Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 6 of 2025)

[Cacher]

New week, new thread! What are you playing?

I abandoned Final Fantasy XVI for a few days but now return to it. Slowly progressing the main story.

Started L.A.Noire last week, and completed Traffic Desk. The last case was well-written, and the final big shootout was great. The game was released in 2011 but it aged pretty well. The facial animations still look impressive even today.

 

[Parsnip]

I've been mostly putting time in Dishonored 2.

The clockwork mansion is a fascinating level. It's not just that it looks cool, it's that it seems that they didn't cheat how it all fits together.

 

[KainXVIII]

Tinykin - very relaxing 3d platformer (except for golden medal races) and not very similar to Overlord as i feared.
PowerSlave Exhumed - returning to the old levels is not fun at all if everything is respawned (enemies, keys and even locked doors)

 

[curi0usBystander]

The Great Ace Attorney: Finished the first game and started the second. I think the first chapter was a smart way to re-tutorialize without having to make up some dumb scenario.

Vampire Survivors: still unlocking stuff from the castlevania dlc.

Inkulinati: Started the game, don't have much of an opinion on the gameplay, but the style is pretty original I will not deny that.

 

[didamangi]

I'm shelving FF7 remake. After the nostalgia wears off, I just can't handle the cringe dialogue, the battle system isn't that great either. Back to God of War Ragnarok for now.

 

[Stevey]

Been replaying the campaign of StarCraft.

Also dropped Ghost Of Tsushima after 3 hours, just couldnt get into it.

 

[Cacher]

Discovered that there is a 4K texture mod for Arkham Asylum, so I started playing it again (my fourth playthroughs). It looks beautiful.

Safe to say it is my favorite game from the 7th gen, alongside GTA4.

 

[Ibuki]

Finished:
STALKER 2: Finished this game on Saturday, the technical side was falling apart a bit in the end game, but I thought it was truly wonderful. I'm excited to go back for future mods/DLCs for more playthroughs.
Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster: This was new to me, since I never played the original. I enjoyed it overall, but there was some frustrating level design and the lack of checkpoints in levels was a bit painful. I turned off the remastered sprites and cutscenes, but was able to benefit from modern framerate/resolution. If you are a classic Star Wars fan, I think this is still worth playing.

Playing:
Kingdom Come Deliverance II: Started this last night and I am thoroughly impressed. This is a big leap above the first game in polish and fidelity so far. The writing and dynamic between Henry and Hans is incredible. Looking forward to playing more of this.
Umineko Answers Arc: Yes... I am still reading this slowly. I am almost finished with Episode 6, and it feels like the end is within reach!

 

[Parsnip]

Finished Dishonored 2, and might jump into Dishonored: Death of the Outsider immediately so I don't forget how these games play.

 

[STHX]

Still going strong through Dynasty Warriors Origins
What a wondeful experience it is

 

[LEANIJA]

I've been mostly playing The Sims 2 this week
Im not having many problems on Linux (I hear people on Windows have frequent crashes; I didnt have one) and apart from a low framerate when visiting a community lot yesterday, everything ran smoothly.

The game still holds up! Im guessing mainly due to the feeling that The Sims 3 and 4 didnt innovate all that much (The Sims 3 is also very good, however; the fully open world that game had was very cool. I remember having one sim just always jog around town in the evening, and another sim just constantly abuse other peoples homes—ring the bell randomly, say hi and immediately go eat their food, sleep on their couch, piss on their carpet, etc, you know, normal things)

 

[didamangi]

Just finished God of War Ragnarok on the Give Me God of War difficulty. Gotta say I enjoyed the first one better. Too much downtime in this one. I like fat dobber Thor and the spear though. Also kinda funny how the last 2 bosses is way easier than some random encounters or some of the realm tear fights.

Seems there's a lot of content post ending, and there's the Valhalla DLC as well. Probably going to piecemeal it alongside another game, maybe Shadow Generations.