- Marvel's Midnight Suns: I got this for 10 dollars on humble and it mostly makes me very sad. There's hints of good ideas but it's so festooned with AAA weirdness that it actively makes it hard to focus on the strategy parts, which seem good but are strangely hard to parse (why in the world can't I check character specializations or reorder decks from the deploy menu???). I can see why jake solomon left firaxis over this game tbh
- Final Fantasy 14 Online: After a generous donation of an entire high level gear set from another player I'm back and chugging my way through all the patch content I missed since endwalker dropped. I'm in a weird place with this game still tho I think; it's fun but I'm not feeling especially like sticking around in that world at the moment. Sometimes I feel really inspired to go collecting shit in ff14 (like triple triad cards) and there's so much of that to do but... idk. Not right now I guess?
- ASTLIBRA: Still an incredible game, but now that I'm into what I can only describe as the "post-postgame" I feel like I might need a little break. Maybe the longest sidescrolling RPG I've ever played, for good and bad. But it's a great game overall. I just need a change of pace once in awhile.
- Octopath Traveler 2: I never finished the first game but I've been enjoying this quite a bit. I think the biggest obstacle to me sticking with it is that other games keep existing. RPGs are long and I'm very distractable! Lovely time tho
- Tales of Maj'Eyal: I'm on a mild roguelike kick again, I guess. I'm still as bad as ever at it tho
- Glider Pro: I found a windows port recently (airfoil) and have been living the visceral joy of getting to play the "game that got away" as a kid who only ever had access to PCs. It's as much of a blast as I remember it being and is making me weirdly nostalgic for other 90s games I played back in the day - chip's challenge, castle of the winds, ultima online. Maybe I'm going to end up on a server for that again. Oh no. Speaking of:
- LOTRO: I tried this over christmas after seeing someone else mention it. Hm. Idk. It's an MMO alright! I feel like it doesn't do a great job of capturing anything I liked about the books or movies but maybe that's the curse of old MMOs in general. Or maybe that's my fault for starting as an elf. I might poke at it more out of a desire to give it a chance, but I'm not feeling much positive about it rn
- City of Heroes: I poked back at this one too after that news article. It mostly reminds me a lot of how much both this game and champs online were trying to buck the MMO UI trends, sometimes successfully and sometimes otherwise. I don't think I'd stick with this one without a group of friends tho, in the same way I probably wouldn't play ragnarok online without one.
- Pseudoregalia: I blazed through this one in a few days. Real fun game! Ideal character design also