What are you playing this weekend?

So after years of the game sitting in the pile, I'm starting up Dishonoured 2.

I know Emily is canon, but I chose Corvo because:
1. Familiarity with his powers from Dishonoured
2. Nostalgia
3. I'm a dad of twin teenage girls, so saving Emily has more of that emotional connection
4. They made Corvo look like John Wick, so basically it's a no brainer

Also some Mortal Empires campaigns in Total War: Warhammer II
And I'm going to get Wildermyth started up
And some WoW.
And HUMANKIND

Kind of exploring my options since for the last couple of months it was all Pillars of Eternity 2 all of the time.

I'll be traveling this weekend so it's all about my 2DS and Monster Hunter Stories. That'll probably be all I play for the next couple of weeks, now that I think of it. That and what over titles I have for the system, that is.

Well im stuck at home self isolating so weekend has started early for me with the simple but very engaging Mr Prepper

warframe for the newly released primes (nidus, magnus, strun) and the plague star event is back after over a year.
hardspace: shipbreaker new update dropped and I'm hoping the bugs that were making it rough for me are squashed.
Ni No Kuni, lovely game, granted on a depressing subject.

XCom 2! I am having such a blast with this game. But god, it can go to hell real quick after I rush through a decision.

I am now back into Trails to Azure (PC) and, unless any new opportunity to socialize comes up, I should be able to get to the final chapter this weekend, and finish it next week. That game is quite the roller-coaster...

More Psychonauts 2!

Maybe start up Mass Effect Andromeda since I just loaded up some PC mods, but let's be honest - it'll be Double Fine's new gem.

I continue DMing Tomb of Annihilation through Fantasy Grounds Unity

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In our next session the party may:

1. Meet a Hag who plans on eating them one by one
2. Be woken up to a zombie T-Rex that drops humanoid zombies from its mouth when it roars
3. Face a zombie hoard attacking a rickety stronghold in the jungle

80hrs in to Horizon Zero Dawn. Am at the "final" quest. Was hot and cold on the game. Didn't really get in to the gameplay till about 30 or 40 hours in when I started using a lot more tools to bring down the robots (traps I could lure them in to, trip caster to slow/stop them in place, tearblast arrows to remove robot weapons and use those weapons against them, etc.). So combat became a lot of fun once I started using all the tools available.

The game does have a serious pacing problem. Particularly near the end where they reveal everything in the last few main missions. You go from tense combat with frostclaws to spending an hour or more walking around and reading/listening to a multitude of logs explaining what happened. That needs to be fixed in the sequel.

So once I finish Horizon will jump over and check out the Wyoming DLC for American Truck Simulator. Then on the 14th Deathloop comes out and plan that to be the next game I dedicate all my time to.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Cyberpunk 2077
Splitgate

I think it's going to be on Troubleshooters: Abandoned Children the whole time. Deep into the game at this point and it's still keeping me on my toes. I think it's either this or Trails to Azure for GOTY for me this year.

Speaking of which,

bobbywatson wrote:

I am now back into Trails to Azure (PC) and, unless any new opportunity to socialize comes up, I should be able to get to the final chapter this weekend, and finish it next week. That game is quite the roller-coaster...

That last chapter is pretty long, and the roller coaster is not done with you yet.

A repeat weekend for me.

billt721 wrote:

Old World, Old World, and more Old World. This game has become the first 4x to take over my life since Civ V. Coming into the year I would have thought Humankind would have been the game to do it but that one just managed to make me appreciate Old World even more.

Sundown wrote:

I think it's going to be on Troubleshooters: Abandoned Children the whole time. Deep into the game at this point and it's still keeping me on my toes. I think it's either this or Trails to Azure for GOTY for me this year.

Speaking of which,

bobbywatson wrote:

I am now back into Trails to Azure (PC) and, unless any new opportunity to socialize comes up, I should be able to get to the final chapter this weekend, and finish it next week. That game is quite the roller-coaster...

That last chapter is pretty long, and the roller coaster is not done with you yet.

Good thing I'm unemployed then, I should have plenty of time

No job? Someone turn off forum access.

Stele wrote:

No job? Someone turn off forum access. :P

I will escort myself out then

Pathfinder - let's hope it starts grabbing my attention a bit more than at present (I have only just got out of the maze, to be fair).

Failing that, I think I'll go back to the My Team mode on F1 2021 (aka 'spend 2 hours designing your livery and overalls, and maybe do a lap. Or two.')

Pathfinder - let's hope it starts grabbing my attention a bit more than at present (I have only just got out of the maze, to be fair).

It opens up quite a bit at that point.

