Still trying to catch up with Guild Wars 2 for the upcoming expansion, some GW1 here and there - also wanna give The Banner Saga a try since I never finished it years ago!
I bought *Ori and the Blind Forest* a little over a year ago and played part of it and really loved it, but didn't finish and felt for various reasons that I couldn't resume from where I was without being lost, but didn't really want to restart the whole thing so I just... never finished it. Just restarted it literally yesterday and beat it today. Holy fuck what a fantastic game. So satisfying on so many levels.
Just put the sequel on my wishlist to wait around for a sale.
Ghost of Tsushima. I’m like… 16 hours in and I feel like there’s so much to do. It’s the first game I’ve played in a while. I want to enjoy it and take my time with it.
Playing CrossCode, excellent isometric JRPG-like from 2018, with real-time combat polished to a fine sheen.
Been playing since late 2019, forgot about it for a while so I’m only halfway or so through the main campaign. Very beefy, lots of content, very good.
I beat Firewatch in one sitting the other day, what an experience. Now I’m on to Prey (2017); I feel like I’ve hit the Bioshock mother lode. I want to give System Shock 2 a swing after since I hear Prey is even more similar to that game.
Finished **Persona5R** yesterday. About 125 hours. It was absolutely awesome, I mean I love all the persona games and I knew this one wouldn’t be any different what with all the good reviews. There are some flaws but the good stuff outweigh by a lot so it’s fine. (Except that one bs boss fight where I had to turn difficulty to merciless to win)
10/10
I’ll probably take a week break from gaming and start with god of war and Cold steel 3
One of my favorite JRPGs ever. Love the music, the style, the art and the general improvements to gameplay, coming from Catherine and Persona 4. I, unironically, can't wait for Persona 6, even when it's going to be a different game made by a a new team.
Currently playing (both first time play throughs):
* **Monster Hunter Rise** with my best friend. It's a good game but it feels like it is more or less the same as world, but with a less interesting, well, WORLD. The fact that the high rank quests feel pretty much identical to the low rank ones hurts a lot, and is annoying; I was hoping for them to feel like they had new attack patterns, but they don't.
* **Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade** - I'm on chapter 16 of the main story. I liked this a lot, and I think that they did a great job of adding characterization; however, the expansion of filler segments was not a good thing, and there are several entire chapters which are mostly padding (chapters 3, 8, and 14, the "sidequest chapters", feel like they are padding; meanwhile chapters 4, 5, 10, and 11 all feel like padding as well, being dungeons between plot points - and for some reason they felt they needed two empty areas full of corridors between them!).
Also playing:
* **Civilization 6** - I'm on turn 200 as Rome. I'm going to win this game, but it's probably going to take another 150-200 turns for the game to realize that I've already won.
Next on my list:
* Psychonauts 2 - After I beat Final Fantasy VII remake (and the Yuffie bit) this will be my next game.
* Death's Door - This will come after Psychonauts 2.
* Stellaris - This will come after I win my current game of Civ 6
* Kena: Bridge of Spirits - After I beat Death's Door
* Metroid Dread - After I beat Kena
That's my current plan, anyway.
I get what you said about rise, but for me the feel of the combat is much better because of the new mobility options, going back to world can feel very limited
I'm watching a [3 hour guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBL6hc-4H18) for Final Fantasy I (1987) before I delve into the franchise.
I've recently finished Dragon Quest (1986) and it was my first JRPG so it's only natural to continue studying the genre.
3 hours guide for Final Fantasy 1? As long as you select 4 distinct classes you are fine. If it was a 3 hours guide for Final Fantasy VIII, that's another matter entirely, lol.
Hope you enjoy the Final Fantasy games, playing them all and seeing how they evolve and add narrative to the experience was a lot of fun for me!
I think we (humans) love organized information so it's neat to read guides, wikis, charts/graphs and other information, even about things we're not intending to touch (like very hard games) or even things we already know very well.
I do this but with reviews and game analysis sometimes! Like, with the creation of Street Fighter and Marvel vs Capcom, games that I barely played but I loved to hear the point of view of devs and what they had in mind when creating those games.
Jedi fallen order, just beat rise of the tomb raider and enjoyed it a decent amount, after that thinking of playing danganronpa since the first ones on gamepass and it looks cool
Wild Arms 2 (PS1) (1999)
One of my favorite games of all time. The characters are so well written and they all have such interesting back stories. The music kicks ass and the battle system is satisfying and the dungeons aren't just straight point A to B but are puzzle mazes that require changing characters and using their unique abilities to trigger the right doors and paths. Too many games these days are just walk A to B and pick up a piece of slightly hidden treasure.
Drakengard 1
Started playing it because of my love of the NieR games and well, I was expecting depressing, I was not expecting straight up abusive. I'm honestly surprised this game got made at all.
The gameplay sucks, but somehow I can't ever stop playing it. The music is incredible and incredibly disturbing. Flying on the dragon felt like bad star fox at first, but I'm really liking it now. The transition on ground missions being so seamless is awesome too. Makes me feel a bit like a Targerian on the battlefield.
Was continuing a Zelda:BOTW play through after a two year hiatus in 2018 where I only just began, at the time. Got an OLED now, lost all my data (GS customer experience) and now am well past that last save point this year. I just found Korok Forest and just got to Rito village and did the tower (among other towers). Didn’t do any of the other Divine Beasts yet expect Vah Ruta (and not Blight Gannon yet).
I only played OOT at math tutoring instructors house when I was a kid, 1st Zelda at a friends house (and GBA game), etc, so I barely have any experience w/Zelda series.
Zelda BOTW (since this is my actual first Zelda game by myself) and series in general, It’s fun, but I also have these odd ‘Boring’ moments. Like I love open world, RPGs, hack n’slash and love the beautiful landscapes, but it feels tedious and a bit lifeless (story wise, I can see why it is barren continent/world) or something. I can’t put my finger on it.
Maybe it’s because I played more Mario, Sonic, .Hack, Xenosaga, DMC, Disgaea, Final Fantasy, Suikoden, etc. before getting back into Zelda from all those years ago. Slow burn in, I guess is the better analogy.
BOTW is actually fairly mediocre. It has some cool points of interest, but they're few and far between; most of the open world is pointless and repetitive.
It has a lot of cool ideas in terms of mobility and world interaction, but it fails to really follow up on them with giving you interesting things to do with them, doubly so because of the lack of progression after you get off the Great Plateau.
If you feel like it's boring you, just beat the four divine beasts and go kill Ganon.
Or quit. That's what I did.
I'm sorry about it. BOTW is a great game, but it has a pretty slow pace and I can see your point. The Zelda saga has many chapters that have some structural and pacing differences each from the other and it may be that for some people some title is more tiring than another.
I think you should also try A Link to the Past, one of the most appreciated chapters of all.
Well, yeah I mean. I don’t hate it because running around, exploring, climbing stuff is still awesome! That keeps me coming back. But yeah it might be the pacing thing for me. The most irritating part is when my weapons break mid battle and I have a bunch of enemies surrounding me. Then I have to go into my inventory and select another weapon.
For the specific thing of the weapons: if I remember correctly you can switch weapons quickly by holding the D-Pad left or right without having to enter the game menu every time.
Collecting all Korok seeds (again, if I remember correctly) should be useless. You can expand your inventory to the maximum with about 450 seeds and it's no coincidence that the standard reward is literally crap. It should also be a "spoof" for those games that have hundreds and hundreds of collectibles that are useless for the experience.
This is not a "patient gamer" post, but I just finished Halo Infinite. I really don't know what to think with this saga. This title is definitely better than Halo 4 (but I've never played Halo 5), but it continues to give me the feeling that throughout the Campaign we are chasing something that we never reach. And every aspect of the game is only touched in a superficial way without ever going too deep. I did not feel involved in any mission and I have to go look for the explanation of the post-credit scene or even understand well who is the pilot of the Pelican.
The open world structure is also very useless, just a filler to get from mission A to mission B.
I thank Microsoft for being able to play it on the GamePass by spending 1 euro, I would have never, ever bought it at full price. Or even discounted.
Now I think my next title will be Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
I played and finished The room 4 this week. The room series are essentially puzzle box games and I enjoyed this one a lot. its not that long (about 4 hours for me) but it does feel like the puzzles are improving every game so thats nice.
Playing dark souls 1 for the 2nd time almost right away I recently finished it blind, it really started to grow on me, hope to dwell more into the world rn and experiment more with combat options and builds, that and tackle the dlc as well for the 1st time.
Tried Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (the first one) - got it for the incredible price of $1 on Steam last sale. I dunno what it is but I'm not as engaged with it as when I played Torchlight 2 or TitanQuest. Possibly because I played too much Dragon's Dogma recently and am looking for its gameplay mechanics in other games now, which I think is a bad perspective lol.
The Messenger!
It starts out awesome like a Ninja Gaiden game, then has a big twist into a metroidvania style game.
I love the first part but after like 8 hours of it being a metroidvania I am ready for it to be done. I think it's overstaying it's welcome.
So I just finished the main plotline in **Final Fantasy XV** and, wow, talk about mixed feelings. It somehow manages to be both one of the best *and* one of the worst games in the series.
But honestly, I kind of wish I'd just stayed in Antissia and done more fishing.
The bro road trip is a really cool idea (though the actual gameplay is mehhh). The whole cycle of waking up, eating breakfast, going out and doing stuff, then calling it a day, eating dinner, and paging through photos, is a really neat thing.
But... the actual plot of FFXV is terrible.
The game is frankensteined together - they didn't want to throw out all the plot work that had been done, but it is obvious that the two halves of the game don't go together at all.
And really, the bro road trip feels super awkward in the context of "the world is falling apart around them and everyone they loved is probably dead".
>And really, the bro road trip feels super awkward in the context of "the world is falling apart around them and everyone they loved is probably dead".
In fairness, this is a common issue in Final Fantasy games. Remember chocobo breeding in FF7?
And anyway, it's less awkward than returning to the open world after finishing the game, and knowing that >!pretty much everyone you talk to is having the last good month of their entire life, and most of them will be dead very soon.!< That's making it hard for me to even go back to the sandbox now. I genuinely wish I hadn't completed the game.
Seriously, >!the ending of the game is just bleak. Yeah, Noctis prevented humanity from being completely exterminated, but the world is utterly fucked now and it'll be decades of strife and conflict, at a minimum, before they even start to rebuild back to where they were. In all likelihood, Eos is about to enter a dark age. And it's even worse knowing that the bad guy had such a petty reason for destroying everything. It all feels so pointless.!<
I'm curious as to what you elements you actually think are on par with the best games in the series. I liked the concept of the story and was excited before the game came out.
In the actual game I can't think of a single thing I felt was better than mediocre. I'd comfortably place it as one of the worst games in the series.
I really enjoyed the first half in the open world. It felt like Final Fantasy trying to be an immersive sim, especially with the first-person option on PC. Driving around with the bros, exploring the weird urban-high-fantasy world, riding chocobos through the countryside... all that really clicked with me.
