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Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Thread

What if some other random user made the thread? Wouldn't that be messed up?

Anyway, Nubby update today was good. I have finished all the challenges and am now attempting to crash the game for the first time.

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  • Morrowind with OpenMW.

    Well that's a lie mostly I've been modding it and done a few test runs to see if everything works.

    It's just so great to be able to get a ship from Ebonheart(on mainland) to go to Anvil in Cyrodil and then come back and take a boat to Karthwasten in Skyrim.

  • elder kings 2 kind of dominated my week, they updated to the latest ck3 patch and it's sooo good. what's really crazy is this sense of reality i've gotten from it, it's almost more 'real' feeling than the historical game.

    let me explain--elder scrolls games are almost all first-person experiences of being in a fictional place, you've (assume you're a massive elder scrolls fan) 'walked' through the imperial city, you've seen Vvardenfel from the ground level, you've seen the inside of the palaces of Skyrim. Though EK2 is a bit different time from all other elder scrolls games, it's not that different which is something the historical game can't really compete with. The royal courts, if you've been lucky enough to go to the real things are accurate and beautiful in-game but everything else really has no analogy for something a player has personally experienced. The player genuinely has point of reference to how medieval London feels or should feel, and if they're enough of a nerd to have an impression it will never really match what a game developer is able to produce. No such problems exist when the setting is a fictional, massively popular video game series, with a standard experience for everyone. The result is a bit mesmerizing, I can go to Anvil in EK2 with the reference point of Project Cyrodiil and Oblivion, and a cursory impression of ESO and have a very good idea of where I am and what it should look like. And the lapses in artifice are so much more forgivable because it's fictional, you can't actually say 'that's wrong' and have it take you out of it.

  • I'm still playing Stardew. Winter year 2 right now. I've only been playing a few hours a week so not very far along. I'm starting to ramp up for keg and cask production because I'm hoping to get starfruit wine aging going by end of summer year 3. I'm also waiting on like 2 items to finish 2 Community Center bundles because I forgot one and misread the wiki on another. I think I have 2 bundle sets left after that.

    Also super jealous of all the Xenoblade Chronicles X comments. That's the one I've been waiting for but I haven't even touched Xenoblade 1 or 3 and got like 10 hours into 2.

    • You can play X without playing 1-3. I can't speak to how the new content connected to that stuff, but at least the base game only has a few fanservice-y connections.

      Do not play 3 without playing 1 AND 2 (and the DLC).

      I say this as someone who started XBC1 two summers ago, played each game in sequence but played X at release. Unless the final chapters for DE have some serious connections to 1-3, it's much less direct

      • Once I get over my farming/live sim and factory game kick, I think XBC is next on my list so I would probably do 1 through 3 including the DLC for 2, and after that pick up XBCX when it's on sales at some point. So I guess that would be Switch release order.

  • Xenoblade chronicles X until my eyes bleed. I haven't played a game for this many hours a day since I went through a breakup and played Ni No Kuni 2 almost straight through in a couple days.

  • Foundation. Played for like two hours, it's a competent city builder with some neat customization, but unfortunately it looks like mobile slop and doesn't really do anything interesting. Also it's UI doesn't display properly on a 4:3 monitor, which didn't stop me from playing but it was annoying at times.

    Pikuniku. Played for like two hours. Fun but I probably won't finish it, if I had played this fifteen years ago it would be one of my favorite games of all time, but this type of humor doesn't really work for me nowadays.

    • I want to like Foundation. Ive made a couple bigger towns and I like the organic look of the paths. But it's hard now that Manor Lords is out, it's just outclassed in the "making a pretty city" department and doesn't have another draw really.

  • Finished Yakuza dead souls

    all substories, all directives, all weapons unlocked, all modes open and all the things and or lore watched. I'm sad that it's over though now I need to find another 'trash' game to play

  • Yesterday: I hate this game, why do I do this to myself. I should just uninstall it.

    Today after hitting master in SF6 for the first time: This is the best fighting game ever made. I love it.

  • More CK2, the Aladdin achievement is almost within my grasp! Sunday was a banner day:

    • I called China to shatter the empire of Mali, although I ended up having to do all of the actual fighting as they putzed around the tibetan mountains... but it was worth it to declare war on three of the dukes and kings born out of the shattering before they could join the defensive pacts against me and gobble up land that would have taken decades to conquer in just a few years.
    • Soon after, China got hit with a devastating plague and I took my shot to break out of being a tributary. I had been forced to hundreds of years ago while all of Christendom was crusading me for Jerusalem and I obviously couldn't fight both. I'd tried before but their troops were too strong. But the plague meant the spawned troops had really shitty comps of mostly light infantry so I was able to hold them off for long enough to become independent! No longer must I suffer under the yoke of the Western Protectorate and pay half my income to them

  • Been playing Dying Light! Because I'm dumb, I have been playing on Nightmare difficulty, which was massive pain in the beginning, but around halfway through it's not too bad anymore thanks to skills and weapons improving.

  • Played through Wasteland 3 again, the cover of Power in The Union that plays during the big shootout in Steeltown hits me in the feelings every time.

  • Dead Rising (2006) I finished the main plot when I had it on 360, so I decided to focus on rescuing survivors and unlocking the stuff I didn't get the first time. I was worried that would be a much less satisfying gameplay loop, but it's actually quite compelling on its own.

    But I gotta say, for a game ostensibly developed by a team of mostly East Asian people, it really leans into racist stereotypes about East Asian people. Having seen clips from the remake, I'm glad it's been cleaned up, but it's got a real "Mr.Falcon" vibe to it.

  • Got into a rhythm in Sailwind: get all my needs met, check the course is how I want, adjust the rigging for any wind shifts and then read my book until I need to do any of those some more. Nice way to get progress in the voyage and in the book at the same time.

    Beyond that cracked DRG open again, lotta new stuff, bounced off of a bug where I didn't get the reward for my assignment, might go back might not.

    Also looking at jumping back in Sulfur now that there's more places to explore and more guns and mods to try. Just gotta make sure I've got a spare set of good but disposable gear to test the new zones.

  • I started a hardcore minecraft world for the first time. Gonna listen to audiobooks and see how far I come. not too worried about winning or whatever, just kinda wanna chill but without feeling like an all powerful god

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