Haven’t seen a post like this recently so I thought I’d start the conversation !

I’m close to finishing Wario Land 3 (emulated GBC), which was the game of my childhood, I’m surprised of how tricky some levels are.

I also started playing The Eternal Cylinder but it’s quite a demanding game so I’m thinking of playing it on PC instead

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    Tunic. Playing it filled me with a sense of wonder and discovery reminiscent of the first time I looked at the map of the original NES Legend of Zelda. Amazing experience. I’m in the final chapter of the game but not finished yet.

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      Tunic is great, I reached the end awhile back but have been slowly going back and chipping away at some of the final puzzles. It kinda feels like two separate games, there’s the initial Zelda-like with a moderate share of puzzles, but once you get to the end you can mostly drop the Zelda parts and it becomes a top down version of the Witness.

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        I just got ending A. I pretty much knew what “Take your rightful place” was going to mean, but seeing it happen was pretty bleak. Makes me want to do the other ending now.

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    A lot of Balatro, lol. I wish it was on mobile, though…

    I just modded my Switch, and tomorrow I’m gonna try to get Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom dumped and working on my Deck

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      I too am addicted to Balatro. I made progress though as I installed RDR2. But afterwards right back to Balatro.

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      Try the Steam Link app from your phone. I haven’t tried it with Balatro but I think it worked fine with Slay the Spire.

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    Haven’t seen a post like this recently so I thought I’d start the conversation !

    We normally do a “what are you playing” discussion post at the start of each month, so the next one would have been posted in a couple days. This post is taking off though, so I’ll go ahead and feature it and we’ll use it instead for the month of August.

    On a side note, we’re always looking for more routine discussion topics if anyone has any suggestions.

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    I’m playing two games at the moment:

    Yet another run in Nier: Automata, second playthrough, first time on steam deck. It runs surprisingly well.

    Stardew valley. For steam deck it’s a killer game - 8-9 hours on a battery, perfect for resting.

    I also have Snowrunner and Vampire Survivors as my go to games.

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      Nier: Automata, first time in steam deck. It runs surprisingly well.

      It’s a story that’s been told here before, but one of the major projects that makes the Steam Deck work (DXVK, which converts DirectX in Vulkan for Proton) was made because a guy really wanted to play Nier Automata on linux.

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      It’s one of the games I missed when it came out and it’s on my backlog for a while. Good to know it runs well on the deck!

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    Lately I’ve been playing Pseudoregalia. It’s a really good game. It’s a 3D platformer in the style of N64, with super fluid movement.

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    Mostly just working through my “I should get around to playing this” list. Hades, Dome Keeper, Loop Hero and Whisper Squadron: Survivor.

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    New Vegas. At some point I took my save from my PC and copied it over since zi didn’t feel like playing as my level 6 new character on hard difficulty survival mode. I’d rather play my melee build character who now has an insanely fast war club that can take out individual death claws without backup with only a 50% chance of death, assuming vats allows me to knock one down.

    That, and games like GemCraft: Frostborn Wrath, Isles of Sea and Sky, and trying to get back into Brok the Investigator so I can try and get all endings completed before the eventual DLC release.

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    Pretty much just Zenless Zone Zero and Hades II for the past month or so.

    And a bit of Terraria with the boys.

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    Mortuary Assistant and the Outer Wilds while I was on a trip without internet access last week. Both played great at heavily restricted TDP.

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    • Pathfinder: WotR
    • Armored Core 6
    • Elden Ring DLC
    • Once Human
    • WH40k: Boltgun
    • No Man’s Sky

    I hop and drop games pretty easily hahah

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    Quickly played the storyline of Detroit: Become Human through for the first time, some Dishonored for nostalgia and fell back to playing the PS2 games I never had the console for back when I was a child.

    Most of my recent hours have gone to Rayman 3, and there’s a big heap of PS2 games to go through after that. I’ve noticed PCSX2 doesn’t consume much battery, so my typical travel games tend to be PS2 games as well.