What are you playing this weekend?

A_Unicycle wrote:

Amazing. I need this ring.

I’ll see if I can pin down where we found it. Oh it was in a prison area under a chaps house. I’ll try and find his name.

Edit: It was under Magister Carver’s house in a small office area. You may have to bring up all object names to find it.

I'll be playing three games that have all come to game pass this week:

Back 4 Blood, for some fun co-op zombie blasting.

Ring of Pain, a neat roguelike card game that I've heard good things about.

The Rift Breaker, this is one I've been looking forward to for a while. I've recently been having fun playing their previous game X-Morph: Defense and from my first couple of hours playing TRB it's even better.

I won’t be playing Orcs Must Die 3 as Spikeout is away. We just got five skulls on a map that we found endlessly challenging so we can live off the feels from that until next week. I’ll be continuing my replay of God of War which is a delight and playing Broforce (a silly and violent pixel art homage to 80s action movies) which, worryingly, I’m finding a lot of fun and, even more worryingly, is slowly climbing up my top ten games of the year list.

Hopefully I’ll also be co-oping either Divinity Original Sin 2 or Stranded Deep (just don’t talk to me about the beanie hats or how ridiculously difficult it is to get into the life raft.)

Well I might have to look into orcs must die 3 soon then, ta for the recommends!

For this weekend, mostly Nidhogg!

Bubblefuzz wrote:

Well I might have to look into orcs must die 3 soon then, ta for the recommends!

No problem . It is great fun.

Metroid Dread

Trying to figure out what to play next. Right now I'm oscillating between taking a video game break, Ogre Battle (SNES), Tales of Phantasia (PS1), or Zelda Oracle of Seasons (GBC).

Hey, I missed that a Sable patch dropped at the same time as Metroid Dread. Time to give it another look.

That and digging myself out of a deep influence hole in Humankind.

bobbywatson wrote:

Trying to figure out what to play next. Right now I'm oscillating between taking a video game break, Ogre Battle (SNES), Tales of Phantasia (PS1), or Zelda Oracle of Seasons (GBC).

There's only one clear choice. "Fight it out!"

As for me, I'm making slow progress on my media-blackout, blind, no-guide run of Monster Hunter Rise (which is why I haven't been in the thread). So far it's been a fun metagame to have a bunch of mysteries and questions about locales and mechanics rolling around in my noggin and just letting the answers unfold at their own pace, if at all. The fact that this iteration is much better at explaining itself than previous installments, e.g. in-game drop charts and weaknesses, keeps it fun instead of frustrating.

trueheart78 wrote:

Metroid Dread

Finished it, but still playing for a 100% file. Then maybe a Hard mode run.

Usual Saturday Rocket League of course too.

Monster Hunter Stories and whatever else strikes my fancy as a palate cleanser.

More Days Gone. Really enjoying it.

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider or some other Arkane Studios joint. *cough* Prey *cough*.

I've had to do a few double takes to remind myself that we are already in the busy holiday release season. Then I pat myself on the back to feebly congratulate myself on abstaining from a number of new game purchases, instead electing to work on content I already own.

To that end, I'm very committed to making more progress in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. I occasionally get the itch to fire up Cyberpunk 2077 which I may do to pick at one of the main story missions. Any other free time will probably be spent playing my company's game to get reacquainted with everything since I've been off the project for over a year & a half.

Oh right, if Sekiro gets too frustrating then I may pop in DOOM 2016 to blow off some steam!

Working my way through Astalon: Tears of the Earth. It's been a while since I played a good Metroidvania.

Yes, yes, Dread will come later. One Metroidvania at a time.

halfwaywrong wrote:

For the third week in a row, my gaming plans are subject to a baby that hasn't been born yet. Come on kid, we're super eager for you to enter the world!

Anyway, I'm up to a second point in Yakuza: Like A Dragon where I need to grind. I'm guessing people who have already finished the game know exactly what I mean? So it might be more arena grinding where I can. I like the game enough to at least bother with it, despite never needing to grind in a Yakuza game before.

