What are you currently playing?

[BrawlMan]

I did another run in RBX as Wendy this time. I stuck with Normal Free Mode. Wendy has sauce too, but no infinite. It doesn't matter much, because she can cause huge damage. She is my favorite of two female characters, but it's not surprising as she is my favorite in Rushing Beat Ran. Wendy also has a special grab where you can pick up a downed enemy and proceed to beat them further however you like, but it doesn't work on certain elite mooks, and bosses. Or is not worth, because of their wake up attacks.

 

[meiam]

I'm playing Warhammer 40K Mechanicus

Its a fun little turn-based tactics game, where you play as the Adeptus Mechanicus, versus the Necrons on their home turf.

I'm about half way through, and its been enjoyable, but I think I am ready to be done with it.

I'm playing on Hard, and whilst the early game was a challenge, the later game becomes a bit of a cakewalk when you disover the power of the flamer that shoots in an arc. And I feel like I am only going to find even more ways to get more powerful.

Honorable mention to the music though:

Yeah its the big problem with the game, almost every build you can try is completely overpowered, there's no difficulty.

Also played on hard and I did finish the game, the final boss got to act once (and it was a scripted action).

There's a sequel coming out soon, they'll hopefully fix this issue.

As for music, check out the ixion soundtrack by the same composer, its great too.

 

[Worgen]

Still playing the Death Wish mod episode of Blood Refreshed Supply. I mostly remember it since I did play through it before, but I swear there are a few new levels. Like I just did a Wizard of Oz based one that I really don't remember and I know I would have remembered a tornado hitting a house before transporting me to OZ. I do remember the Silent Hill levels and how well done they are, and the board walk level. Either way, having fun, but I can feel the game straining over the makers not really adding any assets since you know they really want to. But, they use the existing ones to great effect.

 

[Worgen]

There's a sequel coming out soon, they'll hopefully fix this issue.

I played the demo when that was out awhile ago. Its a pretty different feeling game, despite being in the same genre, I think it will make it easier for them to balance. Really in the first if they had just started putting the powerful necrons a bit sooner I think that would have helped too.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Against my better judgement, I got Elden Ring on sale. It's surprisingly more open and freeform than I expected, and much more conducive to stealth. I've run into two bosses so far: Margit, who predictably kicked my ass (as I'm just level 3), and the Beastman of Farim Azila (took me about three tries; I showed him why wolves hunt in packs).

 

[Worgen]

Against my better judgement, I got Elden Ring on sale. It's surprisingly more open and freeform than I expected, and much more conducive to stealth. I've run into two bosses so far: Margit, who predictably kicked my ass (as I'm just level 3), and the Beastman of Farim Azila (took me about three tries; I showed him why wolves hunt in packs).

I hope you realize that by playing Elden Ring, you have cosigned yourself to giving us updates and us really wanting to give you pointers and help.

 

[Casual Shinji]

More Nine Sols, and I just escaped the prison and got the crimson attack counter.

One thing that feels a bit odd is this game's sporadic violence. I mean, the game starts out with your character being quite brutally injured, as well as the game giving a warning beforehand about its explicit violence and gore, but the tone overall makes it feel a bit ill-fitting. It's generally cartoony and slightly whisical, and even though the backdrop is one that feels dangerous it never really cements itself as a gnarly violent game... but then there's a sudden decapitation or someone bleeding from the eyes.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

One thing that feels a bit odd is this game's sporadic violence. I mean, the game starts out with your character being quite brutally injured, as well as the game giving a warning beforehand about its explicit violence and gore, but the tone overall makes it feel a bit ill-fitting. It's generally cartoony and slightly whisical, and even though the backdrop is one that feels dangerous it never really cements itself as a gnarly violent game... but then there's a sudden decapitation or someone bleeding from the eyes.

