What are you currently playing?

Will do, if I make it that far. I have a terrible track record with farming games.   I already see I need to upgrade some stuff before I can marry anyone, so gotta start actually having a plan I suppose. 

I planted some stuff, but I have no idea what I'm doing. hahah

I've been playing Miitopia all week (started with the Demo). It's fun. It's a very old-school RPG, but nice to throw in whatever random characters I want.

We are playing Gun now, a game from my childhood that my brother loved.
I'm loving it as well so far, but it REALLY, REALLY makes me want a gay cowboy/western game.

So I finished my first Sony exclusive ps5 games (they on ps4 as well of course). I'm talking specifically about the Spiderman games in this case.

Spiderman Remastered is a gorgeous game graphically speaking and very well done all around. It did get pretty repetitive with the 9 million side quests that had all the "do the thing x 10" however, and the dlc made that part of it even worse shockingly enough. I feel like in general the dlc was best skipped for me personally, and I suspect I would do that in any future replays.

I heard all over the place that Miles Morales looked even better, and I was skeptical because the original was so nice, but they were right! The ray tracing, the textures, and all the bells and whistles were just so so nice. I played it with performance RT-and it still looked better than Spiderman in graphical mode. Amazing honestly! It took me 5 nights of play to complete it, so I have to disagree with the people who called it a dlc. I have certainly bought shorter games than SMM for full price in my day (sadly), and this felt like a full game to me! The combat was much approved, the side quest variety was way better-and I never felt like I was drowning in "do the thing"-it was much better paced. Masterpiece! Also if I'm honest Miles is more likeable than Peter. Though I adore both of them.

I played this in gamepass. Yeah. Thought that story was not that bad until THAT twist, and I was like "just why".

I caved and bought My Time At Portia because for some reason I was REALLY in the mood to play it. Wish I bought it during the sale a few weeks ago though to save some money! I played a bit and I'm loving it so far!

Also started playing Divinity Original Sin 2 with my fiance. I think I'll probably be focusing on this one instead of Portia over the next few days/weeks, but I still very mich want to get back to it!

We just finished the original Rayman on PS1 - which took several months in between work and school. The game is insanely difficult!

I started playing it again a year later cause apparently when I played it first it was in its early build. Really enjoying it, but it’s become
ing a drag towards the end and the completionist in me just can’t stop playing until I finish every possible quest 😭 also the sequel is coming, but since the devs are Chinese and their laws idk if they were able to keep same sex marriage options 😞
also, just checked ultimate hangout thread and I had no idea you guys still discuss things there, I though everybody’s mostly gone 😬

I’m considering possibly giving the Legendary Edition of Mass Effect a run only because I can get it for free, so I feel less bad if I would be paying BioWare for what they ultimately gave gay fans in this edition.

Nevertheless currently I’ve been playing the first Witcher game on my PC again cause of the new season on Netflix making me want to dip into that universe again, without taking on the behemoth that is replaying Witcher 3 again (I’m also waiting for that to come out for next gen before playing again)

I still think the first Witcher had the best atmosphere and overall feel to it, the music and some of the non city based locations are still gorgeous and evocative

Because of that it gave me a hankering for games set in beautiful locations with atmospheres you could just soak up without necessarily having to get into combat, as I liked Witcher 1 was arguably lite enemy encounter wise

Two indie games I discovered that had these aspects were Eastshade which I adore, and is such a calming and melodic gaming experience that is a wonderfully light and positive palette cleanser for me after playing anything heavy or too dark story beats wise. I heartily recommend



Another great indie game I’ve been playing is Ghost of a Tale. It has some simply stunning environment and level design, and if you’ve always wanted to play an RPG lite action adventure where you get to play as a Bilbo Baggins type as opposed to your usual sword or sorcery character, then this is ideal, plus it brings really strong Redwall vibes with all the characters being anthropomorphised animals

I am replaying Earthbound on Switch. I find myself getting very frustrated at times as it's not very clear what to do sometimes. Also, the "comedy" effect doesn't seem to work on me anymore-perhaps my sense of humor is too picky now. It's okay, but my memory said it was a great game. It lied to me several times.