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The original Final Fantasy, though the Pixel Perfect Remaster version. I never played it on the NES as I never personally had a NES; we were a TI-99 family so Hunt the Wumpus was where it was at. After that I'm going to try the Dragon Quest III 2.5 HD remake I think.

Finally got to get my modded Fallout New Vegas working so I've been playing that. Started a new game. I'm playing the same character I always do. Should try something different, but, meh.

With HomeWorld 3 getting panned and the cost plummeting, I am revisiting the 1st two games as they cost less than £5, includind Deserts of Kharak.

The earlier games are so good. Hopefully 3 will be down to £10 soon

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I'm playing Path of Exile 2 as well. Only like level 24 but there's only been a few bosses i've had trouble with. The first one i had serious trouble with was the Count (duke?) at the end of act 1 and then maybe that spirit in act 2 which is bound by 3 seals (mostly due to that bs poison gas she releases into the room i had to figure out how to stop).

I've been playing as the Witch which is basically just a necromancer in other games. I might try the bounty hunter next. I was unsure which of the two to play but ultimately chose the witch due to being like a necromancer and seemingly having solid firepower.

I can imagine the ranged classes are easier in these games vs say the melee classes. Only A-rpg i remember playing where it was the opposite is Grim Dawn.

My Sorceress is now up to Level 46, and I’ve a filthy Unique Ashen Staff. Level 12 Fireball is alright. But it also causes me to cast Ember Cascade alongside every spell. And that is doing a lot of heavy lifting for me.

Still the odd boss I struggle with, but not the main ones. And now I’m only tending to get squelched when I’ve let myself get mobbed or cornered.

Finally got the hang of mechanics in Kingdom Come : Deliverance 2.

Really enjoying it and have found all pre-order bonus armor pieces and what seems like most quests in the starting area. Attended a wedding that broke down into chaos and am currently doing hard labor in a nearby castle. Pretty good fun, aside from alchemy which is an absolute bore, and there are a few other mini-game mechanics that are questionable. Not sure if they were the same in the first game, as I didn't do much in that game, other than escape a castle in the opening act.

Combat-wise, I feel like a monster, as I leveled up my warfare and sword abilities to be pretty deadly. Gotta get my ranged weapon skills and poleaxe abilities up though.

also: Totally cheated with console commands!

I read the new Witcher book in January and, after ~160h me and my wife are close to finishing our second playthrough of Witcher 3 GOTY. All of this reminded me of this little, but extremely well received game Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales and I bought it for the equivalent of 4$ on PS Store.

I have already played a couple of hours and it is really cool! Good story, dialogue and choices made me invested in the plot and card-driven battles are a couple of levels of complexity above original Gwent, and pretty satisfying to fight. So far, great fun!

Moved into a new region in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Still having a blast, though its getting kind of repetitive.

One thing that I did that I regret is selecting a Perk that reveals the map and all locations. Pretty awesome at first, then I realized it took all the wonder and discovery out of the game. Going to reset a few saves previous and not select that perk until its the last one.

Been playing a lot of Fallout: New Vegas. It's the most I've played it in ages, mostly because of all the mods I've got the game becomes a bit overwhelming. I've got all the SomeGuy story mods, but the one I've been doing the most is the World of Pain mod which adds a lot, and I mean a lot, of content. World of Pain makes Fallout: New Vegas a real Dungeon Crawler and one that is super fun and interesting. Challenging too, although, now I have five companions now so it's less challenging now, lol

Had to play a new campaign of Crusader Kings 3. It's going much better than the previous one since i know a lot more of the in's and out's of the game. Far easier to understand than Hearts of Iron 4 imo.

Just started playing the romhack "Pokemon Crystal Clear", its a hack of Pokemon Crystal that really opens the game up, you can start in any town in kanto or johto, lots of new starter pokemon to choose from. Fewer obstacles to stop you from exploring (like cutable plants, pushable boulders, etc)

After getting frustrated with Fallout: New Vegas and the World of Pain mod. I made the dangerous on a whim decision to redownload Rimworld and its newest DLCs. Man oh man is that game addictive. Have to be very careful about how much time I sink into that game, lol

I've been playing Steel Division with a friend. It's actually oddly pretty fun. Some lists do better in certain maps though. In some maps there's more bushes and buildings and in others there are more open spaces good for tanks and long ranged AT. I may need more artillery for my current list as i was infantry heavy for my sub-faction (some british elites) but i was oddly forced to go for tanks and artillery.

I finally picked up Doom 2016 on sale. I've never been a huge fan of the franchise so I passed it over, but some games you just have to play and this is one of them. I'm not sure there's anything to say that hasn't already, but this game is fun in a way that few games manage to capture and will definitely make me wish there were more like it that manage to capture its combat flow.

