Name games you've played in November.

[Morpheus Kitami]

Finished off what I was playing last month.
Rejection, this was surprisingly good. Outside of some janky controls and one annoying sewer section it was very fun and enjoyable. Considering it has a much stronger dungeon crawler influence and it was before anybody really knew what they were doing with FPS, it's not surprising it has a few flaws. I'd recommend it...if I thought anyone here would be willing to learn Japanese to play it.
The Dark Half, I find it interesting that a licensed game somehow managed to completely break the story it was licensed from. Otherwise, it's as bad as you heard.

 

[PlayerEmers]

Still playing games from my backlog on the steam deck.

-Brotato: new dlc got released that added few more mechanics, more items and monsters. Good stuff all around
-Synergia: cyberpunk-esque lesbian visual novel. I think i got this for free somewhere, dont remember buying it. Added this on my backlog because looked a little bit interesting and visual novels are usually short. It was underwhelming tbh.
-Deus Ex GOTY: I will be real: i never played deus ex before... better later than never, right? Really liked the atmosphere, story and the ost. Timeless classic.
-Spark 1 and Spark 3 (2 is missing because 3 has the levels of the second game): Solid 2d and 3d sonic "clone".

Currently playing (but started the playthroughs in november)
ATLYSS: Furry ARPG/mini-MMO with shortstack furry woman and man. It has some problems and the content is still lacking, but its good overall for an early access game.
BioShock: Just like deus ex, never played the first and second game. Started playing the first and overall, i like it, but the gameplay feels a bit clunky for my taste.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

I played Arcanum which was fun but I kind of remembered all the stuff in it since last I played and was hoping for something new. I'm warming up to get motivated to play Colony Ship in it's place.

 

[spectre]

Pandora: First Contact - Briefly revisited to check if there's been any new content for it. While not a terrible game on its own, it's still a SMAC knock-off that's only going to impress you if you never played SMAC.
Sid Meier's Colonization - After spending some time on the previous title, once it devolved into: press next turn X more times until you win,
I realized this is the game I actually wanted to be playing. Managed to complete a playthrough and moved to other things.
Tyranny - While I've long come to a conclusion that don't really like them RPG games, I tried this one as part of November cleaning of the Incoming folder. It was actually a surprisingly pleasant experience.
Combat was shit, itemization was shit, but I decided to stay for the dialogues and see at least one game through.
Knock on the Coffin Lid - Another one from the Incoming folder purge. Not a bad Slay the Spire clone.

 

[deuxhero]

Was finishing up some projects last month to clear December out, so for the most part the notable ones are
Some dabbling with Kenshi,
Finished Tales of Vesperia: Final dungeon is way too long, and the final boss is more annoying because he (and no prior enemy) can just break hitstun when he wants to with a teleport. Can't say I've ever seen a game where the final boss

Spoiler

admits the heroes were right and, still alive after the final fight, walks away from all his plans in the ending

before
Started Onirisim last day of the month. Combines elements of so many classic games but can't really be called a clone or successor of anything. Very solid despite some Unity/EA jank. It's worth your 10 bucks.

 

[Sweeper]

KCD
Brigand Oaxaca
Fallout Shelter

Spoiler

DON'T LOOK AT ME!

 

[kangaxx]

I discovered Kenshi, and now I'm addicted.

 

[Elttharion]

Elden Ring+DLC: 4/5 Replayed base game + first time DLC. Great game + loved the DLC, a little too big for its own good now tho.

The Callisto Protocol: 1/5 Just terrible.

Total War Warhammer III: 3.5/5 My comfort food strategy game.

Muv Luv Extra: 3.5/5 Rereading the franchise, not as bad as I remembered it. Also fuck Anchor for delisting the 18+ patches and making me hunt for them. At least it convinced me to make a permanent backup of all of the ones I need.

Balatro: 3/5 Wanted to see if it was all that. Its fine but there are much better deckbuilder roguelites out there imo.

Katamari Damacy: 3/5 Worth playing for the music alone.

Brotato: 4/5 This one is pretty fun, nice vampire survivors clone.

Started Like a Dragon Ishin.

 

[Frank Capicoli]

Cruelty Squad: 4/5

ATOM RPG: 3.5/5

ATOM RPG Trudograd: 3.7/5

Fable 1: 2/5

 

[Lokhir]

Age of Wonders 4, L4D2, CK3, Tekken 8 (dropped it), The Happyhills homicide (waste of time do not play that shit), The Matchless Kungfu, Serious Sam (original one), Mortal Kombat Komplete (the one from 2011 where the female characters were still hot and MK was still MK), Bloodlust 2: Nemesis (garbage), Garry's Mod, Team Fortress 2, Midnight Club 2, WoW on private servers, Postal 1 and Absolver (both a little bit before november), and I guess that's it for november. Although I do still wonder why would anyone give a shit about reading what other people played in the month.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Outward
Demon's Souls
Dark Souls

 

[Ash]

Resident Evil 2. Claire A and Leon B. Wrote my thoughts in the RE2 remake thread. Better than the remake. But not great. Genre had more potential. Too bad.

