henke on 31/12/2020 at 22:27
Tomi, I GOT THIS. New year, new thread.
Man, 2020 was pretty crazy, but at least we all had a lot of time to sit inside and play games. By the end of the year (
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150278) the 2020 gaming megathread was 34 pages and 837 posts. No way we'll get that far this year. Before ya know it we'll all be vaccinated and out there livin it up and have NO TIME FOR GAMES! But at least for now, we're still stuck inside, so y'know, what are you playing?
Me, I started playing
Call of the Sea a couple days ago and I'm kinda hooked! Plays much like it's fellow Lovecraft-inspired first person adventure Conarium, but whereas I got bored of that one pretty fast, I'm only getting more and more intrigued by Call of the Sea's story as it progresses. The puzzles are good too. Real headscratchers.
Also, one of the last games to be released on Steam in 2020 was Bram Stolk's
Ring Miner. It's an asteroid mining... simulation... thingy. I picked it up and I'm kinda digging it. Might mine some more asteroids while I finish off this brandy. Happy New Year, y'all!
Renault on 31/12/2020 at 23:51
Quote Posted by henke
It's an asteroid
mining... simulation... thingy. I picked it up and I'm kinda
digging it.
<groan>
OK, I'll actually contribute to this thread. There's a T(
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150829) hief small mission contest going on, and several of the entries will be released...tomorrow. Great way to start off yer 2021.
Malf on 1/1/2021 at 00:35
As mentioned in the 2020 goaty thread, Thirith bought me Hades for Christmas, and it has quite happily decided it's going to take over my life.
It just keeps me playing over and over with a steady dripfeed of unlocks, both narrative and mechanical.
I just completed an "Extreme Measures" run, and now that bloody Skelly is taunting me with three shrouded prizes that promise to unlock by completing runs at certain heat levels, the first one unlocking at 8.
And I just gotta do my man Sisyphus a solid.
And Achilles is still pining away.
And there's still someone I've not managed to give any nectar to, as there's a trinket missing from my list.
Send help.
Thirith on 1/1/2021 at 00:49
Tabletop Simulator. Pandemic, Dixit and Decrypto. So tired, but we saved the world from four deadly diseases. Yay.
Gryzemuis on 1/1/2021 at 01:10
Probably just RDR2. I've only spent a few dozen hours so far. But I got a feeling the game might be able to keep me busy and entertained for a long time. Maybe if Demon's Souls or Bloodborne get released on PC this year I'll play those.
I hope to spend a lot more time programming this year than playing games. I wrote 32k lines C in 2019, as a hobby project. 2020 distracted me so much I didn't spend much time on it this year (covid-19 and the threat of the solarfield). Or I might get a job this spring (building the exact same thing, but in golang in stead of C).
One game I will not be playing is World of Warcraft. I stopped cold turkey 6 years and 20 days ago. I intend to keep it that way.
Tomi on 1/1/2021 at 03:38
Good work henke, nice starting post there, couldn't have done it better myself! :D
We're having baby #2 in just a couple of weeks, so that will probably cut down my gaming time quite radically in the near future. Then again I'll be spending more time at home this year because of a new job assignment, so maybe I can squeeze in an hour of gaming here and there. Right now I'm playing Control. I'm about three hours in and only just starting to figure out what it's all about... I guess. Some cool Jedi tricks there, I like those a lot, and the gunfights are getting better too. Usually I kind of like checkpoint save systems, but I'd actually like to see manual save in Control. I don't like it when I'm not sure whether it's "safe" to quit the game or not.
WingedKagouti on 1/1/2021 at 03:46
Quote Posted by Malf
As mentioned in the 2020 goaty thread, Thirith bought me
Hades for Christmas, and it has quite happily decided it's going to take over my life.
It just keeps me playing over and over with a steady dripfeed of unlocks, both narrative and mechanical.
While I haven't come as far as you, Hades has also taken up a lot of my time the last couple of days.
You'll have to hope a boon drops soon :p
SubJeff on 1/1/2021 at 19:03
I'm close to finishing Uncharted 2 Remastered on PS4. It's pretty good looking tbh, a much better than Uncharted 1!
I'm likely going to catch up on games I've missed, like To Do RDR2 and Horizon Zero Dawn. Oh, and the other Uncharteds.
I'm hoping to get my hands on an Oculus and play Alyx at some point.
DaBeast on 1/1/2021 at 23:44
Picked up a few things in the sale, Barotrauma, Among Us, couple of others I'll get to some time next year.
Among Us was fun for 5 minutes, Barotrauma was a real surprise, quite a gem I think. If any of you are on the fence about it, pick it up.
Thirith on 2/1/2021 at 09:13
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is still causing me whiplash. With each Assassin's Creed game I play, I'm thrown by how I like or even love some elements and hate others - and sometimes you'd think they should be the same. There are always some fun, cool, sweet, nicely written stories and characters, and then there are some that a 2013 AI would be embarrassed to have written. There are moments that are surprisingly nuanced, where characters show depth and there's genuine ambiguity - and then there are so many quests and scenes that are not just shallow, they're as one-dimensional as the worst kid's cartoons. If it was all that bad, I could either just ignore all the story and writing (and probably just not play the games at all), but there are great moments, helped along in Odyssey by Kassandra and her nice voice acting, and I wouldn't want to miss those.
What bothers me the most in this one is how cartoonish the Cult of Kosmos is, and that's something that always bothers me in an Assassin's Creed game. They have the occasional more nuanced villain, characters that are driven by ideas and ideologies rather than just "I'm a baddie, I eat kids for breakfast, mine is an evil laugh". But much of the time they just default to characters who are evil because they are evil, and then they're written and performed in the dullest ways possible.
Right now I'm doing some sidequests and I'm genuinely enjoying myself - but before long I'll get back to material that is just painfully trite and bad. They could at least have fun with their panto villains, but they rarely are: most of the time they're just really, really dull.