What games are you playing now?

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Chorus is amazing! It wasn't really grabbing me at first, it felt too much like a "normal" space shooter (if there is such a thing), but after unlocking a few abilities it's really slick. It's challenging, not too challenging but I have absolutely no idea how anyone could finish it on permadeath mode. I remember it reviewing quite well but I think it's underrated now, I feel like it passed most people by. The graphics are great, audio, voice acting, plot etc. all solid, it does have a little jank like mission triggers not quite working correctly but overall I think it's great. Definitely recommended if you get the chance.
 
I found some 12 hours to play and finish Tomb Raider (2013). I played/finished the original on the Xbox 360, and the Ultimate Edition on the Xbox One X, and now on PC. It may last 15 hours of play if you are a completist, and I find this length perfect instead of so many 40+ hours bloated 1 player games out there.

It's still of the finest adventure games there is, but due to the heavy influence of the Uncharted series, I don't think it's necessarily one of the best Tomb Raider games, because there is little tomb raiding to do. Fortunately, this would be corrected from the 2nd game in the Survivor series, while keeping the heavy cinematic action, fine voice acting, and high production values, and only 2 years after! We need to go back to those development times.

8.0/10 on PC just because of some random fatal bug for which I had to dig up a 9-year-old video on YouTube. 9/10 in any other platform.
 
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I’m also jumping back into the Tomb Raider games. Played the first of the Survivor trilogy when it was first released and again a couple of years ago. Now I found that I’d bought Rise at some point on PS but never started it, so it’s downloading now. Think I might have Shadow as well (maybe through Plus) so I’m all set to catch up before Atlantis & Catalyst.
 
Finished Chorus and I don't even know what to say, I thought it was amazing. Not perfect by any means, but that's up there with Hellblade and Titanfall 2 for games I didn't expect to enjoy anywhere near as much as I did. I kept asking myself "is this getting silly now?" but it never fully crossed that line, even at the end I thought that while yes, it was full of tropes, the game had done enough for me to continue to take it seriously even if the antagonists were entirely made of tropes. But as far as power fantasy goes it's hard to top that.

Edit: followed Chorus up with the only game I possibly could've, Arctic Eggs. Not gonna lie it had me quietly raging at times, the cockroaches especially. I found I kept finding and losing the knack to it, and I actually think it's because it made me hungry for eggs and I don't have any. 3.1 hours later and I'm all finished and in no hurry to go back, but I liked how weird it was.
 
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Played Small Radios, Big Televisions today, just over an hour and a half long, it's an entirely OK puzzle game that I'd had my eye on since 2016 but only bought when Warner Bros started removing their games from Steam. Not much to say about it, really.

I then spent some time going through my Steam library, and it turns out I've played almost all the games I've bought since 2023, I didn't go any further back than that though (I'm just checking now... Oops, 2022 was not a good year). That's pretty good going! I was trying to get my Deck down to fewer than 100 games installed but I just installed a few more of those unplayed games and I'm back up to 103. I swear I've never had fewer than 100 or more than 110 games installed at any given time since I got it.

Anyway, on to MGS 3 now, I'm excited. I dipped into MGS 2's missions yesterday and did about 6% of Snake's (that's about 30 missions) but it just made me want to play MGS 3 rather than more missions. So here I am, doing exactly that.
 
I've been playing the Game of the Year... of last year: Astrobot. It builds upon and expands on Astrobot's Playroom with an adventure that has you trying to repair your PS5 "starship" and rescue your fellow bots after being attacked by a green alien foe (hidden message?).
 
Wanted to play a Christmasy game but realised I don't really have one. Miles Morales is probably the closest, weirdly. Will probably reinstall that and just swing through the snow.
 
Hogwarts legacy is free on Epic so I decided to give it a try to see what all the fuss is about.

Played about 2 hours and you can tell it's a well put together game with a lot of attention to detail and a lot of time put into the world but I never liked Harry Potter and the whole Goblins and spells thing and no matter how good the game is i doubt this will changed my mind. Oh well back to BF6 and GT7...
 
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Wanted to play a Christmasy game but realised I don't really have one. Miles Morales is probably the closest, weirdly. Will probably reinstall that and just swing through the snow.
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MM is my favorite of the bunch.

Yakuza games are often set around xmas.
 
Finished MGS 3, if I'm honest with myself I didn't enjoy it as much as I remembered enjoying it 20 years ago. Up to The End is good, but from The End to the end it's pretty dull, briefly frustrating and then it ends on a high note with The Boss fight, then the never-ending ending is dull again.

I'm pretty sure most of the long chats happen right at the end, The Boss recapping her life is like come onnn let's just fight so I can go home! Basically, the pacing is thrown way off. Early in the game it's good; you do a bit of stealth, fight a boss and it maintains a good tempo. Then, after the Volgin fight, you do a chase, fight Volgin again (on rails, repeating the same actions maybe 10 times), fight Volgin again (except you barely even need to move, again repeating the same actions over and over), do another chase, then a chase but on foot this time, listen to lots of talking, fight The Boss, listen to lots more talking and then find out you're a pigeon.

I had the same criticism of MGS 2, and MGS. MGS 4 as well. Not MGS V though because instead of trailing off in the third act, the third act just doesn't exist.
 

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