Just finished up Red Dead Redemption. Overall a pretty good game! I thought the epilogue dragged on a bit and the aiming felt atrocious 100% of the way through. The latter being huge given the amount of shooting you do. The number of times I shot my horse dead while trying to kill wolves is wild. Good story though, bleak as all hell. I’m glad they didn’t make it seem like a big hero fun time. I can’t imagine wanting 100% this game between all the gambling and running around.
Been getting the itch to play Kingdoms of Amalur again. Started listening to the soundtrack for now.
Noita
It’s a hell of a game. It’s essentially utterly fair, but brutal. It’s technically a rogue-lite because there are a handful of things that are unlocked on runs for use in later runs, but those elements are so unnecessary for completing the game you can ignore them. It has the ‘knowledge is power’ addage built into its bones, rewarding you for knowing how to play rather than just chipping out meta-progression, and containing such mysteries that some of them are still unsolved, despite people’s attempts to data-mine the game to find its secrets. It’s fun too.
Been replaying through the Halo games. I finished Reach, 1, 2, ODST, 3 and am still so offended by the execution of 4 that i couldn’t bring myself to start it.
Also been playing Magicraft on my Deck at work.
Dark Messiah - Might and Magic
TerraFirmaGreg and Factorio Space Exploration
Back to Solasta: Crown of The Magister. Playing the Palace of Ice DLC.
My wife and I keep looking for other co-op games like this, but the only one we’ve really enjoyed was Wasteland 3. If you have other suggestions, I’d love to hear them.
What we’ve tried so far: BG3, Rogue Trader, Jagged Alliance 3.
Not suuuuuper patient, but I’m enjoying Project Wingman. Love playing on my steam deck. Had to scratch that dogfighting itch after finishing ace combat 6 earlier this year. And it’ll be a while before ace combat 7 has been out long enough for me to buy it for a decent price.
Scarface: The World is Yours
I finished the game this week. What started as a rough but decent enough GTA clone with some unique ideas, turned into a pretty tiring experience by the time I was done with it. Between limited mission variety, decent but simple game loop (do simple mission, buy a businesses, take over district, buy & distribute drugs to get money, repeat 3) and constantly increasing reliance on big waves of enemies (sometimes never ending until you reach specific trigger), the whole things falls apart the longer you play. The worst of the worst is probably the final mission, where you’re spawned in the middle of enemy base, right in the open, surrounded by about 30 enemies, with no weapons except for a pistol with 7 shots. It was not fun.
The game as a whole is still “fine”, as long as you play it in very small doses to avoid burn out. I’m glad I finally played it to completion but I don’t think I’ll ever touch it again. It least I know what I’ve been missing all this time.
Final Fantasy XIV
I’ve been thinking about FF recently, mainly FF7 and its remakes but I’ve also looked into all of the other releases available on PC. While I still want to jump into those other titles, I decided to give FFXIV another go for now. New server, new character and a genuine attempt to embrace it all (cheese and all).
So far, so good. I’m taking things slow (literally too, I haven’t teleported once) so I don’t expect to get back to where I left off on my original character any time soon. It’s fine though, I forgot a lot of the story already so I might as well take my time getting immersed in it.
I just hope I’ll be able to click with it enough to get hooked this time.
This week I’ve been playing Lumines Remastered on PC. I dumped so many hours into the original one on PSP. The port is very faithful to the original while also adding some nice updates to make it home on PC.
I did have a weird issue where having Vsync enabled made the controls hyper sensitive but turning it off fixed that.
I also don’t have much time to game these days so it’s nice to be able to pick up a quick, low commitment game that’s still engaging.
The Atari Recharged games were on sale on Switch. I put a good amount of time into Yars, Caverns of Mars, Breakout, and Black Widow. About €2 each. Yars my favourite of those 4. I didn’t bother with any of the others.
Spider-Man and Miles Morales on PC. I saw Brand New Day and it got me in the mood.
And after finally getting a job, I’m probably going to get Spider-Man 2 on the next sale so I can play even more Spider-Man and with better swinging mechanics.
