aurora

aurora, 7 months ago

A few days ago, my fiance and I started using Geforce Now to be able to play Sons of the Forest finally. Only one of my 2 computers meets the specs for it, my main desktop is sadly too old and feeble these days. Neither of us wanted to play totally solo lol. But yeah, game streaming is surprisingly really nice?? Even being in Alaska (I do live in the city), it’s worked flawlessly. I have wanted to play this game so badly, I can’t believe we didn’t give this a shot sooner. The only issues we’ve had are user error–not saving often enough, and then afking, it is understandably not tolerant of that. Not sure the difference between the tiers, we were excited and went with the $20 one. But it is very promising and makes much more financial sense right now versus getting a new laptop. I am definitely going to play some of my other newer games through streaming now, ones that chug on my computer despite technically running.

Sons of the Forest itself is pretty much exactly what I wanted–it is delightfully dreadful, graphically beautiful, just anxiety-inducing and exhilarating, with great base building, I’d say it’s a dream but it’s a little bit a nightmare, too, regardless, it is fun as hell. I know they have a ways to go development-wise, but I am not disappointed yet. Mostly the killer feature for us is the co-op, it’s a blast to play together. We played The Forest on PS4 and had all kinds of issues (still loved it tho), most of them funny and some of them really frustrating, so it is a relief the sequel’s co-op has been so smooth so far. The key words are “so far” of course, to all I’ve said, it’s really only been a few days. But I do have over 20 hours logged already lmao. I’m obsessed.

aurora, 10 months ago

Baldur’s Gate 3 on my partner’s days off when he wants to play games, that game is That Game, so freaking good, I think about it all the time. Because I don’t want to progress the game past our co-op session’s progress, and I’ve replayed Act 1 solo a few times over by now, I am back with good ol’ Skyrim otherwise.

I know it is a meme, but I genuinely have the thing of only modding and not playing Skyrim. I am proud to say I am at a point where I just play, instead of finding more mods. I feel like I have a pretty stable modlist, seldom crash, and this is because last winter I spent a lot of time with the crashlogger thing weeding out problematic mods. It is really hard not to go to nexus, I actually don’t visit it anymore at all, it is intense FOMO when I see others’ screenshots. My main achievement is that upon returning to Skyrim after a break, I even picked up my same character instead of starting over with fresh mods–it was like, not giving up progress.

aurora, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

The game is so much more lively for it. Lae’zel’s VA showed clips and pics on tiktok from the process, it’s really cool. (Edit: @thisisdevo)

aurora, 10 months ago

There is the People of Color community. beehaw.org/c/poc There have been indigenous related topics posted there. My personal 0.02, being Native myself, is that there would really have to be a critical mass of Native people on here for a specific group here to be worth it imo, and the PoC community is pretty slow as is post-wise. If it was overflowing with Native content drowning out everyone else, it would be more needed.

aurora, 10 months ago

I like that they released this. I am the most basic having first picked a Half-Elf (sorcerer, no less). My SO picked Githyanki (bard) so he gets more unique points. The Astarion rejection section is hysterical to me!! Also, I cannot believe hundreds of people beat the game in a weekend? Mindblown.