Grim dawn for nostalgia. Enjoying the new classes and dealing lightning, fire and ice damage.

Oh hey, I grew up playing Gran Turismo as well! I actually dug out the old Playstation 1 when I was seeing family last Christmas and we had a splitscreen session racing each other on the 1997 one. It was a blast

That kind of in-depth career mode is oddly rare in modern sim racers. A lot of them are very online PvP-focussed. And I get that, but still, it’d be nice to have more. Things that come to mind are:

• The original Assetto Corsa is a bit old now and the Content Manager and Custom Shader Patch mods are basically mandatory, BUT it is extremely flexible to mod and you can make it look exactly like a Gran Turismo game if you want. It has a career mode, but it’s only a series of specific racing challenges and there’s no collecting or modifying of cars
• Assetto Corsa Evo is in very early access right now, but it might just be exactly what you’re looking for when it does fully come out. It’s due to have a single player career mode, it looks like it’s going to do some kind of car collection mechanic, and it even has honest-to-god Gran Turismo style licence tests
• Automobilista 2 does not have a career mode (yet? It’s on the main menu but greyed out), but apparently a fan decided they were going to do it themselves. AMS also comes with the advantage of having much better multiplayer than Assetto Corsa if you want to play with friends; AC’s multiplayer is quite limited and does not let you add AI to fill out the grid
• Grid Legends might be worth a look, but I can’t tell you what it’s actually like to play because I haven’t tried it. I have played Dirt Rally 2 by the same devs and it does have a very GT-esque career mode. It describes itself as simcade, though, so it may just be another Forza for you depending on how it drives
• Le Mans Ultimate is a more specialised experience, of course, but it’s due to get a proper in-depth career mode soon

It is a pretty dim time for the single player sim racing experience, but there’s fun to be had!

Did you play Zero Dawn previously? How are you finding Forbidden West, play-wise? It feels “heavier” to me, somehow. Maybe I just got used to fully-upgraded Aloy in HZD…

Some of my favorites right there! I guess I should try Geometry wars since it seems like we’re on the same page.

I should probably dive into RDR2 again, I always start it at the wrong time and always seem to bounce after the extensive intro and tutorial. I suppose it all probably opens up right after that, right?

Nah, lots of train nerds doing train nerd stuff.

Surprisingly little Thomas fan-mods tho.

I finished Horizon Zero dawn and I just started playing Forbidden West. I can’t give you a detailed impression but so far, I like it.

Currently, Hollow Knight, since Silksong finally comes out next week. Before that, a split between Kerbal Space Program and Nine Sols.

1,759 mods published in the last 28 days on nexus.

On continue.

For the overwhelming majority of missions, the info is largely contained in a text briefing when selecting missions. For the story beat missions, though, it’s voice acted stuff pre- and mid- mission.

Units of measurement are redefined a thousand years in the future

Or not, I dunno. Head Canon.

I love MW5. Its modding scene is so robust that the game is incredibly customizable to be basically whatever type of experience you want. That being said, my mod list is out of date so getting back into it would be a huge chore right now haha

Currently Vintage Story, BallisticNG and Deadlock. No one game is currently holding a monopoly on my attention. All very good games, but it does feel a bit like I’m just in a holding pattern waiting for Silksong. It was easier to wait without an official release date xD

I had to skip that knight! I got deaded too many times and just left hahaha. I’m in my third legacy dungeon in Shadow and it’s pretty brutal.

You should check out !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, I do a post like this every week and it tends to get decent interaction every time.

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Which one is the third? I’ve done Belurat and Castle Ensis (if it counts?), only just started poking around in Shadow Keep but it looks absolutely wild so far. I also made it to the putrescent knight’s arena but I’ve not tried actually fighting it yet, just jumped in once to see what was going on at the end of a session

The knight was pretty brutal, but fortunately this run has been my “learn to parry” one, so I came basically perfectly equipped to fight any player-model enemy that isn’t using colossal weapons

I think it’s Shadow Keep! I’ve found two of the bosses—one insane tree guy with three phases that has killed me 20 times so I went another way, one big fat boss guy, and there has to be more cuz I’m not done yet…

There’s one with three phases? That is so absolutely going to catch me out with no flasks left whenever I first get to it, god dammit. I can’t wait