Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Thread

Morrowind with OpenMW.

Well that's a lie mostly I've been modding it and done a few test runs to see if everything works.

It's just so great to be able to get a ship from Ebonheart(on mainland) to go to Anvil in Cyrodil and then come back and take a boat to Karthwasten in Skyrim.

Owlcat’s 40K Rogue Trader. I’d never really delved into 40K before, but man it’s really good so far. Writing is excellent, combat super fun, and 40K is such a cool setting and world. Highly recommend if you’re a crpg person.

I picked that up in the steam sale and haven't gotten around to it yet. it looks good!

i hacked my switch earlier this week, so i modded a ton of games and pirated a few too. right now i've been playing miitopia with harder difficulty and controllable party members mods

Software hack, cartridge, or soldering stuff in the mainboard?
- software hack

Zelda: The Wind Waker.

elder kings 2 kind of dominated my week, they updated to the latest ck3 patch and it's sooo good. what's really crazy is this sense of reality i've gotten from it, it's almost more 'real' feeling than the historical game.

let me explain--elder scrolls games are almost all first-person experiences of being in a fictional place, you've (assume you're a massive elder scrolls fan) 'walked' through the imperial city, you've seen Vvardenfel from the ground level, you've seen the inside of the palaces of Skyrim. Though EK2 is a bit different time from all other elder scrolls games, it's not that different which is something the historical game can't really compete with. The royal courts, if you've been lucky enough to go to the real things are accurate and beautiful in-game but everything else really has no analogy for something a player has personally experienced. The player genuinely has point of reference to how medieval London feels or should feel, and if they're enough of a nerd to have an impression it will never really match what a game developer is able to produce. No such problems exist when the setting is a fictional, massively popular video game series, with a standard experience for everyone. The result is a bit mesmerizing, I can go to Anvil in EK2 with the reference point of Project Cyrodiil and Oblivion, and a cursory impression of ESO and have a very good idea of where I am and what it should look like. And the lapses in artifice are so much more forgivable because it's fictional, you can't actually say 'that's wrong' and have it take you out of it.

The guy that made Islets made a game called Sheepo I'd recommend if you haven't played it yet. It's a non-combat metroidvania and it's a very well made indie game.

Hades and Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. Both absolutely amazing games.

Xenoblade X.

They were roommates!

I'm still playing Stardew. Winter year 2 right now. I've only been playing a few hours a week so not very far along. I'm starting to ramp up for keg and cask production because I'm hoping to get starfruit wine aging going by end of summer year 3. I'm also waiting on like 2 items to finish 2 Community Center bundles because I forgot one and misread the wiki on another. I think I have 2 bundle sets left after that.

Also super jealous of all the Xenoblade Chronicles X comments. That's the one I've been waiting for but I haven't even touched Xenoblade 1 or 3 and got like 10 hours into 2.

You can play X without playing 1-3. I can't speak to how the new content connected to that stuff, but at least the base game only has a few fanservice-y connections.
Do not play 3 without playing 1 AND 2 (and the DLC).
I say this as someone who started XBC1 two summers ago, played each game in sequence but played X at release. Unless the final chapters for DE have some serious connections to 1-3, it's much less direct
- Once I get over my farming/live sim and factory game kick, I think XBC is next on my list so I would probably do 1 through 3 including the DLC for 2, and after that pick up XBCX when it's on sales at some point. So I guess that would be Switch release order.

Xenoblade chronicles X until my eyes bleed. I haven't played a game for this many hours a day since I went through a breakup and played Ni No Kuni 2 almost straight through in a couple days.

I've gotten Emberward recently. Roguelike Tower Defense where you get random tetris blocks to build your maze from. It's really solid TD gameplay and the mazebuilding is pretty interesting with a variety of levels that require a bit different strategy.

Difficulty is a bit on the lower end, but you can choose between 3 difficulties and I've mostly played on Normal. Heroic difficulty seemed pretty tough

Foundation. Played for like two hours, it's a competent city builder with some neat customization, but unfortunately it looks like mobile slop and doesn't really do anything interesting. Also it's UI doesn't display properly on a 4:3 monitor, which didn't stop me from playing but it was annoying at times.

Pikuniku. Played for like two hours. Fun but I probably won't finish it, if I had played this fifteen years ago it would be one of my favorite games of all time, but this type of humor doesn't really work for me nowadays.

I want to like Foundation. Ive made a couple bigger towns and I like the organic look of the paths. But it's hard now that Manor Lords is out, it's just outclassed in the "making a pretty city" department and doesn't have another draw really.

Finished Yakuza dead souls

all substories, all directives, all weapons unlocked, all modes open and all the things and or lore watched. I'm sad that it's over though now I need to find another 'trash' game to play

back at Aurora 4x again for the first time in 3 years

may god have mercy on my soul

I'm bouncing around Minecraft modpacks looking for one that doesn't force either unnecessarily convoluted bullshit like Create or Gregtech or obnoxious combat like Twilight Forest (minecraft combat is bad and has never been good). Currently trying All The Mods 9 To The Sky it seems okay so far. Very much open to other suggestions though.