Well, there's Doom Eternal that improves the formula further and I hope this year's new Doom will keep it fresh. These games are indeed top of their genre and I enjoyed them immensely.

I have dived back into Elite: Dangerous. I was in a squadron a couple of years ago, but got bored and left. Now, in a different part of 'the bubble', aligned to a different power, and in a new squadron, I'm hoping to get some team gaming done.

And I am still playing Thronebreaker. Halfway through the game and it's still enjoyable as hell. Both card gameplay and managing your deck to tailor for different threats are really satisfying and some of these battles/puzzles are quite hard, require several attempts, tinkering with the deck and coming out of comfort zones. Great design.

The problem is how unstable the game is. It used to crash a couple od times before, but now, on the third map it does that several times per my gaming session (~1h) at totally random places - start screen, deck management, map, battle... It should have really been patched by now 😦 especially as from online comments it seems to be a common problem

Playing Brotato with my son. It’s stupid but strangely satisfying. Almost got the whole roster of bros to choose from.

Wallace and Gromit DLC for Powerwash Simulator dropped yesterday, having a lot of fun with that one, the whimsical theme really works well with the game.

Was playing Dark Souls 2 but got fed up with the run to Sir Alonne and switched to Space Marine (the first one). At the bit where the Orks are defeated, and again, my enthusiasm declines because Orks are more fun to fight than Chaos.

Also giving Soulstorm another try, because I never finished the campaign originally (despite countless hours played on Dark Crusade's campaign). Playing as Dark Eldar, finding them pretty tricky to manage!

Because I like to wait for 7 years after a game is released to play it. I finally sat down to play Skyrim... the Ultra-everything edition.

Hopefully this won't consume too much of my time.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Because I like to wait for 7 years after a game is released to play it. I finally sat down to play Skyrim...

Oh, Skyrim is easily twice as old as that

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Because I like to wait for 7 years after a game is released to play it. I finally sat down to play Skyrim... the Ultra-everything edition.

Hopefully this won't consume too much of my time.

As opposed to Duke Nukem Forever and Stalker 1 which took like 12+ years after announcement to finally release. At least Stalker 1 wasn't so bad.

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I'm gonna maybe stream xcom 2: long war of the chosen mod.

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Also i've been playing hearts of iron 4 as japan. Should've done a naval invasion into coastal china midway through because the supply line is much better and easier that way. I'm practically into 1948 now and i just have a section of middle China left. Not sure if the game is supposed to auto-end in 1948 or if all wars need to end first. Also i was smart enough to never piss off the USA at all and even was apologetic to them. I figured antagonizing your resource daddy while you're both low on resources and occupied with a massive war where you're insanely outnumbered in attrition and supply hell was a bad idea. Turns out i made the right choice. That said i am a bit bummed i can't attack french indochina any more due to bringing india and others into my war against china and stretching the frontline to something absolutely ludicrous to maintain. It'd be more interesting than finishing off mainland china in supply line hell.

Disco Elysium. I'm really enjoying the artstyle, music, dialogue, mechanics and overall thematic vibe

the-gentleman-ranker wrote:
Disco Elysium. I'm really enjoying the artstyle, music, dialogue, mechanics and overall thematic vibe

Is it a long game?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

the-gentleman-ranker wrote:
Disco Elysium. I'm really enjoying the artstyle, music, dialogue, mechanics and overall thematic vibe

Is it a long game?

I'm going to give a very unhelpful answer and say that it will probably take 20-75 hours depending upon one's own reading skill, willingness to explore, connect the metaphorical dots and soak in the atmosphere.

Ie, treat it like a visual novel

Been getting my nostalgia kick in by playing Shadowveil: Legend of the Five Rings; it's replaced Slay the Spire for me.

Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock.

Just got me a Sonic Frontiers today. Its looking fun, but I'm a little bit peeved that the joystick to lock-on is the right one, the same side where all the attacking buttons are.

Fired up Gladius: Relics of War, a civ-like 40k game, added a few mods to add a ton of units to the Imperial Guard's roster, got a few DLCs thanks to Steam's spring sale, and I am having a good time making themed runs, such as low-ish tech Death Korps taking on a horde of Orks or Tempestus Scions helping out a PDF to quell the wildlife/heretical cults/Tyranids.

Simple game, but the mods open up a lot of variety, at least for the Guard.

I've been playing Split Fiction with the wife. Not as charming as It Takes Two, but the co-op is still novel and clever. It's definitely more about enabling a ton of different genres of videogames and is definitely in parts as much a love letter to videogames as a whole as it is its own thing.