Neb on 25/10/2023 at 18:15
I quit SS remake early on because I got locked out of the medical bed because of that threatened crap. I hate the design. I think it's made like that so that you don't get interrupted during the animation. I regret buying it.
That ATS mod makes me want to finally get around to trying out the Shutoko highway mod for Asseto Corsa. :)
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Tomi on 30/10/2023 at 15:40
I played and finished Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order!
Fallen Order is the most starwarsy game that I've played, I think. There's just something about the locations and the characters that feel like they're really part of the Star Wars universe. It has also got the best lightsaber combat, even if it's far from perfect. I could do without the shallow RPG elements and the "open-world" stuff in the game though - in fact I think that Fallen Order would have worked even better as a straightforward action game. The Force skills could have been more interesting, and I thought that some stealth-lite action would have fit in nicely. The collectibles in Fallen Order are probably the least interesting collectibles in any game that I've played, but in a way I was pleased that for once I didn't feel like that I should actually make an effort to find any.
It's a fairly short game and pretty average in just about every way, but I'm looking forward to playing the sequel some time.
Yesterday I started my adventures in Red Dead Redemption 2, but I'll write more about that later. :)
henke on 1/11/2023 at 18:46
Finished Zelda: TotK. The finale was quite good! Game of the year status remains.
Snow is falling outside which made me want something wintery and cozy to play and I almost installed The Long Dark again before remembering I just got a Steamkey for KONA 2, since I backed the first game. So I installed that and ended up playing the first 3 hours of it tonight. The atmosphere and ambiance is great. Creepy but not jumpscarey. Most of the game so far I've been exploring a big mansion and it's kinda giving me Realms of the Haunting vibes. This game seems to expand on its somewhat mediocre predecessor in every way, altho they've replaced the narrator with the unique accent from the first game with a much more gruff straightforwardly American narrator. It is not an improvement. Bring back that ol' goofy bastard from the first game!
Oh yeah and I've been playing first person climbing game Peaks of Yore, set in Scotland in the late 1800's. I'm baggin them peaks! The gameplay is fun and the Mundaun-esque art style is very nice. There's a nice sense of progression too and good variety in the climbs. Climbing games are doing well this year between this, New Heights, and Jusant which just came out. Haven't played Jusant yet, but I do wanna get to it.
Tomi on 3/11/2023 at 17:44
So, I've been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on XBox, and I don't really know yet what to think of it.
I feared that it'd be just "GTA with horses", but while there are obviously a lot of similarities, I've been happy to see that it's actually quite different in many ways. For starters, it's much slower, which is something that I enjoy. Just enjoying a cup of coffee on a cold morning is a bit of an experience, and there are a lot of little details and mundane things like that to do. The world is really beautiful, and the amount of detail that they've managed to put into this game is quite ridiculous. I love just riding around and exploring stuff with my horse Polly.
Sadly the gunplay in RDR2 isn't all that great, which is almost unforgivable in a Wild West game. I do like the fact that it's easy to get overwhelmed by just three bounty hunters when Polly has abandoned me for whatever reason, but I still feel like it's the clumsy controls and bad camera angles that really are the biggest challenge. I'll have to keep tweaking the camera and the auto-aim settings, I guess. The whole user interface can be quite confusing too.
The story missions so far have been pretty good. Nothing too "epic" or over-the-top yet, apart from one mission where I was forced to butcher half the population of a nearby town, while I was saving a fellow gang member. I hope that the game isn't going in that direction from here.
vurt on 3/11/2023 at 19:08
Dark Forces 2. Finishing up a mod for it so i must also try to play through it to look for texture issues.
Some days ago i had a friend over, like always we played BroForce on my arcade cabinet PC. That game is so fucking good, the attention to detail etc, just amazing. One of those games that perhaps didn't amaze me at the start when i tried it out by myself, felt like a pretty standard 2D action game, but after some levels, wow... The game is absolutely brilliant with so many cool features, and super fun in 2-player.
henke on 5/11/2023 at 18:39
Played through a couple small games this weekend.