Judging the potential of survival horror using the very first games in the genre (and their mediocre remakes)? Compute that logic...you cannot. You have many more games to go. Darkwood, System Shock 2, Resident Evil 3 (original, which expanded upon numerous concepts of 1 and 2), Parasite Eve 2, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Silent Hill 1 to name some of the most important. The original Resident Evils absolutely nailed it and maintain a high standard, but in some cases they were surpassed or expanded upon, especially in regards to gameplay.

 

[NecroLord]

It's this time of the month. Name the games you've played in November.

Absolutely nothing unfortunately...

To make up for it, I will be playing some Fallout 2 in December, since I'm REALLY itching for some Fallout 2.
Will also finish my old Arcanum run and maybe also play some Morrowind while I'm at it, I still had stuff to do in Solstheim.

 

[Gostak]

Star Dynasties
Thievery UT
Unreal Tournament (Where is this on everyone's list? Free good oldie!)
Barony (keeps getting free content updates, and I barely played her)
Barotrauma (joined an enjoyable rando round, but the host closed shop kinda soon ...)
Half Life 2 (picked it up when they gave it away for free. Am inside Nova Prospects.) Also, played user map The Shadows over Ravensmouth and the stinky Stanley Parable mod version.
xMage (might be unsafe/insecure better not go online with this)

Small stuff:
picoRacer 2048
JUGGLRX pb something a little over 100 (104 IIRC)

Stuff I put on mobiles (why I stumbled across the small stuff):
Forge (Android)
Magarena
Shackles of the Stellar Tyrant
Labyrinth of Legendary Loot
Open Realms of Stars (not played this month, though)
Java Fabled Lands App

 

[Baron Dupek]

Bloodborne on PC - I've reached Forbidden Woods and entered DLC area way too early, made something like 40% of the progress?
Stalker 2 - didn't even beat the tutorial, somehow works OK on my PC below Minimum, but heard that performace tanks after the tutorial... and maybe 1st village.
Nier Automata on Switch emu - didn't even beat the tutorial.
Red Dead Redemption 1 - after short rejoice of getting PC version (emulation sux for this one) I have yet to return.
Fallout 3+NV in Tales of Two Wastelands (Begin Again version) - I've tried to reach NV asap, but it was in the eastern part of the map. I took me many hours to get there... Was surprised that they took all my gear AND reset my character to LVL1 (with EVEN WORSE stats and let me keep perks) "so player can engage in the early game in NV" or something like that. Like - of course balance is out of the window when you glue together 2 big maps and DLCs for them.
Path of Exile in NecroSettlers league - tried to get back because you get more currency, but severe burnout from playing Settlers league still affects me. That and my class had terrible skills before act 3/6 where you can buy different ones. Oh right... you have hard time getting (low level) currency to buy those. I'll pass.
Wizardry 8 - someone shared randomly that you can use save/characters editors and import your endgame characters into some sort of "new game+" and would like to spend more time there, but I still have Expanded mod to play.

 

[Elttharion]

Nier Automata on Switch emu - didn't even beat the tutorial.

Why play it on an emulator? The PC version is fine nowadays

 

[Ezekiel]

Resident Evil 2. Claire A and Leon B. Wrote my thoughts in the RE2 remake thread. Better than the remake. But not great. Genre had more potential. Too bad.

Judging the potential of survival horror using the very first games in the genre (and their mediocre remakes)? Compute that logic...you cannot. You have many more games to go. Darkwood, System Shock 2, Resident Evil 3 (original, which expanded upon numerous concepts of 1 and 2), Parasite Eve 2, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Silent Hill 1 to name some of the most important. The original Resident Evils absolutely nailed it and maintain a high standard, but in some cases they were surpassed or expanded upon, especially in regards to gameplay.

I don't care for Silent Hill. I've tried to get into Silent Hill 2 twice.

Resident Evil 3 is too big. So much space to cover with my new key items that I can't be bothered.

 

[Reality]

MechWarrior 5
Jupiter Hell
Armored Command 2
Spirit Island Digital
Mr Driller

 

[Baron Dupek]

Nier Automata on Switch emu - didn't even beat the tutorial.

Why play it on an emulator? The PC version is fine nowadays

if the emulated version takes less space than PC version and works better than PC ports (some ain't perfect even after fan patches/fixes) and to check if the (more demanding) emulated games works better with V-sync disabled and FPS capped with RivaTuner Statistics Server. And this one does.

 

[rumSaint]

Fantasy General 2 - finished 2 campaigns (Invasion and Empire Aflame), pretty good albeit a bit long
Hellbound - lol, give me back my 2 hours of life fuckers
Ion Fury - completed base game, some quality boomer shooter
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - just started (whole Dominus collection on Steam is a steal, especially on Steam Deck)

In meantime I play Deep Rock with my son and some Pummel Party with friends.

 

[Lincolnberry]

Romancing Saga 2. Like others, it's a great game and I'm shocked it exists. I rarely replay games after completion (and even less right after finishing) but this one is perilously close to both.

Also a bit of Civ 6 which kind of sucks but keeps reeling me back in.

