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I don't know why exactly but bought RE6 in the Resident Evil discount in Steam despite the fact I already own it on PS3 and it's easily the worst RE game I've played. Well, I do know why exactly, but won't say why lol. Been playing the Mercenaries mode and it's pretty fun.

And now after the latest update, I can play Cyberpunk 2077 without it crashing when I try to open it! Although, not being able to play it spared me the embarrassment of showing Panam how terrible I am at driving. I half expected CD Projekt Red to have her say 'Huh, you're a pretty crappy driver, aren't you?' As I try and drive through the desert in their van, but didn't do too badly lol.

I’ve had quite a gamey time lately. Been doing some blasts from the past in Caesar 3 and heroes of might and magic 2. Also some Gladius. Gotta say I’ve grown fond of Gladius. I managed a game of playing Imperium vs 6 allied tyranid bots. Then I did a game of orks playing vs 5 guards and 1 space marine (all allied of course). Currently doing 6 necrons in a 3v3 while I play eldar without Eldar. It’s so much fun! Almost been thinking I should start streaming this stuff.

Got into Star Wars Squadrons. I'm still just in the story mode, having a blast as a fragile TIE fighter strafing turrets and cannons like in the old days with TIE Fighter. I remember being a much better pilot than I am now though!

Still Resident Evil 6 it's oddly addictive in the Mercenaries Mode and played a few games of online co-op Mercs Mode and it's fun, frigging fun.

I almost got 100% completion in Pikmin 3. Just a few missions left in the Olimars Return side story that they added in the switch release. Just a few fruits left in the main campaign. I'm really enjoying the game, however, I find it slightly too easy. I can't remember if it asked for a difficulty level when I booted it up, however, just making the enemies harder to kill wouldn't really fix the problem. It just doesn't feel satisfying to collect the fruit like it did tracking down ship parts in the original or clearing out the dungeons of treasure in Pikmin 2.

As for games I'm playing without my wife. I started up the original Dark Cloud game on the Playstation Now. (it's originally a PS2 title, but they did some backward compatibility magic with it on PS4 awhile back). I had forgotten how clunky the combat is and how much I hate playing as Goro. The weapon reach is just so short and it makes hit timing a pain in the ass. Thankfully I stumbled upon the Broken Dagger Glitch and it still works in the PS4 version. So now if I ever hit a wall thanks to clunkiness I can just make the character into a god so I only have to use them when they are required and skip grinding with characters I don't have fun playing.

I dunno what it is but I keep playing the Paradox Battletech PC game. Got like 200 plus hours in it , completed the campaign, a couple additional career playthrus and I am still going. I think because it is just so easy to fire it up and do a couple missions in between other stuff.

Also continuing Persona 5 Royal; good stuff, somewhat looking forward to the Persona 5 Strikers game that is due out EOM.

SNES version of Shadowrun.
Not sure why i booted it up but i am glad i did.
Enjoying asking evey npc about 'DOG'.
No luck yet.
Recommended.
cranium bomb/10

About 30 turns into an overhaul mod of Total War: Attila. Medieval Kingdoms 1212 AD. Its quite impressive.

It uses the base map of Attila, so the entirety of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. There are like 60 playable factions.

Right now, I’m playing as Antioch and I drove up north into what is modern Turkey and conquered the Sultanate of Rum, eliminating Muslim power in the peninsula. Now I’m surrounded by friendly Christian Kingdoms and just joined the Crusade. They even ported over the Crusade announcement dialogue from Medieval 2. Brought back memories!

I think I’ll get further into this campaign and then see how crazy a Khwarazmian campaign is when the Mongols arrive. Or try one of the main Euro factions.

Got hyped about the new total war trailer. Fired up my last total warhammer campaign. Remembered why I had left it off. Playing as the Empire. The legendary chaos Invasion of 12 full armies was just at my door. I had prepared with 5 full armies to face it. The legendary trio (Balthasar, Franz and Volkmar) led the defense against chaos. 4 insanely bloody battles later and both sides where decimated. Managed to fight two 4v4 stacks battle in river crossings. Gunpowder and magic saves the day! Luckily my allies, Bretonnia, wood elves and Hochland did a great job of keeping my other boarders safe. So far so good but the war against chaos rages on.

On to Gears of War 5 for me.

