Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of August, 28, 2023

Suprisingly enough still playing Forspoken. I'm in this strange mood where it's weirdly cathartic to just play a good looking colectathon with flashy combat. I'm about 25 hours in and have uncovered about 30% of the map, and still having fun.

Armored core 6, great action game, definitely not a souls game however. The combat is challenging enough but I think I found the cheesy strat to bulldoze the challenges which makes it too easy. It's easy to boot it up and do a mission or two as they are only a few minutes each. We'll see if I stick with it.

Also Armored Core 6. I needed AC back in my life after all these years. Fantastic mech game with great customization and no microtransactions. Everything is unlocked through moderate play. My biggest problem is a difficulty spike near the end of the game where a build check boss takes the check up to 11.

Other than that I run Gridworld in the background all day. Tryna see my little squares become viable enough to eat, reproduce, and walk on their own. So far, I've had 1 successful species that spread so far and fast they wiped themselves out.

I've been taking my sweet time with Baldur's Gate 3. Getting close to the end at 300 odd hours in.

I'll take a break every so often with Halls of Torment.

Before this I spent the last 5 months playing Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.

I'm a console player and have been craving some decent strategy gameplay, so I've been trying out Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord and Stellaris. Enjoying both immensely!