I picked up portal 1 again, one of my favorite games. And then i also tried frostpunk a little. Seems cool but so far i suck at keeping the people warm
I also picked up a bunch of games on gog and might finally get around to play mirrors edge if it plays nice with proton.
Now I want to replay Portal 1 & 2 again. I have all the puzzles memorized a thousand times over at this point. Such good games.
Mirror’s Edge is also really fun. I’ve only played it once but think about it frequently. I’d like to play it again sometime.
I first got mirrors edge around the time it came out, but didnt play it much, think it was because of stability issues. Then ive always meant to play through it but never got around to.
And while you can only ever experience portal for the first time once, it is still fun to play thorugh again, especially if its some time ago and you dont remember how to solve everything.
Streets of Rage on my little handheld emulator that I bought last week. I’d forgotten how long it’s been since I last played!
First game I ever beat in one day. Will always be the definitive belt scroller in my head.
If you haven’t tried four yet, it is a fantastic revisit to the roots of the game.
Total War: Empire. I’ve previously played Rome 1/2, Medieval 1/2, and Atilla. For anyone who’s played other total war games, there are a couple of game mechanics that are new in Empire.
There are actual naval battles, where you put ships into a battle line, and you can board enemy ships. It’s cool but hard (for me) to control. Also many of the buildings in a territory aren’t located in the capital because it’s meant to represent colonial holdings, so you can have a sugar plantation or something outside the protection of a city, and a lot of the warfare ends up being small skirmishes sacking outlying buildings.
Concerned ape said he wouldn’t be updating SDV any more, or at least until haunted chocolatier was out, so I thought it’d be a good idea to dust off the old mod collection and start a new farm
I just fell back into it a month or two ago. Be prepared for some interesting updates of you’ve been out of it for like a year.
Started playing “The Binding of Isaac”
I got sucked back into Warframe.
Playing Oblivion. I don’t remember liking it this much when I first played it way back when. And there’s a lot I don’t remember, so maybe I never got that far into it. I just discovered that the Daedra shrines give you crazy powerful magic items, so now I’m tracking all those down. Although I contacted vampirism during one of the missions, which is starting to suck.
Do you want a hint about vampirism that doesn’t give too much away?
I ended up looking up how to cure it. I wasn’t having that much fun chasing a cure.
I‘ve been getting into Shadow of War.
I liked the first game more when I played it and I feel like I‘m constantly fighting the controls (don‘t jump there! don‘t drain that guy! what are you stuck on now?!), but it‘s fun regardless; and thanks to how bs gaming patents are, it‘s still very unique in the way it plays lol
Og oblivion with a modified layout that works fairly well for steam deck. I just got lvl 17 and ran across my first glitch (land dreugh in the ceiling of a cave) and maybe my tenth crash. Soooo glad to say it’s running better than it ever did on my 360!
Recently modded my gba to have a laminated ips screen and over the past week I’ve dove into fire emblem advance wars and ff4
Steam been threatening to decline my refund requests because I’m refunding too many games.
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“It looks like you’ve requested a significant number of refunds recently. If you often have problems with your purchases, please submit another ticket so that we can help you solve these issues. Please note, that the Steam Refund Policy is not intended as a way to try out games for free. If we have reason to believe that the refund system is used in this manner, we may decline future refund requests.”So I’m sailing the high seas with a certain in-shape girl to try Slitterhead this weekend, wish me luck.
Funny part is: game has a demo, but it only covers basic combat, not the actual gameplay loop, which’s more than that according to reviews and footage I watched, so I don’t have enough information to make a call only based on the demo.
And to Steam: if you figure out a way to tag games properly and push for publishers to add long enough demos, I wouldn’t be refunding too many games. Excuse me for not wanting to waste my money on games I’ll never finish.
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On Slitterhead, I’m more of a Gravity Rush Toyama fan than a Silent Hill/Siren one, so I’m hoping what horror fans disliked about the game will appeal to me. Combat was fun in the demo, but I need to experience the bodiless traversal in more open-environment scenarios to decide if I like it or not.
