time to play it, but I'm hooked. Setting up and debugging supply chains is oddly relaxing, and learning to play the game is a continuous process of realizing just how useful supposedly niche gadgets are.
 
I started playing super mario 64, with an eye towards eventual speedrunning, so that's a lot of fun. The game stays good all these years later.
 
Just finished The Force Unleashed again. Fighting Vader the second time is like really hard.
 
I finally got back onto Starbound with the FU mod installed....Base game is like a much better terraria in space, but the mod makes everything divided into tech trees, and makes about 500-1200% more content in every single aspect of the game. The sheer amount of things to build and mine gives me mixed, but mostly good, feelings.

Edit: Forgot to add, building the mechs and a base on an isolated artificial island on an ocean world whose sole purpose is to manufacture the parts to make a Super Mech for all possible scenarios is my current goal until November. I have managed to get about 30% of the raw materials needed to make that facility. I hope to soon breach the hulls of Pirate vessels with a different mech for each ship!
 
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Playing a bunch of things because I can't focus on anything lately.

Persona 3 Portable, I only beat FES so I'm trying the FeMC route.
Skyrim with some new mods.
Bravely Default. This might be abandoned for a while.
Baten Kaitos. A truly underrated GameCube JRPG with unique mechanics, a god tier OST and unbelievably terrible voice-acting.
 
I am playing Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. It reminded me a bit of Elder Scrolls series, though of those I only played Oblivion in any detail. And Dragon's Dogma is, from what I remember of Oblivion, lot better, gameplay-wise. And I am not talking only about character editor (which is the best I have ever seen in a game), but also combat, inventory management, and so on. Oblivion was just hack, slash, hack, slash, hide, hack slash. In Dragon's Dogma, however, tactics matter: player is encouraged to observe different enemies and adapt to them. Oh, and you also have (gasp!) more than two different attacks. Oblivion did have a more diverse world that was much more fun to explore, now that I think about it, but Dragon's Dogma is hardly half-assed in that regard.
 
Me and a friend couch-potatoed for a while and played through Streets of Rage 4--I've never played any of them before, but it's in that same genre of beat em' up arcade-games as Double Dragon and the like. It was quite entertaining, even if I was dramatically, dramatically, bad at things. It's not even hard combos or anything like that, it's relatively bare-bones and easy to remember, but the mechanics are built around handling heaping helpings of bad guys that get progressively more complex and...well...I am not gud and have never got gud. There. I said it. Still fun, though, even with my character's constant deaths.

Plus, they use that good ol' video-game staple of chicken-dinners that randomly pop out of barrels and lockers that you punch-out for health!

Plots basically an excuse, but the designs for characters, from the main fighters to the villains down even to the mooks that get punched constantly, are all very fun and...semi-stereotypey in the best way? The main characters are a range from a beer-bellied kind of washed-up action-movie type, robot-arms Jaxx-from-Mortal-Kombat-knockoff, to skirt-wearing leather-jacket rocker who reminds me of a badass version of the lady from Streets of Fire (the movie) a LOT. Mooks meanwhile run from Fat cops, blinged-out gangsters, and what look to be Women's Wrestling rejects with mohawks and tube-tops...It's all very....80s/90s action schlock in tone and I'm all in favor of it. Some fun music too (which, according to my friend, has been a selling-point of the series). I actually annoyed her by sitting in the character-select for, like, a solid two minutes just jamming out.

Very fun distraction, and seemed like there was enough there for a lot of entertainment (on the Normal mode I was getting my butt kicked constantly, and there's three or four more tiers of difficulty from there).

On a random note, I don't know what kind of stripper-parents give their daughters names like 'Blaze' or 'Cherry' (or we can talk about 'Axel' as a son's name for a minute as well), but with the rest of the schlocky action-80s/90s vibe, it works and, at least in the case of 'Blaze' I'm all about it. That'd make a hell of a name that wouldn't invite so much mockery (Cherry, on the other hand...)
 