Have you tried Hex Casting? It's a mod, not a pack. Might be incredibly 5head if you aren't familiar with functional programming but it's an incredibly fun mod.
- I haven't heard of it before, it looks interesting but very complicated

played anno 1404 on lan play for a while, tried to get the cracked copy of 1800 working on Linux because fuck ubisoft but no luck yet

update: it worked with proton in Lutris and changing the windows version in wine settings to win10 (it was on vista for some reason)
edit: no it didnt, apparently it working at all was a fluke

Indiana Jones game and Atomfall. Both quite enjoyable exploration games

Yesterday: I hate this game, why do I do this to myself. I should just uninstall it.

Today after hitting master in SF6 for the first time: This is the best fighting game ever made. I love it.

More CK2, the Aladdin achievement is almost within my grasp! Sunday was a banner day:

I called China to shatter the empire of Mali, although I ended up having to do all of the actual fighting as they putzed around the tibetan mountains... but it was worth it to declare war on three of the dukes and kings born out of the shattering before they could join the defensive pacts against me and gobble up land that would have taken decades to conquer in just a few years.
Soon after, China got hit with a devastating plague and I took my shot to break out of being a tributary. I had been forced to hundreds of years ago while all of Christendom was crusading me for Jerusalem and I obviously couldn't fight both. I'd tried before but their troops were too strong. But the plague meant the spawned troops had really shitty comps of mostly light infantry so I was able to hold them off for long enough to become independent! No longer must I suffer under the yoke of the Western Protectorate and pay half my income to them

How was the ROM patching experience? I remember wanting to play it but the setup was intimidating or something. Maybe it was for the custom fusion sprite people make

sonic 2 and sonic 3, while i put on youtube in the background. all day erryday

Been playing Dying Light! Because I'm dumb, I have been playing on Nightmare difficulty, which was massive pain in the beginning, but around halfway through it's not too bad anymore thanks to skills and weapons improving.

Dying Light my beloved
- Honestly loving it. Played both Dead Island & Riptide as well as Mirror's Edge beforehand, and it surpasses both. Story is campy but it works, and the gameplay is fantastic.

Warfarme. Got Yareli and Wisp building, just finished the Voidrig a few hours ago so I'll check that out tomorrow if I have time. As for what to do next, I'm being pulled a hundred different ways. Probably going to grab Wisp Prime and her weapons before they get vaulted, but they'll need Tellurium so maybe I should do Railjack Void Storm missions to hopefully get some of that and Sevagoth at the same time? Might do some misc relic cracking depending on what Baro brings this week. Have to do some fishing and mining in Cambian Drift to build the predasites/vulpafylas too... Oh and of course I have my first Kuva Lich to try to do. There's always more shit to do in Duviri, gotta grab Kullervo at some point. Monitor the Narmer Bounties for when the Caliban parts I need are available. Only one more part needed for Xaku too.

There's not enough time in the day.

Played through Wasteland 3 again, the cover of Power in The Union that plays during the big shootout in Steeltown hits me in the feelings every time.

Got into a rhythm in Sailwind: get all my needs met, check the course is how I want, adjust the rigging for any wind shifts and then read my book until I need to do any of those some more. Nice way to get progress in the voyage and in the book at the same time.

Beyond that cracked DRG open again, lotta new stuff, bounced off of a bug where I didn't get the reward for my assignment, might go back might not.

Also looking at jumping back in Sulfur now that there's more places to explore and more guns and mods to try. Just gotta make sure I've got a spare set of good but disposable gear to test the new zones.

Dead Rising (2006) I finished the main plot when I had it on 360, so I decided to focus on rescuing survivors and unlocking the stuff I didn't get the first time. I was worried that would be a much less satisfying gameplay loop, but it's actually quite compelling on its own.

But I gotta say, for a game ostensibly developed by a team of mostly East Asian people, it really leans into racist stereotypes about East Asian people. Having seen clips from the remake, I'm glad it's been cleaned up, but it's got a real "Mr.Falcon" vibe to it.

I started a hardcore minecraft world for the first time. Gonna listen to audiobooks and see how far I come. not too worried about winning or whatever, just kinda wanna chill but without feeling like an all powerful god

A friend got the idea of playing all older Monster Hunter games, so after trying MHG for a while and getting pissed at Dos disconnecting us constantly, we’re playing 2ndG.

World of Warcraft - Tanked the Undermine raid with my guild last night. Fun raid, amazing music.

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - Finished New Order last week, moved onto the second one. I like the guns in this one a little better, don’t love the zombies.

Balatro - You know it

Hades - Still cleaning up some of the last prophecies. As far as achievements go the big pain is gonna be max leveling all the trinkets and beating Charon twice in a row.

I just started playing World of Warcraft Cata Classic and so far I am enjoying it. Got a feeling that I am just gonna give up on it in a few days though