Devil May Cry 5.
I tried to start it a year ago, but decided to play the rest of the series first. Combined with Silksong being released, I have just managed to start playing DMC5 again.
Factorio, god help me. I haven’t really figured out much yet. Efficient layouts, supressing biters, using uranium. I feel like I’m still manually shuffling too many products. But maybe I’m getting better bit by bit.
I continued my playthrough of Against the Storm since it received a bunch of new upgrades. I am really having trouble defeating even the easiest seals still, but I’ll get there eventually.
I have resurrected my 360 and a playing Fable II on it. I also installed Xenia (360 emulator) on my Steam deck so I can play Fable II on the go.
I just hooked up my 360 again too. I’ve been meaning to give it a good cleaning and possibly replace a couple parts if necessary (I have three 360’s) but haven’t had the time. I haven’t really played on it much yet either, just a quick test run with a friend of mine playing 1v1 gun game in Black Ops II. I’m not much for shooter games usually but it was the first split screen game I found and it was actually a lot of fun. I sucked at it though, he destroyed me. Oh well, good thing I’m not competitive at all.
I need to clean, or possibly replace, the optical drive in mine. It is a frankensystem to start. I got a friend’s old 360 with a dead optical drive since we only played castle crashers at the time, then I got a 360 with a RROD from Freecycle and put the optical drive from that into mine.
A bad optical drive is what happened to my first 360. It failed in 2014 so I just upgraded to an Xbox One instead at the time, which I had planned on doing anyway. That Xbox One bricked eventually and I replaced it with an Xbox One S which then also eventually died in around 2021 or 2022 I think, at which point I switched to PC gaming. Once I switched though I wanted to play my old 360 games still so I picked up a 360 from eBay and my wife (gf at the time) wanted one too so I got her one as well for her place. Now we live together and I have three 360’s, one with a bad optical drive and two that work fine (one of them sometimes crashes but it’s infrequent) so I want to Frankenstein my first 360 into working well again (it’s the R2D2 360 which is objectively cooler than the two black 360’s I’ve got and also matches better with my PS5 I bought with a work bonus a couple years ago that’s mostly just a 4K blu-ray player at this point).
I did the same a couple months ago. Mostly played PGR4 and was also thinking about the Fable games the other day.
Are you syncing the files between the Xbox <> Steam deck?
Nope, doing a good play through on the 360 and an evil on the deck.
I setup a private WOW server at home and am enjoying a druid playthrough.
Nice, I’m playing retail pre-patch for Midnight 😅
Would you be able to DM me a link to whatever guide or resources you used to get that up and running?
I’d be keen for a similar single-player experience through MOP or Legion.
Dm sent
I miss WoW, but a private server is the only way I would play again.
Yeah. I didn’t realize how easy it would be to set up and configure. The hardest part was find the client and then figuring out what file in the client to edit to point to my server.
Of course I’m an IT guy irl, so setting up servers and such is my day-to-day so that helped.
could you also send me a DM how you set that up? since you said you are in IT i feel comfortable enough to dare ask if there is any chance to run one on a linux system?
I’m running nixos Linux on my server and laptop, so its doable. On my tablet ATM, but I’ll follow up with a DM when back at my keyboard
I can’t stop playing Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead.
It’s such a nice game for roguelike enjoyer. If you like gathering, crafting, surviving sandbox games, give it a try, it’s free and open-source.
Doom 2016, never finished it a decade ago and i felt the need for a twitchy arena shooter. Not going crazy with the secrets just playing blind is a lot of fun.
Such a great game; doesn’t overstay its welcome and has just enough mechanics to keep things interesting.
I’ve replayed it every few years and it’s as good as I remembered it every time.
I feel similarly about Crysis and Far Cry 3 too - but am probably in the minority on those two.
There is no escape from Spelunky.
Heat signature, a game with a simple loop where you start in a space station, choose a mission then you have to set out in your transport shuttle, intercept a large ship and sneak on, avoiding detection or risk setting off the alarms and running into combat. It’s easy in the sense that every action can be taken by freezing time, lining up your shot or choosing your next action, but you will die time and time again. Honestly one of my favorite games of all time, I really wish it would get a sequel, it’s so bite sized but has insane replayability, procedural generation and the mechanics are some of the tightest I’ve ever seen.
