The Citadel

Furious wrote: Sat Oct 18, 2025 12:59 pm I played through a lot of GoT, but eventually it got too repetitive. I wanted to see more of the story, but it was just too much "open world" for me to get through. Same thing happened to AC Shadows this year, which is a game I liked even more gameplay wise and first AC game in over a decade I've enjoyed, but that also had just too much content for me to play through.

Yeah, I'll be honest as much I did love GoT. The side missions especially felt a bit repetitive after a while. Same thing with Days Gone and even Elden Ring. Think that's just a byproduct of large open world games. There's only so many different missions and things you can do.

My main game lately has been Valheim. Any other Vikings here?

Back into Assassins Creed: Shadows

After hundreds of hours, today I discovered that in Photo Mode, one can change to time of day and thereby choose the lighting.

As a byproduct of this, it reveals the actual in-game time of day.

Small details in an absolutely huge game

For example, it was night when I discovered these guys practicing, but for the photo, it's full sun
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Diablo 2 just dropped an expansion with a new class after 25 years!!!

I am completely floored.

Picked up Tokyo Xtreme Racer for the PS5 last week on a whim. Never played an game in the series before and honestly its the most fun I've had with an arcade racer since Wreckfest. Real peak PS2 era vibes. I'm very enamored with it.

I'm playing my own, work-in-progress, home-grown, re-imagining of the 1978 Apple II classic "Star Trek" style game.

The original was written in AppleSoft Basic. This is written in SwiftUI for the Mac, using OpenAI's Codex.

The fun bit is playing the Product Manager role and directing my AI Agents playing the roles of staff in my Marketing and Engineering departments. The actual gameplay is almost incidental.

Since I'm already paying my $20 a month for ChatGPT, Codex usage is essentially free.
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