I haven't played the game (yet, I'm definitely considering it) but I've seen that juxtaposition several times before. Going by the reputation Nine Sols has, I'm fairly sure it's done deliberately to make you feel that whiplash, rather than simply the 'wouldn't it be funny if I drew Disney characters getting chainsawed in half'. Well, without having actually played it, that's me talking out my ass.

Definitely going to keep an eye out for any upcoming sales on it though.

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

Ok started my two games:

1- Demons Souls remake replay: there's a reason I was thinking about this game, despite my thinking of swearing off Souls games. It's just so good and I hate hate hate how this game is relegated to "fist try" status in Souls mythology. Mostly I love the level design and yet it's the thing that is criticized the most because people got enamored with Dark Souls' connected world and Elden Ring's open world. And those are good too but I like how focused the Demons archway hubworld thing is. It makes exploration and progress more iteratively rewarding to me.

2- Returnal
pew pew!
I know I just started and I need to be patient but I'm already so confused by all of the materials, how upgrades works, and mostly what things carry over between runs. Since I only intend on doing one or two "runs' at a time, I'm gonna have to watch some youtubes or something to make the most of my runs. I do like the exploration so far, zipping around worlds and actually finding the minimap somewhat useful (I really struggle with maps in 3D environments. I've stopped myself from replaying the Jedi games for that reason).

 

[Drathnoxis]

I hope you realize that by playing Elden Ring, you have cosigned yourself to giving us updates and us really wanting to give you pointers and help.

Speaking of people giving updates:

Anyway, played maybe the first 20 minutes of Death Stranding yesterday, and what the fuck?

It's been radio silence on the Death Stranding playthrough, did you give up?

 

[Drathnoxis]

2- Returnal
pew pew!
I know I just started and I need to be patient but I'm already so confused by all of the materials, how upgrades works, and mostly what things carry over between runs. Since I only intend on doing one or two "runs' at a time, I'm gonna have to watch some youtubes or something to make the most of my runs. I do like the exploration so far, zipping around worlds and actually finding the minimap somewhat useful (I really struggle with maps in 3D environments. I've stopped myself from replaying the Jedi games for that reason).

The main thing you carry over between runs are your weapon abilities, you want to focus on unlocking those because many of them can really change how useful a weapon is. Once you level up a weapon, you might as well switch (unless its extremely powerful) because you can only gain one rank per weapon and you need to unlock rank 1 of an ability before you can start on rank 2 next time you find the same ability. Weapons and trinkets are permanently added to the pool when unlocked. Ether carries over between runs, but is probably best used for unlocking trinkets at the start and I never really used it much mid run.

 

[Drathnoxis]

I tried out InfoGenius Productivity Pak: Frommer's Travel Guide for the Game Boy after seeing them given out as a third place prize on an old recording of Jeopardy. The idea of Game Boy productivity packs is just ridiculous and works as well as you could imagine. The travel guide has all the content of a phone book (possibly less) for a few major cities in the US. I can't imagine this being at all useful to anyone.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

The Witcher 3, still doing the dlc quests. So far I like Blood and Wine a bit more than Hearts of Stone. The ogre Golyat was a pretty fun boss battle and reminded me of the trolls in GoW 2018 but surprisingly more enjoyable, because it was unexpected and kind of dynamic with all the sheep around and allies. It also reacted more to exploiting its weaknesses. I think these types of fights are my favorite in this game, contrasting size and brute strength with Geralt’s speed and finesse.

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

The Witcher 3, still doing the dlc quests. So far I like Blood and Wine a bit more than Hearts of Stone. The ogre Golyat was a pretty fun boss battle and reminded me of the trolls in GoW 2018 but surprisingly more enjoyable, because it was unexpected and kind of dynamic with all the sheep around and allies. It also reacted more to exploiting its weaknesses. I think these types of fights are my favorite in this game, contrasting size and brute strength with Geralt’s speed and finesse.

There is a trophy/achievement for killing Golyot with a crossbow- you can one shot him if you hit him in the eye.

