I'm currently playing a nice oldschool game - Broken Core.

Just started playing Civilization VI. I've played the previous games in the series. The changes to the gameplay seem bigger to me than previous editions. It also seems that the achievements won't unlock in offline mode.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Almost at 40 hours with Monolith.
Very good, satisfying gameplay, addicting.

Bioshock 2 (finally after all these years)
Kane & Lynch (finally after all these years)
Bulletstorm w/ Duke (THIS is Duke Nukem Forever)
My Friend Pedro
Division 2
New Super Mario Bro.s (finally after all these years)
Super Mario Galaxy (finally after all these years)

More PC and Emu stuff but the above are where my main focus are

Not playing anything right now but played last night CS GO

Still Icewind Dale 2.

I finally finished the Battle Square two days ago, so I became a Battle Master or whatever it is called. I am playing IWD2 in the hardest difficulty that can be selected inside the game with that difficulty slider, so no Hearth of Fury mode or whatever it was called for me.

Battle Square is the mostly optional set of fights in an arena with one of your party members (you can select to use a different party member in different fights). You only have to fight three enemies in order to proceed with the game, rest of the Battle Square is optional. If you want to finish it completely, that means you have to win 250 ((3+4+5+6+7)*10) fights in the arena, if I calculated right.

I used my best fighter, a Shield Dwarf Fighter who can fight with weapons in both hands (Ambidexterity + Two-Weapon Fighting skills). That is quite important for Battle Square because you have to be able to deal lots of damage fast because you have only 60 seconds to win each fight. Plus, being able to hit your enemies often means they are more likely to get their spell casting disrupted.

I started the first few ranks with a level 9 Fighter (I used level-squatting to get more experience points, meaning I postponed levelling up my characters in purpose), but ranks 4 onwards or so they seemed to become so difficult that I decided to wait for awhile and look for better weapons. So when I was at the end of Chapter 4, I went back to Battle Square, levelled up my Fighter to level 15, and finished rest of the Battle Square fights.

What I mainly got out of it was a nice sum of extra money, lots of experience points, and some quite good weapons (Club of Distruption +3, Ice Spear +4, Brilliant Short Sword +5). The best weapons you can buy or find otherwise before chapter 5 are +3 weapons, so getting +4 and +5 weapons this early is quite a deal.

Some generic tips to Battle Square:

1. As far as I can tell, you have to have a good fighter, as most of the enemies seem to be very spell-resistant. Not sure if a spellcaster could cope by summoning monsters to fight for him, but when I tried it, for some reason the enemies seemed to be able to kill the summoned monsters with one or few hits?

2. In the earlier ranks (like ranks 1-5 or maybe also 6), the "easiest" way to win is to equip your fighter with a long-range melee weapon like a Spear +3, two-hand sword or two-hand axe or such, reload until you get a big enemy (Cyclops, Giant, or that thing that looks like a huge lobster or something), then open the north door and run out of the battle square room. The big enemy can't come through the door so you can hit it with your spear from a distance without being hit back.

3. In later ranks that doesn't work anymore because you don't get those giant enemies anymore, but after finishing rank 6, you get a Club of Distruption +3 which has the ability to kill certain types of enemies (demons, elementals etc.) with one hit. It rarely does that but sometimes it does, even with the first hit. So equip that weapon (with another weapon if you can do two-hand fighting) and retry retry retry until you manage to kill all your enemies. Some enemies are harder than others so you just have to retry (reload a save game) until you get a suitable type of enemy and/or get a bit lucky with the Club of Distruption.

That done, now I can continue to chapter 5...

Getting back to Medal of Honor and I think I might have to tap out on this one. Just started mission 5 and it's like the game is making you play a simulator of war-torn 1990s Sarajevo - now you, too, can enjoy the thrill of being sniped by people you can't see but who most definitely can see you! And can blow your ass away with perfect accuracy no matter how many trees are in the way! I swear I don't remember the game being this shitty but the whole thing is trial-and-error tedium. It's mostly stubbornness that has gotten me this far but now I think I've had my fill.

Playing Expendable. Talk about a game that would benefit from a remaster, or maybe just a mod to fix the controls. It's a fun arcade shoot-em-up but forcing you to use to relative controls instead of simple "up means up" movement makes it unnecessarily complicated to play. I've had some success with wasd/mouse control but it's still not ideal...

In such games I often hide behind the cover that works and wait for them to start reloading, then pop out and find them, then hide again and once they reload again I take em out.....this is hard to do if a game is buggy, though, so in said cases if I had to i'd cheat a bit.

Mass Effect 3: Omega DLC
Great cinematic action fun. It reminds me a bit of Resident Evil 6 (the Leon campaign). It seems to be easier than the main game, though I haven't reached the end yet.

Make sure to check every player in the hub between missions of that DLC for extra side missions in the DLC. Also make sure(once out from the hub) to check every terminal/etc for things to use/click/etc including side mission stuff.

Semi spoiler for one of em:

the couch is in the water filled areas.

Thanks for the tips! I found most of that side mission stuff :-)

I think it's the longest DLC I played until now.

It's also one of the best(well that and citadel and leviathan), imo....especially those cutscenes and the ending cutscene(paragon...didn't do renegade yet) especially.

BTW how far did you get? Beat it yet, or still going(The dlc that is)?
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Side note: Makes sure to go to the citadel and check each ship deck for stuff to do or people to talk to(missions and side stuff/fluff) after each major/minor mission.....often there is new stuff in some areas or things to buy(it's cheaper on citadel).

Also you can buy side stuff you miss that's needed for some side quests via the specter terminal on the citadel if you miss something on a mission.

Yeah, done. And just finished Sur'Kesh. I'm playing as a Vanguard; to try something different this time. It feels harder than Sentinel (which I was in ME2). Still, Pull is a pretty awesome power!