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I completed the main Fallout 4 quest with Nate and the BOS. That was fine but I’m not enjoying playing as Nate as much as I did as Nora. I also pretty much chose the exact same playstyle for Nate as I did for Nora.

So I am starting over as Nora, and this time I’m going to play up the fact that she’s a lawyer. I’m going to focus on Charisma first so she can talk her way through as many situations as possible.

I think I’m also going to have her go straight Minutemen this time. I’m also going to hyper-focus on the search for her son.

Oh, and I’m going to try a sneaky character who doesn’t use power armor except where necessary (like at the beginning and probs when going into the Glowing Sea).
 

I finally got around to firing up Fallout 4 again and finishing the Far Harbor quest line. I had Nick with me. I went guns blazing into the Nucleus and destroyed the Children of Atom. Even though that upset DiMA, I was still able to convince him to turn himself in to the people of Far Harbor. I was then able to convince them not to assault Acadia. Yay!

I've been toying with the idea of starting a new playthrough and going with the Brotherhood of Steel. (I went with the Railroad for my first playthrough.) But the BoS are mostly jerks, and I'm not a "just following orders" kind of guy, so ... I also don't want to start again from scratch.

I'm feeling that way about all my games at the moment. I want to play something but don't want to start over from the beginning ... but at the same time, I don't want to just wander around doing randomly generated endgame stuff either.

And I can't really justify the cost of a new game at the moment. So ... blah.

(The cheapest game on my Steam wishlist right now is Fallout 3. The Ultimate Edition is $35. Even that is probably too much to justify right now.)
I also started playing it again. I got the game a few months ago, I played for some time, and stopped. Now I started again and hope I'll do better.
Also I'm finishing Days Gone. After completing 70% of the game I stopped because i was a little bored, but still want to finish it.
 
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Playing some random Civ VI games on my Switch as a palette cleanser after one of the greatest gaming experiences in my life, might move on to playing Split Fiction with the wife at some point.
 

While I am enjoying Mechanicus, every time I played I couldn't stop myself thinking “why aren’t I playing Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters again”? So now I am, sorry, Mechanicus. Chaos Gate is the best turn-based tactics game I’ve played in the past 15 years; I can’t keep away.
 
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I played the demo for Everspace 2 and kind of liked it, but I did not think it was quite scratching the itch I had. So when the Summer game sale came along I bought X4. I have X3 and probably put hundreds of hours into it years ago. I thought I would be able to handle it. But I could not handle the load screens on top of the horrific UI. So that lasted about an hour and a half and then I asked for my first ever Steam refund. Once that processed I turned around and bought Everspace 2 at the same price. And while it does have some shortcomings as a "space sim" I have definitely been having fun with it, even one or two things have way too much "needle in haystack" energy.
 

I played the demo for Everspace 2 and kind of liked it, but I did not think it was quite scratching the itch I had. So when the Summer game sale came along I bought X4. I have X3 and probably put hundreds of hours into it years ago. I thought I would be able to handle it. But I could not handle the load screens on top of the horrific UI. So that lasted about an hour and a half and then I asked for my first ever Steam refund. Once that processed I turned around and bought Everspace 2 at the same price. And while it does have some shortcomings as a "space sim" I have definitely been having fun with it, even one or two things have way too much "needle in haystack" energy.
Yeah, that matches my experience, the X games are a bit impenetrable and time-intensive, and X4 in particular seems to have a towering difficulty spike at some point.

Everspace 2 is good fun, but it does get a bit repetitive after awhile.

My main memory of the original X Beyond the Frontier is going into a busy game store to buy it, not finding it on the shelves and having to ask the female store clerk if they had a copy with a queue of people behind me, then explain that no, it's not that kind of game, it's a space trading sim. Buying online definitely has its advantages.
 

Everspace 2 is good fun, but it does get a bit repetitive after awhile.
That's my main critique of Everspace 2 - it reminds me more of an MMORPG than a single-player RPG or even an ARPG, because you get into so many nigh-identical fights, and I feel like the weapons/devices/spaceship classes aren't quite as in-depth as I'd want for a space-combat-ARPG (which is what it wants to be).

My secondary critique would be that the visual design, whilst solid, is just a bit too generic.

Still, not a bad game. I hope they make an Everspace 3 and learn from other ARPGs more.

Personally I've been playing a lot of Backpack Battles. I'm not sure I even like Backpack Battles all that much, but I definitely enjoy the weird combo of "character build" and "physical puzzle solving" it has. The art style is a bit weird and definitely important to keep the chibi versions of the characters turned off (I think it might default to off now).

I played some StarVaders as well, and that's good - I think it's one of the best-designed deckbuilders I've seen in a long time, but it's one of those games that's so well-designed it can be a little too taxing at times!
 

I’m currently enjoying Pokémon Infinite Fusions. Doing a Randomized run and somehow managed to catch both a Rayquaza and a Raikou. Wonder if I should fuse the two together…
 


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