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Friday Fun Thread for June 26, 2026

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Video game thread

What are you playing this week, and what games are you looking forward to in the remainder of 2026?

I played a bit of Moomintroll - Winter's Warmth lately. It's very wholesome.

Thinking of starting a playthrough of either a solid CRPG or a first person RPG like the Gothic 1 Remake.

Edit: Wait, Gothic 1 has no first person mode. Only 3rd person camera. :o

I played 80% of faith the unholy trinity. It's a 10/10 vibes game but a 6/10 gameplay game. I got interested in it because of these edits (https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mc9pML6Qamc https://youtube.com/watch?v=saxKlb_lkQE) based on the most excellent cutscenes. The vibes in the game are the best pixel horror I've ever seen, very faithful to an 8bit style. The gameplay is unfortunately faithful to the 8bit style. It has secret lore and secret endings, and a big part of the gameplay is finding shit in the environment to interact with. Which objects you can or can't interact with is obscure. That meant I ended up interacting with every object on the map, which got tedious. Would recommend buying and playing on sale, but not for the store price.

Recently played stalker 2 for a few hours. I had played it for 20 hours a year and a few months ago. Stalker was my favorite series, but when I played it first it felt like AAA slop. Now it feels like a true stalker game wearing the coat of AAA slop. The environment and gunplay feel good in a way they didn't before. Every main story event is still meh. Do you guys think I should restart my save to re-experience the game, I just met Scar . Side note I don't like scar's dialogue at all. He talks way too much for someone that was a silent protagonist in his own game. Funny enough, Strelok felt like he had the right amount of dialogue when he appeared in Call of Pripyat . Also any mod suggestions?

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