The game has no identity, it’s literally just stuff the team saw in other popular games thrown in haphazardly. It’s a soup. RDR2 had trains? Chuck it in there boys. Same with the random Zelda sky islands. There is some fun to be had in it I think and it seems to appeal to a certain type of gamer, but I wouldn’t expect the game to make any sense.
I’m also liking it, it’s been the only game I’ve played for the whole week. The start was kind of rough and the controls still have some issues (it’s just weird. Sometimes they feel responsive, other times it feels like I’m having some kind of an input lag despite doing the same action), but overall I’m really enjoying the slow burn of the game. I’m about 40 hours in and I’m still in Hernand (which itself isn’t really that surprising considering how big Hernand is) which is the first area of the 5 big areas of the game. Much like Breath of the Wild I’m so enamored by the exploration I keep getting sidetracked and if the rest of the world keeps sidetracking me as much as Hernand does I don’t know when I’ll finish the main quest (which kind of like in BotW isn’t the main focus of the game).
The puzzles are also a breath of fresh air because they are actual puzzles. I’ve literally had to open a notepad to take notes so I could solve a puzzle. And then there are puzzles where you have a map and you need to find the locations in the world that are on the map but you first have to figure out what location on the world the map is referencing because it’s not entirely 1 to 1 so sometimes I have the puzzle map open on my second screen in case I run into some area that looks like the map.
The combat is my god. I might just thrown my sword down and go full WWE because that shit is funny as fuck. I’m not joking. You can grab enemies and throw them at other enemies. You can clothesline, lariat, suplex, belly flop I don’t even know what else. You can literally fight like a wrestler and it’s just as flashy as you imagine it. The only problem with the combat IMO are the bosses. The bosses are bad. I’ve had I think 4 boss fights and 3 of them were literally just me tanking the hits because for the love of god I couldn’t figure what I was supposed to do. Soulsborne games are close to my heart, I’m not swayed by getting my ass beat as long as I can figure out what I’m supposed to do to not get beat. But when I try literally everything that comes to my mind and nothing works I’m just going to evade what I can and tank the rest and beat through attrition. And that’s not fun. The evasions on boss attacks are also kinda weird. I don’t think I have that poor pacing but sometimes I press dodge at the same time I would always press it and sometimes I don’t get hit, other times I get hit. Hopefully combat gets an extra pass by the developers because they’ve been pretty open to feedback and some obvious grievances have already been fixed.
Overall I’m so ready to play it for the rest of the year, which is probably how long it will take me to be done with the game.
I’ve been in a bit of a gaming limbo since I beat my first playthrough of Bloodborne earlier this year. I’ve been trying out and revisiting a bunch of games and nothing seems to stick.
I’ve been returning to genres that I’ve really enjoyed in the past, like survival-horror and detective games, only for them to fall flat. But that’s cool, those genres were kind of the soundtrack to specific moments in my life and right now seems to be the souls-era. While there are a ton souls games out there, my plan has been to just focus on the FromSoftware titles first before I check out the rest. The ones I still have to play are Dark Souls 2, Sekiro, and Armored Core 6, which I guess isn’t really a souls game, but I can’t say no to a FromSoft entry at this point. Technically I still have things to do in Dark Souls 1 (put it down after Ornstein and Smough) and Dark Souls 3 (didn’t complete the dlc, but have since lost my save), but I think I’ll wait a while before I revisit those games.
I also picked up the Devil May Cry games while on sale. I love the og Resident Evil 4 so it should be fun to see how an early iteration of that game evolved into its own thing and spawned a whole series.
I was also impatient and bought some new releases that, while they seem up my alley, aren’t meshing with my current mood. Oh well, live and learn.
I absolutely adore Sekiro but going to it after a different souls game is gonna be tough. It plays very differently from every other souls game, to the point that a lot of folks would consider it to not be a souls game. The combat is just so unique and if you try to play it like a souls game you’re gonna have a bad time. With that being said, it also has my favourite combat system I’ve ever played and once you learn it, it’s so satisfying to play. I would still highly recommend it, but don’t go into it thinking it’ll play like Bloodborne or Elden Ring or something.
I haven’t found the enemies to be bullet spongey in Elden Ring either as long as you’re sufficiently levelling and upgrading your weapons so I’m not sure I know what you mean.
But in Sekiro you don’t really damage health but rather build a stance meter, which once you fill all the way allow you to deal a death blow, but if you stop attacking or deflecting for more than a moment the meter starts to go back down. You can do health damage but it doesn’t usually make sense to do so.
