Petition for Silksong to be considered an honorary patient gamer game, given I waited seven years to play it.
Yeah I’ve been playing Silksong too. Bouncing between that at a replay of Assassin’s Creed Origins whenever I fail on a platforming section too many times.
Picked up the original Hollow Knight on sale a little while back. With the all the buzz around Silksong I finally booted it up, having a blast so far!
Enjoy! It’s a great game. I’ve been cheating on this community and playing Silksong, it’s a great sequel. It’s one of the rare times I’d recommend buying a game when it’s still new. But definitely play Hollow Knight first, it’s such a great game.
I feel the description of this community fits me to a tee.
I'm playing Silksong.
Typically this community is for games that are more than a year old (i.e. you were patient to buy it) but I think Silksong is an exception and I’ll allow it in this community. I’m also playing it so I can’t judge too hard.
That previous game I played through was Portal 2. I barely ever buy games on release.
Just that it was kinda funny this one time I'm playing a recent released game.
Portal 2 is awesome.
I make these posts every week, I hope to see you comment on a future post too!
no doubt
Also Silksong released at $20, which is a price point people are often waiting for older games to hit.
Regardless of semantics, Silksong is the only game I’ve played since it released.
Heard a song from Wuthering Waves, and it caught me be surprise with how good it was, so I figured I'd give the game a try.
It feels a lot like Genshin Impact, but the world and story feel better, is not Mihoyo, and the voice acting includes the main character. For a F2P experience, it's been fun going through the initial story. To its detriment, however, there's three different gacha currencies. Definitely not worth bothering with beyond freebie pulls. Overall, I'd recommend it, but only the free stuff.
When POE2 came out, I played it for a couple hours, hated it, and went back to Diablo 4. I saw it at PAX a week ago and thought I’d give it a try again since I quit D4 and was jonesing for that fix. It’s doing pretty well so far. I’m in Act 3.
Finally jumped into No Man's Sky.
I've had this game for less than a week and I've Jack Sparrow'ed my way into an A class freighter and i found a planet with glow orbs laying on the ground by the dozen. So i've got this crazy freighter and millions in credits but hardly any raw resources to build or upgrade anything.
Coral Island! It's been out a while but they had a major update recently. My farming/crafting life sim stretch continues.
Persona 5 Royale on Steam Deck. JRPGs and handhelds are a match made in heaven. My only complaint is every time I think that I've escaped the tutorial, there's more tutorial lol.
Still making my way through Skies of Arcadia Legends. Just arrived at Yafutoma but the game is such a slog sometimes with the random encounters :(
Also chilled out and played a little bit of Beat Hazard.
I‘ve been playing Legend of Grimrock which had been collecting dust on my account for over a decade, and I can now confidently say that these kinda games are not for me lol
I finished Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time and had a good time with it. Short, old-school feeling chill action game. Probably a must-play if you're a fan of the show, otherwise keep an eye out for Epic giveaways or just pirate it if you think it looks cool. It's not that long, probably 8 hours or so with some cool looking levels and the combat gets pretty fun once you start unlocking skills.
Being unable to resist my recent hyperfixation I went back and started playing through Ninja Gaiden 2 Black with the White mod installed. Still playing on Warrior to have an apples-to-apples comparison. 6 Chapters in now and it feels like a halfway point between vanilla NG2B and OG NG2 so far. Apart from a handful of fights actually being harder in this version it mostly is easier and less dense in fights. There are still places that are empty where there should be fights, I still turn the corner sometimes expecting a fight I remember and being met with silence instead. Having said that, not every omission is negative - the jellyfish bombs in Venice for example I didn't really miss.
Also - and I can't understate this - the game is fucking beautiful. Not only is it visually stunning with the lighting and the blood physics and textures and raytracing and 120 FPS HDR - it is also impressive from an art direction standpoint. It feels just like the original, only sharper. It looks like what the original looked like in my head when I thought back on it. Sometimes remasters or remakes lose the original identity, but here they absolutely nailed it.
So far I'm having a blast with it, even though it doesn't quite deliver that "playable cocaine" vibe that the original was constantly feeding you.
Went and tried playing Dark Souls again after leaving it on hold for a few months and this time it clicked HARD. I finally get why people love these games so much. The atmosphere, the combat, the sound effects, how it teaches you to persevere my god what an experience. The only thing I regret is not starting this sooner back when I had more free time lol
The exploration and level design too! Nothing gives you quite the same rush of dopamine as unlocking shortcuts in Dark Souls. The first time you kick that ladder? Priceless.
Enjoy. It’s one of the greatest games and one of the greatest franchises of all time.
