Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

I got back into Mini Metro. Wonderful minimalistic game.
- I love that game, I'm bad at it but it's a really chill experience. Until it all goes wrong.

I'm slowly continuing my playthrough of Divinity: Original Sin II and absolutely loving it.
I also recently bought Stardew Valley, finally, and started playing it a bit.
Last one, Mushihimesama as the c/shmups Game of the Month.
- Divinity original sin 2; is such a fantastic game!
- I, too, am playing DoS2 currently

I finally got my PS3 emulator up and running, so I'm finally able to play Sly 4 for the first time.
It's... different from the others. First in art, second on overall feel. The art is changed for a more cartoon aesthetic than comic book, so animation in the 2D cutscenes is more fluid and there are more details on everything (you can see the wrinkles in Sly's shirt, and the tufts of fur, for instance). The gameplay feels more floaty, like when you jump it looks like you kinda hover for a second before falling back down and it feels a little more weightless than the first three games.
I'm still liking that I get to play more Sly, so I'm not complaining too much.

Sekiro. The difficulty rises drastically with Demon of Hatred and Isshin.
- You're not kidding. I think my death count on Demon is the highest for me in any FromSoft game.

It came out not super long ago (2023) but Jusant has been a lot of fun and chill.
- I love the little orb thing it's very cute ☺️.
  
  I love the noises it makes ❤️

Playing Binding of Isaac finally. I was a little disappointed with the difficulty honestly! One of my most heavily played games ever is another Roguelike - DCSS. To be clear that one is turn-based, which is very different, but it took me years and dozens at least, probably low hundreds of runs to beat it.
I'm sure I'll be quickly humbled by the hard-mode difficulty and challenges and such on this one though. Super rewarding, fun, and extremely replayable! Great game. The different characters can play really differently, and through RNG you can def end up with some hilariously weak, or strong, builds.

I’m going back through the Pokémon series again (out of order). Currently playing through Yellow

I haven't got time to play anything these days :(

Arctic Eggs :)

Minecraft. Still on 1.21.4. Need to build a storage building/system, but feeling a little blocked.

Final Fantasy VII Remake, finally. Put in 4 or 5 hours right off the bat, put it down 4 or 5 years, picked it back up and now I'm about halfway through.

Castlevania: aria of sorrow, more raycrysis from the ray'z cronology, and I might finally buy the first leynos port for ps4.
where is the line between patient and retro gamer?

I've been playing x beyond the frontier, great space exploration game, there is a story but i don't really care about it.
Just "flying" through space with that soundtrack is such a relaxing thing, is great to play while a watch a cartoon or youtube video, or maybe just listen to a podcast.
I also got x2 and x3 with that one, once i'm finished with this one i might go for the sequels

Game list:
NHL99 - tried again but no luck
Colin McRae Rally 04
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War

Last but not least, I'm once again plugging my Pixelfed account - I created it, might as well let people know it exists. I've added some more screenshots since last week, this time from The Elder Scrolls Online and Remember Me.
I'll try to keep a decent variety of titles posted there - both to keep it interesting (I hope) and because that's just how I play games most of the time. One thing I can promise though is that most, if not all, of the titles posted there will be worthy of the patient gamer community.
- Out of sheer curiosity, what’re the issues you’re experiencing with NHL99?
  I’d have thought a title that old (25+ years) would emulate just fine?
  
  I'm trying to play the PC version so no emulation here. As for the issue, the game simply freezes on launch (right after the EA Sports splash).
  It seems to be a Linux (well, WINE) related issue since I was able to boot it up on Win10 a moment ago. It might be an problem with the graphics card detection tool failing during setup (it can't load a dll for that) but I have no idea how to fix that.
  I might have to spend some time looking into it now that I have a lead. Thanks for that.
- Your ESO screenshots look good! It has been my go-to for a while now, it's been fun. It's a shame the community on Lemmy isn't that busy, but I guess there's not a lot of players here yet.
  
  Thanks! I don't really "play" ESO as much as I use it as a sightseeing simulator at the moment but yeah, both normal gameplay and just running around can be quite enjoyable. They did a great job with the world and quest design.
  It’s a shame the community on Lemmy isn’t that busy, but I guess there’s not a lot of players here yet.
  Well, it's a self-perpetuating problem of small communities - no one engages with them so they look like ghost towns scaring people away. Someone has to be the one to get the ball rolling if they're to thrive wink wink nudge nudge.

Haven't been playing much this week yet. I guess Airborne Kingdom relaxed me too much and I felt the need to mellow down for a while longer.
Someone shared Grounded with me to try it out, but I haven't felt the desire to give it a go for now. Maybe by weekend time I'll be in the mood to feel tiny and fight giant, scary bugs/spiders.

I just set up Kingdom Hearts 2 on PCSX2 to try and decide if I'm gonna buy it on Steam.
Other than that, I'm finishing my The Wonderful 101 Hard playthrough on the way to 100% the game, and trying to beat all of Ken Amada's combo challenges in P4AU—27 down, 3 to go.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Only have time to play on the weekends, so I'm in slow mode. But enjoying navigation on the sea.

Emerald dead redemption 2. Played out 8 hours so far, been enjoying it

Warframe, I'm at the point where I can start steel path, but for some reason I decided I wanted to max-level all factions before doing so, and I've come too far to not do it, only got 3 left.

Crusader Kings 2 (yes, I know that 3rd one exists). After conquering the world in vanilla (at last!), I am checking the mods. Currently playing ElderKings (Elder Scrolls mods).

I'm thinking about resuming my Factorio save. I half-solved Fulgora and I'm moving on to Vulcanus.