What games are you playing now?

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Automobilista 2 - bought it few days ago, IMSA bundle and all classic European tracks. Great simulation that drives very good on gamepad. And one of the best sounding simulation, if not the best.
 
Once again it's getting too hot to even think of turning on the PS5. I don't know how people in normally hot countries actually use it. Maybe their houses aren't as stupidly built as ours.

Back playing the likes of Stardew and AMS2 on the handheld PC instead, sitting in the nice cool(ish) garden. This is the future of my gaming.
 
Gran Turismo on my Vita. For a cut down game for a handheld console it's a very good package compared to modern games.
 
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I bit the bait and got pulled into Palworld. Still trying to figure things out, but I got an okay starter base so far. Eventually, I'm going to move to a better location for a permanent one.
 
Bought a month of premium on nexus mods to try some mod collections on some games, these collections have hundreds of mods each.

Skyrim with Keizaal Online

Starfield with Odyssey - A True RPG collection

Cyberpunk with Welcome To Night City collection, Dark Future (survival mode mod) and the Realistic Traffic Density mod

I've been giving Starfield another shot for the past few days. I started a new game and I'm currently on the Vanguard questline but I'm still not into it. No amount of mods can make Starfield a good game.

Next will be Fallout New Vegas with the VeryLastKiss's New New Vegas collection.
 
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Way too hot for Playstation at the moment so been gaming on the Steam Deck exclusively.

Put a few of hours into Graveyard keeper as I got it for free and as per most of these types of games I want to like them but its all too overwhelming and slow to get anywhere. If I have to contastly Google where to find a certain material or know how to progress i lose interest very quickly.

Also played Serious Sam the Next Encounter. Always loved the Serious Sam games.
It's aged quite badly in many areas but the mindless shooting is still brilliant and its a perfect game for the Steam Deck.
 
Stardew Valley. I stupidly got it on Steam (a triple dip as I already have it on PS5 and Switch) and have got sucked in again. I am now a full-time virtual farmer and constantly think of crop rotations and keeping all my animals fed & happy. Jeremy is right, this is a harder life than it looks.
 
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I don't know for sure but I think I know what you mean, this game is harsh!

Last night I had to choose between aiding Legion or Tali, apparently it was possible to prepare for a mutually beneficial option but the game didn't even hint as to how you do that (unless I missed it) and it was pretty traumatic.

Still great, but I can only imagine what's to come...
 
In anticipation of some cooler weather and finally being able to turn on the PS5, bought the AssCreed Black Flag remake as I never played the original. Looking forward to a bit of legal piracy this weekend.

Also picked up Powerwash Sim. We have a hosepipe ban starting on Friday so I’ll have to get my cleaning kicks virtually.
 
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Besides Gran Turismo I‘ve just started my first playthrough of the Yakuza 4 Remaster (after having played 0, Kiwami 1 & 2 and 3).

I’m still pretty early in the main story, but I’m really enjoying it so far. What stands out to me again is how immersive and atmospheric the game feels.

Exploring Kamurocho and getting absorbed in the world has always been one of my favorite aspects of these games.
 
-Forza Horizon 6 (PC and Xbox)
-Dave the Diver, with the Godzilla and Dredge DLC (PC and Xbox)
-Spider-Man Remastered, PC only. I purchased it some time ago, dropped it about 3 hours in and now I restarted again. I think my problem was trying to play it like the Batman Arkham games. Now I play it loose and with some selfishness: I don't do car chases and I not tackle every robbery while in route to the story objectives. Cops should do their work too!
 
EBaseball: Pro Spirit 2026. Don't know a lot about baseball, even less about Japanese baseball. Can't bat to save my life but really having a good time with it. Hakkyu no Kiseki, is one of the most fun modes I've experienced in a sports game.
 
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DiRT 3 Complete Edition on my XB1S. This is probably the fourth time I'm replaying this game.
Gotta' love backwards compatibility. I'll have to give credit to MS for that.

I'll most likely replay Driver:SF as well (for the nth time) after I get tired of capturing a bunch of screenshots in D3.


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Been getting a bit bored of everything else i've been playing recently, so decided to dip into the archive of Playstation Plus monthly games that i'd added to my collection but never downloaded.

Tried God of War (2018) first but couldn't get on with the strict, linear nature of the gameplay.

I've always enjoyed Bethesda's games and having finally stopped playing Fallout 76 in the last 6 months i thought i'd give Elder Scrolls Online a shot. Given it came out in 2015, the same year as Fallout 4, the graphics feel decidedly previous, previous gen. PS3 rather than PS4. They're much closer to Oblivion (2006) then they are even Skyrim (2011). I know the online aspect is bound to dial that down a touch to keep everything running smoothly and the frame-rate up when there are a whole bunch of non-NPCs in an area, but FO76 feels like a whole generation up from ESO even though they debuted on the same platform and only 3 years apart.

Janky graphics aside it all feels nicely familiar and easy to settle into, even if it's not the FO76 in Tamriel i was expecting. The fighting aspect is pretty poor and simplistic and the way enemies re-spawn as soon as you turn your back is annoying. Still. Having a massive new map to explore and a character to level up is just what i needed.
 