If you continue with the series and play Dark Souls II next, keep in mind it’s the black sheep of the series. Not to say it’s bad or anything but it’s very different from the rest. You may prefer it, you may hate it, just don’t judge the whole series on it. Dark Souls III and Elden Ring are much more fast paced and a fair bit more challenging once you get into them. Sekiro is basically a different genre and plays much different from the rest but is imo the best first playthrough of the lot. It’s way harder though. Demon’s Souls is slower paced like Dark Souls but has a different world mechanic (hub world where you choose which level to enter, complete it, then go back to the hub and go elsewhere). Bloodborne is the only one you can’t play well on pc (Demon’s Souls isn’t native on pc but you can emulate it quite smoothly), but if you have a PS4/5 it’s a lot of people’s favourite game.
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
I finished the campaign. Most I can say is that I came out of it with more positive than negative feelings about this title. Main story definitely improved compared to the early parts, writing on the other hand... not so much. The final stretch of missions was pretty cool at least (even though the trench missions were the easiest I've played in these games so far).
All in all, my reaction towards the game didn't change much - it's good, it just isn't right for me.
On a different note, I have a unique technical issue with this game for whatever reason. When playing with a HOTAS my system doesn't recognise that input is happening (game reacts normally) which can lead to it trying to hibernate my PC in the middle of a mission. It's not a huge problem but I've never had anything like this happen with any other game I use my controller with.
Sushi Ben (demo)
Don't know if this counts since the game released some time ago on Oculus, I think, but the PC version won't be available until next week but whatever.
I tried the demo and the first thing that came to mind was "cute". It has charming writing, simple but pleasant art style, distinct character designs with great voice acting (at least the Japanese one) and fun VR controls. One of the rare instances in recent years when I eagerly want to experience more.
I'll be keeping an eye out on how the full release turns out as so far it's pretty promising.
Edit: On a completely different note, for whatever reason soundtrack from the first Drakengard game is now available on Steam - remaster/remake incoming?
as I mentioned earlier in the thread, I'm on AC7 as well. love this game. it seems like a nice mix of arcade and sim.
It certainly is. I personally ended up loving Project Wingman way more than any of the AC titles I've played so far (both in terms of gameplay and story) but that's just personal preference. For what it's worth, I did have more fun with 04 and Zero than AC7, so it's seems like my problems are with this game specifically.
How do you feel about it compared to other games in the series? I've seen you mentioned Horizon Legacy - did you play any other ones?
HL+ was my only intro to the series. I scooped it up at a used game store when I was digging through some loose carts in a bin. I have really enjoyed it and I considered getting the ps2 version but I read that the controls were a bit more clunky and there were some quality of life improvements in it.
Comparing 7 to HL+, it's hard for me to pick the better game. HL+ reminds me a ton of the old title Fury3, I think because the ground is mostly just flat bitmaps. That's a heavy nostalgia factor for me because my dad and I used to play that game quite a bit. I thought the updated graphics in 7 would put me off but they've been nice. Plus the thin story is a little enjoyable.
I think it's harder to stall in HL+ than 7 but that might just be because I have a bigger controller? The plane customization in 7 is overwhelming to me compared to the limited options in HL+ but others might like that. After about 10ish hours in each game, I'd say they are just about equal to one another. I think I'll try to finish HL+ first and then go back to 7 so I don't get too confused with the controls switching back and forth.
I just checked out the gameplay of HL+ and I have to say: I didn't expect it to look like a "normal" AC game. I don't know why nor what I expected it to be like but that was a neat surprise. Thanks for your thoughts too!
Honestly, I didn't find the plane customisation in AC7 to be particularly important to be honest. I feel like it's a bigger deal in multiplayer but in campaign there's no real point of stressing about it - being able to play does more to affect the experience than stat improvements (or at least that was the case for me). I'd be curious to read how you liked it once you're done with the game.
Ace Combat 7 but maybe I'll go back to Ace Combat Horizon Legacy +... I always seem to find later titles in a series and end up playing them in confusing parallel.
BlazBlue Entropy Effect. This one has been fun and weird. I jumped into it because of the Dead Cells collab and that content feels almost like it could be a Dead Cells 2. This game took a while for me to understand what's going on. I like the gameplay a lot, not so much the overworld stuff.
Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth. I went back to this game and realized that I gave up on the first boss months ago. Might try to beat that boss or I might just start it over. This game is a lot like Blade Chimera (same engine, I think. definitely the same team) but I have nostalgia for Lodoss stuff so I picked it up last year.
