Psychonauts. I’m upset I slept on this game for so long. It’s very charming.
Finally playing Cyberpunk 2077.
Me too. First time. I’m enjoying it so far
Same here. One of the only games that RT is worth the performance hit
Dishonored
Spoilers for the last sections of the game
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Man there was nothing more terrifying than having all of those assassinations backfire at me in the swamp level, it was truly a surreal experience seeing the effect I had on the city. I played it again as a ghost, and I felt like the game was rewarding me for restraining myself. Still I came to play as an assassin, not a thief, so I still assassinate everyone in my path. It really encouraged a replay, I think I replayed it 3 or 4 times.
You mean the flooded district I think
Yes I do, it’s been a long time since I’ve played it on the 360 💀 with no DLCs.
Played it without DLCs as well so after dishonored I will finally get to Play as daud
YOU CAN PLAY AS DAUD?!?! Damn, I gotta revisit.
yea in 2 dlcs, brigmore witches and knife of dunwall (reverse order)
Awesome game. I’ve been bouncing between a replay of Dishonored among other games lately, and no matter how many times I replay it, it never gets old or boring. Is this your first playthrough?
Nah but playing hitman Absolution made me want to revisit
Funny, playing Dishonored made me want to revisit the modern Hitman trilogy, which I’m doing now in addition to Dishonored.
Doing both in parallel too lmao
I just finished badend theater. I am unsure if I want to recommend it or not. It wasn’t hard, the story wasn’t deep. You finish it pretty fast, but it was still nice, especially if you like to chase achievements and puzzle solving. It has a fun core mechanic.
Now am I playing little nightmares 2, it is outside of my comfort zone to not be able to fight back (most of the time) and just run and hide.
My goal is to play games that actually ends, I play too many games that never ends haha
Dark souls. (Post Ornstein and Smough.) I want to figure out how to interact with the anor londo painting, and I’m also debating whether to go new londo ruins, or the post Queelag area next, (or maybe the catacombs.) lots of options now that I’ve unlocked teleportation. I still feel like I have tons of exploring to do, in the beginning I felt really underleveled for a bunch of areas but It might be time to give them another go.
One of my all-time favourite games. Enjoy the journey. There’s nothing quite like that first experience of the original Dark Souls. It’s a truly special game.
I have been loving it so far <3 the world design and exploration is so so satisfying. I get why it’s such a revered title. I just wish I didn’t fall off to my death so often, but, alas, that’s a skill issue. XD
Gravity is the toughest boss in all the Souls games. Don’t worry, it’s not just you!
I bought Spiritfarer on Steam, a casual management game about death. The art is so beautiful! You play as Stella, the ship owner of the deceased and a ferryman of souls. Build a ship to explore the world, then help and care for the ghosts and eventually send them to the afterlife. Farm, mine, fish, harvest, cook, and use your own methods to cross the mysterious sea. Spend a leisurely and wonderful time with your ghost passengers, create everlasting memories, and finally learn how to say goodbye to your cherished friends. But in fact, I still play CS2 more often.
The same game I have played every week for 15 years : Minecraft.
Vanilla or modded?
I think once you mod the game, it would be pretty hard to return to vanilla. At least that’s in my experience, if there are mods, you bet I’m downloading them.
Check out Vintage Story! It’s really fun and pretty hard.
I know I’m gonna fucking hate this game, but I’ve also been in my gaming comfort zone for too long and I need to shake that off, so I picked up Death Stranding.
My main concerns are:
- Too much time navigating menus.
- Navigating terrain will feel boring AF.
- Too much time skipping cutscenes, or worse: unskippable cutscenes.
- Boring combat.
I’m gonna give the story a shot, but I’m fairly certain the totality will amount to pretentious Kojima bullshit, and I’m not gonna waste time hate watching it only to yell about it in my review.
What I’m looking forward to: Conan 😂 And I know it’s a short cameo.
I feel like I’m going on a needlessly bizarre excursion given my knowledge about my gaming preferences and the gameplay in Death Stranding, but fuck it, maybe a drastic change will do me good.
I don’t remember navigating menus being particularly onerous.
Getting around is tedious at first, but soon you get vehicles, and, even better, this zipline thing that you can put anywhere. Those are fun to build and navigate.
The only recommended combat is tying your enemies up with ropes, or later, with a rope gun. (I wonder if Kojima is into bondage) I mean, you can kill the enemy couriers, but it’s not a good idea.
I played like an hour and a half, and I don’t hate it so far… too many cutscenes though.
I picked up kindergarten 1 and 2 from the steam sale after hearing nothing about them really, but it was pretty ridiculous. I just completely finished 1 tonight, I did have to look up a guide to eventually find 1 of the cards, but other than that I figured out everything myself. Excited to play 2, but will probably hold off for a deep discount on 3. I spent maybe 6 hours on 1, and I’m not going to pay 20 dollars for 3. Also heard they got rid of the monstermon cards, so that kinda sucks
Industria. It was free on Epic, I think. Took me a while to figure out the boxes said “supplies” and were meant to be broken open to get ammo. Till then it was kind of frustrating running out of ammo over and over. Gameplay and environments kind of remind me of the half life franchise in a way.
