Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 9 of 2025)

Alan Wake II: The Lake House for me this week. I hear it’s quite short so I shouldn’t be playing for too long.

But so far, so good.

I've been replaying Metal Gear Solid via the Master Collection on STEAM.

Just beat Sniper Wolf for the first time.

I've mostly been rotating between the gachas I play as far as gaming goes and spending more time on reading instead.
But! I've put a couple hours into Birth by Sleep and Judgment. I've somehow come around on BBS (put it on easy tho) and have been having fun. Judgment is neat too.
New Genshin update was good stuff and Zenless just doesn't stop having new stuff. I'm also having way too much fun doing the optional challenge fights with optional "don't get hit" flex rewards.

Working on it!

City of the Wolves beta.

Attempted KoFXIII GM, but the more I play it? The more trash I find out the port is. When I have to use a command line argument to lock it to 60 and there's no native steam deck support? Ya fucked up. Its reason for existing also sucks.

I might play pirate yakuza, but I'm not in the mood for an SP game.

Ikulinati: I finished the game but it seems it's telling me to replay the campaign to see new stuff. But I don't feel like it so I'm done with it.

Holocure: played a bit more since I had some time to kill.

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles: Finished the 4th case of the second game, now on the finale. I feel that some investigation segments are too long and they could be trimmed a bit. Waiting to see how it ends before i have a full opinion but so far the fact that both games are a continuous story rather than disjointed cases

Fatal Fury: The City of Wolves: Tried the beta. But between the fact that I have nearly 0 experience with SNK fighters and there's no way to train to test some stuff I'm not sure if it's for me. That said at least the online felt nice.

Guardians of the Galaxy.
It's alright so far. I don't really love the combat that much but I guess it's passable.
Kind of surprising how much conversational dialogue they wrote for when you are roaming the areas. The downside is that they did a pretty poor job at how they are triggered and when, I've had multiple conversation get cut off because some other "priority" bark interrupted it and it doesn't seem like they have a system where a character would go like "anyway as I was saying" and then continue the interrupted conversation.
So now I just end up standing around a bit every now and then to wait and see if more conversations happen so that I get to hear it all. It's really poor for pacing let me tell you.

Also the save system is kind of shit, you have 3 slots and whichever slot you last saved on becomes the next autosave slot as well.
So if you want to take a manual save that is separate from an autosave, you kind of have to make a manual save on slot 2 (which moves the autosave to slot 2 as well) and then take another manual save on slot 1 again to move the autosave back to it.
And if you then decide to load the manual save from slot 2, that also moves the autosave to slot 2 again. So after loading the slot 2 manual save, you probably want to save again on slot 1 right away so the autosave moves there again. Otherwise the slot 2 manual save gets overridden by an autosave and you can no longer go back to the manual save.

I guess they want people to stick their choices, but I kind of hate that I can very easily accidentally progress in a direction on a level and trigger a cutscene or something and miss some other thing over in another direction with no way to go back to a previous save.

It's kind of made me want to watch some MCU again. I guess it's not that surprising if you think about it, but it's kind of an interesting side effect I wasn't expecting.

Playing Cosy games made by Odencat. Very nicely made games.

curi0usBystander said:

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

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Yes, YES! Loved those games.