The lore is deep and interesting, answering questions such as, “what if your entire personality is based on never killing, and youre about to be killed, do you break that oath?” And “you know that teleporting literally kills you, is that death? Is it the body dying that equates to death or is it the pattern surviving across the iterations that is you?”
If you like action games, even if top down doesn’t seem like your bag, you owe it to yourself to try this game
Heat Signature is great. The same developer recently released Tactical Breach Wizards, I’ve not played it yet and while it’s not a sequel I think it will tick a few of the same boxes.
I second a recommendation for Heat Signature. The lower level mission tend to give you time to sneak and avoid detection but higher level missions are pure chaos. I don’t remember the specifics of the mission but I remember having about a second to complete the mission and escape while I was 3 rooms away from the target I needed to assassinate. Luckily I had slipstream with me so I slowed down the game where one second turned into 10 seconds and I dashed through to the target but the target was some really beefy guy that I had no way of killing on my own. Luckily the room had a window so I kill a guard with a gun, take their gun and shoot the window vacuuming all of us into space, killing the target and letting me escape with all of that happening literally in the last 0.1 second. That was the high point of the game for me because at that moment all the systems in the game came together to create the perfect mission execution.
Fuck. I guess I’m playing Heat Signature now.
Animal Crossing New Leaf
I uncovered the 2DS’s while tidying up last week and thought I’d play a couple games. It’s been relaxing just playing for 20 minutes a day getting the fossils, bells/gem and a little chatting and fishing.
Halo CE
Still making my way through the campaign but I’ve slowed right down now after finished Reach a couple weeks ago. The game is fine but I’m not really enjoying the Series S at the moment for some reason.
Death Stranding 2
Really enjoying it still. I just get lost in walking everywhere so progress is slow but that’s how I like to do it :) I think I’m at the 2nd boss fight so putting it off a while longer as I explore more of the land.
Started playing MIO, which is a post-calamity robot on a spaceship themed metroidvania. The most impressive thing about it is the artstyle. Really strikingly beautiful.
Only a few hours in so far, but so far so good.
Not the most patient of gaming, but I don’t blame you as it looks drop dead gorgeous! I was also enticed when I saw it release but as always with the genre I have to hesitate a bit since I both such at and don’t particularly enjoy platforming and will easily get frustrated and not enjoy it if there is too much difficult precision platforming.
Will be interested to hear your thoughts on it regardless, I did still wishlist it purely because of the art.
Omg… i totally did not notice what community i was on… my bad. This is like the exact opposite of the point of this thread.
I think an exception is okay every now and then, I personally just like this community the most so I also broke the rules last year and talked about playing Blue Prince and E33 on release last year. Sometimes you can’t actually wait to play a game, you know? I felt both of those merited it, especially Blue Prince as participating in the zeitgeist of that and being part of discovering the game at a point where the community hadn’t even discovered all the secrets yet was amazing.
But yes, in general this is for the more patient kind of gaming.
Kenshi. Lots of Kenshi.
Galactic Glitch. It’s a fun space shooter roguelite. I played the demo a few years ago during a steam fest, and just picked it up for next to nothing in the last sale. Neon graphics and electronic beats. Definitely worth it.
I got Magicka working yay
Started playing Runescape: Dragonwilds with a couple friends and it’s such a nice game. It’s really pretty, has a great soundtrack, and game feels like a blend of Vahiem and Enshrouded, but based in the Runescape world.
My favorite part of the game is that you learn spells that help you do everything from mining ores and chopping trees, to repairing all your equipment and armor. It’s the first survival game I’ve played that really integrates magic into all aspects of the survival mechanics, which completely eliminates that grindy feel a lot of survival games have.
The build system is one of the best I’ve seen, with large, medium (half size), and small (quarter size) pieces, full clipping, vertical shifting, and an advanced snapping system that feels a lot like Valhiem, but even better.
My only negative comment about the game is it’s very much a beta that still needs some optimization.
