What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

That's extremely disappointing to hear.

hotseatgames wrote: I haven't played it. While the game itself seems cool, the developers' response to "why are there no female body types?" was so fucked up that I decided I'd peace out on it.

They basically said "women can't handle war so we aren't going to bother making female characters."

LMAO



Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko, (Russian: Людми́ла Миха́йловна Павличе́нко, Ukrainian: Людмила Михайлівна Павличенко, romanized: Lyudmyla Mykhailivna Pavlychenko, (née Belova; 12 July [O.S. 30 May] 1916 – 10 October 1974) was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II, credited with 309 confirmed kills, making her the most successful female sniper in recorded history. Lyudmila was nicknamed "Lady Death" due to her incredible ability with a sniper rifle.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

It's even worse because the developers are indeed Russian.

I'm maybe halfway into Thimbleweed Park, a Kickstarted sort of follow up to Manuac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle by the guys that did those games. It sure is one of those! A good one though. Fun puzzles, silly humor, so far nothing too batshit crazy adventure game logic as far as the solutions. If you like a good old lucasarts adventure game this is that in spades.

I played a good chunk of Thimbleweek Park. Ended up looking up some of the more esoteric solutions, and eventually fell off of it.

Fun while it lasted though!

Inspired by all the Rayman Legends I have been playing, I dusted off Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze for some good old fashioned monkey business. As has been stated elsewhere voluminously, it is a very good game.

Great little rogue-like from Cryptic Comet Games is Occult Chronicles.

Very deep and quite difficult to win.

I managed to complete the first mission on the easiest setting but only after I figured out the mechanics of combat/spell casting/psychic duels/heroically leaping etc

It's a Lovecrafty trick taking game with a great narrative.

Highly recommended as are Solium Infernum (ruling hell as a demon) and Armageddon Empires (Mad Max).

All are extremely deep and punishing if you just play randomly. Graphics are basic but the game is quite amazing. Take a look here

Occult Chronicles

On a whim I loaded back up Drox Operative, an obscure space game on PC. You manage a single ship as a member of the titular Drox Operatives. You are basically a space rogue, making deals, making war, completing faction quests, etc.

It's real time but the pace is manageable. I won't even pretend that I fully understand everything that is going on in the game, but I find it compelling and I had to force myself to quit playing it yesterday. Worth keeping an eye out for a sale.

Ah_Pook wrote: I'm maybe halfway into Thimbleweed Park, a Kickstarted sort of follow up to Manuac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle by the guys that did those games. It sure is one of those! A good one though. Fun puzzles, silly humor, so far nothing too batshit crazy adventure game logic as far as the solutions. If you like a good old lucasarts adventure game this is that in spades.

Finished this yesterday. It got a little lost in the adventure game weeds in the back half, but was still generally fun. The logic for a lot of stuff got pretty hazy, and even once you knew theoretically what needed to happen there were some head scratchers as far as implementing solutions.

For example


I also get fatigued on this kind of thing after so many hours, and Thimbleweed did not end before this set in. Thankfully there's a robust in game hint system! I also fired up "Casual Mode" after beating it, which has easier puzzles, but at least at the beginning they are easy to the point of triviality and feel unsatisfactory. I might continue on just to see how the back end feels on casual, but so far it feels like it goes too far in the other direction.

Started playing a new Terraria game with my wife on PC. They just dropped the final content pack for it, there's so much new stuff from when I played it years ago. I like the 2d better than Minecraft, there's so much weird variety bc the assets are so cheap.

If they got rid of the how back walls work in TERRARIA I think I would enjoy 1000x more.

In what way?

They've definitely improved the ability to put up back walls. It sort of senses spaces and it autobuilds into full rooms while you hold the build button with walls equipped which is nice. Putting up and taking down walls used to be a real motherfucker.

edit: I see, this is dumb:

"Dirt Walls generally completely cover the background at Underground depths above zero (see Layer, Depth Meter). Placing new walls in this area would require first tearing down the existing walls starting from the top (the Surface) or the bottom (zero depth), which can be an arduous task. Alternatively, the existing walls can be destroyed using Dynamite."

Maybe auto-building handles my gripe? I just hated having to build them on, I would always miss one little line or pixel and throw everything off and waste a bunch figuring out how to fix it, &c &c.

That part of it is way way better. I hated it in the old version.

My Top 5

Witch 3
Red dead redemption 2
GTA 5
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Yakuza 6