Flipping between Tomb Raider Chronicles and Spiderman 2.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 :)
A different kind of patience - I’m torn between riding out the RAM apocalypse and upgrading my PC now. I don’t have FOMO for many things, but I kinda want a faster beefier PC.
I know the struggle!
Need for Speed Underground 2, the old PC edition with widescreen fix patches using Wine.
I have half an idea of going back and replaying Underground 2 and Most Wanted (2005) some day but with mods. I think both have RTX Remix mods by now? Regardless, great games.
I started playing Transformers Earthspark Expedition this week. Its not a fancy game but its been pretty fun. Its maybe a ten hour game though to 100%.
NullpoMino so I could prepare once I acquired Tetris The Grandmaster - Absolute Eye
I got my fill of Tokkyuu Shirei - Solbrain for now so I’m back to jumping between multiple other titles on my Deck at the moment.
The main focus is the return of my Ridge Racer fixation. I’m back to playing Ridge Racer 2 (PSP one) but I also tried Ridge Racer Type 4 and Ridge Racer 7. RRT4 still holds up rather well, it feels good to play and the presentation is top notch (especially its fantastic intro). Can’t say I like it more than RR2 (PSP) however a big part of that is the fact that the latter is simply a more complete package due to its content.
Can’t say much about RR7 as I only tried 2 races so far to see how it’ll run emulated. It runs but I’ve got some issues with RPCS3 not using all the power on my desktop which affects the performance. I’ll have to play it on my Steam Deck instead, I guess.The second series I’m playing right now is The Legend of Linkle: Breath of the Wild (BotW, just modded). I played it about a year or so ago but didn’t really feel it at the time and dropped it for other stuff. I now decided to start from scratch and with refreshed attitude instead. I’m having a bit more fun and feel less pressure to progress this time so there’s a chance I’ll be able to finish it - we’ll see how it goes. At the very least, I’d love a proper Zelda game with Linkle as a protagonist. Heck, I’d settle for a decent knockoff honestly.
Just finished Silent Hill 2 Remake. Really enjoyed it. Time slowed down as I played it, the game isn’t that scary coming from games like RE7, but the atmosphere and the trauma stories are really something. Medium from Bloober was similar in that way. The gameplay was fun too, never overstayed its welcome.
I feel they did creepy rooms and underworld better than Alan Wake 2 did it. Not sure if it’s fair to compare them, but parts of it made me feel how AW2 didn’t go far enough in some of its sequences.
UE5 sucks though. Lots of noisy and shimmery graphics and fps at times dips to literal slideshow on PS5.
As a big fan of the OG Silent Hill 2, I was very apprehensive about the remake, but damn, Bloober nailed it! They really understood the original game and expanded on it exceptionally well. Especially compared to the recent Return to Silent Hill movie. Godawful and an insult to the game!
I’m very interested to see how they handle the Silent Hill 1 Remake. That one needs a LOT more work done to make it playable nowadays!
I got sidetracked this last week. The plan was twofold: finish Chrono Ark (first ending) and finish Ninja Gaiden 4 to get ready for the DLC that dropped a day ago.
Instead I got completely hooked on Rise of the Ronin. It’s been a hot minute since I played some Open World Slop and it is hitting me just right. With all the shit going on right now it’s been pleasant to have some mind numbing collect-a-thon gameplay, at least thus far.
The comparisons to Ghost of Tsushima are very natural to make, but honestly I’m personally preferring Ronin. GoT wins in graphics and presentation, but the combat in Ronin is a lot more fun and deep. Both use stance switching in a sort of rock-paper-scissors system, but Ronin has a lot more skill expression given that the stance relationships only matter defensively. You counter the enemy stance while parrying, but you’re free to use whatever when going on the offensive. I find this much more satisfying than the GoT system of “pick the right stance and win”, and Ronin also has a lot more active skills to use, especially when you start chaining stance and weapon switching mid combat.
In terms of writing I am still fairly early in the story, but I like the use of authentic history and real historical characters and one thing again where I prefer Ronin over GoT is that there is a bit more humour, levity and charm to the characters. GoT is fine with its writing but everything is so serious and dour all the time and delivered in an almost monotone way that it just wore me out over the playthrough.
If you’re in the mood for more open-world Japan, I liked Ghost of Yotei a lot. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is okay as well if you like the Ubisoft formula, but YMMV.
Well, probably will need a bit of a break after this one. I get fatigued if I play too many of these in a row, same with Soulslikes.
How much better is Yotei to Tsushima, or is it just more of the same? I thought Tsushima was okay but I’m less high on it than most people. Especially the writing wore me down with the constant dour monotone delivery and serious tone. It was also too long for how little variety it had in both writing and quest design.
I enjoyed Yotei more, but it’s similar enough that you’ll probably want a break. I definitely liked the fact that there wasn’t a Debbie Downer yelling at you for being dishonorable all the time. That got annoying really fast!
I just found Voxel Eras
Stellaris. I somehow ended up buying all the DLCs I was missing, and now all other games have been put on hold.
I’ve been playing Stardew while I lay on the kids floor waiting for them to fall asleep.
I just started Cubivore. It’s fascinatingly weird, deceptively simple at first, but I feel like there’s some complexity growing beneath the surface.
You start as a weird little cubic pig, and you have this one square flap coming off the cube on a hinge that helps you move around, and a mouth. So you go around eating everything smaller than you. And the things your size you can take, you rip their meat flaps off (phrasing) and eat them to mutate. When you kill a boss, you get better meat that unlocks big abilities, and your pig gets to mate and die. Then you start playing as pig’s offspring, who now has an extra flap and more ways to mutate which put those flaps in configurations that make you better at running, evading, fighting, or defense.
Also your pig does a lot of oddly philosophical ruminating between areas.
No Man’s Sky. They recently released a new update where we’re garbage collectors. The sub reddit 50/50 either loved or hated it. Got me interested enough to get back to it.
I’ve been meaning to play silent slayer for a while and i finally gave it a shot this week! It’s a VR game where you have to kill vampires in their sleep by disarming magic barriers around their coffins and silently delivering the death blow. I’ve seen reviews saying their hands where too shaky and couldn’t progress but i didn’t have that issue at all. I did have a bit of an issue when my controller’s tracking would drift and snap back in place at the worst moments but i don’t think i died from that. It was a short but very fun experience! Just challenging enough that it made me lock in but was smooth sailing most of the time as i took my time to work steadily and with precision.