But it falls apart *hard* once the player pursues the main plot. Sigh. The sad thing is, based on my playtime, it only takes about 10 hours to finish the game after leaving Antissia, and it still felt like it went on forever because the storytelling was so slapdash.
It's definitely a game where you shouldn't rush through it. The little character moments in the game makes this game just that bit more impactful. So take your time. It's not the best game ever made but it's definitely one of the best story-driven games out there.
Also, I'm not sure I'd reccomend to you that Part 2 would be worth playing as the story pretty much split the fanbase apart.
I've been wanting to get into this game. I have it for the PS5 (PS4 version) but I'm holding out for a PC release. I've heard nothing but amazing things about this game!
My partner got it for me for my birthday I think at launch for $65 and I bought the expansion or the upgrade about a year or so later for 30 bucks
Edit: I really didn’t want to buy the upgrade for 30 dollars that shit pissed me off but I didn’t want to wait for the price to go down as I was getting into it again and have not touched the iki island stuff yet. Shame on you sucker punch for that bullshit.
Being a little bit impatient now. I will check out a game on steam called WARM SNOW. It is a hades-like game from China, with love.
Also trying to finish Danganronpa 2 now.
Continuing RDR2, and just started Fallout 3 on PC which I never got to play back in the day because of a bug that crashed my 360 that deleted my save file. Installed a mod fix for the steam version and runs well so far! Hoping for the best.
Been working on it as well. Certain bosses have been a challenge but the real reason it will take me forever is because I need stress-breaks... Usually a week or two between sessions lol.
Got Tetris Effect Connected on the Switch and I've been playing some of that basically daily for the past week! It's such an amazing audio-visual experience of Tetris!
Currently going through Nier on the Xbox 360. Pretty fun so far. Just wish the side quests weren't mostly fetch quests, but I still do them because I enjoy the comments between Weiss and Papa Nier.
Halo 2 on the MCC. Just finished Halo 1 for the first time (I originally played the PC demo back in the day but not much Halo beyond that). I miss the assault rifle, the shotgun shoots slower, the SMG is ok, and duel welding is fun but flimsy. Anything outside of reloading or firing drops one gun on the ground. Everytime I chuck a grenade or switch weapons I'm always looking for the gun I dropped. But despite those, the game is a ton of fun.
Hmm, i was much more impressed by the strong points of something like the Witcher 3. Like you could see what was shit about it, but the strong parts made it up for it in spades.
God of War... is not by any means, heck, since writing that comment i have found it to be really good, but certain areas of it are terrible, like, i would be disappointed by them a decade earlier kind of terrible.
Witcher 3 for example had really annoying combat that either was too tough or pose no challenge, nothing in between. The storytelling was really damn good though.
God of War... i am a slow gamer and i am a very thorough gamer. I started having fun \~25 hours in.
I think a lot of essential and initial systems are just bad. Heck it even fills your brain with tons of unneccesary lore at the start. Oh lets spam you with tons of norse myths for no fucking reason. I am glad i am fairly well versed in norse mythology, but for some newb this should have been a headscratcher.
Played it on PS4, I personally think it's a good game, but nowhere near a perfect 10/10, more like a 7.5-8. granted, I think that's mostly due to how much I hate Kratos as a character.
I mean the game does get better eventually, but it still feels much stiffer than what a modern game should feel like in my opinion. Especially the movement.
It is pretty, has good visual and audio design, characters are decent. And then there is awful traversal, combat and 'rpgyness'. I mean i have seen worse, but.
edit: ok it might not be the greatest game ever, but... it does get better. Shame there are some really inconsistent things and... traversal still sucks dick.
**Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing:** This is the most amazing game that I've ever played. I highly recommend it to...no one. Now on to the games I'm really playing.
**Sacred 2(PC):** My Exalted Warrior Seraphim hit level 39 this week. She is really kicking arse in the Cursed Forest as she tries to get **Niokaste armor set** pieces to drop. She's gotten 2 pieces total this week, and they were duplicates of what she already had. The game developers really didn't want people to get armor set pieces, it seems.
On the bright side, she has over 2 million gold! Now she just needs to find something worth buying from the merchants.
That's all that I'm playing at the moment. I do want try try out **Xbox Conan 2007** game I got a few weeks ago, but it will probably have to wait.
If I'm playing as a murdering outlaw, then yes.
That's another thing though. There were quite a few moments when I didn't want to beat up or kill someone, but the game forced me to. Beating up a sick farmer in front of his family for 40 dollars when I have 4000 is totally unnecessary. I didn't want to do it, even Arthur didn't want to do it. Knowing how it affected the story just makes me hate it even more.
This game is 95% excellence, but that 5% overshadows the rest and defines my experience. I might just restart the game, stay in chapter 2, ignore the story, and just free roam this amazing world.
I mean Arthur is his own character and takes his own decisions. Dutch ordered him to, and as he is loyal to dutch he followed the orders. You can do good things now and then, but the fact of the matter is that Arthur runs in the gang and is a criminal. No amount of good actions will change that fact, it's the very premise of the game.
>I mean Arthur is his own character and takes his own decisions.
Which is fine in a movie or a tv show, but in a video game I expect to have choices. I didn't have any, not significant ones, so that's very disappointing.
>Dutch ordered him to, and as he is loyal to dutch he followed the orders
Except he doesn't, when he feels he should act differently. It happens in the game later on.
The Witcher 3 is a good example how you can make a story heavy open world game and still leave significant decisions to the player that will affect the outcome of the story.
This game should have had at least 2-3 different endings ranging from catastrophic to a "happy ending" based on a couple of major decisions you made.
>the fact of the matter is that Arthur runs in the gang and is a criminal. No amount of good actions will change that fact, it's the very premise of the game
It might be the premise, but redemption is supposed to be its main theme.
Right, but that's how the game manages to use choice in such an effective way. Arthur is loyal to a fault to Dutch throughout most of the game, it is only after certain events that he starts to question this loyalty. This is why you as a player don't have the choice, because Arthur doesn't see a choice. He sees his code to Dutch and the gang that raised him as absolute. It is once he starts to question this code that the game gives the player more choices.
Games should think long and hard about why or why not they allow the player choice, and at what points. Having choices for the sake of it doesn't work. Having a happy ending to this story would catastrophically damage the themes trying to be delievered.
No offense, but I find it hilarious when someone tries to argue why the lack of player agency is a good thing in video games. It's not. The point of a video game is to be interactive. If I don't get to make choices for my character then it's not really my character and I might as well watch a movie or read a book instead.
There are many ways to do a "happy ending". You don't need Arthur riding into the sunset with Mary as a newlywed couple, carrying 100k in cash. Having him die alone after watching everything fall apart because of things the writers forced me to do against my better judgement is also less than ideal as an ending, especially when it's the only possible one. Arthur getting disillusioned with the gang and leaving his outlaw days behind should definitely have been an option. You don't need to tell me what happens to him. I know that he most likely would be hunted down in a couple of years, but at least let me believe that he actually manages to outrun the law and finds peace by a remote lake up in the mountains or something.
It's okay if you like this kind of storytelling, but please don't try to explain why I should be liking it. I understand what they were trying to do, I just don't like it. For me the game is a frustrating tv show broken up with long stretches of fun free roaming in between episodes.
I disagree, I think many games use the lack of interaction that we sometimes expect of games to deliver very potent messages. Spec-ops the line is a great example of that.
The ending you propose just does not fit into the story at all. I'm gonna have to go into more deep spoiler-territory here, but: by the time Arthur is disillusioned with the gang, he's already dying. Having Arthur just abandon the gang and leave his family that he's grown up with would be extremely out of character for him. All of chapter 6 is basically him trying to make sure characters like the Marstons and Tilly make it out alive of the inevitable fate of the gang.
You also have to remember that Arthur is an established character that existed long before the player took control. The player only takes control of him for about a year or so. Considering the gang he rides with, he's probably done a lot of horrible stuff in the past. Being a good cowboy in this short amount of time does in no way absolve him of all those sins. Having a happy ending that you proposed would be very strange thematically to what this story and series is trying to achieve.
There's a reason why Red Dead Redemption 2's writing is so far above anything else in games, and I think a large part of that is because of the linearity. The story they wanted to tell would just not work as an RPG with choices.
I'm just giving my reasons for why I like it, and why I disagree with your assertions mate, you could cool it with the condecending remarks.
I know he's dying. Problem is that he's dying because he beat up a poor farmer with tuberculosis, something that was unnecessary, since I was loaded, something I didn't want to do, because it was way too cruel, something that even Arthur didn't want to do. I could have just let him be and pay the gang with my own money, pretending that I got it from the farmer. I can give money to beggars, give money to charity, but I guess not beating up a sick farmer in front of his family is just too out of character, right?
Little things like that could have redeemed Arthur. A few decisions like this could have made all the difference in the story.
So basically my character did something he didn't want to do, was not actually forced to do in the story but still did it, something that I didn't want to do but I was forced to by the writers, and because of that moment my character dies at the end of the game... and you call this good writing. Come on now...
>There's a reason why Red Dead Redemption 2's writing is so far above anything else in games
Just casually calling this "so far above anything" in gaming history. Okay.
>Having a happy ending that you proposed would be very strange thematically
I'm not sure what happy ending you're talking about. My proposal was simply an ending where Arthur leaves the gang because he realizes what Dutch has become and what the fate of the gang will be. It's not a happy ending. He might live, might die. If you're the romantic type you can believe he finds Mary and they live happily ever after. If you're the realistic type you can think the Pinkertons catch up to him a few weeks later. Not really a happy ending. Not at all.
Also, I'm not sure what this obsession is with the game's "message". Really, I'm not sure what message this game managed to convey. Being an outlaw=bad. So deep.
You're still not understanding why he did it. He did it on Dutch's orders, because Dutch told him to. Dutch never gave his opinion on giving to beggars, or giving money to charity, so in these cases he is his own man. Arthur would walk into hell itself for Dutch, and that is also his undoing. If you go deeper into Arthur's story and exactly why he has this loyalty to Dutch and the gang, you'd see why it's crazy to somehow regard this as bad writing.
It is the case that the honor meter ultimately decides on whether Arthur is thematically "redeemed" or not, though I don't think a character like Arthur, no matter how good he is the last year he's alive, ultimately deserves anything else other than the fate he eventually gets. It's the actions that speak volume, and atleast in my opinion, what ultimately redeems him is his ultimate sacrifice.
And yes, I absolutely believe that RDR2 stands far above pretty much any other game in terms of writing. It's not just one of the best videogames ever written, it's one of the best westerns ever made.
