What are you currently playing?

[Beerfish]

I still have 2 Atari Lynxes somewhere. An original and the second version.

 

[jannissary]

How fleshed out is it? I chucked it on my wishlist and I usually have a rule about not buying early access games and waiting for the full release.

still has some beta drawings but it's more or less a full game.

 

[AFDogs]

Tried KCD2 again. Much more enjoyable and was in the right mindset. Died randomly and lost about 25 mins of progress (well, roaming around) which I wasn’t too happy about.

Friend convinced me to buy Marathon. Was actually good fun.

 

[gaskin]

Anyone played Satisfactory? I've been eyeing it off for a while and it is 30% off on Steam. But, with the next sale in a couple of weeks I don't know whether to get it now or wait and see if it is cheaper in a couple of weeks.

 

[omgfridge]

Anyone played Satisfactory? I've been eyeing it off for a while and it is 30% off on Steam. But, with the next sale in a couple of weeks I don't know whether to get it now or wait and see if it is cheaper in a couple of weeks.

Yeah its pretty good. Has to be your type of thing though. I played it with couple mates and while for me it was more fun at the start, one guy just got super addicted and went way ahead so became a bit lame when i'd log in, get some undeserved achievement because he had been grinding away on it.

When its all up and going, it is pretty impressive. Have never gone back to it though.

 

[gaskin]

Yeah its pretty good. Has to be your type of thing though. I played it with couple mates and while for me it was more fun at the start, one guy just got super addicted and went way ahead so became a bit lame when i'd log in, get some undeserved achievement because he had been grinding away on it.

When its all up and going, it is pretty impressive. Have never gone back to it though.

From the trailer I saw it had a real No Mans Sky kind of feel with base building taken to a whole new level.

 

[omgfridge]

From the trailer I saw it had a real No Mans Sky kind of feel with base building taken to a whole new level.

Fair assessment. Can be lots of fun when you've unlocked some of the vehicles and other items to traverse between your various factories.

 

[Gethelred]

Vampire survivors, Avowed and Clair Obscura.

Got Clair Obscura first, did it until

Spoiler

I beat the Paintress and revealed the whole thing was a painting, then did a bit of exploring and haven't picked it up again since. Got a bit frustrated at having supposedly beaten the creator of the world then dying to mob fights.

Got Avowed on PS5 release, and while the combat is more RPG than action and more Kingdoms of Amalur than Elder Scrolls - you have a similar three class levelup to Amalur, and if your numbers aren't there you can't skill or game knowledge through it like you could an Elder Scrolls game - it's pretty to look at and genuinely enjoyable. It's also not a sole adventurer thing, either; you accumulate party companions who travel with you, with a faintly Mass Effect kind of feel to it.

I'm enjoying it a lot.

Vampire survivors is something I just saw, tried and got addicted to. It's a good time sink if you're bored, music's stellar, visuals are just quality after being deceptively basic. It's also nigh endlessly replayable, with variations on the basic theme via levels, different power ups, power up fusions, character changes, etc. Bonkers amount of content for what is an exceedingly simple premise.

 

[dwwaino]

Tainted Grail - This looks promising. Very Elder Scrolls-esque. 3.5h in though and I reckon 3.4h of that has been talking to NPC's, haha. Lot's and lot's of talking so far.

Sorry to necro quote but how far did you get? Just picked up a quest in the second region and if it wasn't obvious enough to me earlier then it definitely is now. That's the taste in music of the developers.

The quest I just picked up was Call of the Wintermoon. Just finished a quest called VVorld VVithout End which should have been a give away with that exact spelling. Currently sitting on a main quest called Apocalypticists. There was an earlier quests called Age of Excuse. This prompted me to search and sure enough there are others I didn't pick up at the time like Dead Congregation and The Baneful Choir.

 

[Ed_Gein]

Sorry to necro quote but how far did you get? Just picked up a quest in the second region and if it wasn't obvious enough to me earlier then it definitely is now. That's the taste in music of the developers.

