Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of April 22nd, 2024

Since the fallout show aired I wanted to do another playthrough of FO3. I decided to start fresh and followed the guide for Tale of Two Wastelands (combines fo3 and fnv into one game).

Ive been having a blast so far! (and so has the world since the bombs fell)

Finally got access to the tech check for Hades 2 and I'm hooked.

There are some small but interesting changes to the gameplay but they all feel like the next logical evolution to the previous game. But the art style thankfully stayed quite the same, I loved that in the first game.

The story is a bit limited since the access is mainly meant to generate some technical data for the development team, but what I got so far was good and interesting. There happened a lot between part 1 and 2 and I'm eager to find everything out. Can't wait for early access!

I was going to wait longer, but I got sucked back into Cyberpunk and decided it's time to finally purchase Phantom Liberty and do another playthrough. I haven't played with the post 2.0 changes yet, and I haven't played on my new PC either so I'm excited to see it in its full path traced glory.

Still haven't started actually playing yet as I've been busy setting up mods first. Doing it properly with MO2 this time, which has been working surprisingly well. I only wish it had a built-in conflict checker for Cyberpunk archives.

I put down Disco Elysium. 5 hours in and it just wasn't doing it for me. I feel like I gave it a fair shake.

I made a bit more progress in Divinity: Original Sin; still haven't finished the murder investigation, but I started venturing into combat outside of town. I've had a strong desire to go back to this game and its sequel after having my socks blown off by Baldur's Gate 3.

I'm still in the middle of my second playthrough of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, now in turn-based mode, which I'm enjoying a lot more, trying to get around to content I missed the first time around. The order I did certain quests in last time locked me out of a lot of content through strange scripting mishaps.

And finally, I'm making some progress in System Shock as well. It can be quite overbearing how many strong enemies they respawn without giving you good ways to regenerate the resources to fight them. It leads to this situation where the optimal strategy is either to save scum the hell out of it, or traverse all the way back to medical to heal, or both. Presumably there will be other medical stations later, but I've only found the one so far.

I can't stop playing Dead Cells, somebody help 😭

Got roped back into Warframe after few years of away time. Got to say, occasionally doing few missions and knocking a story mission is pretty awesome. Initially had some issues with solo-required Railjank mission (big space ship piloting), but then my clan mates tipped me of a crew I can hire. Who would have thought a big ship needs a crew? :P

Other than that, also got dragged into Fallout 76. Only played it for ~3ish hours and, tbh it isn't as bad as I've been led to believe. But it's also not that great. The pacing feels odd, but could be just because of the tutorials I'm still in. Audiotapes drag on and on and on, the player encampment (and "mmo aspects" in general) feel VERY tacked on. Coop gameplay feels cool, but ofc. my friend finds all the cool loot and looks like a SWAT team member, whereas I'm dressed in the most basic leather scraps.

Also I've been chipping away in some idle games, Unnamed Space Idle, mainly. Nothing really remarkable happening there, but number go big big.

EDIT: oh yea, fallout 4 patch should drop tomorrow? Yea got to get back on that too. Moddable FO4 experience sounds better than 76. Just... hope the mod authors are still at it.

RimWorld got new DLC so I've put about 20 hours in since last Tuesday. Sorry kids, daddy needs vidya time.

I've clocked over 2,000 hours (per Stream) and only just realized I've never actually played to "win" via the vanilla victory conditions. Thanks mods!

I finished Tunic yesterday! I had a great time with it. Extremely vague and minor spoilers after this, I can't get the spoiler tags to work so I've just taken out the detail. ::: The golden path puzzle in page 9 nearly beat me, but man what a cool discovery it was to figure it out. :::

Been giving Infection Free Zone a go now that it is out in EA.

I like it. You get to make a post apocalyptic base in any part of the world because it is hooked into OpenStreetMap.

Minishoot adventures. It's a Zelda inspired shmup that really impressed me. It looks a bit simple, and feels familiar, which is normally a downside but is executed well here. I ended up getting all the achievements which is something I never really care to do.

Been binging Horizon Forbidden West on PC since it dropped. I played both ZD and FW on PlayStation, but enjoy them both a lot more on PC. Just started the final mission (minus DLC) for FW, and then I'm starting Dragon's Dogma 2, I own, but haven't played the first one, so I'm looking forward to digging in.

I've been playing CrossCode on Steam Deck. It's pretty great, I like they kind of simulate being an MMO, like other "players" running around in the areas.