The usual Sunday megathread hasn’t been posted so I’m posting this instead 
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Bought Fursan Al-Aqsa: Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque a while ago on discount. Finished it last week.
For those who don’t know, it’s made by a Palestinian man that lives in Brazil. Got banned in the UK and EU after he added a “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” mission(basically october 7)
There are actually 2 games in it. One that’s already finished called “Classic” and one that’s currently being developed called “Remastered”. The classic plays a lot like early 2000s shooters like Delta Force. Expects you to go in carefully, conserve your resources and peak around corners and such. I like it a lot but it would probably be frustrating/feel outdated to people used to modern FPS. Contains classics like fighting on an Israeli “frigate” that looks like a WWII battleship, feed the captain to a giant shark with Palestinian flag painted on it before blowing the ship up. Or sneaking into the Iron Dome command center, rescuing Abu Obeida
before blowing the entire base up. Abu Obeida sacrificing himself to ensure the success of the mission.The remastered version plays more like shooting galleries with wall runs and regenerating health. Has less substance IMO except hilarious cutscenes straight out of Mortal Combat. Currently only has 4 levels and is in the middle of an engine upgrade, so who knows if it will ever be complete. The “update preview” shows a 3D render of Yahya Sinwar
, which is cool.Should only take about 7 hours to complete. With an all achievement completionist run taking 9-10.
Got Death Stranding 2 and completed the first couple of missions. The new elements with weather are pretty cool, really looking forward to how weird it’s gonna get. I shy away from big games like that these days because all my time is taken up by work, parenting, and party organizing, but I couldn’t stay away from Kojima and his madness.
I didn’t even realize it was out, I thought it had just been announced or something and it turns out it’s been out for a month already wtf
same… i guess because it’s not on Steam?
I also have started DS 2. If you see anything built by “Rest Chockwell” in the game, that’s me! I hope to connect with you and many more comrades.
Kojima’s fucking cooking.
Wife and I finished up bg3 over the weekend and then started Divinity Original Sin 2. Really enjoying the fact that it runs well on steam deck so we can take the game to the backyard and hang with the pets / smoke joints instead of being tied to a computer
I love my partner but playing bg3 with him has us at each others throats lmao. I want to role play but he wants to min/max and check under every rock.
DOS 2 fucking rocks. Really thought the story was going to be bog standard but I’ll be damned it throws some fucking curveballs here and there.
I started playing Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon. It’s like a slightly less polished (now, not at launch) Skyrim. Not quite as open world, since things are sectioned into 3 areas/acts but you can sequence break if you really wanna.
Its got very cool lore and vibes because its a dark Arthurian setting which I don’t think I’ve seen too much in video games. The game boots up with a Danish and Old Norse chant and a background of King Arthur on top of a pile of corpses.
Very unexpected but its got a lot of interesting tension between Kamelot, the prosperous kingdom, and the other lesser subjugated regions and indigenous tribes who had their lands stolen. Picts and other made up tribes of people get a lot of screen time and importance in the story so far.
There’s also an ongoing plague and wyrd myst that turns people into creatures.
The gameplay is not really that complex but its a lot more intense than something like Skyrim with parries and dodges.
Its also automatically a GOTY conteder because its one of like 5 games that let’s you dual wield shields and it isnt a meme. Theres talents that support it.
This is on the top of my wishlist currently but I’ve heard it could use a bit more time in the oven so I will pick it up later. It seems like my type of game so I’m looking forward to it.
Mario Maker. Please play my Mario Levels
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Still on Baldurs Gate 3
i got guild wars 2 waaaay back at launch, played it for a while, and just recently picked it back up after literally a decade of not touching it
the ui’s aged like complete fucking dogshit but other than that it’s good fun
I bought this on release after being a massive Guild Wars 1 fan. I have tried 5 or 6 times to get into it but I just can’t, it just isn’t guild wars to me.
The first time I absolutely hated it because I thought I was going to be playing a similar game just improved and updated and it is so different I couldn’t stand it. Since then I have tried to get into it with a more open mind knowing I wouldn’t be getting a game that plays the same as GW1 but it just never sticks for me and I find it boring within around 10 - 15 hours.
If they made a remastered GW1 I would buy that shit in a heartbeat, just no other MMO has hit the same for me :(
i played the first one enough that yeah, i get where you’re coming from. never seen anything else quite like it
I thought I was going to be playing a similar game just improved and updated and it is so different I couldn’t stand it.
Literaly me. I still consider it a far better MMO than WoW back then. Of course GW1 eventualy had its own issues too, but I was heavily invested in the GvG aspect. The competitive pvp along with the complexity of team + character building was truly unique.
