What games are you playing now?

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Castlevania Belmont's Curse has become a distraction from other games in my playing order (Witcher 3 Remastered, Gears of War E-Day, etc.). It's probably a 65/35 love-hate relationship. Love: the art design, combat, voice acting and music are good. Hate: Trap-ridden platforming in some sections, and the useful moves for it like dash and double-jump take time to unlock. Bosses can be damage sponges but you can use the game config menu to cheese them., also save/travel points are few and far apart, so backtracking becomes tiring (honestly, that's a worn trope at this point with the Metroidvania games.)

Whoa, it came out of nowhere (at least for me), but Final Fantasy Resonance seems to be all I want from a Final Fantasy game that is neither the cinematic bore FF16 turned out to be, nor the 90+ hour time sink that is the FFVII Remake series. I'm playing the Steam demo.
 
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I finished up all but two trophies for Samson. As janky of an Unreal Engine game it is, I've genuinely enjoyed my 43 hours with it.
Shame that the developer went bankrupt very recently. Would've loved to see further improvements and expansions.

Currently playing GRID (2019), which I managed to download through my game library yesterday evening. I'm loving the 60fps upgrade and the game's a lot better than I remember. Luckily, the VIP membership and the Season 1 & 2 DLCs are still intact. Sadly, I never bought Season 3, which is delisted since December 2023 together with the base game.
 
I got Over The Hill, which is an off-road game from the studio that made Absolute Drift and Art of Rally. It's not a game for everyone and I can see why so many people find it boring, but I absolutely love it.
 
Well, I uninstalled Castlevania Belmont's Curse today. I simply gave up in trying to figure where to go next without researching on the Internet, something I don't recall doing in SOTN (maybe for some of the more obscure collectibles.) I got the "bad" ending so technically I finished it, but I feel I've spend enough time already and I'll probably watch and spoil the good ending on YouTube. 6/10, but it could've been a 9/10 based on its strenghts, but I'm soured by mean, and frankly enraging, design decisions by the developers. I should've bought Pragmata instead.
 
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Literally switching gears, I finished act 2 of Gears of War E-Day and wow, it's one of the greatest gaming set pieces I've played. It also tried to kill my CPU!

I also returned to Halo Campaign Evolved, and Dave the Diver... yup, it's Backlog 26.
 
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Playing BeamNG.drive, GT7, RE2 Remake and I downloaded Hunt: Showdown 1896 bcs I saw it is in Crytek engine and I was hoping of good game with brilliant graphics - I got none, realised game is old and gameplay is full of campers, like they designed game for them!

But I'll try mode where you are hunting bosses together, I played only PvP.

Maybe I will do some TT at COTA in F1 25 (26).

Thinking about buying new CoD, but I'm bad in shooters, still don't know is better choice PS5 Pro or PC...
 
Finished Silver Pines
Haven't found everything but it sure was a cool experience. First playthrough was 13 hours. Next up, collecting everything.
 
Final Fantasy Resonance. I'm in chapter 4. So far it's sitting at a 7.5 for me.
 
With the new update I've gone back to Cyberpunk. Going to do the final 3 endings I have outstanding and then chip away towards the grindy parts of the Platinum.

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Hit a massive wall with the difficulty in Galactic Racer, so need to take a break from that before controller meets wall at podracing speed.
 
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Finished Silver Pines
Haven't found everything but it sure was a cool experience. First playthrough was 13 hours. Next up, collecting everything.
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I finished Silver Pines up over the weekend. Very cool game, loved the style, "metroidvania" stuff and all the references to other games and movies/shows. It was a bit challenging to me. Didn't really like that you could not move while shooting, reloading or taking health so boss fights were a little clunky and frustrating. But good game overall!

It got me into playing Alan Wake II for the second time since it released and man do I love that game.
 
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Seeing as I bought AMS2 on the deal while on holiday in Tenerife I'm now back home & looking forward to spending a lot of time with it on my rig.

I Might download R3E as well to check out the latest update, always had a soft spot for that Sim.
 
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With that out of the way, as of last night, I am starting a "PS2 NFS Marathon" now, starting with Underground 1 and stopping at Undercover, and I intend to play all of them back to back. Since I have these games on PC now, barring Undercover, and I want to get into them someday, I wanted to come back to the PS2 versions to reconnect a bit and get a feel for all of them again, the way I have always known them, one last time. Should be fun because, apart from Carbon and Most Wanted, I have not started fresh again with the others since I got them, which was back when most of them were fairly new. I also feel like this will be a good opportunity to see how well they all hold up after all this time and what my thoughts on them are now. I have never done this before, so I genuinely am not sure how long it's going to take, but I am hoping to beat them all by Christmas, hopefully.
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So, I had started on Need for Speed Underground as part of my "PS2 NFS Marathon" recently; well, I finished it last Sunday, and I'll admit, it's one of those games that's pretty fun, until it's not. Some of those late-career races are insanely difficult, to the point that I didn't even enjoy it much anymore, but I beat them. I decided to take a break from gaming for a week to focus on other things; not sure that was a good idea since I don't know how long this is all going to take, but I did what I wanted to do. I might come back to Underground again someday just so I can rack up style points and finish unlocking all the other cars on both of my saves. Beating the career was my main goal, though, and I'd probably get majorly burnt out if I were to try to do it right now. So, for the time being, I am done with the game.

Now, as of last night, I have moved on to Need for Speed Underground 2 and started a new career. While it is my favorite NFS game, I am actually not too excited about replaying it this time simply because it's pretty long and I had already gotten my fill of this game back in the Summer when I finished my old career. However, this is the first time I have started a new career in this game in 20 years, so who knows, maybe I'll find a new reason to appreciate this game! Whatever the case may be, I am going to spend a lot more time on these games going forward, and I am hoping this one won't take too long.
 
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