Hey everyone. Hope all of your weekends have been refreshing and relaxing. This week I’ve been at it with some Stronghold Crusader remastered and Balatro. Hope you all have a good week!
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.
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 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.
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).
I kind of did that with the 2D metroid games, but I played remakes instead of the original versions. There’s only 4 of them so it wasn’t that hard
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.
Currently playing through the Tomb Raider Reboot series (the 2013 one not the remasters of the old ones)
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 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.
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 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)Technically I played all Starcraft games 1 and 2 + expansions but that wasnt a planned effort.
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.
Valheim, and getting back into Hades 1 that I had given up on last time
I’m 2/3rds of the way through the Final Fantasy Tactics remake. The game is a lot easier than I remember it being when I played it as a kid, but that’s because I’m actually smart enough to try and use synergies now and to switch my gear/skills to fit the battle instead of forcing my favorite classes into every battle. The music is super nostalgic, the added voice acting is good, the quality of life features like a fast forward button are very welcome. Overall, I’d say it’s worth a revisit if you haven’t played it in over a decade (or two) like I have. But if someone recently finished the original or War of the Lions, it’s not significantly different enough to be worth playing again just for the few extra lines of dialogue they added to the unique characters like Agrias. Even missing the War of the Lions content though, I do think it’s the definitive version of the game. A modded and emulated War of the Lions with the lag fix is a close second since you can also use fast forward, save states, mods to make JP Up baseline for everyone instead of feeling pressured to always have it equipped. I’m planning to 100% all the achievements just for fun.
I reinstalled Age of Mythology Retold a few weeks ago to play the Japanese campaign and I’m now working my way through Gauntlet mode.
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.
how many acts are there ? how long did it take till the third act ? Im asking the gameplay time.
I would assume 3 acts. I’m moving pretty fast through it though. I hit most of the major side quests, probably missing a few. I started playing on Friday.
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
Im still playin age of mythology retold, its pretty good, i finished the first part of the story mode of gauntlet mode, im going to play the other a bit so i unlock more blessing before i try the other gauntlet mode.
Im mostly playing loki since thats the god i remember how to play but im trying to play japanese and chinse too since they are really fun, i think i got a good take on chinese since they are an eco/defencive civ but im still learning japanese a bit
I really liked the Japanese expansion. You can have virtually unlimited heroes like the Atlanteans with some great myth units. The siege weapons aren’t so great, but the Asura more than make up for it. Having a hero that can both heal and do decent range damage is also handy, and makes dealing with titans very easy.
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.
Waiting for Crusader Kings 3 All Under Heaven (Asia Expansion for CK3) to drop on tuesday.
In the meantime im gonna read through Absolute Wonderwoman. I already finished Absolute Batman and Absolute Superman and enjoyed them both quite a bit.
Absolute Wonder Woman is incredible, and still going strong. I’m about as far from an art lover as possible, but I legitimately want jumbo framed prints of some of the pages from Absolute Martian Manhunter. Something about the art in this book speaks to me in a way I can’t describe other than “wow this is gorgeous”. I don’t think the story is nearly as good, mostly because its a been a very slow burn so far, but the books themselves are incredibly well done. Green Lantern is, well, something. I honestly have no idea where they’re going with the story and the characters at this point. Flash is a little less abstract and the art is pretty good. All of them are worth a read if you’re sailing the seas. I wouldn’t buy Flash or GL.
Highly recommend Absolute Martian Manhunter, it’s really beautiful and interesting
Ditto, that and Wonder Woman are my favorites of the line.
Absolute Wonder Woman is the best of the line, followed closely by Absolute Martian Manhunter. Hayden Sherman is killing it with the pencils on WW (also, check out Batman: Dark Patterns, another book he’s does art for and is a phenomenal, 90s-esque Batman before the ‘Batgod’ bullshit). Absolute Martian Manhunter is seriously amazing if you haven’t tried reading it, the story is a lot different from other cape books (more psychologiclal horror/thriller) annd Rodriguez’s art is right up there with Shermn in terms of shear quality and creativeness. I love Absolute Superman (supes is my fav character and the take on Absolute is a great one) and Absolute Batman is just so ridiculous it’s good (in a 90s kind of EXTREME way) but not my favorite. Haven’t checked out Green Lantern and only read an issue of the Flash which didn’t really hook me, I might visit them sometime in the future but I don’t have much interest in eiher.
after you finish wonder woman read absolute evil, its 1 issue and connects all 3
Switch pad finally got stick drift. Started hades 2 but the games kind of unplayable because of it.
Replacement switch sticks are pretty cheap and the swap is not that hard
I’ll look into it then
