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Sunday is Gaming Day: What are you playing thread

I forgot to make a thread last week but oh well. I have been playing a new Elden Ring character. I originally thought I was gonna try to get to the DLC as fast as possible but I then decided "nah" and have played through most of the game, but have finally arrived in the DLC and have respec'd my build for Rellana's twin swords. Anyway, hope everyone has had a good week

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  • I'm playing Mad Max in preparation for the falllout in the US that is about to happen.

    • It's an incredibly fun game. They really nailed the Mad Max feel

      • I made a comment a week or so ago but it really does nail the Mad Max aesthetic. The problem is the in-game story is a bit retconned. But my head cannon is that the whole Mad Max lore is being told through campfire tales in the far future anyway so it's like an "unreliable narrator" idea between the Lost Tribe and the History Men/Women.

        Big issue in-game is that the character Scrotus is actually Rictus in Fury Road. Second issue is that the game probably takes place between Furiosa and Fury Road but opens up with Scrotus(or Rictus) getting murked with a chainsaw but he(well all 3 brothers) are in Fury Road. The rest so far could fit in a "what was Max doing during the 18 years between Furiosa and Fury Road though.

        But I digress. It's really fun and easy to pick up and put down. It's hard at times when you get overwhelmed by bad guys but it's very forgiving because you just start back at the last checkpoint. I have water, ammo, and fuel refill set up at Jeet's place so I can fast travel whenever I need more too lol.

        E: I guess in-game Scrotus is still alive since he's the final boss.

  • Satisfactory again. I have a whole ass spreadsheet file for this game. Planning for an extensive use of trains, each grouping of related products will be done together. e.g. I have an iron district, it imports iron ore from around the map, smelts it into iron ingots, and turns those ingots into iron plates, iron rods, and reinforced iron plates as needed. Any products that need these resources will draw from this district via trains, and when I need to expand I can build additional floors to the existing buildings.

    • I tried to get I to Satisfactory but after getting coal power going, I ended up getting side tracked. Do you know if there is a 3rd person camera mod by any chance?

    • With 1.0 coming in September, I can't bring myself to work on my old saves. It sounds like so many nodes are getting moved/deleted

      • Yeah I'm probably going to start another new save when 1.0 drops. Unless I don't get anywhere with this one, which I suppose isn't that unlikely.

  • Trying to close out Shadow of the Erdtree! Loved Elden Ring overall, but it definitely had more than its fair share of bullshit bosses and generally unfun segments, a game with a ton of highs, and some sour lows. I think I like Sekiro more still, as a pound for pound package.

    Soon, I will move onto Fear & Hunger, debating getting a censorship patch or not, or maybe if Fallout: London is out before I finish Elden Ring I will go for that, we will see.

  • Trying to get into Dwarf Fortress but I'm almost watching more tutorials /reading forum posts than I am playing at this point. I've played space cannibalism for several years so I'm mostly wise to setting up efficient workflow for my short kings but there's so many items and tasks it's hard figuring out what to prioritize.

  • Just finished the Elden Ring DLC last night, one day short of a month since release.

    My original plan was just to get a character to the DLC, then finish the DLC and quit. But I ended up 100% clearing my save (killed every boss in base game + DLC), and now I'm going to get the last 3 Steam achievements in my NG+.

  • I was getting my ass beat by Fear & Hunger earlier, might get back to that this evening. It's really interesting so far even if the learning curve is a bit too steep for my liking.

    • Oh, that's soon on my list! How are you liking it overall, is the learning curve actively pushing you away from it, or is it interesting enough that it feels rewarding to press on? Might not want to move to another brutal game right after I finish Elden Ring, haha.

      • I just picked it up and haven't gotten very far in at all so I can't really make any judgement in terms of how rewarding it actually is. I'm mostly in it because the combat is kinda cool and, call me sick but I really want to find out just how depraved the game gets. It's very CW: everything grimdark fantasy with sex, violence, dismemberment, body horror, or some fusion thereof so its not for everyone. If you do play it I reccomend giving the starter guide on steam a read, it got me from dying in three minutes to dying in ten minutes lol.

  • Probably more of my pant-less run of Disco Elysium

    Also I have an original XBox that is modded. There's a hard drive inside with a bunch of "legal game backups" and other useful things. I was wondering if I can pull it out, hook it up to a PC externally and pull those files off the drive without any extra steps? Then I could gut the console and possibly use it as a custom mini PC case 🤔

  • I'm late, but I started playing Fire Emblem Blazing Blade and I have been enjoying it so far. It's a bit dated and rough for things like dialogue, but for a 2003 GBA game I'm impressed with the level of detail in the animations and the art that appears sometimes when characters are talking. I was surprised that they could make it look as good as it does with how many pixels are on screen.

    • The GBA Fire Emblem games are delightful. Binding Blade (the Japan-only one) is probably the most fiddly and annoying of the three, but they're all a pretty great time!

  • SD card for my handheld with all the roms and saves seems to have got corrupted

    oh well

    This week I had unlocked all the characters in Bushido blade 2

  • I wanted to play Victoria 3 but its too hot in my house shit will overheat, then in winter I do 60hr weeks, so I can't really game. I'm playing Undertale right now, lol my reflexes suck so bad, if I played Doom or something I'd get pwnt.

    Might try to actually get somewhere in SDV next maybe, or play nostalgia ridden old games on dosbox since that's light in summer, usually.

  • After sitting on it for years, I've finally gotten back into Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. Great, slow-paced game that starts to logarithmically ramp up. I need a special kinda burnout to engage with it, since the music in it often has me dropping out of it to pick my banjo.

  • Still playing Trails into Reverie and just cracked 105 hours lol. Should be able to finish it up this week.

    I picked up a bunch of games on the recent PSN sale. Some boomer shooters Prodeus, Project Warlock, Metal: Hellsinger. Bought Bug Fables. Got the The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures too. Probably gonna start the original AA trilogy just in time for the Edgeworth collection.

  • I finished my first HK rando run yesterday, clocking in at 5h 46m. Feels slow, I'm sure I can improve that time. It didn't help that this seed was stingy with giving me claw. It's such an essential early game traversal item that it threw me off not having it. OTOH I'm surprised where I can get without it.

  • Still enjoying Unicorn Overlord! Just making little bits of progress here and there.

    I also started playing Dome Keeper. I think I like the mining portions a lot better than the tower defense bits. Yes, I played Motherload a lot more than the little tower defense flash games lol

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