The quest I just picked up was Call of the Wintermoon. Just finished a quest called VVorld VVithout End which should have been a give away with that exact spelling. Currently sitting on a main quest called Apocalypticists. There was an earlier quests called Age of Excuse. This prompted me to search and sure enough there are others I didn't pick up at the time like Dead Congregation and The Baneful Choir.

Finished it including DLC after about 75h. Think I must've mentioned the music taste of the developers somewhere - must've been on revelationofdoom. But yeah, you got most of them I think. There's 'Dead as Dreams' after Weakling and 'Deiform' after Funeral Mist, and a region in the DLC called Ulcerate. Mini-boss characters called Abigor, Beherit... might be a few others but can't remember them!

The main developer is a huge Deathspell Omega nerd apparently!

 

[dwwaino]

Finished it including DLC after about 75h. Think I must've mentioned the music taste of the developers somewhere - must've been on revelationofdoom. But yeah, you got most of them I think. There's 'Dead as Dreams' after Weakling and 'Deiform' after Funeral Mist, and a region in the DLC called Ulcerate. Mini-boss characters called Abigor, Beherit... might be a few others but can't remember them!

The main developer is a huge Deathspell Omega nerd apparently!

Oh yeah, Abigor! I fought him early and was like "cool name, must be a coincidence". Will have to keep an eye out for Beherit. Just Googled it and saw heaps more like Exercises in Futility. I'll stop though because looking up quest names is starting to give spoilers.

 

[Ed_Gein]

Oh yeah, Abigor! I fought him early and was like "cool name, must be a coincidence". Will have to keep an eye out for Beherit. Just Googled it and saw heaps more like Exercises in Futility. I'll stop though because looking up quest names is starting to give spoilers.

How did you go against Abigor? Tough, eh? Had to come back to those mini-bosses a fair bit later into the game, haha.

 

[dwwaino]

How did you go against Abigor? Tough, eh? Had to come back to those mini-bosses a fair bit later into the game, haha.

I came back after I learnt you couldn't just face tank everything. I'm playing a 2h warrior build and just chipped away at him by doing heavy blows then dashing away and kiting. I'm still wearing his armour because it looks cool.

 

[dwwaino]

How did you go against Abigor? Tough, eh? Had to come back to those mini-bosses a fair bit later into the game, haha.

Found Beherit. He was a push over compared to Abigor. Just got the quest Lost in the Liminal (Kriegsmaschine). I'll be here all day if I start noting every black metal reference. Devs are obviously heavily into it. Polish developer too so that definitely checks out.

 

[AFDogs]

Marathon is great fun with friends. My first time playing an extraction looter shooter. Such an addictive gameplay loop.

I might drop KCD 2. I don't think it's for me. An incredibly frustrating game.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

I still have 2 Atari Lynxes somewhere. An original and the second version.

My wife still has an OG Lynx as well. It sporadically works.

Her parents were sweet talked into it by a salesman back in the day who convinced them it would be more successful than the Gameboy. Bet he was laughing that he was able to clear out the last of his stock. But it's a cool machine.

My 64GB memory card and memory stick duo adaptor for my PSP arrived yesterday, so my next task is to load it up with games and test out what it can do modded. Looking forward to it. Love the PSP, was quite the machine when it was new so it'll be fun to give it a new lease on life!

 

[Xtreme]

My wife still has an OG Lynx as well. It sporadically works.

Her parents were sweet talked into it by a salesman back in the day who convinced them it would be more successful than the Gameboy. Bet he was laughing that he was able to clear out the last of his stock. But it's a cool machine.

My 64GB memory card and memory stick duo adaptor for my PSP arrived yesterday, so my next task is to load it up with games and test out what it can do modded. Looking forward to it. Love the PSP, was quite the machine when it was new so it'll be fun to give it a new lease on life!

PSP was a great tablet before tablets became the in thing. I had many a movie and mp3 file saved on the memory cards.

 

[Gralin]

Vampire survivors, Avowed and Clair Obscura.

Got Clair Obscura first, did it until

Spoiler

I beat the Paintress and revealed the whole thing was a painting, then did a bit of exploring and haven't picked it up again since. Got a bit frustrated at having supposedly beaten the creator of the world then dying to mob fights.

