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Similar to Moot, just started a new playthrough of Starcraft after a solid... ten-fifteen years probably. It's been a long time. Played through the first few Terran missions. Haven't gotten too far yet though.
Outside that, just started a Nuzlocke Run of Pokemon Diamond. Wish me luck, and if you wanna have a 'mon named after you, just ask.

Summer vacation is a grand time to catch up on the old Steam backlog.
Over the past 3 weeks, I've gone through Tyranny (would recommend if you like CRPGs; don't take their 'EVIL YES' marketing shtick seriously there's more nuance than that), Mankind Divided (enjoyable, if somewhat shorter than I had hoped, but whatever I got to be a real pacifist this time), The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (quite solid Diablo-like, makes me kind of regret not playing through it earlier), Dishonored's Knife of Dunwall campaign (fun! and crucial before 2), Dishonored 2 (thoroughly enjoyable; story was meh compared to the first, but gameplay is far superior and there are 2 or 3 shockingly incredible levels); considering a second run as Emily), Gat Outta Hell (incredibly short, but amusing and surprisingly smooth flight), and Arkham Knight (too much Batmobile, but the main plot was pretty strong, if a tad obvious to anyone who'd ever read a comic before, and the rest was...pretty much more Arkham City, which is great because City was great).

Objectives for the next couple weeks are 'pretty much every game Telltale has ever made that I haven't played yet because wow those are nice easy achievements'.
Then the burden of internships will fall and it'll be back to normal.

Downside is I haven't talked to a physical human being outside of the two classes I started taking last week (both of which I tragically already know most of the material of, but hey easy As) or my roommate in the last three weeks.
but hey who needs human contact or whatever right
good lord literally 60% of my time in the last 3 weeks has been games I may need psychological help

also to revive a month-dead topic; Don't Take It Personally was pretty meh compared to the other game I'd played; Digital seemed pretty solid to me, but on the other hand I liked Portal (not the other other incredible Valve game I wish they'd learn to count to 3 for (Half Life and L4D being the others), but the interactive novel from the 1980s or whatever; I'd use that to claim grognard credibility but that's well before I was born) and Hacknet (albeit a massively simplified version of it), both of which it seemed fairly reminiscent of

both of which it seemed fairly reminiscent of

RIP Doc

what manner of error have I committed

Similar to Moot, just started a new playthrough of Starcraft after a solid... ten-fifteen years probably. It's been a long time. Played through the first few Terran missions. Haven't gotten too far yet though.
Outside that, just started a Nuzlocke Run of Pokemon Diamond. Wish me luck, and if you wanna have a 'mon named after you, just ask.

My Starcraft progress has slowed to a crawl...ugh, Protoss sucks. >_>

I mean, I'm sure Protoss is great in the hands of someone good at macro, since they have a few great AoE spells, but I absolutely suck with them. I'm more likely to damage my own units with Psionic Storm than the enemy's. >_>

11 chapters into Fire Emblem 11 (Shadow Dragon/Remake of FE1). I'm really enjoying this game so far... if only it weren't finals week...

I decided to play "Kaneda's Theme" from Akira while doing the big motorcycle race in Sleeping Dogs that takes you all around the island.

It was extremely awesome.

Since it's on sale and it might be relevant if people were looking to pick it up;
Prey (the 2017 spooky space one, not the 2006 Magical Native American one) is pretty dang fire.
Take the paranoia-inducing madness and setting (insofar as you're often backtracking through areas you'd already been, very much like the Ishimura) of Dead Space, the flexibility of Deus Ex, the progression system (and to an extent the visual designs) of Dishonored 2, and pretty much the essence of Bioshock (I'd say System Shock but I haven't played it so that would be posturing), and you get Prey.

