The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!

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Elden ring nightreign. I've beaten 3 nightlords with randoms.

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Just finished playing Morrowind for the first time in decades. Half-tempted to go back and do it all again as a pure mage.

Failing that, I have so many games in my catalogs that I'm not sure where to start. Maybe Portal Revolution, maybe Brütal Legend, or maybe I finally get into the Witcher III. I keep trying to like Ride, but racing games never feel remotely like actually riding or driving a vehicle and I always spend my time in the weeds.

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I have a serious deficiencies in emotional games played considering I only acquired such taste playing Honkai star rail penacony a year ago. Or rather arcane s1 tv series before.

Gladly taking the recommendation and open to any other

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Chapter Master: Adeptus Dominus

Essentially a free, fan-made 40k game originally made like 20 years ago by one guy who has since moved on. Now it's a small team who drop semi-regular updates on github. Also, it runs on Linux

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Warframe never betrays me

Still waiting on that Terraria update tho

Replaying Dark Souls for the millionth time aswell

Some osu! on the side

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I've been trying out the Half Sword demo recently and yep, it's medieval combat QWOP. Very fun tho, in spite of my poor framerate.

Other than that I've been setting up maps and stuff for a DND one shot I've been planning to run. Will be fun to see how that pans out.

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Games I'm currently playing:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

I think I like it, but I don't love it yet. It's undeniably well made. The story is told well, the acting, music, and graphics are all top notch. Really well done.

But the story isn't really hooking me yet. Something about that kind of fantasy story irks me. Like, the premise seems so outlandish and arbitrary that I can't tell if it's actually good or if it's just manipulative. I've seen so much praise for the intro, but to me it's like: "Every year on this day, something emotional and devastating happens!" Then it happens, apropos of nothing, and everyone is like, "Oh my god this intro is so emotional and devastating."

Just doesn't feel organic to me.

It's also not my type of game. I'm slightly less than neutral towards turn-based RPGs, and I'm firmly against parrying. Still, the execution is good enough that I'm going to stick it out a while longer.

Oblivion Character Creation Screen

I just can't seem to get past this no matter how hard I try.

Minecraft

Getting back into my 6 year old realm. Building a big stables near a cherry grove.

Split Fiction

I've been playing this with my wife, and it's fantastic. Never boring, always clever and inventive. Just went through a whole pinball sequence that is just a master class in game design.

Ravenswatch

One of the best multiplayer games I've ever played. Also one of the best roguelikes. The gameplay is ridiculously tight, and the new characters are awesome. I wouldn't personally describe it as a coop Hades, but I wouldn't outright disagree with someone who did.

Shit, I just realized I've been playing a lot of games lately.

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Clair Obscur whenever I actually feel like playing anything. Though I can only take so much of it at once. The story and music? Amazing. The old-school turn based JRPG combat? Even with the dodge and parry mechanics it's just as thrilling as an older FF game; and I hated the combat in those, too, because it's kinda boring. It's a bit more tolerable here, given that I have some skill-based things involved; but it's still fairly boring. I just wanna know what the fuck is up with the everything about this messed up world.

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Tainted Grail Fall of Avalon

Tried the demo and it hooked me. Great game so far.

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Just getting into FF7 Rebirth. Was a huge fan of the original, but these remakes are just so silly it’s kind of hard. And I really don’t like the active combat system in modern FF games, but I’ll get through it.

Always playing a little Rust here and there, can’t help myself.

Was about to resub to RuneScape after a yearlong break but then I saw Mod Jack got canned. Jagex getting darker every year…

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I highly recommend going in blind. Innocence is first, followed by Requiem. Innocence has been free on epic a few times so you might already own it.

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I'm playing through Black Mesa lately!
Picked it up on the recent discount and now I'm going through it, gonna do all of HL2 next, time to check out the 20th anniversary update.

Also Lumines Remastered just went on sale so you bet I'm gonna be playing the hell out of that

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I'm currently playing:

Star Citizen (I know I know. I paid like $40 into the Kickstarter years ago and I dip in about once a year or so.)
Last of Us 2 (again)
Schedule I on Steam Deck is pretty fun.

I'm also currently gearing up to get horrendously addicted to Rimworld again since there's apparently a new DLC on the way.

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Blue prince is a DEEP HOLE. Just solved my fourth sigil. It is really relaxing to go in play one day, put it down for a couple of days ruminating on what you learned, then pick it back up and play 2 more days.

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Claire Obscure Expedition 33

Great story, characters, gameplay and music. Easy GOTY.
::: spoiler spoiler
After 5 tries I finally beat Clea. Also why do we have to fight Lampmaster four times?
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In between playing Infamous: Second Son and Super Mario 64...just playing SM64 for giggles.

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It certainly looks like it would fill the Skyrim void my brain sometimes has! But also new story that I might finish because I hated skyrims one mostly.

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I'm only in the second zone of the game but there's a lot to see and do just in the starter dungeon and the game's first zone. I'm really enjoying it so far.

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Same, been trying for gold stake on all decks. I'm up to purple stake green deck right now, wish me luck!

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Warframe is my go-to whenever I don't know what to play. Can always find a mission to jump into or a relic to crack.

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The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!