Spikeout and I have a new, after campaign, bonus map to learn in Orcs Must Die 3. We’ve gotten five skulls on all the bonus maps so far. Meaning we didn’t let any orcs by and we did it under the set time but we aren’t at the ‘can we get five skulls?’ stage with this new map. In fact we’re firmly in the ‘ Well, this clearly isn’t possible’ stage. Obviously it is possible and we’ve felt that way about previous maps but it’s probably going to take a lot of replays (no hardship thankfully) to get the right number, type and balance of traps.

Trails in the Sky SC. Loop Hero. Trails in Cold Steel 3. Not enough time in a day.

More Scarlet Nexus. I'm close to finishing the first play through (there are two characters to choose from at the beginning of the game, and each one witnesses half of the story, with periodic encounters between the two), but even though I have been enjoying the game more and more as I've gotten deeper into the story (it gets bonkers), I'm still not sure I'll go for a second play through. I think a couple of people here have finished the game, so is it worth going through it again?

So far this weekend I've been having fun with other Goodjers playing Splitgate (here's my referral code for some free stuff if you want to try it out and perhaps join up for a game: XKR5Y8).

I'll be busy watching the F1 race and the US Tennis Open, so less time for gaming over the rest of the weekend. Possibly some more of my journey in The Outer Wilds and serving up drinks in VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action I may take a peek at the latest update for Hardspace Shipbreaker, depending on my mood.

Finished FAR: Lone Sails. I enjoyed the atmosphere and the story and thought it was a clever concept, something different from the usual, but often I found the puzzles harder than they needed to be because I couldn’t see where the next traversable section was. It would be better if you could clearly see the stairs or incline you needed to reach and the puzzle was how to get there. I am coming around to the idea of shorter games but this one feels just a little too short. I thought some ideas could have been expanded upon, particularly replacing/upgrading parts. It ended up feeling more like a proof of concept than a full game.

I’m interested in the sequel for sure but I hope they’ve learnt lessons from this game and can make it’s follow up just that little bit more meaty and can smooth out any unnecessary frustrations.

Hopping back into No Man's Sky. I'm one of the folks who didn't follow the original hype and launch and picked it up when the positive reviews began after the Next update. Played it heavily for a few months and haven't touched it in years. Excited to revisit the story and universe with all the new content.

Mario_Alba wrote:

More Scarlet Nexus. I'm close to finishing the first play through (there are two characters to choose from at the beginning of the game, and each one witnesses half of the story, with periodic encounters between the two), but even though I have been enjoying the game more and more as I've gotten deeper into the story (it gets bonkers), I'm still not sure I'll go for a second play through. I think a couple of people here have finished the game, so is it worth going through it again?

I finished the game with Kasane. By the end, I felt like I got enough of the other story that I didn't need to play though it again. There are several times where you get a summary of the other perspective, and in some ways it ends up being spoilers for the other route ("And could you believe this happened?").

Meanwhile, I have been putting a lot of time into Skyward Sword. It's really good!

Playing more Heaven's Vault. I'm really getting into it, trying to find as many inscriptions as I possibly can and puzzling them out. It's really good, I'm enjoying it greatly.

Aristophan wrote:
Mario_Alba wrote:

More Scarlet Nexus. I'm close to finishing the first play through (there are two characters to choose from at the beginning of the game, and each one witnesses half of the story, with periodic encounters between the two), but even though I have been enjoying the game more and more as I've gotten deeper into the story (it gets bonkers), I'm still not sure I'll go for a second play through. I think a couple of people here have finished the game, so is it worth going through it again?

I finished the game with Kasane. By the end, I felt like I got enough of the other story that I didn't need to play though it again. There are several times where you get a summary of the other perspective, and in some ways it ends up being spoilers for the other route ("And could you believe this happened?").

Meanwhile, I have been putting a lot of time into Skyward Sword. It's really good!

Thank you, Aristophan! I am also playing with Kasane, and I feel the same way about Yuito's story. I guess that, if I end up playing as Yuito, it will be in the a long time after I finish the game as Kasane so that I will have forgotten most of the story by then.

Powering through the Fate of Atlantis expansion to Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Part of me is drawn in by the amazing environments they created for this. This game always looked good and it's fun to see what the artists can do when they go full sci-fi-fantasy.

A different part of me is just excited by the prospect of finally being done with this game.

Superliminal, but I am not sure how long my patience will stick with this one. I already feel it wavering. I also ended up bailing on X-Com 2 out of frustration. I might need something that is just super fun to play.

Been traveling a bit, so I'll be trying to remember what I was doing in Bloodborne, and getting the Regalia mount in the FF15 event in Final Fantasy XIV

I reactivated a Game Pass subscription, so now I'm obligated to play the games on it.

Psychonauts 2, Humankind, Hades, and another look at Flight Simulator.