Played Xuan Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains. Made some progress, cleared a major area, Now in the second last area, though the last area is supposed to be pretty big, so there’s still some game left.
Also played lots of Tom Clancy’s The Division. Leveled up a couple of times, plan to do the next main quest this weekend and continue cleaning up the side stuff.
Started Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, it’s a fun 3D platformer, though sometimes aiming can be a bit annoying. It doesn’t matter most of the time, but had some trouble because of that during a boss fight, as you have to paint specific parts of the boss.
Other than that, game feels polished, and some design elements feel a bit dated, but overall it still feels fun. It could be my nostalgia speaking though.
No Pokémon Pokopia this week. Will start getting back to doing little stuff here and there this week.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
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Started Octopath Traveler 2 this week.
Didn’t play too much, only did the introduction for 4 of the characters. Initially, I really struggled with myself on how to approach this game. Just go with one character for the challange, do everything for 4 characters and then do the other 4 or just everyone at once. In the end, I’ll probably juggle all 8, but it’s really annoying that I can’t remove my starting character (which is why I considered the solo run, you can remove them after their story is done).
No matter what I do, I’ll proabbly end up overleveled for a lot of stuff, which sucks.
Otherwise the game is great, but I still think the main gimmick - 8 more or less independant characters and stories - just doesn’t work all that great on a fundamental level. Maybe I’ll think otherwise after finishing it, supposedly it does it better than the first one.
… I still think the main gimmick - 8 more or less independant characters and stories - just doesn’t work all that great on a fundamental level. Maybe I’ll think otherwise after finishing it, supposedly it does it better than the first one.
This was my main issue with the first one. Loved the visuals, and gameplay / combat was also good, but it felt like playing the same game 8 times. So just gave up. I have heard OT 2 is better in every aspect, but I have heard the main “gimmick” remains the same, so will probably skip it too.
Going to try Octopath Traveller 0 though, since it seems different.
Finally started playing Hades. I slept on that game for way too long. It’s phenomenal.
It is! Once you have unlocked some stuff, would love to hear your favourite weapon, and any power combos you love.
I love The Twin Fists of Malphon… they’re so bad. Aspect of Talos has been my go to, I haven’t unlocked Aspect of Gilgamesh, yet, but those bad boys sound like they are perfect for my play style.
My favorite build that plays into the fists, so far, has been Aphrodite, Athena, and Artemis. The A Team. Get Aphrodite on attack, and the boon that makes weakened enemies take more damage, Athena on dash with the boon that makes deflect curse with exposed, and Artemis for her crit chance boon, with Breaching cross and Rolling Knuckle or Heavy Knuckle and Long Knuckle depending on RNG, It sounds hard to get, but the RNG for me has thrown this build at me a surprising amount. Just hold attack and keep dashing at your targets, pull in with Talos fists to add damage for heavies. It’s fast and hectic as fuck, but if you can keep track of things it just nukes health bars while blocking a ton of damage. Poseidon is a really fun add, if you can get him, for the boosted damage for the first little bit of an encounter.
The easy mode, everything just dies, build I found is Dionysus, Demeter, and Zeus. Dionysus cast, and whatever you need for the other two to unlock duo boons for each of them and Dionysus on the cast. Then it’s an instant cast, not a toss, that stacks 3 curses and deals just a fucked up amount of damage. It’s stupid. Kind of a bitch to build, but holy shit.
I’ve completed the first Palace in Persona 5 Royal. This game is really great! Unfortunately for me, the local library had Kirby and the Forgotten Land for Switch 2 available for checkout, so my Persona playing machine is in the hands of my youngest.
Hehe. Unfortunately there aren’t any limited edition Switch 2 out yet, or this would’ve been the perfect time and excuse to get your hand on one.
Mostly Monster Hunter Wilds this week. I’ve been grinding for gold crowns, which I have never done in another game before. I can’t explain why I’m doing this, some bug just bit me and made me do it.
In Fallout 3, I’ve done everything in the metro maze I’ve been wanting to do for now. I’ll still have to go through one soon, but what matters is that I’m back in the actual world!
