I have been playing Tainted grail: Fall of Avalon and having a great time. They didn’t get the difficulty scaling as good as Gothic, but it’s fun to explore.
And bonking enemies with a two hander and watching them fly never gets old.
Final Fantasy VII
I was testing out something on my Miyo Flip handheld and started playing FFVII for the first time. Never played it before and so far there have been a few questionable moments but overall I’m enjoying it. Hardware wise it works great but I did have to ask my wife for some help with the story already and unsuprisingly she knew exactly what to do but wants me to play FFIX instead.
Noita.
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I played all the way through Resident Evil 8 on my steam deck, while doing a train tour around Romania this week. The game aesthetics hit way harder when you can see so many of its influences right in front of you.
still bg3. oh man I made it a point to do everything I could before going to the shadowfell and then also went back and did auntie ethel too who I kept around for giant str potions. Its kinda great putting her off as the whole thing is kinda annoying with the multiple phases but oh boy I did not realize how much more there was to act 2 and actually you get sucked into the start of this act3 stuff where its like it just keeps going. between auntie ethel, shadowfell, the tower, the colony, the camp attack, on and on. Oh also I took shadow heart to the shadowfell as that was obvious but did not take wyll to the colony so lost an item. Trying to see all with eat the worm.
Been playing a lot of (emulated) Pokemon Violet this week. Just getting into the post-game now.
(lol, get rekd, Nintendo. I’ll emulate whatever I want, and you can’t stop me.)
Probably Very Little Nightmares and Sea of Stars.
God of War (2018)!
I often tire of open world exploration and gameplay, but so far this game has either:
- not opened up super wide
- or does not need to open up super wide
I’m not a huge fan of the Destiny level up system where you gain exp and get new gear to hit level requirements, but I’ve been able to keep up. Just annoying when I stumble upon an area with something 2-4 levels higher than me.
The story is great so far.
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I’m about to enter Joutunheim and just finished killing one of Thor kin. Magni, I think.
I never played the other GoW entries, but do recall watching my dad play them when I was younger. I did eventually play Dante’s Inferno, which was very similar in gameplay.
I much prefer the axe throwing/melee combo gameplay to the top down hack and slash, I think.
Got into Inside this week. What a fun little game, the atmosphere is top notch. I play this at night on my laptop with a controller and headphones on, great stuff.
One of my cherished memories is when a friend of mine came over, smoked a blunt, watched the first 15 minutes of me playing Inside and then promptly fell asleep, after which I proceeded to spend the next 3-4 hours beating the game to completion in one sitting with his snoring in the background.
I’m a huge fan of Inside. Genuinely one of my favourite gaming experiences ever. So good.
Limbo is really good too if you haven’t played it, but I personally prefer Inside.
It’ll probably be my next intermission artsy short game between longer titles. Did you play Limbo? If so how do they compare? I thought Limbo was only okay but I’ve heard people say Inside is a stronger game.
What was it about Limbo that didn’t do it for you? I’ve played both many times so I may be able to help more than the person you replied to originally.
I think we’ve already been over it before, some time last year when I played Limbo. I’m not a huge fan of puzzle platformers in general so it starts as an uphill battle. There were one or two puzzles I liked (like the anti-gravity stuff was cool), but most I didn’t for various reasons. Most were either frustrating or forgettable. The liquid stuff was a bit overused. Towards the end it got a little too precision platformy and timed for my liking, some with really tight and unforgiving timing. Although I recognise that some people might enjoy that. Story wasn’t really anything either. It’s a cool mood and some decent looking scenes at times but apart from the graphics and art it almost felt like a browser game.
Maybe, that sounds familiar.
By the sounds of it, you probably wouldn’t love Inside. You might like it a bit more than Limbo, but it’s got the same things you didn’t like about Limbo, which happen to be the reasons I love both games. The gameplay is basically just a different flavour but it’s quite similar, and it’s also very sparse on story, focusing more on atmosphere and vibes basically, which I actually really like, but it sounds like you don’t.the main focus is definitely on the environment, with everything else sort of on the back burner.
I mean, I love atmosphere to be clear. Several of my favourite games stand on the foundation of atmosphere, like STALKER, Cyberpunk, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Dishonored… Withering Rooms that I played recently was dripping with atmosphere, which is part of why I had trouble moving on from it.
Limbo does have good atmosphere but… its atmosphere is kind of one-note, like yeah it’s spooky shadows but that’s all there is. It’s neat, but it’s not really wowed me to the extent that it really elevated the game for me or anything. From what I’ve heard Inside has a bit more of a story to it, a which makes me hopeful I’ll like it better.
Artsy indie platformers can work for me, I really liked both GRIS and INMOST.
There is a bit more story in Inside but it’s still kind of on the back burner a bit. The main allure, at least for me, is the constant “what the fuck is happening here” I’m constantly asking myself whenever I enter a new area. At the end of the day, it’s a short game, it’s cheap to buy, and if you don’t like it you can always refund it on steam. By the time you’re two hours in, you’ll know by that point if you’ll like the rest of the game or not. Or if you’re really good at puzzle platformers you could probably even finish it within the refund window, though I wouldn’t recommend doing that.
Maybe not a “patient gamer” game since it was released a few months ago, but I’m playing Verho - Curse of Faces. I was in the mood for something like Kings Field or Lunacid, and this certainly scratches that itch.
Assetto Corsa
I’m playing Archolos, which is a free fan-made game on the Gothic 2 engine (you still need to own Gothic 2 tho). It’s like 60 hours long and I’m only 12 hours in and just got into the city. The quality is pretty incredible for a fan-made game, I think I’ll be playing through it for the next 2 months at the very least
Took me almost 180 hours to complete, but i’m not rushing through games. Such a great world to explore, and some good improvements over Gothic 2.
Son’s been playing Zelda BOTW and I thought that game is right up my alley, how could I’ve missed it?
Set up the Switch emulator on the Steam Deck and goddamn that game’s a time sink!
Another week where I’ve actually had time to play, but not on pc at all this week unfortunately.
The last few days I’ve been playing Evolve. I recently found a used disc for PS4 and remember really enjoying it back in the day on Xbox (which I no longer have). I’m actually having a blast playing through it on single player again. The DLC is completely inaccessible nowadays unless you already have it unfortunately so I’m stuck with the base 12 hunters and 3 monsters but that’s okay, all my favourites were from the base game anyway. It’s too bad this game wasn’t better received, I used to play it a lot and was very confused when I saw all the negative reviews it had. Maybe it just didn’t click with most people and it did for me, not sure. Or maybe there was drama with it that I didn’t know about. Either way, I’m having a ton of fun with it again. I’ve unlocked all the hunters except Lazarus and Caira (I think that’s her name), and I still have to unlock the other two monsters.