I too hoped GW2 would be much closer to GW1 but instead GW2 is very much a complete pivot towards the more traditional MMO aspects, I was never a fan of the open world shit, GW1 wasn’t even an “MMO” to begin with(I’m sure you remember these talks even back then lol) and if I wanted open world shit I would have picked WoW or whatever clone.
Yet even though the MMO community generally likes GW2, I can’t judge, seems like a fine game on its own but its definitely very little to do with GW1.
A proper sequel to GW1 would be amazing but I’d hope its single player or even more instance restricted. So many good RPGs have scratched that character build depth since then and the PvP aspect, these days on the modern internet is just not appealing anymore.
I couldn’t agree more. I tried getting into WoW back then and remember it just didn’t compare to Guild Wars.
I loved the different builds you could make and then later on when they introduced heroes you got to play around with builds and their synergies with each other in a more in depth form. The whole thing is just unmatched in my eyes.
I can also never forget the in engine cut scenes which supplied some moments of gold like Rurik surveying the chart advance whilst staring at a wall that was twice his size as the character model couldn’t see over it.
Guild Wars 2 is just a generic MMO in the world of Guild Wars :(
I was never a huge Guildwars 1 guy but I gotta agree that at least (back in the day) It was the only MMO that had the “sauce” like WOW did for me.
I play a lot of Guild Wars 2. They just announced a new expansion, too.
I really appreciate that you can mostly just pick it up and go do stuff. Don’t need to make a formal group, don’t need to commit to a particular build. There’s not a gear grind. Some of the instanced end-game content people will want you to fulfill a particular kind of role (eg: dps, healing, various buffs) but mostly it’s very relaxed.
The wizard tower convergence was also good big content. 50 players killing demons across a few islands. Fun stuff.
Even though there’s not a gear grind, the optional "legendary equipment’ stuff is kind of fun. Makes it so all your characters can share a freely stat swappable, freely reskinnable, item. Like i made a legendary sword, and now all of my characters can just pop on a sword, set it to whatever stats, and go. It’s not mechanically better than a regular sword of the same level, but it’s mildly convenient.
i finally turned my pile of 12 year old mystic clovers into a Sunrise thanks to the wizard vault starter kit, I know it’s stupid as hell but it feels like I just tied up a loose thread in my life
I literally just re-installed GW2 after not touching it for like 5 years. I stand by that it’s one like one of 3 MMOs that actually have good movement mechanics, along with FFXIV and WoW. Everything else is jank.
Because it’s so fast paced though, I’ve never been able to get used to the combat. I used to raid mythics in WoW and am totally fine with tab targeting, but weapon swapping being part of your rotation just breaks my brain. So does needing to dodge attacks with actual dodges and not just stepping out of the way.
I always feel overwhelmed with how much stuff is on screen and that I’m supposed to pay attention to. I did find this website that tries to create things like low APM builds to accommodate different cognitive and physical abilities. Obviously these won’t let you blend in with the sweats, but it’s a good start if it helps anybody else.
funny enough weapon swapping fucks with me for a different reason, I spent so long maining the only two classes that can’t swap (engi/ele) that I routinely forget other classes can swap
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I definitely wish there was more situational use for different weapons and kits instead of “just keep literally everything except cc on cooldown”
I want to play the new games I got but I’m too tired after work to learn so I just keep playing Warframe instead. I am shocked I haven’t burned out yet, I guess the weekly content is enough to keep me going for now.
Idk how people get up to speed with warframe. I played it during beta for a bit, then for a couple years until they introduced Rivens. Coming back after a long break to Plains, Eidolons, Arcanes, Venus, Deimos, Duviri, Sorties, Arena, Conclave, Index, etc. I’m so lost these days lol
- Plains, Fortuna, Deimos - max out faction rep then buy their equipment if it looks fun.
- Eidolons - don’t bother
- Arcanes - worry about them later, when you get to Cavia you can buy booster packs by melting dupes. And sometimes you can get them easily during events
- Duviri - get incarnon adapters in steel path or warframe parts without RNG in normal
- Sorties - skip if spy or radiation
- Arena, conclave - don’t bother
- Index - if you need credits
Try to prioritize unlocking steel path and finding a load out that works there so you can start accumulating resources faster.
Imo SP isn’t that important. If you just play the game normally you’ll have a massive surplus of most resources excluding edge-cases like tellurium, hexenon, and mutagen samples (if going for hema). Faster faction rep is nice, but you’re also capped anyway, and ime the SP bounties in the open worlds are so much slower until you really take off that it’s not even usually worth it (disregarding entirely that randos in public lobbies will generally do a much worse job). Acolyte arcanes and more arcane adaptors are nice, as are incarnon adapters, but you can easily get by even late-game with more easily accessible ones like the Laetum.
true, the SP bounties aren’t worth it (except in 1999 i think). still best to SP everything else you can just because having tons of steel essence and duplicate arcanes to melt is never going to be something you regret.