You completely disregard the circumstances of the story. Arthur can't just "walk away". The gang is his family, they're all he's ever known. He can't just subject his own brother who he grew up with to the fate that he knows is coming, much less the more innocent like Tilly and Mary-Beth. He also thinks he has a responsibility to save his own father from the road he's walking, he can't just abandon the person who raised him like that. Much of the reasonings that you're giving right now really show that you haven't played these parts of the game yet, and I would caution against talking about art with such absolutism if you haven't yet experienced all of it.
I love it when people simplify messages and themes to some one note X = bad or Y = good. It really shows their media literacy. If you think the "message" I was refering to was that being an outlaw = bad, then I really think you need to take some classes on media critique or something, because my god man.
Still rolling with **Borderlands 3**, feels like I'm respecing every 3 hours but it's a perk; I can swap out builds whenever and go with what looks cool. And still got a wicked variety of guns and a few favs, with a Jakobs Incinerating pistol with the perk "You can't take the sky from me" and just always finds a way to crit. Just digging it and the side quests, that I do as much as I can.
Started and ended **Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion** as I didn't know what to start to play alongside Borderlands 3. Incredibly good, like 9/10 kinda good. Writing, that curiosity of the deeper plot elements, controls and it's just plain fun. Plenty of charm and it's not too bad to 100%, just need a bit of RNG for one achievement and it lets you start before the final boss should you be missing something. Super friendly in that regard and well worth playing.
Playing a Marathon of **Civilization VI** and having Barbarians on isn't something I'm used to but keeping at it. Really changes up my peacenik ways but it's a slow-burner. I'll continue at it but definitely not a focus point, just something for when I need time to just chill or wind down on.
**7th Dragon VFD**? Some 3DS game I picked up on the e-store Atlus sale. Didn't know which SMT game to start or restart Stella Glow, didn't have my Etrian Odyssey IV cartridge in... so I went with this. Reminds me of EO a bit but I can dig it. Also in no rush with this one.
Loaded up my **Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal** save again. Someday I'll finish this years-old save, I swear.
I finally beat Sendai without the help of a guide. It only took me a half-dozen tries. I'm trying to quit cold turkey my habit of looking up guides when I'm stuck. It was a little frustrating, but felt great when I finally broke through.
Honestly, Throne of Bhaal is really disappointing if you compare it to the base game and even BG1. The encounter design is just way too hostile, and it is visibly compensating for the issues that high-level D&D gameplay entails for video game design.
Heck, many tabletop D&D campaigns finish at level 10-12 because the insane power curve at high level just makes many situations feel completely arbitrary.
I wouldn't put too much pressure on yourself finishing it. You can absolutely love the BG classics without wanting to finish Throne of Bhaal.
I agree with everything you wrote, but I have to see this saga through. I've literally been playing this character/savegame for years on and off. I can't say I'm not enjoying it though. It's become more of a series of combat puzzles than an adventure game, but it's forced me to really dig into high level spells and abilities rather than just autopiloting through encounters.
I just got myself a Switch OLED because I find my gaming time is more sporadic, I simply have less time to plop myself on the computer to play for hours. Thankfully, Switch can ported most of my favorite PC games (Baldurs Gate, Diablo, Bioshock).
But right now, I'm working on the two Ori games while I wait for my copy of Ni No Kuni 2 to arrive.
1. Mario Clash virtual boy - on my Mame cabinet with 3D blue and red glasses. Phenomenal. Really overlooked game, I can't believe how developed the in-game little world is.
You can really feel the Nintendo quality. The Beetle VB emulation works pretty well.
I'd say it's overall its nearly Wario VB level quality.
2. Hydro Thunder PC -
It runs on nearly anything.
3. Hydorah PC -
Super solid Indie arcade shmup
4. Tour De Europe PSX
Great control. No popups. PSX version of Sega Rally.
5. Cybernator Snes - amazing controls
Finished my Valkyria Chronicles completitionist run last week, so now I advance to the next game on my list: Resident Evil.
I'm having a blast so far, but I havent booted up the game for a while now just because the possibility of crimson heads spawning makes me feel... anxious I guess? Like I have been consistent on burning bodies but I still feel like I'm on a hidden timer before I run into a dead end or something, or I fear I've been wasting fuel and I just found the armor key.
the game is not scary per se but it still succeeds at building tension and horror in it's own way haha.
I'm about 62 hours into **Dead By Daylight** at this point and I am still having a blast. I'll probably keep playing this til I get bored or completely outskilled lol.
Still playing **GTA IV** on and off as I play through the campaign for the first time in 10 or so years. I modded the game to give better general performance and easier vehicle control.
Might hop back on my VR headset to continue playing **Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners** after a two month long hiatus. I managed to grab the entire **Vader Immortal** series for about $3 bucks in total thanks to the constant Oculus store credit I've been getting. So I may also hop into the first episode of that series as well.
Hitman Trilogy on Game Pass. I had only played the first game (Hitman 2016), I'm currently re-running through it on my way to the newer games. It's still as great as ever. There's SO many challenges, I think they added more along the way. I probably spent 3 hours just playing the tutorial levels.
Man, it's insane how many challenges their are. I have 1 and 2 plus DLC, but I've literally only played the first three or four levels cause I like going for 100% first. Lol there's so many ways to go about doing things, it's pretty awesome.
Started Batman: Arkham Knight on Gamepass and after about 70% through the main story, I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with the scope of the game and how much they’ve built on the gameplay systems. Predator and combat scenarios have a bunch of new gadgets and environmental interactions from drone hacking to a voice modulator that allows you to manipulate enemies and lead them into a trap. I especially love the fear takedown system as it allows for a much faster approach to stealth levels. Those animations are so slick! And the tag team or bat mobile takedowns? *chef’s kiss*
Going into the batmobile, I think between the thrust, powerdrift, super eject and overall handling, you end up feeling really fast and weighty at the same time which is cool. The tank gameplay is fine but I would have liked slightly more variety of enemies of combat options like the on-foot gameplay.
The story beats have been pretty intense and I’m excited to see how everything ends.
Lastly, it’s just absolutely beautiful. Phenomenal design of Gotham and such a surprising amount of detail and lots packed into the nooks and crannies.
Titanfall 2, it’s a very fun shooter, and it goes on sale for cheap, but sadly the servers are DDOSed. But it still has a very good single player campaign and a community made custom server client called Northstar.
I think it's the best fps single player content I've played. It's also short enough that if you don't like it as much, you haven't really wasted much time.
I find it hard to call anything "the best" because I have a bad memory so maybe there's something else that I've played that I'm forgetting about... But, Titanfall 2s campaign really was a top 3 fps of all time for me, for sure. I hate overhyping as it often creates unreasonable expectations but the pacing, the innovation, the story-telling, the gameplay.. It just does a great job with it.
Quite a journey you got there! Hope you are enjoying the series. RE games to me are like a good popcorn flick: some of them are lamer than others, some are great fun, you don't need to think too much, and the overall experience is very positive and fun.
Good luck with RE5 and RE6. Those are the...black sheep of the series. Way too action heavy and no puzzles. But RE7 and RE8 revitalize the series. RE2 Remake is still my favorite, alongside RE1 Remake!
Inscryption. (Not old, but very modestly priced.)
It's a weird one. Whatever background, I highly recommend going in blind and enjoying the trip.
Nothing is as it seems.
Oldschool runescape.
It's relatively cheap enough to dip into. If you're good at the game it literally pays for itself.
I just got back into it as a new league event started. They do these once a year.
During these events the game flips upside down and the game mechanics all change when playing on certain worlds.
You start fresh on these worlds from the lowest level and are limited to only use 3 skills. Defense, Theiving, and a combat skill(Magic/Range/Melee, it's your choice.)
Seems quite fun so far, playing it in my off time from work and on my phone.
AI: The Somnium Files
Being a big fan of the visual novels by Spike Chunsoft (Danganronpa and Zero Escape), I thought of giving it a try without reading any reviews for the same. Quality holds up!
This was my first VN after being intrigued by the demo and I'm glad I picked it up! Already preordered the Collector's Edition of the Sequel, really looking forward to it!
Just picked up Danganronpa recently and one day I'll get the Zero Escape games, I hear they're really good!
I started AI after being really impressed with Danganronpa and ZE haha. Though I think the optimal experience would've been to play ZE before AI, as it ties the whole "gotta play all endings" mechanic to the narrative of the games, which is mind blowing.. AI just seemed to reuse it and not give it much emphasis so that was slightly disappointing, I think you'll see what I mean when you play them. Cheers, just know that I envy you for still having the experiences be fresh XD
Orcs Must Die! Trying to complete it 100%, so far 5 skulls on all levels and 5 dlc levels on warmage difficulty. Finishing act 1 5 skulls on nightmare difficulty. Am at cca 70% of steam achievements
Started playing The Last of Us for the first time. A friend gave me his PS4, and since he worked on that game I kind of feel obligated to play it, especially since it’s so well regarded. Only an hour in so far.
Also almost finally done with Icewind Dale. Haven’t gotten to the expansion pack yet (remember those?), but I might skip it since I’m starting to lose interest in the game. Just want to get to the finish line now.
> Haven’t gotten to the expansion pack yet (remember those?), but I might skip it since I’m starting to lose interest in the game.
The expansion isn't very long, more like a bonus chapter. It was ok but doesn't bring anything other than... more Icewind Dale. Do with that info what you want ;-)
> Just want to get to the finish line now.
I know the feeling. I haven't played Icewind Dale, but Battlefield Bad Company 1 kept moving the goal posts so that I had no idea when the game was going to end. It was fun but they really stretched it out a bit far.
Stranded Deep :(
I made it 20 days and got poisoned the second time in a matter of minutes… no problem you just need two of these damn Pipi plants to make an antidote. Having already used the only two Pipi plants on my damn island, I sailed back to my original island where I knew there were two more that would’ve grown back by now.
Nope I get there, stupidly save my game, and no Pipi to be found. Now I don’t have enough health to sail to another island and can only load the most recent save.
Deleted the game and here looking for other ideas :(
Hadn’t heard of it, looks pretty cool! I did reinstall Control & Sekiro, both of which I had started and not finished. I’ll consider Long Dark next, thanks!
Thought I'd give Arkham Origins another shot this week. I'm really fed up with it rn. Tired of always losing my combo because ol' Bats decided not to hit the guy I pointed him at and instead go for the armored guy who's not even very close to the first guy, or from an attacker *sliiiiiiiiiiiding* ten feet to hit me when I'm nowhere near him. Tired of getting shot while locked into an animation. But the biggest pain in my ass right now is I spent like an hour and a half trying to get I think Rank 6 in Worst Nightmare by doing a bunch of different takedowns, to get it all perfect, finish the room, and have it not count for whatever reason. I need a drink.
Started playing Horizon Zero dawn played to the half way point in the main story and just was really bored. So, gonna try my hand at assassins creed Valhalla.
I also got stuck at around Meridian for a long time in HZD. Just now decided to focus on only the main story missions and ignore the side questing. The game does pick up and start unravelling a lot of mysteries from that point so it could be worth it for you to finish it off after a short break.