(https://store.steampowered.com/app/1662480/Nuclear_Blaze/) Nuclear Blaze - sidescrolling platformer where you're a firefighter who stumbles into a SCP-esque containment facility where some anomaly is setting everything on fire. The firefighting gameplay is
incredibly satisfying. The campaign is just 1.5h long and I played through it in one sitting. It's a good one!
(https://store.steampowered.com/app/2323580/Before_The_Green_Moon/) Before The Green Moon - you take on employment as a farmer at the foot of the great moon elevator, working to save up for a ticket up there. While you toil away at your farm you meet and make friends with the residents of the small town. This game was made my Turnfollow, the dev behind the fantastic Little Party and Wide Ocean Big Jacket, and just like those games it serves up some great characters and writing. When it was time to say good bye to everyone and hop on the elevator I felt very melancholy. I loved this. One of this year's best games.
Malf on 7/11/2023 at 13:52
I was going to put it off for a while until it hit a sale or something, but then realised that I'm endlessly replaying Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3, and that I'd pushed the mods a little too far on both playthroughs and potentially broken stuff.
And most of all, I needed a break.
So off the back of GMan's review, I picked up RoboCop: Rogue City.
And I'm thoroughly enjoying it! It's very pretty, has one of the most iconic guns in cinema history that is an endless joy to shoot, and is trying its best to be true to the original movie (only let down by inferior writing and acting, although Peter Weller does a great job playing the tin man).
Most refreshingly, it reminds me of the old Starbreeze games, like Escape from Butcher Bay and The Darkness
It's got that whole hub level, chat-with-side-quests thing going on, punctuated by ace, slightly open, linear shooting galleries with scenery destruction and slow mo remeniscent of Max Payne.
Myself, I've always viewed the first RoboCop as being one of the pillars of cyberpunk cinema, and adore its biting satire (which delightfully, still flies over the larger US audience's head to this day), and this game does a good job of capturing that feel.
Plus, it feels realistically dirty and lived-in in a way that even Cyberpunk 2077 fails to. I think that's down to its Eighties retro-futurism, which is dialled in really well. Everything's still shot on tape and shown in 4:3 on chunky old CRTs, while at the same time you've got ED209 and Robo himself stomping around. It basically feels like a well-realised Eighties Detroit, but with robots.
To that end, I feel that the first movie and this game could quite easily represent the early history of something like the Cyberpunk 2077 universe; corporate humanity's first tentative steps into the world of DRM-locked post-humanism.
Anyway, 'tis a grand old romp with great performance and very few bugs that harks back to the days of single-player FPS games that weren't just FPSes, but weren't quite immersive sims.
qolelis on 9/11/2023 at 16:09
The Talos Principle 2 is everything I could wish for: punishing puzzles, excellent exploration, visitable vistas, and pretentious philosophical philandering. Also, ROBOTS! The puzzles have been kind of on the easy side for the first half of the game (or at least not super-hard yet), although there is a slow build-up in difficulty and the "star" puzzles are getting more involved now, so I'm expecting some more intense puzzle action for the end part (including the (bonus) golden gate puzzles). It's a good mix. My absolute favourite puzzle exploration game this year—and I say that even before having reached the end (one of several).
mxleader on 9/11/2023 at 16:38
I'm thinking about buying Red Dead Redemption for xbox 1S but I'm not sure it's worth it. I've seen a lot of videos on gameplay and it looks fun but I fear it's just a cowboy version of GTAV which I've already played to death.
demagogue on 9/11/2023 at 17:14
I made a post about RDR2, which is most definitely worth playing and is way better than GTAV IMO, in terms of the story, drama, characters, environments, sandbox, and missions. But now I see you're talking about RDR1, which I haven't played, so I don't have an opinion. But I'll recommend RDR2 every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
