Project Highrise - the unofficial sequel to SimTower
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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Whoa what? Going to find info on this!
Damn. 20 bucks is a little more than I'm willing to drop at the moment but I'm glad it's on gog!
Mad Max, a really cool and chill game and a no brainer for 2 bucks.
Picked up Cyberpunk 2077 on GOG sale, crashed only once(in abou 25h of gameplay) so I count is as good wait.
I picked up Nine Sols on the steam sale, so far it's solid
Same, I'm about 5 hours in. I love the feel of the parries.
Is your name a reference to Stormlight Archive's Odium? If so, happy release day eve!
It is indeed.
Time to not have any social life for the next month while I binge read.
Bridge Four!
I hope your namesake gets what's coming to him. The previews were an absolute wild ride.
No idea what you’re both talking about, but the exchange is cute!
Lmao so
It's a book series, their username is the name of the main antagonist of sorts...
Book 5, Wind and Truth, releases tomorrow, and this is akin to Infinity War/Endgame levels of "it's all coming together".
We're all super excited haha
I’ve also never seen Marvel stuff but fuck yeah, I hope Wind and Truth is amazing! :3
I'm so partial to buying the game but my backlog says no. Enjoy your cat ninja trip! I'll follow you in few years :)
Dark souls 3
Coming back after finishing Elden Ring, and I must say, the concise, "railroaded" world works much better for the FromSoft formula, IMO
No hate against ER, it's a great game. But it definitely drags on a bit long
Might be my favourite game of all time. It’s got tight competition but it’s definitely top 3
DS3 really nails that balance. Mostly linear but usually has some sort of side option if you need a break from your current wall of a boss. Playable end to end without devoting like 100 hours. It also comes after Bloodborne where From nailed down more fun active combat vs. relying on a shield, and before Elden Ring where they went hard on crazy delayed boss attacks.
These days DS3 is probably my favorite of the series overall.
I recently started Super Mario World: Return To Dinosaur Land, and it feels like a natural expansion pack to the original Super Mario World with new levels. I'll Learn 2 Kaizo someday. Also still poking at Super Street Fighter II Turbo and [email protected].
Automobilista 2
How 2 Escape with a friend (can recommend, not mindblowing but a good time), Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes with gf (pretty fun experience)
Solo I‘m bouncing around between games, but shoutout to NFS Unbound which I like less the more I play it lol
Even for 5 bucks, it‘s NFS Heat but worse in basically every aspect
I thought Unbound was marginally better than Heat but almost every character in the game is completely grating. We're running from the cops at 100mph, stop talking about your abusive childhood.
I don‘t know… the soundtrack, the presentation, the map, the car handling, the story (although I‘m already skipping cause I couldn‘t take it anymore), it all seems inferior to me. Although neither is a masterpiece, but Heat left a more competent impression on me.
Maybe the graphics are better which I‘d hope after all this time, but the goofy pedestrians take away from that as well. The police could be better as well, they were obnoxious in Heat and practically couldn‘t be shaken off without a ramp/jump.
Just picked up a game called Hellcard that is basically co-op Slay the Spire. It's a lot of fun and the look of the game is really unique, I think. I really love StS so being able to co-op basically the same thing is a ton of fun.
I also wanted to mention Fields of Mistria. I don't really like Stardew Valley very much, but this one is really pulling me in for whatever reason. It's still early access, but it's got a bunch of QoL improvements from Stardew and the characters are really fun.
Finally started Kingdom Come: Deliverance and I'm still very much in the "Learning to play, God this controls like a monkey on rollerblades with too many 'ludes in his system" level of skill...
But, aside from that, also playing Mutant Year Zero and Peglin.
Oh, God. I started Kingdom Come Deliverance a couple of years ago and spoke to a girl in the starting farm which, apparently, is how you trigger the DLC. I finished the whole thing thinking it was just a long mission and ended up with her becoming a badass only to be thrown back to the main game in the body of the useless kid and haven't touched it ever since.
Everspace 2
Been considering jumping back into this one. I absolutely hate it when loot-oriented RPGs make it easy to find gear with level requirements, and boy did Everspace 2 ever do that. I was finding stuff level +5 or higher. The inventory system made it even worse.
I don't know if there's a mod now or a change that eased up on this, but it was enough to push me out of the game when I tried it earlier in the year.
So far it's only like +1 level so they may have done some balance changes
Having a blast with Killing Floor 2 and Balatro.
Had a friend ask me if I was going to play Path of Exile 2 when it comes out, so I decided I should probably play the first one.
Graven
Star Citizen. Can't recommend it for anyone unless they're really really really patient.
Had some friends try to get me to play. Gave it a good 20 hours or so, spent most of it just trying to get anywhere. About a quarter of the time some random guy would zoom along and blow me up before he even showed up on radar, and now I was on a timer waiting for my ship to come back. Another 10% of the time I'd get sucked through my ship when I tried to use FTL, there goes another ship recovery timer.
The time consumption even when things go right is absolutely ridiculous, and they often go wrong. The random PK shit feels so fucking awful that I'd really rather just play something else.
I have played and enjoyed games that require patience, like Wurm Online and EVE Online. Star Citizen is on a level above even those and I'm not sure I would have liked it even before I had kids, but now? Forget it.
Just started Celeste. It’s hard because I suck at platformers but I love the music + art so much.
I love Celeste! I sucked at it too but still managed to beat it anyway. If I can do it, you can too. Have fun with it! It’s an awesome game
Abiotic Factor. It's like playing through the Black Mesa facility but as a survival game, something I never knew I wanted until I experienced it.
TerraFirmaGreg, I'm about to get the EBF which unlocks some materialsneedefd for MV.
Just started Hogwarts Legacy with my kids (they pick my decisions). I only play with them watching, so here's some other stuff I'm playing:
- Lair of the Clockwork God - probably 1/3 done
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - started around Halloween, probably 1/3 through
- Bombrush Cyberfunk - just got on Steam sale
- Mad Max - also got on Steam sale
I'll probably finish one of the first two in the next week or two, and the last two will probably be games I play off and on as the mood strikes. I also picked up some random games in a couple Fanatical deals (got the Leisure Suit Larry $1 deal, for example), so I might get distracted with some smaller games.
Anyway, this should last until the winter sale at least.