Just installed and tried out Echoes of the End. After having played extremely story driven titles - like the two Horizon games - I just couldn’t learn to love this one. Which is weird, since I LOVED Nier:Automata, for instance.
On another note, this week, I also installed and beat three times, MiSide. I’m absolutely in love. What is wrong with me. 🤣
Not me, but over the weekend a buddy of mine asked me which Zelda is best to play all the way through. He’s never played a Zelda game before. So he’s emulating Ocarina of Time on Steam Deck and I’m following his progress through it.
He’s committed himself to not looking anything up, though he’s allowing himself to ask me for hints which I’m gladly giving. I feel like the Nintendo Power Line guy.
He keeps me updated with these little gems every now and then like “this owl is really annoying” and “fuck Mido, all my homies hate Mido” which I’m really appreciating.
I’m playing StarRupture. I’m at 80 hrs now. I want them to not show hours played on the save file. It’s like telling me I’m playing too much. But the factory needs to grow!
How are you liking Mouse PI? I haven’t bought it yet as I just bought a couple of games recently and need to mind my backlog, but it looks really good.
I’ve been really enjoying the game. Love the dialouge and references the game makes. The gameplay is great if youre into boomer shooters. The gun play has some kick to it depending on which weapon you’re using. And has a lot of cheese.
This week i played EXD - extra dimentional. It’s a new VR game about a megazon worker that falls into a portal and needs to save that world while and get back to his daughter. It was really good and i’m looking forward to the next episodes or whatever they end up doing to continue the story.
I’m back to my semi-regular Division grind. I was thinking about the game due to the recent, time limited, addition of the realism mode (no gear levels or bullet-spongy enemies, limited ammo etc) but couldn’t join in at the time because I forgot how to make Ubisoft Connect work on Linux. I finally figured it out again (use GE-Proton-9.27 and set Windows to 10, otherwise it won’t launch for me) and I also managed to snatch the latest DLC for less about 55% off so I decided to jump back in.
I’m not done with the DLC yet so there isn’t much I can say about it other than “it’s more TD2”, even if in smaller package. Some missions are better than others in terms of design and how they fit my game style so things tend to alternate between “this is cool” and “I’m in pain, help”. One thing that really caught me off guard however was when a mission finale turned into a desperate defence section - the surprising part wasn’t the change itself but the fact that this short part managed to actually make me feel like the situation really was as dire as the story wanted you to think.
It’s an excitement and engagement that doesn’t really happen often as writing and set pieces in TD2 tend to fall flat for me for the most part. It was a nice change and I hope there’ll be more moments like this in the future.
Now if only devs would let us replay all of the past manhunts in full instead of in their shortened version, that would be nice. I’m still missing part of the story after taking a break when they jumped the shark with Keener’s “death” during Warlords of New York and I’d love to know what’s going on.
Edit: Welp, yesterday’s updated broke Easy Anti-Cheat for me and now I can’t even launch the game. This sucks.
Yakuza 0
I’d like to finish this game some day. I’ve been on my first playthrough for 7 years now. I’ve been on THE SAME CHAPTER for 7 years now. Granted, most of this time was me not playing the game but still - I have saves from multiple years, all stuck on chapter 7. Why is it all sevens?!
Alright, I came back to the game with the plan to finally finish it so how did it go? Well, I started the game and went back to spending most of my time on the hostess club mini-game. This playthrough might take another 7 years to finish at this rate…
“Patient Gamers” qualified, but what a game. I actually had to break out a notebook to take notes. Seriously worth a try if you like slow/puzzle games.
Was my GOTY last year by a mile (and yes I also played E33). Absolutely incredible game, and also a super underrated but phenomenal OST, Trigg & Gusset really killed it. Great showcase of the bass clarinet.
Physical notes are absolutely vital, I ended the game with like 50 pages of notes and hundreds of screenshots!