I’m nearing the end of the first part of the FF7 remake series but having a hard time motivating myself for the annihilation that awaits me on each new level as I climb the pillar…
…so I’m just sinking another few hundred hours into Rimworld instead.
THPS 3+4. Fun game and it hits the nostalgia. I just wonder if this game got way easier or if I was just a noob back then. THPS3 was one of my first games and I remember playing it a lot. I just finished THPS3 (remake) in two sesions.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the wild
I just started Tunic and Antichamber. So far I’m enjoying them. I have a family trip coming up, so I might not get a ton of time to play, but we’ll see.
I’ve also been playing FF7 (kids are into Magic: the Gathering and wanted to know more about the FF set) and Tears of the Kingdom for the first time with my kids watching. They often play games after watching me play through, so one is playing Breath of the Wild and the other Link’s Awakening, so I’m kind of helping them with those too.
I loved tunic
Antichamber was so fun. Simple but creative ideas, really inspiring. If you enjoy it, take a look at NaissancE, I believe it’s free now.
Thanks for the recommendation!
And yeah, I’m enjoying it, and it feels somewhat similar to Manifold Garden, which I also highly recommend.
I just finished South of Midnight , it’s a mediocre action game with a decent story, but pretty good music specifically written for the game. It kinda feels like Alice Madness Returns meets Disney’s Princess and the Frog (without the frog changing).
Just started up on Dredge and having some fun with it so far.
I just finished Dredge (On mobile, touch controls were horrible) 4 days ago, it was a great experience overall.
I didn’t even know it had a mobile release (it’s slow paced enough I could see that working okay)!
I was actually able to finish it over the weekend and overall I think I’d give it a 6-7/10:
- Gameplay: Solid. The mechanics are fun, but don’t really evolve beyond the first couple hours of gameplay
- Graphics: Great. The open sea is both inviting and omnionous, while the characters and fish all have a nice flair to them
- Story: Okay. The story being revealed in messages and encounters is fun, but the stakes never really seem to change, and I think if the world got pulled more into your descent it would make it more impactful.
Graphics are great, the fish look amazing. The fishing mechanics are solid, but one of the things that really bothered me in the micromanagement hell of the inventory. I didn’t truly feel it until I started upgrading my boat, and building company boxes for the Iron Rig. Here’s my experience on the 4 areas:
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Didn’t like how fast the threat was neutralized in Stellar Basin. Fun fact, I thought that giant octopus/squid thing responds to fast movement. So I tried so move as slowly as I can, still I couldn’t get inside, but it was a nice interaction.
The swamp unfortunately has no danger whatsoever, aside from the mind suckers which can be avoided very easily, and it was the first time I fished at night with minimal consequence.
Speaking of threats the Gale Rock threat was amazing, you never get rid of it, it kept chasing me when I got back to do the Iron Rig DLC.
Devil’s Spine is absolutely great. The vibe, the maze like layout, people complained it was too short, I visited Stellar Basin before the swamp and broke the sequence. I still love lava land.
Now the DLCs: The Iron Rig really felt like “Hey you know how there are so many inconvenient things about this game? Here’s a DLC to fix all of that”. The Iron Rig has this material harvester which would have been so, so useful when I was upgrading my boat in the early game. By the end materials have no use whatsoever.
Visually the Ice DLC was good, I just didn’t like how my fish kept rotting even though I was in a snowy place. Having the Icebreaker was great, and the narwhal almost didn’t pose any threat.
I think if the world got pulled more into your descent it would make it more impactful
Yeah which is a thing that we the Iron Rig kinda attempts and it was really nice. Oil and dark ooze spreading everywhere, I cleaned some of it in the areas that I frequent regularly. Also I’m still bothered by that Scientist who jumps overboard and no one reacts to it. You can’t even tell anyone about it. “Like yeah we had a scientist, the scientist was a distraction, the scientist is gone now 💀”
I guess I’d give it a 6/7 out of 10 too.
I appreciate you adding your review!
Seems like you and I had similar opinions. I don’t have the dlc, but ended up reading up on it. It seems like they were good additions to the game, but I didn’t feel strongly enough to go back and get them.
If you liked the fishing theme with some plot, Dave the Diver has some parallels. I think the gameplay loop is a bit better, but it goes more for goofy/zany rather than Lovecraftian.
Sure I’ll hit Dave the Diver.
Dredge is awesome!
It’s a shame, the music is great and I do love the freshness of the unusual setting. But having seen both some gameplay and some of the writing I just can’t see myself playing it.
Yeah, I finished the game wishing it would be a higher recommendation, but it just falls short on a lot of things. I don’t mind the price I paid for it, but it’s a hard sell even at $29.99 (summer sale price).
The top things to me were setting, animation (feels like clay/stop motion in a cool way), and setting. But the fighting is only okay (never really evolves beyond button smashing and dodging), the story doesn’t really build on itself, and the platforming is generic and linear.
It also doesn’t help this is an Xbox studios game, since it seems like a bit more time/money would have gone far for this game.