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Been getting back into Palworld since friends decided to spin up a new server after a year or so away. It's pretty surprising just how much has been added and improved since I last played then, plus the game world feels a whole lot larger without being barren in huge places like many open world games do, and the inclusion of a main story quest that you can follow gives a lot more structure to everything. Of course you can just ignore it entirely if you want and go do your own thing too with no penalty.

Haven't yet gone off to make my own farm like I did way back when, and we will need to start making more specialized bases soon, but the do-it-all facility we've been working on together has come along quite nicely even if it's not going to win any aesthetic awards. Though even with the advanced production lines going that were the high end back in 0.4 or so, now it feels like we've only scratched the surface of how OP the game will let you get eventually.

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Well, I said this earlier, and at some point in late May, I finally beat my 18-year-old career in this game. Had a lot of fun with it, more so than anticipated, and it was satisfying to finally beat it after all this time. So much so, I stuck around long after the career was done, and earned a lot of money for cars and parts and had arguably even more fun than before. I did this for another couple of weeks until finally wrapping on June 10th. I played NASCAR as I usually do around this time of the year, but I wasn't too satisfied with it because I felt like I could be doing so much more than just turning laps in NASCAR with no real goal in mind. So I decided to keep the ball rolling by returning to another one of my all-time favorite racing games.

That game being Need for Speed Underground 2. This is and always has been my favorite NFS game, and it's one I've wanted to get back to for a very long time now, even longer than Midnight Club 3. Although I've been in and out of it a few times over the years to look at some stuff, the last time I made any real progress in it was way back in 2006. Since the feeling of finally removing one game from my backlog after so long was so satisfying with MC3 and made me a lot happier than I would've been otherwise, I thought, why stop there? So I decided to finally get back to this one for the first time in 20 years and eventually finish it as well. Having a lot of fun so far and can't wait to beat it. Hoping to knock it out before my family and I go on vacation soon.
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So after posting this, sure enough, I eventually beat my 20-year-old save game for Need for Speed Underground 2 a few days before my family and I went on vacation, and it was pretty fun! Though I will admit, it did go on a little long near the end, but nevertheless, this has been the one game in my backlog I've wanted to complete the longest of any I can think of, and I am pleased it's finally done.

Now, I am moving on to Need for Speed Carbon on PS2. Although this is the one NFS I played the absolute most, it's been a hot minute since I came back to it again. I created 3 profiles for it, one when I got the game back in 2006 and the other 2 being from sometime in 2007. My first one was done and dusted about 15 years ago; meanwhile, the others have yet to be completed, one being nearly done and the other not even close. That said, I think it's about time I finally knock those out too. I had a lot of fun finishing up Midnight Club 3 and Need for Speed Underground 2 after many years of absence, so I am going to keep the ball rolling! 😎

I am eventually planning on going back and replaying all of my favorite Need for Speed games back to back with new save games someday, starting with Underground 1 and stopping at Undercover, but I won't do that until all my old profiles are done first. Fortunately, I think Carbon is the last one I have to complete.
 
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- Doom (1993) on PC
Just finished Episode 1, I’m still doing Episode 2 right now.
- Grand Theft Auto IV on PC
Just doing missions and doing freeroam while I’m not doing the mission (and going to swingset from hell just for fun).
 
Finished Mass Effect Legendary Edition, such a great game. The ending didn't quite live up to the 100+ hours that came before and I think it lost some impact in a decision I'd made previously
because I chose the ending that would allow organics and synthetics to coexist, only I'd refused to allow Legion to give the geth the upper hand in the war with the quarians and the quarians killed ALL the geth, the only synthetics (aside from the reapers) left, unless you include the collectors and other species the reapers had modified. So the ending was basically "yay we can peacefully coexist with this monstrous synthetic species composed solely of the horrific results of their practice and all it took was sacrificing the person who did more to help us fight them than anyone in the entire universe" - like sharing a house with the cannibal who ate your family...
. I only chose that ending because I wasn't paying attention and wasn't sure which of the other two options were which.

Anyway, I spent some time thinking of what to play next, something with similar vibes, a dark, dramatic sci-fi story full of intriguing twists and excellent characterisation (and voice acting), but it didn't take long for me to find the perfect thing.

But I decided to play Baba Is You instead. I was actually playing Baba and Patrick's Parabox to take breaks from ME:LE because I didn't want it to be over too quickly and have been playing them both since, but Baba is such a rollercoaster of "I can't see a single move I can make here" one minute to "I can't believe such an obvious solution took me that long to see" the next that it's a bit more compelling than Patrick's Parabox, although that is also an excellent puzzle game, it's just that the difficulty curve is flatter where Baba's is spiky and I find that more compelling. I've found a few times I've had to go away and do some more levels I've unlocked to come back and apply some of those ideas to solve a level I've been stuck on.
 
Halo: Campaign Evolved. 25 years later and the menu music with the Halo (Installation 04) hovering in the background still gives me chills. I've played the original game countless times since 2001, including the Anniversary edition (2011), but seeing the game with a completely new look is very jarring but so far I am enjoying it.
 
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Halo: Campaign Evolved. 25 years later and the menu music with the Halo (Installation 04) hovering in the background still gives me chills. I've played the original game countless times since 2001, including the Anniversary edition (2011), but seeing the game with a completely new look is very jarring but so far I am enjoying it.
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I also downloaded an installed it for the PC. Other than some stutters in the cutscenes, it has run ok and with high graphics settings I'm getting 120+ fps @1440p.
 

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