What are you currently playing? V4

Waiting for Tales of Arise to release so I'm replaying Borderlands at the moment, it's been YEARS and it's...harder than I remember it being, actually. Or should I say, stricter with levels. Trying to take on a mission/enemy even one level below the recommended means I either dump a fuckton of ammo into enemies or I die. So the answer is to do the missions in order and do a Level 15 mission when I am actually Level 15, haha. I may or may not finish this in a week before Arise comes out, but it's delightfully nostalgic.

Taking a break before I play GAA2 to read through Cafe Enchante, which despite its endearing cast isn't as engaging as the last otome I read - Code Realize - and is riddled with frustrating typos and grammatical errors. My brain autocorrects them, but it's still pretty poor work from Aksys and definitely not what I expected. I also dug out Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, which is probably one of the more obscure FF titles out there and was the inspiration for Bravely Default. It's...much more punishing than Bravely Default, haha. The need to grind is very real, it's VERY stingy with gems to upgrade crowns, and it favours the old system of letting you know where to go by punishing you with enemies that will annihilate you if you go anywhere else. But I'm enjoying it! I never did finish it so this is a new experience for me.

on the slowest Stellaris quest ever since someone lags the whole session to oblivion.

I just want to be a gas giant in peace :(

Finished Cafe Enchante, so picked up The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve as my next VN. Also decided to finally play Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle for...some reason. Maybe for a change of pace. I don't like the rabbids, but the gameplay thus far has been quite enjoyable and Kirkhope's score is, as always, impeccable. It's a fairly good time.

Struggling to get into Tales of Arise. Alas.

Dawn said:

Struggling to get into Tales of Arise. Alas.

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A friend of mine said the story premise is interesting but its execution, not so much.

Right now I'm playing Ys IX. This is apparently easier than Ys VIII so I'm playing it on nightmare. It's a nice challenge.

Wuzzy said:

just finished the main story of Ys8 - Lacrimosa of Dana, and will be moving on to Ys9 - Monstrum Nox and tackling the post game of Ys8 whenever I feel like switching things up. Highly recommend if you like the Tale of series

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I went from Origin -> Celceta -> 8 and now 9. Had fun in all of them, with Ys 8 being the most fun. The OST was nice too! And I'm really glad they brought back raids and hunts in a different form through the Grimwald Nox in Yx IX. Those were really fun in Ys 8.

Dropped Empire of Sin for now

Playing
Great Ace Attorney
Deathloop

Playing currently on PC/Steam:

Destiny 2 (did the VoG raid, got scammed)
C&C: Red Alert 2
Factorio

Alternating between Tales of Arise and Xenoblade Chronicles DE. Arise arrived the other day and it's easily a contender for my personal GOTY - the environments are so aesthetically pleasing and the combat is quite fun imo. Enemy variety is a bit lacking though.
As for Xenoblade (lategame spoilers)

my addiction to Destiny 2 has not stopped recently... i will have the fatebringer once more >_>

I finished Trails of Cold Steel 1 last night. Overall I did enjoy this game. I really did. The story was what kept me going for the most part. Plus it's just so much like the Persona series it's scary lol.

I struggled way too much with this game but I was told, repeatedly, that the first game in this franchise is the hardest so we'll see if that's true or not. Regardless I always ended up persevering eventually. The final couple of bosses in the game were a breeze. Which was nice considering the almost-impossible BS I ended up dealing with for the final Old Schoolhouse boss. Hopefully this won't happen with any of the other games. But again we'll see.

Either way I hate cliffhanger endings and I was planning on doing this anyway (because I already knew the first game had a cliffhanger ending beforehand). I'll be playing the next game in the series, Trails of Cold Steel II (2) as soon as possibly tonight. I'm hoping I won't struggle as much with this one and it'll be a lot easier. I guess I'll find out.

Completed Arise and Xenoblade DE, so I've moved on to Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Haven't even played through the first hour yet so I have no idea what to expect. Pyra when

CS:GO with friends

we're on a derank train though :(

BotW. I think I'm now having an easier time with this game. I'm far from beating the game but I still want to try out some shenanigans. Though, getting the Master Sword early definitely showed that I can mess up even the easiest glitches. xD

Still playing Ys IX. And Pokemon Unite with friends.
Ys IX is really good definitely recommend!

Dropped Xenoblade 2 and picked up Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth. I'm currently on chapter 2 with some rookies and 1 champion (Gargomon).

Pyrax said:

Dropped Xenoblade 2 and picked up Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth. I'm currently on chapter 2 with some rookies and 1 champion (Gargomon).

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Oh how's it? I've always wanted to try it out :O

As for me it's still Ys IX 😅I had a bunch of college work so put it on hold but the game is LOVELY

C&C Red Alert 2, played a bunch of online games and now im drained cause of how intense the games were ^^"

Soaring Sid said:

Oh how's it? I've always wanted to try it out :O

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Cyber Sleuth is very grindy (especially if you want a Mega level Digimon) and the overworld map sucks but it's still fun. The combat's surprisingly deep, feels closer to SMT/Persona than Pokémon imo. Collecting Digimon is so addicting too 😳
I'm 18 hours in and I've just reached chapter 6 with a couple of Ultimates. Feels like the halfway point is coming.

Pokémon shield Pokémon unite Pokémon showdown and sun and moon

Been all over the place lately. Been playing Nexomon Extinction, Pokemon Unite, and Mario Kart 8 DX

I just got off of the battlefield 2042 beta, its pretty fun