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Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 10th (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago by chloyster@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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What have you all been playing!

I am back on my SMW ROM hack kick. Recently completed a plumber for all seasons. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in ROM hacks. Great traditional style hack with beautiful art

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[–] CharlesReed@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Diablo 3: Season 29 - Completed the Guardian chapter! Now I have only one more objective/conquest to finish out the season. I was going to try to go for the one of completing the campaign under 1 hour, but I quickly realized I would not be good at that by any means. So I'm working on the one for going through a level 55 greater rift with 6 different set bonuses. Sounds easy enough, but since I usually only use one character per season, I'm having to level up another for their set run.

Diablo 4: Season 2 - Still working on reaching level 90.

Gray Dawn - I've played my fair share of bizarre games, but I'm not sure if I've ever said "wtf" so many times while playing a game. So much so that I just kind of gave up on trying to figure things out about halfway through and was there for the ride. Before I actually started it, I read it described as a "priest simulator", and that it did seem to be at times. I'm not really into structured religion, so there were probably a lot of symbolism that went over my head and/or didn't make sense. (I also got a strange feeling towards the end that I wasn't actually the target audience? Like this was a horror game, but not for people like me.)
Apparently I got the "good" ending, which didn't really seem that good at all, so I went and got the bad ending... which was just as much 'meh' as the other ending was. Overall, the pacing was a little slow and at times it seemed to drag on at times. Some of the voice acting also left something to be desired, but it wasn't horrible, and the main redeeming factor is that the imagery was really cool.

Rant

Even though some of the imagery isn't explained? Like there is what looks like a bloody wax child with one eye in a glass case in this dude's library, and it's just... never talked about? I mean there's a lot of things in this game where it's just, oh something spooky! Satan's out to get you! Blood and guts, bleh! But like I was sitting there wondering, is this dude just not going to mention it? Has it always been there? If it has, why? If it hasn't, why isn't he saying anything about it!
Also there's a lot of Latin in this game that whenever I tried to look it up it just ended up being lyrics to old metal songs, which in itself is kind of hilarious to me, given the subject and themes of the game.

I also did a quick run through the original Dead Space (2008) since I'll be jumping into the remake soon. I've only heard good things, but I'm eager to see for myself how the new one compares, since it's one of my favorite franchises. I'm stoked that they brought back Isaac's voice actor from 2 and 3. I can't imagine anyone else but Gunner Wright as Isaac Clarke.