Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 7 of 2023)

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New week, new thread! How are you doing? What are you playing lately?

I finished Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time last week. As I said before, really fun game. The game was overall pretty easy until the final boss who loves moving continuously and does bs attacks that are hard to evade. Still very enjoyable though.

I restarted Breath of the Wild in Master mode a good while ago, and I finally return to me during the week to prepare myself for Tears of the Kingdom. Muscle memories are scary because I can still do many combat manevres easily even after this long break. Enemies hit pretty hard in this mode but not unreasonable. I aim at finishing all shrines and DLC content during this playthrough. Wish me luck.
 
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Mainly One Piece Odyssey, with the occasional Vampire Survivors run. One Piece Odyssey is pretty enjoyable so far. I've been taking it kind of slow so I'm still at chapter 2 even though I've logged in more than 30 hours so far :ROFLMAO:

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I restarted Breath of the Wild in Master mode a good while ago, and I finally return to me during the week to prepare myself for Tears of the Kingdom. Muscle memories are scary because I can still do many combat manevres easily even after this long break. Enemies hit pretty hard in this mode but not unreasonable. I aim at finishing all shrines and DLC content during this playthrough. Wish me luck.
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I finished Breath of the Wild years ago and I absolutely loved it. I did a great chunk of the side stuff in the game but there is still many things I haven't managed to see. I'd like to go back to it sometime and fully complete it, but the temptation of starting a new game is always stronger to me than the desire to replay any past favorite of mine.

Have fun going back to it! There is so many magical moments in this game, with my favorite being the water based divine beast boss fight :heroblob:
 
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Oblivion, currently doing the Shivering Isles DLC.

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Not played this expansion since back in the day on 360.
 
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I finished Breath of the Wild years ago and I absolutely loved it. I did a great chunk of the side stuff in the game but there is still many things I haven't managed to see. I'd like to go back to it sometime and fully complete it, but the temptation of starting a new game is always stronger to me than the desire to replay any past favorite of mine.

Have fun going back to it! There is so many magical moments in this game, with my favorite being the water based divine beast boss fight :heroblob:
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Mine would be Forgotten Temple. I still remember myself, nearly 6 years ago, managing to glide through the whole temple while carefully evading beams from that horde of guardians. Best adrenaline rush in my gaming life ever.

Also the theory relating to the location is amazing. Spoiler warning for Skyward Sword.
 
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Fae Tactics. It's a great game with amazing combat, but waaaaay too long. There are so many battles, and only once in a while you'll get a new card or summon that allows new tactics. I'm 30 hours in, and I'm really getting tired of it.
 
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I just wrapped up Sunset Overdrive, which was mid af.

Currently in the middle of Yggdra Union and Pizza Tower, which are both amazing. Seriously incredible games.

Looking to start Returnal this week as well, and I'm thinking I should probably go back to Labyrinth of Refrain, since I'll probably buy Galleria day 1.
 
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I finished the first route in Baldr Sky. Really enjoyed it story-wise. Not a fine of the combat. Or more precisely, not a fan of how progression and combat are interwoven. I just wanna read without having to spend ages modifying my setup before every battle. Might just set it to Very Easy and stop caring.
Also made good progress in Eiyuden Chronicles: Rising.

Then I got side-tracked into Gacha land again. Honkai Star Rail is presumably gonna release soon-ish (most probably April 26th) and Honkai Impact 3rds first story part is gonna end soon, so I figured I might as well jump back in to do some more story progression in Honkai Impact. It's at chapter 34 currently, I'd already finished up to Chapter 28 last summer, which was a good stopping point. Currently working on the inbetween (back)story that happens between Chapter 28 and 29.
Honkai is nice because you can ignore 95% of its Gachaness, because the story is essentially a completely separate mode that uses predefined characters (which also means you get to play as everyone without actually having to get them). And its story is really good.

Counterside also had a big overhaul recently where they streamlined a lot of stuff and also brought back all time-limited story content permanently. I'm not a fan of the actual gameplay, but I really like the story, so that's what I'm gonna play while ignoring the rest of it.
 
