Game: What game are you currently playing??

[Ryllharu]

Yeah, not quite Fable.

But the ones you do have are very well-written, dynamic, and require figuring out how to get them to trust you...except best girl Bae'zel. She just wants to fuck you for the novelty. Lae'zel has the best line when you turn her down though.

It has also come to my attention that there is indeed a foursome possible with some NPCs and one of the companions. There's a ton of variations to a lot of the available romance scenes as the game progresses.

[Buffalobiian]

I've been playing Lies of P for the past week or two. It's a blast. Souls-like that feels like a modern DS done with Sekiro-levels of storytelling (so slightly cryptic, but the NPCs tell you what's happening eventually).

I've been playing with the Azure Dragon Glaive that pretty lets me play this like Sekiro. The parry windows are certainly more generous than DS.

[Buffalobiian]

Black Myth Wukong was pretty fun. I have to make it look like ass in order to run on my 8 year old graphics card, but the core gameplay remains unchanged. The Spellbinder ability you get midway through the game is really strong.

[MFauli]

Replaying "Mini Ninjas". Not as good as I remembered, but I have nothing that I really want to play currently and it's a nice little distraction.

[Buffalobiian]

Khazan the First Berserker is turning out to be pretty fun.

[shinta|hikari]

Been avoiding soulslike games recently because they are stressful. Have enough of that IRL.

My wife and I are playing Squirreled Away, a sandbox game where you are squirrels. Cozy fun.

[Buffalobiian]

Been avoiding soulslike games recently because they are stressful. Have enough of that IRL.

It's definitely stressful. And addictive. And very bad for study right now.

I'm playing a little bit of Split Fiction with my family members on the side. It's relaxing and also overall enjoyable. It doesn't create the same adrenaline surge though.

[Buffalobiian]

Aaaand Khazan is now completed. It was definitely stressful, and all-consuming. Spent 90hrs on it and didn't end up doing anything else for the past 2-3 weeks or so. Which is kind of how all these games end up going for me.

It's a good game. Feels closest to Nioh, but overall feels easier in that:
-the game reward just-in-time dodging/guarding/parrying.
-parrying is easier in this game than in Nioh, where guarding uses a ton of stamina and dodging was the only real way to mitigate damage.
-bosses are more easily interruptible in this game while it seems like everyone in Nioh has hyperarmour 80% of the time.

Nioh could be easier in that certain magic or ninjutsu builds could be broken without you needing to really engage in melee combat.

Stance changing and ki-pulsing was the factor that gave Nioh's combat complexity. While Khazan didn't have this feature, the variety in combat came more from the fact that blocking and parrying were actually viable - so you could weave them (and subsequent counter attacks) into your mix instead of the usual dodge-attack pattern.

Overall, very fun game. TAA is starting to look shit on my graphics card though, but what a shit time to be looking for a graphics card.

Anyway, now I can start watching anime again.