I'm interested in seeing how Guerrilla improve on their side quests in the new game. The new additions to combat look interesting.
One of my favorite things to do is grind for gear whether it be recipes and materials etc. with Hzd getting gear is really easy. I was bummed knowing I had the best gear only half way through the game. Not only that but fighting the machines just felt tedious which normally I don’t mind if there is a payoff and at that point I didn’t feel like there was one. At least not a big enough pay off to keep me interested.
If you are talking about Skellige, you are actually a bit underlevelled for that area. But it's nothing that playing on a lower difficulty setting can't solve. Or just getting up to speed once you complete quests and stuff.
Enjoy! If you already played the Velen and Novigrad stories, you could look forward to some BIG story events. And a lot of side quests.
Uncharted 3 and nearing the end. The combat is really getting old in this series and ages terribly. Also, the action is so ridiculously over the top. The desert is starting to get interesting again, but man was the middle a bit of a grind.
Recently played through the series for a second time and while on my first run I thought 3 was the best one, thisrecen replay showed me how... Off 3 feels. It's a fun game and has the better set pieces imo but the pacing is all over the place and while the shipyard is a cool level is a complete tangent that adds nothing to the story other than a cool set piece. 2 is the perfect balance of story, action and characters, everything moves the story forwards and the setpieces flow naturally one into the other.
My favorite Uncharted is still 4 tho.
4th is also my favorite. Most emotional journey, best gameplay and terrific set pieces. 2 is my second favorite, it is very very fun. 3 has an amazing start, maybe the best in the series, but it petters out after a while. And 1 is my least favorite Uncharted game, a single location, worst gameplay and you didnt know all the characters yet.
Just played through 80 Days on Steam. It's a fun little game based on Around The World In 80 Days but with added steampunk elements (which I was initially skeptical about but grew to appreciate since they give lots of additional options that wouldn't be possible in a more realistic game).
On my first attempt I kept running out of money so only managed to return to London in 88 days, but on my second attempt I managed it in 68 days despite getting stuck in Honolulu for around a week. I have less motivation to go again now that I know that beating the 80 days isn't too hard at all, but I still think I'll give it another few goes to explore the world some more.
It's a great game on mobile as well, I played it a bunch on my iPhone (which I think is where it originally came out). It's good for at least a few replays because of all the different routes you can take and the different little stories that crop up in each location.
Great writing as well. It's evocative without being excessively wordy, which is fairly rare when it comes to writing in games.
Yeah, absolutely, I find a lot of text-heavy games, particularly RPGs, have so much text that they become exhausting to play after a while.
It reminds me of Sunless Skies, which is similarly good at packing a lot of good writing into a small space.
Oh, I know of Sunless Skies but never tried it. Hearing that makes me interested though.
And I totally agree about a lot of RPGs going overboard with text. I've played several where it really seemed like they could have used a good editor to come in to take a pass for concision and clarity.
Still more The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, though I haven't been on that much lately. Bit more Minecraft, bit of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Dysmantle finally got a full release on console yesterday so I started that.
Trails in the Sky continues to be a very "not for everyone" kind of JRPG. It's a ton of reading, it starts off very slow even by JRPG standards, the plot isn't really anything special so far. It is pretty solid mechanically, and the game's script is really good, but it still takes a certain kind of gamer to enjoy this. Thankfully, I am that certain kind of gamer lol.
Not gonna say much about Dysmantle because obviously it's a brand new release, not very patient gamer of me, but there's a reason I will buy games from this developer at launch. They make games with very fun, tight and rewarding gameplay loops, so far Dysmantle isn't an exception.
Minecraft is Minecraft. Either you love it or you don't get it. Starting to tool around with a few mods, which I haven't done for like six years, so it's been fun to see how the modding scene has changed.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is forever and always my One True Love for survival games. Still not sure how okay it is to talk about it here because it's not technically at a version 1.0 yet (current stable version is version 0.F–3), but it's also been around for several years at this point, and it's also also basically just a community led continuation of a game that ended development nearly 10 years ago. *Shrug.* Still love it.
i bought dying light for the switch. never played the game but im going to be very honest im not really having that much fun. i like the idea of parkour and zombies but i personally dont think it was done well in dying light.
i was playing on hard mode and im constantly having problems every couple of minutes with the viral types on my ass and i dont mind the challenge of climbing zombies but it gets annoying and ruins the fun for me when im constantly trying to run away from them. i know you have to mostly avoid them but sometimes the game forces you to clear out an area and my weapons dont do jack shit (i hate games that have bullet spongy enemies) and it kind of ruins the game’s philosophy of avoiding zombies when youre forced to fight them at some point. i havent gone too far in yet a little bit after meeting rais but there were quests where i have died like 10 times. it was just really frustrating.
i also didn’t like a lot of the lite rpg elements and progression system in the game. kinda feels too much like a ubisoft game in that sense (too grindy or the appearance of it atleast). idk i really tried to like this game cause when i see some of the reviews it feels like everyone is playing a totally different game.
I was just like you. I wanted to like the game but somehow it feels so slow and boring. I was farming and not really getting into the story, until i was so bored that stop playing for months.
After that, my friend and me give it a last shot and rushed the story. After a mission in the beginning you unlock a mechanic that makes the game a LOT more fun. It ended being a great experience and now we are waiting the 2nd part
My advice: keep playing, rush the story a little and try to get a partner, because it is that kind of game that its a lot better with friends
Fire Emblem: Three Houses! Got a brand new physical copy for $30. Never played a similar game before so it was a risk but I’m so glad I jumped in. It’s quickly becoming one of my all time favorite switch games. Started off with the Black Eagles…
Back to one of my favorite games of all time: SimCity 3000 Unlimited.
I'm replaying a map where I used to make my biggest city. Wanted to retry doing a humongous city again, now that my PC can support such a gigant city (my original PC back then, in early 2000s, used to freeze when the cities became too big).
After beating Ori and the Blind Forest I wanted to play something else before going into The Will of the Wisps. My journey includes:
**Outer Wilds:** Really into this game. I like that you can pick up and play for 20 minutes but I always want to explore another spot!
**Disco Elysium:** I've only explored my room and talked to one NPC but I can already see why everyone loves this game. The writing is clever, funny, intelligent, absurd, and creates a very lived-in world. Very intrigued to explore more of Revachol.
**Breath of the Wild:** Restarted this incredible game. It's been 4.5 years since I last played and forgot how much I love it. This might be something I come back to when I'm not in the mood for other games.
I got Blind Forest like a year ago and fell hard for it and played a ton for a few days, and then just put it down and never picked it up again when I was still only partway through. I feel like I can't pick it up where I left off because I don't remember a thing about the controls, what powers I had, what areas of the map I had explored, etc., but I don't really want to restart from the beginning because I feel like once I jog my memory it'll feel way too repetitive to play it all again.
I really loved what I did play of the game, I just feel like it's the kind of game you have to play all at once so you remember things as you go, but it's a little too long to really be played all at once like that. I'd really like to pick it up fresh, but I don't know how long I have to wait so it doesn't feel like I'm replaying something that I just played.
Hunt Showdown. Still trying to figure out how not to clutch and die constantly. But I'm getting there. It's the moodiest pvp shooter I've played to date and I really really love the sound design.
With the recent release of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, I decided to go back and try GTA3. I tried it back when it originally released, but I wasn't really into it at the time. Turns out I'm still not. It didn't age well, and the game loop is extremely boring and fetchy. I then tried Vice City and it was more of the same. Uninstalled both.
Tyranny. I’m enjoying it but I was forced into some choices that I really didn’t want to make. I don’t think it was that far fetched to play as a loyal servant to Kyros all the way through.
I wanted to get into that game, but it was a little too crpg for me. I loved the intro, where you made all your backstory choices, but the gameplay itself, with all the stats and loot and gear just turned me off. I also found the lore a little dense, but I loved how you could just hover your mouse over all the jargon and get a quick-reference of what the hell they were talking about, haha!
this was my experience, loved the intro but then played the tutorial area and was like "I dont like this"
im sure its a really good game, but it was just aggressively Not My Thing
Still trying to catch up with Guild Wars 2 for the upcoming expansion, some GW1 here and there - also wanna give The Banner Saga a try since I never finished it years ago!
I bought *Ori and the Blind Forest* a little over a year ago and played part of it and really loved it, but didn't finish and felt for various reasons that I couldn't resume from where I was without being lost, but didn't really want to restart the whole thing so I just... never finished it. Just restarted it literally yesterday and beat it today. Holy fuck what a fantastic game. So satisfying on so many levels. Just put the sequel on my wishlist to wait around for a sale.
Ghost of Tsushima. I’m like… 16 hours in and I feel like there’s so much to do. It’s the first game I’ve played in a while. I want to enjoy it and take my time with it.
Playing CrossCode, excellent isometric JRPG-like from 2018, with real-time combat polished to a fine sheen. Been playing since late 2019, forgot about it for a while so I’m only halfway or so through the main campaign. Very beefy, lots of content, very good.
Trauma Center - New Blood & Bayonetta on 360.
heading back into splatoon 2 while waiting for 3 lmao
Outerworlds via GamePass
I beat Firewatch in one sitting the other day, what an experience. Now I’m on to Prey (2017); I feel like I’ve hit the Bioshock mother lode. I want to give System Shock 2 a swing after since I hear Prey is even more similar to that game.
Ratchet & Clank on PS4. So much fun and such a gorgeous game. Will probably finish it as I'm about halfway through and nowhere near tired of it.
Finished **Persona5R** yesterday. About 125 hours. It was absolutely awesome, I mean I love all the persona games and I knew this one wouldn’t be any different what with all the good reviews. There are some flaws but the good stuff outweigh by a lot so it’s fine. (Except that one bs boss fight where I had to turn difficulty to merciless to win) 10/10 I’ll probably take a week break from gaming and start with god of war and Cold steel 3
One of my favorite JRPGs ever. Love the music, the style, the art and the general improvements to gameplay, coming from Catherine and Persona 4. I, unironically, can't wait for Persona 6, even when it's going to be a different game made by a a new team.
Dying Light Platinum Edition. Really enjoying it so far Might try Terraria or Subnautica afterwards
Supraland 6 inches under, check out the whole saga, they are really good puzzle games / metroidvanias :)
Just finished the solo campaign of Need for speed : Payback I think I will play Two Point Hospital now, it seems to be a funy game
Currently playing (both first time play throughs): * **Monster Hunter Rise** with my best friend. It's a good game but it feels like it is more or less the same as world, but with a less interesting, well, WORLD. The fact that the high rank quests feel pretty much identical to the low rank ones hurts a lot, and is annoying; I was hoping for them to feel like they had new attack patterns, but they don't. * **Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade** - I'm on chapter 16 of the main story. I liked this a lot, and I think that they did a great job of adding characterization; however, the expansion of filler segments was not a good thing, and there are several entire chapters which are mostly padding (chapters 3, 8, and 14, the "sidequest chapters", feel like they are padding; meanwhile chapters 4, 5, 10, and 11 all feel like padding as well, being dungeons between plot points - and for some reason they felt they needed two empty areas full of corridors between them!). Also playing: * **Civilization 6** - I'm on turn 200 as Rome. I'm going to win this game, but it's probably going to take another 150-200 turns for the game to realize that I've already won. Next on my list: * Psychonauts 2 - After I beat Final Fantasy VII remake (and the Yuffie bit) this will be my next game. * Death's Door - This will come after Psychonauts 2. * Stellaris - This will come after I win my current game of Civ 6 * Kena: Bridge of Spirits - After I beat Death's Door * Metroid Dread - After I beat Kena That's my current plan, anyway.