I was mostly basing it on videos I’ve watched. I haven’t actually played it. I’d kind of consider any fight that lasts more than 10 minutes to be well into bullet sponge territory though.
Having a stance meter instead of healthbars sounds pretty interesting though, I think I’ll check it out.
I’m not sure I’ve had any boss fight last 10 minutes in Elden Ring and I’ve played through the game 20+ times. Unless you’re doing challenge runs, that could obviously take way longer depending on the challenge run. But a normal playthrough? I’d be surprised to see any boss take 10 minutes to kill. One of you would be dead long before then I think.
Have you ever played nuclear throne? That’s kinda my preferred pacing in a game, but there aren’t many. I’d love a soulslike where combat was that fast and frantic, and bosses are really difficult but also die really fast if you play it right.
No, I’ve never even heard of it before. I looked it up, it does look interesting but I think it would be too frantic for me. While I do appreciate a game that is quick, since I don’t really have any time for video games these days, something that requires me to have lightning fast reflexes seems a bit too much for me at this point. On the rare occasion I get to sit down and play a game I want it to be something I don’t have to stress over too much. I happen to be pretty good at souls games so I don’t find them stressful, and otherwise I tend to play slower paced RPGs and stuff.
I’ve actually played a bit of Sekiro before, I only got to Lady Butterfly, but I wasn’t meshing too well with the combat and put the game down. I’ve picked it up and set it back down a few times since, always starting from the beginning, but maybe this go around will be the one where I can see it through to completion. Fingers crossed!
The entirety of Hirata Estate is technically optional, so you could always skip it or save it for later if you find Lady Butterfly for example to be too difficult. Outside of there, how far did you get in the main part of the game?
Ah interesting, I didn’t realize that. And I’m not quite sure how far I got, but the one thing I remember was there were bird guys on the roofs giving me a heck of a time, it was my first time running into them.
Ah, the roof of Ashina Castle. The boss at the end there is sort of described as the brick wall that basically is the “final exam” that determines if you’re ready for the “real game” so-to-speak. I’d personally recommend doing that boss and Lady Butterfly around the same time, but you could do it in either order or avoid LB entirely if you wanted to. I usually reach both bosses before fighting either, then fight them back to back, that’s just the way that makes the most sense to me, but everyone’s different.
I’ve been getting back into Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 again and am actually going for victories. Because I want to really understand the mechanics I’m just playing with the base ruleset and won a religious victory and am now going for domination.
The problem is that the one more turn mindset is consuming me.
I’ve had a lot of fun destressing on the way home from finals by playing Rhythm Heaven Megamix on my softmodded 3DS. So much easier than RH Fever. Been very slowly chipping away at that.
Also had fun with Sonic Lost World on 3DS until I got stuck on the green zeti snowman boss. I tried looking up what to do, but I have not even once been able to replicate it. Hate that boss so much more than any other boss in any other game I have played.
My racing career continues. I’m focusing on this rather than Stunt GP since I played that game quite a lot a year or two ago so there’s not much new to experience there. I’d rather go all in on the title I didn’t spend much time with for now.
I finally decided against skipping 24 Hour Le Mans (took until I bought my own car until I had some fun with it) and played through two so far. Still not my favourite event but it’s not bad. What I did give me more enjoyment however were the open-wheel races - grip on those cars makes it super fun to just zip around the track. I might have to look into some F1 games in the future.
One thing that stands out is something I already mentioned last week - limited content. I don’t need hundreds of tracks but when you start repeating them across regions within the first 18 races (each region consists of 3 tiers made of 6 events) then something is not right. I still like the game and have a great time but it won’t be replacing Colin McRae Rally 04 as my mainstay racing title.
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
I took a few month break after finishing this and Returns back to back and I’m starting to feel ready to go back in. I tried playing custom modules: Antumbra Saga and SNES Reboot.
The first one started pretty alright, a simple task to infiltrate an office and place a box in specific location. The same mission then turned into a dungeon crawl of a magical cave located under said office, in the middle of a city and fighting through rooms of ghouls and spirits. I was hoping for a slow start with more choices about your approach but it didn’t deliver. I’ll be skipping this one for now unfortunately.
SNES Reboot… I’d say it was a similar story, except it doesn’t even pretend to focus on non-combat gameplay. You’ll get “random” encounters on the very first map (technically second, since you start in a building) you travel through and based on the info text at the start of this campaign, fighting is pretty much the main thing in this game.
