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Playing Valhalla and downloaded Enlisted last night. Enlisted’s up as a closed beta on the series x so has all the roughness that’s expected but damn good fun what I’ve seen of it so far.

Never ever managed to complete Super Mario World (the SNES one) - I had a Megadrive/Genesis back in the day and didn't get enough time with the game.

Now it's available on the Switch Online service having fun playing through it - am surprised at how hard it is OR I have lost all skills and reaction speed when playing games!

This week has been mostly Hearthstone, where I am currently grinding my way to Platinum in Wild for the first time. I'm not enjoying standard at the moment so Jade Druid has me in its clutches again.

Played Phantom Brigade. It pulls a little more from the eastern mech influences than the western, but dang the base mechanic is fascinating. You issue orders in freeze time with a roughly 5 second 'prediction' of what the enemy is planning. You then queue up your actions and let it fly.

Only complaint is that so far, I can't figure out how to determine the status of damaged enemy units. I think the Early Access tutorial missed something.

Still, the whole thing plays like Appledseed on steroids, with ton of powersliding mechs whipping out machine guns in the middle of 1980s suburban european neighborhoods.

A lot of Deep Rock Galactic, mostly in solo, but sometimes with my brother and two friends, the way it is meant to be played.

Began yet another game of Vampire: The Masquerade; Bloodlines. With the Clan Quest Mod. Playing as a Toreador Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire, hand to hand combatant, persuasive, jack of all trades. Old game but still one of the most immersive games I've ever played. No wonder the genre has been called "Immersive Sim."

Got back into the Battletech game *again*. This time with the latest of the BT Extended edition modpack.

Started in 3049 and wandered up in the far north of Rasalhauge looking for an increase in 'pirate activity'. Jumped into a system only to find the feakin' clans had invaded and I was now two jumps into enemy territory with only a handful of succession wars era mechs. Dropped down to my last few c-bills paying the repairs to get out of there but walked away with a nice shiny Man O War for my troubles.

I'm now involved in a six month grudge match with Clan Wolf in which we are winning the battles but clearly losing the war. My 8-man mercenary group is now equipped in a hilarous array of Clan mech chassis and cheap Inner Sphere weapons and I've adopted an 'range is for sisses' model to survive all that dang long range clan fire.

Pretty good times.

Been bouncing a bit between F1: 2020/Project Cars 2. . . OR, if I'm not really in the mood for using my wheel, On Assassin's Creed: Valhalla.


Without spoiling story stuff, one of the big things I'm really digging on Valhalla so far is that, unlike Odyssey and Origins, you're not "locked in" to a single fighting style. . . I mean, in Origins, you had a shield, basically all the time. In Odyssey, you had a sword/axe/whatever, and your half spear relic thing.. . . In Valhalla, you can dual wield, sword/board, 2-hand greatweapon and all sorts of stuff.

Doki Doki Literature Club.

Man that was messed up. All I’ll say is that is the only time I spent more time thinking about the game while not playing it than actually playing the game.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Doki Doki Literature Club.

Man that was messed up. All I’ll say is that is the only time I spent more time thinking about the game while not playing it than actually playing the game.

I finished that game about a year ago around this time. There’s actually a hidden ending if you play through it three times and focus on a different girl each time. It’s not really worth it but has a bit of closure I guess. I’m glad I did it. Oh and certain files appear/disappear in the games folder if you check it now and then.

I’m playing resident evil 7. I was a huge fan of RE 1, 2 and 4. Glad to play another good RE game.

 Nerak wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Doki Doki Literature Club.

Man that was messed up. All I’ll say is that is the only time I spent more time thinking about the game while not playing it than actually playing the game.

I finished that game about a year ago around this time. There’s actually a hidden ending if you play through it three times and focus on a different girl each time. It’s not really worth it but has a bit of closure I guess. I’m glad I did it. Oh and certain files appear/disappear in the games folder if you check it now and then.

Yes, I learned about that. I'm not sure I can go through it again though.

Just about finished my first play through of Miles Morales.

Next up? Katamari Damacy Reroll. A more gloriously silly game than any I’ve ever played. Had the original, and absolutely loved it.

Was playing IL2:BoX and Rise of Flight. Rise of Flight is quite fun and when Steam has a sale it's pretty cheap.

Decided to get a MS Game Pass to try out MSFS2020, played that for a few hours. As much as I love flight in general, modern civil aviation aircraft don't really excite me too much, so haven't played it heaps, mostly just doing the landing and bush flight challenges.

Then discovered the Halo series was included on Game Pass, so installed that and playing through Halo 3 as I played 1+2 on the Xbox but never bought an Xbox 360 to play Halo 3.

If Game Pass includes ODST, I highly suggest playing that before finishing 3.

It's set in the immediate aftermath of the 'jump' from New Mombosa. And it felt fairly different to the other games too!

 Kanluwen wrote:
If Game Pass includes ODST, I highly suggest playing that before finishing 3.

It's set in the immediate aftermath of the 'jump' from New Mombosa. And it felt fairly different to the other games too!

I'll have a look at ODST, thanks. It does come with Game Pass. So best to play ODST - > Halo 3 - > Halo 4 in that order?

There's actually a few good games on Game Pass, I just got it for the first month (for $1) to try MS Flight Simulator, but I might keep it for a few months and play some of the other games on it too.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Just about finished my first play through of Miles Morales.

Next up? Katamari Damacy Reroll. A more gloriously silly game than any I’ve ever played. Had the original, and absolutely loved it.

The original was amazing. So is this a full remake or just an up-rezed edition?

