Gaming

Baldur's Gate 3.
I can probably count the number of games I've paid full price for in the past 15 years on one hand, and this is one of them. No regrets whatsoever.

Looking back on Steam, last time was GTA V. Prior to that Skyrim, and prior to that Portal 2.

I’m playing Sekiro for the first time and am loving it! It’s my first FromSoftware game. Mechanically it’s quite similar to Jedi Survivor, the other game I’ve been playing lately, but is a lot less friendly and more straightforward (as far as plot and other stuff going on). However, it works really well and is very enjoyable to get good at.

Baldurs Gate 3 on my linux machine runs pretty good and smooth. Already died because I failed a persuasion/deception check which led to a party wipe. It wasnt uncalled for either and didn't came out of the blue. I really enjoy it.

I can't hear you over the sound of my mind-flayer parasite.

Just finished Life is Strange and Life is Strange Before the Storm.

Both are great games with a really good soundtrack but I personally preferred the story of the first title.

BG3 baybee what other game is there!?

For me, I just finished pikmin 4 100%!!! I have now moved on to Jedi survivor, which I am having a lot of fun with.

I got it near launch, but it didn’t run super well. I am happy I waited as the game runs much smoother than it did when it came out

Yall i was fucking with Baldur's Gate 3 splitscreen with my wife and found out that using an Nvidia graphics card and 2 monitors, I can turn vertical split screen games to broadcast to 2 different monitors so it looks like 1 screen each.

Fucking awesome.

None of my friends were half as impressed as me and the wife were. I feel like a technical God recently (all because I figured out how to enable a setting and set an aspect ratio properly for 2 screens lol)

FF6 with my wife. I was always told it's the best one but 8 has been my fav so far.

Transport Fever 2, because I can ride da choo choos

It's super chill and relaxing, you just have to ignore the rest of your empire falling into ruin

I have been busy this week so I have played mostly Slay the Spire. Being able to get up and walk away at any time let's me play in my limited down time at work, or while I am working on dinner.

I've also been dabbling in a mobile game called To Arms.

I just finished Hollow Knight this week (basic ending, didn't go out of my way to find items I didn't organically come across). Metroidvanias and 2d side-scrollers in general haven't traditionally been my thing, but I was persuaded by Monty Zander's video and...yeah, it's as good as everyone says. The world is surprisingly immersive for its format and the gameplay is tight and rewarding. Abilities and enemy variety were always changing the way I played, and the different areas each had their own identities and obstacles. The sense of excitement on unlocking a new area and getting to explore it was on par with Elden Ring.

Unfortunately, I moved on to Kena Bridge of Spirits, which I think is a pretty good game so far, but it has some AA jank that I think stands out more after the fine tuning in Hollow Knight, and the combat is a lot more rote. Trying not to be too harsh though because not everything can be what Hollow Knight is, obviously.

Still Final Fantasy XVI (PS5) and Final Fantasy XII (Switch). Loving both still.

Elden ring for now

Replaying Witcher 3 for the xth time. So far only ever played the base game, now I look forward to the dlcs. So far I am mostly rushing through the main quest and am now facing the wild hunt at kaer morhen. Never before reached this state with so few side quests completed 😅.

My life has been completely subsumed by Baldur's Gate 3. I spend all day at work thinking about it.

My husband called it a "tactical combat dating sim" and that cracked me up.

I'm playing A Plague Tale: Innocence for the first time – really enjoying the medieval flair and great graphics, though it is definitely a linear game (not my usual cup of tea, but exceptions obviously apply).

I'll be playing Baldur's Gate 3 as soon as my COOP friends have time for it... it is installed and ready to go! Very much looking forward to this.

All of them running great on Linux too, which is just amazing.

Hypnospace Outlaw. I'm not old enough to have been using the web in 1999, but I like to think it was exactly like this.

I got a ttrpg itch recently (unrelated to bg3) and started looking into pathfinder 2e and will probably pick up the core rulebook in the next few days.

I just recently learned there was a HD remake for Freelancer. So I've been taking a nostalgia trip all weekend. Still such a good game. And free/abandonware now!

Edit: Game can be found here: https://archive.org/details/Freelancer_201807

HD Edition mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/freelancer-hd-edition/downloads/freelancer-hd-edition-v06

Going through all of the Hitman reboot trilogy maps purely to take screenshots. My plan is to have a fat wallpaper folder of all sorts of locations from the trilogy. It's a beaut

Well I just picked up Last Epoch last night / Monday! It's an Action RPG so follows the same format as PoE / Diablo. Haven't been super impressed with the post-campaign experience of D4, and immediately after jumping into Last Epoch I already feel like it has exactly what I was looking for from D4 in terms of power fantasy and buildcrafting potential.

Its still Early Access which I generally don't pickup, but someone here on Lemmy recommended it and I have to say, so far I regret nothing!

Still playing Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and 0 A.D. See this comment for details.

Also checked out SWTOR but I couldn't get past the clunky controls and camera, so considering dropping it. Also checking out Star Trek Online for the first time, and it's looking promising. The combat is a bit weird, but I like the controls better than SWTOR.

Restarted the Demon's Souls PS5 remake. It's going much better than my previous attempts. Not quite back to where I was last time but got there aot faster.

Right now I'm waiting on the new PoE league as well as the GW2 expansion. For now it's either a MUD, The first Skyrim save I've kept long enough to complete the main quest, or Yakuza: Like a dragon.

It really just depends on mood and if anyone else is active on the MUD.

I'm glad to have finally found a Skyrim build I enjoy. I've always appreciated the game but never managed to stick with it. This Illusion/Thief/Assassin combo is a great time. Calm + backstab for life.

Yakuza is a delight. It's a lot like FfXIV in that it's a pretty fun movie that is sometimes interrupted by RPG game play elements. Loving the humor.

I initially started Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered a few days ago, but I wasn't really in the mood for that game, so I ended up going back to The Witcher 3 to start (and hopefully finish) both DLCs (I'm part way through Heart of Stone atm and have yet to start Blood and Wine).

As for feedback, although weekly might perhaps be too often, maybe a "Show us your collection / show us your setup" kind of thread? This could generate some engagement and lead to interesting discussions imo.

I’m excited for starfield so I started playing through Fallout 76 to scratch the bethesda itch which led to me starting fallout 4 again, which led to me staring new vegas again too, and then committed to finally 100% achievements for Fallout 3 after all these years.

I bought Disco Elysium during the Steam Summer Sale. I'm only on the second "day" (in game time). It's OK. There's lots of attention to art and fleshing out the NPCs. I'm not blown away yet, though.

Back on the old Bloodborne. I meant to finish it years ago, but ran out of time with exams so restarted just there with a brand new save. Loving it so far although I'm not too far into it.

Currently playing Nier: Automata. It's incredibly hard to talk to people about this game without spoilers. It's all about the story, but the gameplay is pretty good too.

Hogwarts legacy

I think I'll take a break from Final Fantasy 14 for a while. The story was just so uninteresting for so long, that I just don't want to continue right now. Everything else was good enough, the different jobs I tried were fun, but I just need to do something else.

Other than that, I started Baldurs Gate 3 with a friend, we are still relatively early, exploring the first region.

I played the Pikmin 4 demo and had a ton of fun with it, but I have to wait for a sale to pick it up.

So instead o got Brotato because I saw it was $5 on switch, having a lot of fun with it! Will probably get Vampire Survivors when it comes out on switch, I hear it has more interesting maps than Brotato