I'm also playing more of Sable. The last stability update really improved things. Still getting a lot of UI bugs that are frustrating, but a much better experience than it was at launch.

For reasons I'm still not sure of, I decided to check out Cyberpunk 2077. I'm not that far in, but the Night City is amazing. So far it kind of feels like a wildly ambitious futuristic Fallout: New Vegas. It's really obvious that it doesn't reach its ambitions, but so far it's nowhere near as bad as the memes would have you believe. So far, at least.

I may have missed the point in Yakuza where you need to grind, but I am running around do all sorts of side stuff so that may be why. There’s so many choices, random things everywhere! Sensory overload!!!!

Working my way through the Carthage scenarios in Old World. They’re pretty interesting as shorter games that use the event and ambition systems to tell a story inside a 4x.

Transformers: Devastation with my oldest, though I fear he's learning some bad language from me because of this game.

Quake Champions as usual.

Trying to make lots of progress in Far Cry 3, but it's slow going.

Might start up Va-11 Hall-A for the adventure game club. Need to try to finish by the end of this month.

Hockosi wrote:
halfwaywrong wrote:

For the third week in a row, my gaming plans are subject to a baby that hasn't been born yet. Come on kid, we're super eager for you to enter the world!

Anyway, I'm up to a second point in Yakuza: Like A Dragon where I need to grind. I'm guessing people who have already finished the game know exactly what I mean? So it might be more arena grinding where I can. I like the game enough to at least bother with it, despite never needing to grind in a Yakuza game before.

I may have missed the point in Yakuza where you need to grind, but I am running around do all sorts of side stuff so that may be why. There’s so many choices, random things everywhere! Sensory overload!!!!

How far are you? Because I've had two places where I've needed to grind. They're in the last half/quarter of the game, if that helps. I feel like it's a "you'll know if you know" thing, so I'll try not to spoil!

I am in chapter 10 and I just stumbled upon the batting cages for the first time.

More Resident Evil HD Remaster since it is spooky season. And Psychonauts 2/Yakuza Kiwami.

Ended up playing Stranded Deep tonight. Our first co-op game midweek was us trying, and failing, to delay our inevitable deaths. In the second game I was bitten by a shark moments after entering the game (I was being a bit reckless.) Our third game however is, comparatively, a model of efficient resource gathering and item crafting. We have a shelter, a fire pit with a spit and two (TWO!) water collectors. With neat piles of different resources all around us. We are slowly getting to the stage where we aren’t spending all day either spearing fish, collecting coconuts or sheltering under trees so we don’t burn up in the sun.

Just had a very pleasant hour or so with Armoured Commander 2. Normandy invasion scenario, as Americans. Fought two days in July, and spent about 5 weeks convalescing from getting my first two tanks shot out from under me. Got my third tank - an Easy Eight - and now APCR is slightly more available, so it's early August and I was assigned to basically go forward and don't stop. I have just beelined through the first map, killing a number of enemies but losing one of my platoon Shermans to a Nashorn. I did have fantastic luck in my first engagement, critically struck a Jagdpanzer 4 with one shot from a side angle and knocked it out. Don't think that will happen again...

We will see what happens when I pick it up again tomorrow. Great fun for less than $10 lol.

Bubblefuzz wrote:

For this weekend, mostly Nidhogg!

We couldn't resist, Nidhogg 2 is now being played.

Started Tales of Berseria today.

Still driving my bike around in Days Gone!

Outriders and I may check out Everspace 2 on GP, even though I don't really get into spaceship shooters.

Neon Abyss but, I dunno, I’m not sure if I’m going to get the hang of this ‘sticks to look and shoot, triggers to jump’ buisness.

A little bit of Echo Generation on game pass, and some Monster Hunter Stories.

Lots of Final Fantasy XIV: reaching Shadowbringers in New Game Plus, leveling Paladin, chasing achievements, and doing group shenanigans with GWJers for IGWJ Day.