What I think really made it feel incredible to me was that it was very much survival horror, for the first 10 hours or so. Then you find yourself becoming incredibly powerful, and it becomes much more of an even fight.
A tangle with just one Mimic early on is a stressful encounter, a Phantom feels like a major bossfight (and so does every other enemy when it first emerges, although some admittedly retain at least miniboss status into endgame), and god forbid you run into any of the other stuff because you'll straight-up die.
However by endgame (even sort of the midgame), a Phantom is a speedbump, because you're upgrading your abilities, your weapons, and they're just sort of staying statically the same thing. And as a result of this, you get a solid sense of real progression that I think is lacking in a lot of other games, because enemies that scale with your level certainly aren't as terrifying early on, but will never really show signs of getting much weaker relative to you.
But Mimics will always be a fucking shock when you're not looking for them, and their leitmotif will always induce a chilling sense of paranoia, even when they're no longer a even a minor threat. And it will break your heart if one turns into a Neuromod and you rush up to it, excited for another hit of power, only for it to just be a hit of damage.

Just marathoned the second half of the Dawn of Souls remake of Final Fantasy 1. Good stuff.

Restarted Skyrim on the ps4, and going between that, ESO (at least attempting to replay it), and the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane trilogy.

Loving Crash as usual, as the games are just as fun as they've always been...and they're visually beautiful now.  Voice acting is a hit or a miss for me.  The new voices aren't bad, but many times (especially with Coco and occasionally Cortex) I found myself missing the intensity that the original actors put into the same dialogue.  Otherwise, it's a solid remake.

Skyrim I always love, and using mods for added content makes it better.  Before anyone asks, I normally stick to mods that add dungeons, tweak spells to make them as effective as they should have been, add new spells, rebalance the chest/enemy loot list to things more fitting to the location/enemy types, and mods that improve the overall atmosphere (IE the weather/lighting, adding trees, or tweaking the sounds of nature to be more vibrant).  Admittedly yes, I do use a free crafting mod from time to time, but mainly because I hate slogging around for building materials every new game when it comes to the Hearthfire houses.

ESO is...interesting.  The Morrowind expansion is lovely, but the quests still feel tedious from time to time.  I still detest the stealth sections since they still feel wonky or just terribly set up.  There was one quest in Balmora where you have to sneak into a home to steal a document, and there's a person in every room that you have to sneak by.  In the last room, the person paces in two directions, one of course being the direction of the desk where the document is.  Normally, this isn't a problem since picking items up is normally instant.  However, in the case of most quest items, your character has to go through an animation in which you're stuck there for those mere moments until it finishes and they pick up the item.  Again, this would be fine except for the fact that the NPC turns around right as the action finishes, and thus you get a bounty for trespassing...and it's impossible to leave without killing them and further upping your bounty.  Again, this isn't normally a problem since you can usually pay the bounty and be done with it.  With me and ESO though, for some reason that never works.  I'll have the gold needed and choose the option to pay the fine, and the game treats it as if I actually chose to run since the guard proceeds to try to kill me...which they normally do.

I recently restarted Dragon Age: Inquisition, but I'm thinking of restarting it again with a different character, mostly to have access to different relationships. I'm also a bit miffed that I missed an interaction required to soften Leliana...am I the only one who ends up being a perfectionist with these sorts of games?

Still planning on playing Skyrim too, but probably when I have time off work, like this winter for vacation. I want to try my hand at roleplaying a character and posting about its exploits here, instead of just playing as myself in the game. That's going to take a lot more effort and time, thus not something I want to do just over a weekend...

One of these days I'll try to sit down and get through Inquisition.  I keep getting to a certain point and losing interest, but I do kind of want to see how the story unfolds both in the main and DLC areas.

One of these days I'll try to sit down and get through Inquisition.  I keep getting to a certain point and losing interest, but I do kind of want to see how the story unfolds both in the main and DLC areas.

I know a lot of people don't think Inquisition is that great, but I love it...I love the feeling of building the Inquisition up from scratch, gather allies, and effect change...even the small touches like seeing Skyhold grow really impress me. I guess playing it gives me a faux sense of accomplishment.

I was playing it a lot last winter when I first got it, but I dropped the ball because a lot suddenly started happening and I didn't have time for any gaming...and now I'd rather start new than continue a game from months back. ;-;

Started playing some EVE Online... did the tutorial, career agent missions, the Sister of EVE epic arc, and now joined the corporation EVE University.

I tried EVE Online last fall/winter, and to be honest I got bored with it...I think cause I mostly ended up doing mining.