Like a Dragon 8: Infinite Wealth

I'm 25 hours in and barely touched the main story. Once they let me roam around I did nothing but side content. Just yesterday I got access to the "Pokemon" League and I see myself not touching any story content for another 5 hours. It's great.

Amored Core 6. It's the first Armored Core that I have played. The setting and story are not really my thing, but the gameplay is a lot of fun.

Guild Wars 2. Love it.

Started playing in beta, took a break for years, and have been playing it again with friends most evenings for a year.

Turnip Boys robs a Bank.

Go play it.

Watchdogs 2. I'm getting to old for this. Recently killed Halo Infinite, Farcry 4 5 6 and some others. Software Engineer. Been unemployed for a bit :/

Planetbase, it doesn't take long to figure out but I'm trying to unlock the other more challenging planets at the moment which just takes time.

I'm on the lookout for challenging survival management/city building games if anyone can recommend one? Something like Banished, This War of Mine or Frostpunk.

I felt like going back to swtor. My main account was disabled, expired or something and I can't recover it without calling some dumb schmucks working for EA support.
Went in on a secondary account I used to bypass the character restrictions and now I'm scratching the itch until it finally dies for good.
It has a daily login reward, some kind of battle pass, everything is paywalled, limited number of rewards, they changed character creation and unified classes, but pvp is active.

Overall, I don't recommend it.

beat Pikmin 2, used a gecko code to stop the timer, gonna go for 100% now

Shrouded. Its bizar how well it plays for early access. Gameplay is fun, the enemies a little stupid but can be challenging non the less. And the game feels well optimized. My dedicated server is running and using less than 2gb of memory of the available 20gb and no lag. Then the building, it can be a bit finicky sometimes but it allows for so much freedom it's a fun aspect. Crafting also works good, in all I highly recommend it, and can't wait to finish the playthrough and cycle back in a year or so to see what it has become then. But it's already worth the money IMHO.

Papers please. Having fun so far doing the story

Thirty hours into Yakuza: Like A Dragon. Main story has started to ramp up, but I keep getting distracted by the business management mini-game and the kart-racing minigame that I just discovered while wandering around the map. It never ceases to amaze me just how dense these games are and just how many side activities they managed to pack into one game.

Currently playing Lords of the Fallen. I'm almost to the end, it's been a lot of dying, but a lot of fun also!

Finally got on the Lethal Company bandwagon and I think I'm gonna have a lot of fun playing it with my kids.

Still just a heavily modded Skyrim playthrough that still remains perfectly lore-friendly. But I'm strongly considering playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance soon. Unfortunately for me, the prospect of modding the hell out of Morrowind again is also calling to me.

Why walk when you can ride?

Friend convinced me to try Helldivers 2 this past weekend. I had fun, but I also don't think it's as great as the hype it's getting either. Friend thinks it will be a long term playing game but I felt like I saw most of what it offered in 3 days of playing. Guess we'll see. I'm also trying out the FF7 rebirth demo. Wish I had more time to play stuff but this is all I have currently.

Far Cry 3 with Ziggy's Mod for added challenge... Casual version, I kind of like it.

Ocarina of Time randomizer keeps being pretty fun.

Oldschool Runescape.

Super Mario Bros. 3 is a nostalgia mainstay.

I also gave Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion a try and got to the second boss. I mean to get back to it, as it's a cute game and pretty funny.

I'm still jamming on PalWorld. Set up a dedicated server and have 4 other people who hop on randomly and play, it's great to come across them while exploring. It feels like an alive world. Almost level 50 and breeding all the uber monsters with 4 legendary stats. This game just scratches all the right itches, and it doesn't even have the quests, raids, or other content they are planning yet. Too fun.

Helldivers 2 with friends. But the 1.0 of Last Epoch released Wednesday evening. Can't wait for the weekend !

Finally getting around to playing Disco Elysium. I know I'm late to the party but holy cow what a trip

Only been playing balatro. Now it's fully out. Hooray!

Still strolling through my snails pace playthrough of RDR2, haven't left chapter 2 yet and mostly been doing side stuff, hunting fishing and completing challenges. Looking for a damn badger and beaver but can't find either anywhere.

