Since I never post in these threads, lets catch up a bit – looking through my Steam list of recents:
SimCity 3000 — after the re-release on Steam, I played a bunch of it. SC3000 has this sweet spot of not being too complex but also not being too easy or simple. I kinda wish modern city builders would emulate this, but then again, SC3000 is still perfectly playable. And hey, so are SC2000 and SC1
World of Warcraft – whenever there is some event of anything going on, I'll dive in and do that, play a bit, its still enjoyable every now and then. But I couldnt keep all my alt. characters on max-level these days, way too much effort. After levelling my main char to max, doing it again felt like such a slog. They slooooowly level, but its not a priority or something I actively pursue (nor is doing anything in the endgame with my main. Levelling through the content once: that is enough for me – and of course, doing events, as mentioned.
Saints Row 2022 — since it was in the Humble Monthly. played around 4 hours and had some decent fun with it. Not sure why it got so much hate (apart from egsclusivity) but maybe I didnt get to any bad parts yet.
Baldurs Gate 3 — Slowly plodding along... yep I still havent finished this. I guess this illustrates just how slow-paced I play most games. BG3 has an intriguing world, interesting characters (mostly) and a story I like to continue but...I
hate the combat, sorry, I just do. I could
never warm to turn-based combat in
any game and always just accepted it if all other parts of a game
really spoke to me; and its the same here. I just dislike the concept of turn-based combat on a very fundamental level.
The Saboteur — having finished this years ago, I replayed the opening hours when it released on Steam. Glad it did, still a cool game.
Faery — played an hour or so of it, mostly because I saw the newest video for Greedfall 2 and decided to try this old Spiders game a bit. Its not bad .... but turn-based
so I didnt play much
Diablo IV — I play a bit of this every now and then, usually I have fun for 30-60 minutes before I get bored. Its more fun with a controller and I dislike that they didnt put in WASD controls. I know it got flak for its endgame, but I dont really care about that since Im far from reaching that
Several
Tomb Raider games – I played various TR games for a little bit when the remasters came out. (I still hope they fix the "modern" controls in the remaster). A bunch of them still hold up well. Rise, Underword, Legend, Temple of Osiris...all great.
Sam and Max hit the Road – did a random replay of it, always a good time. When you know it well, it takes only about 2-3 hours to complete.
Dungeon Keeper 2 — played a bit of it, not bad, didnt age badly, Id say.