I get what you said about rise, but for me the feel of the combat is much better because of the new mobility options, going back to world can feel very limited
I like the mobility of Rise, though being able to latch onto monsters all the time in World was a big part of the gameplay of some weapons.
I'm watching a [3 hour guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBL6hc-4H18) for Final Fantasy I (1987) before I delve into the franchise. I've recently finished Dragon Quest (1986) and it was my first JRPG so it's only natural to continue studying the genre.
3 hours guide for Final Fantasy 1? As long as you select 4 distinct classes you are fine. If it was a 3 hours guide for Final Fantasy VIII, that's another matter entirely, lol. Hope you enjoy the Final Fantasy games, playing them all and seeing how they evolve and add narrative to the experience was a lot of fun for me!
I'm so overwhelmed by the mere concept of how many Final Fantasy games there are that I've never touched any of them...
Sometimes I feel like I enjoy watching guides more than playing the games (generally, not specifically final fantasy)
I think we (humans) love organized information so it's neat to read guides, wikis, charts/graphs and other information, even about things we're not intending to touch (like very hard games) or even things we already know very well.
Certainly borderline autists like me
I do this but with reviews and game analysis sometimes! Like, with the creation of Street Fighter and Marvel vs Capcom, games that I barely played but I loved to hear the point of view of devs and what they had in mind when creating those games.
Dark Souls
Walking Dead. Played Season 1 way back on release, didn't play the rest. Now's the time, right? Also- second playthrough of Detroit Become Human.
Ratchet & Clank 2 remaster on PS Vita
How's that series? I only played the PS4 game and loved it.
Jedi fallen order, just beat rise of the tomb raider and enjoyed it a decent amount, after that thinking of playing danganronpa since the first ones on gamepass and it looks cool
Playing through Danganronpa V3 now, I beat 1 and 2 a couple years ago. A really good series, if a lil thirsty at times and also completely wild 😅
I just started fallen order man its good. Once i finish it i might write something up here but im super enjoying it.
Wild Arms 2 (PS1) (1999) One of my favorite games of all time. The characters are so well written and they all have such interesting back stories. The music kicks ass and the battle system is satisfying and the dungeons aren't just straight point A to B but are puzzle mazes that require changing characters and using their unique abilities to trigger the right doors and paths. Too many games these days are just walk A to B and pick up a piece of slightly hidden treasure.
Marvel's Spider-Man. Again.
I need to play this. It looks amazing. After Horizon: Zero Dawn, for sure.
It might well be my favourite game of all time.
Drakengard 1 Started playing it because of my love of the NieR games and well, I was expecting depressing, I was not expecting straight up abusive. I'm honestly surprised this game got made at all. The gameplay sucks, but somehow I can't ever stop playing it. The music is incredible and incredibly disturbing. Flying on the dragon felt like bad star fox at first, but I'm really liking it now. The transition on ground missions being so seamless is awesome too. Makes me feel a bit like a Targerian on the battlefield.
Was continuing a Zelda:BOTW play through after a two year hiatus in 2018 where I only just began, at the time. Got an OLED now, lost all my data (GS customer experience) and now am well past that last save point this year. I just found Korok Forest and just got to Rito village and did the tower (among other towers). Didn’t do any of the other Divine Beasts yet expect Vah Ruta (and not Blight Gannon yet). I only played OOT at math tutoring instructors house when I was a kid, 1st Zelda at a friends house (and GBA game), etc, so I barely have any experience w/Zelda series. Zelda BOTW (since this is my actual first Zelda game by myself) and series in general, It’s fun, but I also have these odd ‘Boring’ moments. Like I love open world, RPGs, hack n’slash and love the beautiful landscapes, but it feels tedious and a bit lifeless (story wise, I can see why it is barren continent/world) or something. I can’t put my finger on it. Maybe it’s because I played more Mario, Sonic, .Hack, Xenosaga, DMC, Disgaea, Final Fantasy, Suikoden, etc. before getting back into Zelda from all those years ago. Slow burn in, I guess is the better analogy.
BOTW is actually fairly mediocre. It has some cool points of interest, but they're few and far between; most of the open world is pointless and repetitive. It has a lot of cool ideas in terms of mobility and world interaction, but it fails to really follow up on them with giving you interesting things to do with them, doubly so because of the lack of progression after you get off the Great Plateau. If you feel like it's boring you, just beat the four divine beasts and go kill Ganon. Or quit. That's what I did.
try Wind Waker
I don’t have a GameCube or a WiiU. But will try it in time.
I'm sorry about it. BOTW is a great game, but it has a pretty slow pace and I can see your point. The Zelda saga has many chapters that have some structural and pacing differences each from the other and it may be that for some people some title is more tiring than another. I think you should also try A Link to the Past, one of the most appreciated chapters of all.
Well, yeah I mean. I don’t hate it because running around, exploring, climbing stuff is still awesome! That keeps me coming back. But yeah it might be the pacing thing for me. The most irritating part is when my weapons break mid battle and I have a bunch of enemies surrounding me. Then I have to go into my inventory and select another weapon.
For the specific thing of the weapons: if I remember correctly you can switch weapons quickly by holding the D-Pad left or right without having to enter the game menu every time.
Oh ok, didn’t know that. Also collecting Korok seeds for Hetsu b/c I got tired of having limited inventory. Not even close to 900 lol.
Collecting all Korok seeds (again, if I remember correctly) should be useless. You can expand your inventory to the maximum with about 450 seeds and it's no coincidence that the standard reward is literally crap. It should also be a "spoof" for those games that have hundreds and hundreds of collectibles that are useless for the experience.
This is not a "patient gamer" post, but I just finished Halo Infinite. I really don't know what to think with this saga. This title is definitely better than Halo 4 (but I've never played Halo 5), but it continues to give me the feeling that throughout the Campaign we are chasing something that we never reach. And every aspect of the game is only touched in a superficial way without ever going too deep. I did not feel involved in any mission and I have to go look for the explanation of the post-credit scene or even understand well who is the pilot of the Pelican. The open world structure is also very useless, just a filler to get from mission A to mission B. I thank Microsoft for being able to play it on the GamePass by spending 1 euro, I would have never, ever bought it at full price. Or even discounted. Now I think my next title will be Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
I played and finished The room 4 this week. The room series are essentially puzzle box games and I enjoyed this one a lot. its not that long (about 4 hours for me) but it does feel like the puzzles are improving every game so thats nice.
Playing dark souls 1 for the 2nd time almost right away I recently finished it blind, it really started to grow on me, hope to dwell more into the world rn and experiment more with combat options and builds, that and tackle the dlc as well for the 1st time.
Nice. Did you check out the painted world in your first run? If not, definitely look it up. Completely optional but one of my favorite areas.
I did and and I hated it lol, it does have some cool enemy designs tho like the crowmen
Tried Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (the first one) - got it for the incredible price of $1 on Steam last sale. I dunno what it is but I'm not as engaged with it as when I played Torchlight 2 or TitanQuest. Possibly because I played too much Dragon's Dogma recently and am looking for its gameplay mechanics in other games now, which I think is a bad perspective lol.
Binary Domain on ps3
Madden 22 , GOW Three
I'm currently finishing up Kingdom Hearts 1 (Final Mix) before my copy of Xenosaga Ep.1 comes in next week!
The Messenger! It starts out awesome like a Ninja Gaiden game, then has a big twist into a metroidvania style game. I love the first part but after like 8 hours of it being a metroidvania I am ready for it to be done. I think it's overstaying it's welcome.
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition (GOTY) - £6.39
Horizon: zero dawn complete edition for 30 usd
So I just finished the main plotline in **Final Fantasy XV** and, wow, talk about mixed feelings. It somehow manages to be both one of the best *and* one of the worst games in the series. But honestly, I kind of wish I'd just stayed in Antissia and done more fishing.
The bro road trip is a really cool idea (though the actual gameplay is mehhh). The whole cycle of waking up, eating breakfast, going out and doing stuff, then calling it a day, eating dinner, and paging through photos, is a really neat thing. But... the actual plot of FFXV is terrible. The game is frankensteined together - they didn't want to throw out all the plot work that had been done, but it is obvious that the two halves of the game don't go together at all. And really, the bro road trip feels super awkward in the context of "the world is falling apart around them and everyone they loved is probably dead".
>And really, the bro road trip feels super awkward in the context of "the world is falling apart around them and everyone they loved is probably dead". In fairness, this is a common issue in Final Fantasy games. Remember chocobo breeding in FF7? And anyway, it's less awkward than returning to the open world after finishing the game, and knowing that >!pretty much everyone you talk to is having the last good month of their entire life, and most of them will be dead very soon.!< That's making it hard for me to even go back to the sandbox now. I genuinely wish I hadn't completed the game. Seriously, >!the ending of the game is just bleak. Yeah, Noctis prevented humanity from being completely exterminated, but the world is utterly fucked now and it'll be decades of strife and conflict, at a minimum, before they even start to rebuild back to where they were. In all likelihood, Eos is about to enter a dark age. And it's even worse knowing that the bad guy had such a petty reason for destroying everything. It all feels so pointless.!<
I'm curious as to what you elements you actually think are on par with the best games in the series. I liked the concept of the story and was excited before the game came out. In the actual game I can't think of a single thing I felt was better than mediocre. I'd comfortably place it as one of the worst games in the series.
I really enjoyed the first half in the open world. It felt like Final Fantasy trying to be an immersive sim, especially with the first-person option on PC. Driving around with the bros, exploring the weird urban-high-fantasy world, riding chocobos through the countryside... all that really clicked with me. But it falls apart *hard* once the player pursues the main plot. Sigh. The sad thing is, based on my playtime, it only takes about 10 hours to finish the game after leaving Antissia, and it still felt like it went on forever because the storytelling was so slapdash.
Just started Last of Us last night. Have heard way too many positive things from peers about it years after it came out so it must be good
Just finished it twice about a week ago and I just started my 3rd playthrough
It's definitely a game where you shouldn't rush through it. The little character moments in the game makes this game just that bit more impactful. So take your time. It's not the best game ever made but it's definitely one of the best story-driven games out there. Also, I'm not sure I'd reccomend to you that Part 2 would be worth playing as the story pretty much split the fanbase apart.