Yeaaaaaaaaaah I can see it, I quit shortly after Fortuna came out so none of the modes were too far out there from what I knew at the time. I mostly just went through the quests and looked up where to get the new warframes on the wiki, then would engage with that content until I got the frame which was usually enough to become passably familiar with it. In a way, it’s nice that the content drops are so siloed off because it means you can go do all of the eg Railjack content and can just focus on that until you’re done.
On the other hand, if you wanted to get caught up so you could actually play the newest event that was active until like a week ago, it meant doing like 20 hours of narrative quests in a row.
What’s there to do if you filled your account’s capacity to carry characters? I maxed out those I have, with a couple ready but kept in a forge due to the lack of space. It seems without any option to buy more space I’m stuck. Is it possible to get over it grinding/selling in-game stuff?
Yeah, you can buy more frame slots for 20 platinum each, and you can trade things to other players for platinum. The main things people trade are prime parts (from void relics, typically go from between 2-10p), rare mods (like those from orokin derelict vaults, nightmare mode missions, or just rare or inconvenient mods, like Bite (1/15,000 chance to drop from any animal enemy, goes for 65p) or Rime Rounds (a reward from Spy missions, which most people don’t like, goes for 30p)), and riven mods.
Riven mods are total random chance, in that most of them are near-worthless unless you roll really good stats, but for certain popular weapons, even absolute garbo rivens can be worth 100+ platinum. A few weeks ago I sold a Furis riven for 150p, for instance.
The website almost everybody uses to coordinate trading is warframe.market. It’s 3rd party and a little annoying to make an account, but I’ve made several thousand plat trading through it. You can also always go to trading hubs like Maroo’s Bazaar in-game or try to sell stuff in trade chat, but there are a lot of scammers who’ll try to rip you off there.
Also, if you do the weekly Nightwave battlepass objectives, there’s always 1 free warframe slot (and 2 free weapon slots) somewhere in the reward progression.
Thank you, I’m saving that.
Just started playing spec ops: the line, as I hear it’s a good plot with a subversive ending.
About an hour and a half in. Not been blown away so far - it really shows it’s age mechanically as a very uninteresting shooter with chest high walls everywhere.
It was mechanically uninteresting when it was new. It was about as cookie cutter as a 2000s/2010s shooter could be. It’s all about the meta commentary.
Yeah, I’m getting the impression the gameplay loop is a vehicle to tell the story/comment on the military shooter genre, not the other way round (the story being a vehicle for the gameplay loop). Which is more than fine , as I’m specifically here for meta commentary.
In a way the gameplay also serves the meta commentary, though I’m not sure if that could be attributable to intended design choices or just was a lack of vision/production.
Nevertheless, it’s a fine game and one you’ll probably remember specifically for the story and the way it’s presented.
I picked up the new DLC for Rimworld. Haven’t played it in ~6 years, so I had to relearn a lot of basic stuff, but now I’m having fun building my little gravship
Ive been playing an unhealthy amount of minecraft recently and ive been having loads of fun with it!
look at this goob
Been grinding away at my Hollow Knight achievements. Currently working on Steel Soul 100%. I doubt I’m ever going to get through all the Godhome content on my normal run—my old man fingies are just too slow, now.
I think I’m still suffering RSI from doing Godhome like 4 years ago.
Alone: replaying MGSV, Rimworld (with the new DLC, I’m about to hit 6k hours I think), and WH40k Rogue Trader.
With friends: WH40k Darktide, Ready or Not, and a bit of Arma Reforger. We’re probably going to start either a new Enshrouded run soon, or a new Baldur’s Gate run soon.
I’ve been having so much fun starting lost tribe start games in odyssey and collecting all the different animals and fishing. Haven’t touched a gravship lmao
I started on the gravship scenario intending to do a “what if” the dwarves from DRG decided to rebel against the company (which the empire stands in for).
About 7 years in and I’ve maxed out my ship (The Alerunner) and will probably look to settle down on an asteroid, build a mines of moria kind of deal but in space.
I think this DLC is nearly as good as ideology, depending on how much modders are able to use its systems it might become even better.
Oh nice haha thats a great role play
The Citizen Sleeper games have been great fun for me
Hell yeah, CS1 fucking rips, haven’t started CS2 yet.
Lies of P
Sick, I finished that recently. What build are you going with? I went with dex because I never play dex and it was HARD.
I also did a Dex build - mostly with the booster glaive handle. I’ve been enjoying the dragon sword at the end, though.
I’ve had a relatively easy time (though I’ve been using the boss buddy), with a few hiccups on some of the harder bosses. It seems like I’ve been under using the perfect guard now that I’m on the optional final boss, so I’ve been trying to retrain myself to not always dodge.
It’s a cool game, I’m probably going to snag the expansion and start a new game lol
