Started Expedition 33. Almost gave up during the intro because it took me so many attempts to beat Maella at the festival. Turns out the fight is harder than anything in act 1.

I reinstalled New Vegas for my 12th attempt at a villain run. I usually fold the first time I get the option to be mean to Victor. This time I’ve decided to take a different route and do a genocide run. The only character motivation I can find for being mean to Victor is being a heartless psychopath.

Also I chose to play as a woman, and I managed to make a real pretty face in character creation. My original plan was to play as a woman in the Legion, since it seemed like the most novel way to play a villainous character. Josh Sawyer had me in his sights and then I realized I could just kill all the powder gangers. Heck, I could just kill everybody.

In Tabletop Corner:

WoD has recovered from two catastrophic sessions, though my teammates really have to get better at not blowing our cover. My character is de-facto team captain and I absolutely did not design him with that in mind.

Gunna’ keep playing Blastwind I think. And then I don’t know. Might finish watching Birdcage Of Horror on Dreamcast. And maybe I can finish Scorn and SHf on NG+.

The Felix series on Metal Gear made me really want to replay them and play the ones I never got around to so I’m starting with the MSX games. Finished MG1 the other day and now onto MG2. It’s wild how much of the series’ DNA can be traced back to these games.

Yet more Hades! I just got the invitation quest for the Olympians, so nearing the epilogue. Still a great game, and I’m surprised to notice my skill/power keeping up with the heat as it rises. I did a full Extreme Measures run the other day and finished with death defiance left over! I’m sure a good portion is just pattern recognition

I will say an annoyance that’s become more apparent is how opaque some of the mechanics are, particularly how some boons (especially legendaries) are locked behind taking other boons first.

Played a bit of this game Duel Corp. It’s pretty far from being finished and I didn’t get to play much but the combat is very Code Vein, it’s got retro pixel-y 3D graphics and it seems like there’s a whole faction system/world sandbox going on. Reminded me of the game from the video game episode of community except it was a 3D souls-like. All NPCs are named and can be schmoozed (and maybe romanced?), you can steal/kill and be punished for it or run out of town. Pretty neat but again, very far from done they only have once class available.

Been revisiting some Castlevanias - first I did Curse of Darkness which I never played before but the last week or so it’s been Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrows, both of which I played before. I finally got the chaos ring in aria, I did it in Dawn years ago, I just really love the Soma games. The souls system is fun as hell.

KSP. I got a crewed ship to Duna and did a landing. I also got a shitload of science points by putting a mapping satellite in a polar orbit of Moho.

I finished crosscode, and have been plinking a little time into ballxpit and power wash simulator 2 every day.

And just started metaphor refantazio today, that will be my main game for the next month or 3.

Playing backrooms excape together with my partner rn actually

Highfleet.

Dune meets Kin-dza-dza with cultures being a mix of Russian Empire and Afghanistan with a touch of Persia and Central Asia. You command a fleet of 1000-ton metal bricks that fly on liquid methane and emit enough CO₂ over the course of the campaign to raise global temperature by a couple degrees (which is counteracted by the nuclear winter). UI is absolutely incredible, clicking the buttons and toggles is immensely satisfying. The game also turns you into a Pavlov’s dog, who gets all sweaty, when you hear Thermal signature detected.

CW for flashes, the game is extremely epilepsy-unfriendly.

Tried some more emulated Bloodborne after waiting a year, figuring performance would be much better, but it’s not. Still not even able to sustain 30fps at “1080p” (patch to run at 720p enabled) with a bunch of performance-increasing mods (reduced LOD/texture detail, reduced cloth physics, chromatic aberration and motion blur off). The latest release is allegedly a huge performance boost, even, but I see almost no difference from a year ago. My PC’s now 6 years old and not top of the line by any means, but it’s been able to run just about everything I want it to. A 2060, an i5-9600k, and 16GB of RAM apparently just doesn’t cut it I did beat Bloodstarved Beast at like 20-30fps with a ton of frame drops at least.

Got Vampire Survivors back up to 100% completion, some of the emerald diorama secret characters were bugged so I had to manually enter their codes which felt lame.

Did a few runs of Halls of Torment, not playing the DLC, just achievement hunting. It’s still pretty good but I have totally forgotten what equipment I used for builds or what the good stats are.

As always, played more Warframe. Got the Hildryn prime resurgence relics done, and with Shade Prime I’ve now finished the robotics tab! Finished my last Lich too, which on the one hand means I don’t need to do liches ever again, but on the other means that I am rapidly running out of things to boost MR that are remotely fun to do. Currently have 10 items available that aren’t vaulted primes. The future is infinite railjack, void armageddon (curse you Hespar), and ESO, with Duviri puzzles on the side.

metroid prime 3 on steam deck :3

just finished crosscode+dlc after ~80 hours

why did it have to be so good and wholesome

My gaming PC is finally, finally working! Kinda, I need to reinstall steam, but I’ll do that later. For now, I can finally play Baldurs Gate 3 and not have the performance be dogshit