Are you planning on one of the grandmaster witcher sets? A couple of them are locked behind some tough battle situations.

There are a couple of easily missed but wonderful side quests in Blood and Wine that don't come from the notice board. The hints I will give you are that one is about the horse and another about a barber.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Speaking of people giving updates:
It's been radio silence on the Death Stranding playthrough, did you give up?

No, haven't given up, just really haven't had time to play much of anything in a while. I think I got about 30 minutes of Minecraft in about a month ago?

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

There is a trophy/achievement for killing Golyot with a crossbow- you can one shot him if you hit him in the eye.

Are you planning on one of the grandmaster witcher sets? A couple of them are locked behind some tough battle situations.

There are a couple of easily missed but wonderful side quests in Blood and Wine that don't come from the notice board. The hints I will give you are that one is about the horse and another about a barber.

I have a few pieces that say they must be upgraded to Grandmaster to unlock bonuses, but I haven't a complete set of anything yet. I'd like to at least end the game with a set of something though. I prefer medium gear, even though a really eye-catching one is heavy armor.

Will keep a lookout for those quests. If the horse one involves steeling them from a stable then I started that at least.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Every year I boot up Minecraft, try to bake a cake and see how far I get before I give up. I need three pails of milk so I need to make buckets so I need to get iron and I get tired of finding everything but. Also it's two sugars and I don't know how the hell you get those. I have *a* sugar that I probably looted from a zombie, not sure.

I'm starting The Forgotten City which is a timeloop adventure metroidbrainia thing that looks right up my alley.

After that it's Elden Ring time baby.

 

[laggyteabag]

Finished Mechanicus.

I don't normally approach games trying to optimise the fun out of them, or uncover some kind of hidden strategy to cheese the game's mechanics, but in Mechanicus that was just so easy.

Once you kit out all of your techpriests with stealth items (which are incredibly cheap), you can just wander past most encounters without any issues, and fight enemies entirely on your own terms - they cannot detect you. Until the game suddenly arbitrarily decides that this "escape" mission is now a "kill everything" mission only after reaching the designated escape point (which is super annoying when it happens). Then you just mow everything down with your incredibly powerful AOE weapons, and cheese the action economy with a multitude of cooldowns which completely refresh your action points.

It was a fun enough time, but even playing on Hard mode, the difficulty just craters about half way through, after you discover some kind of somewhat optimal strategy.

The final boss also blew chunks. They are one of those dudes who relies on having other minions in the fight with him to be a challenge, but if you defeat them in their own separate missions beforehand, he just becomes a big healthbar with nothing else going on.

 

[Worgen]

Finished Mechanicus.

I don't normally approach games trying to optimise the fun out of them, or uncover some kind of hidden strategy to cheese the game's mechanics, but in Mechanicus that was just so easy.

Once you kit out all of your techpriests with stealth items, you can just wander past most encounters without any issues. Unless the game suddenly decides that you must now kill all of the enemies after reaching the "escape" point (which is super annoying when it happens).

It was a fun enough time, but even playing on Hard mode, the difficulty just craters about half way through, after you discover some kind of somewhat optimal strategy.

The final boss also blew chunks. They are one of those dudes who relies on having other minions in the fight with him to be a challenge, but if you defeat them in their own separate missions beforehand, he just becomes a big healthbar with nothing else going on.

Its harder to be underpowered in that game then it is OP.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Every year I boot up Minecraft, try to bake a cake and see how far I get before I give up. I need three pails of milk so I need to make buckets so I need to get iron and I get tired of finding everything but. Also it's two sugars and I don't know how the hell you get those. I have *a* sugar that I probably looted from a zombie, not sure.

I'm starting The Forgotten City which is a timeloop adventure metroidbrainia thing that looks right up my alley.

After that it's Elden Ring time baby.

Sugar comes from sugar cane, the bamboo looking things that grow by water.