Persona 2 Innocent Sin (PSP version). Compared to P1, the story has a lot more of the contemporary Persona beats and holds up surprisingly well.
Vintage Story. Same as every week. I’m sure I’ll burn myself out eventually, but there’s no sign of that yet.
Trying to force my way through the last few quests of Final Fantasy XVI. This has been my first FF since the PS2 era and wow… what a let down. It stinks of design by committee. I also started Final Fantasy IX again the other day to see if I’m just being an out of touch old person and no… that game is absolutely magical. Modern FF really is that bad.
FF16 was such a weird one, they tried so hard to make something that appealed to the western audience that it barely has anything to do with Final Fantasy. It’s wannabe game of thrones with wannabe devil may cry combat. Square have no idea where to take this series. That said Final Fantasy 7 Remake is solid and you should’ve gone with that imo.
ff9 is destroying my adhd by the time i get to disc 3
I’ve never gotten through it all but damnit, retroarch cloud saves is making it easier to focus on one game
Brotato. It’s always Brotato eventually
Replaying the Ratchet and Clank PS2 quadrilogy. On Deadlocked now. Some of humour is a little dated and falls flat in places, but the gameplay itself holds up well.
After finishing Syberia 3, I’ve moved on to The World Before. It’s so much better! It could do with more puzzles, but the Syberia atmosphere is back. The story also seems better so far, and the graphics are gorgeous. Controls are also hugely better.
I’m going to play some Steamworld Build because a kind Lemming gifted me a key :) I played it years ago on a different platform, but it was early and had a lot of bugs iirc. I heard it got better.
I also got Portal 2 on sale for 2€. Good times.
Portal 2 is so good. The co-op is amazing as well.
I’m playing Starsector with some difficulty mods. Looking forward to the upcoming “Extended mode” which is supposed to make the game require more more logistical planning as well as making ships harder to come by.
Sworn. Decent Hades clone with multiplayer. It’s been fun to play with friends and it’s on sale right now on steam.
Rotating between Mary Skelter Finale and Final Fantasy X-2 Last Mission.
For Mary Skelter, I was curious how to story would end, specially the previous two games being on the higher end of story quality for Idea Factory (bar’s not very high but still work well). So far it’s good, though gameplay feels more streamlined than the previous two games, likely given the multiple points of view mechanic not given much space for individual gimmicks.
For Last Mission, tbf I started playing as a pure test when I found a backup of my PS3 disc sitting on the PS3’s HDD, and I was concerned it could have been corrupted (old HDD and all that). As I kept playing after confirming the disc works, to my surprise, the game is being more fun than I remembered, and for sure more imo than FFX-2 itself. However, it’s a game that expects the player to lose a lot, being somewhere between roguelike and roguelite, and proceeding certain floors requiring
a bit of moon logictesting randomly or following a guide. Also samurai job with white mage (for curaga/esuna) and alchemist (for item esuna) as secondary jobs ftw! Confuseproof is a good call too (personal experience saying e.e"), and remember to merge whatever job spheres you find for your primary one, so you become a walking tank.Things didn’t really improve on my side so a focused playthrough of anything in particular is still a no-go, I did however manage to fix my issue with Division 2.
For some reason, installing Ubisoft Connect through Lutris makes it only work with specific setup and specific version of Proton (GE-Proton 9.27) - that however no longer works correctly with TD2. The app itself launched fine but the game wouldn’t run due to issue with Easy Anti-Cheat not booting. At the same time, changing WINE version failed to launch UC in the first place so I couldn’t even check if it would help with the game.
What was the solution then? Just install UC through the Heroic Launcher, that’s it.
I’m now using GE-Proton 11.1 and the game runs without any issues. I spent so much time trying to make things work as usual and it turned out the solution was this simple. Ehh… At least it works. Mindless slaughter it is (for now)!
Mostly Skyrim but also playing enshrouded with some friends
Playing through Subnautica and having fun with it. I just completed the Seamoth last night so I can delve into the deepest depths of the ocean.
I wish I could play it for the first time again, it impacted me a lot and I consider it one of the best games of the past decade.
I wish I was brave enough to keep playing. Even at 720p docked on the Switch I was just too stressed out all the time. The low rendering distance didn’t help, I’ll admit. Beautiful world though
It coincides with real life really well right now because my wife and I started snorkeling recently and it’s been a nice disconnect.
Playing through the Titanfall 2 campaign. It’s quite cool so far. The campaign is about 6 hours. Awesome movement.
Replayed Blasphemous and Blasphemous 2 for the fourth time since Blasphemous 2 just got a pretty good “legally distinct Castlevania” DLC for free recently.
Blasphemous 2 is still pretty far up on the list of greatest metroidvanias and can be had pretty cheap these days.
