Another week another thread. Whatcha y’all playing? And why is it Baldur’s gate 3?
@chloyster
Not a new game, but I’ve been replaying Undertale as part of a large randomized multiworld. Every item or big event I unlock turns into a random item or unlock for somebody else’s game. And random items in their games are sent to me as random items in mine (or another game). It’s called Archipelago, it’s really fun and there are games you wouldn’t expect to be supported (like The Witness). It’s called Archipelago.Oh cool! I’ve been really wanting to try out Archipelago but the setup for it all seems pretty involved. Still really want to give it a try sometime
Fallout 4, since it released on GOG this week.
Do you usually wait for the DRM-free release for games?
Yes. I am old and patient, and have a lot of games to play. I also really dislike DRM.
I’ve been playing Subnautica Below Zero. Loved the first game and I’ve been meaning to try the second for ages. Nice and relaxing expect when it isn’t.
Fontaine just opened in Genshin, so I put Baldur’s Gate on hold for a bit to do the new stuff. I also went back to play a bit of Mass Effect 2, since I was in the middle of a trilogy run when BG3 came out. I’m sure I’ll be back to BG3 soon, now that I’ve got all the Fontaine areas at +65% exploration.
Funny, I’ve been replaying the Mass Effect trilogy as well (through Legendary edition), and I’m also on Mass Effect 2. ME 1 holds up more decently than I expected with the LE changes, but ME 2 is just such a better game in almost every way. Really enjoying spending time with these characters again. Even with other games going on you can always hop back in and do a mission or two in ME 2, the save system lets you make some good progress even if you don’t have a ton of time. Femshep for life.
Ironically, ME2 is my least favorite of the trilogy, because plot-wise, it’s worse than just being a plot cul-de-sac because it undoes everything set up in 1 and sets ME3 up for failure by introducing more plot lines that have to be resolved. I know everyone loves it because of the characters and BioWare changing a lot of mechanics so it’s more fun to play, but I like the trilogy for the story, and ME2 really fails, story wise, as the middle part of a trilogy, because it doesn’t advance the story set up in ME1 - it ends with us in the exact same place, story-wise, only with more baggage. It’s got a great series of individual stories and is good as an anthology, but hurts the overall story of the trilogy.
I really love this video on it, since it really explains how ME2 wasn’t actually good for story of the trilogy: Mass Effect 2 Broke the Franchise.
Fontaine is looking pretty nice. I need to start the quest headed there now that I finished the main story in Sumeru.
Fontaine has been really great, honestly. I had gotten burned out of Genshin and had only been doing dailies and none of the events for a while now (I did the bare minimum of the summer event then didn’t touch it again), but Fontaine has gotten me back in. I really like the underwater mechanics and just swimming around and exploring.
Cool! Few games can get underwater movement right, I need to get to it
They iterated on how you controlled the pari in Sumeru, and they really nailed it. It’s very smooth. The only thing that can be rough is when you have to do underwater combat, because suddenly you’ve got up and down thrown into the fight, but luckily fighting underwater is pretty rare.
Besides the obvious BG3, I picked up Book of Hours yesterday and spent the day playing it. It’s a very cozy puzzle game
Book of Hours
In my case: Instead of Baldur’s Gate 3. I can’t find time for Baldur’s Gate any more since I started Book of Hours. It’s just too good. It’s one of those games where I just don’t want to stop playing. Just one more book. Light LEAKS through the CRACKS. My mind is BRIGHTER than it EVER was. THE HIGHER I RISE THE MORE I SEE.
Trying to learn Dark Souls 3. 20 hours in and finally getting used to the controls. Beat the second boss with 2 deaths so feeling a tiny bit less despair for now.
I started playing Vampire Survivor on mobile last week and I’m so addicted. I know I’m late to the party. I had heard about it many times but I never played the Desktop version because I wasn’t a fan of the 16-bit graphics. But a few days ago I saw it in the Play store for free and decided to try it. Wow! I’m so impressed by this little game. The game play is fun and satisfying. There are plenty of unlocks and secrets in the base game to keep you busy. Well worth a try. Once you get powered up a bit and you unlock some new characters it’s really addictive.
It just came out on switch so I’ve been playing too, it’s really fun! The maps are much more interesting than Brotato
I come back to finish off a few more unlocks every so often, and it seems like the list keeps growing. Great little game, very trippy towards the end of the “story” as well.
It really does get pretty trippy. I’ve been working through the secrets to unlock all the other characters. Some of them are pretty funny, others have curious quirks.
Same old same old. I only have a Switch, so mostly MarioKart while my bones disintegrate waiting for Silksong and Hades II.
If anyone has any metroidvania rec’s, I’m all ears. Already played both Ori games, HK, HAAK, Unbound. Haven’t found much else in the Nintendo Shop that appeals to me.
If you’re interested in a roguelike metroidvania, I’d highly recommend A Robot Named Fight. There’s also the Batman Arkham collection that just came out on Switch, and the first game, Asylum, is a 3D metroidvania.
Metro 2033 and Have a Nice Death
I finally started looking into emulating on my phone, so I’ve been playing some games from my childhood. Mostly Alleyway and Pokemon Red, with a little Harvest Moon thrown in.
After years of hearing so much about the games, I loaded up pokemon on my retro handheld.
Started with Ruby for no reason in particular.
I’m splitting my time between that and D4.
I also have the following games on the back burner at various stages of completion:
Deep rock Galactic LoZ: LTTP Last of Us Part1 on PC Tiny Tina’s wonderlands
There’s more, I’m just too tired to go look at my “recent” queue in steam…
Any suggestions for games that I should play on my retro handheld, it supports everything from neogeo up to ps1… More or less.
“Stray Gods” is an incredibly beautiful game. I was turned off by the playstyle at first, but then I embraced it and got really invested in the characters and the story. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Greek mythology and/or fantastic stories about interpersonal drama and enjoys games with tough dialogue choices.
The soundtrack also!!! It’s a musical game and the songs are all SO BEAUTIFUL. I teared up a few times.
I’m trying to beat Final Fantasy Tactics - I never got past Act 1 as a kid. I’m currently up through Golgarion Execution Grounds. Turns out the secret is to not bomb in all-offense and get nuked into the ground. Who knew?
Hey now, I’m in Diablo 4, with a dash of Texas chainsaw massacre, while trying to play through persona 5
The OG Splinter Cell. I modded my original Xbox not top long ago and am looking to play games on it so it wasn’t a waste so I figured why not give it a try?
I am enjoying it so far but I’m used to playing the new Hitman games where the AI is rather predictable and I can gun my way out of most situations. I just beat the Kalinatek level and feel like I need to finish the game at this point.
I don’t know if I need to play one game after the other to full understand the overall plot or what game I should stop at if I just want to play the best in the series.
Not sure if I’ll play Baldur’s Gate 3 because I own the first two on multiple systems and haven’t beaten them
There is a bit of a continuing story in Splinter Cell, but for the most part, each one is its own story. I’d say I was fairly unimpressed with Pandora Tomorrow and Double Agent, but neither is bad. Conviction is very different from the games before it but still plenty of fun, and Blacklist somehow manages to marry Conviction’s gameplay with the classic gameplay of the series in a modern way, but Michael Ironside was battling cancer at the time, so Fisher was unfortunately recast. If you’re asking the average person which one is best, most will say Chaos Theory, and then you’ll get a contingent of people such as myself who prefer Blacklist, but CT is still great.
As for the old Baldur’s Gate games, no better time than now to go through them. I’m inching closer to finishing 2 after beating 1 earlier this month. They’re great.