Not that I expected different considering this is just a remake of the ancient SNES title but I hoped for a little more diversity (dunno, perhaps there’s some later).
So yeah, my return to Dragonfall was a bust. I’ll probably move on to Hong-Kong next since it’s the only one I haven’t played yet. I just wish there was more to look forward to (especially in terms of custom modules). Oh well, not every game can be Skyrim.
Snatched Flight Simulator 2020 in sale. Last time I played FS it was 2000. Back then, I always hopped into a big Airliner, cranked up realism, flicked random switches and could not get the plane to even move. If I started airborne, I just horribly crashed immediately.
So I thought: let’s do this shit again. Cranked up realism to max, but hopped into a Cessna instead. Turns out: it is not that hard in a small plane 😅 (or maybe I’m just not a stupid kid anymore). Granted, I’ve only been flying in good weather and low wind (and with a little bit of sidewind landing starts to get tricky immediately), but I’m satisfied. Only caveat: if you’re flying seriously, you’re looking so much for the instruments all the time, that there’s no time to enjoy the scenery.
After two days I looked how much a pilot’s license costs. Turns out: way to expensive 😅. It’s funny how a license for a boat is like 500€, but flying is 15k ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
I play house flipper 2 nightly, but this week I played a “story game” Indika. It was short and really cool. I loved the music most, but loved everything.
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Not patient this week. Playing Crimson Desert.
I’m really liking it. It’s giving me the same kind of joy Skyrim did when it first came out.
I saw the trailer. I’m down for some sword fighting, horse riding, dragon riding. What throws me off is the train. Why is there a train there?
The game has no identity, it’s literally just stuff the team saw in other popular games thrown in haphazardly. It’s a soup. RDR2 had trains? Chuck it in there boys. Same with the random Zelda sky islands. There is some fun to be had in it I think and it seems to appeal to a certain type of gamer, but I wouldn’t expect the game to make any sense.
I’m also liking it, it’s been the only game I’ve played for the whole week. The start was kind of rough and the controls still have some issues (it’s just weird. Sometimes they feel responsive, other times it feels like I’m having some kind of an input lag despite doing the same action), but overall I’m really enjoying the slow burn of the game. I’m about 40 hours in and I’m still in Hernand (which itself isn’t really that surprising considering how big Hernand is) which is the first area of the 5 big areas of the game. Much like Breath of the Wild I’m so enamored by the exploration I keep getting sidetracked and if the rest of the world keeps sidetracking me as much as Hernand does I don’t know when I’ll finish the main quest (which kind of like in BotW isn’t the main focus of the game).
The puzzles are also a breath of fresh air because they are actual puzzles. I’ve literally had to open a notepad to take notes so I could solve a puzzle. And then there are puzzles where you have a map and you need to find the locations in the world that are on the map but you first have to figure out what location on the world the map is referencing because it’s not entirely 1 to 1 so sometimes I have the puzzle map open on my second screen in case I run into some area that looks like the map.
The combat is my god. I might just thrown my sword down and go full WWE because that shit is funny as fuck. I’m not joking. You can grab enemies and throw them at other enemies. You can clothesline, lariat, suplex, belly flop I don’t even know what else. You can literally fight like a wrestler and it’s just as flashy as you imagine it. The only problem with the combat IMO are the bosses. The bosses are bad. I’ve had I think 4 boss fights and 3 of them were literally just me tanking the hits because for the love of god I couldn’t figure what I was supposed to do. Soulsborne games are close to my heart, I’m not swayed by getting my ass beat as long as I can figure out what I’m supposed to do to not get beat. But when I try literally everything that comes to my mind and nothing works I’m just going to evade what I can and tank the rest and beat through attrition. And that’s not fun. The evasions on boss attacks are also kinda weird. I don’t think I have that poor pacing but sometimes I press dodge at the same time I would always press it and sometimes I don’t get hit, other times I get hit. Hopefully combat gets an extra pass by the developers because they’ve been pretty open to feedback and some obvious grievances have already been fixed.
Overall I’m so ready to play it for the rest of the year, which is probably how long it will take me to be done with the game.
These are basically my feelings as well :)
Definitely going to be playing it for a while!
Abiotic Factor!!
It’s so good!
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I’ve been in a bit of a gaming limbo since I beat my first playthrough of Bloodborne earlier this year. I’ve been trying out and revisiting a bunch of games and nothing seems to stick.
