Of newer games i am considering super mario bros wonder or tears of the kingdom. But i also never played metroid prime (had it on gc but hated the controls) - just not sure if i want to play it on wii (i liked corruption controls) or the remastered version om switch.
Ill probably also start a ds game i never got to play in parallel.
Maybe uncharted on ps3? Never playes those. As you can see i have not yet decided :p
If you have a pc/steamdeck there is a metroid prime hack pack that gives you more standard joystick controls for all three games. I’d recommend playing that way.
How do you get that setup? My steamed is mostly stock now.
I think I used this guide https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/u8748j/metroid_prime_trilogy_primehack_a_steam_deck_guide/
Basically you can install emudeck (emulation package) through the desktop mode and through that install primehack. I think it automatically adds them to your steam library, but could be mistaken.
Wonder is alright, but felt really short to me. TOTK on the other hand is an amazing mess that really hurts if you loved BOTW. Pick your poison with those two, I guess. Wonder does have a “challenge road” at the end, but it didn’t feel great either.
Yeah, both are okay in my book. Wonder spent to much time on the “wonders” that the platforming is just okay. And TOTK is just a more grindy BOTW.
Pokémon Crystal and Red Ded Redemption 2
Two of my all-time favourite games. Both are probably top 10
You’re in for a treat. Both great games
Continuing Metaphor: ReFantazio. It’s the most consistently polished game Atlus made (that I played) in years, though maybe SMT VV has a chance once I get to it. The only ones that come to mind are Persona 5/Royal (however much I prefer P3 and P4), and Etrian Odyssey V. Both of which had longer development times compared to their series, who knew?
My only complaint is that it doesn’t have any 10/10 aspect that I’d love, most of my favourite games are somewhat flawed anyway, as long as they have that special aspect that clicks. But then, Persona 3 had nothing like that until the endgame, so there’s still time for it to surprise me.
All of my favourite games, artists, movies, and anything else I’m interested in all have something that I don’t consider 10/10 so I definitely see what you mean
I think for me this weirdness is most obvious with books, the best novels that change you, stick in your memory and make you see the world differently are never 10/10s because that would mean they simply fulfilled the expectations you had before picking the book up.
A 10/10 novel is still awesome but it is more of a comfort food experience which while wonderful isn’t the same kind of experience.
I feel that way about music. My favourite artists all have songs I don’t care for, meanwhile artists where I like every song of theirs are never my absolute favourites
To clarify, I meant that I’m fine with multiple things not being 10/10 (I was thinking of Metaphor as a 9/10 across the board, assuming a 10/10 is something I say about things very rarely) as long as some one thing is, like just the ending or just gameplay. I’m not consisent with that though anyways, I thought that Dark Souls 1 really does have 10/10 world exploration early on, yet I don’t like it because of a lot of other problems. It’s all really just gut feelings in the end, it was the best way I could explain why Metaphor feels like it’s missing something.
Starting with? No clue.
I am hopeful that I might finally get around playing some scifi stuff that’s been collecting dust on my digital shelves, like Sword of the Stars and Between the Stars (it finally left early access).
I might also dabble with PS2 games, I bought a damn console, put a nice HDD on it, all back in late 2023, and powered it on once in 2024.
I’ll be happy if I play 10% of what I intend to 😞
Im going deep into beyond all reason, warzone 2100 and speed dreams
Beyond All Reason is the kind of rts that makes you realize chasing after Starcraft style gameplay (when Total Annihilation presented a totally different and arguably more approachable experience with shift clicking and less obsessive micro) was a fatal error for the broad popularity of the rts genre.
A competitive rts hyper focused on apm and units that move in artificial and uninteresting ways (especially airplanes) was never going to inspire a new generation of rts fans with diverse interests and brain types to dip their toes in instead of leading to a narrower and more constrained vision of what rts games are and what kind of brain types can suceed at them.
BAR is both a living breathing cryptid (descended from the ancient TA itself) that somehow survived the great RTS extinction event and also paradoxically a vision of the future of RTS games.
I played Alan Wake 2 last winter on my Steam Deck, fearing I would get spoilers before I build my PC. Now that I have built it, I will proceed with The Final Draft and the DLCs.
how did you manage to play it on deck?
Heroic Games Launcher and added to the Game Mode. Native resolution with FSR2 set to Quality preset. Most of the game ran at 25-30 FPS. Frankly, the game is quite slow-paced. Only problematic spots were the first boss fight in the forest during rain - >!Nightingale!<, and the final shootout near the end of the game - >!Andersons’ song!<, where it dipped to 17-18 FPS.
your spoiler tags seem not to be working
Interesting. I am using Sync and it works. Deleted them, just in case.
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Psychonauts 2. I picked it up for 80% off during the autumn Steam sale and just getting around to playing it.
I also picked up It Takes Two and have been playing that with my wife.
