Devil May Cry 5.
I tried to start it a year ago, but decided to play the rest of the series first. Combined with Silksong being released, I have just managed to start playing DMC5 again.
Factorio, god help me. I haven’t really figured out much yet. Efficient layouts, supressing biters, using uranium. I feel like I’m still manually shuffling too many products. But maybe I’m getting better bit by bit.
There is no escape from Spelunky.
Kenshi. Lots of Kenshi.
I got Magicka working yay
Returned to Red Dead Redemption 2 for the third time.
Added more mods, now sitting at 30-40 total. Lots of technical optimisation done as well, big thanks to PCGamingWiki as always.
Playtime was at 468 hours; now 540 two weeks later. Feels like a blink of an eye. What an incredible world to experience.
It’s really a gift that keeps on giving, and the Read Dead Wiki is a marvelous place to delve deeper into the experience and learn lots. Hoping to try out the private online lobby mod soon.
Oh and also watching Dan Houser’s 3 hour interview on YouTube. Thankful for the many worlds and stories he helped create.
Wow I had no clue rdr2 had such an active modding scene!
Towards the end of last year I started playing red dead redemption 1 a little, since it’s just about what my machine manages to handle :-) Got about 10 or so hours in and I liked it okay although some of the gameplay was just a little too arcade-y for me. Like the horses feeling kind of like driving a gta car still, and other characters always going at full speed through the landscape. But the atmosphere was really cool and seemed to be one of the main drawing points for me. Not sure if I’ll ultimately go back for more though.
Do you know if the first one also has similarly active mods or any suggested gameplay improvements?
What mods did you go for? I should make another attempt to finish RDR2 at some point and diving into some more mods might inspire me to actually do so…
Devil May Cry 3.
Yeah, I still don’t like this game. It’s more fun than its predecessors mainly because you can launch and air juggle enemies or do more cool shit like skateboarding or Crazy Dance, but there’s too many humanoid enemies you can’t launch and the absence of an on-the-fly style switcher is very restrictive.
My aim was to judge it for what it is, so I won’t mod the style switcher in this time. I do think they should release the Switch version on PC though.
I will give it this: when you can combo, you can pull off pretty cool shit, but I want a fun action game, not a combo simulator.
I won’t say it’s overrated, but I will say I’d rather play 4 or 5 because I find them more fun.
Started playing MIO, which is a post-calamity robot on a spaceship themed metroidvania. The most impressive thing about it is the artstyle. Really strikingly beautiful.
Only a few hours in so far, but so far so good.
Not the most patient of gaming, but I don’t blame you as it looks drop dead gorgeous! I was also enticed when I saw it release but as always with the genre I have to hesitate a bit since I both such at and don’t particularly enjoy platforming and will easily get frustrated and not enjoy it if there is too much difficult precision platforming.
Will be interested to hear your thoughts on it regardless, I did still wishlist it purely because of the art.
Omg… i totally did not notice what community i was on… my bad. This is like the exact opposite of the point of this thread.
I think an exception is okay every now and then, I personally just like this community the most so I also broke the rules last year and talked about playing Blue Prince and E33 on release last year. Sometimes you can’t actually wait to play a game, you know? I felt both of those merited it, especially Blue Prince as participating in the zeitgeist of that and being part of discovering the game at a point where the community hadn’t even discovered all the secrets yet was amazing.
But yes, in general this is for the more patient kind of gaming.
Galactic Glitch. It’s a fun space shooter roguelite. I played the demo a few years ago during a steam fest, and just picked it up for next to nothing in the last sale. Neon graphics and electronic beats. Definitely worth it.
I have resurrected my 360 and a playing Fable II on it. I also installed Xenia (360 emulator) on my Steam deck so I can play Fable II on the go.
I just hooked up my 360 again too. I’ve been meaning to give it a good cleaning and possibly replace a couple parts if necessary (I have three 360’s) but haven’t had the time. I haven’t really played on it much yet either, just a quick test run with a friend of mine playing 1v1 gun game in Black Ops II. I’m not much for shooter games usually but it was the first split screen game I found and it was actually a lot of fun. I sucked at it though, he destroyed me. Oh well, good thing I’m not competitive at all.
I need to clean, or possibly replace, the optical drive in mine. It is a frankensystem to start. I got a friend’s old 360 with a dead optical drive since we only played castle crashers at the time, then I got a 360 with a RROD from Freecycle and put the optical drive from that into mine.
A bad optical drive is what happened to my first 360. It failed in 2014 so I just upgraded to an Xbox One instead at the time, which I had planned on doing anyway. That Xbox One bricked eventually and I replaced it with an Xbox One S which then also eventually died in around 2021 or 2022 I think, at which point I switched to PC gaming. Once I switched though I wanted to play my old 360 games still so I picked up a 360 from eBay and my wife (gf at the time) wanted one too so I got her one as well for her place. Now we live together and I have three 360’s, one with a bad optical drive and two that work fine (one of them sometimes crashes but it’s infrequent) so I want to Frankenstein my first 360 into working well again (it’s the R2D2 360 which is objectively cooler than the two black 360’s I’ve got and also matches better with my PS5 I bought with a work bonus a couple years ago that’s mostly just a 4K blu-ray player at this point).
I did the same a couple months ago. Mostly played PGR4 and was also thinking about the Fable games the other day.
Are you syncing the files between the Xbox <> Steam deck?
Nope, doing a good play through on the 360 and an evil on the deck.
I continued my playthrough of Against the Storm since it received a bunch of new upgrades. I am really having trouble defeating even the easiest seals still, but I’ll get there eventually.
I can’t stop playing Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead.
It’s such a nice game for roguelike enjoyer. If you like gathering, crafting, surviving sandbox games, give it a try, it’s free and open-source.
I setup a private WOW server at home and am enjoying a druid playthrough.
Would you be able to DM me a link to whatever guide or resources you used to get that up and running?
I’d be keen for a similar single-player experience through MOP or Legion.
Dm sent
Nice, I’m playing retail pre-patch for Midnight 😅
I miss WoW, but a private server is the only way I would play again.
Yeah. I didn’t realize how easy it would be to set up and configure. The hardest part was find the client and then figuring out what file in the client to edit to point to my server.
Of course I’m an IT guy irl, so setting up servers and such is my day-to-day so that helped.
could you also send me a DM how you set that up? since you said you are in IT i feel comfortable enough to dare ask if there is any chance to run one on a linux system?
Been using Cattails: Wildwood Story, a [email protected], as my relax-after-work game.
Started The Farmer Was Replaced (if you like things like that, [email protected]), to try to ease me into coding again. There is a function to pet a flying piggy available to you right from the beginning of the game, and they tell you this. I feel shocked that only ~25% of players have that achievement when about ~75% have gotten the achievements you get for the very first actions you do in-game. Also, the sounds of you harvesting crops (or of them going into the piggy bank for items, not sure which) reminds me very much of the Minecraft item pickup sound.
Doom 2016, never finished it a decade ago and i felt the need for a twitchy arena shooter. Not going crazy with the secrets just playing blind is a lot of fun.
Such a great game; doesn’t overstay its welcome and has just enough mechanics to keep things interesting.
I’ve replayed it every few years and it’s as good as I remembered it every time.
I feel similarly about Crysis and Far Cry 3 too - but am probably in the minority on those two.
