What are you playing right now?

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Did you ever play Pentiment? Seems like your kind of game, no?

I bought/downloaded it and will inevitably get to it.

[YBBR]

CC: YBBR

Did you ever play Pentiment? Seems like your kind of game, no?

I bought/downloaded it and will inevitably get to it.

That's the Obsidian game they put out a couple years ago. I never played it, but it got high praise for sure. I remember that. It was on a ton of best of the year lists that year. I'm not sure if it sold really well, but critically it was well loved.

It sort of like an adventure/narrative thing.

[Mandatory]

CC: YBBR

Did you ever play Pentiment? Seems like your kind of game, no?

I bought/downloaded it and will inevitably get to it.

That's the Obsidian game they put out a couple years ago. I never played it, but it got high praise for sure. I remember that. It was on a ton of best of the year lists that year. I'm not sure if it sold really well, but critically it was well loved.

It sort of like an adventure/narrative thing.

I shouldn't have assumed because it was a popular indie game you would have played it..

But that's the one! Haven't played yet but will be checking it out soon.

[YBBR]

CC: YBBR

Did you ever play Pentiment? Seems like your kind of game, no?

I bought/downloaded it and will inevitably get to it.

That's the Obsidian game they put out a couple years ago. I never played it, but it got high praise for sure. I remember that. It was on a ton of best of the year lists that year. I'm not sure if it sold really well, but critically it was well loved.

It sort of like an adventure/narrative thing.

I shouldn't have assumed because it was a popular indie game you would have played it..

But that's the one! Haven't played yet but will be checking it out soon.

Cool. Yeah, that's a good one to play if you like narrative adventure games. Really good for history buffs as well.

I am pretty plugged in to the current games press, so yeah, game that came out a few years ago that a lot of them loved, I definitely remember it.

[YBBR]

I've been playing some Sektori. Indie game made by a former Housemarque developer. Twin stick shooter with great visuals and art. Almost psychedelic through future science fiction. Hard lines, flashing lights, enemies and shapes everywhere. It's very good. Punishingly difficult. Nice music too. Mostly techno, but I caught some trance style synths in there which made me pop a bit. Cool one.

[Jimi_Thing]

Xenoblade Chronicles on the Nintendo Switch. Never played it before. Really enjoying it!

[YBBR]

Xenoblade Chronicles on the Nintendo Switch. Never played it before. Really enjoying it!

Dope. I really dug Xenogears on PS1 when that dude worked at Square before he and his wife left and started their own studio and did the Xenosaga and then the Xenoblade games. Xenosaga is more hit and miss from my memory, but Xenoblade people love those.

[YBBR]

I'm currently playing Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound from last year. 2D action game with pixel art from The Game Kitchen. Pretty good. I also want to play Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. That one was by Lizardcube who helped do Streets of Rage 4 which was damn good.

[Mandatory]

Picking KCDII back up on XBOX now that all the DLC is out. Some CFB26. Also just starting to get into GTA online. I don't really like it, but I'm trying to stick with it.

I have Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding downloaded on PS5 ready to start sometime.

CKIII as always and some Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age on PC.

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I started up Cyberpunk 2077 again after a long time. The updates are noticeable, for sure.

If they ever do a live action version of this game, they better not fuck up Panam and better use the female V

[Tommy_Hawk]

I started up Cyberpunk 2077 again after a long time. The updates are noticeable, for sure.

If they ever do a live action version of this game, they better not fuck up Panam and better use the female V

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[YBBR]

Excited for the new Castlevania announced at the State of Play developed by the Dead Cells folks. Belmont's Curse. Castlevania is finally back and I'm loving the art style. Looks good.

[Mandatory]

Excited for the new Castlevania announced at the State of Play developed by the Dead Cells folks. Belmont's Curse. Castlevania is finally back and I'm loving the art style. Looks good.

IGN had a huge showcase today. Some good stuff.

[Tommy_Hawk]

Excited for the new Castlevania announced at the State of Play developed by the Dead Cells folks. Belmont's Curse. Castlevania is finally back and I'm loving the art style. Looks good.

IGN had a huge showcase today. Some good stuff.

I saw there was a recent update for Manor Lord, so I sunk about 6 hours into it this week. I kind of have it figured out now, so I think im going to restart on a different map and give it the ol' College try.

[Mandatory]

Excited for the new Castlevania announced at the State of Play developed by the Dead Cells folks. Belmont's Curse. Castlevania is finally back and I'm loving the art style. Looks good.

IGN had a huge showcase today. Some good stuff.

I saw there was a recent update for Manor Lord, so I sunk about 6 hours into it this week. I kind of have it figured out now, so I think im going to restart on a different map and give it the ol' College try.