I also hope the tracking thing doesn’t get in the way. It was a tad confusing in the demo. Seems like you need to interview NPCs too? I hope that doesn’t end up screwing with the game’s pace.
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The new campaign missions seem a lot longer than what I remembered of the original campaigns. I like that they tutorials now give you some strategy, too.
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Planning to finish Dragon age 1 this week. I’m really looking forward to Clair Obscure but I’ll try to finish one RPG first
Do you plan on finishing expansion as well? How do you like the game so far?
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For me later parts of the game were underwhelming and railroaded, also following games made everything inconsequential and small-scale.
It doesn’t help that lorewise every blight before was huge and took multiple years, sometimes decades to end.
While you as a hero disadvantaged every possible way, country - sparsely populated, just 20 years after the last big war, already lost one huge battle, there is low-key civil war going on; circle of magi - broken half of the people dead; dwarfs - reluctant to help; elves - there is like ten of them.
Yet my party wins. First time I’ve played, there was hope that in the end we would at best win some time at worst fail completely.
I’m planning on playing the whole series including the expansion for the first one. But my fingers are really itching for the other RPG and I don’t want to pressure me into playing the expansion. Better to play Clair Obscure in between and enjoy the expansion afterwards.
So far I’m liking the game a lot. I’ve not played any in the series before but I have to say that Baldurs gate 3 seems to be the best part on the series. It’s brilliant how many great parallels can be drawn between the games and im glad for both of them
I recently played Origins and the expansion back to back. The expansion is really good, but there are some stark similarities to the main campaign, especially later on, so I would maybe recommend taking a break after the main campaign, just so the expansion feels more fresh.
I’ve managed to stall starting Act 3 of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for an entire week. I’m in this position I get into sometimes with games where I completely avoid starting the final stretch of the story because I love the game so much that I just don’t want it to end. I’ve probably done every bit of side content at this point, vacuumed every optional area and explored every inch of the map - besides the last one I unlocked that starts Act 3 proper. I’m now grossly overleveled and overpowered for the main story, so much so that I need to work out ways to gimp myself to make the story bosses more impactful.
Anyway, the game is absolutely amazing and you should play it. It will make a very compelling case for Game of the Year, and it is certainly one of the best games I’ve played. I run out of superlatives when talking about this game, from the art direction to the story to the music and the voice acting (in both English and French, both are stellar!) to the combat and gameplay design, every piece that matters hits it out of the park.
Yes, you are some AA-jank every now and then. The lip syncing isn’t great. But you know what? None of it actually matters.
It’s a wonderful, wonderful game.
I will probably play it, but this is not patient at all.
I have confessed my sins previous weeks so I forgot about adding a disclaimer about the same game this week. You can’t be patient all the time, sometimes it’s fun to participate in the zeitgeist. This game is good enough to merit it, it’s not even a full price game to begin with and they even had a release week sale.
I’ll be back to the regularly scheduled programming soon enough. I have my Mankind Divided playthrough to return to and I have already installed F.E.A.R. as my next game.
Price isn’t the only consideration with patient gaming, there are also features and bugs to think about. It’s a good game, but there are lingering issues–softlocks (brutal in a game without manual saves), crashes, and especially sound problems–that I think would warrant patience for some players, especially on PC.
I haven’t heard about the soft lock, but the game keeps rolling autosaves for quite a while. I can usually go back a couple of hours, so unless it’s one of those things where you don’t realise you’ve been soft locked until way later you should be okay.
I’m with you in general, and I’m typically a patient gamer. However, sometimes you just want to be part of the conversation, even if it means eating a bug or crash or two. I played Elden Ring on release day a couple of years ago and it was an amazing experience to discover the game alongside everyone else back when the wikis weren’t even filled out. I also played BG3 on release and while it was objectively a way worse experience than playing it now would be, it was still worth it to me to be able to participate in the whole world talking about that game for a couple of months proceeding its release.
The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, great old-school point and click in the English countryside.