I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077, and Hearthstone these days.

balmong7 wrote:
I almost got 100% completion in Pikmin 3. Just a few missions left in the Olimars Return side story that they added in the switch release. Just a few fruits left in the main campaign. I'm really enjoying the game, however, I find it slightly too easy. I can't remember if it asked for a difficulty level when I booted it up, however, just making the enemies harder to kill wouldn't really fix the problem. It just doesn't feel satisfying to collect the fruit like it did tracking down ship parts in the original or clearing out the dungeons of treasure in Pikmin 2.

I got Pikmin 3 on switch for my Fiancé for Christmas. She played it non-stop for days until she got to the mysterious lifeform/save Olimar boss part and she just gave up lol.

Just finished platting Nioh 2, it had a good way of being a prequel to the first game while also tying up loose ends from the first game's DLC. Solid game all around and lots of improvements on the first one. Going to move onto Ghost of Tsushima next, really looking forward to the coop options.

 jaredb wrote:
I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077, and Hearthstone these days.

balmong7 wrote:
I almost got 100% completion in Pikmin 3. Just a few missions left in the Olimars Return side story that they added in the switch release. Just a few fruits left in the main campaign. I'm really enjoying the game, however, I find it slightly too easy. I can't remember if it asked for a difficulty level when I booted it up, however, just making the enemies harder to kill wouldn't really fix the problem. It just doesn't feel satisfying to collect the fruit like it did tracking down ship parts in the original or clearing out the dungeons of treasure in Pikmin 2.

I got Pikmin 3 on switch for my Fiancé for Christmas. She played it non-stop for days until she got to the mysterious lifeform/save Olimar boss part and she just gave up lol.

It's worth pulling up a walkthrough for that bit. Essentially you have to kite the monster around in a circle with one character while using the others to open the path to the exit. The nice thing is that progress is maintained over multiple days. So I just took 2 days to get everything set up, then went back on the third day and just ran straight to the exit.

Skyrim. Got it ages ago, but two characters got all murdered to death when they were travelling to a location, so I couldn’t complete it.

Three evenings under the belt, and really hitting my stride.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Skyrim. Got it ages ago, but two characters got all murdered to death when they were travelling to a location, so I couldn’t complete it.

Three evenings under the belt, and really hitting my stride.

I keep thinking I should get a pc copy of Skyrim and try some mods out. My old copy is for my PS3. Sunk many hours into that game.

Currently doing Thea 2 the shattering. I love the Thea games though I certainly prefer the 1st one. They get dull once you start repeating quests to much but up until that point they are a blast. For those that don’t know them it’s basically the early game of Civilization in a Slavic folklore (-ish) fantasy setting with 5-50 characters and branching stories.

Skyrim mods can be either very, very weird, or very, very cool.

There's Skill overhauls (Ordinator, et.al.) which really change up the combat and exploration aspect of it, there's entire new sections and areas and questlines (Bruma, et. al.), and the Survival/Realism mods turn it into a cool, "The Long Dark"-esque survival game.

Only ever played it on PS4, so never had the chance to play with Mods.

Knocking level 30 now, and want to work on my Smithing so I can start tarting up my enchanted weapons.

Really quite fond of my Soul Stealer Bow. Spesh as I’ve loads and loads and loads of charged up Soul Stones. It’s made from Ebony, don’t you know!

More Brigador and more Deep Rock Galactic, for which the latest update hit recently and added a pair of nice new biomes, along with some minor quality of life things patched in.

I started Arkham City for the first time in 7 years. I'm very bad at it. Lost my edge.

Nice to see it on a 75" screen though.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I started Arkham City for the first time in 7 years. I'm very bad at it. Lost my edge.

Nice to see it on a 75" screen though.

Ahh! I have it on PS2 been looking at it on my shelf thinking of replaying it again, hadn't since it came out. An excellent game.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I started Arkham City for the first time in 7 years. I'm very bad at it. Lost my edge.

Nice to see it on a 75" screen though.

The best of the games in that series. More fully developed than Asylum. Less buggy than Origins. And no horrible driving segments. The only real downside is the lack of Scarecrow sequences.

I had a lot of fun with both Asylum and City. Getting that 50+(?) combo without anybody laying a hit on you in return was absurd the amount of jumping and dodging Bats did, but satisfying to pull off.

Also a pair of games that I happily 100%'d, as they had just the right amount of side tasks to not go full Ubi.

Finally beat Breath of the Wild. Only managed to get about 856 of the Korok seeds though before I decided to just finish the damn game. I'll probably go back and properly finish it up later but I want to play something else as I'm Zelda out at the moment.