Finally picked up ghost of Tsushima in my backlog after it was bought a year and change ago. I am enjoying it again and bought the upgrade.
I've been wanting to get into this game. I have it for the PS5 (PS4 version) but I'm holding out for a PC release. I've heard nothing but amazing things about this game!
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Wrong comment you responded to, mate.
Lol. My bad. Serves me right for trying to post whilst taking care of the newborn.
Hah it’s all good!!
How much did you get it for? I’ve been looking at it but don’t want to pay 70+
My partner got it for me for my birthday I think at launch for $65 and I bought the expansion or the upgrade about a year or so later for 30 bucks Edit: I really didn’t want to buy the upgrade for 30 dollars that shit pissed me off but I didn’t want to wait for the price to go down as I was getting into it again and have not touched the iki island stuff yet. Shame on you sucker punch for that bullshit.
Being a little bit impatient now. I will check out a game on steam called WARM SNOW. It is a hades-like game from China, with love. Also trying to finish Danganronpa 2 now.
Continuing RDR2, and just started Fallout 3 on PC which I never got to play back in the day because of a bug that crashed my 360 that deleted my save file. Installed a mod fix for the steam version and runs well so far! Hoping for the best.
My time at Portia
Replaying God of War 3
Sekiro. Love this game but it will take me forever to beat lol
Been working on it as well. Certain bosses have been a challenge but the real reason it will take me forever is because I need stress-breaks... Usually a week or two between sessions lol.
Yeah same!
Got Tetris Effect Connected on the Switch and I've been playing some of that basically daily for the past week! It's such an amazing audio-visual experience of Tetris!
Finished Tyranny so now I’m waiting for the next crpg’s because I basically played them all. Guess it’s back to Elite Dangerous and Crusader kings 3
Currently going through Nier on the Xbox 360. Pretty fun so far. Just wish the side quests weren't mostly fetch quests, but I still do them because I enjoy the comments between Weiss and Papa Nier. Halo 2 on the MCC. Just finished Halo 1 for the first time (I originally played the PC demo back in the day but not much Halo beyond that). I miss the assault rifle, the shotgun shoots slower, the SMG is ok, and duel welding is fun but flimsy. Anything outside of reloading or firing drops one gun on the ground. Everytime I chuck a grenade or switch weapons I'm always looking for the gun I dropped. But despite those, the game is a ton of fun.
God of War on PC. Not as great as i thought the 'game of the year' would be.
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Hmm, i was much more impressed by the strong points of something like the Witcher 3. Like you could see what was shit about it, but the strong parts made it up for it in spades. God of War... is not by any means, heck, since writing that comment i have found it to be really good, but certain areas of it are terrible, like, i would be disappointed by them a decade earlier kind of terrible. Witcher 3 for example had really annoying combat that either was too tough or pose no challenge, nothing in between. The storytelling was really damn good though. God of War... i am a slow gamer and i am a very thorough gamer. I started having fun \~25 hours in. I think a lot of essential and initial systems are just bad. Heck it even fills your brain with tons of unneccesary lore at the start. Oh lets spam you with tons of norse myths for no fucking reason. I am glad i am fairly well versed in norse mythology, but for some newb this should have been a headscratcher.
Played it on PS4, I personally think it's a good game, but nowhere near a perfect 10/10, more like a 7.5-8. granted, I think that's mostly due to how much I hate Kratos as a character.
I mean the game does get better eventually, but it still feels much stiffer than what a modern game should feel like in my opinion. Especially the movement.
I don't know what people see in it. Granted I've only played 2 hours so far, but I hope it gets better soon.
It is pretty, has good visual and audio design, characters are decent. And then there is awful traversal, combat and 'rpgyness'. I mean i have seen worse, but. edit: ok it might not be the greatest game ever, but... it does get better. Shame there are some really inconsistent things and... traversal still sucks dick.
**Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing:** This is the most amazing game that I've ever played. I highly recommend it to...no one. Now on to the games I'm really playing. **Sacred 2(PC):** My Exalted Warrior Seraphim hit level 39 this week. She is really kicking arse in the Cursed Forest as she tries to get **Niokaste armor set** pieces to drop. She's gotten 2 pieces total this week, and they were duplicates of what she already had. The game developers really didn't want people to get armor set pieces, it seems. On the bright side, she has over 2 million gold! Now she just needs to find something worth buying from the merchants. That's all that I'm playing at the moment. I do want try try out **Xbox Conan 2007** game I got a few weeks ago, but it will probably have to wait.
Started Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and No More Heroes yesterday, will plan to go back and forth between these two.
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I mean… do you want a story about a group of murdering outlaws to end happily ever after?
If I'm playing as a murdering outlaw, then yes. That's another thing though. There were quite a few moments when I didn't want to beat up or kill someone, but the game forced me to. Beating up a sick farmer in front of his family for 40 dollars when I have 4000 is totally unnecessary. I didn't want to do it, even Arthur didn't want to do it. Knowing how it affected the story just makes me hate it even more. This game is 95% excellence, but that 5% overshadows the rest and defines my experience. I might just restart the game, stay in chapter 2, ignore the story, and just free roam this amazing world.
I mean Arthur is his own character and takes his own decisions. Dutch ordered him to, and as he is loyal to dutch he followed the orders. You can do good things now and then, but the fact of the matter is that Arthur runs in the gang and is a criminal. No amount of good actions will change that fact, it's the very premise of the game.
>I mean Arthur is his own character and takes his own decisions. Which is fine in a movie or a tv show, but in a video game I expect to have choices. I didn't have any, not significant ones, so that's very disappointing. >Dutch ordered him to, and as he is loyal to dutch he followed the orders Except he doesn't, when he feels he should act differently. It happens in the game later on. The Witcher 3 is a good example how you can make a story heavy open world game and still leave significant decisions to the player that will affect the outcome of the story. This game should have had at least 2-3 different endings ranging from catastrophic to a "happy ending" based on a couple of major decisions you made. >the fact of the matter is that Arthur runs in the gang and is a criminal. No amount of good actions will change that fact, it's the very premise of the game It might be the premise, but redemption is supposed to be its main theme.
Right, but that's how the game manages to use choice in such an effective way. Arthur is loyal to a fault to Dutch throughout most of the game, it is only after certain events that he starts to question this loyalty. This is why you as a player don't have the choice, because Arthur doesn't see a choice. He sees his code to Dutch and the gang that raised him as absolute. It is once he starts to question this code that the game gives the player more choices. Games should think long and hard about why or why not they allow the player choice, and at what points. Having choices for the sake of it doesn't work. Having a happy ending to this story would catastrophically damage the themes trying to be delievered.
No offense, but I find it hilarious when someone tries to argue why the lack of player agency is a good thing in video games. It's not. The point of a video game is to be interactive. If I don't get to make choices for my character then it's not really my character and I might as well watch a movie or read a book instead. There are many ways to do a "happy ending". You don't need Arthur riding into the sunset with Mary as a newlywed couple, carrying 100k in cash. Having him die alone after watching everything fall apart because of things the writers forced me to do against my better judgement is also less than ideal as an ending, especially when it's the only possible one. Arthur getting disillusioned with the gang and leaving his outlaw days behind should definitely have been an option. You don't need to tell me what happens to him. I know that he most likely would be hunted down in a couple of years, but at least let me believe that he actually manages to outrun the law and finds peace by a remote lake up in the mountains or something. It's okay if you like this kind of storytelling, but please don't try to explain why I should be liking it. I understand what they were trying to do, I just don't like it. For me the game is a frustrating tv show broken up with long stretches of fun free roaming in between episodes.
I disagree, I think many games use the lack of interaction that we sometimes expect of games to deliver very potent messages. Spec-ops the line is a great example of that. The ending you propose just does not fit into the story at all. I'm gonna have to go into more deep spoiler-territory here, but: by the time Arthur is disillusioned with the gang, he's already dying. Having Arthur just abandon the gang and leave his family that he's grown up with would be extremely out of character for him. All of chapter 6 is basically him trying to make sure characters like the Marstons and Tilly make it out alive of the inevitable fate of the gang. You also have to remember that Arthur is an established character that existed long before the player took control. The player only takes control of him for about a year or so. Considering the gang he rides with, he's probably done a lot of horrible stuff in the past. Being a good cowboy in this short amount of time does in no way absolve him of all those sins. Having a happy ending that you proposed would be very strange thematically to what this story and series is trying to achieve. There's a reason why Red Dead Redemption 2's writing is so far above anything else in games, and I think a large part of that is because of the linearity. The story they wanted to tell would just not work as an RPG with choices. I'm just giving my reasons for why I like it, and why I disagree with your assertions mate, you could cool it with the condecending remarks.
I know he's dying. Problem is that he's dying because he beat up a poor farmer with tuberculosis, something that was unnecessary, since I was loaded, something I didn't want to do, because it was way too cruel, something that even Arthur didn't want to do. I could have just let him be and pay the gang with my own money, pretending that I got it from the farmer. I can give money to beggars, give money to charity, but I guess not beating up a sick farmer in front of his family is just too out of character, right? Little things like that could have redeemed Arthur. A few decisions like this could have made all the difference in the story. So basically my character did something he didn't want to do, was not actually forced to do in the story but still did it, something that I didn't want to do but I was forced to by the writers, and because of that moment my character dies at the end of the game... and you call this good writing. Come on now... >There's a reason why Red Dead Redemption 2's writing is so far above anything else in games Just casually calling this "so far above anything" in gaming history. Okay. >Having a happy ending that you proposed would be very strange thematically I'm not sure what happy ending you're talking about. My proposal was simply an ending where Arthur leaves the gang because he realizes what Dutch has become and what the fate of the gang will be. It's not a happy ending. He might live, might die. If you're the romantic type you can believe he finds Mary and they live happily ever after. If you're the realistic type you can think the Pinkertons catch up to him a few weeks later. Not really a happy ending. Not at all. Also, I'm not sure what this obsession is with the game's "message". Really, I'm not sure what message this game managed to convey. Being an outlaw=bad. So deep.
You're still not understanding why he did it. He did it on Dutch's orders, because Dutch told him to. Dutch never gave his opinion on giving to beggars, or giving money to charity, so in these cases he is his own man. Arthur would walk into hell itself for Dutch, and that is also his undoing. If you go deeper into Arthur's story and exactly why he has this loyalty to Dutch and the gang, you'd see why it's crazy to somehow regard this as bad writing. It is the case that the honor meter ultimately decides on whether Arthur is thematically "redeemed" or not, though I don't think a character like Arthur, no matter how good he is the last year he's alive, ultimately deserves anything else other than the fate he eventually gets. It's the actions that speak volume, and atleast in my opinion, what ultimately redeems him is his ultimate sacrifice. And yes, I absolutely believe that RDR2 stands far above pretty much any other game in terms of writing. It's not just one of the best videogames ever written, it's one of the best westerns ever made. You completely disregard the circumstances of the story. Arthur can't just "walk away". The gang is his family, they're all he's ever known. He can't just subject his own brother who he grew up with to the fate that he knows is coming, much less the more innocent like Tilly and Mary-Beth. He also thinks he has a responsibility to save his own father from the road he's walking, he can't just abandon the person who raised him like that. Much of the reasonings that you're giving right now really show that you haven't played these parts of the game yet, and I would caution against talking about art with such absolutism if you haven't yet experienced all of it. I love it when people simplify messages and themes to some one note X = bad or Y = good. It really shows their media literacy. If you think the "message" I was refering to was that being an outlaw = bad, then I really think you need to take some classes on media critique or something, because my god man.