Got Avowed on PS5 release, and while the combat is more RPG than action and more Kingdoms of Amalur than Elder Scrolls - you have a similar three class levelup to Amalur, and if your numbers aren't there you can't skill or game knowledge through it like you could an Elder Scrolls game - it's pretty to look at and genuinely enjoyable. It's also not a sole adventurer thing, either; you accumulate party companions who travel with you, with a faintly Mass Effect kind of feel to it.

I'm enjoying it a lot.

Vampire survivors is something I just saw, tried and got addicted to. It's a good time sink if you're bored, music's stellar, visuals are just quality after being deceptively basic. It's also nigh endlessly replayable, with variations on the basic theme via levels, different power ups, power up fusions, character changes, etc. Bonkers amount of content for what is an exceedingly simple premise.

Vampire survivors is a lot of fun

re Clair Obscura and act three

Spoiler

its a bit of a mess in that there is serious end game content there that is past the end of act 3 that you have access to straight away. I went and did a bunch of it before the main story missions in act 3 and it made the actual final encounter trivial, like i was one shotting final boss phases. the end of the story is not the end of the game in that sense.

the third act kind of turns a few things you thought up to that point on its head, it is worth completing the story I think, and i enjoyed quite a few of the very late game areas that are sort of all post game optional

 

[GoldbergsGold]

Almost finished Ape Escape 1 on Duckstation emulator. Controls and camera are horrible but it's so addictive, incredibly inventive platformer with all the gadgets you can mess around with.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

WWE 2k26, having good fun with it.

 

[Xtreme]

WWE 2k26, having good fun with it.

As tempted as I am I'll probably wait until the Dec/Jan sales and buy it for under $20.

I paid near full price for the nWo edition of 2K22, I enjoyed it.... but I was dirty when they reduced the price not even 2 months after launch.

I wasn't going to get 2K23, but I got it on pc for $13. Enjoyed it enough that J did similar weeks later and got the ps5 version too. Did the same thing for 2K24 at a similar sale price (both pc.. from memory 2k24 was a ps+ title, don't recall buying it) and again with 2k25.

I've enjoyed the THQ/2K series over the years. But I wish they'd get a whole new engine instead of the cut/paste job they've been doing (there are some elements of the original Smackdown title still there!!). Reminds me alot of NBA 2K, yes the graphics have been beefed up over 20 years, but I can still see the roboticness of the animations that existed in 2K6 in the later instalments.

The last few WWE games have looked even better on pc (and that's with 23/24 being based off of the ps4/xbo versions). Crank up thr graphics and O M G.

 

[OhhhhhCyril]

Unrelated but Jeff Kaplan interview on Lex Friedman podcast well well worth a watch / listen if your a keen gamer.

Note it’s 5hrs long.. so watch it in bits

 

[Quivorir]

Thomas and Friends: Wonders of Sodor

 

[dwwaino]

Thomas and Friends: Wonders of Sodor

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

As tempted as I am I'll probably wait until the Dec/Jan sales and buy it for under $20.

I paid near full price for the nWo edition of 2K22, I enjoyed it.... but I was dirty when they reduced the price not even 2 months after launch.

I wasn't going to get 2K23, but I got it on pc for $13. Enjoyed it enough that J did similar weeks later and got the ps5 version too. Did the same thing for 2K24 at a similar sale price (both pc.. from memory 2k24 was a ps+ title, don't recall buying it) and again with 2k25.

I've enjoyed the THQ/2K series over the years. But I wish they'd get a whole new engine instead of the cut/paste job they've been doing (there are some elements of the original Smackdown title still there!!). Reminds me alot of NBA 2K, yes the graphics have been beefed up over 20 years, but I can still see the roboticness of the animations that existed in 2K6 in the later instalments.

The last few WWE games have looked even better on pc (and that's with 23/24 being based off of the ps4/xbo versions). Crank up thr graphics and O M G.

Last one I played was 2k23 on the pc, before that hadn’t played a WWE 2k game, loved all the SD vs RAW games though.

This one’s got some good modes, I’m getting my ass kicked regularly though, bit to learn.