Planning on playing Terraria after a few years of not having touched the game. I might just continue grinding on Hypixel SkyBlock. Who knows ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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.
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.
I played the Switch version a bit a few years ago, really fun puzzle game and the Switch version did some nice things with its HD Rumble.
The Switch is a great form factor to play on. I always thought the game felt more natural in the hands than on a big screen but maybe that’s just because I first played it on the PSP. There’s a sequel that just came out last year which looks great. Will be a future entry for my patient gaming list
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.
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.
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.
Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 come to mind, also made by Larian before they made BG3
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.
Dark Messiah - Might and Magic
Anyone know how this is on Steam Deck?
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.
I just played through Halo CE for the first time, finished it yesterday! I just started Halo 2 today and the uptick in quality is kind of crazy. It’s also been a great use case for controller+gyro.
I can’t help but feel (from only the first mission to be fair) the enemy ai is much dumber than in CE. Is that just me?
TerraFirmaGreg and Factorio Space Exploration
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.
You know you’ve gone off the deep of Noita when you stop calling it a rogue-lite and start calling it a randomized metroidvania. Because the game has built in features that effectively let you circumvent whatever “rogue-lite” elements the game has and what areas, bosses or quests you can access, kill or do becomes dependent on the order of what you find during your playthrough. But eventually you can do everything in a single playthrough (excluding the true ending which requires going into NG+).
I wonder if anyone will ever figure out the eye puzzle.
I have a couple of hundred hours in Noita, and I barely scratched the surface. That game is insanely deep!
Not sure if it belongs here, but recently had some fun setting up my own WoW Wrath of the Lich King based server with bots on it. Played around with it a bit and it works surprisingly well. Some friends also wanted to join for some nostalgia 😄
Other than that dusted off HOTAS to get some time flying around in X4 to test the new patch they released which brought some big changes to the flight model.
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.
I just finished Anode Heart after a million hours over the past couple weeks. Spectacular game. It’s an indie monster tamer, it doesn’t have the graphics of Nexomon: Extinction or Cassette Beasts but I liked it better than either of those.