It's a fun game but I haven't played in some time.

Just started Ghost of Yotei while still sloggin away at KCD2.

Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age on PC.

[YBBR]

Minishoot' Adventures which got ported to console recently. It's like what if a classic 2D Zelda was also a twin stick shooter with a little ship. It's a really solid genre mashup that I've been playing through.

[Tommy_Hawk]

Minishoot' Adventures which got ported to console recently. It's like what if a classic 2D Zelda was also a twin stick shooter with a little ship. It's a really solid genre mashup that I've been playing through.

I bought it now from Steam. We'll see how it is. You're usually on point with your Indie recs, although Hades isnt for me.

[YBBR]

Minishoot' Adventures which got ported to console recently. It's like what if a classic 2D Zelda was also a twin stick shooter with a little ship. It's a really solid genre mashup that I've been playing through.

I bought it now from Steam. We'll see how it is. You're usually on point with your Indie recs, although Hades isnt for me.

Oh I loved Hades. I'm a big Supergiant fan. I've got to pick up Hades 2. But I'm a roguelike sicko. I love those style of games, which just might not be your thing.

I just wrapped up Minishoot. It's good. Very charming. The ship feels really good to move about. It has a nice checklist kind of feel to mopping up all the objectives too. So if you like doing that in a old-school Zelda type of game. You'll probably like this.

[Tommy_Hawk]

Crimson Desert. Its vast. Theres so many options. Ive played 30 hours and havent even scratched the surface


The first few hours are kind of boring, doing tutorial stuff, but it opens up and gets fun.

[YBBR]

Hades 2 just got ported to console, so I'm playing through that. The art and animation are just an unreal quality. Maybe the best I've seen from Supergiant yet. Their art is truly without peer in the medium. Darren Korb doing the music again, who is great.

It's a bit more verbose than Hades. Which I thought the writing and narrative was a huge selling point for people who aren't traditionally into roguelikes for the first Hades. The gameplay hasn't hooked me the same way yet, but I'm still kind of figuring out Melinoe as opposed to Zagreus.

[Herky]

MLB The Show 26. Currently grinding in Diamond Dynasty. Will start a Cubs one probably this weekend. Trying to get some Diamond sponsors before I do to maximize cash intake.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Finished Mass Effect and into Mass Effect 2 now.

Un-modded Fallout 4 playthrough. Siding with the Minutemen and settlement building. Going to chase the last few achievements I have left to get. Currently Level 100.

[YBBR]

I also started playing some of Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors. That's a good game. I am a fan of roguelikes. I like deck builders. I loved Vampire Survivors when that came out. It's a good one of those.

[YBBR]

I've playing Forza Horizon 6. It's very good. I played a bunch of Forza Horizon 5 and that was my first one of these. Forza Horizon 6 more of the same, but in Japan as opposed to Mexico. It's a good time.

[YBBR]

007 First Light I will probably pick up down the road and play through that. I'm not a big James Bond fan, but I am a fan of IO Interactive. 88 on Opencritic, so very well regarded. The recent Hitman trilogy are all amazing games. Sounds like they put out another banger.

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Anyone played AC Shadows? I just started yesterday. Kind of takes a bit to get into it, but could be epic

[jffl_commish]

Anyone played AC Shadows? I just started yesterday. Kind of takes a bit to get into it, but could be epic

The world is so huge and there are so many things... I need to skip the contracts I think and just do side quests. I don't even know what the hell the main quest is. Just kill lots of shady dudes.

[YBBR]

I've started going through Mina the Hollower by Yacht Club Games. Its like a mix between a Gameboy color era legend of Zelda and has Dark Souls mechanics. I'm early, but it's really good so far.

[jffl_commish]

Anyone played AC Shadows? I just started yesterday. Kind of takes a bit to get into it, but could be epic

The world is so huge and there are so many things... I need to skip the contracts I think and just do side quests. I don't even know what the hell the main quest is. Just kill lots of shady dudes.

Update again: I did some review reading and kind of wish I did before I started. Super repetitive. No real story. The voice actors kind of blow too.

[YBBR]

I beat Mina the Hollower. It's perfect for any kind of handheld. So like a Steam Deck or a Switch or something is the perfect form factor for it. One of the highest reviewed games this year for $20. I think it's really solid.

[YBBR]

Playing alot of 33 Immortals since that went 1.0. From Thunder Lotus that team that did Spiritfarer. This is way different. It's a co-op roguelike where you raid with up to 33 people but can only communicate to everyone through little graphical emotes the game gives you. So it's like what if you had a pick up and play MMO raid with much less time investment and all the people you meet are trying to work together to defeat the dungeon boss and lose as few people as possible along the way.