Topic: What Game(s) are You Currently Playing?

Played some Disney Speedstorm last night for some online races, but really posting because I actually played an upcoming game during Steam's Next Fest yesterday. I played Discounty.

From what I played, I really like it so far. You play as someone who moves to a town, and is tasked with running a discount grocery store. Store management is part of the game, the bigger part of the game is to go around town during your off-hours, talk to others, try to get stuff to sell in your store. There seems to be stuff going on in town too, and it feels like it adds to the story so the game is more than just managing a store. So far I like it.

Actual spoiler stuff:
While exploring town there was a truck investigating something. There was also a downed tree and someone just wishing to get back home.

Looking forward to it, I might grab this one on GOG (trailer has a GOG logo in it) or even on Switch (it's coming to Switch too). Since it's coming to Switch, thought I'd put my thoughts here. I'm surprised this game isn't mentioned on Nintendo Life yet.

After many years in the collection I am about to start playing Steel Diver on my 3DS. I really like the lenticular cover and I’m looking forward to reading the manual before I submerge myself.

Been playing Disney Speedstorm, they're having a Cinderella event, where playing as Ariel in multiplayer races earns points towards rewards. Playing I forgotten how fast Ariel is, and then I'm reminded they nerfed her speed powerup, where she collects thingamabobs for increasing speed.

Now I realize we live in a timeline where they nerfed the little mermaid.

Been playing Fallout London on PC. So far I am really enjoying and is probably the best Fallout game I have played since New Vegas. I like the changes they made to things to conincide with the English setting such as making the Pipboy an Attaboy and the fact that there is no Power Armor as that was a US thing.

Overall the team did a great job on this mod and is a must play for fans of the Fallout series.

More Jagged Alliance tonight, I had a 3 vs. 1 situation in the game tonight. An enemy came out of a building, only to be met by three members of my team. The enemy never stood a chance.

I love the turn-based combat this PC classic has. Good tactical strategy stuff.

I finished Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition a few days ago and I definitely plan to return to it for more post-game. However, I decided to put the post-game stuff on hold because I was really excited to start playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I'm currently about 3-4 hours in, and oh my god, what a gorgeous game. It's really off to a strong start, and I can't wait to keep playing. This has the potential to be one of my favorite games of all time.

@Vortexeo E33 is a gem right? So far for me its my GOTY, just slightly edging out KCD2.

Quite mind-blowing that the dev team for E33 achieved the impressive sales numbers recently announced, considering this is a GamePass day1 (!)

Perhaps another release in the second half of this year will take my GOTY spot, but I think I'll still hope that E33 wins the award - sends a great message to the games industry in general, still an appetite for lovingly crafted single player games, turn based combat isn't dead etc. I like also how it is clearly influenced by classics JRPGs (FF series, even mentioned in interview with devs) but it still manages to 'be its own thing'. The combat in particular is great, like Persona crossed with Sekiro

Lunar Remastered Collection. I beat the 1st game earlier in the month. Now currently on the 2nd game.

GOG is having their summer sale, so I picked up a new game, Pizza Tycoon (also known as Pizza Connection in Europe, it's going by that name on GOG, but the title screen uses the Pizza Tycoon name). Been playing that.

I like pizza, I also enjoy business sim PC games like Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Roller Coaster Tycoon, so thought this would be a good game to try. I open a pizza restaurant, make pizza, get customers, and it kept failing. It's only one part of the game, the other part is flying from city to city, buying "ice cream," (yes, that's in quotes for a reason) and then reselling it to make more money to help your pizza business more. Game surprises me, it's much different than other "tycoon" games I played, and I really like it so far.

Also, because of a GOG newsletter coupon, I got the other two games in the series with a good discount, and been playing Pizza Connection 3, though that feels more like a normal tycoon game, than the original one does.

Been playing It Takes Two with my son on the Series X and looking to finish that up today. Its ok. For me I preferred A Way Out alot more but I think that's due to It Takes Two being more of a platformer then A Way Out. The camera can be a bit wonky at times leading to cheap deaths and some of the bosses have phases that you cant really do anything against but die. The story however is very charming and probably the main reason for me wanting to finish it, otherwise I probably wouldn't have dropped this game awhile ago. For me its just not my type of game gameplay wise.

A bit of an update to the games I’ve been playing…

In Colorful Stage! over the weekend, I actually have now full combo’d 71 charts on Master! If I remember what specific songs I full combo’d, it was Intergalactic Bound and BRING IT ON. I was actually pretty close to getting a full combo on the latter once, but I screwed up near the end, but I tried again and finally got it this time! I also went back to Expert difficulty to play some of my favorite songs, and today I got a full combo on another song I struggled with, called Brand New Day. Felt very satisfying getting that full combo since it was a song I nearly got the hand of but some of the hold notes threw me off. I did attempt to full combo SEKAI-chan to KAFU-chan no Otsukai Gassou Kyoku, since it’s also another song I do have a bit of a hang of on Expert (plus I really like the song and it’s stupidly comedic tone) but I sadly failed to get a full combo again. The chart is littered with so many thin hold notes and small tap notes that are so hard to not miss, since my fat fingers get off the tap line and it registers as a miss, and then the final parts of the song are so hard to keep up with and confuse me. I’ll keep attempting it though.

