Late thread this week, sorry bout that.
I’ve been playing more UFO 50 which continues to be phenomenal. I’m almost done with the new Zelda which has also been stellar. Tonight silent hill 2 remake comes out which I’m so excited to play!!!
100%ing midnight suns and also playing through the new starfield dlc 😎
I got really into TCG Card Shop Simulator. It’s pretty much like all these other “Simulator” games, that pop up in early access every few weeks, like Supermarket Simulator, Recycling Center Simulator and whatever, although the theme is definitely much more appealing to me. The standout feature is probably that you can actually open card packs to collect the gazillion of cards already in the game or sell them as singles. The game is also made with Unity and can use existing mod frameworks, so there are tons of mods out already. You can change the cards to Pokemon, Digimon, and more, along with a bunch of mods to automate the more tedious aspects. I’m at a point right now, where I just need to restock my warehouse every night and can spend the rest of the day sitting in a dank corner and open packs like a degenerate.
The Diablo 4 expansion was supposed to launch a few hours ago, but it got delayed and nobody can play and has to wait.
After having finished The Last of Us and Remnant 2, I am doing another playthrough of Death Stranding.
Just finished Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Got it five years ago but got frustrated and uninstalled it. Then I played it on-off for some time. But after lots of tries I got the final boss killed. Yes, there is an option for New Game Plus but nope, time to play something else. Brilliant game, hard but rewarding.
I’ve been playing UFO 50 with NES controllers, and CRT filter high, it’s been a blast.
I’ve played the multi-player games with my kids, they love them.
Also my kids have been playing the single player games by themselves, it’s amazing to watch them play games like the ones I grew up with.
I’ve been trying to cross off some of my “in progress” games, ones I’ve been working on off and on over the past few months, so I can make room for new ones.
After sitting on it for months, I finally got around to finishing my second playthough of Lies of P. I went for the “Real boy” ending, and man, I really had to fight the urge to start a third round. I really like the combat and 99% of the characters.
Cleaned up the rest of the map for Mad Max, with the exception of collecting all the vehicles, since that’s kind of a pain to do. Much like Lies of P, I was a bit tempted to start another playthough lol.
Maxed out all the glyphs for my Scorcerer in Diablo 4: Season 5, so it’s set aside until I come back from a planned vacation this week. I’m not sure how I’ll handle a new season and a new dlc, AND a new leveling system all at the same time, but I’ll figure it out.
I’m playing fallout London. Super impressive for a mod. I’m really enjoying it.
Against the Storm.
I played a lot back when it came out. I picked up the DLC on release day and reset my progress. Such a good game. Even when I’m not playing (like now) I’m thinking and reading up on strategies.
I gotta vent a little about Jedi Survivor - I really did not enjoy it much at all and am surprised it was so critically lauded. The combat aims for souls-like but is way too twitchy and glitchy to make it feel fun and rewarding. I came out of 60% of combat encounters feeling bored, 20% feeling relieved that some erratic imbalance or technical tomfoolery didn’t make me repeat it, and 10% feeling frustrated for the same reason but on the other side.
The same core issues affected the bosses too. I didn’t feel like the game earned my dedication to “solving the puzzle” the way games like Elden Ring and Returnal do.
Exploration was mostly fine in a zone-out kind of way but grew quite stale by the end, being the same vertical platforms and grapple spots on every section of every world. And the story too was just too out of focus. The whole Tanalorr thing was a late first-act development completely divorced from the course of the opening, and there was never a clear or necessary enough idea of why they wanted to get there to justify it becoming a priority to drive the story.
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By the time they were trying to chase down the last compass, they’d garnered enough attention from the raiders and the empire that it no longer felt like a hidden secret. And the fact that all Cal had to do to get there was press a button to align the arrays…how long will they be safe on Tanalorr before the empire figures that out? It simply never felt like it was worth the trouble everyone was going to for it.
I still like the characters, but I was desperate to be done by the time I was fighting a notable turn-of-the-second-act boss, whose appearance elicited an eyeroll rather than excitement. I set the game to story mode at that point and just rushed the ending.
While that was going on though, I did play Animal Well all the way through (“layer 1” anyway), and that was extraordinary fun.
Oh, I also tried out the Metaphor Refantazio demo and that feels incredibly promising, especially with the incredible reviews it’s getting today.
Played some helldivers 2, got to impossible difficulty. I’ve been off and on the game, still have fun with it, I play it casualy.
Wanted to play some kind of digital TCG but the one I used to play LOR now focuses on PVE, which is not a bad thing but having some good PVP matches would be fun. So I’m on search of another to play casually.
Not much this week. I got bored of HZD, as after a pretty good start, it turned into a generic open world, which I really don’t like.
Now I’m playing Ys Memories of Celceta, but I’m mostly waiting for Metaphor to release on Friday.
I’ve jumped back into FH5 and Hunter Call of the wild weirdly clicked, both are my noodle games atm. Actively playing Assassin’s Creed 4.
