Hey everyone, hope you are all doing well. I continue to sink most of my free time plowing through Persona 5 Royal. Also a little Balatro on my phone on the side. Hope you all have a good week!
playing hoi4 and taking estrogen, as the lord intended
I recently finished Esoteric Ebb. I think its worse than Disco Elysium BUT I still think its quite good and worth playing. Its overall more upbeat and for the most part lighter and less serious than Disco Elysium. Esoterics Ebbs tone is more fairytale like and whimsical. Oh and it is less leftwing than Diso. Like I get the impression that Esoteric Ebb was done by a well meaning Socdem where as Disco was done by real Marxists™.
I give Esoteric Ebb one Octahedron Gloink
I believe I am now about halfway or more through Act 3 of Baldur’s Gate 3, next game I play will be strictly of a single digit length in hours.
I also tried out Dome Keeper with the demo, really cool ideas in it, and it’s made in Godot which I appreciate
I finished my my final FTL achievements, and I’ve installed Multiverse. Holy hell can you do some absolutely absurd things in this mod!
I’m currently roaming around with a ship full of Rockman Cultists led by their High Priest, who can go sicko mode and wipe out even Mantis crew in seconds without significant risk.
I started Another Crab’s Treasure and having a good time so far! It’s a little easy, but Going Under by the same team managed to get decently challenging towards the end
lots of stardew valley co-op lately, i’ve never done a proper co-op farm before but a friend and i started a consistently played one and it’s a good time. also a lot of nintendo 64 stuff on my own, specifically playing kirby 64 for the billionth time
ds1 remastered
New Londo is really realy cool, probably my favorite area so far. (I also liked sen’s fortresss.) Love the concept it brings to mind, I was scared as hell when I first took the shortcut through to firelink. Of course im parkouring through it eventually, but the water and delapadated (& wet) cobblestone and ghosts ✨ 🤩
old londo looks glazed 😩 but I like the view now that the water’s gone down.
Anor Londo is scary in its own way. The emptiness and stillness is unsettling. The smoothness of everything is beautiful and unnerving. The way the wind whips through makes me think it must also be cold as hell.
I just started Pathfinder: Kingmaker. It’s gonna be a long ride, I know the game is like 100+ hours long. Tried to get quality of life mods to work, but the Unity Mod Manager just crashes on startup and nothing seems to fix it. Oh well. I don’t know why they don’t use Steam Workshop or I can’t just drag and drop the files and have them work. Seems like a bad decision somewhere.
I made an Aasimar Rogue/Monk to get the feat that lets me use my Dex modifier for attacks instead of strength. I have 20 AC at level 1 with no shield, so OP. Ready to establish my holy kingdom after I kick out some bandits.
Edit: 2 hours in and I’m already annoyed at asinine tabletop rules that say I can’t level anymore as Monk unless my alignment stays Lawful. I hate alignment systems, they’re so trash.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is very good, there is some cringe liberalism in the last part, but generally stays solidly leftist throughout the story.
Oh yeah I liked that game. Has been a while since I played it. Eyeing their next game which seems another narrative game in that vein.
spoiler
The moment, when it turns out that the People’s Court is just as metaphysically valid as the imperial courts, is absolutely incredible. Especially with how much it terrifies nobles!
City Tales - Medieval Era
it’s kind of a casual city builder with some hidden depth but not too much depth. It’s a lot of fun building my lil cities and hamlets though.
Timberborn just hit 1.0 and therefore fitgirl, enjoying it a lot so far
Is it more anno or is it more factorio ? or is it like a city builder ?
It’s pretty sandboxy really, more like a city builder in that sense. Supply chains are there, but not that deep, and frankly neither is automation even though they added sensors/logic circuit type stuff just a couple of days ago. But you need to alter/engineer the 3d block terrain so that the water goes where it’s supposed to, which is interesting and unique and the physics are good.
At first you need to make sure the beavers don’t starve or die of thirst, by building dams and storing food/water. This is not especially hard on the normal difficulty. Later it’s more about building cool or pretty engineering projects for the heck of it, feels a bit like building stuff on minecraft.
I haven’t played anno, and I haven’t gotten far enough in timberborn to unlock the automation stuff. So far the most important number seems to be average beaver quality of life.
deadlock and its recent updates have eaten my soul and i cannot escape. it invades my every waking thought. do you think cats would smoke if they had thumbs?
my buddy also bought slay the spire 2 and via the power of steam family ive been able to play it and its pretty good, though not my usual taste in games
Cats would smoke crack if they had thumbs. My cat told me so.
After 100ish hours I finally understand taxation in eu5. That game is too dense sometimes. I guess it makes sense to enrich your populace and then tax them thus getting more money via taxation but it’s not really explained how you do that. A few estate privs and good RGOs later and I’m seeing how people get to the point they swim in gold. Add in the peasant market buildings and roads it gets spicy. Playing as Aragon who actually has a bit of a rough start economically but I took Navarra and Granada while castile was busy with the BBB and it’s not even 1400.
edit; holy shit just survived a war against castile, didn’t get any territory but showed i could go toe-to-toe with them. gonna be an interesting playthrough.
Finished Metroid Prime 4. My verdict is, if you’re someone who’s already a fan of the Prime series, you’ll find it enjoyable. However, I don’t think it’s going to win over many new fans. If you haven’t played/aren’t aware of the lore of the prior Prime games then the main antagonist will feel forced and arbitrary. The hub world is a mixed bag; from a world building perspective, it makes way more sense to have these various biomes separated by a vast desert than taking elevators from one to the other. It does get dull though, and there’s some late game find/fetch quests in the desert that are very needle in a haystack. Combat is good, and while most of the psychic abilities are just mechanics from prior games with “psychic” in front of it, the psychic control beam was super satisfying. I wish there were more opportunities to use it.
Still working on gold staking all the jokers in Balatro, I have ten left. Of course, most of them are the PITA ones to win with like diet cola and invisible joker.
I’ve been playing a fair bit of Magic the Gathering Arena. I have a nice deck that wins semi-consistently, and I’m working on building some fun Eldrazi decks that don’t necessarily win but have my favorite colorless smashy dudes.
