On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active, I emerge from my winter hibernation to talk about the video games and role-playing games I’m playing (or plan on playing). I talk about the ongoing Ready Player One Replay and my plans to attend GenCon in August 2023.
Nuketown News
- Heading to GenCon in 2023!
- Haven’t been there since 2014.
- No idea what I’m going to play.
- Ready Player One Replay continues
- Recent games include:
- Space Invaders
- Star Raiders
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Yars’ Revenge
- Raaka-tu
- Coming soon-ish: Bedlam, Pyramid, and Madness and the Minotaur
- Recent games include:
Game-o-Rama: Video & role-playing games I’m playing
- Video Games
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands on PS4 and PS5
- Borderlands … but with a Dungeons & Dragons skin (sorry, Bunkers and Badasses). Tiny Tina’s the game master, and you’re one of her players. But will she ever let you leave the table?
- Finished the main story; it was a happy distraction.
- Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5
- Started playing 0n Steam via Nvidia’s streaming desktop service, GeForce Now.
- Turns out, I’m pretty bad at FPS on a desktop computer.
- Picked it up cheap on PS5 … and still struggled to get into it.
- Requires a significant time investment to get emotionally connected to the game, but once you do … whoa.
- The Nomad storyline was great and the game gives you a lot of opportunities to make small (and maybe large?) differences in the world.
- Fire Emblem: Engage on Switch
- More of the same Fire Emblem, though this time around we get an “engage” mechanic which lets you merge characters with spirit warriors bound to magic rings.
- On the back burner right now as I play other games. Fire Emblem’s something I need to be in the mood for; but once I’m in the mood, I’ll likely lose a lot of sleep.
- Pinball FX3 on Switch
- Indiana Jones Pinball
- Aliens Pinball
- Creature from the Black Lagoon Pinball
- GoldenEye on Switch
- Finally … now if only I could map my brain to the control
- Breath of the Wild on Switch
- I started playing and never got off the plateau. The kids just got Tears of the Kingdom, so I figured I’d pick it up again.
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands on PS4 and PS5
- Role-Playing Games
- Ironsworn: Starforged
- My Lair of Secrets friends got into this game and pulled me in along with them. A Powered by the Apocalypse game with a ton of moves (far more than a traditional PbtA game) set in the future where you decide why your civilization fled its home galaxy.
- Playable in solo, co-op, or guided mode.
- Got it in part to learn about oracles. Also, the solo aspect is appealing.
- Cyberpunk RED
- Gearing up for the next season of role-playing at Lair of Secrets.
- I’ll be running a 6-8 episode Cyberpunk RED campaign set in Night City.
- It’s an old-school, crunchy game, but ran pretty well in our playtests.
- Taking a while to get off the ground because of myriad family commitments, but we’re getting there.
- And it inspired me to go back and read William Gibson’s The Sprawl trilogy.
- CY_BORG
- Mork Borg … but with cyberware.
- Just as over-the-top artwork as its predecessor.
- Doubt I’ll ever run it, but it provides inspiration for Cyberpunk RED. Lots of great charts.
- Elemental Apocalypse
- My first new D&D campaign in years.
- The Temple of Elemental Evil rose … and Greyhawk fell.
- 20 years later, our heroes are some of the last free people on the planet … and they’re ready to take the fight to their elemental overlords.
- Ironsworn: Starforged
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