What games are you playing now?
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Got around to finally renewing my PS+. So I downloaded Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 because I had a good time with the first game. And its okay? Don't think its a massive upgrade over the first one in particular anyway, aside from there being more cars. Its something I'll definitely play on and off for the time being though.
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I bought a used copy of Ghost of Tsushima as I had sold my original copy. I got it in the mail yesterday so I got a chance to play it last night and it was fun. I had finished the game but I haven't taken out all of the Mongol strongholds and there are still some items I don't have. I want to do them before I start Iki island.
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In 2004 I was not even remotely close to being a PC player (At that time I hopelessly held to my Dreamcast and later would buy an Xbox), so I'm experiencing Half-Life 2 for the first time. I'm surprised how lean is the experience (no handholding, no bloated menus, clean HUD, no maps, etc.) and how responsive it is with a gamepad, and I can see why it's so important and influential. Thanks for the freebie Valve!
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Half Life:Alyx non VR mod, interesting... will haven't look into it. Although I doubt the Steamdeck will run this and I don't have a PC.
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I, being a fickle idiot, have sidelined yet another game in favour of a new one which is Chinatown Detective Agency, an indie point and click adventure game with SCUMM-inspired but ultimately nowhere near as good pixel art graphics which feels extremely familiar, its hook is that the clues it gives you are based on readily Googleable things for you to, well, go and Google.
I didn't understand this at first and it gave me a quote from a book and a computer with which to find the book and it asked for the "author, title or keywords" so I thought I was supposed to search for key words in the quote to find the book, it took me an embarrassingly long time to just type the first six or so words into Google to get the Author's name, typed that into the computer in the game and that was the solution.
It's not bad, but so far the clues aren't all that complex and some I haven't even needed to look up. I also kind of hate how it looks because it really does look like basically any other 2D indie game, but I'll probably get over it. It also bugs me that the little pictures of people who are talking don't look much like their sprites in the world.
I didn't understand this at first and it gave me a quote from a book and a computer with which to find the book and it asked for the "author, title or keywords" so I thought I was supposed to search for key words in the quote to find the book, it took me an embarrassingly long time to just type the first six or so words into Google to get the Author's name, typed that into the computer in the game and that was the solution.
It's not bad, but so far the clues aren't all that complex and some I haven't even needed to look up. I also kind of hate how it looks because it really does look like basically any other 2D indie game, but I'll probably get over it. It also bugs me that the little pictures of people who are talking don't look much like their sprites in the world.
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So, Stalker 2 became available today via Game Pass, so I installed to see what's about and... I uninstalled within an hour. It's odd that a 20-year-old game (Half-Life 2) has hooked me from the start while this game with fancy new graphics (that didn't impress me) just alienated me in quite a short time.
Scratch another high-profile disappointment together with Starfield, Senua's Saga Hellblade 2, Atomic Heart, Redfall, and NFS Unbound (and half a dozen more, mostly indies).
Scratch another high-profile disappointment together with Starfield, Senua's Saga Hellblade 2, Atomic Heart, Redfall, and NFS Unbound (and half a dozen more, mostly indies).
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I remember trying Chinatown Detective Agency a while ago and eventually gave up, exactly at the moment I realized it was a "Google this and Google that" game. A shame, because otherwise I was enjoying the dialogues and general atmosphere of the game.
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I ended up importing yet another game exclusive to Japan. Sega Rally Championship 1995 for the PS2, which was part of the Sega Rally 2006 release.
I forgot how fun and addicting it can be to chase those tenths and hundreths to set new personal records.
I remember playing it briefly on my friends Sega Saturn when I was a kid but I never knew that only two cars and four tracks could have such incredible replayability 😅
I forgot how fun and addicting it can be to chase those tenths and hundreths to set new personal records.
I remember playing it briefly on my friends Sega Saturn when I was a kid but I never knew that only two cars and four tracks could have such incredible replayability 😅
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@35mm my take on it is they're basically cutting out the middleman, in any sufficiently challenging game like this I'll take to Google to find out what I'm supposed to do anyway so I don't mind too much. I do hope it gets harder though, it has already thrown some constraints at me (time, money) but those don't add too much to the challenge. Five minutes is plenty of time to Google something, after all!
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Started Stalker 2
I was worried the game would be a buggy mess as the reviews led me to think it might be but I've not encountered any issues on Series X.
I've been playing Stalker 2 as well. I admit it has a slow start and it took about 3-4 hours for me to get hooked in and properly enjoy the game. Once I got the hang of things and started doing some interesting missions it clicked.
I was worried the game would be a buggy mess as the reviews led me to think it might be but I've not encountered any issues on Series X.
Done with both HL2 episodes (forgot how good they were, still hold up so well after all this time) and managed to pick up Alan Wake 2 Deluxe disc for £38 and making my way through the original Alan Wake Remastered, so far really enjoying it.
Glad I waited for a physical edition and then a sale for Alan Wake, got the deluxe edition for a bargain, screw you and your digital only and it's not releasing as a disc lie Remedy.
Glad I waited for a physical edition and then a sale for Alan Wake, got the deluxe edition for a bargain, screw you and your digital only and it's not releasing as a disc lie Remedy.
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The PC Game Pass version of Stalker 2 is a buggy mess. Needs a few patches before I pick it up again.
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As a long-time player of the PC Fighting Game engine, MUGEN, I discovered Ikemen GO tonight. I'll play this for sure to get my 2D fighting game fix. It seems more robust and customizable than the already customizable (yet rather ancient) MUGEN.
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I "feel" like this year has been especially plagued with games of a release-state that still resembles internal-Alpha more than anything else.
But as a trophy collecting player I learned to stay shy of Amplitude Studios now, they will do nothing to fix broken trophies.
Never again touch a game that contains "endless" in the name, high chances it is theirs, and even higher chance one or more trophies will not work at all.
There are games where I simply dont want to, because some of them I actually do play without trophies on mind, which is a different thing to me then.
Currently playing CoreKeeper: a friend choose this one, pretty generic "sandbox" game with nothing to mention other than you fortunatly dont need to spend too much time on to complete.
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