Hello everyone. This past week I’ve been grinding more balatro and also played Elden Ring: Nightreign. I was only able to play one session but I am enjoying it so far. I have to make some edits to the control scheme because I forgot how much I hate it when the X button isn’t jump. Hope everyone has a good week ahead
Finished Dark Souls 1 for the first time last week. Started Dark Souls 2. Played the games on release but I didn’t have the gamer patience to really get through them. I know DS2 is the black sheep but I’m honestly really liking some of the changes so far, the menus in particular.
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Nightreign. I find it hard to binge, which is a good thing for sure. Got a new PC to actually be able to play it. Like, each play is a serious time and energy commitment.
‘Hexbear’ multiplayer keyword?? It really sucks there’s no in-game voice chat.
I prefer the language of jumping and spinning. Kinda happy there’s no mics on games where me or someone else is eating shit constantly.
I tried out Drova again, Starcom again, the Precinct, RoadCraft, Oddsparks, and Aviassembly over the past few days. I think at this point I don’t really like playing games so much as I like just trying them and then deleting them.
Just finished the first act of Clair Obscur. I’m absolutely loving the game, the combat is immaculate and the story has me utterly gripped, but I’m having to play it in 15-30 minute bursts because it keeps crashing. I think I finally found a combination of cpu and gpu settings that keep it stable last night (a whole hour and half of uninterrupted play!), but I don’t understand at all why they work. The gpu is heavily underclocked with the minimum clock turned way up, while the cpu is slightly underclocked and undervolted. For some reason this hasn’t affected my framerate at all, just made it run without crashing (either just the program or the entire computer).
Anyway, the act 1 to 2 transition and story and gameplay consequences have blown me away yet again. It’s such a ridiculous game, no element of it is really new as such, it draws them all from other games, but every element is so perfectly executed and integrated with the other elements that it’s almost awe inspiring. The art, body language, the voice arrangement (if you can name another game that has characters talking over each other that isn’t Lost Odyssey I will give you a brownie point), the unique character mechanics and abilities, the dodging and parry, the pictos and lumina, the exploration, and now the story and mechanical integration of a new character joining has me questioning the entire character interface and what it hides. It’s almost enough to entirely distract me from how much I hate the French
Hey I’m playing it too right now! Still in the first act, just finished beating all the bosses in Flying Waters!
Agree with pretty much everything, it’s so fun! Story is great, combat mechanics are just the right amount of complex, and yes the audio and voice acting are godly. Sorry yours keeps crashing!
I’ve made it to act 3 and am currently on wrapping up time. My partner is enjoying watching it as she wants to know what happens and I have to fight my innate urge to make bad glass cannon builds that will die if I miss one parry (and also doing all the minigames to get silly outfits) so I can continue through the story at a somewhat brisk pace.
Esquie is best boy.
I’m so addicted to parrying I can’t not make glass cannon builds. I spent 15 minutes parrying one boss to death because it was acting twice for each of my turns.
Still on my oblivion remastered cloud gaming gamepass bullshit. I usually end up playing a stealthy type character in all RPGs so this time I said fuck it and just made a big tank who hits things with a sword (or mace!). It’s been fun but I’m like level 26 now and there’s basically no challenge left in the game. Not that challenge is what we really come to a bethesda rpg for!
I finished Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) for the first time yesterday. i feel like a changed person. im scared to try any other RE game because they’re (reportedly) nowhere near as good and i dont want to sour my memories.
If it’s the gameplay you’re after RE5 functions much the same
I gotta disagree, the core gameplay may be the same but the level design and boss fights are dogshit by comparison
Even if I could excuse the racism of the game, it’s just so much worse than RE4
I managed to get Cities Skylines 2 running on my PC by overriding the anti-aliasing controls to disable MSAA in my Nvidia x-config settings, so I’ve dumped around 18 hours into that this week and will probably dump another 6 or so tonight into it.
I love city builders 🤤🤤
Morrowind, It’s really good.
Tamriel rebuilt is pretty okay. I think there’s a bunch of stuff that sticks out and feels wrong but it’s hard to follow vanilla.
I just started up a Morrowind game too!
I’ve played it a ton before, so I used the automated modlists for OpenMW this time and chose the Expanded Vanilla. I never really modded the game because I thought it was dumb to manually drag and drop 100s of mods in a certain order back in the day and modders didnt approve of adding their stuff to premade mod packs. So I just used to use maybe one broad texture upscaler and natural leveling mod.
I’ve turned off some of the gameplay changes, like an air dash that hurts you if youre out of stamina. I guess meant to discourage spamming jump. Its just silly though. Other mods are pretty cool though and I’m looking forward to the expanded content.
I’ll make it to Tamriel Rebuilt eventually.
I tend to go the opposite way. Stuff that changes gameplay, especially fast travel and leveling changes are non-starters for me.
I think I’m running patch for purists, visual herbalism, a stronghold mod that I’m deeply unhappy with and Tamriel rebuilt. Oh and the expansion delay.
Part of what makes Tamriel rebuilt cool is that it tries (and mostly succeeds) at feeling vanilla.
Maybe next time I’ll try a more “tc” list.
i have gone hard into train sim world 5
as in i watched an hour long presentation on how german signals and safety systems work
send helpi think i will play my bg3 honour mode save again today. i stopped for a while right before grym bc it’s my least favourite fight in the whole game
I’ve been hooked to Vampire Survivors for the past couple weeks, and this weekend was no different 😬
ive been playing tainted grail lately. its a pretty good skyrim like rpg. performance is dog shit but its not unplayable for me (many report it is tho)
How, uh, “grounded” does it feel? Not as in setting or story, but how your character feels in the world. Are the NPCs fully static? Are there settlements? Crime? Can you pick up forks and other clutter? I’ve been following the game for a while but can’t make heads or tails of it in terms of immersion
character feels a lot more weighty in combat in the world than in skyrim, that aspect is good. in traversal all i can say is i haven’t noticed it feeling floaty but nothing has blown me away. you do have a slide which is cool
what do you mean by the npcs being static?
also what do you mean by settlements?
you can steal items from chests in the first main city i visited but i didnt attempt it
you can loot those things as junk but i cant say if you can just pick them up and hold them like in skyrim
biggest immersion breaker for me is performance. ue5 is so shitbn
Played a bit of the earth defence missions in Helldivers 2, they were pretty cool. I expect them to become regular content in some way in the future, because otherwise it’d be kind of a waste of devtime. Unfortunately, my performance (at least in Illuminate missions, never tried bugs or bots) has gotten drastically worse, from solid 60fps to mid-40s with dips under 30. Seems to be maxing CPU.
More importantly, got to MR30 in Warframe.
Now I’m just kinda doing whatever I want, going for various weapons, and getting ready for the prime resurgence next week with Baruuk and Revenant Prime because I don’t have either.Im fucking around with Crusader Kings 3 ATM. I started in France but later switched to a relative whos a Crusader King in Spain. Its going well, but Im not sure how long I will stick with this save.
