Gaming

I've been playing a mix of Remnant: From the Ashes and Stellaris.

I've completed Remnant now, and am just gearing up for the DLC, but the problem with it is that you have to erase your campaign progress (character progress stays) before you can start the DLC, so I'm running around the campaign world to try get the things I might have missed before I can dive into the DLC.

For Stellaris, I've been playing a modded playthrough, with a mod named GigaStructures, which has been absolutely ridiculous in the power scale. The start of the power creep is turning small moons into hyperpowerful attack ships, aptly named Attack Moons. I then progressed to turning planets into ships, which was yet another order of magnitude. Finally, you can convert 5 moons and 4 planets into a stellar craft, using a local star as it's power source and core component. The power scale with these mods is pretty wacky

Trails in the Sky, Yakuza Like a Dragon and D4 when friends are on it. Actually excited for the D4 season, I am going to play a class I know nothing about and not use any guides; see how far I get.

I've been playing Diablo 4 this week; I can't even begin to tell you how many gleeful hours I put into Diablo 2 back in the day, but this one is feeling more like a chore than fun. There's a part of me that wants to just grind out to 100 to get there but I recognize sunk-cost fallacy when I see it, so I'm at least taking a break for a while.

A friend gifted me Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor during the Steam sale so that's probably on the menu for this weekend. My 12-year-old has played a couple from that series and enjoyed the puzzles so I'll see if they want to play it with me. I also picked up the stealth puzzle game Gunpoint and am looking forward to giving that a go.

Just before this week finished the second act of Pentiment, and waiting for a bit before starting the third one. Don’t want the game to end..

Just got a handheld emulator console, been trying some Pokemon rom hacks, Rocket Edition in particular. Been loving it! I've sort of lost the patience to sit down and play a longer game, so these handheld games are perfect for sitting down and playing for a bit while I watch a YouTube video. This is also the first time I've played Pokemon Pinball and it's fantastic! I'm kinda terrible though!

Also my coworkers started a minecraft server and it's been fun going back after years away from minecraft.

Horizon Forbidden West - don’t like it as much as the first but I’m determined to finish it before moving on to something else

I just finished Jedi Survivor. It was a hell of a run, fun, super enjoyable and absolutely amazing. I can’t wait to start the new game + and try to get all the achievements

Binding of Isaac Repentance is my main game at the moment. I'm also trying to squeeze some Need for Speed Underground 2 on the PS2. Gaming is no longer my primary hobby so it's no more than an hour or two per day. Still, looking forward to the other NFS titles on the PS2. I might try to finish the first Underground and go for 100% on both before moving on.

Still Vampire Survivors and Satisfactory, if I can get a break in Vampire Survivors...

Horizon Forbidden West - don’t like it quite as much as the first but want to finish it up

Just Warframe, probably that until Armored Core 6.

I'm currently playing though The Messenger, it makes me feel dumb sometimes because some of the backgrounds look like foregrounds

Alan Wake Remastered. I bounced off of this when I was a kid playing on the 360, but I wanted to go back and give it another try in anticipation of Alan Wake 2. Also sprinkling in some Midnight Fight Express and Rollerdrome.

Looking forward to Baldur's Gate 3 and Lords of the Fallen.