Usually I’d be making this post from my main account, cod, but for some reason I’ve tried posting multiple times today and it hasn’t let me, it keeps giving me an error. So here we go! Weekly post from a different account this week. Hopefully next week I can go back to my main again.
Started on Prince of Persia: Sands of Time this Easter weekend; no particular reason beyond just a nostalgic yearning.
Thankfully, it still holds up!
Voices of the Void.
Honestly, the game slaps HARD for it being free.
Hades
I didn’t realize that the “God Mode” setting doesn’t do what it does in every other game. It essentially makes the game easier with each death. It’s been a lot easier to pick it up and put it down than when I played it in the past
Hopefully Last Epoch’s latest patch. I recently migrated to Linux though, so getting it running has proven to be a bit of a bugbear.
Not much time spent playing this week so just a few short sessions on Skate 3 when I have a spare 20 minutes. I normally just find some realistic spots and make some clips.
Started Cyberpunk 2077 the other week and I honestly didn’t think it would be that good. A little over 30 hours played by now and I’m nowhere near half finished yet.
Same, only I’ve had to reinstall it four times now. The furthest I’ve gotten was the beginning of the Silverhand mission/arc, but that save got corrupted and I’ve not passed the first broker mission since… 😭🤦🏼♂️
It’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice for me. I wasn’t sure I would like it for the first hour or so—I don’t like big penalties for death, and losing half my xp and money felt rough. But now that I figured out some loss mitigation strategies and started getting better at parrying, I’m really liking it.
That’s one of my all-time favourite games. How far are you? I’m jealous you get to experience it for the first time.
I’m moving through it very slowly. I just beat that ogre creature who was afraid of fire—only like three bonfires (or whatever this game calls them) in. Loving it, though!
Oh nice. There’s only two bosses/mini-bosses I dislike in that game, that one’s one of them. It just doesn’t seem very Sekiro to me personally. The next section is one of my favourite parts though, which makes up for it for me. Good luck! It’s an awesome experience, and one of the few games I’ve bothered to get all the achievements for.
Jumped back into Baldur’s Gate 3 after the new patch dropped to try out the new subclasses. Giant barb is fun! My Tav is a relatively boring diviner, but I realized I haven’t played a wizard face character before and some of the dialogue options have also been interesting. I rolled a Zariel tiefling so it’s also been amusing to use Intimidate checks as a cloth-wearer. Got a Death cleric that’s been not quite as exciting (planning on replacing with Circle of Stars druid a little later) and my crit build martial character I’ve run half a dozen times before will be trying the notorious Hexblade dip.
Side note, I play on Honour difficulty and I’ve run into a few bugs/blips already, more than usual. Frustrating as hell, though I guess I could always dig into my file system if I really wanted to load a save for a (legit?) reason.
This is my plan too - going to use the Easter break to kick off a new playthrough of BG3, can’t wait!
Finally picked up Cassette Beasts when it went on sale and my kids and I are really enjoying it.
Transport Fever 2, again. Still in the “where the f is my money” stage with this playthrough, dreaming of buying a whole entire train. Watching little horsecarts take 3 years to travel from A to B. I might be a bit too patient.
I’m still neck-deep in solving the mysteries of Blue Prince. Hopefully it’s permissible to talk about here as it’s hardly the most patient of gaming I’ve done (I bought it on release day). It did have a release week 10% sale though so technically I didn’t pay full price?
The game is absolutely great and it’s extremely hard to talk about without spoilers, which would ruin your experience. It’s a half-roguelite/half-puzzle game and it’s so well made and so intricate. It will take you a little while to start peeling back the layers, but once you start getting into it you realise just how much depth there is under the surface.
If you have any interest in puzzles you should play this game. Like right now. It’s cheap too, not even €30 full price. It’ll probably be a GOTY candidate and it’s definitely the best new game I’ve played in quite a while. Absolutely beautiful distinctive art style too, which meshes perfectly with the themes of the game.
I’m right there with ya! I didn’t even know it was a thing until I just happened to be looking through the PS Plus catalog for something new on release day. Such a crazy coincidence.
Absolutely beautiful, wonderful game!
