What are you playing this weekend? 2025-05-23
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Finished my trading for the school year, so it has been a busy gaming weekend. Started Friday night with some Xenoblade Chronicles X. I finally passed level 50, so I treated myself to three new level 50 skells. I should probably watch some class videos to better understand the systems involved, but for now, I’m just finishing some affinity missions and basic missions before starting chapter 12. I was surprised by the chapter requirements:
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
Just the Skell flight module, really?
:::I headed over to my friend’s place for board games yesterday. I played Jaipur which is most notable because I hadn’t played it since March 2nd, 2017 as my friend and I were waiting to buy the Nintendo Switch at a midnight launch. That was my first win of the day.
We played Penguin Party, a simple shedding game where placing penguins cards in a pyramid shape leads to more limited placement possibilities (ending with my elimination in all four rounds).
We broke out the massive game On Mars, spent a good hour learning it, another forty-five struggling to finish the first turn just to prove to ourselves that we understood the rules, then put it away since another player had arrived and On Mars only allowed for four players.
With five, we played The Crew, one of my recent favorites. It is a trick-taking game like Spades, but it is cooperative. Each round has missions (like one player can’t take any tricks or one player must take all of the threes in each suit by the end of the round). In all, we played sixteen rounds with ten wins, six losses. Hooray! (We discussed a new game that is out called “The Gang” where you are cooperatively playing Texas Hold-Em. I look forward to trying it one day, maybe at Dice Tower East this July).
We played Quacks of Quedlinburg, a bag-building, push your luck game. I played the most conservatively I’ve ever played in the game and got a well-deserved last place. I think that game is wonderful, too.
We ended the day with Cabo. I managed to pull off a final round Kamikaze, giving everyone fifty points and taking the win by forty-five in all. I may never play so lucky a game of Cabo again!
Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent has been draining my battery as usual. I spent four hours playing through story content this morning! I’m having a blast running into Octopath Traveler II characters and remembering why I prefer the mobile game (parties of eight make so much more sense in a game called Octopath!).
lol, you started with a win in Jaipur so expected today is going to be a day full of wins!
I just started Chapter 9, and got beaten up pretty bad. It has a fight where you can't use a Skell. So, just grinding by doing random stuff.
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I’ve gone back in time. Finally playing Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. I skipped this franchise when I was younger because I didn’t think it looked as cool as Legend of the Seven Stars. The battle mechanics are actually better than that game. Hopefully I’ll get to all of the games.
I just noticed the game is in NSO, will wait you final verdict and then give it a try some day.
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I played a ton of Age of Calamity, but didn't finish it either. It was my fun Warriors game, so enjoyed my time with it though.
sigh Just noticed I said "fun", when I meant to write "first"!
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Still trying to get through Age of Calamity myself. Will hopefully be the next game I finish. I’m one of those people that likes leveling up equipment and trying to 100% stuff, but sometimes burn myself out in the process.
I went into it thinking "I'm definitely not going to 100% it". But while playing, it kind of encourages you to do all the side stuff, level up and get the not completely necessary but nice to have things
I think it has no chance if I don't finish it before getting Mario Kart World
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I played a ton of Age of Calamity, but didn't finish it either. It was my fun Warriors game, so enjoyed my time with it though.
It is fun though
It has more story than BotW which is entertaining at times. And it's not too stressful and fun to progress and get more powerful characters and weapons and such. -
It is fun though
It has more story than BotW which is entertaining at times. And it's not too stressful and fun to progress and get more powerful characters and weapons and such.Oh yeah, enjoyed my time with it. These are long games so get boring if I am playing just that, but can be fun getting back to it.
Not a fan of it being alternate timeline, but yeah, it was nice to see how the things may have went down. I may just continue it from where I left.
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I went into it thinking "I'm definitely not going to 100% it". But while playing, it kind of encourages you to do all the side stuff, level up and get the not completely necessary but nice to have things
I think it has no chance if I don't finish it before getting Mario Kart WorldI’m going to try and at least get the master sword to where I want.
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I just noticed the game is in NSO, will wait you final verdict and then give it a try some day.
I’ve gone full iPhone for all the retro stuff. Along with a backbone remote.
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I’ve gone full iPhone for all the retro stuff. Along with a backbone remote.
How's backbone? They have an android version too, and it looks pretty good. Pretty expensive though.
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How's backbone? They have an android version too, and it looks pretty good. Pretty expensive though.
I would not recommend it to someone. My wife bought it for me two christmases ago. The buttons are very loud (loudest controller of any kind I’ve ever seen) and you need a subscription if you want to remap the buttons. Aside from the super clicky buttons, the build is overall pretty good, but I think the app for it seems predatory.
I’m hoping the MCON does well when it’s finally out.
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I would not recommend it to someone. My wife bought it for me two christmases ago. The buttons are very loud (loudest controller of any kind I’ve ever seen) and you need a subscription if you want to remap the buttons. Aside from the super clicky buttons, the build is overall pretty good, but I think the app for it seems predatory.
I’m hoping the MCON does well when it’s finally out.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]MCON looks pretty slick, but would wait for the reviews.
And thanks for the review!