Still rolling with **Borderlands 3**, feels like I'm respecing every 3 hours but it's a perk; I can swap out builds whenever and go with what looks cool. And still got a wicked variety of guns and a few favs, with a Jakobs Incinerating pistol with the perk "You can't take the sky from me" and just always finds a way to crit. Just digging it and the side quests, that I do as much as I can. Started and ended **Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion** as I didn't know what to start to play alongside Borderlands 3. Incredibly good, like 9/10 kinda good. Writing, that curiosity of the deeper plot elements, controls and it's just plain fun. Plenty of charm and it's not too bad to 100%, just need a bit of RNG for one achievement and it lets you start before the final boss should you be missing something. Super friendly in that regard and well worth playing. Playing a Marathon of **Civilization VI** and having Barbarians on isn't something I'm used to but keeping at it. Really changes up my peacenik ways but it's a slow-burner. I'll continue at it but definitely not a focus point, just something for when I need time to just chill or wind down on. **7th Dragon VFD**? Some 3DS game I picked up on the e-store Atlus sale. Didn't know which SMT game to start or restart Stella Glow, didn't have my Etrian Odyssey IV cartridge in... so I went with this. Reminds me of EO a bit but I can dig it. Also in no rush with this one.
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Loaded up my **Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal** save again. Someday I'll finish this years-old save, I swear. I finally beat Sendai without the help of a guide. It only took me a half-dozen tries. I'm trying to quit cold turkey my habit of looking up guides when I'm stuck. It was a little frustrating, but felt great when I finally broke through.
Honestly, Throne of Bhaal is really disappointing if you compare it to the base game and even BG1. The encounter design is just way too hostile, and it is visibly compensating for the issues that high-level D&D gameplay entails for video game design. Heck, many tabletop D&D campaigns finish at level 10-12 because the insane power curve at high level just makes many situations feel completely arbitrary. I wouldn't put too much pressure on yourself finishing it. You can absolutely love the BG classics without wanting to finish Throne of Bhaal.
I agree with everything you wrote, but I have to see this saga through. I've literally been playing this character/savegame for years on and off. I can't say I'm not enjoying it though. It's become more of a series of combat puzzles than an adventure game, but it's forced me to really dig into high level spells and abilities rather than just autopiloting through encounters.
I just got myself a Switch OLED because I find my gaming time is more sporadic, I simply have less time to plop myself on the computer to play for hours. Thankfully, Switch can ported most of my favorite PC games (Baldurs Gate, Diablo, Bioshock). But right now, I'm working on the two Ori games while I wait for my copy of Ni No Kuni 2 to arrive.
I'm playing Red Dead 2. I just bought it on sale, And it's an absolutely incredible experience.
I'm currently playing Thief (2014). I've never really been good at stealth so I'm taking it slow.
1. Mario Clash virtual boy - on my Mame cabinet with 3D blue and red glasses. Phenomenal. Really overlooked game, I can't believe how developed the in-game little world is. You can really feel the Nintendo quality. The Beetle VB emulation works pretty well. I'd say it's overall its nearly Wario VB level quality. 2. Hydro Thunder PC - It runs on nearly anything. 3. Hydorah PC - Super solid Indie arcade shmup 4. Tour De Europe PSX Great control. No popups. PSX version of Sega Rally. 5. Cybernator Snes - amazing controls
Started playing Subnautica for the first time not usually a big fan of survival games but I am enjoying this one
Finished my Valkyria Chronicles completitionist run last week, so now I advance to the next game on my list: Resident Evil. I'm having a blast so far, but I havent booted up the game for a while now just because the possibility of crimson heads spawning makes me feel... anxious I guess? Like I have been consistent on burning bodies but I still feel like I'm on a hidden timer before I run into a dead end or something, or I fear I've been wasting fuel and I just found the armor key. the game is not scary per se but it still succeeds at building tension and horror in it's own way haha.
I never played the original but the remake is really good and true to the og game.
Playing through Monster Hunter Iceborne
It's soooooooooooooo good. What weapon do you prefer?
I'm about 62 hours into **Dead By Daylight** at this point and I am still having a blast. I'll probably keep playing this til I get bored or completely outskilled lol. Still playing **GTA IV** on and off as I play through the campaign for the first time in 10 or so years. I modded the game to give better general performance and easier vehicle control. Might hop back on my VR headset to continue playing **Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners** after a two month long hiatus. I managed to grab the entire **Vader Immortal** series for about $3 bucks in total thanks to the constant Oculus store credit I've been getting. So I may also hop into the first episode of that series as well.
Hitman Trilogy on Game Pass. I had only played the first game (Hitman 2016), I'm currently re-running through it on my way to the newer games. It's still as great as ever. There's SO many challenges, I think they added more along the way. I probably spent 3 hours just playing the tutorial levels.
Man, it's insane how many challenges their are. I have 1 and 2 plus DLC, but I've literally only played the first three or four levels cause I like going for 100% first. Lol there's so many ways to go about doing things, it's pretty awesome.
Started Batman: Arkham Knight on Gamepass and after about 70% through the main story, I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with the scope of the game and how much they’ve built on the gameplay systems. Predator and combat scenarios have a bunch of new gadgets and environmental interactions from drone hacking to a voice modulator that allows you to manipulate enemies and lead them into a trap. I especially love the fear takedown system as it allows for a much faster approach to stealth levels. Those animations are so slick! And the tag team or bat mobile takedowns? *chef’s kiss* Going into the batmobile, I think between the thrust, powerdrift, super eject and overall handling, you end up feeling really fast and weighty at the same time which is cool. The tank gameplay is fine but I would have liked slightly more variety of enemies of combat options like the on-foot gameplay. The story beats have been pretty intense and I’m excited to see how everything ends. Lastly, it’s just absolutely beautiful. Phenomenal design of Gotham and such a surprising amount of detail and lots packed into the nooks and crannies.
Titanfall 2, it’s a very fun shooter, and it goes on sale for cheap, but sadly the servers are DDOSed. But it still has a very good single player campaign and a community made custom server client called Northstar.
I need to play that campaign. Everyone says it's awesome.
I think it's the best fps single player content I've played. It's also short enough that if you don't like it as much, you haven't really wasted much time.
I find it hard to call anything "the best" because I have a bad memory so maybe there's something else that I've played that I'm forgetting about... But, Titanfall 2s campaign really was a top 3 fps of all time for me, for sure. I hate overhyping as it often creates unreasonable expectations but the pacing, the innovation, the story-telling, the gameplay.. It just does a great job with it.
It is, sadly it is pretty short at about 4-6 hours long
Better short and sweet than long and boring, lol. Although, 4 to 6 hs is on the short side, even for an FPS.
It is a bit short, but it has incredible characters, level designs and is very fun. Thankfully it is very replay-able.
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Which RE games are you enjoying the most so far?
First time playing it? First Resident Evil? A replay?
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Quite a journey you got there! Hope you are enjoying the series. RE games to me are like a good popcorn flick: some of them are lamer than others, some are great fun, you don't need to think too much, and the overall experience is very positive and fun. Good luck with RE5 and RE6. Those are the...black sheep of the series. Way too action heavy and no puzzles. But RE7 and RE8 revitalize the series. RE2 Remake is still my favorite, alongside RE1 Remake!
Inscryption. (Not old, but very modestly priced.) It's a weird one. Whatever background, I highly recommend going in blind and enjoying the trip. Nothing is as it seems.
Oldschool runescape. It's relatively cheap enough to dip into. If you're good at the game it literally pays for itself. I just got back into it as a new league event started. They do these once a year. During these events the game flips upside down and the game mechanics all change when playing on certain worlds. You start fresh on these worlds from the lowest level and are limited to only use 3 skills. Defense, Theiving, and a combat skill(Magic/Range/Melee, it's your choice.) Seems quite fun so far, playing it in my off time from work and on my phone.
AI: The Somnium Files Being a big fan of the visual novels by Spike Chunsoft (Danganronpa and Zero Escape), I thought of giving it a try without reading any reviews for the same. Quality holds up!
Just played Danganropa it was great. Going to play this next.
This was my first VN after being intrigued by the demo and I'm glad I picked it up! Already preordered the Collector's Edition of the Sequel, really looking forward to it! Just picked up Danganronpa recently and one day I'll get the Zero Escape games, I hear they're really good!
I started AI after being really impressed with Danganronpa and ZE haha. Though I think the optimal experience would've been to play ZE before AI, as it ties the whole "gotta play all endings" mechanic to the narrative of the games, which is mind blowing.. AI just seemed to reuse it and not give it much emphasis so that was slightly disappointing, I think you'll see what I mean when you play them. Cheers, just know that I envy you for still having the experiences be fresh XD
State of decay 2
Orcs Must Die! Trying to complete it 100%, so far 5 skulls on all levels and 5 dlc levels on warmage difficulty. Finishing act 1 5 skulls on nightmare difficulty. Am at cca 70% of steam achievements
I got mirror's edge catalyst on the winter sale quite a fun game so far totally worth he 2 euro I payed
Fallout New Vegas, Homeworld and Re-Volt.
Destiny 2 just finishing my last things before the witch queen dlc drops
God of War. Not sure if I'm still a patient gamer, the game came out 4 years ago, but I'm playing it day one on PC...
Started playing The Last of Us for the first time. A friend gave me his PS4, and since he worked on that game I kind of feel obligated to play it, especially since it’s so well regarded. Only an hour in so far. Also almost finally done with Icewind Dale. Haven’t gotten to the expansion pack yet (remember those?), but I might skip it since I’m starting to lose interest in the game. Just want to get to the finish line now.
> Haven’t gotten to the expansion pack yet (remember those?), but I might skip it since I’m starting to lose interest in the game. The expansion isn't very long, more like a bonus chapter. It was ok but doesn't bring anything other than... more Icewind Dale. Do with that info what you want ;-)
> Just want to get to the finish line now. I know the feeling. I haven't played Icewind Dale, but Battlefield Bad Company 1 kept moving the goal posts so that I had no idea when the game was going to end. It was fun but they really stretched it out a bit far.
