What are you currently playing? V4.0

Dear Diary,

Today I parried a chainsaw with a combat knife, and it was FUCKING AMAZING.

Love,

Uly xx

Streets of Rage 4

Still an amazing game. A series update done right. The soundtrack is incredible; there's a moment during the elevator section in the tower stage where the music kicks in and it proper gives me the feels

There's a decent amount of stuff to do with Survival Mode and everything as well

Coming up to the end of Monster Boy I think but stuck on a puzzle. Bugger. The puzzle where you have to

Started Evil West only an hour in, seems linear and fun. Reminds me of Godhand for some reason.

Can't put my finger on it (no pun intended)

I played a total of 17 minutes of Batora: Lost Haven before uninstalling it.

Icewind Dale:

I ended up finishing off Dragon's Eye without running into too much trouble. The encounter that gave me so much trouble the last time turned out fine on the first try. There is this horde of Trolls and Talonite priests that cannot be pulled apart and where the whole group will always come running once any of them see any of the player's characters. There is this narrow pasage nearby, which can easily be blocked though, so my Paladin was able to stand in front for a surprisingly long time while my other characters were using ranged weapons and various area-of-effect spells and items. I eventually had to pull back the very hurt Paladin and my Druid managed to get off a Smashing Wave right through most of the group, which killed some of the Trolls and Priests and stunned some of the others.

The very last encounter down on Level 5 was pure luck though. I stupidly sent in the Paladin to hack at the boss without getting in any damage while standing in Cloudkill and receiving way too much damage from the boss and her minions. He eventually had to turn and run and heal up, while I let the Ranger - who had been standing at the back of the room with his bow - switch to his Long Sword and then engage the boss together with the Paladin at the room entrance. I barely noticed when she fell over, but as it turns out a Ranger with his extra attack plus Haste and a decent THAC0 is pretty effective in getting in the damage.

Meanwhile my Fighter/Cleric was badly hurt on the right side of the room, so he too had to run away. And ran away he did right through a trap that poisoned him. I'm still not quite sure if the antidote kicked in at the right time or he just saved against the poison, but he ended up standing outside the room with a single hitpoint for the rest of the battle.

The rest of it was mostly just trying to not have anybody die while trying to clean up the survivors. Most of them were in very bad shape and mostly out of healing potions and spells. It was really just brute force with a good bit of luck and a lot of running away.

Back to playing (and enjoying) RE4 after a brief hiatus - I've met up with Ashley, survived the horde with Luis, and now I'm looking for a place to lie low.

I've delved back into Enshrouded after the new update adding a new mountain region. Really is a charming game and exploring the new biome harks back to Skyrim and, more recently, Dragons Dogma 2. Not sure anyone has played it here but I would recommend it.

Half life Alyx. Found out recently there was a mod to let you play it like a normal game and that it was still great so just been waiting until it was on sale again. £16 currently and put a couple of hours in earlier. It’s amazing being back in this world. I’m sure it’s much better in vr but this is still a hell of a lot of fun playing like hl2 and it works really well so far with no issues apart from took a while to work out how to get the mod working.

Gradually learning my way into CK3. Restarted a few times but think I’m starting to get to grips with it. But I’ve now found myself in a bit of a situation. Bit of a long story as to how we got here but basically I inherited most of the Irish holdings my father had and Iceland to boot. Problem is I’m a 4 year old girl and everyone hates me. If I can survive the next 10 years or so I should be able to do quite a lot in this lifetime though.

Mainly Death Stranding.

Age Of Mythology and HL2.

Felt like a HL2 replay then found everyone else is doing the same because of the update I knew nothing about.

PoP: TLC (SX)
I'm not totally sold on the combat so far, but absolutely love the traversal. Just like Metroid Dread it has that immediate "this feels bloody lovely to control" impression, which just improves as you get upgrades like the air dash.

Dungeons of Hinterberg (SX)
Just dipping in daily for rewards quests and to slowly tick off the achievements (which seem like they'd be a pretty massive slog if you try to no-life it)

other half has been playing this over the weekend and really rates it. she wasn't massively enamoured by it at initial launch but it seems to have updated nicely

Reminds me, I should probably go back to RE4. I got sidetracked by other stuff and haven't touched it for a month or two.

Did what I thought was the final boss battle in Remember Me, and turns out it wasn't anything like the final boss battle. Maybe after I actually finish it I should go back to RE4.
Though I should probably finish off Oxenfree and Life is Strange first. How did I suddenly end up with so many in-progress games?