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This week I beat yoshis island and am starting to play this new metroidvania thing I picked up called Wuppo!
Whatcha all playing?
I’ve been crushing maggot-filled mutant satanist-skulls.
The latest patch for Darktide finally made it functional for me.
If I cap it at 60 fps it does not crash every 20min anymore.
Darktide really did not like my Ryzen 9 3900x and rtx3080 “ufo rated” rig.
But now it works at least, and it’s fun.
Maybe a bit boring maps though.I’ve just dipped my toes into Darktide on xbox gamepass. I love the visceral, impactful feel to melee combat so far. I have been playing with one friend so have come afoul of the lack of communication with others that don’t chat, but so far have found it to be acceptably stable in terms of gameplay
Been plugging away at Armored Core 6. I’m kind of over it. It’s been a fairly average experience and at this point I’d like to wrap up the story and move on to something with a little more meat.
Lego Jurassic World on the Switch. I bought a Switch for me and my kid for Christmas, and have picked up a few games for the two of us to take it in turns on. I haven’t played a Lego game properly before, but this has hooked me.
It’s got a few downsides, like the rolling ball level looked like a cutscene at first, so I didn’t even try to control it, and some levels are made for you to come back to later with a different character, so it feels like you’re stuck when you’re not sometimes.
They’re easy to overlook though because the gameplay is good, and it’s got dinosaurs :D
Lego games with the kids are great fun. Lego Marvel Superheroes/Superheroes 2/Avengers are great if you want to keep exploring the Lego games. I have found that the older the Lego game, the harder it is. Some of the puzzle-solving in them can just be annoying and frustrating. I’d stick to the newer ones and work your way backwards rather than the other way around. They definitely learned from their mistakes!
I’ll keep that in mind, thanks :)
I haven’t played a Lego game for years. I think the last one was either Star Wars or Batman, and didn’t start off very well. I’ll definitely be trying more now though :)
Dude, I’m scarred from Lego Batman 3. The puzzles in that game are just way too obtuse even for an experienced gamer. No idea how they expect kids to get through it. lol
The new Talos Principle 2 demo. Wanted to make sure it plays Ok on Ubuntu and it does!
Shameless plug for the new community I started so i could discuss all of the TTP games with people:
Nothing. Don’t have the time.
Dragon Age: Origins and Fallout 76.
The former is a masterpiece and the latter I’m having fun with but required a massive perspective shift and 3 play attempts to do so compared to previous Fallout games (even FO4).
GT7 mainly running Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. There is a race there this weekend and it makes me feel slightly better when I see pro drivers mess up the same corner I do.
Forza Motorsport comes out… today? Looking forward to that myself!
I might check that one out, haven’t played a Forza game in years. The screenshots I saw had an IMSA GTP car so that might be enough for me to buy it this time around (on PC).
Warframe and grime.
The update coming to warframe mid October solves a lot of qol issues and should make it one of the bets mmorpg grind game.
No man’s sky for the first time. It’s fun for a bit I think. Dunno if it’s “I’m gonna play this forever” fun - seems a bit repetitive. But it was on sale and it’s amusing enough. I tried it out because I thought starfield was so boring, and felt like playing a space game.
The tutorial is quite long. After you have a ship, you can abandon the questline and just do whatever you want.
Requires reading the wiki a lot, but it lets you do whatever you want.
Gunship battles with aliens on the surface? ✅ Dogfights with pirates in orbit? ✅ Arbitrage and space merchant trading? ✅ Planet exploration and flora/fauna identification? ✅ Base building? ✅
Gotham Knights.
It’s not terrible, but it’s pretty much what I was expecting.
Could really do without the crafting shit and leveling system. I know the Arkham games also had skill trees and what have you, but it wasn’t ever as bad as this.
I do think I fucked myself over a bit in not focusing on the main story early on, because I very nearly burned myself out on the side activities.
Turns out that a lot of my issues are kind of addressed at key points in the main story as well, so I really should focus on it more (like getting the glider thingy from Lucius, which I had no idea existed and would have been a tremendous help earlier on when I was navigating the unnecessarily large - and, to be honest, very boring - open world).
After a Pirates of the Caribbean drinking game, I’m getting into sea of thieves.
I loved Wuppo, but the clearly Dutch names for all the creatures threw me off a little. Their names are sometimes a little bit too literal for my taste (for example, a blusser literally means extinguisher).
Anyway, I’ve stopped my first play-through of Baldur’s Gate 3 and started over as The Dark Urge. It has been… interesting :)
Other than that, I’ve tried to get back into my play-through of Lost Judgment, but I’ve completely lost the plot.Finished Divinity: Original Sin 2. Beast became a god and everyone loved him. Some of the fights in the final act were kind of bad, and I wasn’t a fan of the “twists” at the end. Still good overall, and I’m glad I finally beat it after over six years.
Quake 2 got patched and the game-breaking bug I had got fixed (constant CTD in a specific room in a level), so I can finally play it again. I mopped up the rest of the levels for the second expansion, Ground Zero, which had a disappointing final boss. The levels also got a bit more confusing for me, but the remaster added a compass, which shows you where to go next, so it wasn’t a big deal. Now only the new campaign, that was made for the remaster, is left, and I’ll try to finish that this week.
Now I’m debating whether to start Pathfinder: Kingmaker or go through the Pillars of Eternity expansions. I kinda want to play Pathfinder more, but I just put 150h into D:OS2, so going straight into another one of these massive RPGs might just lead to some burnout (I did want Divinity to be over by the end, but that was also because parts at the end weren’t that fun for me). The White March expansions for Pillars 1 might just be different enough to serve as a pallet cleanser (even though it’s still a CRPG).
If you haven’t played the Robocop: Rogue City demo yet, you have 10 seconds to comply. Your move, creep.
A free demo? I’ll buy that for a dollar!!
- I tried Star Ocean The Divine Force, up until the port town when they introduced a very anime character (after getting the healer), that I stopped.
- The story didn’t grab me, and while I like how fast the combat and how agile the DUMA are, ultimately the combat feels very simplistic, even with the skill upgrades. It’s really a middling game
- The only other Star Ocean game that I’ve played is Last Hope International, and I really dislike that game, because of Lymle.
- tri-Ace has been insolvent, and it’s sad to see them struggling both financially, and in making good Star Ocean games. Maybe they should have gone back to 2D style to reduce budget, and to rely less on the exaggerated anime character animation style
- Star Ocean 2 remake is coming out, and that HD-2D looks really good, hopefully that would help the dev a bit.
- Replaying the original Wild Arms
- The music is still really good in this game
- The battle still feels very simplistic compared to Final Fantasy
- Story wise, it’s less memorable than others, but there are parts that do feel melancholic
- I found out that Media.Vision has 5 titles in development as in 2022, the last game they co-developed was Valkyria Chronicles 4
- I tried Star Ocean The Divine Force, up until the port town when they introduced a very anime character (after getting the healer), that I stopped.