I’ve been returning to genres that I’ve really enjoyed in the past, like survival-horror and detective games, only for them to fall flat. But that’s cool, those genres were kind of the soundtrack to specific moments in my life and right now seems to be the souls-era. While there are a ton souls games out there, my plan has been to just focus on the FromSoftware titles first before I check out the rest. The ones I still have to play are Dark Souls 2, Sekiro, and Armored Core 6, which I guess isn’t really a souls game, but I can’t say no to a FromSoft entry at this point. Technically I still have things to do in Dark Souls 1 (put it down after Ornstein and Smough) and Dark Souls 3 (didn’t complete the dlc, but have since lost my save), but I think I’ll wait a while before I revisit those games.
I also picked up the Devil May Cry games while on sale. I love the og Resident Evil 4 so it should be fun to see how an early iteration of that game evolved into its own thing and spawned a whole series.
I was also impatient and bought some new releases that, while they seem up my alley, aren’t meshing with my current mood. Oh well, live and learn.
I absolutely adore Sekiro but going to it after a different souls game is gonna be tough. It plays very differently from every other souls game, to the point that a lot of folks would consider it to not be a souls game. The combat is just so unique and if you try to play it like a souls game you’re gonna have a bad time. With that being said, it also has my favourite combat system I’ve ever played and once you learn it, it’s so satisfying to play. I would still highly recommend it, but don’t go into it thinking it’ll play like Bloodborne or Elden Ring or something.
How bullet spongey are enemies? One of the reasons I have avoided eldenring is because it looks that every mob has a million HP.
I haven’t found the enemies to be bullet spongey in Elden Ring either as long as you’re sufficiently levelling and upgrading your weapons so I’m not sure I know what you mean.
But in Sekiro you don’t really damage health but rather build a stance meter, which once you fill all the way allow you to deal a death blow, but if you stop attacking or deflecting for more than a moment the meter starts to go back down. You can do health damage but it doesn’t usually make sense to do so.
I was mostly basing it on videos I’ve watched. I haven’t actually played it. I’d kind of consider any fight that lasts more than 10 minutes to be well into bullet sponge territory though.
Having a stance meter instead of healthbars sounds pretty interesting though, I think I’ll check it out.
I’m not sure I’ve had any boss fight last 10 minutes in Elden Ring and I’ve played through the game 20+ times. Unless you’re doing challenge runs, that could obviously take way longer depending on the challenge run. But a normal playthrough? I’d be surprised to see any boss take 10 minutes to kill. One of you would be dead long before then I think.
Have you ever played nuclear throne? That’s kinda my preferred pacing in a game, but there aren’t many. I’d love a soulslike where combat was that fast and frantic, and bosses are really difficult but also die really fast if you play it right.
No, I’ve never even heard of it before. I looked it up, it does look interesting but I think it would be too frantic for me. While I do appreciate a game that is quick, since I don’t really have any time for video games these days, something that requires me to have lightning fast reflexes seems a bit too much for me at this point. On the rare occasion I get to sit down and play a game I want it to be something I don’t have to stress over too much. I happen to be pretty good at souls games so I don’t find them stressful, and otherwise I tend to play slower paced RPGs and stuff.
I’ve actually played a bit of Sekiro before, I only got to Lady Butterfly, but I wasn’t meshing too well with the combat and put the game down. I’ve picked it up and set it back down a few times since, always starting from the beginning, but maybe this go around will be the one where I can see it through to completion. Fingers crossed!
The entirety of Hirata Estate is technically optional, so you could always skip it or save it for later if you find Lady Butterfly for example to be too difficult. Outside of there, how far did you get in the main part of the game?
Ah interesting, I didn’t realize that. And I’m not quite sure how far I got, but the one thing I remember was there were bird guys on the roofs giving me a heck of a time, it was my first time running into them.
Ah, the roof of Ashina Castle. The boss at the end there is sort of described as the brick wall that basically is the “final exam” that determines if you’re ready for the “real game” so-to-speak. I’d personally recommend doing that boss and Lady Butterfly around the same time, but you could do it in either order or avoid LB entirely if you wanted to. I usually reach both bosses before fighting either, then fight them back to back, that’s just the way that makes the most sense to me, but everyone’s different.
Thanks for the tips!
I’ve been getting back into Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 again and am actually going for victories. Because I want to really understand the mechanics I’m just playing with the base ruleset and won a religious victory and am now going for domination.
The problem is that the one more turn mindset is consuming me.
Every time I try a newer Civ title, I end up just going back and doing a Civ IV playthough.
I somehow reached 200 hours in that game in just a few months. Civ 6 is a gem like that.
