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Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by GuyWTriangle@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Hey everybody, hope all has been going well. This week I finally finished the main quest for Morrowind. Morrowind is definitely rough around the edges and hard to get into because of its skill system but one I finally broke the barrier (I had two previous attempts at playing that didn't survive meeting the Blades crackhead) I found the world to be quite immersive. Anyway, my definitive TES rankings of the ones I've played are Skyrim > Morrowind > Oblivion. I started the Tribunal expansion but ended up turning it off after I blundered into a quest where I had to punch a guy to death with only 12 in Hand to Hand.

In the meantime I started a new campaign in Total War: Attila, as the Western Roman Empire, trying to hold my ramshackle empire together with nothing but duct tape and germanic mercenaries

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[–] Sithlorddahlia@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Finished Xenoblade Chronicles 1 a couple weeks ago and really loved it. There's something about the story that stuck with me - the whole structure of a world where everything exists to feed one guy at the top, and the main character ends up rejecting the chance to become the new god. Felt like revolutionary potential even if it doesn't fully follow through.

Tried Xenoblade Chronicles 2 right after and bounced off. Part of it was the sexualization, but what really started nagging at me was the Driver/Blade relationship - you've got this whole system where sentient beings are bound to serve and you acquire them through a gacha mechanic. It started feeling gross in a way I couldn't shake. I ended up dropping it.

Now I'm playing Pokémon Leaf Green while my laptop gets fixed [I was playing Fallout 2 prior to it needing repairs]. As I'm typing this I just realized I'm sitting here catching creatures without a second thought after dropping XC2 for basically the same dynamic. Been playing Pokémon since I was a kid, so it's easier to just fall into it without thinking. I also realize that thinking about games this way kind of ruins them.