What are you all playing! I’ve been playing a lot of lies of p and have been dipping my toes back into binding of Isaac!
Palworld and Dwarf Fortress, swapping between them when I get bored.
And getting my Elden Ring char ready for the (hopefully) incoming DLC
How’s your fortress coming along? I’m super excited for the return of Adventure Mode. :)
Diablo IV Season III
Diablo 3: Season 30 - Already working on the Destroyer chapter.
Alan Wake 2 - I’m trying to be extra careful because I know there’s a few extra things in ng+, and I’m starting to have a lot of questions about a couple loose ends that also showed up in the first playthrough. I’m hoping maybe the ng+ ending will explain some of them. I’m only a few chapters away from the end, so I’m hoping I finish it in the next 2 or 3 days.
Diablo 4: Season 3 - Chose a Barbarian for this round. Not sure I like my current build, but I’m hoping once I get some more legendary items I can look into a better one. I like the “story” for this season a lot better than last season’s, but that might be because Zoltun Kulle is one of my favorite Diablo 3 characters. My lil construct companion is kinda kickin’ ass too. Just wish it would also pick up gold for me lol. As far as the season journey goes, I’m glad they took out the PvP objectives. I actually feel like I might be able to get all of them done this season.
Just wish it would also pick up gold for me lol.
It’s weird that D4 doesn’t have this yet. Not just talking about the season companion, but in general. Maybe they’re still trying to be a more serious game, and having a tiny Butcher running behind you would be too silly. In a few seasons, once they put the Horadric Hamburger in the shop, they’ll hopefully also add vanity pets.
I just want my SC2 Probe, dammit.
God of war Ragnarök - kinda meh, unskippable cutscenes, pseudo cutscenes, mediocre story, worst/laziest difficulty design (enemies are damage sponges at higher difficulties), playable Atreus. Glad I got a used copy for relatively cheap and can regain most of my money.
Still trying to finish Pillars of Eternity. The level scaling is all sorts of weird with the White March content. The game’s original level cap was 12, I think, and I’m there now, close to 13. Since both your to-hit chance and all of your defense stats are significantly affected by leveling up, some areas are ridiculously easy, and a few areas are ridiculously hard. I can waltz through the majority of combat encounters and then end up in one where all of their magic casters immediately stun/paralyze me or knock me down for about 10 seconds straight, rendering me completely unable to defend myself, and the fight ends poorly in hardly any time at all. And what sucks is that I know it’ll be a cakewalk if I come back and do this fight in like 2 levels, because enough of my party will survive the dice rolls that lead to characters being paralyzed for so long, so that I can properly respond and keep my party alive. I hope they adjusted this stuff in the sequel, which I do intend to start right after I finish this game.
I also picked up Tekken 8. I have historically not been a Tekken fan. The movement is weird, and the characters feel like they all do kind of the same thing, which takes a lot of the fun out of a fighting game where you get to select a character. At least it’s a full package. I went through the arcade story mode, which is a much-needed tutorial after the complete lack of any such thing in Tekken 7. The cinematic storyline, which I haven’t finished yet, seems to have gotten rid of the biggest problem with Tekken 7’s story mode, which was that narrator who made the craziest anime nonsense seem boring. And as for the character stuff, the Heat system does add in a pinch of flavor that incentivizes you to do something somewhat unique with your character in order to stay in Heat mode longer; for instance, if I’m playing King, doing his powerful grab moves will extend his Heat meter, which means it’s rewarding you for playing him the way he ought to be at his coolest. We’ll see how that goes. Unfortunately, the online mode has been a no-go. There’s a problem right now where playing the game through Proton just results in a lot of disconnects, so I’ve hardly been able to finish a match, and I likely won’t try again until I see some patch notes acknowledging that they’ve fixed the issue, either on Bandai-Namco’s side or Valve’s side or both.
New Diablo 4 season started, so I’m playing that. I’m a Barbarian this time, level 80, trying out a Thorns build.
The beginning was extremely boring, and I was thinking about stopping altogether or switching characters, but after I got some items, it became less miserable.
As for the new season mechanic, it’s kinda whatever. It’s not as bad as I thought, but last season was definitely more fun.
YouTube kept recommending Fallout: New Vegas videos, so I’ve been doing a mostly bee-nice NCR run. Did main quest up to the dam, currently working my way through Honest Hearts (did Old World Blues super early for the implants).
Viewfinder!