The hidden depths and secrets are just completely insane. I’m loving piecing together the narrative, but every time I think I have seen (though not completed!) all the puzzles a new hidden layer opens up with new objectives and challenges.
Amazing game!
Finished Hi-Fi Rush over the week. A fantastic, innovative, extremely charming game that lived up to every bit of hype I heard, and more. Made me even more mad over everything that happened to Tango Gameworks (and, frankly, the game industry for the past decade or so)
Hi-Fi Rush really is a nearly perfect game. Everything from the gameplay to the art style to the animation to the writing is just… *chef’s kiss*
Made me even more mad over everything that happened to Tango Gameworks (and, frankly, the game industry for the past decade or so)
Fortunately for Tango Gameworks, they did find a buyer (Krafton) after Microsoft cut them loose, and they kept the IP and plan for more Hi-Fi Rush content.
Let’s hope the new owners treat them better.
But I’m paying Microsoft if I buy it now, right? I wonder how Tango feel about that. Like, I wanna buy it, but I cannot justify giving money to Microsoft.
Yeah, Microsoft kept the publishing rights to the first game and Tango gets nothing if you buy it.
I don’t know if they still do it, but Microsoft used to give a free month of Game Pass to entice new signups. If that offer’s still open, you could grab it and play the game without giving them a cent.
The X-Com series because of the state of the world, if you like working on your own temper while you game, of course.
That series is one of the few in existence that entirely requires a trainer. “90%” my ass.
I hope future installments steal from some of their competitors. A few of them (I think Jagged Alliance 3 and some Valkyria game on consoles?) have a system where aiming is done in first person using a reticle that displays a large circle the shot is guaranteed to land within and a smaller circle with an x% chance of it landing within.
It doesn’t make the game any easier in most situations, but it feels a million times better when you can visualize the exact odds and see how you could possibly miss before you commit, plus you no longer need to worry about missing point-blank shots just because the RNG hates you.
Can’t wait to play the new Star Wars game from XCom devs and miss a 90% as a freaking Jedi 😒
Stormtroopers show sub-5% stats squad-wide… Immediately headshot & insta-kill three of yours, including the quest-critical NPC… out of LoS… under heavy cover… across the fucking map…
Ah, classic XCOM. 🥴
More expensive than flicking yourself in the dick, but mama didn’t raise no cheapskate. 🥳
Hear hear, I missed a 96% shot and had to leave the game last night.
FWIW, it’s “Hear, hear” from the olden times when town criers delivered all the news fit to be yelled. 🤓🙇🏽♂️
Much obliged otter, gracias.
I’m just little-o; the big O is a life goal*
^* ^pron: ^a ^la ^futbol ^commentator
This is the only reason I don’t play Xcom/Shadowrun. I love the worlds/concepts, but I refuse to waste time negotiating with RNG.
As an OG who grew up with “real” video games having to be entered by hand from the pages of a cherished magazine (like the mail-order seamonkeys/X-Ray glasses/etc. fad before it), please hear me when I say:
If the game you’re playing isn’t doing it for ya, alter/mod it until it is. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a noob, a child, afraid of judgment by “everyone”, or all of the above.
Do you just love the way your latest/favorite game does combat, but somehow the dialogue/narration is a drag? You’re in luck! The latter are almost always “skippable” right outta the box! But, should you instead for whatever reason prefer to not fritter away your very finite and completely unknowable number of remaining heartbeats on a slog of fetch-quests… You have your own permission to upgrade your experience until you’re happy. Full stop.
Fuck the haters (fwiw, the doubters in your head aren’t real people), play your single-player games however you want. The real “cheating” is depriving yourself of that sacred, cherished happiness because of “peer” pressure manufactured by faceless “culture”. 🤘🏼🤓
Asura’s Wrath? I’m pleased to find it’s more than a playable anime, but I’m playing on hard and so far it feels easy? If the main draw is the story and visuals, I probably won’t end up liking it.
Still playing P4AU: one combo away from beating all Ken’s combo callenges! Super fun fighting game—I think I like it more than Under Night In-Birth now.
Deep Rock Survivors and The Binding of Isaac Rebirth
