Patient Gamers

I'm playing Starcraft 1 again. We'll see how far I get this time. I'm not certain I've ever finished all the way through Brood War without cheats.

Been making my way through Return of the Obra Dinn. It's so different from anything I've played before. Really neat, though I wish there was some more help/guide info available in game on the mechanics of it. I feel like I stumble into things most of the time.

Last night I finally finished MGS The Twin Snakes, and soon about to be starting MGS2. Was pretty fun even if I had no idea what I was doing most of the time.

I haven’t had much time for games lately unfortunately but when I have found a few minutes here or there, I finally started Morrowind. I’m thinking of making a post about it soon, but it’s still an awesome game 21 years later

Can’t comment on hope good it is yet, but I picked up Disco Elysium for $10 and have been playing that. Also Open Roller Coaster Tycoon 2

Playing through:

• New Vegas
• 13 Sentinels
• Might start on Skyward Sword on Switch, now that I've finished TOTK

Nier Replicant ver. whatever

Haven't played the original, only Automata, and damn this game has a lot of fetch quests. Pretty rewarding from time to time, but the gameplay of the side quests is ass. I hope I don't have to do much more fragile deliveries.

Nothing this week but I built my kids their first PC so looking forward to loading it up with games for them. It's old (i5 4690K + R9 370) but good enough for most games I own.

Monster Sanctuary. It's like a good mix of Legend of Zelda and Pokémon, pixel-style sidescroller with surprisingly deep lore and a lot of quirky monsters with interesting designs to collect. Lots of puzzles, different biomes, interesting abilities, upgradable equipment, an interesting story, rival characters with actual personality (and character development throughout the story) ... all in all a well-made "monster collecting" adventure game.

It is also currently on sale in the Nintendo eshop, at least in Germany (5 Euro). No idea if it's the same world wide, but 5€ are more or less the same as $5 so it is pretty cheap for a game of that size and quality.

I recently finished Grime (I got it for free on EGS). Not 100% tho.

A metroidvania with lots of difficulty to it.

Tho I found it to be a great game, but not amazing.

The bosses have great music and a beautiful design, they offer a great challenge, and often a respoin point is close enough to not be an annoyance.

There was some (multiple) places where area music was absent, and seemed sketchy.

Weapon balance is, well not that great, due to stamina. The game heavily pushes towards using low stamina consumption weapons, which also attack fast and do low damage per hit.

Higher damage per hit weapons are slower and use more stamina which is very punishing.

The inability to change the mouse binds is also a disappointment. Tho good thing I had ghub to create macros for the game and allow me to change those.

I picked up Dredge on sale a few weeks ago and got the platinum trophy recently. It's my first platinum trophy to ever get. The game was well worth the price even if I hadn't gotten it on sale.

Baldur's Gate 3! It's such an amazing game that I used a week of vacation time to do nothing except play that game. I've never done anything like that before. Forewarning, laying on the couch for a week straight doesn't feel great physically.

Just Cause 2. The grind is pretty insane but it‘s a fun game with some quirks. I legit think the game would‘ve profited if it was only half as big lol

It‘s an old game and has issues on modern PCs, if you experience crashes (very likely), then do some or all of the following: Avoid the skull island in the middle of the map, enable Win 7 compatability mode, run as admin, turn decals and bokeh off in the graphics options. I‘d also suggest installing a hookshot mod that raises the distance you can hook to, otherwise getting anywhere on the stupidly huge map is gonna be a pain.

I'm getting back into the witcher 3 horse. Ive played it on and off over the years but never completed it. I'm looking forward to putting more time into it because its a really cool game so far

Control and Fallout 3.

Control is a masterclass at world building and storytelling.

Fallout 3 is as excellent as always, but even on the Steam Deck it suffers from random crashes. Save often.

Assassins Creed: Odyssey, but wait for the sales.

I'm playing Paper Mario 64 for the first time, it's not a typical Mario game by any stretch but it's an ok jrpg.

Starcraft 2. Two friends and I have been going through a 3-player coop version of the single player campaigns. We just finished the first one, onto the expansions now. It has been pretty fun.

-Ori and the Will of the Wisps on Steam Deck

-Entropy : Zero 2 on desktop

They've both been amazing, especially Entropy. Can't believe it's free

Rip. And. Tear.

Currently working my way through Doom Eternal and I think it’s one of the best first person shooters I’ve ever played. If you ever even touch a FPS game, you’ve gotta play this. The music alone is worth the price of admission.

Side projects I have are Tails Noir, It Takes Two (also an incredible game imo), and Crash Nitro Kart. I have Nitro Kart on a bit of pause since the steam deck can’t emulate it well. Will have to move emulation and saves over to my PC sometime.

Am a bit broke at the moment so I recently started a new island on Animal Crossing New Horizons. That should keep me busy until the holiday sales arrive.

• Metro Exodus

• Soul Reaver 1 & 2

• Does "Insurgency" count? Multiplayer still has players

Timberborn, Europa universalis 4 and the perfect Tower 2 😊

I'm replaying Bug Fables, which is a kind of spiritual successor to the first two Paper Mario games. Definitely can recommend if you like that style of game!

Don't really get the drive to play games much nowadays, but when I do I usually hop onto deep rock galactic or vermintide 2.

Its just so satisfying to shut off the brain and cleave through hordes of enemies with a nuke or a big sword

Nothing right now but something to keep in mind for the future. I spent the last week playing "the Finals " and it was legitimately the most fun I've had in an online game in a long time. The open beta ended on Sunday and it has left a void in me. I don't feel like playing anything else, I just want to play more of the Finals.

So that's my recommendation. When the Finals comes out it's definitely worth trying out.

I re-downloaded the VR game until you fall, after not playing it for a couple years. It's really fun but it's sweaty as hell fighting for my life in there XD

• Project Zomboid
• Idling to Rule the gods (free)
• Blade & Sorcery (VR)

I just finished Batman Arkham Knight and started Breath of The Wild... So far I'm liking it!

I don't know if I'm so noob, but I'm feeling Zelda is a bit harder at the start than Batman lol.

Started another playtrough of Kenshi.

I'm loving "night of the dead" so much, it feels so much like pubg lite modded into a single player game (to the point I suspect it's that or something similar), it's got a pretty big open world with buildings that for the most part make sense, you can tell the devs put a lot of effort into making it feel cohesive even if the inside layout of some buildings doesn't make that much sense. I'm not big on the tower defense aspect of it but it's growing on me.

If you have a reason to and/or interest in introducing your littlest ones to video games, "king boo" is really good, mind you it's for really small children, great as a self rewarding teaching time to learn about controlling their frustrations and it also works as a reward for good behavior. I call it the dark souls of 3 yearolds (no combat, only vibes).

I finished Alan Wake tonight…maaaan I have no idea what just happened.

Kingdom Come Deliverance. Occasionally it's a bit tedious but I appreciate a Fantasy RPG without the fantasy as a change of pace, particularly since I enjoy history of that period. I've liked it enough that I'm doing a Hardcore run straight after, and taking away much of the UI clutter is something I appreciate (especially with a mod to remove the compass altogether). Not to mention not relying on quest markers adds another element of immersion which would probably annoy me on a first run but adds something to the second run.

SW Jedi: Fallen Order

I stopped playing a while a go at an annoying boss fight but this week I stuck it on easy mode and continued on. It's a great game so far and also mostly suitable to play around my kids so they watch. The giant spiders freak us all out though...