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This week I am hopelessly addicted to starfield. I have not been this into a game for a long time…
Lies of P. So far so good on boss #3
Starfield, Fae Farm, and Icarus
Playing:
Remnant 2, really fun!
Doorkickers 2, a new update came out with new missions I have to conquer!
Hell Let Loose got better again with the latest update, so I play that if I have the energy to shout orders into my mic (because no-one wants to be squad leader).
Sons of the Forest is coming along nicely.Stopped playing:
Gave up on Starfield. What a mediocre janky game with generic story. Frustrating and time consuming menus. It’s not massive at all. It’s just big empty rooms behind loading screens. There has been like 5% technical development since Fallout 4. They didn’t even bother to fix the mannequin NPC faces for their game “that has been in development for 12 years” or whatever.
I cannot fathom how some people swallow that stuff and goes “10/10 game of the century” and pay 80€ for it.
Sorry for rant.Looking forward to:
Cyberpunk 2.0
The infantry combat overhaul for Squad.I absolutely love your description of the game being ‘big empty rooms’. I think I’ve come to the same conclusion in the last 24 hours. The space stuff and the on-planet stuff feels disjointed and unconnected. The way you traverse the universe is incredibly underwhelming (so many menu’s) and the actual game design just feels so 2008.
Trackmania. It’s always what I go to when I run out of things to play
Woah, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Are they still developing new games, or are you just playing the classics?
A new one was released in 2020 on epic games and I think it’s on steam now. It’s a remake / remaster the TMNF/TMUF games. It’s just called Trackmania but most people call it TM2020. It’s a subscription based game with tiers, which sounds shitty but the prices are pretty normal. Like the best tier is $60 for 3 years and that’s how long most people play $60 games anyway…
anyway I’m currently mostly playing TMUF.
Is there enough people to play against to make it worthwhile? Over just playing one of the older games I still own on Steam…
Player numbers aren’t that great daily on steam (considering most owners bought the epic version anyway), but all of the developer tracks plus most of the community tracks have leaderboards in the tens of thousands, even the hundreds of thousands for the seasonal track releases. There’s also a daily community highlight where players can race and compete on a community track hand-picked by Nadeo staff, so that really bolsters numbers on community tracks.
Multiplayer is kinda dead compared to the older games, but I also don’t think a lot of players play the game for the multiplayer anyway. There are even community playlists of tracks that you can play in singleplayer that go up to I think 50 tracks in size. So you can just pick one of those and play through a bunch without ever having to connect to a community server.
This week I played Euro Truck Simulator 2 after I don’t know how long. I posted about it on my Mastodon server and there’s a chance that this evening I’ll play it multiplayer with three complete strangers.
Been playing brawlhalla with friends a lot, just started a new c-dda run aswell
Apart from my oxygen that is Factorio, I play Heretic’s Fork. The game desperately needs a manual, but I’m enjoying it.
After more than thirty hours and hours of discussions with a friend who knows Pathfinder and stuff, I’ve finally beaten the first boss of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous!
My character finally created, I got through the intro cutscene thingle, threw a dart, saved, and am in bed waiting to become asleep 🤣
(The joke is that the character creation is so interesting, involved, and/or difficult that it counts as a boss fight just choosing a character class to start with 😅 Also yes it did actually according to Steam take me nearly forty hours to defeat said boss 😅)
Good Ness, I was going to express concern for you for spending that much time on character creation, but then I watched the Mortismal new player guide and…that looks overwhelming in a possibly good way.
I’ve been replaying Cyberpunk 2077, in preparation for Phantom Liberty coming out shortly. The storytelling in this game is so damn good.
Why not wait and play it with the base game patch as well?
Thats what Im doing. I heard the game patch was basically going to make it a whole new experience, and Im only 1hr in, so Im just going to start over after it drops on the 21st.
I finished the story mode for Mortal Kombat 1, and it’s another fun NRS story mode, but this one might be their weakest. The opening takes a while to get going, and some of the dialogue can be overly stiff, plus Megan Fox’s delivery sucks on every other line. Still, it does pick up, and it’s got some ideas. Unfortunately, I’m now left grinding the Invasions mode that I’m not really enjoying so that I can unlock the last few kameo fighters, because 5 of them are still locked when you finish the story mode. I’m not sure yet if MK1 is going to be a regular in my rotation of games I compete in, but it’s got a decent shot.
Once I’ve had my fill of that, it’s back to Baldur’s Gate 3, where I’m finally in Act 3. I’ve still yet to arrive in Baldur’s Gate in the game called Baldur’s Gate.
Still playing Final Fantasy XVI since release.
Getting to the end of it and I’ve really loved it. The Eikon abilities have really flourished throughout the game starting as supplemental to combat to being a cornerstone of combat.
Other than that, the story has been great as well as the subplots. I can’t express how happy I am with this game after the disaster of Final Fantasy XV and the all of the FFVII stuff.
Been on that F-Zero 99 grind. Got myself up to A- rank, so I’m not doing too badly. :)
Final Fantasy IX Remaster
- I’ve never finished FF9 on PS1 (my optical drive died), then I got distracted playing FF9 remaster a few years earlier. Finally decided to stream the game with a guide
- The battle is slow, even with fast forward, the animation seems to be slower than FF8 or FF7
- The fast forward in this remaster is not implemented as good as FF8 remaster’s.
- It’s only either 1x or 4x speed
- If you started the fast forward and forgot to turn it off before a cutscene, then the cutscene will play at 4x without any way to reset the speed.
- Despite all that, I am enjoying the game, characters are likable. I’m currently at Disc 2, after the Clerya section
Resident Evil Remake
- Again, I’m following a guide to get unlimited rocket launcher. I really dislike that 3 hour time limit. Or maybe I just really dislike time limit in games.
- I’m not into survival horror, but I enjoy the shooting / action part of Resident Evil
- So far, not enjoying it, since I’m just kiting zombies, skipping cutscenes, etc. My aim is to get unlimited ammo, then finally play both Chris and Jill sections without the ammo, and in some ways, inventory constraints.
Since Blasphemous II came out, I decided to give the first game of the two a try, and I’m amazed. For me, this is as good as a hollow Knight in terms of the map size, exploration, combat, music, everything. It’s phenomenal. The odd art style put me off at first, but it was unfounded. The game is awesome. If you’re on the fence about it like I was, take this as your sign that it’s a good metroidvania. Your mileage may vary, but I don’t usually give annoying or tedious games the light of day.
still playing starfield. and some backyard baseball sometimes when i get the urge. occasional fortnite with buddies
