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I've been playing Marvel Rivals and the new Dynasty Warriors game as of late! I also just started Shantae on GBC which is fun so far!
I AM looking for a good RPG to play. Anyone care to give some advice? I'm thinking it's going to be between Secret of Mana, Golden Sun, and Chrono Trigger. I'm leaning towards CT.
I'm looking forward to playing more with friends :)
I'm most likely going to get the Switch since Nintendo puts out good exclusives. We'll see how long it takes to get good, though.
Mafia trilogy, great stories in those games
Yo, I love those games.
Been replaying the Mass Effect trilogy, on the 2nd game so far. The game looks a lot better on new ports, but the create a character always looks a bit off imo. Really cool dialogue choices and side missions. Also replaying Mad Max and while I still really enjoy the game, the missions are all kinda similar, props to them for making the different camps and scavenger areas different enough but it’s ultimately a very simple game. Upgrade your character, upgrade your car and upgrade your safe houses. Probably like a 6, a 7 out of 10 at best but still fun.
Enjoy!
Just started playing Citizen Sleeper 2. Really enjoyed the first one, and the second one seems to be pretty similar. Great writing and a pretty good adaptation of some TTRPG mechanics. My only real complaint has been that it can be hard to track what is going on at locations you aren't currently at.
I am looking forward to Civ VII and Monster Hunter Wilds...both which hit this month, unfortunately for my free time. I have no idea if it comes out this year but I am very interested in Endless Legend 2 as well.
My Switch 1 was probably the least used console I have ever bought, it basically existed as my girlfriend's animal crossing box, so I doubt I will consider the Switch 2 honestly. Especially since I have a steam deck now.
Oh, I forgot that Citizen Sleeper 2 has just come out.
It has decidedly pro-socialist themes (as did the first game). Which should not be remotely surprising coming from a studio named Fellow Traveler.
There are at least two worker co-ops/revolutions you can assist with.
That's good, at least.
No gaming for me because school has started and this semester has been nightmarish lol. I did buy a steam deck for myself tho so thats nice.
Edit: I do not feel super strongly about the Switch 2.
Steam Deck is a good purchase and hopefully you'll have the time to use it eventually.
I wanted it because my poor laptop is not strong enough to play certain games well (baldurs gate 3 being the main one) and I wanted a dedicated machine to take up my steam memory, unfortunately th deck can’t play Silent Hill 2.
I haven’t played on it yet but I downloaded most of my steam library and I am excited to get to it. January was super hard but hopefully February will slow down for a bit for me to play.
Yeah, January was harsh on me too.
tried playing call of duty zombies becausr hakim liked it. ended up spending so many hours shooting nazi zombies (this is a hint on an upcoming post when i come back home! any questions about "what cod did you play" will be answered there! i tried black ops 2 but i generally don't like cod. the fact that it's funded by the us army doesn't help!)
i played a ton of beta minecraft. yes, i know about better than adventure. yes, i know and use beta unleashed. i built a castle yesterday.
to be honest, i didn't play much as i focused more of my time on exams
my favorite genre is still sandboxes. i played beta minecraft for half an hour trying to make a statue and many hours on a barn (tree farm!) and a castle. juggling blocks in my inventory has never been this easy and this fun
i am looking forward to more homebrew on older consoles. the ps3 recently got gamemaker games like undertale, sonic mania is fully playable and minecraft b1.7.3 is partially playable on the wii. i want MORE. if i knew how, i'd port an underrated indie game (and a friend of mine's favorite game) known as "aquaria" to the ps3, it already has a switch port and a psp port, why not the ps3?
switch 2? nah, we'll already have the switch 3 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=OZpH-1Qin-U
jokes aside, the only consoles i have are the ps3 and the wii. if it can be emulated and jailbroken, and it will, would be really neat. nintendo dmca-ing emulators kinda made this hard
Hakim as in the YouTuber? Nice!
Also lol about the Switch 3.
started playing this game called "Skyrim"... seems neat but the fantasy/racial undertones are kind of odd.
Oblivion is much better and Morrowind is better than Oblivion.
But, err yeah, the, uhh, racial politics is... Yeah.
Playing sifu rn, love the combat system.
Finished firewatch before it.
Favorite genres would be story telling games and rougelike/lite.
Not looking forward to any games. I don't follow game releases and just get games as I finish games in my library and search for other similar games, very rarelly do I buy a game that's isn't already a couple years old.
Not excited for the nintendo switch 2, I never owned any consoles in my life until last year my used ps4. Like it to turn on and play some bloodborne sometimes but I like my devices to be multipurpose so am much more interested in gaming handhelds like the steamdeck or just pc gaming in general.
Fair, fair.
@Makan i'm playing Legend of Zelda: minish cap for the GBA on an Anbernic RG35XXSP
I just finished that yesterday for the first time!
Playing signalis. Setting is interesting and some of the puzzles are good but I’m not a fan of all the backtracking. I will finish it though.
Played balatro before that, basically got around 60 hours out of it before I felt really fed up with playing it. Which is not bad.
I’m enjoying playing more controller friendly games on steam deck over the competitive kind of games I pumped so many hours into before. I think after signalis I will play through the rest of hollow knight.
I'm playing Advance Wars and I also started Disco Elysium. Damn, if I wasn't doing my thesis I'd play that all day long. I had finished the Zelda Oracle games and they were alright, Oracle of Seasons was definitely a lot easier than Ages
Yeah, the Oracle games are more famous than good.
