What are you playing?

[Althena]

Playing through Lunar: Remastered as I think you all know, Random Encounter has got me thoroughly addicted to Uncharted Waters Online and I'm still playing FFXIV. I'm kind of excited to do another playthrough of Assassin's Creed II for the stream, it's been a minute but it's nice to have something to look forward to.

[Mr Croft]

Update for likely the next month-ish: As always I dip into Total War:Warhammer 3 every now and then, working my way through Oblivion: Remastered and having a blast with my nostalgia doing side quests I completely forgot about. I'm waiting on some updates for Avowed before I get back on that one. I finished the first act and looked at the free update roadmap and they're going to release some QoL that will make me enjoy it a lot more, so just going to let that play out. I've started Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but I'm not quite sure how I feel about it yet. I love the story, the world is fantastic, but I'm not digging the combat myself. Was thinking I might take it down to the bottom difficulty and see how it is. Wondering if it's just a more JRPG style experience that still has a bit of difficulty to it, or if it just turns it into a walk in the park without the reactive combat dodge/parry stuffs.

However, my after work game right now is Monster Train 2. I typically don't have the bandwidth after work to do anything that requires me to pay too close attention, and the first game was definitely one of my go-to titles for when I'm tired but not ready to go to bed quite yet. I think it'll probably stick around for quite a bit, if its replayability is like the first one.

For ex33 if you are not liking the dodge or parry stuff i recommend lowering the difficulty for sure because it will play like an classic jrpg more. As you get stronger and get better pictos the raw stats get good enough for you to play that way even in normal. The combat seems to be what people dislike the most which is understandable.

[The Grimace]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3339780/Desktop_Survivors_98/

This game is absolutely addicting. It's gotta be one of the best 'Survivors' type games out there for its mouse-based movement during gameplay. Finding new powers is a blast and I see myself continuing to play this even after I finish all the achievements.

[Althena]

Enjoying my Lunar 2 remastered playthrough. I overall like the voice acting in Eternal Blue better, because Ghaleon was not as hammy in 2 so John Truitt isn't as missed (still love u bby) And I like Lucia's voice a lot better, but I miss PAIN.

[Selbaek]

I'm a little over 100 hours into Fantasy Life i, and I am still really digging the progression. I beat the main story long ago, but the post-game stuff has continued to be so captivating and fun to grind for.

[The Grimace]

At the end of Final Fantasy Tactics: the Ivalice Chronicles and intending to completely beat it tomorrow. I've got everything else in the game, including Deep Dungeon, complete. I do need to play through the newly translated Sound Novels, though!

I have a lot of games on my plate I want to play, but no time! The upcoming update to XIV has me playing a bit of that when I'm free too. I don't know if I can get all of the PVP rewards for this season or not, but I'm not going to stress it over much.

[Sarah Valentine]

At the end of Final Fantasy Tactics: the Ivalice Chronicles and intending to completely beat it tomorrow. I've got everything else in the game, including Deep Dungeon, complete. I do need to play through the newly translated Sound Novels, though!

I've been enjoying Rando's playthrough of it on stream. I played the original FFT when I was 19, hated the way the plot went, and carried a chip on my shoulder about it ever since. It's good to finally set the old grudge aside and see the game for what it really was - but graphically enhanced and with voice acting!

As for me, I played Outer Worlds 2 this week and I have to say I'm super disappointed. The main quest was stupidly short and left me with only 2 crewmates by endgame. The plot itself was a snoozefest I didn't give a shit about until the last minute, and only then because I realized the game was over already. It had some interesting things in it that are spoilery so I won't get into them, but for the most part it was a step back from Outer Worlds 1 in every way that mattered.

Like, sure there's no more carry weight limit, but what do we get in return? Even shittier weapon selection than the last game. Forgettable companions with paint-by-numbers loyalty quests which are blatantly incentivized by providing the upgrade modules that you can use to enhance crewmates. And the game isn't shy about letting you know when it's time to go do one of those!

In my entire run, the game made me sit up and pay attention ONE time. Just one. It's story related so I'll spoiler it here:

SPOILERWhen I confronted Augustine, I had Niles in my party. Augustine convinced me she was right, that the assassination needed to happen, and the rifts should be sealed before Auntie's Choice could get ahold of them. Niles took offense to this, and I was forced to kill him. There is literally one other game I've played that had this same concept in it, and it was Breath of Fire 4's bad ending. This was not a "bad ending", this was a story choice I was given some ways before the end that forever changed my party options. That, to me, was really well done.


In summary, I was excited to play it and it had its moments but was ultimately not only disappointing in and of itself but in some ways worse than its predecessor. 6/10.