Expedition 33. One of the few games that lives up to the hype. Lots of fun. Can definitely see its influences from final fantasy, persona, lost odyssey, xenoblades, etc. Give me more story heavy rpgs. This is my shit.

been playing some MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED BATTLE DESTINY REMASTERED (the caps are very important), it's the first time the (pretty good) gundam seed game from the vita has been in english, saving you switching between the game and a menu translation
don't recommend unless you have seen seed/seed destiny at least, as it tells you barely anything about the story or the characters lol

Playing twilight princess on the wii, damn this version is silly. Just doing a little wiggle to fight; whereas the mechanics are fleshed out in skyward sword, but I am determined to beat it with the wii controller. This game is highly symbolic of my teenage years when I used to play it all the time, back when I convinced a stranger online to buy it for me on the gamecube (I have since lost that version 😔)

I've been taking another shot at Rogue Trader these last couple weeks. Game is really quite good. Previously I had tried it around when it came out and got hard stuck at the chapter 1 boss fight. I don't know if I just have better builds and comp this time or if the updates since then have made it better, but I managed to get into chapter two now and I'm loving it. The game really does a good job of portraying the strict and monstrous hierarchy of the setting. I know it's not Owlcat's first rodeo having a very powerful and important player character, but they are still very good at it. Makes me quite curious about their next 40k crpg where my understanding is you'll play as more of a nobody.

The game seems to be fucking massive in both length and in scope, which is a double-edged sword - it's real nice to spend a lot of time in the setting, get to know all the characters, and go on all sorts of adventures, trying all kinds of shit out, but it can also be pretty fatiguing to be presented with yet another set of decisions to make for your ship or your domain or simply leveling up a dozen characters yet again. Still, I'm glad that someone is doing that sort of thing even if the execution is uneven.

The art direction, but especially the music are great, and the writing is generally skillful. There's a lot of intrigue in the squishiness at the edges of Imperial authority, particularly with a rogue trader involved, and the plots and prose do well in that space. The vocal performance range from adequate to relatively inspired, although it is limited to particular dialogues.

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Besides that I have been playing some Darktide, as I am in the grip of 40k. Game is still a solid horde shooter with good action and well-designed missions - it just got some new ones that shake up the format a little too, which is fun. The big improvement from when I played it a year or so ago though is in the gear and character progression, which seem to have been revamped into a much freer and less rng format. For me the game is definitely a casual romp, and I think is performs that role excellently. It's tremendous fun to explode ogryn heads or cleave through waves of heretics with a big fuck-off sword while trying to avoid getting tackled by mutants. My understanding is that the game has a pretty high difficulty ceiling, if you're into that sort of thing though.

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I have booted up Space Marine 2, but it crashed my graphics card when I lost the tutorial boss fight so I haven't tried it again. I'm less into the space marines than a lot of other aspects of the setting, but I'll probably give it another go at some point. I do like the Tyranids at least.

Well, I was working on my Dark Urge Honor Mode run in BG3, but I just fucking died thanks to Lae'zel aggroing a Githyanki patrol after failing a persuasion roll. Next time I'm going through the damned goblin camp path.

Edit: Welp, back on the damn horse I guess

I am back at Planetside 2 after a 5 year break.

I started Warframe 3 weeks ago and I've been glued to it since. Send help

Honestly after sinking far too much time into Destiny 2 before dropping it last year, it's been refreshing to finally get into a somewhat similar game that feels like it genuinely respects the players and isn't built purely to drive engagement and lifetime commitment with FOMO and predatory monetization.

Been replaying GTA V with my spouse. They never played it and we’ve both been enjoying it, it holds up really well.

Unfortunately Enhanced edition crashes all the fucking time and I can’t find a solution aside from running the game in safe mode

still putting a lot of time into bg3, slowed the exploration pace down because it’s all new act 3 stuff now, didn’t get this far in my last playthrough attempt, I’m also trying to equip everyone in camp with relatively up to date gear so they’re ready for when their story arcs come up, hoping to finish the game by the end of the holiday break but we’ll see how it goes, I feel like I’m 20-25% done with act 3, it’s really been a lot of fun overall, I have a core 3 party and then rotate the 4th spot between a few companions as the frontline person, always ward them too, it’s making me want to try bg1 and 2 after, I played the icewind dale games back in the day, and planescape, but never got far in bg

Picked up Hollow Knight for real after putting it off all this time, and now hearing about Silksong nonstop lately. Really fantastic game. Difficulty is for real, but it feels pretty fair. Just got the dream-nail and am hunting for essences, so I think I've still got a lot to go.