Speaking of being bitten by weird bugs, I’ve been wanting to play Mario Kart World again for the first time since release for no apparent reason. I haven’t done it yet, but it’s on the table…
What are gold crowns? Armour headpiece?
Heh, Mario Kart World isn’t bad, though I haven’t’ played much of it either. I probably haven’t even played all tracks yet. Should definitely do that.
Silver and gold crowns are markers for a monster’s size. Especially large and small monsters are marked with these crowns in the compendium, which has been a stable in the series for a very long time. It doesn’t give you anything except an achievement, but it’s also much easier to do in Wilds. Previously, you learned a monster’s size after you hunt it. In Wilds you have binoculars that reveal this information beforehand, so you can just quickly check every monster in the area.
Ahan, got it. Thanks!
It took me like 7 years to get the crowns in World, Rise was much quicker. Sadly I burned out after a couple hundred hours of Wilds, the Gold and Miniature crowns are the only achievements I have left. I jump in once a month or so for a few hunts and don’t enjoy myself all that much, hopefully once the expansion drops I can get back into it properly. I love the games so much, I just get to a point where I’d rather do anything than actually go on a hunt.
I don’t expect to actually finish the crowns, to be honest. I still have other grinding to do and resetting the world for crowns is a good excuse to get a Lagiacrus with a guaranteed Sapphire drop to spawn.
I’m sitting at work, staring at the clock. 40 minutes left until I can go home, then it’s probably Satisfactory time again. I played it about a year and a half ago for 45 days, with an average playtime of 9 hours per day (between working a full time job with 13h shifts 4 days a week). Yeah. I probably shouldn’t have started again.
Uh oh. See you again in a month or so!
Playing Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian!
Good progress this week, got to Chapter 9 and I’m probably near the end of the game.
One boss mid-game was a huge difficulty spike which forced me to stop and go spend some time optimizing gear/items, but other than that I’ve been going through the game rather easily.
Hard boss name
Lara & Geron
Moving to another topic, I finally finished my box of Premodern Magic the Gathering decks! Already did a few sessions with friends while I was building it and had a lot of fun.
Oooh, so many decks! As an MTG noob. How are they divided?
All of these are from the same “category” which is Premodern, based on Magic from 1995 to 2003, so you can play any of the decks in this box against each other.
The decks cover a broad number of strategies, including agressive, midrange and controlling decks, and also a small amount of combo to spice things up. Exact decklists can be found here.
I also have a second box from another category called Prefire, which is based on Magic from 2003 to early 2019.
So many cards! How much did it all cost you?
There’s a lot of ways to play Magic competitively, going from Pauper which is one of the cheapest competitive formats with average deck price around $70 to Legacy where the average deck costs a few thousand.
These particular set of decks I built are should be in the “middle of the road” for competitive formats, with an average of ~$300-400 or so per deck asides from a couple outliers (MUD Stax is a pile of crazy expensive out-of-print cards). So building these boxes from scratch would be quite pricy. 🙂
However I already owned a ton of cards (I played multiple formats competitively for a decade) and I “financed” most new purchases by downsizing my collection and selling things I wasn’t going to use anymore, so I didn’t really spend that much money in this project.
Edit: Fun fact! I posted about this box on Twitter and it kinda blew up after being retweeted by a couple popular figures in the MTG world. Since we can’t link to that website here I’ll leave this image with the stats.
Oooh, nice! Congrats!
Thanks for all the links, going to save your comment!
I’m playing Sulfur, a roguelike shooter with inventory management and weapon modding. The combinations can get pretty wild with attachments, oils and enchantments! You can also change the caliber of a weapon, say make a sniper rifle use shotgun shells that pierce, ricochet and set your target on fire. Dying means losing everything including currently equipped items except when using a pretty expensive insurance for single weapons. It’s super fun and I’m pretty addicted to it by now, and i realize i go extra slow because i don’t want it to end.
This looks pretty fun, roguelike though, so probably won’t really play it. But like the art style and gameplay looks fun.
