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>>38141
Sorry everyone I haven't been using my own topic!

Currently playing:

Call to Arms: Gates of Hell Ostfront
Decent game, pirated it so I can't play online which I think would be fun. I keep losing men/tanks to stupid things in conquest but I feel like that's probably my fault. 8/10

Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Playing this with my friends online when we're free, it's deeply mediocre and repetitive in terms of playing alone but I have got the bug for gaming with the boys and eagerly awaiting when we can play. 6/10

Catherine
Holy shit, this game is miserable, I can see why people say the story is so good because the gameplay is terrible. 4/10

Endoparasitic
Kind of a one trick pony, I kind of expected more variety in gameplay. Alright though. 6/10

Beat 5 games recently
>House of Necrosis
Resident Evil if it was a mystery dungeon/roguelike. I liked it overall but felt it could get boring at times once you got good equipment and knew how to deal with enemies. Thankfully there's post game dungeons that shake things up. I still need to beat the 99 floor dungeon but apparently there's some secret you get from beating it that you can only access from getting all the spells which you have to grind for and I don't feel like that.
>Kill Knight
"Twinstick Doom Eternal" if I wanted to pitch it to someone else. Fast paced game where the player character's kit is tuned for specific enemies and how well you do is knowing when to use X on Y and making sure you have the resources ready for it. Killer aesthetic and music. Pretty difficult. I still want to clear the game on sufferance difficulty and then try and complete sever mode. Sufferance mode doesn't seem too bad but having to do all the stages in one go (they can get pretty long) and being like 2 mistakes from death makes sever mode sound daunting.
>Tormentor X Punisher
Can't really "beat" this game since it's endless but you can loop it once you kill all the bosses. Has a weird learning curve figuring out how to get certain upgrades and beat bosses. I find it fun to play for like 20 minutes to see if I can beat someone else's score for the day. My biggest complaint is that there's no pause button and if you try to press what would be the pause button in any other game it boots you back to the title screen.
>Resident Evil DC
Always wanted to play the 1st RE after beating REmake around 3 times. Overall I found this game to be way easier despite the lack of stuff like quick turn and defense items. The only time I felt things were getting difficult is when hunters show up after you come back from the mansion. Want to play it again as Jill.
>Final Fantasy Legend 2 (or SaGa 2)
I feel mixed on this. I liked FFL1 but FFL2 makes good changes to the combat and classes but the overall experience of the game doesn't feel as fun. The first 2/3s of the game there wasn't any challenging fights, and there's more worlds than in the first game but most of the feel samey and insignificant beyond collecting the magi there and dipping. The last 1/3 of it is what I wish the rest of the game was like. The worlds had a unique aesthetic to them and story+bosses that actually kept my interest. I was expecting Apollo to be the final boss of the game only for them to effectively be a joke fight, not even sure if it's possible to beat them before the fight ends. The final boss is lame and is laughably easier than the random encounters in the final stretch of the game. Overall, it's a game I want to replay since I did end up kneecapping my characters due to lack of knowledge. My human was mediocre since I just uses str and dex weapons with them and they never got good at either to do serious damage. My robot could shit out a ton of damage with xcalibur and gungir but I neglected equipment that gave agi so they always went last and many enemies late game toss out magic which robots don't have much defense for. My mutant never learned a good ability and just spammed flare and heals end game. I lucked out that my monster turned into titania despite being mid the entire game. I decided to look stuff up on gamefaqs and apparently with mutants you can just forsake gambling with them getting god abilities and can just give them equipment early on in the 2 slots they use for abilities, wish I knew that at the start. Don't know when I'll play FFL3 but apparently it's more of a traditional jrpg than 1 and 2 which sounds disappointing.

Decided to replay Expeditions: Viking. God, its so fucking good, one of the most fun evil character roleplays I had in a video game. It is amusing just how many children you get to kill in it.
Contrasting it with Rome, it demonstrates just how much flavour matters when it comes to choices. Neither has any real story branching barring the very end, decisions you make dont alter much, but feel meaningful from roleplay perspective. Do you help village get rid of bandits, team up with desperate shipwreck survivors in raiding the monastery, or slaughter everyone all says something about your character, even if the only impact is a single altered line of dialogue when meeting Northumbian king.

>>45127 this is a fucking sick shopping cart dude

>>45266
Play one of many Russian mods so you wont understand cringe jokes.

>>45267 nah

>>45266
It's ok, the evangelion of fps games isn't for everyone

>>45266
>bored
pick up a book.

>>45266
yeah postal didn't really land with me either. in general I don't really get much out of most 'funny' games like Sunset Overdrive and that kind of thing, just feels, dare I say it, Reddit, or Whedonistic maybe. If you want some dark humor from killing people perhaps you could try the latest Hitman games?

>>38141
EU4

Currently playing Disc Creatures, its an homage to mostly old gen pokemon and older dragon quest. I enjoy it so far.

Played Dispatch, it was pretty good, 9/10. My biggest criticism is with the writing, it was pretty intolerably Whedonistic in the first episode but seemed to calm down as it went on (or maybe it just didn't bother me as much later when the game was in a more light hearted office environment). Also it suffered a lot from trying to shoehorn in the 'are they a traitor' plotline for one of the characters with it being obvious they aren't but refusing to actually explain their actions outside of shit like "I did it to protect you!" and "just trust me bro!". Also the plotline of 'we need to cut someone' felt really forced, I understand sometimes management tells you to do something that you don't agree with and it was needed for the plot they wanted, but I wish I at least got more of an opportunity to express that I didn't agree with the decision. But yeah overall good, I recommend it if you can tolerate capeshit.

