Games

I bought Elden Ring during the last Steam sale.

The world is intriguing, but there is a real plot hook missing. I still don't know the real motivation of my character after 40 hours of gameplay. The reason why I am there and why I care. It was never explained why I want to become an elden lord and what that really means. Some of the stuff will be probably explained at some point, but as I said I don't understand the motivation or why my character started the journey in the first place.

There really is not much story so far. There is probably a lot of lore hidden, but most places, events, bosses, quests etc feel disconnected or shallow. I really would love to pick up some of the books in all the places, but that's not possible. As I said the world is intriguing, but it is probably all just cryptic stuff with many blanks left. Lore wise it can't be all a big mystery and it doesn't feel like most of it is, but it is never conveyed to the player.

The world is beautiful, there are many weird places. Having the big glowing tree in the background is an amazing set piece in an otherwise grim dark world.

Gameplay wise the progression feels really slow and it is hard to change the playstyle due to limited resources early on. I am unsure if I like that yet. It doesn't invite the player to try out some of the new toys you find though which is a bummer.

Besides that it is the first real Souls like I got into and the difficulty seems reasonable. The lack of quick saves is an interesting design choice. Every failure hits a bit harder, but it also inhibits experimentation.

I can't really explain why I like this game, but so far I am having fun. The world looks and feels great, the gameplay is fun. It's just the story or storytelling aspect of the game which could be so much better.

On one of my random rimworld kicks right now.

Recently got Lobotomy Corporation from a friend with the message "welcome to the cult". Now I'm addicted and I'm managing my nuggets even in my dreams. Send help.

Lots of Warframe. I still have lots to collect and 8 more MR to MR30 so I'll probably be at it for a while.

After a tip here on Lemmy, I added the Space Exploration mod to Factorio. Great tip, as it adds a lot of new things to an already great base game.

Halls of Torment. I both love it and hate it, in the same way I do Vampire Survivors and Brotato.

Been replaying The Outer Worlds and some No Man's Sky as I await Starfield. TOW is just as good as I remembered, and NMS is still a chill time suck that I can "space" out to.

Me and my friends are getting back into Hunt: showdown it's still so good and the new event is a lot of fun, fighting gators in a thunderstorm is just enjoyable.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2007530/Spellbook_Demonslayers/ it’s vampire survivors meets path of exile

I play a lot of WoW private servers. I'm currently on the wow hc private server. It's a small server but seems stable and friendly people. When I have free time on my phone I've been running through pokemon unbound on my GBA emulator. It's a romhack for fire red I think. Interesting story. Like the old-school 2d graphics and original story.

I've been playing a lot of core keeper with a friend, it's pretty fun. They've added a lot of content since we had last played so we started a new save. It's a great sandboxy 2d adventure and exploration game, worth checking out.

I've been enjoying Diablo IV for the most part. There is just something about huge open world games that are slightly repetitive that relaxes me. Well, as much as you can be relaxed in a game about defeating demons lol.
I almost didn't buy D4 in the first place, but I figured if I spent anywhere as many hours in D4 as I did in D3, the money would be worth it. Plus I had the very pleasant surprise of finding out that one of my favorite voice actors, Anthony Howell, plays one of the antagonists, Elias.
The only real issue I have with it is the server lagging in the evening as more people hop on. It gets a bit frustrating trying to walk somewhere and then rubber banding back to your original spot three or four times, or being in the middle of combat and everything straight up freezing. I generally have pretty good patience when it comes to video games, but holy shit it gets me close to rage quitting.

In between Diablo runs, I've been replaying the Amnesia series. I absolutely love the first two games, The Dark Descent and A Machine for Pigs, but I haven't played enough of the third, Rebirth, to say if I really like it or not. I know they just came out with another installment called The Bunker, but I think I might wait until another sale comes around to nab it.

I bought Doom Eternal on summer sale. It's an ok game but Im actually partially bored playing the campaign.

It looks great but I'm not a fan of the forced chainsawing to get ammo. The feeling of constantly needing to change your weapon for each monster is mostly frustrating and not fun actually.

The campaign experience seems to be "die 30 times while killing the monsters in this area" followed by "die 30 times figuring out how to jump across cliffs to get where you need".

I guess the real fun is in player vs player so will try that later.

I‘ve played Zelda TotK, Genshin Impact, and Crisader Kings III.

Genshin was way too little content for the patch IMO and I want the ability to skip dialogue so badly like you wouldn‘t believe it.

Zelda has been a blast, I wished it wasn‘t running on what is essentially a midrange phone at this point because this game deserves to have better resolution and framerate! I‘m dying so much lol

CK3 was, is, and will always be great. I‘m trying to go on a Legendary Hunt with my character but it just won‘t trigger for me… If you like conquering stuff, CK3 might be your GotY. It‘s daunting to get into but once you get the hang of it, it‘s so insanely fun to start as a small fart, eventually overthrow your duke, start your own culture, become a king, convert to naked faith, kick the pope‘s ass, create your own faith, and then have everything go downhill cause you get a holy war declared on you and eradicated.

Playing Monster hunter 4 ultimate Really fun so far

Lately, ive gotten back into cities:skylines. The hype for cs2 got me in the mood for a good city builder.

Other than that, mainly just civ6 when im in the mood for somewhat mindless clicking & transport fever 2 for when i feel motivated to hardcore concentrate on optimization..

Diablo IV couch coop is awesome.
The story is fun, over the top, dramatic, brutal. We played through it and I only wish it wasn't always online. So many moment were ruined by lag. Season 1 is about to be released but the game still lags like it's on dial-up.

CrossCode. It is such a great game. I am quite a pseudo-MMORPG enjoyer.

I recently played CloudPunk. The voxel art feels weird at first but you get used to it. It's a fantastic game and the story is good. 5/5.

Nier Replicant

I reached ending A, and I'm finally beginning to see interesting differences in the current route. Finally got my Dualsense controller to work via Bluetooth on pc as well

Got State of Decay 2 a few weeks ago and have been playing it whenever I have time. Love games with permadeath and resource management, if you're into that check it out. I'd also recommend if you like permadeath in things like XCOM, I've had some miserable moments losing characters lol

I've been playing this mobile game called Super Mombo Quest It's a fun platformer :)