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[swaffles23]

Shin Megami Tensei IV

I bought a 3DS a few weeks ago and have been buying games. I didn't realize how good the 3DS and DS libraries are.

 

[Podge]

This was a fun weekend. Played a deep rotation since I had some free time.

Xbox Series X: College Football 26 (Road to the CFP), Rogue Trader, Ball X Pit, Ninja Gaiden Black.

Nintendo Switch 2: DoDonpachi DOJ (I absolutely sucked this weekend lol), Xenoblade 2 again, Vampire Survivors, Rabi-Ribi, Raidou demo.

Really fun weekend.

 

[vodka-bull]

FFXIV

I'll be back in about 2-3 years I guess.

 

[Rocinante618]

Wayfinder. It's 80% off right now as well.

Started as a MMO, publisher said nah, I'm out and put all the headache to the dev, Airship Syndicate. They somehow managed to turn this into a single player offline/co-op action RPG and I kid you not, it's not bad.

• Optimization first, it's kinda bad. UE5 haha. I get around 60-70FPS in medium-high on a RTX4070 mobile with DLAA, 1440P with some heavy frame drops in dense areas or whenever a new area loads. The RNG dungeons however have a rock solid 80FPS lock. Nevertheless, I think it's perfectly playable if you fiddle/lower your settings.
• The art style is incredibly lush and watercolor like. Very unique and signature Airship Syndicate, I love it.
• The combat is fast, fluid and meaty. You have many characters that you can switch anytime and each have 4 abilities and powers. I like it even though gets a bit repetitive, it's nice. It's very similar to Veilguard but even more simpler and shallow.
• 4 Main areas, that's it because the development has stopped. They are large and have a lot of stuff to do.
• MMO to single player/co-op experience is a mixed bag. Area, loot and enemies all feel MMO. Rewards, progression, nearly everything is very, very MMO but quickier and without any monetization. It feels fun but rewards are very RNG and cosmetic given it was meant to be grind and all that MMO sheningans shit.
• While the development has stopped there's enough content: quests, secondary quests, RNG loot dungeons, hunts, jobs, etc, easy 40-50 hours to 100%.

I recommend this, especially at 80%. It's fun and feels kinda unique, a single player offline/co-op MMO is crazy and cool.

7 hours in, I don't recommend this.

- optimization is horrible, constant stutters in any settings
- anything after 4-5 hours is the same, you just grind
- very very mmo: fetch quests, kill x, pretentious battle pass (towers lol), progression is insanely slow, it's just MMO but without MTX/timers etc. Feels almost like a free mobile game lol
- characters (wayfinders lol) are unlocked through RNG drops/crafted, basically gacha pulls
- bosses are boring and a joke
- again, optimization horrible

only good about this game is the movement and combat which feel pretty good but due to insane stutter and fps drops it doesn't feel good. Also blinding lights, seizure inducing VFX in "corrupted" dungeons with stuttering = headaches in like 15 mins.

 

[Mengy]

Splitting my time between these four currently:

Arc Raiders
Tokyo Xtreme Racer
Helldivers II
Satisfactory

 

[Bondo]

Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders

 

[mèx]

I finished Onimusha (with the original soundtrack mod).

I really liked it, they managed to make an enjoyable combat system with tank controls and a fixed camera perspective. Even with tank controls the character feels quite responsive. You can perform parries too, I discovered that completely by accident.

Only at the end of the game I realized you could upgrade Herbs to Medicines, lol. Well, apparently it's not needed on Normal.

The port is really barebone: 60 FPS only, 16:9 is just a pan ans scan of the 4:3 viewport (so it doesn't make sense to use it), and the backgrounds are quite blurry, they just ported them over as is.

I'm gonna play the sequel at some point

 

[BossLackey]

SF6 (Chun mains rise up)
ARC Raiders
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
FFT: Ivalice Chronicles

 

[stn]

I played some Fate/Samurai: Remnant (PS5), doing platinum cleanup. I'm also on chapter 11 of Ninja Gaiden 4 (PS5), which is one of my GOTYs for this year.

 

[mdkirby]

Well having wrapped up the very 'meh, it was ok' yotei, im looking for my next and trying to decide between:

Keeper
Vampire bloodline 2
Hell is us
Dispatch

 

[DragoonKain]

Started Tormented Souls 2 and enjoying it so far. Just like the first one, major old school RE vibes.

 

[Thurible]

Zero Time Dilemma. I will say it's not as good as the first two but it is interesting. The different forms of time travel and transporting make it pretty confusing. There is a lot of waxing philosophical statements where some characters get into a tangent about thought experiments and cosmological ideas that aren't always completely related to the situation at hand.

I just came to a part where I'm pretty sure it's suggesting that a characters existence is a paradox. Also the brooch she receives is a bootstrap paradox where she gets it from her parents, and her parents receive it from her after she dies meaning it has no true beginning. My brain hurts a little with all this stuff.

 

[Punished Miku]

Outer Worlds 1: 18 hours in its finally starting to click for me. Turning out to be pretty enjoyable. I still think the tone is missing the mark a bit but I'm finally enjoying it. Slow start for sure. Party members aren't great. 7 at best right now.

Ninja Gaiden 4: Starting Master Ninja mode. I dont stand a chance. This is some of the most aggressive enemy AI I've ever seen in a game. They're killing me on times I didnt even think I was open.

 

[Saint Boot Gaming]

Got a Switch 2 a few days ago so I have been playing age of imprisonment and will afterwards be playing Bravely default remaster.

 

[bender]

Close to wrapping up Luigi's Mansion via NSO. It's flawed, but really charming. I'm also at the last boss of DQ1 2D-HD. Adore this game. I've been itching to replay Prey (2006). I'm going to start it on Deck to see how it controls and fall back to BC on XSX if that doesn't work out.

 

[Humdinger]

Started up Oblivion Remastered on PS5 Pro. I'm in the mood for an old-school Bethesda WRPG -- wandering around exploring, with no particular goal in mind. Enjoying it so far, although I'm only a couple hours in. I appreciate the upgraded visuals.

 

[adamsapple]

Never played any of the Turok games properly, just got my copy of Turok Remastered trilogy. Nightdive rarely misses so looking forward to put some time into it.