Batman Arkham knight
Great game, excellent series. I prefer City and Asylum but Knight is still really good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_Ebb
Such a fun game. Its dnd like.
…after work today it will be deltarune. Looking forward to that.
Yup I’m not a patient gamer this week, hopping away from Mina the Hollower to Deltarune.
Oh heck yes is the next chapter out? Been waiting what feels like forever for that.
I’ve had a couple of weeks where I’ve been in a real gaming rut. I guess part of it is the World Cup taking up a lot of time and brain space, but it’s not solely that. I’ve just not really been able to get into any game at all recently. I’ve played a couple of hours of Lost Odyssey but it hasn’t hooked me. I also feel a bit fuzzy in the head and lacking the focus to commit to a hundred+ hour JRPG. I played a bit of Splinter Cell: Double Agent on Xemu Xbox emulator but I’m not quite feeling it. I don’t know what I’m in the mood for, maybe I’m just not in a gaming mood at all. But… I feel like there is a hole in my life I want to fill with a game, I just can’t find the one to fit the shape of it. Eh, I guess I’ll just keep scrolling my backlog, I’m bound to find something eventually…
I never got to finish Randal’s Monday when it launched, so picking it up now again after many years.
I don’t know. I have a vague state of being this week, so I really don’t know.
Playing some arcade-inspired modern-retro stuff and enjoying it. Not sure which I like the most of my pickups, but as a recommendation Freddy Farmer has an OK amount of content and challenge for a game I paid €2 for.
I just finished Avowed yesterday. I give it an OK 6/10.
Visuals and exploration were top notch. The music was fairly forgettable. The story was OK… IMO it had too much speaking in metaphors to be coherent at times. One of the companions was cool, I didn’t really like the others. The ending of the story was very abrupt and followed by a huge dump of written exposition.
The combat felt pretty good (I played wand wizard) but got old as the game went on as there weren’t many new abilities or gear from mid to late game. The gear upgrade system was survival game level shit… open chests for 60hrs to get mats to upgrade. The gear itself was mostly pretty boring stat boosts. Unique gear is just better making all other gear useless. The uniques don’t have particularly interesting effects.
I’ll remember the world and the general world building fondly but not much else. Hopefully if there is an Avowed 2, the gear and ability systems will get more fleshed out. If you’re gonna try it out, I think it’s worth it on sale.
Next up is Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time. So far i’ve spent 1.5hrs on character creation and getting the game to look good with a decent framerate with the help of OptiScaler.
I gave this game a try too and found it to be pretty bland.
Luigis Mansion
I finally got around to 3ds.hack.guide and started playing LM on the 2DS. The controls take a bit if getting used to but it’s still a great game.
Balatro
I finished my first run yesterday but still have lots to discover :)
Balatro
I finished my first run yesterday but still have lots to discover :)
Say goodbye to your life! I definitely have not put over 300 hours into it 🙄.
I played Fable: Anniversary last week and finished a good playthrough. I started Fable 2 a few days ago, and I just finished the Spire. Once I finish 2, I’ll start a new game on Fable 3, which I still kinda love even though it was incredibly rushed and you can definitely tell while playing.
I finally got Cyberpunk since it was on sale and been playing it on my Steam Deck. I’m only a few hours in but I’m blown away by how pretty and performant the game is.
I typically scoff at AAAs, especially after CP77’s initial release, but they seem to have smoothed out quite a lot and filled out missing chunks. I can see myself sinking the next few weeks of free time into this one.
Great all the way through - enjoy the ride.
It’s a great game, still not perfect but I really enjoyed it. Cool modding scene too, if you’re into that sort of thing.
If I get into modding that’s another 30+ hours just on installation but could be a fun rabbit hole! Do you have any recommendations for mods?
Oh, I haven’t been tapped in in a while, I did my heavily modded playthrough pre 2.0 and I remember some of the mods broke with the DLC and I’m not sure they got updated. I know that there is a very popular mod collection called Welcome To Night City you could use as a starting point (or just use wholesale).
Recently some of the old classic mods that broke in 2.0 have started to get new updated versions (the original modder left), like Reinforcements System, SynthDose and Drone Companions.
I like using PED Damage Overhaul, but you need to tweak the default settings (check the pinned comments).
In the pinned comments of HARDCORE22v2 there is a list of mods and settings/tweaks of them by the user ezzio2030 for a more “hardcore” experience that I used pretty much all of. Makes for a more fun game with stuff like limited ammo, ammo refill in vehicle trunk and much more.
Hopefully that’s a starting point?
Exactly this, right up until it got too hot for my sweaty hands to hold the steam deck. Really impressed with it so far though
still going with sto. I like finding little tweaks to my build. ugh though some new ground things are brutal. want to do champs more but they changed stuff and im going to have to do a lot of respeccing and deciding how it goes into my characters story.
I’m rollicking through Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Die Nazis, die.
$5 on steam, works on Linux.
I’m playing Heretic. Because it’s always installed and it’s a quick way to have fun and unplug the mind.
I fired up Stellaris and I’m kinda annoyed at how much has changed since I last played. Like you don’t even have the FTL options any more. I specifically wanted to use the gates this time and was confused as to when and where you’re asked to choose that stuff; looked it up and found it’s not a thing anymore. Along with a few other fun things I loved about the game at launch.
I don’t suppose anyone knows of any mods that return some of those things back to how the game was when it first came out, do they?
Factorio again. Space Exploration mod is fun and grindy