Football Manager 26 was free on Steam this past weekend so my current playthroughs of other games got derailed as I lost a good couple of days to it, fully feeling the addiction seeping in again. I would still recommend FM 2024 over it all things told, but I have to admit the new tactics engine in 26 allowing for different formations in and out of possession is both realistic and a lot of fun to play with.
Otherwise before and after the weekend it’s been more of Death Howl. I’m having a good time with it so far. The art is absolutely beautiful, a gorgeous minimalistic but expressive pixel art in a very distinctive muted color palette. I have some complaints here and there with the gameplay but mechanically the turn based Soulslike grid-based strategy deckbuilder genre soup is a nice mix and the combat is very challenging but doable. I’m constantly just about scraping by between bonfires. On the deckbuilding side it’s not a game that puts a premium on creativity so far, and instead it seems more constructed like a series of small puzzles. Each zone has its own set of cards and its own set of encounters and it’s up to you to find the “correct” deck and approach for each encounter.
The story has been pretty mediocre so far, which is unfortunate. It’s ostensibly framed as this Orpheus tale of a mother going into the spirit world to rescue her child from death, but it’s very obviously actually a tale of a mother’s journey towards accepting the death of her child, with each zone representing one stage of grief. Maybe it hits different if you don’t pick this up right away, but me personally I’m mostly drumming my fingers as the story unfolds, waiting for the penny to drop for the protagonist.
It’s not really been story heavy though in fairness, so the majority of playtime is spent in battles, and those are still fun.
Honestly for me, while I don’t like the UI and agree that it’s not good I could definitely get used to it. What irks me is feature removal. I miss getting more detailed stats during and after matches so much. Heatmaps, pass maps, touch maps, dribble visualisations, average positions, shot maps… All gone.
Also being unable to do much with your reserve and U18 teams. I don’t think you can even see their position in their respective leagues anymore? You used to be able to micromanage them, select specific players for specific positions (useful for retraining which I do a lot) etc.
Been chipping away with Elden Ring, but I do use seamless coop for the off chance my friends want to join, and some easymode mod because I am so unbelievably bad at these games.
Having fun, but it’s funny when every time I think I could do with less easymode, some enemy absolutely curbstomps me. Maybe one day I can manage without:P
I do like how there’s very little waypoint-guidance, but some todo-list for things I have agreed to would be nice. But that’s the style, I guess.
I played my first playthrough alos with easy mode. I just have reflexes of a donkey and no one is ever going to congratulate me or care how i played elden ring back in 2022. But man the open world still itches me. No other game besides maybe subnautica hooked my will to explore like that.
Tried second one without and got to ~80% of the game and gave up.
I played my first playthrough alos with easy mode. I just have reflexes of a donkey and no one is ever going to congratulate me or care how i played elden ring back in 2022. But man the open world still itches me. No other game besides maybe subnautica hooked my will to explore like that.
Tried second one without and got to ~80% of the game and gave up.
Currently playing the dead space remake. Awesome game im really enjoying it.
But i gotta say in most games i genuinely dont care about graphics. But here i gotta say i think the detailed gritiness and lighting definitely adds to the experience. So im contemplating for waiting for a remake od the second one playing the original second one. Will se. But for now its time to keep my blood pressure high 👍
Mount and Blade Warband, Prophecy of Pendor mainly, with a little Perisno on the side (got hitched to a lady boss, am the trophy husband. Sitting there and looking pretty is hard work!)
It’s difficult because half the map hates me by default. Not enough opportunities for commerce and their armies are beefier than mine. So there’s a lot of running around doing nothing.
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Just installed and tried out Echoes of the End. After having played extremely story driven titles - like the two Horizon games - I just couldn’t learn to love this one. Which is weird, since I LOVED Nier:Automata, for instance.
On another note, this week, I also installed and beat three times, MiSide. I’m absolutely in love. What is wrong with me. 🤣
On yet another note, anybody going to this: https://www.musicofsquareenix.com/tour
Onirism. GOD, that is an enormous game. There are JRPGs I’ve finished with less playtime, even being a completionist.
For reference, it’s an adventure shooter with dozens of weapons, boss fights, giant levels across numerous locales, vehicles, etc.
