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[–] taiyang 2 points 27 minutes ago

Dragon Quest 9 on DS (emulated). Prior to this I was playing Kingdom Hearts Recoded also on DS (emulated). My recommendation is to enjoy what retroachievements does to your old favorites, lol (can't wait for DOSBox integration).

I'm generally a PC gamer but I was playing the steam ports of Kingdom Hearts (they are bad ports) and now I'm just emulating things. Can you believe those lunatics lumped 4 games of achievements into a single set without any order? There's even duplicate names for things, it's a wildly sloppy port, lol. Not recommended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

Back on my Minecraft habit. Experimenting with pale oak logs a little, but mostly branch mining after work to chill.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Dead Space. The remake looks great and the sound design is bonkers. I love the utilitarian design of the tech as well. Headphones are recommended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Too many stutters though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Re-playing Half-Life 2 with the massive update. Still a great game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Troubleshooting Simulator. Hopefully, Far Cry 3 a couple of hours from now.

[–] lewdian69 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The original Call of Duty. Just installed this weekend and haven't played it since early 2000's. After that I plan to play the very first Call of Duty Black Ops which I never actually played the story of.

[–] cod 2 points 3 hours ago

Enjoy! I remember really liking the campaign of Black Ops. I don’t remember the story anymore but I remember it being great

[–] Jesus_666 4 points 4 hours ago

System Shock (the remake) with a cut-down version of the Ironman mod to provide randomization. It's only slight loot randomization so there's no major pathing changes but it's fun nonetheless.

I like randomizers. They add some additional replay value to already good games. I must've played through randomized Bloodstained a down times already – and twice that for Super Metroid. (And then there's the beautiful mess that is randomized Borderlands 2. I don't think I'm ever going to finish a run but man are they wild.)

[–] caut_R 4 points 4 hours ago

Putting the finishing touches on Darksiders Genesis with a friend. Game was alright. My advice would be to play the game on Medium or High settings with Ultra textures. I realized too late that I could‘ve played with 50% higher framerate while the game hardly looks any different all this time lol

I also hope to figure out why the fuck I suck so much at Dorfromantik and get a bit more into the game this weekend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I started playing Monifactory, a modern Gregtech CEu Minecraft modpack. Someone send help.

Basically extra complex Satisfactory, but everything is blocks.

[–] Essence_of_Meh 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Still playing Daggerfall and The Sims.
With Daggerfall it's more of a research project rather than a playthrough at the moment, will probably go back to playing soon. As for The Sims... were days in the first game always this short? It really feels like there's barely any time left after coming back from work and taking care of basic needs. Man, if I wanted more of that I would just focus on my own life.

Besides these two I was thinking about going back to Hollow Knight but then I found out I didn't backup my saves before reinstalling the OS on my desktop. I was half way through the game. I decided to play Medabots: Kabuto for GBA instead.

I played this game a bit before - don't remember when exactly or for how long though. I also forgot pretty much anything about it besides the Medabot customization system (it's neat). I'm still not sure whether I like the combat (not being able to select exactly who and where you attack can be a pain) but I got a hang of it and have enough fun to keep playing. It's also super easy to cheese, at least early on.
Other than that game is pretty dope. Story is simple but fun, music and visuals are great and the already mentioned unit customization add a lot of choice to combat (especially if you're willing to avoid minmaxing). I honestly didn't expect to have this much fun with the game.

[–] cod 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You should give Hollow Knight another shot. It’s seriously such an amazing game. I’ve been thinking of replaying it soon

[–] Essence_of_Meh 1 points 2 hours ago

While I did like what I played so far I just can't be bothered to start from scratch right now. I'll get back to it eventually but the backlog beckons and there's A LOT of titles waiting for their turn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Still thoroughly sucked into Pathfinder: Kingmaker. At least I've stopped poking around in side areas now, just focusing on advancing the main story. Also doing companion quests. This might be the longest not-live-service game I've ever played? I think I still have at least two more full chapters to go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I ain't playin' shit. I haven't had any gaming time in over a week. I'm very, very sad. Perhaps tonight will be the night? Probably not, but one can hope.

[–] cod 1 points 3 hours ago

I feel that. I haven’t played anything in over a week either. I’ve had lots of (good) news that’s quite tiring to deal with, plus work has been busy lately and I have family visiting. All good stuff (except maybe work), but still, I miss playing games

[–] Donjuanme 4 points 5 hours ago

Less patient because I saw and I was patient, and more 'shit I didn't know about these' (they're both free) pokerogue and infinitode 2 have been taking up most of my time lately.

[–] jeffw 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Spider-Man 2, PS5. Pretty well-rounded game, highly recommend it

[–] cod 2 points 4 hours ago

Love that game. Got it as a gift last year, one of my favourites on the console. I mostly play PC but I keep the PS5 plugged in mostly for this game (and I use it as a 4K blu-ray player)