 

[Hellraiser]

I've been stuck a few weeks away from home, so I mostly played emulated stuff on my PS Vita.

Factorio: Space Age - the autism continued extensively and exclusively before traveling.

Emulated stuff (probably was more, with some titles checked out very briefly, but I only recall these):

GS Mikami: Joreishi wa Nice Body (SNES) - despite what the english in the subtitles might suggest this is not some variant of ero-game or other weeb coomer bait. Rather this is a fairly decent platformer based on some manga/anime called Ghost Sweeper Mikami I never heard about, you control an animu redhead that whacks ghosts and demons with some magic baton. As this is pure action it's pefectly playable without any kind of translation patch (unless you care about the between levels dialogue, which can be skipped by pressing start once). It is rather polished, has decently designed boss encounters, a few "special" levels (shrunken riding on the back of a cat jumping across roofs, broom flying shooter level etc.), the action gameplay feels right, honestly this game is how Valis 1 on the Megadrive should have been like. A textbook definition of a hidden gem IMO.

Eliminator: Boat Duel (NES) - never beaten this as a kid, managed to do it now (probably didn't help the game has 2 lives/race retries and then it's game over). Basically a powerboat racing game where you upgrade shit with money won between races. Honestly this game is fairly impressive from a technical point of view, I mean it even managed to fake paralax scrolling with the clouds in the sky in the forward scrolling racing sections. Great shame this never got a 16 bit sequel.

Felix the Cat (NES) - this I have beaten as a kid and even back then it was easy. It's ok-ish as far as NES platformers go but honestly not that spectacular.

Rockin' Cats (NES) - this is one of those games that wasn't as good as your nostalgia-tainted childhood memories made you believe. Fairly janky from a control point of view, even going by the standards of other NES platformers.

Wacky Races (NES) - actually a platformer where you control Muttley. Playing it after all these years I would have to say it is kind of mid, with an odd power-up system.

 

[Gumsmith]

Some Chinaman tactics, played Wandering Sword for a couple hours, seemed basic, and played Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion for longer, which was fun for a while but no real desire to engage in the usual Chinese bloat for any longer.

A couple hunts in Monster Hunter World, still haven't finished Iceborne.

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate: Entertaining for an afternoon.

A lot of Mount and Blade Warband, Warsword Conquest (Warhammer Fantasy mod). Good fun although predictably all the wizards throwing crazy buffs and nukes got overbearing in bigger battles. Currently waiting for the submod to update before continuing.

A bit of Mount and Blade Bannerlord, The Old Realms (Another Warhammer Fantasy mod). The mod has a lot of unique features like cannons and classes as well as magic. Unfortunately whether modded or not Bannerlord is still unbearably tedious so I didn't spend long.

Rome: Total War (The original not the "up to date" remaster): Still playing this now actually, lots of barbarians have been killed. I think the Julii are the easy campaign, had some nasty encounters with Briton chariots but otherwise the barbarians have a shitty military and are poor as mice. Probably afterwards I will change the settings and play again as the Brutii who get to fight more serious factions like Macedon and those eastern empires.

 

[SixDead]

Dedicated whole month to Arcanum - first time playing and having fun.
Made a 10 STR 8 DEX Axe character in my 4th run on Age of Decadence, it sucked, postponed the game.
Played some Alien Squatter on my phone, surviving in slums of distant future, fun little game

 

[Zombra]

In no particular order

Rise of the Golden Idol - cool investigation/deduction/process of elimination mystery. If you like brainy detective games, play it. (Play the previous game first.)

Enshrouded - solid survival/crafting/action RPG type with strong map design, nice progression, and very smooth base building mechanics. Astonishingly there is nothing annoying about this game; it's all done right. The devs learned a lot from their previous game and it all shows here.

Ghost of Tsushima - finally finished this after playing 2 months, dropping it for a year, playing 2 months, dropping for another year. An artistic masterpiece, with gameplay ranging from "good enough" to "excellent".

Persona 5 Royal - a ridiculous 100 hour linear anime that also lets you press buttons sometimes to pretend like you are participating. I'm only like 6 hours in but man I don't know if I can keep going. I mean I could just go watch real anime and see an entire story every 22 minutes.

Race for the Galaxy - all day, every day, fighting my friends for galactic dominance.

Escape Academy - good times, puzzle solving with a friend under sometimes severe time pressure.

Jagged Alliance 3 - never finished this because I got stuck making just enough money to keep defending my territory. Just started playing it again and I'm making the extra push to start advancing the story again. One of the best RPGs of 2023, yes it's a full fledged RPG, I said it.

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams - can't sleep huh? Me neither. Adding my own images to the custom puzzle bin makes this a favorite late night time killer.

Monument Valley - cozy, easy puzzle game with a meditative vibe. Perfect for getting back into video games after a severe illness.

Outward - another underrated, brilliant RPG. Great with a friend. Don't look at the fucking wiki asshole, figure out how to cast advanced rune magic yourself. If I can do it you can do it.

The Quarry - good cinematic CYOA horror. I haven't finished it yet because I'm kind of scared to keep playing it. I like it a lot though.

Walkabout Mini Golf - the best VR game there is.