Patient Gamers

Hitman World of Assassination! I put off playing it because the purchase model was so fucking confusing, but now that I got it I'm having a blast! These games have some of the best level design I've ever seen, the way IOI integrates story with natural progression through the level is incredible to see. I've never seen a level like Sgail where a player must choose between either climbing the physical structure of the level, or climbing the social ladder through disguises that grant you increasing influence.

I'm on the Chongqing level, and the neon lights look absolutely gorgeous.

Unicorn Overlord.

Tried it around 2 years back and my biggest problem with it was that it was way too easy, which killed all need to engage with its tactics and squad building mechanics, which are the main mechanics of the game.

I'm now playing it on the highest difficulty with some personal restrictions. It started out pretty hard in the first couple of missions but has already become way easier by the end of the second nation. I hope that the difficulty ramps up again soon because the generic ass story certainly won't keep me going.

Replaying Rogue Trader now half the DLC is out, occasionally with my best friend as they added a coop mode at some point. RPing a reformed crime lord who has seen the light of the Imperial Truth and dedicated himself to spreading the Emperor's word while my friend goblins around with all the crim characters looting everything and occasionally triggering a fight when I'm halfway across the map.

Baldur's gate 3. Only about twenty hours in and still feel like I've got a lot to learn. Seems cool tho.

Halfway through Homura Hime. It's pretty fun albeit a little too easy for my liking on the highest difficulty.

I just started Pillars of Eternity again last night.

I'd played before up to like the big port city where you can find paladin girl, but the RTWP just wasn't clicking with me.

Now that they added turn based, I'm giving it another go with my Moon Godling Chanter. Reny Daret's ghost is a fucking beast.

I'm in what I would think is the final third or so of AI Limit, a well received anime-styled Soulslike from last year.

I'm having a hard time evaluating my time with it, because I find myself annoyed and frustrated numerous times when playing it, but this is the first Soulslike I've played in like 6 months and every time I am about to call the game bad I stop and reflect. Ambushes? Delayed attacks? Enemies with spammy attack patterns? Poison swamps? Time-wasting enemy placement? Idiotic platforming without a dedicated jump button? Aren't these all genre staples of Souls games at this point? Am I slowly discovering that this genre isn't for me anymore?

So I don't know. By all accounts the game is a competent Soulslike. Maybe I just haven't been sleeping well lately, and that's why I'm getting tilted.

Watching the floor get wiped with my carcass in Dragon's Dogma. In hard mode.
On the upside, in between all the retrying, i amassed 1.5 mil gold coins from just running around the map exploring and killing goblins and bandits.

This is one of those games where side quests get locked out by advancing the main story. I'm at a point where the main quest sends me right, but the side quests send me left, so I went the long way around. Now with hard mode, the exp gains are doubled from normal mode and mobs drop gold. I don't know if it's how it's supposed to work, but all the weak goblins keep dropping 10k bags. I don't mind it, because it definitely isn't enough anyway.

My defense only matters for weak mobs, in case they gank me while I'm dodging the big guys and they tend to do that, wolves especially. The big guys mostly one-shot me, so I might as well run naked around them. Might be different at higher levels, but I'm a small time explorer for now.

I'm not sure I'm going to finish the story, but for now it's fun. We'll see how it develops further on.