Have got Civ 6 on the Switch (it was on sale). I have it already on the PC but wanted something I can be super lazy and lie down on the sofa with. Have to say am shocked by how good a conversion it is, really nice work on the interface you can move around pretty well and get to all of the menus pretty easily.

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:
Finally beat Breath of the Wild. Only managed to get about 856 of the Korok seeds though before I decided to just finish the damn game. I'll probably go back and properly finish it up later but I want to play something else as I'm Zelda out at the moment.

Think the same thing happened to me! Just want to get to the end of the game, think I was shocked by how few seeds I had as a percentage, felt like I had got a lot more while I was playing!

Got Ghost of Tsushima for my birthday, so been knocking around there. . . man this game is so much fun. Just the right amount of brutality, without going full on Souls game, interesting story (thus far), and everything just looks so damn amazing.

 Adrassil wrote:
Ahh! I have it on PS2 been looking at it on my shelf thinking of replaying it again, hadn't since it came out. An excellent game.

One of my favs. I've played it through about 4 times in the past, but not in nearly a decade, so it's fun to go back to it. I intend to complete it fully again, including all the Catwoman stuff.

Eumerin wrote:
The best of the games in that series. More fully developed than Asylum. Less buggy than Origins. And no horrible driving segments. The only real downside is the lack of Scarecrow sequences.

I maintain that if you cut out 2/3rds of the tank battles from Knight it would be pretty much perfect. It really is just endless tank battles that hold that game back (and some of the Riddler driving sequences are obnoxious - we get it Rocksteady! You made a Batmobile. Good for you!).

 BrookM wrote:
I had a lot of fun with both Asylum and City. Getting that 50+(?) combo without anybody laying a hit on you in return was absurd the amount of jumping and dodging Bats did, but satisfying to pull off.

Also a pair of games that I happily 100%'d, as they had just the right amount of side tasks to not go full Ubi.

Only things I could never do were the AR flying challenges. The predator bits remain my fav thing in the whole game. Jumping around, stalking the thugs, taking them down one by one, watching them get more and more terrified. Often I'd go by the entrance to Joker's hideout just to do the stalker bit at the front.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
Got Ghost of Tsushima for my birthday, so been knocking around there. . . man this game is so much fun. Just the right amount of brutality, without going full on Souls game, interesting story (thus far), and everything just looks so damn amazing.

I got the game recently too and it is absolutely fantastic. Their coop multiplayer mode is also suprisingly well done and not a cash-grab considering it's free and has it's own class system with equipment and abilities. Give me a holler if you ever want to do the multiplayer at some point, I'll PM my PSN name.

Greatly enjoying Skyrim. I’m a fan of Fallout 4, but am now greatly preferring Skyrim.

Gone with a Heavy Armour Archer build, and have nearly maxed Archery. I’m also close to Level 60 Smithing, which will allow me to improve Enchanted equipment.

To sum up my play style?

Deer Rayderz

I are in yoor camp, steeling yoor stuffs

You better come owt and kik my arse

Nipped over to Solsteim last night for a bit of Dragonborn. No doubt sneaky shooty shenanigans shall ensue.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I started Arkham City for the first time in 7 years. I'm very bad at it. Lost my edge.

Nice to see it on a 75" screen though.

I can recommend Spider-Man on PS4. It’s very similar gameplay. And as you can’t really tank damage the way Bats can, the combat is sufficiently different to not make it feel like a lazy reskin. Web swinging is particularly enjoyable.

A bit of xcom 2's long war mod. Just about finished retrieving the psionic gate. I had to go to bed before i finished but its basically done.

After that I just gotta kill an avatar and then retrieve the stasis suit at the advent forge and I should be good. Avatar progress almost finished its countdown but getting the psionic gate should push it back a bit. Also I have a couple alien facilities revealed and their regions contacted so I'll be able to destroy those if I need more time. The game is going on a bit long compared to the normal campaign.

We are in mid February in game time and I have power armor but could use more elerium cores and resources so I can make plasma weapons for when it gets researched. I have a decent amount of power armor though.

Got into Valheim. Has a server running with friends and one on my own. Quite enjoying playing by myself and building/doing whatever I feel like. I slew my first troll solo! I think the most fun in this game is the building your house part. I've set up a farm with some beehives and boars I've tamed. Funnily all the boars just want to hang out in one area of their pen, despite it being quite large.