It is also very glitchy and basically still an early access title, but I still found it worth the asking price for being so ambitious as an indie.
The DOOM reboot from 2016. Grabbed it on sale for a few dollars and it’s quite fun
It’s pretty comforting how straightforward it is. You just go blasting. After the main story, replaying levels in arcade mode is also good fun.
Not me, but over the weekend a buddy of mine asked me which Zelda is best to play all the way through. He’s never played a Zelda game before. So he’s emulating Ocarina of Time on Steam Deck and I’m following his progress through it.
He’s committed himself to not looking anything up, though he’s allowing himself to ask me for hints which I’m gladly giving. I feel like the Nintendo Power Line guy.
He keeps me updated with these little gems every now and then like “this owl is really annoying” and “fuck Mido, all my homies hate Mido” which I’m really appreciating.
OMFG YES
I’m playing StarRupture. I’m at 80 hrs now. I want them to not show hours played on the save file. It’s like telling me I’m playing too much. But the factory needs to grow!
Mouse: PI For Hire and Tainted Grail.
How are you liking Mouse PI? I haven’t bought it yet as I just bought a couple of games recently and need to mind my backlog, but it looks really good.
I’ve been really enjoying the game. Love the dialouge and references the game makes. The gameplay is great if youre into boomer shooters. The gun play has some kick to it depending on which weapon you’re using. And has a lot of cheese.
Dungeon Keeper. 1997 was just a couple of years ago… right?
This week i played EXD - extra dimentional. It’s a new VR game about a megazon worker that falls into a portal and needs to save that world while and get back to his daughter. It was really good and i’m looking forward to the next episodes or whatever they end up doing to continue the story.
The Division 2
I’m back to my semi-regular Division grind. I was thinking about the game due to the recent, time limited, addition of the realism mode (no gear levels or bullet-spongy enemies, limited ammo etc) but couldn’t join in at the time because I forgot how to make Ubisoft Connect work on Linux. I finally figured it out again (use GE-Proton-9.27 and set Windows to 10, otherwise it won’t launch for me) and I also managed to snatch the latest DLC for less about 55% off so I decided to jump back in.
I’m not done with the DLC yet so there isn’t much I can say about it other than “it’s more TD2”, even if in smaller package. Some missions are better than others in terms of design and how they fit my game style so things tend to alternate between “this is cool” and “I’m in pain, help”. One thing that really caught me off guard however was when a mission finale turned into a desperate defence section - the surprising part wasn’t the change itself but the fact that this short part managed to actually make me feel like the situation really was as dire as the story wanted you to think.
It’s an excitement and engagement that doesn’t really happen often as writing and set pieces in TD2 tend to fall flat for me for the most part. It was a nice change and I hope there’ll be more moments like this in the future.
Now if only devs would let us replay all of the past manhunts in full instead of in their shortened version, that would be nice. I’m still missing part of the story after taking a break when they jumped the shark with Keener’s “death” during Warlords of New York and I’d love to know what’s going on.
Edit: Welp, yesterday’s updated broke Easy Anti-Cheat for me and now I can’t even launch the game. This sucks.
Yakuza 0
I’d like to finish this game some day. I’ve been on my first playthrough for 7 years now. I’ve been on THE SAME CHAPTER for 7 years now. Granted, most of this time was me not playing the game but still - I have saves from multiple years, all stuck on chapter 7. Why is it all sevens?!
Alright, I came back to the game with the plan to finally finish it so how did it go? Well, I started the game and went back to spending most of my time on the hostess club mini-game. This playthrough might take another 7 years to finish at this rate…
At least I’m having fun, I guess.
Just started Blue Prince
“Patient Gamers” qualified, but what a game. I actually had to break out a notebook to take notes. Seriously worth a try if you like slow/puzzle games.
Was my GOTY last year by a mile (and yes I also played E33). Absolutely incredible game, and also a super underrated but phenomenal OST, Trigg & Gusset really killed it. Great showcase of the bass clarinet.