A couple weeks ago I was having a hard time finding things to play. I went back to Kenshi and Rimworld for a bit but they weren't really doing it for me.
Then I got an emulator working for Breath of the Wild. Its pretty awesome. Its the spiritual successor to Daggerfall in that it has awesome climbing mechanics. I am really impressed by the openness of the world and the puzzles are really well designed so that sometimes I am not sure if I am solving it the way they intended or making up a work around. There were a couple spots where I had to spoof the motion controls through my mouse which was not great but otherwise everything has been working really smoothly. So now I'm looking at more wiiu games to emulate and I've got Skyward sword waiting for me.
I dont really care about switch 2. I haven't had a console since the wii but I do look forward to the next installments of the Zelda franchise. PCs may be superior to consoles but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for exclusive IP like Zelda, Metroid, and Sonic. (Mario is ok but he gets involved in too many dubious pursuits)
Daggerfall, my beloved...
I just played Neva and LUNA The Shadow Dust, both were really enjoyable. In general I enjoy either games with really good stories where choices matter or roguelikes that have good action. I find nowadays I don't have as much time and energy to play games, so I tend to look for stuff with easy to pick up mechanics and that I can pick up and play without having to build up too much context.
Haven't really been keeping up with what big games are coming out this year, so not really looking for anything specific.I find I tend to often be most pleasantly surprised by small indie games that I discover.
Not really excited for Switch 2 here, I basically haven't touched my Switch since I got the Steam Deck. The only game I'd probably really want to play on it would be the new Mario Kart.
Still just playing Deadlock since I got into the alpha back in August. Haven't been into a game for this long in a while.
Really looking forward to Monster Hunter Wilds later on this month.
Currently I'm playing Pokémon: Legends Arceus, which is pretty fun; I'm also playing heavy modded Skyrim, it took me two weeks to fully mod it with 1200+ mods, the only downside is that something is killing my performance and I don't know what lol. I'm also playing Slay the Spire which is absolutely incredible, I can't believe it took me this long to try this game out, and I recently started Sifu which is extremely cool.
What are you most looking forward to in the rest of 2025 in terms of gaming?
Honestly I'm most excited for Chinese games. I haven't played Black Myth Wukong because too expensive, but I'm looking forward to Phantom Blade Zero, Project Perceiver and Where Winds Meet. Outside of that it's Slay the Spire 2, The First Berserker: Khazan, Avowed, .45 Parabellum Bloodhound and Unbeatable.
Are you excited for the Nintendo Switch 2? Why or why not?
I'm more curious than excited to be honest, depending on how powerful it is, it could be a pretty cool modded handheld.
I have Black Myth: Wukong, but haven't played it yet. There's also The Bustling World, which is another Chinese game, that was announced a while back which seems super ambitious and I love the concept behind it already.
I really want to play Black Myth Wukong. But I refuse to buy any game with Denuvo, and I fear that it wouldn't run that well on PS5. I get motion sick easily, and modern games and their fancy AI graphics are not a good mix. On PC I can generally disable all that crap until I get something playable.
Resident Evil 4 the new one. Going for a Professional S+. Also, some Crash Bandicoot 4.
Besides a lot of ARK, I completely forgot about RE Village DLC, so I played it. The most dogshit DLC in history by far.
Favorite genres are horror(any kind), action/adventure and SCI-FI,
Obviously looking forward to GTA VI this year the most.
Revisited Planet Crafter recently, love it. However, once I take a break from it, I can't really get back in, because I have to acclimate to that style of uh, camera control? I really easily get dizzy/disoriented with similar 1st person POV games, not sure why but having your character model on screen has always reduced or eliminated that effect on me. I guess that's my one gripe, I really wish Planet Crafter (or even Subnautica, another big fav of mine but can't replay it much for same disorientation reasons) had a third-person player model, even as an option.
Anyway, been on a break from video games since then, aside from occasional "social hours" dota. Looking forward to any more news from The Bustling World, hopefully we'll be able to play it this year? fingers crossed
edit: don't really pay attention to console games unless interested enough to look into emulators, hehe. sorry switch
Squad 44, Project Zomboid (b42) and Motor Town: Behind The Wheel, which is a MMO south korean logisitics/car game, really cool.
Haven't been playing a whole lot of games lately because sick, but been slowly getting through Yars Rising because it happens to fall exactly within my interests, I feel like the exact target for it lol
It's a Metroidvania from WayForward whose platforming and shooting is like Mega Man, with loads of hacking minigames that are literally Yars' Revenge (you know, the old Atari game), playing as a cute girl with funny friends in this Japanese-inspired cyberpunk city full of Atari references (the idea is hilarious I love it) as you investigate a tech company's shady secret
The soundtrack is a 10/10 and the girl you play as is currently one of my top fictional crushes lol, she talks too much and I never want her to shut up ❤️
It's such a weird combination of stuff though, and it didn't exactly get much marketing and was probably relatively low budget, so I get why it's so overlooked currently despite being a WayForward game, especially with the genre getting so many games lately (probably not helped by Ubisoft putting out a huge budget Prince of Persia one a month earlier)
Also, I'm glad the Switch 2 is finally announced, even Nintendo games often run like total ass on the current one, hopefully this one's size and being more round will make it at least slightly more comfortable, and hoping Switch 1 games will run more stable on it (even if target resolution/framerate stay the same without patches, I'd like games to at least keep a consistent 30)
Glad we're finally getting a new Mario Kart too for the first time in 11 years lmao