Is it aweful I turn off Domination victories? (and score victories but I assume many folks do this).
200 hours and I still have to look up how to gain a science victory because it takes sooo longg.
Do whatever floats your boat. I personally dislike diplomatic victory (I once got it accidentally and it was so unsatisfying), so I turned it off.
I’ve had a lot of fun destressing on the way home from finals by playing Rhythm Heaven Megamix on my softmodded 3DS. So much easier than RH Fever. Been very slowly chipping away at that.
Also had fun with Sonic Lost World on 3DS until I got stuck on the green zeti snowman boss. I tried looking up what to do, but I have not even once been able to replicate it. Hate that boss so much more than any other boss in any other game I have played.
Hopefully gonna finish my first playthrough of Mother 3 soon. Just got to the final chapter.
I’ve been hooked on Farm RPG for like 3 months
please tell me which one
https://farmrpg.com/
Final stretch of Final Fantasy XII. Going for the Sky Pirate’s Den in the original NTSC release, and I’m dreading Yiazmat.
Race Driver: GRID
My racing career continues. I’m focusing on this rather than Stunt GP since I played that game quite a lot a year or two ago so there’s not much new to experience there. I’d rather go all in on the title I didn’t spend much time with for now.
I finally decided against skipping 24 Hour Le Mans (took until I bought my own car until I had some fun with it) and played through two so far. Still not my favourite event but it’s not bad. What I did give me more enjoyment however were the open-wheel races - grip on those cars makes it super fun to just zip around the track. I might have to look into some F1 games in the future.
One thing that stands out is something I already mentioned last week - limited content. I don’t need hundreds of tracks but when you start repeating them across regions within the first 18 races (each region consists of 3 tiers made of 6 events) then something is not right. I still like the game and have a great time but it won’t be replacing Colin McRae Rally 04 as my mainstay racing title.
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
I took a few month break after finishing this and Returns back to back and I’m starting to feel ready to go back in. I tried playing custom modules: Antumbra Saga and SNES Reboot.
The first one started pretty alright, a simple task to infiltrate an office and place a box in specific location. The same mission then turned into a dungeon crawl of a magical cave located under said office, in the middle of a city and fighting through rooms of ghouls and spirits. I was hoping for a slow start with more choices about your approach but it didn’t deliver. I’ll be skipping this one for now unfortunately.
SNES Reboot… I’d say it was a similar story, except it doesn’t even pretend to focus on non-combat gameplay. You’ll get “random” encounters on the very first map (technically second, since you start in a building) you travel through and based on the info text at the start of this campaign, fighting is pretty much the main thing in this game.
Not that I expected different considering this is just a remake of the ancient SNES title but I hoped for a little more diversity (dunno, perhaps there’s some later).
So yeah, my return to Dragonfall was a bust. I’ll probably move on to Hong-Kong next since it’s the only one I haven’t played yet. I just wish there was more to look forward to (especially in terms of custom modules). Oh well, not every game can be Skyrim.
Finally bought and am playing BG3. Having a good time.
I picked up TMMT: Splintered Fate during the steam sale and have been going ham on it. That game is a ton of fun, definitely worth picking up on sale.
Rolled up an Occultist in Grim Dawn a few nights ago. Good times, me and my partner finished the game during covid but haven’t played it since then.
Same! Just been tinkering around with commando builds lately. It’s a really solid game
Snatched Flight Simulator 2020 in sale. Last time I played FS it was 2000. Back then, I always hopped into a big Airliner, cranked up realism, flicked random switches and could not get the plane to even move. If I started airborne, I just horribly crashed immediately.
So I thought: let’s do this shit again. Cranked up realism to max, but hopped into a Cessna instead. Turns out: it is not that hard in a small plane 😅 (or maybe I’m just not a stupid kid anymore). Granted, I’ve only been flying in good weather and low wind (and with a little bit of sidewind landing starts to get tricky immediately), but I’m satisfied. Only caveat: if you’re flying seriously, you’re looking so much for the instruments all the time, that there’s no time to enjoy the scenery.
After two days I looked how much a pilot’s license costs. Turns out: way to expensive 😅. It’s funny how a license for a boat is like 500€, but flying is 15k ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
In the US you can fly an ultralight aircraft without a licence IIRC
You can even build your own in the US. I know, because I checked some 15 years ago, because I wanted to build one with my flatmates 😅
But ain’t nobody going to the US these days.
I play house flipper 2 nightly, but this week I played a “story game” Indika. It was short and really cool. I loved the music most, but loved everything.