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Mine would be Forgotten Temple. I still remember myself, nearly 6 years ago, managing to glide through the whole temple while carefully evading beams from that horde of guardians. Best adrenaline rush in my gaming life ever.

Also the theory relating to the location is amazing. Spoiler warning for Skyward Sword.
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Is this the dungeon where the basement is filled with guardians? I don't think this the one, and if it's not, then I probably didn't come across it during my 100 hour long playthrough! But that dungeon with the basement full of guardians is the closest thing I can remember that resembles this temple. Actually, I can now also remember that the dungeon I'm talking about was more of a maze! So it probably wasn't this one. You see, nothing demonstrates how this game is an explorer's heaven more than spending more than a 100 hours on it, beating it, and still regularly discovering a ton of stuff that I missed!
 
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Still playing Hitman Freelancer, still haven't touched ECHO again. Played a little bit of Dreamland Solitaire last week and I'm about 95% done so I expect I'll finish it this week.

I was planning to hop back into Subnautica at some point soon, but I think I'm going to try and focus on the blitz games now instead. ⚡
 
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Currently going through Where the Heart Leads (PS5) and Sky: Children of Light (PS5). Wish they were on PC, but those, 13 Sentinels and Demons Souls are the only games I currently have installed on my PS5.

Otherwise, when WTHL and Sky is done, Im gonna play through some Switch games on PC, first up will be Metroid Prime Remastered which ran amazing on Ryu when I tried it yesterday.
 
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After dropping Super Neptunia RPG (see my rant in the Steam thread) I've now started playing Thronebreaker.

And so far, it's ... really good!? I've already put over 10 hours into it, and there's very little to complain about. The writing is good (though perhaps a bit too consistently dark, but that's really quite understandable given the setting and what's happening), and they actually managed to make most of the combat encounters interesting and fresh -- within the constraints of being resolved through Gwent of course. I particularly enjoy the puzzle challenges with their unique cards and mechanics. Even the overworld exploration, choose-your-own-adventure-style encounters and progression system seem pretty nice so far.

Honestly, as of now I'd recommend this to everyone who enjoys SRPGs, if they don't mind combat being resolved through a card game.
 
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Cacher said:
Mine would be Forgotten Temple. I still remember myself, nearly 6 years ago, managing to glide through the whole temple while carefully evading beams from that horde of guardians. Best adrenaline rush in my gaming life ever.

Also the theory relating to the location is amazing. Spoiler warning for Skyward Sword.
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I never really notice this stuff (in the spoilers) when I play but it's fascinating to me all the same. :thumbsupblob:
 
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Finished Echo and Dreamland Solitaire yesterday and today, and next I'm going to play one my blitz games, Chasm. I hope it's good. It looks nice but I'm always a bit wary about procedural generation in games. So we'll see.
 
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Not quite done with persona 5 Royal, the DLC contents feels like stretching the game mechanics and I'm losing interest.

I've picked up Returnal, poor Deck's GPu can't keep up with it. The main Dekc will continue to be P5R, but on the PC Returnal is not the main game, it runs really smooth given enough GPU and the game is spectacular, I enjoy the horror ambience, the bullet-dodging, the shooter aspect and the roguelike progression. This is after 5 hours, let's see how it holds up going forward
 
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Chasm feels like it has some input lag, maybe. Or it could be that there's some "windup frames" in the animation that makes it feel like that. It's not too too bad or unplayable or anything, but it feels weirdly heavy as a result. Not sure how far I'm in exactly, but I have almost all the villagers now so I'm guessing fairly close to the end.

I also started Dreamland Solitaire: Dragon's Fury, which, as you might have guessed, is the sequel to Dreamland Solitaire. Another 200 levels I think. :thumbsupblob:
 
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Thought I’d finish Dead Space before this thread but I keep stopping for long periods. I like the game, but not enough to properly binge it, so I can only really stand an hour or so at a time.
 
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