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
If Game Pass includes ODST, I highly suggest playing that before finishing 3.

It's set in the immediate aftermath of the 'jump' from New Mombosa. And it felt fairly different to the other games too!

I'll have a look at ODST, thanks. It does come with Game Pass. So best to play ODST - > Halo 3 - > Halo 4 in that order?

There's actually a few good games on Game Pass, I just got it for the first month (for $1) to try MS Flight Simulator, but I might keep it for a few months and play some of the other games on it too.

That order kind of works. Might actually give you a bit more context going into the first half of Halo 3. Not that it's necessary or all that important to the main plot mind you, but it gives a better idea of the situation.

As Skaven said, it's not necessary to do it in that order...but it definitely works out really well.

for some reason the announcement about a Mass Effect series re-release/remaster recently made me want a taste of that again now.

Installed ME3 on PC with all the upgrades to textures that are out there - wow it looks good and fun to see old friends once again....

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
If Game Pass includes ODST, I highly suggest playing that before finishing 3.

It's set in the immediate aftermath of the 'jump' from New Mombosa. And it felt fairly different to the other games too!

I'll have a look at ODST, thanks. It does come with Game Pass. So best to play ODST - > Halo 3 - > Halo 4 in that order?

There's actually a few good games on Game Pass, I just got it for the first month (for $1) to try MS Flight Simulator, but I might keep it for a few months and play some of the other games on it too.

You should do Reach after Halo 3, if that is included. Brings the whole thing full circle, letting you see the inciting incident that immediately led to the events of the first Halo, before the story moves on to the events post Halo 3.

After a break for a month or two I'm back into The Division.

Hit Level 30, so now I can use the unique weapon I got right at the start of the game. Some semi-auto assault rifle that does 36k damage per shot.

Level 30 bad guys are going down in 2-3 non-critical shots. I'm a monster.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Just about finished my first play through of Miles Morales.

Next up? Katamari Damacy Reroll. A more gloriously silly game than any I’ve ever played. Had the original, and absolutely loved it.

The original was amazing. So is this a full remake or just an up-rezed edition?

Up-rezed I think?

After watching a few video essays on the You Tubes about it, started playing Spec Ops The Line for the first time in six years. It might've been a not too subtle influence on me when I began writing Secret War: Upon Blood Sands. Another incredibly immersive game, something about the atmosphere right at the beginning of it seems to really get to me.

petrov27 wrote:
for some reason the announcement about a Mass Effect series re-release/remaster recently made me want a taste of that again now.

Installed ME3 on PC with all the upgrades to textures that are out there - wow it looks good and fun to see old friends once again....

I'm excited as well. Still my favorite series. Hopefully they do some creative writing and get us back to the Milky Way. I'm sure it's going to be years before we see anything.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

petrov27 wrote:
for some reason the announcement about a Mass Effect series re-release/remaster recently made me want a taste of that again now.

Installed ME3 on PC with all the upgrades to textures that are out there - wow it looks good and fun to see old friends once again....

I'm excited as well. Still my favorite series. Hopefully they do some creative writing and get us back to the Milky Way. I'm sure it's going to be years before we see anything.

Yep, though I did not mind ME Andromeda as much as most I am interested and hopeful to see where they will go with the series. Also interested in the remaster of the originals to see what they do with them - hoping for more than new textures but we will see.

While the original series had some story issues, gameplay issues (wow the planet scanning is a bore) it sure did characters well.

petrov27 wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

petrov27 wrote:
for some reason the announcement about a Mass Effect series re-release/remaster recently made me want a taste of that again now.

Installed ME3 on PC with all the upgrades to textures that are out there - wow it looks good and fun to see old friends once again....

I'm excited as well. Still my favorite series. Hopefully they do some creative writing and get us back to the Milky Way. I'm sure it's going to be years before we see anything.

Yep, though I did not mind ME Andromeda as much as most I am interested and hopeful to see where they will go with the series. Also interested in the remaster of the originals to see what they do with them - hoping for more than new textures but we will see.

While the original series had some story issues, gameplay issues (wow the planet scanning is a bore) it sure did characters well.

I'd hope for the weapons and combat in 1 and 2 to be overhauled with the system 3 had. Much more mobile Shepard, more weapon variety plus the upgrade system, the combo system for powers etc.

And then also add the Reputation mechanic from the third game into the previous ones as well, so you can play Shep as you feel she would act in any scenario without needing to worry that you won't have enough paragon or renegade points to make use of a dialogue choice later.

Been playing Darkest Dungeon and Dark Souls on my switch. Really like Dark Souls on Switch, I can pause the game finally!

 Da Boss wrote:
Been playing Darkest Dungeon and Dark Souls on my switch. Really like Dark Souls on Switch, I can pause the game finally!

....You can't normally pause the game? I have it for PC but haven't started yet.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 Da Boss wrote:
Been playing Darkest Dungeon and Dark Souls on my switch. Really like Dark Souls on Switch, I can pause the game finally!

....You can't normally pause the game? I have it for PC but haven't started yet.

Nope. The way the multiplayer aspects of the game works makes pausing something that wouldn't really work. The Switch version doesn't really allow you to pause, per se. You can put the Switch to sleep which I guess just stores the game state and disconnects you from the online component (so other players don't end up traying to invade your suspended game). Basically the same as quitting the game (which saves your exact position and progress) but with a faster reload time and also works on bosses (quitting drops you outside the boss area) as the game is just being suspended.

Been playing Katamari Damacy Reroll. Definitely a remake rather than just a spit and polish job.