Started Night in the Woods tonight. I’m a patient gamer. I enjoy the graphics, but 30 minutes is not enough for me to make to my mind about it.
Cloverpit and Balatro, as well as trying (and failing bc my WiFi sucks) to stream GTA Online and Skate to my Deck from my PC
I am still playing silksong, although I tend to get stuck occasionally, the difficulty in act 3 is pretty high.
When I want to relax, I play some doom eternal (just finished the campaign and first DLC, started the second one).
Also, some Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga
I like your characterization of Doom Eternal as a nice relaxing game for when you need a break.
Rip and tear.
Final Fantasy XII. It runs and looks great at 720p, 60Hz. It’s the last Final Fantasy I really enjoyed. I finished all three XIII games out of some misguided loyalty to the franchise, but I hated almost everything about them, and I haven’t played an FF game since.
XII is about as good as I remember so far. The plot isn’t the utter nonsense of the XIII games, and the combat is really deep. I’ve never played the Zodiac Age version, either, so at least part of the game is new to me. Not that I remember much since the last time I played it was a month before its initial release in 2006 when it leaked and got torrented. Wild times.
The story of XII didn’t click for me the way VII, VIII and IX did, but I loved the game mechanics and combat. Zodiac Age made it even better.
Honestly, I don’t remember the story of XII very well. It’s been almost twenty years since I played it, and I’m only ~15 hours in, now. The best thing I can say about it is that it’s not the pandering nonsense of the XIII games. Which is a huge relief. Really though, the plots of FF have always been a bit nonsense, but at least adhered to some kind of internal logic. FFXIII and its sequels just didn’t even try to be coherent.
The combat in all of them is fantastic, though. Particularly Lightning Returns. Such a unique, challenging, and fun combat system in the most incomprehensibly insane story of any FF.
Lords of the Fallen at the moment. It is nice :)
Mostly Silksong. When I get tired of getting my ass handed to me, Ballionaire or Sackboy.
Mix of the ever present Balatro and trying Halo Reach at the moment
Bouncing between Cyberpunk 2077 and Helldivers 2
I’m bouncing between several games right now:
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Trails in the Sky First Chapter - the trails series is one I’ve always wanted to get into, so the recent remake of the first game seemed like a great place to start. Runs great on deck. Unfortunately they’re trying a new publisher (Gung-ho) for this version of the game, and they didn’t discount the game for regional pricing making it too expensive for many countries. Russia was one of the only countries with typical regional pricing, but after people pointed that out, Gung-ho decided to remove it from same in Russia rather than adjust pricing elsewhere. It’s a great game from a great developer, and it feels like some controversy over the publisher’s handling of the game is greatly hurting how it performs. It has a pretty lengthy (~10 hours) demo to try, if you’re interested.
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Sonic Racing Crossworlds - MKW was kinda disappointing (and also not on the Deck). Crosswords has been really fun actually and is scratching that itch. Runs really well on the deck, the only negative is it requires Internet when first launched (after that initial check you can go offline and still play single player or split screen multiplayer though).
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Cloverpit - this is from the same devs as Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, which is why I picked it up. It’s basically slot machine Balatro, with a horror theme (you’re locked in a room, have to earn money through gambling to make deadline amounts, miss the deadline and the floor opens dropping you to your death). Apparently the launch has been very successful (300k copies sold in 3 days), with a lot of YouTubers covering it.
I have been really curious about Sonic Racing Crossworlds, thanks for the blurb about it!
I have played Mario Kart prior to this gen (I don’t have a Switch 2) and really like Sonic’s characters. I might wait to see if it goes on sale because full price seems a little steep.
Yeah, it is priced kinda high. Especially since most people will want the bundle with DLC characters (Minecraft and SpongeBob characters officially confirmed, supposedly getting Avatar the last air bender, TMNT, Amogus, and others as well)
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Hades 2 and Coromon
Already played Hades 2 in early access and now I’m finally getting the whole story. Compared to the first part the new movements needed some time to get used to but I feel like they made a lot of improvements with the in early access. Characters and story (so far) are as good as expected after part 1. I’m definitely not disappointed :)
Coromon on the other hand feels like one of the early Pokemon games with some quality of life additions (e.g. special skills like flying or cut are not linked to your Coromon but a gauntlet you character wears). Most funny part so far: there are two inventor characters linked to the main story Nikola and Thomas who are in a relationship. I feel like someone inserted their favorite science fanfic here :D
Megabonk.
Dark souls remastered. Seems to run perfectly at Max, disabled TAA because it looks disgusting. Only issue is with dark souls itself, sleep mode kicks you (safely) to the main menu because you lose your internet connection.
Isn’t it a single player game?
You can play it single player, but it has opt in ambient multiplayer. You can join other players if you find their summoning symbol thing, and you can see soapstone messages left by other players if you’re connected. You can also be invaded by invading spirits that are other players. It would be nice if you could connect and disconnect without having to return to the main menu.
Town to city - Little voxel game, centered about building a city and keeping residents happy, employed, and all beautiful
Still playing Voxelgram, but I added Chillquarium and Oxytone to the mix.
Silksong mainly, I just bought doom eternal on sale and I’m going to buy hogwarts legacy after my refund for hades 2 credits my account.
I have about 20 hours of airports and airplanes coming up, so I have about 700gb of games.