Currently back to playing Victoria 2 and trying out some mod with it(For some reason, PDM doesn’t work, and HPM seems to only work halfway?).
I don’t know who worked on this game, but it’s extremely complicated...
 
I recently played some Empire Total War as Poland-Lithuania. I cheated, edited the esf file to give myself a pile of money to start... was fun just being able to take on a good portion of the world at once. I don't feel as bad because money doesn't give you instant access to the tech tree, so there's that.

But right now, I'm back playing Witcher 3 on Death March. Taking a bit to get back into the groove of things, thank god for New Game+ and Aerondight. Started back on this because my nephew just started playing it and was asking me questions and gave me the itch to play it myself lol.
 
SuperS4 said:
But right now, I'm back playing Witcher 3 on Death March. Taking a bit to get back into the groove of things, thank god for New Game+ and Aerondight. Started back on this because my nephew just started playing it and was asking me questions and gave me the itch to play it myself lol.
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I never got around to finishing the game the first time around, not sure why.
For some reason, I also find it extra hard to make money on the Witcher 3.:unsure:
 
Arlos said:
I never got around to finishing the game the first time around, not sure why.
For some reason, I also find it extra hard to make money on the Witcher 3.:unsure:
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Yeah, selling loot is basically the best way to do it. Which kinda sucks, because that's just a grind at times. Witcher Contracts don't net you a ton of money either, even if you can up the price a bit.

The good thing is, a lot of good gear can be erm, "found" lol.
 
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Yeah, selling loot is basically the best way to do it. Which kinda sucks, because that's just a grind at times. Witcher Contracts don't net you a ton of money either, even if you can up the price a bit.

The good thing is, a lot of good gear can be erm, "found" lol.
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Yeah, that’s basically it. The lack of crafting doesn’t help on the money front.
Though it’s more realistic than having more money than a kingdom by the end of the story, like in usual RPG, it can get a tad bit annoying.
 
Arlos said:
Yeah, that’s basically it. The lack of crafting doesn’t help on the money front.
Though it’s more realistic than having more money than a kingdom by the end of the story, like in usual RPG, it can get a tad bit annoying.
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Well, you can craft, and there is definitely an advantage for doing that. Witcher gear sets have added bonuses when you wear enough pieces of a given set.

The downside to crafting is having to get the designs first, lots of them are easy to find. Sadly, often by the time you can craft it, you can usually just find it somewhere. Save for Witcher sets, those must be crafted.

Also, crafting items and other such can net you a pretty coin as well. If you aren't crafting, might as well sell a lot of it.
 


Currently playing Death's Gambit, a 2D Pixel-Art Metroidvania Soulslike

First game I could really get into in months, the right kind too

Unfortunately relatively obscure and Steam only gave it a 7/10 last I checked

Which is a shame, I actually find the boss fights interesting, there's no fast travel but places are well connected and relatively short to go through especially with a horse and there's lots of builds you can go with

Though, admittedly, I'm just going for a STR-Build and avoid using Feathers because that's the one thing I can lose....doing surprisingly well even without being able to heal against bosses or other enemies.

Maybe "too easy" given that I think I'm halfway done with the game already and I only really started playing on Friday.
 
With my mental state I just haven't been able to focus on anything that has a long term story. I've played a lot of Armored Warfare which is a fun game and started with World of Warships as I wanted a warship focus game and the last I remember playing was Navy Field. From what I hear NF is still going but is being run by a shady as fuck Chinese company, but even then the grind was horrendous past a certain level.

Apart from that, Ive done the occasional point and click in my library. I just haven't been able to afford anything despite some great deals coming up.
 
Lately I've been playing Warframe and Amazing Cultivation Simulator. The latter has been described as a Xianxia version of rimworld. There is some merit to that, but the difficulty curve is pretty harsh. I've had to start new games with lower difficulty several times.
 
I used to play Warframe back in the day, when the game first started right up until you got your own 'spacecraft/lobby'. Not so long ago I reloaded it and was rather confused by everything. It had been so long since i played I really couldn't remember how everything worked.
 
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