Continuing my replay of Red Dead Redemption 1, probably followed by 2. Probably going to finish my replay of Subnautica. Not sure what new games will slot in after that.
Having never played rdr1, do you still recommend it, knowing I played through rdr2 already? I’m wondering if I should put it on my wishlist to pick it up at a sale or not even bother.
Started my year off with a new computer and a portal speed run! Sub 27 mins with no quick saving was a solid start to the year.
Actually, playing portal on max graphics and getting 60fps was the real solid start 😅
Oh man I loved the Portal games. I’m assuming sub-27 is good, I’m pretty sure my shortest time is like 4 hours or something
It’s ok world record is something like 14 iirc, but lowest I’ve been able to score was sub 23
That still sounds pretty good to me. I’ve never been good at speedrunning, other than one particular level in Hitman 2016
Re-re-replaying Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
Dune Imperium: Uprising. Gotten my whole group into it. Might organise a tournament for the heck of it.
Uprising is so much better than the base game but I don’t think they have a digital version of it yet sadly
I believe there’s a Tabletop Simulator version out, but I don’t have TTS so can’t say for sure.
I’m still trying to finish 2016 Doom, but life has been literally Deck blocking me for the past few months, so it’s been slow going.
If i finish that game in the next few weeks, I’m going to go back and give Doom Eternal another second chance again once more. I’ve given it a try a number of times, just like I gave 2016 Doom a try numerous times with no luck. However, this year Doom suddenly clicked for me, and I’ve been playing it every chance I get (which is not much or often), so I’m thinking that may translate into finding a bit of love for Doom Eternal, even though I know they are very different games with different approaches to game play.
If that doesn’t work out, then I’ve got a few games that I’ve technically “started”, but I haven’t gotten very far in. So, if and when I decide to pick them up again, I’ll either restart them because I’m not far along enough for it to make much difference OR I’ll continue playing but it’s so early in the game that it’s basically the same as starting from the beginning.
One game I’ve just recently been dabbling with is a slightly older game called “Halls of Torment”. Similarish in game play to one of my other favorites “Vampire Survivors”, it seems like a lot of fun. I’ve also recently purchased the Resident Evil 4 remake and it’s a nice dose of nostalgia even though I much prefer the wiimote controls of the Wii version that I first played it on.
I’m going to be honest, Hades II hasn’t really clicked for me yet and I’ve given it lots of tries. The first game had me hooked almost instantly, so I was hoping to find that same connection with the sequel. So far, it’s not happened. Having said that, I saw that there’s a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game in a similar style as Hades, so I got that to play. So far I like the game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Splintered Fate, but I’m not far enough along in it to have a strong opinion.
And my trusty, reliable back-up plan if nothing else works out? Castlevania Dominus Collection. The Castlevania “Metroidvanias” are my favorites. I’ve played all of these DS games on the original hardware, but it’s been so long since I played them, it will be like starting anew. Except in this case, there will be no question as to whether I will enjoy the game or not since I played them all before and loved them.
Doom is wonderful. Eternal isnt more doom 2016 though, which is fine it’s a sequel. It’s the more intensive parts of doom that are amped up and forced upon you.
In 2016 I rocked the pistol and machinegun and barely used any other weapon and I was happg
In eternal, you either use every ability constantly and swap guns constantly or you die. It’s a big loop and not cycling every ability and gun makes you lose ammo or health or whatever. It’s a very jarring adjustment
Sounds like Eternal might not be my thing, but who knows. One of the reasons I choose Doom over Eternal initially is because Doom lets me take my time and explore when I want to. Eternal seemed like it was go, go, go cortisol, cortisol, cortisol. And that was well above my limit.
I’m working my way through Valheim. I started last year and then stopped shortly before fighting the second boss and never got around to picking it back up. Now I’m back at it and working through the third biome. I still have a long way to go and hope that I can continue to sink at least 100 more hours into it.
I also got Metro 2033 and Last Light on the Steam winter sale. I started Metro Exodus a few years ago and also stopped pretty early, so I’m hoping that this time I can stick with it through the whole series. I also got Grim Dawn and it doesn’t play great on the Deck, but hopefully I’ll be able to get used to it with a bit of effort.
Outside of those, Wildermyth and Brotato are my main chillout games and I’m pretty sure they’ll also get 50-100 hours each this year.
Skyrim.
My goal is to play through the entire series this year.
Have fun. It’s a great series
I honestly have no idea. I did my semi-annual playthrough of Skyrim (as a wizard for the first time rather than giving up shortly in) and finished everything I meant to last week. I have to look at my steam library, I suppose
Magic playthroughs can be fun, I’d rather be a mage in Oblivion though. I wish they kept the spells they removed from both Oblivion and Morrowind, though I guess modding can probably bring those back. I’ve never done a modded mage before