Biggest mistake was picking it up on switch, just because it turns out to be where my kid wants to play all their games too, so finding time to play has been tricky.

Foxhole. I've been contributing to the effort to keep Kalokai alive as our last stand the past couple of days (in Charlie shard) but alas their frigates remained unchallenged and kept bombarding all our defences with ease. (Un)fortunately didn't get to see the defeat screen, they actually managed to briefly capture the Baccae Ridge town base, but a few minutes before that someone destroyed one of their unguarded base in a completely different region, giving us enough to recapture and denying them the win. The highlight was definitely franticly hammering inside the base with 20 people as 2 frigates bombard us. Already anticipating the next war to see what the early game is like.

I've been going back through Celeste, I want to get into the core. I've unlocked enough B sides I just need to beat them. And getting more strawberries because I think 100%ing it would be cool.

Also playing some dispatch, end of episode 4. Feeling a bit bored with the part of the game you actually dispatch your heros and stuff, just very repetitive imo. Getting better at it but I hope they do something to shake up that part of gameplay more. The story is still interesting to me though.

Timberborn has me right now. Turns out those ziplines not only speed up my beavers, but also greatly increases travel distance. They are basically trains :train-shining: and my Factorio neuron activated :neuron-activation: I'm now building out my inter-colony zipline network. However I'm starting to burn myself out and probably should switch to one of my other in-flight games. Maybe this is the call to get back on my Mass Effect 1 save.

finished vanquish (great game, too bad i didn't start to get how to effectively use the sliding until the end lol 🤷‍♀️), gave up on heartworm (beautiful visuals and soundtrack but the 2nd area was just so badly designed while not adding any interesting challenge from the 1st area, it ruined the whole game for me 🙃)

i've been playing dead space 2 now. it's a solid improvement over the first one; i remember playing the original back when it came out and really liking it, but i replayed it again a few years ago and it was kind of boring. i'll acknowledge that it had some good ideas for its time like the diegetic UI but it was so repetitive and pretty much felt like a demo that went on for too long. dead space 2 feels like a fully actualized game with distinct levels and though the story as far as i've played doesn't seem like anything special compared to other games, at least it's more than ds1 where every level is like "go here to press this button, then go there to press that button, then go to level end". also some neat environmental storytelling, nothing groundbreaking for 2025 but it holds up.

i've also been playing sorry, we're closed, a survival "horror" (it's not that scary) game where you're a gay human trying to break free from the curse of a gay demon with the help of gay angels and demons. i like the combat so far, it's like a unique take on tactical FPS combined with the puzzle solving of survival horror. but idk about the roleplaying story aspects, maybe this type of shit is just not for me lol, i can sense what the story is saying about the theme of love but i just do not give a shit about the romance subplots. though most of them being blah might be part of the theme 🤔 but also my read on it might be influenced by personal bias 🤷‍♀️. if you're an lgbt+ leftist you will probably like this game, so at least try the demo!

tbh above all my favorite thing about sorry, we're closed is how they use songs with lyrics for the bossfights, which is rare in games, while the rest of the soundtrack is purely instrumental. that one small but unique difference enhances the gravity of those moments. and also they made something that runs at like 60fps on my shitty integrated GPU computer. most unity games with a similar visual style don't run as well, and i'm pretty sure it's because they use too much dynamic lighting and shit like that, which is not only unnecessary for the retro look, but detracts from it.

if you made it this far thank u for reading my glog (gaming blog)!

I finally solo'd a boss in Nightreign. I've been playing Executor solo to practice with him because I like the parrying. God it's hard when you're not a sweaty Souls nerd

The only game I've really gotten into all year has been Total War Warhammer, which I just keep playing for reasons that are beyond me. They redid the vikings completely, so I'm playing as the viking guy, Wulfrick, (I am not buying any DLC until it's for sale, I am broke) but he has a lot of very obvious gaps in the roster where DLC units are supposed to go.
They have a whole "Oh shit prove how dope you are with all these huge monster fights" thing going on and a bunch of mechanics are built around you recruiting these monsters, but each individual monster takes like 15 turns (And you can only start doing it on turn 8) to recruit and the game is basically over by turn 50. Also they're trying to tempt me into building altars to chaos to get access to the basic unupgraded infantry of another faction. But teleporting across the world beating people into submission and erecting statues of blood and sex gods in their capitals and then teleporting away once I get bored of fighting one type of enemy is fun.

