Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 8th

Chloyster [she/her]@beehaw.orgmod to Gaming@beehaw.org – 7 points –

Whatcha been playing!

I finished the little metroidvania crypt custodian which was super fun! Highly recommend. Also been playing a lot of the super Mario Sunshine mod that came out "Super Mario Eclipse." Adds lots of qol stuff to the game and fun new movement, on top of 120 new shines it's really fun!

But most of all I have been playing tf out of Astro Bot. Holy shit this is one of my new all time favorites. This game is so insanely good. Absolutely in love with it

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Now that I've discovered emulators are now allowed on iOS, I'm playing through the original PS version of Chrono Cross.

The ability to use save states and jump back into a session within seconds is HUGE for me. No vendor logos, no waiting for save points. Just instant save and recall.

I started Planet Crafter and I'm hooked. It's a low budget yet brilliant Subnautica like game with a higher emphasis on crafting.

I've been playing Tyranny as well. It's a nice CRPG with factions in a bleak setting. A little obtuse with the consequences of dialog options. Still refreshing. I really could use the tank character in my party composition, but he's such an insufferable square I'd rather not use him.

Still the new World of Warcraft expansion. While I appreciate Blizzard slowing down the start of an expansion, so you don't have to rush through everything to get to the endgame, this is a bit too slow for me. The next weekly reset on Wednesday can't come soon enough, so finally the higher difficulty stuff opens up.

A little bit of The Binding of Isaac, and Gran Turismo 5.

A lot of Elden Ring (I'm late to the party).

These are more like last 2 week but anyways:

  • Finished Agent A after a year of hiatus.
  • Got hdr to work in Dark Souls 2 with the graphics overhaul mod and finished getting the 4 big Souls.
  • Got tired of the difficulty of Dark Souls 2 and decided to start a new random shooter from my library.. Devil Daggers
  • Had a management sim itch and gave another shot at FTL, never got to win. Half the time I lost in a single encounter to things like never landing a shot on the enemy ship due to shields + misses or 7 people teleporting to my ship and wrecking havok. Other times I got too greedy.
  • Tried to figure out which way to go next in Dark Solus 2 by checking the wiki but kept getting sidetracked by things I might've missed.
  • Also tried to quench the management itch with shapez, but didn't like it much. Just made me crave the factorio dlc more. Amazing music though

Don't even try completing an FTL run at normal though. Easy is where the fun's at.

Started playing Star Trucker - it's pretty interesting, reminds me a lot of the cargo hauling loop in Star Citizen. The differece is that this doesn't crash anywhere near as much, runs on my Steam Deck, and boots a lot quicker too.

This is what I've been playing too, and I'm having an absolute blast with it!