After kinda stopping Just Cause 3 (just got same-y after getting the jetpack and taking over most of the world) but barely done any of the missions I decided to finally start Hollow Knight. Loved it but I can already tell it’s going to be challenging (I’ve got to the Fungal Wastes) and I just don’t have the patience to get gud enough to finish it. But it scratched my metroidvania itch. I wanted a more narrative have and as I’ve recently upgraded to a 9070xt and 5k2k (G75f in case anyone was wondering), so I started playing The Longest Journey! HD modded version but it’s still a 25yo game so can run on a potato. Seems good so far.
Close to finishing my first playthrough of Black Mesa. Turns out that this is a great game. Maybe going for Abiotic Factor next…
still bg3. I have to say that I really wish you could swap characters for conversation. Like why couldn’t you bring you specialist in when examining a book or even in a conversation. What might even be good is roll for everyone and then have an option like. Let astarion but in. Its a good game though. Just about to do the goblin assault but had fun clearing out the hideout goblins in small groups and using the spiders and such to the point the chief only had a few helpers in front of his throne. Of course I did the undercover powder keg delivery guy thing. Says here you ordered two powder kegs, two barrels of oil, and two barrels of firewine. No no don’t get up its all been signed and paid for. Have a nice day we are just going to leave up this ladder here.
Just restarted The Witcher 3. I burnt out in skellige 5 years ago.
Godspeed. I also nearly beat the game and then put it down and forgot most of it so ended up beating it almost twice. It’s a great game. Still haven’t finished the Blood and Wine DLC though…
Everything is soooo slow and, idk, tiring for the brain in that game
Demon souls remake ! I’m doing upper latria and I’m liking the vibe in this archstone so far.
This remake is lacking the quintessential FS atmosphere, but it’s not bothering me that much on this section.
level design is great, boss fights are very different from what I’m used to. It’s quirky. Really wish I could play the OG.
Minishoot adventure
This game was made for me…dual stick shooter with metroidvanias elements. Strongly recommend it. I’m having a blast.
Such a fun game! Felt like it just kept getting better as it went
shooter
I’m having a blast
I see what you did there.
I just started Wildermyth and I’m having a good time with it. Part of me wants to install some of the visual mods for faces and hair types, but part of me wants to wait until I finish one game.
Two of my childhood friends helped develop that game. One of them wrote the music for it, the other was a programmer who helped code it.
Hey that’s super cool! I hope they’re very proud of themselves. It’s gorgeous
That music is absolutely beautiful!
“Ori and the Will of the Wisps” for me. I played the first one a few years ago and really liked it. So far, the sequel is even better!
Lol same. Overall I’m finding it to be a big improvement over the original, but I just got through a boss fight that was absolutely terrible. They really went all out on everything; movement abilities, progression, visuals, the whole shebang!
Noita. There is still so much to learn.
dude I suck at that game.
I feel like Noita has some really high highs and some really low lows. I have a friend who used to rave about it and how “every death teaches you something” which is all fine and good until the thing that it taught you on your first really good run in hours was that breaking a light can cause electric sparks, metal tunnels conduct electric sparks, and conducted electricity can one-shot you. I play a lot of souls likes so I don’t mind learning through failure but considering my go to build in those games is tanky builds, it’s incredibly frustrating that so many of the failures I run into in Noita will be the end of a 2 hour run without anything to show for it. At least in souls likes I can still try to do something about that failure, or at least I can start back from a nearby bonfire, but in Noita there’s no recovering a run that’s already died. All there is to do is start all over from scratch.
I completely agree. As a fellow souls-liker, it’s way more punishing than those games. It teaches you lessons, but there are a lot of them to remember, and even then, shit happens that you can’t always prepare for. It might be nice to have a checkpoint system at the last Holy Mountain you visited, but then again that might take away from the replayability. The difficulty is kind of part of its charm!
Chrono Ark
I’m at the “end” of the story. I have one more run to get the first ending, and then an uncertain amount of optional grind to get the true ending. I will probably reserve my final thoughts for when I see the endings, but overall this game has been fantastic. Regardless of what you think of the story I’d say the gameplay is solid enough to be worth giving it a shot if you enjoy the genre, and if the story interests you then that is just a cherry on top. Despite not really being that into anime I found myself enjoying several of the characters and getting pretty interested in the plot once it got going, and I’m intrigued to see how it closes out. Mechanically I think it’s just really great, with both solid core gameplay and some really fun and interesting boss designs.
Ninja Gaiden 4
I haven’t played a whole lot this week, but I finished another chapter. Still very early on in the game. It’s very good. I have some issues with it (and it’s one of the most egregious offenders of “yellow paint” in recent years) but overall it’s a great Character Action Game. In some ways it feels more like a cousin to the earlier entries than a core family member - removal of specific combo strings combined with addition of parrying and stance switching has altered the DNA quite a bit. That being said it’s fantastic in its own way and really fun and fluid. Plus the bosses are actually good in this game (so far), which is… not really something you can say about previous games.
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black
The fantastic “White” mod is about to get a huge update with more or less 1:1 recreated spawns of the original NG2, and at the same time a Modified Moveset Mod released, so I had to to back and play some of the best chapters. NG2 combat still is really something special, and the moveset mod really makes it even better.
I played quite a bit of erenshor. It’s a single player offline MMORPG style game with fake players. It’s pretty fun. It really scratches my MMO healer gameplay that i love but not the MMO part that i don’t XD the way i’ve been playing has been pretty grindy since i don’t explore the NPC dialogues enough and just look for dungeons for my level and i like that. I have the usual team with bots playing paladin, sorcerer, rogue, archer and i’m a druid.
I fail to understand the point of an MMO without the social aspect, as IMHO their gameplay is generally pretty bad.
It’s great if it works for you and you enjoy that type of game btw, this is just my personal opinion not a judgement of value
That’s fair lol it’s just nice that all the players are on pause when i’m not on so i can get back in in 6 months and continue where i left off with the same “people” XD
Cool, I hadn’t heard of this game! I love the idea of a “single-player MMO.” I don’t have time for subscriptions, and trying to grind gear to keep up with the content/other players. Like you said, being able to drop the game for a few months and pick it back up where I left off is amazing.
Wish listed!
Finally got around to playing Caves of Qud and it took me a while to figure it out and dial in the controls on Steam Deck but now it’s starting to become clear just how insane this game is…
I find it way too difficult to be enjoyable, sadly
Play the version that saves when you enter a village. The game is too punishing for new players imo
I’m talking about that, still too hard for me :(
Fair enough, its def a tier harder than something like DC:SS or similar. Id recommend cataclysm bright nights :)
I’ve gone back to Overwatch now that 6v6 is getting enough players in Australia.
I kind of regret Arc Raiders, I joined because I heard there was Aggression Based Match Making, which there seemed to be the case for the first hundred hours or so. That appears to have been turned off in the last week and I’m just not interested in playing with sweaty Tarkov style players shooting me in the back, nor having to re-craft all my gear every time I get killed.
Underrail
Underrail is so good.
No one lives forever
This was fun back then! Great game!
