Stately Scrying: What we're playing this weekend

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#3

This Topic has a Yakuza game in it. I totally approve of that! (^.^)=b

I am just about 20% into Yakuza 6 and I am having a blast! I will probably cry a bucketful of manly tears at the end since it is confirmed the last game for main character Kazuma Kiryu. But since he was in 7 mainline games I always can replay the others…since there is so much stuff to do and fun to be had.

Also, Yakuza 0 is such a great game to get into the series…it is a bit more wacky and throws more curveballs than the other games but still fun…and so much sidequests with funny, heartbreaking and serious dialogue…I don’t mind fetch quests at all if they are that well executed. Also…the minigames oh boy :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
None are really mandatory aside from the introduction of some but boy…shogi, blackjack, poker, darts, bowling, 4 types of pool, mahjong the list goes on and on and on

Finally, this game has the most badass animation ever imaginable just for picking up your phone!

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#4

Out of the Park Baseball 19, as usual (about 90 games into my first season…maybe after this one, I’ll start simming some games :slight_smile: )

That, and maybe some more Solitairica (I’ve only finished with the Warrior).

As for the table on Gameday Sunday, I’m hoping to get either Penny Press or 3012 to the table.

Neither are great games, but I do own them and I find them fun. Hopefully a couple of people will agree. :slight_smile:

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#5

Switching from ES: Legends to … Eternal.

So, yeah, Dire Wolf Digital is getting all my attention.

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#6

They are close for best CCG on iOS but I’m still partial to Eternal.

#7

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Editor, looking for those receipts. Turret panels attached last night, so this photos is already out of date.

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#8

The Yakuza series is great, and I’m looking forward to further remakes. Yakuza 2 is the most fantastical of the series, but still has the requisite serious men trapped between personal honour and duty, with successive fights that are basically foreplay until someone takes their shirt off to indicate this one is serious. Even the film is good.

I’m skipping 7th Continent this week, and I will mostly be playing John Company and polishing off a load of Hitman contracts.

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#9

It’s prerelease weekend for the latest MtG set, Dominaria, so I will be spending a good chunk of the weekend shuffling up new Magic cards (and I’ve, perhaps foolishly, signed up for an event starting at 1100 after working a 2200–0600 night shift, so I get to do it on minimal sleep!). In more digital realms, that XCOM2 campaign I mentioned last week is nearing its end, after which I think it might be time to splash about in Subnautica again.

#10

Have you seen those classic 90s triad films, Young and Dangerous? Makes me glad we got Sleeping Dogs.

#11

Mostly short gaming windows will be taking turns in the various Star Realms leagues and Tournaments that I am in.

I am also still liking Marvel Strike Force.

Any longer window I get right now is for Overwatch, I like the PvE mission they have for this current event.

#12

I have not! I’m off to check them out. Storm Riders and Infernal Affairs were quite good enough to guarantee my interest.

Sleeping Dogs reminded me of Urban Chaos; I got the same feeling of freedom from both games despite them probably not being that similar.

#13

They’re a great series of films. Bit cheesy here and there, but a grand depiction of kids on the up in the Honkers criminal scene and beyond. Yakuza connections, Taiwanese gangs, rivals, love, betrayal, redemption. A big old tattooed opera.

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#14

I was planning on trying to get to the wizard mode on the 2 new SW tables on zen pinball. Turns out that it only took me 2 runs on each table to get there. Neither of the tables really interested me. The modes were boring and the Ach-To Island had some truly awful voice acting. One of the modes was Luke Skywalker fishing and he would say things like, “Ahhh, that’s a big one.”

So I guess maybe some Civ 6 and Invisible, Inc. this weekend. Or catch up on some TV. I’ve missed a few episodes of Homeland and Billions.

#15

Yes. 0.6 of ElDewrito [Halo Online] is out.

#16

So want to pick this up, but not sure I can swing the $40 right now. Also, I have a habit with OOTP of getting super excited when I get them (I bought all of them until about 2 years ago) and then latching onto something else once I get into it.

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#17

The last I bought was like 2015, I played the heck out of it for 3 days, and then never played it again. Seasons are just big commitments. I have had their Hockey game on my wish list on Steam forever, and really want to try it, but the reviews are mixed. I wish they would put out a Baseketball game.

#18

Interest piqued. What is this hockey game?

#19

Franchise Hockey Manager 4 is the latest. I am waiting for a more than 50% Steam Sale on it. 50% is the most I have seen so far.

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#20

Yeah, I did that with 17.

This time, I’ve already played it a lot more. I’m thinking after finishing this game-by-game season, I may simulate some to keep going.

So far so good!

#21

It’s not that uncommon for OOTP games to show up in a fall Humble Bundle for $1. I got 18 that way.

#22

Sure, but by then baseball fever will be over. Was watching the Brewers walk off last night and nearly pulled the OOTP trigger…

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