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I'm still playing Dragon Age: Oigins.
Honestly, the game is too damned huge...I've played almost 40 hours and yet I supposedly still haven't completed 30% of it, lol.
Will try to finish it, despite my misgivings about the gameplay and quest design I'm interested in the setting and the story. But those super-huge rpgs probably just aren't for me anymore.
Bard's Tale 2: Just got the most powerful spell in the game. (It helps that I'm playing a version of the game where you don't need to actually step on that one square in the final dungeon to be able to cast it.)

(Strategy here: Level 2 of Dark Domain until Bardsword and other basic equipment (El Cid's Cold Horn is really useful here, and you won't need it later), then Fanskar's until Disrupt Illusion (which you might not even need, but at least try to get treasure like a collection of Mage Staffs and Elf Cloaks for those who can use it), then disbelief in the Maze of Dread.)
might and magic book one
i just love to map and explore the giant world
(Bard's Tale 2)

And my roster is now full. (I had to delete someone in order to keep my Kringle Bro', which I got by using SPBI on a monster that could summon them.)

I really do enjoy using SPBI on enemies on this particular Bard's Tale game, and it's one of the reasons that the remaster will not obsolete the classic versions for me, the other being how much effort you need to do to get the Dreamspell.

The remaster just needs two more changes to put it on the level of the original IMO:
* Allow monsters to be left at the Adventurer's Guild and re-added to your party later. (This change should be applied to BT1 (without chapter differences) and BT3.)
* Add a legacy mode to remove the whole Dreamspell quest. With this option, the dreamspell puzzle would be absent (allowing any qualifying character to learn the spell on stepping on the square, without having to find the clues first), the clues would not be present, and Saradon's laboratory would be removed (note that this would remove the Harmonic Staff!).

(Maybe also make it so that, in BT3, higher stats don't provide as much of a boost, and allow certain spells/songs to improve ranged accuracy the way they improve spell accuracy, but those are less important than the BT2 changes I would mention here.)
I've made it through most of Sekiro, but I need to take a break from it. This is the most challenging of all the From Software games I have played, and to be honest, I don't really have the patience for it right now. Between a 45 hour work week, two-hour obligations most nights of the week, and a toddler and three month old twins, I'm just too tired to muster the patience needed to keep at Sekiro. Don't get me wrong; the game is an absolute blast, and conquering the many minibosses and bosses is satisfying. I just need to wait until I am more mentally prepared to put in the time and repetition to get through them.

After playing through the first two Uncharted games, I considered starting the third. However, I don't want to burn myself out on them. Having gotten a few games in a good sale, I decided instead to start God of War (2018).

What a game. I'm only an hour or so in, but it's got me hooked. The production value is astonishingly high. The visuals, sound design, music, gameplay, and story have been exceptional thus far. I fully expect the plot to slow down a bit in the middle of the game, but I have a feeling I'll be just as hooked. I look forward to playing more of it, though I would be remiss if I didn't at least mention the magnificence that is the fight with the stranger. While it's played a bit more for spectacle than challenge, what a spectacle it is.
Mostly Among Us and Bloons TD6 with my son.

Slooowly working my way through Thief Gold. (Very few solo-gaming hours per week.)
Currently taking a break from it and playing the odd game of Train Valley instead.
The Force Unleashed II

I hate platforming!! Especially without manual save. Most other parts of the game are fun though.
Been playing Ikenfell on my laptop. (It won't work on my older desktop, but will work on my newer low-end laptop.)
After couple of months of break with the games, I am back first with Tropico 5. Next I have Torchlight in mind.
I'm playing Morrowind again. This time I'm doing a 100% vanilla no mod run, mainlining the game for the most part. I just want to beat it - something I'll admit I never did before.
Pillars of Eternity

- The intro looks cheap! It's not that important, but I do like a nice 3D animation.
- It's been a while that I played an RPG like this. I feel that character building "in-game" is a better system. Now I have to make all these decisions without knowing anything about how they'll work out. It's like that huge hobbit family tree description in the beginning of the LOTR books... it should've been well-placed footnotes.
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- The intro looks cheap! It's not that important, but I do like a nice 3D animation.
- It's been a while that I played an RPG like this. I feel that character building "in-game" is a better system. Now I have to make all these decisions without knowing anything about how they'll work out. It's like that huge hobbit family tree description in the beginning of the LOTR books... it should've been well-placed footnotes.
That whole idea of having to make blind decisions is one reason why I dislike skill point systems. I much prefer systems where the consequences of making a decision that's not good in the long run aren't nearly as severe, like in a game like Final Fantasy 2; if you've been using the wrong weapon type all game, just switch to a better one and it will level up faster because you're fighting stronger enemies. Or SaGa games, for that matter (though not all SaGa games work the same way, and there are still situations where you can ruin characters).
Cyberpunk 2077
I'm just disappointed in about every way with the game; outside of maybe the world design & environment details but even then I have problems with some of that as well. If it was just performance(I have a amd cpu & amd gpu) I could deal with that, if it was just the bugs that too, same with gunplay or driving or stealth but everything altogether (to me) is just crap.. I have almost no drive to play the game at this point. I don't like the characters(so far 15+hrs in) and the story isn't bad but it's not pushing me to play more of it. I wanted badly to love this game but no matter how much I try I just can't. I'm sure they(cd projeckt red) can fix some of the performance issues and bugs but I really don't think they can fix the game as a whole.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
I was playing this a few days before Cyberpunk 2077 came out and I really enjoyed it {again} (beat it years ago). I'm playing on the hardest difficulty level and have been in Hong Kong for a little bit now. Had a little performance issue but found a regedit fix that did the trick.

Warcraft 3
I'm playing classic on the new reforge client(I won't ever buy reforge upgrade/downgrade). So far I like some of the updates to the game engine like widescreen support and QoL stuff. Really don't like the required Battlenet App usage and 20GB+ install size though. I would play the old version but for some reason or another I can't get a solid 60 fps running it in wine(linux); might be an amd gpu open source driver issue.
Been trying a couple Celeste mods.

Troll City isn't that great, even when judged as a troll level. There's one really good troll at one point, but the rest just isn't that great, and there's spots where advanced techniques are required, as well as a heart gate I couldn't get past.

Extended Variants, however, is great; it's quite fun (and sometimes quite tricky) to face bosses outside of their natural habitat (though be aware that certain rooms may be impossible with certain settings).
Just finished Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts...

,,, now playing Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Vegas 2

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts is sadly a much inferior game to Sniper Ghost Warrior 3; Contracts isn't terrible, but map design is haphazard, the action feels "cheap" (sound, feedback, etc.), and gameplay is monotonous -- and I say that as a sniper game enthusiast. Made me want to play 3 again... but didn't make me very interested in the forthcoming SGW Contracts 2.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Vegas 2
is a great game, albeit with a few "last-gen" quirks. I love squad-based games and don't know why I never played this before now...?
Post edited December 15, 2020 by kai2