Continuing my Total War: Three Kingdoms game from last week, here is some border gore. The game doesn't even let you zoom out far enough to see the whole map. .

As you can see, my previous vassal, the Kingdom of Yan, declared independence as soon as it was convenient for them. Looters are tearing apart their territory as the people are tired of taking L's. I am mopping up pockets of resistance in the northwest with Han Sui almost gone, as well as Xie Yingxiu, Shi Xie, and the Kingdom of Nanhai.

Gong Du and Lady Wu have been my only consistent allies through the entire game, as I was much much earlier betrayed by Liu Bei. Never trust Shu. The Han Empire has reformed after some rebellions in Gong Du's territory because he was under constant siege from Wei and couldn't keep public order under control. They like me because I still have the boy emperor in my possession.

Cao Pi inherited the Kingdom of Wei after I spent about 15 turns trapping and baiting Cao Cao into a fatal battle around Poyang. I considered letting him live to see the fall of his kingdom, since he didn't get to do that irl, but he took way too much of my time to catch and was arrogant to think he could so easily destroy the spirit of our tribe.

I have a limited pool of generals left because, well... Nobody is willing to join me since I've pissed off 7 generations of families across the land. I execute every single general I capture and have been for a while. Surprisingly, Zhang Fei did join me after I executed Liu Bei and Guan Yu several years ago. This is why Gong Du is so happy with me.

Instead, I have to rely on my family, which is steadily growing and becoming truly multicultural, as I keep making the few Han generals I do have marry my children.

I expect it will still take a while longer to finish the campaign, but it helps that I have finally broken through the Hangu Pass, which was an impenetrable enemy stronghold for about 30 turns. Every time I took it, 3 more armies rushed over from Luoyang to take it back again, and so back and forth we went until my southern campaigns took enough of their forces away for us to break them.

i played a bit of nubbys number factory with goblin tony and won

i have mostly play as Throgg in the new total warhammer 3 update, he can now lead a monster horde of trolls and its been pretty fun, the game doesnt detect kislev as occupied so i had to farm wins from the last kislev faction to get the unique tech, since the skaven wanted to kill kislev i had to declared war on them so my reputation tanked but thats ok since im rank 1 power, im only one level away from the final troll kingdom level which will give alll my armies 1 full troll army reinforments

its super fun, i will definetly get the sayl dlc to add more norsca units later

i just tried workers and resources only to discover the factory genre just isn't for me. i wanted to create a communist utopia! oh well, back to tropico/farthest frontier

Warframe continues, as per usual. Down to only 3 Kuva weapons that need more forma now.

Got back into Total Warhammer 3, finished my Valkia campaign which was very easy, then started a Zhao Ming campaign but the new DLC came out and killed my mods so I started a Greasus campaign and ogres are interesting. Gnoblars seem kind of superfluous when ogres are so cheap, but I'm still not sure of how best to use camps.

Also picked up Megabonk, it's alright as far as survivors-likes go, and 3d is an interesting idea, but the lack of meta-progression, random RoR-style items, and limited content have me doubting it'll really hook me.

I watched a bunch of footage from Ed McMillens new game and now I’ve just been playing a bunch of Isaac while I wait for that to come out.

I'm back on Kerbal but this time I have Mechjeb to handle the parts I'm bad at, like flying rockets. Now I can just plan missions and build a good rocket for them, and not worry that I'm going to tap "d" too many times during takeoff and slam into the ocean again.

Now I'm planning a Mun base near the Armstrong Memorial. I could just land my first hab with a lone scientist in it, but I want to get my whole crew xp for the landing so I'm making a big overcomplicated boondoggle that will launch both the habitat and return rocket into munar orbit, where they will detach and land near each other. Then everyone can get out and play in the mun dust before everyone except the scientist climbs into the return rocket.

I was watching someone play UFO 50 and that got me back into it, I’ve been trying to beat Valbrace and I think I’ll finally play Barbuta as well once I’m done with that. I’ve also been playing Final Fantasy VI again, last time I played it I was having a great time but ended up burning out a good ways into the game. I just started over and this time I’m gonna back up my save file when I get to the turning point so I can start from there if it happens again.

I have given up gaming. I have a screed, but shan't post due to the backlash it would cause as it shatters the myth of gaming itself.

Trying out Arc Raiders a bit, with some of my friends. Its alright so far. Dunno if ill stick with it though.

Just finished up Citizen Sleeper 2. Next game on the list is Skate Story, an allegorical Skateboarding game where you are a glass demon and you try to eat the moon .

Just started Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved