The recent announcement of Darksiders 3 reminded that part 2 was still sitting in my backlog. Good thing, too, since at that point I wasn't sure what to go for next. The world in DS2 doesn't seem to be nearly as dreary as in DS1 as far as I can recall. It's been a while. Anyway, 7 hours in and I'm still having a good time. :)

I also cleared the first four levels + bonus stages in de Blob. I figure it may still be several weeks before I finish this one. A good game for when I just want to shut off my brain.

Just discovered a gem of a game that was sitting in my backlog, after having been given to me by fronzelneekburn some time ago in a trade: 7 Grand Steps: Step 1 - What The Ancients Begat.

It's a boardgame-like way of playing the advancement of a family line through the times of early civilization, from the Copper Age to the Bronze Age (and beyond into the Iron Age? - I haven't finished the game yet, I don't know what the endpoint is).

Progress of your family through their various skills and crafts is done by gathering tokens and deciding how to spend them, while other characters (played by the computer) advance across the board as well, sometimes helpful, sometimes hindering. It has a nice mix of randomness and strategic choices (for instance: do you invest more in your present progress on the board or on the skills your children will benefit from in the next generation, what sort of advancements do you strive for). It's quite casual, yet still requires you to think.

I've got one gripe though (that's a bit sexist on my part): the current family pair your playing is portrayed with the ancestor left and the one they are married too on the right, while on the board, you keep track of what the woman and what the man on the board is doing. For each of them you have to decide what action to take, but actions are taken by putting tokens in the slots beneath their portraits, but with those portraits it can alternate between generations, whether the woman sits on the right or on the left (right if she's the spouse of your ancestor, left if she's the ancestor herself). The result if not being mindful, is I often take another action than I planned, by putting my token in the other slot than I intended.

So that last part makes it less casual, you have think before you act. Also because of subtle rules like no more than 3 avatars can occupy a single slot on the board and before deciding on your action, you have to know or look up the rule on what the result of a particular action is in such a situation (or when an ally or enemy occupies the slot). But those subtleties do add to the fun and depth of the game.

Too bad the Indie developer was disappointed by the sales and decided not to continue with the other Steps.

Caesar
Settlers
Warcraft

In other words I'm replaying the very first games in the series. I enjoy them a lot

Trying out Dead Island : Definitive Edition

Metro 2033 Redux
The Witcher (yea I know, i'm a newbie)
Saints Row 2
Arma 3

Super Meat Boy. Some quotes from my playthrough;

"Think like a piece of meat... oww"

"Be the meat... dead"

"This time I'm invincible... ouch"

Lately I've been playing a lot of Shin Megami Tenalypsei IV Apocalypse on 3DS and frankly it is way better than SMT 4. More fun, less frustrating and at least you can get an idea of who you're siding with

I'm also playing Ace Attorney Spirits of Justice and like the other games in the series it's has great characters, musics, intense moments but sometimes the game can get a bit frustrating. Some moments in certains cases (like 3) are pretty far-fetched and don't make sense (but that might be just me). Also it uses too much flash-backs...especially for something you've seen a minute ago.

Other than that I'm playing Fallout 1 and hoping that this time I won't have a problem with my computer or a save bug, which mad me have to start the whole game again.

The last mission of Settlers 1 :)

"World in Conflict" is one giant siege level and it is seriously starting to piss me off.

The entire game is "Hold this pass" or "Hold this bridge".

Bullshit.

I just nuked Seattle to stop the russians and now the game is going back several months in time to France.

Seattle?

Oh yeah, that's the long siege level I was thinking of. I think you're done with the siege levels then. Just don't hurt me if I'm wrong though :) My my memory is a bit crappy :\

Pizza Tycoon (Connection) 2

I play it on my Mac, runnig it with a Wine wrapper. I didn't encounter any issues yet, which are described in some reviews. It would be funny, if that Windows game runs better on emulated Windows than on Windows. xD

Commandos 2: Men of Courage. A game I will always enjoy, if only for nostalgia's sake. This was the only Commandos game I managed to beat as a kid, and until a couple years ago, the only one I had ever beaten. I always preferred this one as a kid, probably because it is a little easier. Now, I don't like any more or less than Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines; they are different beasts, really, so it is hard to say that one is better than the other.

I hope to play the game to completion again. I had a bad habit of starting it, getting to the third or fourth proper mission (excluding the "training missions," I mean), and then quitting, so I find it a little tedious getting through the second and third missions. They just seem to take a long time, and since I know them so well, it's not difficult so much as it is time consuming.

That said, I'm having a good time with it.

Risk of Rain. For the times when I don't want to commit a lot of time to gaming, I get in a quick game of this. I tried it out for the first time on Friday, and I've played it several more times since. I'm not particularly good at it--so far I have only defeated one boss--but it's fun and surprisingly addictive. It's one of the few games that gives me that "Just one more time" feeling. I know it will only get more interesting once I start unlocking more characters.

for now I don't have time for long video games, i can afford to play something like Mario or Hamsterball