It’s been a while since I last posted but after a while I decided to come back and post! Anyways, what have you all been playing lately? I’ve gotten into Fallout 4 (sucks that they got rid of the mods and 99.9% of creation club) and Nba 2k26, I know that it’s the same game every year but I buy it once every 5 years and just try to get a kick out of beating the Dallas Mavericks (owned by Miriam Adleson)
At the risk of being stereotypical, I’m playing Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. I just recently finished setting up oil industry and rail for exporting fuel, alcohol, and food. The alcohol is only for export and no-one is addicted. I’m determined to achieve self-sufficiency and am working on the steel industry next!
I’ve also reinstalled Morrowind with a monstrous Vanilla-Extended Mod Pack from the Open Morrowind Modding community and spent last night sleepily clicking my way through 440 mod downloads. I’ve succeeded, and am now slightly terrified of the monster I’ve created.
As a Yugopnikite, I’m a lil upset that the alcohol is only for export lol
I tried playing it but got stuck at setting up coal mines or whatever, it was my first game in the genre and apparently it’s fairly complicated so not a great place to start
It’s definitely both very complex, with layered mechanics, and also honestly things aren’t always well explained in game. I have a lot of time in it and I still run into new systems that I can’t get to work without looking through answers from other players and guides etc. I find it rewarding now that I can make sense of it and understand a lot of the core systems, but it took a while to get there and I also didn’t play the game for a long time after buying it because trying to build something for the first time is like hitting a brick wall.
But, if you’re interested in more accessible city builders, I can recommend a couple - try out frostpunk, the original one, great vibes and music and it’s generally much easier to pick it up while still having lots of room to optimize.
For something completely different, Per Aspera let’s you terraform mars as an AI and make narrative choices while building huge systems of industry and extraction across the whole planet. Very satisfying although be warned that it’s impossible to make nice and neat cities because of the way its road building and placement works.
WHO UP MEWIN THEY GENICS
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Started playing Rocket League last week, been fun but damn theres a lot to learn
Got back to playing Tetris, been grinding Lioden and i basically play star stable on a daily basis (not a good game dont recommend it at all💀)
Nice! I used to play quite a bit of Rocket League w my friend. There’s a certain boost animation you can use that looks like C💧M spraying, it’s especially funny after you win a match, when they show the winners, to spin around and start hitting the boost button. People get so mad about it😂😂
Eu4, Conquerors Blade and Menace.
Glad to see EU4 enjoyers staying strong on the grad. Give it a week and we’ll surpass eu5’s player numbers.
Still the best paradox game 13 years running
Eu5 is very much not there yet. Maybe in a year it’ll be decent.
Meanwhile there are so many Eu4 mods to binge…
Not to be a downer, but well… was playing guild wars 2. Then they fucked it up so badly, I don’t want to deal with it anymore. So I’m getting back into reading and fiction writing, and trying to move away from my list of hobbies being so dependent on video games. Been burned too many times…
Wonderful medium when it works, just… fucking capitalism, god.
I booted up the powkiddy again last night and found this GBA game called Magical Vacation. RPG type that starts off in the thick of it but it’s chill. Looks gorgeous too, the GBA was capable of some pretty good graphics if you were able to put in the effort. There were even proto-3D games.
(looks even nicer animated)
The technical limitations meant you had to be pretty creative and frankly why did we ever move past this era of gaming? (spoiler: it’s because even back then we were excited for more realistic graphics). Wonder how long a GBA game can be in terms of gameplay considering the limitation, will know if I ever finish that one lol.
also replayed half life 1, forgot how confusing and frustrating that game could get sometimes but it doesn’t go too far for a game of that era. Part of the fun was definitely running around at mach speed so adding puzzles and other blockers kinda felt like a miss. But I also remember playing it as a kid that I couldn’t wait for more realistic graphics to come so we wouldn’t have the 2D health station texture but actual depth lol.
Still on Silksong, but school has me beat tbh and it’s hard to focus on it
Edit: That and the og baldurs gate
i was playing recently call of cthulhu, now i’m in the need of worshipping our ancient lord and bringing forth unspeakable horrors to this neoliberal world
i’m playing too this game of ghost of tsushima: a ronin who has to fight against the ideals imposed by their reactionary ancestors to save the people
Fortnight and Clair Obscure (finally). I’m at the first real Renoir battle, and I’ve already lost ten times or so on normal difficulty.
Yesterday, it was Half-Life 3.
Conan Exiles, Mount & Blade: Warband, and Cyberpunk 2077
I’ve been playing MotionRec, it’s a pretty clever puzzler.
sounds interesting
Disco Elysium lol.
I keep coming across your username here lately, and I get so confused for a second every time
Oh my gosh haha I had no idea. Sorry for inadvertently stealing your username.
Haha they say great minds think alike! It seems like a huge coincidence with the number of people here.
I’m tyring to unify China under the chairman Mao in the new DLC of HOI4. It’s been 20 hours still can’t unify China yet. Sometimes, I think that how chairman Mao managed to do it irl. Respect to him.
Has Taiwan been secured yet?
Last night, I beat Japanese invaders and liberated Burma, Vietnam and took Katayama’s revenge by installing JPC in power in Japan. Helped to defeat Nazis. Took back Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau back. Finally, comrade Mao might rest in peace.
I’m about to try Through the Darkest of Times because I’m preparing a second academic paper on videogames, arts and politics.
As far as I know, you have to organise antifas from different walks of life and tendencies in Nazi Germany. Don’t wanna know too much because I need to elaborate hypothesis before actually playing it. Then the gaming + analysis will begin.
