games

Was playing Terminator: Resistance, in which there are Terminators, and you resist them

Still plodding through Tears of the Kingdom and working on the Zora dungeon.

The fetch quests and 'go talk to somebody' quests back and forth between the same two locations kinda sucked, but the gimmick of the dungeon itself is so cool that I can't really be mad about it lol

Recently beat Super Mario Wonder. I have mixed feelings about the game in that I really enjoyed my first playthrough but think going back to it would be a chore. That said I think speedrunners will have a field day with it because of badge tech so I'm happy for them.

Currently playing a combination of Team Fortress 2, Battlebit Remastered, Factorio (Space Exploration mod), and various Portal 2 custom co-op levels with a friend (soon to be Portal: Reloaded co-op once a friend beats the base game).

2023 has been great for me in that spiritual successors/actual successors/revivals of my favorite older games have occured (Battlebit taking the older battlefield mantle up, Team Fortress 2 having a player resurgence, Tribes 3 Rivals on the horizon).

Going forward I expect a lot of time in Factorio and Tribes 3 assuming they make some fairly substantial (and expected) changes to jetpack mechanics (increasing the strength and duration for next week's alpha test as well as testing out 1X vs 1X lobby sizes).

I've been playing and enjoying Xenoblade Chronicles 2 lately. I tried it when I first got and hacked my Switch and bounced off it completely because I didn't really understand the complexity of the combat. I watched a few tips videos and now that I understand a bit more about how to engage with its systems I'm enjoying it.

Elder Scrolls Online on and off for around 2 years now, about 60% done with the solo quests there, BG3 for the last 2-3 months but I'm taking it nice and slow. They added a custom difficulty mode in the last major BG3 update but it can only be applied to new campaigns. I want to do another playthrough in BG3 eventually to try the other classes and companions but I'll squeeze in one or two smaller visual novel type games before that, like Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical and Coffee Talk 1/2.

Nuclear throne for single player

TF2 for multiplayer. I wish I had an actual group to play with though.

Played a million different games over the year, always come back to Pokemon and Minecraft.

Recently ive been busy so, I've only really been playing guilty gear strive. I intend to go back to outer wilds after exams tho.

2023 is absurdly stacked as a year it had:

• Pizza Tower
• Baldurs gate3
• Armored core 6
• Street fighter 6
• Tears if the kingdom

Any of which couldve made goty for me in a weaker year.

Doom via GZDoom. It still slaps. Gonna play some newish WADs after I get through Doom 1&2

In Stars and Time - Indie rpg about a time loop. The game starts with the party resting in town the day before they enter the final dungeon. They trigger a trap early in the dungeon and the main character finds themself sent back to the previous day. They're happy to have another chance to save the party, but their mental health starts to degrade as the number of times they're forced to repeat the time loop increases. The party is very wholesome, and the time loop story is the best I've seen in any game. Highly recommend.

Mostly been playing Spider-Man 2 lately. Fantastic game. I’m so tired of superhero stuff with the sole exception of Spider-Man, fuckin’ love Spider-Man. Finished the main story a couple days ago, now just swinging around getting the last collectibles and achievements, want to get platinum in it like I did with 1 and Miles Morales.

Also been playing a modded Minecraft game with my partner when we just want to chill and listen to a podcast.

Once I finish Spider-Man I plan to go back and finish Tears of the Kingdom and Baldur’s Gate 3. Biggest problem with Baldur’s Gate is I need to like, actually pay attention to it lol.

Currently playing Tevi. It's a cute anime metroidvania with bullethell elements. Not quite got the charm of its predecessor Rabi Ribi but still enjoying it.

The soundtrack is fantastic, reminding me of Ragnarok Online with some of its tracks.

https://youtu.be/W8nZ-bgrC6k

I started playing Naraka which is a Chinese free to play melee-focused BR game too. I'm very bad at it and the low western population seems to mean matchmaking puts me in with people who have thousands of hours regularly so I get bodied.

TLDR: Rogue Fable IV. Really impressed with its early version changes/upgrades from RFIII, which is my favorite roguelite by far. Just one person, passion project.

Highly reccomend.

https://justin-wang123.itch.io/rogue-fable-iv

Wrote this bottom part first and it started to ramble. Can't say enough good things. There's a roguelite called rogue fable 3 that ive hundreds of hours over the years before I finally was done with it. I thought it was just a great mix of challenge, variety, pace and enjoyment, while only taking 45-60 min to beat the game. There were days I binged but usually I just played the "daily challenge" and whether I won or lost it satisfied my "gaming itch".

Just a single developer doing all the work, with help from community feedback, he consistently updated the game to keep it feeling fresh, with no additional cost, for years.

Wasn't sure if I'd be interested in the new one, hard to recapture sparks, sequels often fell short, moved on with my life etc, but I started playing the prealpha version again and after lots of adjustments/testing/fiddling it just had its web release. I'm very impressed with the changes so far, new mechanics and solutions, more streamlined levels/encounters, more dynamic combat and skills.

It's free right now too so if you like games at all I'd give it a shot!

I'm building my huge black marble illuminati upside-down pyramid in Valheim. I'm mostly done now, hopefully the new expansion will be out soon.

Lol, so I actually don't do much in the way of regular gaming on my own nowadays. I'm big into the potentials of VR, but I'm also poor, so when I do play it tends to be HalfLife:Alyx again or some campaign someone made for it.