Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 9 of 2026)

[Cacher]

New week, new thread! What are you playing?

Vacation week so I had been playing a lot. Main dish was Marvel's Midnight Suns. Despite the solid battle mechanics, the game became quite repetitive after 15 hours. Always the same Hydra enemies / mission objectives with a main plot that barely progressed, it turned stale pretty fast. But the interactions between heroes are pretty good. Not great-written per se, but it's charming enough and I can totally see that fans of superheroes would enjoy all the interactions and personal stories.

Not sure if I will stick with it next week. Just installed Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure and hope that it will serve as a palate cleanser. We will see how things go.

 

[BO7AMMOOD]

I'm very close to being done with a "completionist" playthrough of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. I've somehow managed to enjoy most of my time with the game, but having started it in September of 2024, and after 540 hours of play time, I've long since been ready to move on.

Finally I can move on to another game out of the tons of cool looking games out there!

Oh what's that? Wario64 posted what?

 

[Ascheroth]

Called it quits on chinese-bondage28478. Outside of the writing, it was an ejoyable experience to play through. But without any writing hooks that make me want to get invested in this world and story and no confidence they'll improve in the short term (I looked into some differences between the betas and launch, and it all seems like a massive downwards trend as far as I'm concerned) I don't wanna do dailies for month just in case it gets better. Doesn't help that the dailies feel super annoying too. They technically don't take much time if you do the bare minimum, but are basically just a (cumbersome) menu simulator and if I've noticed one thing it's that I really have no patience for dailies of such kind.
It kinda makes me wanna play some Zachtronics stuff or Death Stranding instead, lol.

Played through (and am still playing) 4.0 of Star Rail instead . Good start. The story setup is straightforward but has a lot of potential for faction shenanigans, the writing has been fun and the new world is full of fun minigames too. Was really not a big fan of the last story patch, but I think I've said it before, a strength of these games is that even if they miss every now and then, it doesn't take long for something else to wash that away, and as long as they have a lot more hits then misses it's all good. Right now it's just a fun vibe.


Also picked up Expedition 33 again. Just got what looks to be the final party member? Who has a really fun skill system.

 

[DrShrapnel]

Still chipping away at God of War Ragnarok on PC.

On Raspberry Pi I picked up a swanky 8BitDo SNPro SNES style retro controller for the old school retro games.

Anyways I come across this old IREM arcade game called Gun Force 2, which I don’t recall in the early ‘90s. Turns out this is Metal Slug before we got Metal Slug. I mean, it plays and resembles it so much, just without the cartoonish art style. Really cool!

 

[Stevey]

Diablo 2.
Trying a Warlock for Season 13. Pretty fun so far

 

[Arc]

Dipping my toes into a bit of everything: Mewgenics, Absolum and Xenoblade Chronicles X.

Played through (and am still playing) 4.0 of Star Rail instead . Good start. The story setup is straightforward but has a lot of potential for faction shenanigans, the writing has been fun and the new world is full of fun minigames too. Was really not a big fan of the last story patch, but I think I've said it before, a strength of these games is that even if they miss every now and then, it doesn't take long for something else to wash that away, and as long as they have a lot more hits then misses it's all good. Right now it's just a fun vibe.

I finished 4.0 in HSR last week and the pacing is so, so, so much better than Amphoreus. I actually liked that storyline conceptually but good lord the execution was so bad. Just hours of monologues and confusing jargon that hurt my pea brain. I nearly dropped the game during after spending 30 minutes with Cyrene's fucking Peach monologue.

Anyway I'm glad I held on because, even though I do miss the grand scale of the previous chapter, the story is being told in a much more palpatable way and my girl Himeko is finally getting some screentime. Saving my gems for her new form and gonna build an Exodia around her as I've (hopefully) got enough teams right now to do the bare minimum to get my jades and I don't care about getting all the stars in Anomaly Arbitration.

 

[curi0usBystander]

Cat Quest II: Finished the game.

Now, to play something else. I might start Hades 2, or try Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, to test some different fighter.