It was also funny that they seemed to really be hyping Phenomeman as an Incorruptibile/Invincible character in his first scene with Blazer before revealing he's just depressed and doesn't understand social norms

Actually you know what, I have another criticism, this game really normalises your work colleagues attacking your character, especially women, and it just being played as a joke, that's not a joke, it's fucked up. You can't even complain about it to your boss as your character immediately backtracks and says it was his fault if you pick that option. Cool choice and consequence bro. That's it I'm docking another point, it's only 8/10. Without Sonar I may have docked further.

bought EUV, the price hurts but atleast i can sustain it
first 40 years of ottomans gameplay

>>45314
You could just pirate bro. Not bad though. I got too bored to keep playing by the time we started colonising the Americas, you have to assign each individual little province to an explorer and puppet state and so on (fucking thing SUCKS) unless you want to put it on automation but that's too slow and bad.

Slay the spire
Any good free games anons?

>>45317
Pretty much every game is free unless it has Denuvo. But idk, for freeware ones try Liberal Crime Squad I guess?

>>45312
>9/10
>only list downsides
pretty much the average "recommended" review on steam

>>45319
Well they are more fun to talk about.

>>45316
i had it pirated but tbh i just buy stuff for steam workshop and pirate the DLCs

My winter car.
I had a glace at the steam awards when logging in and while recognizing most of the games, I had only actually played one of them. Is it over for me?

>>45380
>My winter car
Same. It's a grind but pretty fun. Might finally get a wheel/shifter/pedals

Picked up The Crust and The Outer Worlds 2 during the winter sale. The former is basically a typical factory sim combined with something like Surviving Mars. I got the latter to satisfy my itch for a singleplayer FPS.

>>45477
How does Outer Worlds 2 compare to the first one? I really wanted to like that one, but couldnt.

>>45483
Gunplay feels like a step up at least in terms of animations and such. I ran into some weird difficulty spikes that I'm pretty sure weren't present in the first game. I went into this enemy base for a main story quest and enemies just had much bigger health pools and did a shit ton more damage then everything else I ran into.

>>38141

I'm playing ostranauts, and I'm suffering.

Great game though!

Microprose Risk II. It still has the best computer Risk ruleset. Try it out.

>Project Sekai
I've been playing this one for a few years, fun rhythm gacha game, but they just added Animal Crossing to it today.

Replayed some old Hitman games, namely Silent Assassin and Contracts. I wouldn't be able to play SA if this was my first time, that's for sure. The game has too many annoying mechanics, not that it doesn't have a lot of great things about it, of course.
Contracts, on the other hand, is still perfectly playable in 2026. I really like the nihilistic atmosphere in it, there aren't many games like it.

Currently playing Fran Bow. Pretty good, it gives off schizo vibes, all the way until you find your cat. Cats are my only friends irl…..!

>>45549
That reminded me that I have it on Steam even though I hate point'n'clicks. I really lack patience a lot of the time when it comes to puzzles.

I tried Drova and Elex, two spiritual successors of Gothic series. Elex I quit after two hours, the biggest strength of Gothic was its tight detailed map design, Elex got infected by modern open world disease of vast emptiness.
Drova as isometric game obviously does not follow same world design as Gothic, I mean it literally cant do verticality, but it does retain that exciting feeling of exploration. I have to commendate the visuals, usually indie games trying to pull off old-school pixelated graphics end up looking like ass, but Drova is so beautiful and atmospheric. It is the best Gothic-like game I played since Gothic 2, better than Risen or Archolos.

bounced off zomboid last year but i tried again and it's really fun now, even though I suck so much

Got obenseuer after kind of following the development but not really for a couple years. Propably sunk 100h on it in two weeks even though the endgame is pretty much choose your grind and nothing much to do. It has excellent polish, basically no bugs and the worst design choices are minor annoyances. I just wish you could set the rent to zero for the tenants, it's already a charity since the money spent upgrading will never be made back plus it would take the edge off being a slumlord.

not really playing a game. just wanted to say i was watching videos of nier automata and i checked out the nier automata wikipedia page and noticed that there is a picture of Che Guevara on it. although he is not mentioned in the caption.

absolutely addicted to balatro
it's dumb don't start
kind of like a modern version of computer solitaire

What is the best game you have played in recently? I am looking for recommendations.

>>46479
Genre? Solo? Multiplayer?

>>46480
I dont know, I am asking about your favorite.

>>46479
Playing Esoteric Ebb right now, seems pretty sick

OG Ninja gaiden 2 because it is 50% off on xbox store

I replayed FF8. It's surprising how easy and short the game is if you even slightly take advantage of the junction system. I'm not talking about farming 100 ultimas, flares and holies. Simply refining a few card here and there. Drawing some magic here and there. And so many boss fights become trivial. You could bother to junction the appropriate elemental defenses and elemental attacks for different bosses here and there, but what does it get you really? 20 seconds less of battle? The strategy really just boils down to keep hitting them while healing yourself whenever your health is down. Well that's all the old final fantasies to be honest. And another thing, because you want to avoid leveling up as much as possible since the monsters level along side you you have like 25 ish mandatory encounters tops in the whole game. So not that many opportunities to unleash the results of all that card and drawing grinding. I had fun with it anyway.

>>46479
menace for turn based strategy, v rising for top down view coop survival action rpg

just downloaded the crysis remaster, never played the OG but the audio on this is one complete garbage

Just beat Morrowind
I understand the hype, this was so good. Now im going to try out the Tamriel Rebuilt stuff.

>>46519
update, my gpu is fried

Fallout New Vegas and hoi4

>>46663
For the first time?

Emulatan Wizardry for SNES.

>>46660
RIP. Probably the worst time for that to happen since crypto boom