BlazBlue mention. I think it's funny how non fighting game people are getting into bb entropy effect (BlazBlue is a pretty old fighting game series and entropy effect is a recent spin off made by a 3rd party)
Oddly, I got into EE because I like the fighting games a lot. The Dead Cells collab just put it on my radar. I was kind of bummed that EE seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the titles. I shouldn't be, however, because there's BlayzBloo on the NDS and Clone Fantasma on the 3DS. Neither have any real story but feature the characters as well.
Side note: I badly wish that the Legion 1.5 mode in BlazBlue Contiuum Shift II was available on other releases. It's my favorite mode but the d-pad on the 3DS wears my thumb out. I would love to be able to use my leverless controller. Perhaps emulation is the way to go for that one.
I'm really enjoying shadow legend VR it came out in 2019 and the devs released arken age recently so i checked out their older work. It's really good and i can definitely see the arken age DNA in shadow legend!
Cyberpunk 2077
Apparently the game was such a disaster at launch that shareholders sued the game's producer CD Projekt Red and won a settlement against the company.
I recently picked it up on sale and with the addition of a healthy dose of mods (the game is the fifth most popular on Nexus) it's a truly enjoyable experience. In fact, it sets the standard for open world games so high for me that I don't think I'll be able to enjoy Bethesda games ever again.
Cyberpunk modding scene is incredible, the only sad thing is that while 2.0 was an incredible patch it did break a lot of old and amazing mods. Scissors was an absolute GOAT and stuff like Vehicle Combat, Breach Takedown and Drone Companions were just incredible.
Still just Animal Crossing on the Switch! If it ain’t broke…
Finally booted up no man's sky, after owning it for actual years (picked up for I think 10€ at most at the time). There's recently been an update, reminding me that it exists. It's maybe a bit grindy, but over all I've had quite a bit of fun in the 50 or so hours I've put in so far.
A lot of people have been talking about that game recently. I messed around with it a few years back but never more than half a dozen hours or so. Maybe I’ll check it out again.
I'm playing the VR version of Myst. Also recently played the The Room VR. I don't generally play VR games (partly because they don't seem appealing to me, and partly because I can get nauseous surprisingly fast), but I really liked these. Looking forward to Riven next.
I just finished Strange Horticulture a few days ago. It was really fun! Not too long as well. It looks like a shop sim, but it's a puzzle game.
After that I started Two Point Hospital. I used to play Theme Hospital a lot in my youth so this hits all the right spots.
Both were recently free on Epic.
My wife, who’s a nurse at our local hospital, loves Two Point Hospital. It’s obviously horribly inaccurate but that’s the fun of it for her. I enjoyed it too but not as much as her.
I beat The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
It was alright. A third person shooter where you are theoretically giving tactical orders to two NPC followers. In reality, good or interesting tactics go out the window in favor of just spamming special abilities as much as possible in a chaotic mess of fights. The story was decent and gets interesting near the end, although for my money after the big reveal it feels like it drags out a bit longer than it needs to. For $3 I got my value.
Been emulating Fire Emblem on GBA recently. I’m a recent fan of the series, started with Three Houses, so going back and playing the older ones has been on my to-do list for awhile now. Really enjoying it so far!
Trying to get back into Dragon Age Inquisition. I really didn't care for the combat, but I'm there for the story.
Got some total war cravings and bough total Warhammer III on a sale. It has a very strong "just one more turn" factor and it's been eating up a good chunk of my free time the past week, but I've finally got it out of my system. Warhammer II still has the best factions, but the mechanical improvements in particular how allies work are really nice. If you own all three games you can play the "immortal empires" campaign including the whole old Warhammer fantasy world and all races. This is an absolutely massive game world, at the start of the game there are 280 factions, although this count decreases quickly
Port Royale 3 from GOG on my Linux machine (I do not run Arch, BTW).
Mind you, I think Port Royale 2 is a better ballanced with less fancy graphics version.
I'm in a Monster Hunter Rise shaped hole, this game is a marathon!
I'm motivated to 'finish' it because I want to try out Monster Hunter World, but I'm not sure that healthy.
About 120 hours in so far, I've just got the end credits for the DLC at Master Rank 5 for killing the Arch Demon, according to people in the community I've just finished the tutorial 🥲
Jet Set Radio. Having so much fun once I got used to how floaty it can be.
Sun Haven on Switch, it finally got an update to make it playable after 7 months and it’s actually quite fun when you can play it properly.
Other than Hollow Knight (thanks Gog sale)
Metroid Fusion and dread. Picked it up and haven’t put it down
Raft and switching back to modded Minecraft again
Monument Valley is/was free on Epic. It's a nice little puzzler. I like it, enough to beat the main game and start on the DLC (included). Lightweight, cute, not too many mechanics. It's not nearly as visually impressive or as challenging as my favorite space bending game, Manifold Garden, though.
A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
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