Not sure what other songs to really play, but I saw they added a new song today, so I’ll get to that soon, but they are going to announce July’s song schedule tomorrow, so I can’t wait for that, especially since one of my favorite songs is getting added soon.

For Deadeye Derby, I managed a few matches and won all of them, besides one against a Nutty player that absolutely trashed me the second the match started. Unfortunately I haven’t gotten too many coins from the matches I’ve played, and I haven’t yet spent them on upgrades for my raft in Rabid Rapids since I’m still trying to build up my coins so I can upgrade both my slingshot and raft, but the low amount of coins I earned also comes from the character I was playing as. I was playing as Petunia for almost all the matches, but I forgot Cuddles is the only playable character with the ability to slightly increase the amount of coins you get from battles and chests, so I swapped to him after remembering that.

I have gotten plenty more ammo from the daily machine spin, which will definitely help me with the upcoming bosses, though I still want to make sure that I can also get a bit more health kits too. So far I’m sure I’ve only sadly gotten one or two medium health kits from the machine. Getting health kits, as well as diamonds, is really hard when your not a paying player…

Been wanting to take a break from my backlog, so I played some of the following...

Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - I tried out a good chunk of the games already. A few of them I got decent at, while others I got kind of destroyed by the CPU, lol. I can see this being fun with a friend online. I even unlocked the Mario-themed cards for a couple games.

Pac-Man Museum + - Just casually playing some of the games on this one. I'm happy to see Pac-Man Arrangement being included, I used to play that on Namco Museum on the PS2. I'm not too huge into playing with such a narrow screen though. It's not awful or anything, I know they were originally arcade games, but I'd have to focus on the screen a bit more. Granted, I was playing in handheld mode, so maybe it's better on the TV. Maybe it supports tate mode, but I don't have an accessory for playing the Switch in handheld mode with the vertical screen orientation.

Yakuza 0 for Switch 2, up to Chapter 16 so the end is in sight.

I originally played this on PC, it's been such a pleasure to revisit this on the Switch 2.

To date, it's still the best ever Yakuza game from the six that I've played.

KeyWe PS5

I didn't expect the cute Kiwi birds with their job as package and mail delivery employees have quite challenging mini games.
Deciphering the hidden messages was quite hard challenge as I have to read and figure it out the words and it took longer time to figure it out.

Thanks to GOG and Steam sales, a lot of PC gaming lately. This is why I haven't been on the forum as much.

To start, I'm still playing Pizza Tycoon and Pizza Connection 3. Slowly building up my pizza empire in both games. Small note, Pizza Connection 3 is on Switch as Pizza Tycoon, which is a fun coincidence since Pizza Tycoon from 1994 (which is what I'm playing) was called Pizza Connection in Europe.

During the Steam sale, I got Black Mesa. What a great remake of Half-Life, it's really well done.

Speaking of FPS, I also got Heretic and Hexen Collection on GOG, so been playing Hexen. Classic game, also different than other Doom engine games I played. A lot of puzzle solving and exploration. I like it so far.

Tonight on my Switch, played some Disney Speedstorm just to do some online races as Ariel.

Been playing the latest remake of Klonoa. Maybe because I loved the game so much when I played it on Wii, but this game is shorter than I remember. I don't know why I think that though, since its a 2D platformer with 12 levels, did I think these levels were more than a half hour long or something?

after beating a link to the past and ocarina of time (soooo good) im starting majoras mask and i love the dark tone of it so far!!! the world and the three day cycle is so…enchanting? its really good so far though.
also been playing a lot of Mario Kart World w family mainly, been trying to get gold and three stars on knockout tour, but its DIFFICULT. got the first one so far!
also bought gris, so might dive into that looks so pretty 🎀

earlier today i was playing the old NES games Willow and Bubble Bobble for my Retro Duo console.

found those games at a new small comic book shop that just opened up recently

Dredge

Having finished Ys X, I fired this indie darling up.

I can see what all the hub bub is about. Fishing with Eldritch horror. Good vibes and it plays well.

Just completed Sonic Riders, got enough RIngs to buy all the Extreme Gears and got all the Gold Emblems in Mission Mode to unlock the Chaos Emerald/Super Sonic.

I was able to do it quickly because my save file from my rental days of 2006 was still on my Memory Card, and to my surprise there were way fewer Missions to get Gold Emblems (only about 10 Missions out of 100) but a few Extreme Gears were pending purchase.