After the Main Story there is the option of an endless mode, but i haven’t reached it yet. A lot of it happens to be experimenting with components to find cooking recipes, which give you different kinds of Food, varying in healing amount and speed of healing or effects like “Coyote Time” (the effect of Wile E. Coyote, the nemesis of Road Runner, being able to walk in the air for some time); some recipes give you trinkets to equip like an “extra lung” for longer breath underwater, or some grenades.
There isn’t much meta-progression outside of expanding your stash, leveling your weapons and being able to start in every area you have reached before. There is one Stash where you can send equipment down the toilet, an option to buy ammo cheaper in bulk and some benches that give you the ability to remove oils and enchantments if you decide that what you created is not viable for combat lol.
Weapons gain XP, which gives you slots for oils and max. 1 Enchantment - but the more you put on your weapon, the faster it degrades, which gives a nice balance, because you will probably not be able to use your Uber-Gun for everything.
The levels themselves use premade rooms (so they are not random generated crap), but the placement of enemies, ledges, loot and secrets is randomized (There is always only max. 1 secret room per level, so if you found it already, you can stop searching for it, but there might be more hidden loot boxes throughout the level).
Ahan, interesting. Thanks!
Doing my 4th playthrough of Resident evil: Requiem, now on Insanity difficulty. Unlocking unlimited ammo is absolutely necessary for this difficulty…at least for me. I’m also trying to complete the "Don’t use herbs or med injectors) challenge at the same time; Not sure if that was smart. 😆
Wow, that’s some dedication! And those challenges sound really … challenging 😀. Good luck!
Insanity is basically one-hit death to begin with, so 90% of the time you can’t use healing items even if you wanted to. Haha!
lol, that doesn’t make it sound any easier.
I completed the run last night, but ended up having to use a health item. Let the “no health item” run commence!..butnon easy. 😆
Hehe, good luck!
More Metroid Prime 4 for me. So far, i think the gme is not that bad, but i can see why people were not happy with a lot of it. Still a fun game for good chunks of my playtime
I honestly loved Metroid Prime 4. Went through it multiple times to unlock all of the gallery items.
I completely forgot about it. Maybe after Yoshi.
Still playing Arma Refoeger, which I plan to livestream. BI released an experimental 1.7 the other week which has been really fun playing FIA reistance members.
Nice. Where do you stream?
Work tends to do that.
Good luck! May pop in for a bit if I get time, but night is my own playing time so probably won’t get time.
Diablo 2 has kept me on my Switch 1 recently till they made Lords of the Fallen a PS+ Monthly on Tuesday. Im enjoying both.
I grew up on Diablo 1 and 2 but never quite beat 2 as a teenager. My family PC couldn’t run it as I recall so it was just a LAN party game for me but I still loved it. Rn im trying to finish Nightmare on a Nova Sorc deep into act 5. The Ancients just embarassing me
“… and so it came to pass that the countess who once bathed in the blood of hundred virgins was burried alive.”
Diablo 2 is one of my favourite games. Along with Fallout 2. Don’t remember how many times I have played it. The funny thing is, back then I didn’t know the concept of New Game+, I was like, “its one of those games that just starts again when you finish it, dunno why they do this”. Will then proceed to deleting the character and creating a new one.
Would love to play it again some day.
How’s Lords of the Fallen? It has been on my wishlist, and am glad to see it on PS+ Monthly games, will probably get to it soon-ish.
Crazy how comfortable as 20yo game can be isnt it? The new class is pretty fun too. Definitely OP but fun.
LotF is pretty good so far! Im a few hours in and still enjoying it for sure. I keep trying to get my friends to jump on so I can try the co-op but no luck yet. Great atmosphere, solid level design (not quite Bloodborne but still good). Im eager to see some more challenging bosses once ive got more time.
Have you played the first LotF? I believe I have that from PS+ too, but not sure if I should try it or just skip it.
Thats what im playing :)
I meant the previous 2014 one. The one on PS+ monthly games this month is the 2023 one, the reboot of the original 2014 one.
Ah I didn’t know! Im a latecomer to Soulsbornes haha
Hehe, no worries. I just like to track lots of info about games.