Physical notes are absolutely vital, I ended the game with like 50 pages of notes and hundreds of screenshots!
Walkscape on my phone and Graveyard Keeper on my computer. GK is really fun.
+1 for WalkScape. amazing game that’s motivating me to walk more 👍
I was a day away from the “get all skills to 50” achievement but then they added two new skills! Grr…
Football Manager 26 was free on Steam this past weekend so my current playthroughs of other games got derailed as I lost a good couple of days to it, fully feeling the addiction seeping in again. I would still recommend FM 2024 over it all things told, but I have to admit the new tactics engine in 26 allowing for different formations in and out of possession is both realistic and a lot of fun to play with.
Otherwise before and after the weekend it’s been more of Death Howl. I’m having a good time with it so far. The art is absolutely beautiful, a gorgeous minimalistic but expressive pixel art in a very distinctive muted color palette. I have some complaints here and there with the gameplay but mechanically the turn based Soulslike grid-based strategy deckbuilder genre soup is a nice mix and the combat is very challenging but doable. I’m constantly just about scraping by between bonfires. On the deckbuilding side it’s not a game that puts a premium on creativity so far, and instead it seems more constructed like a series of small puzzles. Each zone has its own set of cards and its own set of encounters and it’s up to you to find the “correct” deck and approach for each encounter.
The story has been pretty mediocre so far, which is unfortunate. It’s ostensibly framed as this Orpheus tale of a mother going into the spirit world to rescue her child from death, but it’s very obviously actually a tale of a mother’s journey towards accepting the death of her child, with each zone representing one stage of grief. Maybe it hits different if you don’t pick this up right away, but me personally I’m mostly drumming my fingers as the story unfolds, waiting for the penny to drop for the protagonist.
It’s not really been story heavy though in fairness, so the majority of playtime is spent in battles, and those are still fun.
Football Manager 26 feels like a step backwards in usability. I always feel like I’m fighting the UI for basic tasks.
Honestly for me, while I don’t like the UI and agree that it’s not good I could definitely get used to it. What irks me is feature removal. I miss getting more detailed stats during and after matches so much. Heatmaps, pass maps, touch maps, dribble visualisations, average positions, shot maps… All gone.
Also being unable to do much with your reserve and U18 teams. I don’t think you can even see their position in their respective leagues anymore? You used to be able to micromanage them, select specific players for specific positions (useful for retraining which I do a lot) etc.
Been chipping away with Elden Ring, but I do use seamless coop for the off chance my friends want to join, and some easymode mod because I am so unbelievably bad at these games.
Having fun, but it’s funny when every time I think I could do with less easymode, some enemy absolutely curbstomps me. Maybe one day I can manage without:P
I do like how there’s very little waypoint-guidance, but some todo-list for things I have agreed to would be nice. But that’s the style, I guess.
I played my first playthrough alos with easy mode. I just have reflexes of a donkey and no one is ever going to congratulate me or care how i played elden ring back in 2022. But man the open world still itches me. No other game besides maybe subnautica hooked my will to explore like that. Tried second one without and got to ~80% of the game and gave up.
I played my first playthrough alos with easy mode. I just have reflexes of a donkey and no one is ever going to congratulate me or care how i played elden ring back in 2022. But man the open world still itches me. No other game besides maybe subnautica hooked my will to explore like that. Tried second one without and got to ~80% of the game and gave up.
Currently playing the dead space remake. Awesome game im really enjoying it. But i gotta say in most games i genuinely dont care about graphics. But here i gotta say i think the detailed gritiness and lighting definitely adds to the experience. So im contemplating for waiting for a remake od the second one playing the original second one. Will se. But for now its time to keep my blood pressure high 👍
Mount and Blade Warband, Prophecy of Pendor mainly, with a little Perisno on the side (got hitched to a lady boss, am the trophy husband. Sitting there and looking pretty is hard work!)
It’s difficult because half the map hates me by default. Not enough opportunities for commerce and their armies are beefier than mine. So there’s a lot of running around doing nothing.