Does anyone else increasingly feel like you have no time ever for recreation? Here’s an idea of my backlog, assuming I did full completions including postgame:

• finish Octopath Traveler I - 20h? (Postgame quests and bosses)
• Octopath Traveler II - 120h?
• Dragon Quest I-III (HD-2D) - 200h? <- hard to judge; probably higher
• Dragon Quest VII Reimagined - 150h? <- estimate due to 200h on DQXI
• Horizon: Forbidden West - 70h?
• God of War: Ragnarok - 70h?

Now let’s add in stuff just released or soon to launch that will undoubtedly consume focus!

• Windrose (EA launch) - > 50h easily I’m sure; depends on content.
• Soulmask (1.0) - > 100h if I commit to it

I’m doomed.

Yes, I feel this way.

I beat DQ1-3 but I need to finish Octopath Zero and DQ7.

It also doesn’t help that I spend about 3-4 hours a day painting now lol.

I’m on Primal/Hyperion if anyone wants an invite to a good FC. Very active players, very cool people, always willing to help out players.

It’s quite fun. And some of the expansions have some darn good storylines!

I now understand the jokes about how this game is single handedly holding up SquareEnix financially.

Yep. FFXIV is really keeping them in business. Prior to that it was the Dragon Quest series.

I thought the game was just fluffed up hype.

I was very wrong. I’m sorry SquareEnix,

I now understand the jokes about how this game is single handedly holding up SquareEnix financially.

• finish Octopath Traveler I - 20h? (Postgame quests and bosses)
• Octopath Traveler II - 120h?
• Dragon Quest I-III (HD-2D) - 200h? <- hard to judge; probably higher
• Dragon Quest VII Reimagined - 150h? <- estimate due to 200h on DQXI
• Horizon: Forbidden West - 70h?
• God of War: Ragnarok - 70h?

Now let’s add in stuff just released or soon to launch that will undoubtedly consume focus!

• Windrose (EA launch) - > 50h easily I’m sure; depends on content.
• Soulmask (1.0) - > 100h if I commit to it

I’m doomed.

@MisterBoring said in General Video Game Thread:

@Meg & @dvoraen If you both like PEAK, I would also recommend RV There Yet?, which is basically PEAK + chainsmoking + getting an RV to the top of the mountain.

I have watched a few people play it, but it seemed like the kind of game that would make me rage quit. lol

It’s the ideal game for therapists to play instead of doing our notes. Lots of clinically inadvisable langage, do recommend.

Oh, nice, I’ve had my eye on this one!

@Meg & @dvoraen If you both like PEAK, I would also recommend RV There Yet?, which is basically PEAK + chainsmoking + getting an RV to the top of the mountain.

I have watched a few people play it, but it seemed like the kind of game that would make me rage quit. lol

@dvoraen i’ve played PEAK! not with tez, but other friends. its a really fun game.

Oh I am sure you have had shades PEAK entertainment.

With murder.

Have you played REPO?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4124950/Ashes_of_Creation/

@Meg has clearly corrupted me with the idea of finding excuses for killing my party.

@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:

I think he tends to lean heavily into the parody of “sassy gay friend serving,”

If he were the only queer character, I’d agree. But I think, at least to me and in my opinion only, he simply is a sassy gay friend/foe serving. But perhaps that’s my view only because I am the sassy gay friend who occasionally serves…

I haven’t run into any others yet! that’s a good point. I was anticipating this being the only queer character.

@dvoraen omg i haven’t been on bmd in forever but i am glad you linked this. this looks so fun.

i’ll need to bully @Tez and other people into playing this.

And/or play REPO or PEAK.

For no backstabbing reasons whatsoever.

I think he tends to lean heavily into the parody of “sassy gay friend serving,”

If he were the only queer character, I’d agree. But I think, at least to me and in my opinion only, he simply is a sassy gay friend/foe serving. But perhaps that’s my view only because I am the sassy gay friend who occasionally serves…

I don’t really know 5e as much as Revised/20th but the Anarchs are effectively the Sabbat now?

So the quick run down is: The Camarilla lost some major cities (London & Vienna among others) and some major players (Hardestat the Younger and the entire Tremere Council) to Hunters, and the Sabbat quietly packed up their shit and went to fight monsters in the wilderness (quite literally) leaving only small packs of instigators behind to run guerrilla strikes on the Camarilla to funnel resources into the larger Sabbat operation. With the lack of focused Sabbat activity and the Camarilla crackdown on anyone not a member of the Ivory Tower, the Anarchs basically get treated like the Sabbat in a lot of cities, and they respond as one might expect (also they got reinforced by the Ministry / Followers of Set).

The characters are pretty cool. I like Safia (Tremere) and Tolley (Nosferatu), though in the latter case I think he tends to lean heavily into the parody of “sassy gay friend serving,” but it is a big change from the usual way Nosferatu are shown.

I don’t really know 5e as much as Revised/20th but the Anarchs are effectively the Sabbat now? They seem like super anti-Masquerade, burn-everything-down types who are militantly opposed to the Camarilla. It feels like they basically took the Sabbat scripts from the first game and copy/pasted them on this one with the Anarchs.

Outside of it having the Bloodlines tag, it’s a nice action stealth adventure game. It’s not terribly RPG-like, just an action game with some RPG elements like very limited skill progression, but that’s fine if that’s what you want to play. They do a good job with that sort of gameplay.