Valheim, and getting back into Hades 1 that I had given up on last time
I've been on a real Valheim kick lately even though I suck at it and keep using cheats to retrieve my gear after I die.
Also I find playing the Long Dark before bed has been helping me sleep. Something about slowly dying in the cold is relaxing.
Playing through The Outer Worlds 2. I think i'm in whats considered the third act.
The game itself is decent. Having a better time of it then I remember from the first game. Playing on story mode cause i don't care much for combat stuff, just generally like dialogue based game. Lots of skill checks for dialogue and level traversal.
The politics of the game are pretty centrism brained; there are two main factions, the super capitalist and the evil communists. Both are portrayed in a silly manner, so you can't really take to many things seriously in the game. Not super offensive to me, but maybe not as annoying as it was in the first game. Would be nice to make choices that move the galaxy in a direction that isn't 'both sides bad', but its whatever.
As an aside, i fucking hate UE5. I hate Lumen, i hate the fucking temporal shadows that are fuzzy and change as you move the camera around. Its sooooo fucking distracting and such awful technical direction. Makes the game so damn blurry.
Pokemon Legends ZA. But I also bought Zombies ate my Neighbors and The Organ Trail and I want to play some of those before Halloween.
I should be getting my spooky candle ghost pokemon soon then I got my full party and I'll take a short break to try the others.
I finally started Alan Wake 2 and wow is the style and presentation of it impressive. I'm only a couple of hours in, and in some ways it feels quite retro (although that seems like it's kind of the point too), but it's really effective - it's style, it's atmosphere, even it's jump scares etc. The character writing so far is really solid too. Good TV level solid rather than just video game good. I'm really looking forward to playing more.
I was really impressed with how good of a game Alan Wake 2 is given how little of a game Alan Wake 2 is.
I'm really really enjoying it. Somehow it manages to be both a good game and better at being kind of a prestige TV show than most actual prestige TV shows.
I mean it's so good I'm just wondering how it manages to do that despite there just being so little in the way of gameplay
I played some of the Resident Evil remakes recently (spooky season) and gameplay-wise it basically reminds me of 2, which is the one I liked the most by far anyway. But then you have much richer storytelling, really confident deep worldbuillding, and just an amazing presentation all layered on top. It's definitely a game and story that's well honed to my vibes though (meta Stephen King stuff, Twin Peaks, XFiles, folk horror etc)
Has anyone here ever played through a game series? Like, not over the years but as a concerted effort? I did that for Zelda like 12 years ago, but I haven't done it since. I kinda' want to do it with Final Fantasy or something, but IDK. Not sure what series I should do another one with. Oh, I guess I did it with Silent Hill, sorta (up to SH Shattered Memories).
Only had 3 entries at the time, but I went through the dragon age series before the latest came out. It was pretty fun to watch the evolution of the series. 2 was much better than I remembered at launch, and I think Origins had some serious nostalgia propping up its legacy (it’s still good tho).
i did the final fantasy count-up in the lead up to 15 coming out
and i've played through the trails series a couple of times (before it got quite so large)
Currently playing through the Tomb Raider Reboot series (the 2013 one not the remasters of the old ones)
Yeah, I played through the Ys series some years ago up to VIII, which was the newest game at the time. I did give up on some of the ones that weren't good, mainly V.
i played through No More Heroes like that last year
I've tried a few times but it's usually with older games and there's something frustrating enough about it that I don't really want more immediately and need to let it settle. Like I was gonna play all of the God of War games but there are some fights that are just bullshit in the first one, I was gonna play all the Sly Cooper games but there's some areas with really bad detection for your crook to grab onto, I was going to play all of the Metal Gear Solid games but I think the top down camera angle thing in the first one honestly sucks. I'm probably just picky though.
Yakuza might be a good one, although long.
Oh yeah, I kind of did that with Yakuza too, when the remaster collection came out on PS4 I played 3, 4 and 5 all in succession.
Like someone else said, Yakuza would be good for that since 0-6 is pretty much one connected story. I would wait for Kiwami 3 to come out next year though since Yakuza 3 has by far the worst combat in the series.
3 was fine when it came out. It just feels bad now because most people are playing it after the two Kiwamis.
I didn't play the original version, but from what I've read 3 remastered (which is what yoillt be playing unless you break out a PS3) really fucked the combat. It's the only one I played on easy because the fights are just frustration long.
I beat Warcraft 2 base game and I'm playing through the expansion right now. I never managed to get this far without cheating when I was younger, the AI is a little shit I swear.
I also 100% ratchet and clank 1 & 2, playing through 3 right now.
I started dungeon keeper 1 with dungeon keeper FX. Very nostalgic and fun, did the first 3-4 levels.
I kinda stopped my vintage story save because despite knowing what I should do to progress I kinda burned out. Maybe I should try a casual difficulty world once, because the game is long and difficult enough. I always burn out on the grind and the time it takes to do things by the time I'm at bronze+
Have not progressed my silksong steel heart save. Might get back into it when there's updates?
I beat Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon recently. Despite being britbong myth, I feel like the interpretation of the game's version of King Arthur comes across like a burger lib's interpretation of the burger founding fathers. The leaders of the institutions created by Arthur and his knights are incredibly corrupt, use the legacy of Arthur to justify atrocities, and is utterly impotent against the damage caused by the environment changing due to the Wyrdness. Also, Arthur and his knights committed genocides and fucked up human experiments because they saw themselves as the Adults in the Room who need to Make Tough Decisions to Get Shit Done.
To the game's credit, it regularly calls the legitimacy of that justification into question, and you can choose to not buy it. I ended up killing Arthur and forming a united front to defeat KKKamelot. Overall, it's indie Skyrim with less shitty politics that has a bunch of over the top Celtic accents in place of Nordic ones. 7/10, would play again.
Helldivers community having a civil war between ppl who want everyone to finish the MO and people who just wanna have fun elsewhere. Good lord if touching grass was ever needed 
I beat Dark Souls 2! And by “beat” I mean the base game idk if I want to put myself through the DLC. My verdict on DS2 is that has a lot of new ideas for the series that vary heavily in quality. Some changes you can see bloodborne lack that ended up coming through in DS3 and ER and some that are very weird which I’m glad did not return. However the main reason why I don’t think I’ll come back to this entry much if ever is a lack of cohesion and a lack of scale. Regardless of why that came to be, compared to the other entries in the series, ds2 felt less like uncovering secrets of a dead world, and more like following one story scene to scene.
Still playing Returnal. I finally beat the final boss guy/thing and then I found out I have to play through the whole thing all over again, possibly multiple times, to get the REAL ending. God damn it.
if you're referring to the sun fragments, it's not an alternate ending, it's just a little extra thing. i don't think it's worth stressing about for it's own sake if you weren't already gonna do multiple runs.
Yeah I am. I want to basically knock everything out in this game I can without driving myself completely insane. I don't think I'm going to get to the end of the tower. I keep dying towards the end of floor 3 no matter what I do.
I also don't really understand what the fuck happened during the ending so I'm hoping it'll help flesh some things out. Don't tell me if you know.
godspeed
Still on my Black Mesa bullshit. The Gonarch is kicking me in the gonards so I'm stalled. It's my fault because I refuse to lower the difficulty.
On a more fun note, I have a buddy that is getting into Subnautica for the first time. I'm living vicariously through his experiences, and it's making me want to reinstall it.
Black mesa was so fucking good.
Xen is much better than the original but it goes on for a little too long IMO, and its pretty tough. Its really nice to see the ideas of the original level fully realised, and the last bit I found very satisfying to do
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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