What are you playing?

[2ko]

My PS5 has gotten a workout this year.
Most recently, I’ve been on Avatar:Frontiers of Pandora. It’s a good one. It’s open world Avatar goodness. I can fly on an Ikran and cause a stink for the Sky People

Mine too actually. I think I just ignored it for so long that now I have a pretty big backlog of games I want to play on it lol Metaphor is going to take a while to get through, and then after that there are another half dozen JRPGs I want to play.

Last year I think it was really only Ark Raiders and Monster Hunter Wilds that I played (I played both for over 100 hours though lol). But now there are so many games that I've put on the backburner waiting for sales that I have a pretty descent backlog of games to get to that I really want to try on it.

[kamikazekeeg]

Still making my way through Death Stranding 2, I'm not far from the end of the game, though been going back, trying to 5 star stuff, complete roads, etc, but I'll probably look at finishing it up next week.

I was gonna try Resident Evil 2 (1998), because it was brought to Steam (I believe it was on GOG before) and it's 5 bucks, but wasn't feeling it.  There's no mouse support that I could tell, I thought it was maybe gonna have that, not that I expected the slightly tweaked modern controls RE1 Remake had, but you can only keybind keyboard.  I imagine I could play it with a standard controller, but I don't know, I wasn't feeling it, playing the game is already an uphill battle for the control style to begin with and it having a really weird keyboard control setup just annoyed me lol So I'm refunding it, and maybe gonna use that 5 bucks to buy RE5 and replay that for the first time in many years.

[alligo]

Cyberpunk 2077 and I'm glad I waited, the game runs incredibly well!
I'm having a hard time stopping playing it.

I loved the mission in Delamain with the taxis that become sentient, even though I couldn't make the choice I wanted, it was funny.

I love driving at night in the game because it looks great with the city, plus it's a pleasure to be able to listen to music while walking or driving.
It's a shame that you can't romance the characters you want (even though it's not a big deal for me).

Another point: some choices don't fundamentally change the course of the mission/conversation.
You can't always make the choice you want because of a lack of points in a skill tree.

[kamikazekeeg]

Put a good bit of time into Windrose, which is a decent crafting experience, middling survival/crafting/pirating experience right now, but lots of room to grow and expand, but I am feeling the burn out after like 30 hours.  It's so resource intense grind heavy right now, but with combat being kinda lacking, group fights being obnoxious as a solo, and now at an area where upgrades are coming slow from how much I need to grind, I think it's time to drop it here.  It's very much the same feeling I had with Valheim where I played enough, I can see where the good stuff will be, and hopefully it'll be that great game down the line when it hits 1.0 in like 2 or 3 years.

I think after playing kinda heavier, involved, games lately as I am just about to finish Death Stranding 2, I think I need to focus on like smaller scale or linea things for abit, so along with replaying Metro 2033 here soon due to the new game announcement, I picked up Frogun Encore also, a cute low poly 3d platformer throwback game, I think that'll be good to get into for abit.  I think that's gonna be the plan for abit.  Dark linear shooters and fun platformers lol

[sly345]

Retro Rewind which got better with the real mods for movies. Just fun managing a vhs rental game store in the 90s
Far Far West. Just started it today, love it. Robots, Wild West. A mixture of Helldivers and Deep Rock Galactic. Had fun with my friends.
Under Par Golf Architect - it has a few problems but finally a worthy successor to Sid Meier's SimGolf!
Mad Television Tycoon - from the MadTower/Mad Games Tycoon guy, a great successor to the ancient MadTV
Contractville - A ton of fun in multiplayer. Redecorate, smash, rebuild houses in a open world, shenanigans included.


Also Bully Anniversary Edition on my Retroid Pocket, got the game for free thanks to my GTA+ subscription and it's just as much fun as it was 20 years ago on the PS2

[kamikazekeeg]

Retro Rewind which got better with the real mods for movies. Just fun managing a vhs rental game store in the 90s

I wanted to use the mods for Retro Rewind, but the only one at the time that seemed the most notable had no work put into making the real movie art work with the space on the cases, so it would look really bad or the New Release standees looked super terrible, which made things so awful to look at.  I'm likely to replay it once they add all their roadmap stuff planned like video game rentals, and then see if there's an improved movie mod for the game by then.

[ssj4yamgeta]

I couldn't figure out how to add Gamecube cheat codes to RetroArch to get myself unstuck, so I've restarted my Resident Evil Code: Veronica X playthrough. I used the infinite herb glitch this time, because when a game gets cheap with me, I have no problems getting cheap with it. Also, no matter how much I love this game, I have no desire to restart the same playthrough twice. After a few hours, I'm almost back to the plane tyrant fight already. It's funny how much faster this game goes by when you know where to go.