I also wish RDR2 had the same fishing minigame as FFXV. Not that it's terrible, but I wish it had the same depth. That game had the best fishing minigame I've played, almost worth the price of admission for that alone.

Monster Hunter World. This game‘s got me in an iron grip. I‘m looking forward to playing the Tales of Arise DLC which is discounted rn to 20 bucks which is the kinda price I would‘ve expected to begin with.

Mario Kart on the side, playing the expansion pass courses, currently at „Mirror.“

I started a Minecraft server with the Ars Nouveau mod. It's completely fantastic.

Playing Occupy White Walls occasionally. Playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon on my phone. Pondering buying that uhhh roguelite 'poker' deck building game whose name has gone out my head now

Currently have over 100 hours in Persona 3 Reload and I haven't even completed the game yet.

Always wanted to dive into P3P/FES until Reload was announced, and I'm so happy I waited. The game is very polished and I've heard it is a faithful remake of the OG P3. Definitely going for a NG+ afterwards!

Finished my first a BG3 run, blind. Was considering starting a second run, with "perfect" choices (and mods) but it seems that patch 6 broke quite some things.

Gonna spend time playing "dad games", then. I don't know what's so appealing about those "X simulator" games, but I can absolutely get lost in them.

Assassin's creed 3 remaster, Tomb Raider Trilogy, Just Cause... Its just a coincidence all im playing right now are old games, lol.

Against the Storm. Picked it up way back in early access and kind of thought it sucked. Saw some people talk about it recently and decided to give it another go, and it doesn't suck anymore! I suck at it, having lost every round, but I keep going back in, so I guess I like it now.

Elden Ring and Dark Souls 1. And I intend to play them forever. Wish bb was on PC :(

Archmage Rises on Steam. It's in Early Access so there are some parts that are rough especially since it has generations history and quests (go see SoAndSo in NewTown. How do I find NewTown? Ask SoAndSo, he knows the area. 🤪). But it's fun and not as difficult as I was first afraid it was going to be.

The UI is decent but doesnt feel quite there yet: close button for shopping doesn't feel like it's on the correct place, font size for time of day is a bit to small for my 15 inch laptop screen at 1080p (not sure if changing resolution would help but non-native resolution on laptop never looks good IMHO).

I'm on my first character playthrough. It's a perma death open world RPG that has a story to it. The story so far (I'm a few game months in) seems to wait for you but certain missions have time limits once you accept them.

The economy and the cost of things...seem weird. Not bad, but not like other games.. And I'm fine with that. I like the ability to haggle with merchants when buying/selling(?) certain items.

Developing relationships give you little bonuses (according to the interface).

When attempting skill checks you get a d20 from that uses your bonuses. A 1 seems to always fail even when you get enough to pass by your bonus. I'd rather see the Pathfinder 2e system than the D&D d20 system when it comes to rolls so that there isn't a guaranteed 5% chance to fail even an easy check but that's not game breaking.

I definitely need to start away from gambling. I suck at it.

Content warning:

As an open life simulator, the finished game allows the player and NPCs to participate in a vast range of human experiences both bad and good, including: slavery, murder, cannibalism, sexual activity (non-graphic), pregnancy, and religious worship.

Helldivers 2! Played the first one a bit but not nearly as engaged with that as I am in this. Bought on launch day and had a blast until the massive player spike killed the servers, that’s seems to be better now as I was able to get in fine and play for a few hours last night.

It’s 100% worth the price and hype but I recommend waiting a few weeks to a month from now while they fully deal with server load issues and they say mechs are pretty much ready to be added now and are just getting polished.

For background, the first game peaked at ~7000 players, this one had 480K on steam alone and that number again on PlayStation this past weekend. They didn’t expect this level of success and so didn’t plan to have server capacity and robust network code for it, they are putting in the long nights to fix it though and we’re already seeing improvements only a couple weeks in

Sea of Thieves. Revisiting it after several years of not playing it, and finding it just as much fun now as it uses to be.

Hopping between:

• Helldivers 2
• Deep Rock Galactic
• MechWarrior 5
• Last Epoch

Balatro and Helldivers 2

Back on my Rimworld addiction.

Balatro!