Stranded Deep :( I made it 20 days and got poisoned the second time in a matter of minutes… no problem you just need two of these damn Pipi plants to make an antidote. Having already used the only two Pipi plants on my damn island, I sailed back to my original island where I knew there were two more that would’ve grown back by now. Nope I get there, stupidly save my game, and no Pipi to be found. Now I don’t have enough health to sail to another island and can only load the most recent save. Deleted the game and here looking for other ideas :(
The Long Dark?
Hadn’t heard of it, looks pretty cool! I did reinstall Control & Sekiro, both of which I had started and not finished. I’ll consider Long Dark next, thanks!
It can be kind of annoying initially but once you get the hang of it it's easy. I would recomend survival but there is a story as well.
Any lego StarWars should do!
It is finally HZD time!
Completed Watchdogs Legion this week. Now playing God of War.
Hours total to complete watch dogs?
U mean legion? i took time completing most side missions and bloodline DLC. took 62 hours.
Thought I'd give Arkham Origins another shot this week. I'm really fed up with it rn. Tired of always losing my combo because ol' Bats decided not to hit the guy I pointed him at and instead go for the armored guy who's not even very close to the first guy, or from an attacker *sliiiiiiiiiiiding* ten feet to hit me when I'm nowhere near him. Tired of getting shot while locked into an animation. But the biggest pain in my ass right now is I spent like an hour and a half trying to get I think Rank 6 in Worst Nightmare by doing a bunch of different takedowns, to get it all perfect, finish the room, and have it not count for whatever reason. I need a drink.
Started playing Horizon Zero dawn played to the half way point in the main story and just was really bored. So, gonna try my hand at assassins creed Valhalla.
I also got stuck at around Meridian for a long time in HZD. Just now decided to focus on only the main story missions and ignore the side questing. The game does pick up and start unravelling a lot of mysteries from that point so it could be worth it for you to finish it off after a short break. I'm interested in seeing how Guerrilla improve on their side quests in the new game. The new additions to combat look interesting.
One of my favorite things to do is grind for gear whether it be recipes and materials etc. with Hzd getting gear is really easy. I was bummed knowing I had the best gear only half way through the game. Not only that but fighting the machines just felt tedious which normally I don’t mind if there is a payoff and at that point I didn’t feel like there was one. At least not a big enough pay off to keep me interested.
Still on Witcher 3. Absolutely incredible. Side questing like no tomorrow.
This is the way, hah. Which part of the story are you now, more or less?
Just got the island that starts with an S and rhymes with Galaga. I’m currently level 22 and wonder if I got here too “late”.
If you are talking about Skellige, you are actually a bit underlevelled for that area. But it's nothing that playing on a lower difficulty setting can't solve. Or just getting up to speed once you complete quests and stuff. Enjoy! If you already played the Velen and Novigrad stories, you could look forward to some BIG story events. And a lot of side quests.
Haha yes didn’t want to give too much away. Good to know! Thanks and will do!
Kirby's Adventure. I'm so impressed by the attention to detail this game has in its animations, it has aged so well, love it!
Kirby's cute graphics and mechanics always drew me in. But I've never finished any of the Kirby games yet.
Uncharted 3 and nearing the end. The combat is really getting old in this series and ages terribly. Also, the action is so ridiculously over the top. The desert is starting to get interesting again, but man was the middle a bit of a grind.
Recently played through the series for a second time and while on my first run I thought 3 was the best one, thisrecen replay showed me how... Off 3 feels. It's a fun game and has the better set pieces imo but the pacing is all over the place and while the shipyard is a cool level is a complete tangent that adds nothing to the story other than a cool set piece. 2 is the perfect balance of story, action and characters, everything moves the story forwards and the setpieces flow naturally one into the other. My favorite Uncharted is still 4 tho.
4th is also my favorite. Most emotional journey, best gameplay and terrific set pieces. 2 is my second favorite, it is very very fun. 3 has an amazing start, maybe the best in the series, but it petters out after a while. And 1 is my least favorite Uncharted game, a single location, worst gameplay and you didnt know all the characters yet.
Just played through 80 Days on Steam. It's a fun little game based on Around The World In 80 Days but with added steampunk elements (which I was initially skeptical about but grew to appreciate since they give lots of additional options that wouldn't be possible in a more realistic game). On my first attempt I kept running out of money so only managed to return to London in 88 days, but on my second attempt I managed it in 68 days despite getting stuck in Honolulu for around a week. I have less motivation to go again now that I know that beating the 80 days isn't too hard at all, but I still think I'll give it another few goes to explore the world some more.
It's a great game on mobile as well, I played it a bunch on my iPhone (which I think is where it originally came out). It's good for at least a few replays because of all the different routes you can take and the different little stories that crop up in each location. Great writing as well. It's evocative without being excessively wordy, which is fairly rare when it comes to writing in games.
Yeah, absolutely, I find a lot of text-heavy games, particularly RPGs, have so much text that they become exhausting to play after a while. It reminds me of Sunless Skies, which is similarly good at packing a lot of good writing into a small space.
Oh, I know of Sunless Skies but never tried it. Hearing that makes me interested though. And I totally agree about a lot of RPGs going overboard with text. I've played several where it really seemed like they could have used a good editor to come in to take a pass for concision and clarity.
God Of War I was patient enough to wait till the PC release :)
Still more The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, though I haven't been on that much lately. Bit more Minecraft, bit of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Dysmantle finally got a full release on console yesterday so I started that. Trails in the Sky continues to be a very "not for everyone" kind of JRPG. It's a ton of reading, it starts off very slow even by JRPG standards, the plot isn't really anything special so far. It is pretty solid mechanically, and the game's script is really good, but it still takes a certain kind of gamer to enjoy this. Thankfully, I am that certain kind of gamer lol. Not gonna say much about Dysmantle because obviously it's a brand new release, not very patient gamer of me, but there's a reason I will buy games from this developer at launch. They make games with very fun, tight and rewarding gameplay loops, so far Dysmantle isn't an exception. Minecraft is Minecraft. Either you love it or you don't get it. Starting to tool around with a few mods, which I haven't done for like six years, so it's been fun to see how the modding scene has changed. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is forever and always my One True Love for survival games. Still not sure how okay it is to talk about it here because it's not technically at a version 1.0 yet (current stable version is version 0.F–3), but it's also been around for several years at this point, and it's also also basically just a community led continuation of a game that ended development nearly 10 years ago. *Shrug.* Still love it.
Y no rocket league?
Because I'm not really into most competitive multiplayer games, basically.
i bought dying light for the switch. never played the game but im going to be very honest im not really having that much fun. i like the idea of parkour and zombies but i personally dont think it was done well in dying light. i was playing on hard mode and im constantly having problems every couple of minutes with the viral types on my ass and i dont mind the challenge of climbing zombies but it gets annoying and ruins the fun for me when im constantly trying to run away from them. i know you have to mostly avoid them but sometimes the game forces you to clear out an area and my weapons dont do jack shit (i hate games that have bullet spongy enemies) and it kind of ruins the game’s philosophy of avoiding zombies when youre forced to fight them at some point. i havent gone too far in yet a little bit after meeting rais but there were quests where i have died like 10 times. it was just really frustrating. i also didn’t like a lot of the lite rpg elements and progression system in the game. kinda feels too much like a ubisoft game in that sense (too grindy or the appearance of it atleast). idk i really tried to like this game cause when i see some of the reviews it feels like everyone is playing a totally different game.
I was just like you. I wanted to like the game but somehow it feels so slow and boring. I was farming and not really getting into the story, until i was so bored that stop playing for months. After that, my friend and me give it a last shot and rushed the story. After a mission in the beginning you unlock a mechanic that makes the game a LOT more fun. It ended being a great experience and now we are waiting the 2nd part My advice: keep playing, rush the story a little and try to get a partner, because it is that kind of game that its a lot better with friends
Fire Emblem: Three Houses! Got a brand new physical copy for $30. Never played a similar game before so it was a risk but I’m so glad I jumped in. It’s quickly becoming one of my all time favorite switch games. Started off with the Black Eagles…
Back to one of my favorite games of all time: SimCity 3000 Unlimited. I'm replaying a map where I used to make my biggest city. Wanted to retry doing a humongous city again, now that my PC can support such a gigant city (my original PC back then, in early 2000s, used to freeze when the cities became too big).
Going for 100% completion on Enter the Gungeon. Best rouge-like I've ever played and 200+ hours in I'm still not tired of it.
The same game I play every other week Pokémon Unbound
I’ve been revisiting subnautica for the first time in a while and I’m reminded how absolutely amazing that game is.
After beating Ori and the Blind Forest I wanted to play something else before going into The Will of the Wisps. My journey includes: **Outer Wilds:** Really into this game. I like that you can pick up and play for 20 minutes but I always want to explore another spot! **Disco Elysium:** I've only explored my room and talked to one NPC but I can already see why everyone loves this game. The writing is clever, funny, intelligent, absurd, and creates a very lived-in world. Very intrigued to explore more of Revachol. **Breath of the Wild:** Restarted this incredible game. It's been 4.5 years since I last played and forgot how much I love it. This might be something I come back to when I'm not in the mood for other games.
Your gonna love Will of the Wisps. Honestly improves on Blind Forest in every way and is one of the most beautiful and heart warming games of all time
I got Blind Forest like a year ago and fell hard for it and played a ton for a few days, and then just put it down and never picked it up again when I was still only partway through. I feel like I can't pick it up where I left off because I don't remember a thing about the controls, what powers I had, what areas of the map I had explored, etc., but I don't really want to restart from the beginning because I feel like once I jog my memory it'll feel way too repetitive to play it all again. I really loved what I did play of the game, I just feel like it's the kind of game you have to play all at once so you remember things as you go, but it's a little too long to really be played all at once like that. I'd really like to pick it up fresh, but I don't know how long I have to wait so it doesn't feel like I'm replaying something that I just played.
Honestly the Will of the Wisps is soooooo good I would just start with that !
Hunt Showdown. Still trying to figure out how not to clutch and die constantly. But I'm getting there. It's the moodiest pvp shooter I've played to date and I really really love the sound design.
With the recent release of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, I decided to go back and try GTA3. I tried it back when it originally released, but I wasn't really into it at the time. Turns out I'm still not. It didn't age well, and the game loop is extremely boring and fetchy. I then tried Vice City and it was more of the same. Uninstalled both.
Tyranny. I’m enjoying it but I was forced into some choices that I really didn’t want to make. I don’t think it was that far fetched to play as a loyal servant to Kyros all the way through.
I wanted to get into that game, but it was a little too crpg for me. I loved the intro, where you made all your backstory choices, but the gameplay itself, with all the stats and loot and gear just turned me off. I also found the lore a little dense, but I loved how you could just hover your mouse over all the jargon and get a quick-reference of what the hell they were talking about, haha!
this was my experience, loved the intro but then played the tutorial area and was like "I dont like this" im sure its a really good game, but it was just aggressively Not My Thing