I’ve been playing a whole heck of a lot of Celeste lately. Been having a good time with some modded content after clearing all the vanilla content
D sides? Strawberry Jam?
I did a bit of 1-D. Did a little bit of spring collab advanced lobby but heard that strawberry jam was a bit more polished so I’ve been trying the SJ expert lobby and it’s very hard (~10 hours per level so far). I think it’s in the sweet spot of difficulty for me rn
As always, iRacing and DRG. However, for something new, check out Split Fiction. Very fun co-op game by the makers of A Way Out and It Takes Two.
I’ve been playing It Takes Two this week with my daughter and it’s really good. I highly recommend it too.
DRG
My life for rock and stone!
What is DRG?
Deep Rock Galactic
most likely Deep Rock Galactic
Squad
I’d recommend it for anyone who played BF2/2142 and even BF3/BC2 back in the day. I really don’t like modern shooters as they are quite frankly shit in comparison but Squad is something different. Be warned though that it has its issues but when you get a good round in with decent squad mates and teamwork it is top tier.
I love BF2. I love BF2142. I want to play Squad. I can’t play Squad. It’s a me issue, 100%, but having to do voice comms with randoms in a competitive environment is something I really don’t want to deal with anymore.
The little I did manage to play was fun so support your endorsement. Anyone looking for a combined arms squad based shooter should definitely check the game out.
It’s actually the only game I feel comfortable using comms in. I have social anxiety so it did take me a few months to get used to it but now it feels natural. I’ve rarely come across anything bad either in 2k hours which is nice and it’s more social than competitive.
It’s still one day out but if the hype keeps building I might fall victim to it and jump on Blue Prince tomorrow. Not very patient of me I know. I should be ashamed, but sometimes you just want to be part of a zeitgeist and this looks like a gem.
The Invincible. A short narrative-driven game based on a graphic novel. Pretty good so far.
Game list:
- Colin McRae Rally 04
- Spyro the Dragon
- Original VA-11 HALL-A prototype from 2014
- Amagami
Full version
I had a rough week so not much playtime for me this time. I played some more Colin McRae Rally 04 and went back to my dusty playthrough of Spyro the Dragon.
I started Spyro last year, I think, played a few worlds then stopped for months for various reasons. I enjoy the game quite a bit but I don’t think it’ll join the list of my favourite titles from that generation. Maybe the sequel will fare better (whenever I get to playing it that is).Next, I played the original VA-11 HALL-A prototype from 2014. Despite some minor differences it feels pretty on point with the final game. I was also surprised that some of the backstory mentioned in the full release was actually about this version - it’s a neat detail.
Lastly, I decided to grab Amagami - a pretty famous dating sim for PS2. I’m honestly really mixed on this one. The game itself is great (art, characters etc) and I like it quite a bit. The event board (the main way of interacting with the game) can be pretty overwhelming early on but it’s not a huge deal. What is a big issue for me however has to do with game displaying changes of character relationships after every day as well as whenever events expire. I’m not sure why but both of these stress me out, even though neither is a failure state.
I would much prefer game not bring attention to these aspects and just update them in the background without forcing you to pay attention to them.I managed to almost finish one of the routes but the stress is actually making me less and less willing to continue. It’s a shame because I DO like the characters and writing, I’m just not sure I can keep up with the rest of it.
One thing I can say is that I never really had this problem with similar mechanics in anything I’ve played until now. It’s a new experience, I’ll give it that.
I promise I won’t be spamming this every week but I’d like to once again link my Pixelfed account - it’s fully focused on game screenshots and might be of interest to someone. This week I posted some shots from Cyberpunk 2077.
I’ve been playing Spyro the dragon on my raspberry pi Gameboy lately. Such nostalgia!
It’s simple but fun in all the ways that matter. Holds up pretty well too despite its age. While I don’t LOVE it, it did give me hope for an even better time with the sequel.
I’ve been playing my comfort games since I’ve been really anxious and depressed.
- ESO
- Skyrim
- euro truck sim 2
- civilization 3
I’m still playing Divinity: Original Sin II.
I also picked up Hollow Knight recently and I’m making progress, albeit painfully sometimes haha.Hollow Knight has also had me a little stuck sometimes, just remember to check your map to see if there’s sometime you might be able to reach. I had to look up locations to get the other ending.
Yep, thanks - so far I’ve avoided any guides and went in completely blind, I’m starting to explore the map again for what I might have missed.
spoiler
I’ve been trying to beat the Mantis Lords for a while, but I feel like there’s some other place I might be able to go for now - I think I haven’t fully explored the City of Tears yet, but got my first nail upgrade
I’m on a hollow knight replay (only played through it once) and getting stuck is just part of the ride
Playing Heaven’s Vault again. I was up to new game + 5 or so but then new computer. And there were no steam cloud saves. There are now cause I complained about it, but too late for my save, stuck on a windows 7 machine. Anyway, up to new game + 2 I think.
I don’t see this one talked about much, but when I do, I hear the story is amazing?
I personally love the game, hence the several new game +'s before I had to restart. But it’s also very niche? The gameplay is finding inscriptions (usually on items found during exploring, sometimes on walls or…other ways) and translating them into English. This is done by learning parts of the language and placing words it might be below. Also all sentences have no spaces cause whhhhyyyy would the Ancient Scribes use spaces? But new game + adds longer more complicated phrases (or shorter ones, those are also hard because like…the word “so” is used so rarely it’s hard to nail down.). The story itself follows Aliyah as she travels the rivers of the nebula to learn the past of the nebula. The first time you play you are likely to…not understand a lot. It’s very VERY easy to accidentally whoops into the point of no return area in a few ways. You can miss an entire place that has a ton of info. But that’s new game + for yoouuu! Find more places! Numbers are also hard. There is no death as far as I can tell? I’ve tried to kill Aliyah. So is it even a game if you can’t die? I know some people would say no! Also the controls for moving her are clunky, and sometimes you’ll figure out what a symbol means before the game will have it among the possible options at the bottom. “Why aren’t you giving me the word for “goddess’s” game, I knoooow that’s what that set of symbols must mean! It has the word for divine, human, and possessive!”
Heaven’s Vault is the closest thing my brain has let me have towards a hyperfixation for awhile. I’ve missed it.
Mafia series and middle earth series
Talos Principle mostly. Got it free on GOG a while back from Amazon Prim gaming. It a pretty fun puzzle game. I have had to look up a few puzzles because I was stumped, but generally trying to work my way through it without help
Robocop Rogue city, free with the ps plus monthly games. Fun little shooter with RPG elements that feels more like an xbox 360 era fps. Good game but kind of short and lacking in any real depth, if it was any longer it would’ve been a slog. So glad I got it for free because no way would I be paying full price for it.
I picked this up for $10ish on steam. Still haven’t gotten around to it
I just got “The Textorcist”. Really unique, being a bullet hell typing game. Has been a pretty enjoyable experience, and I’m thinking about 100%-ing it if I can.
Got saints row the third remaster on gog from the amazon prime subscription so i decided to replay the game and man how i love that game, it brings inside me the same feeling that i had playing gta as a kid of “i just wanna to bring chaos and have a blast” which the more silly approach of the game helps to get on that mood
Currently slowly going through Everspace 2. The first title was a roguelite arcade space game, which is not a terrible combination, but not really what I wanted from the devs. With this sequel, they ditch the rogue grippings and expand into open-world arcade space, much like Freelancer or Darkstar, and that makes a world of difference. Story so far is nothing to write about, the dialogue and plot beats range from tedious to annoying, but it feels really damn good to fly around shooting down pilots.
Not your typical recommendation but Unnamed Space Idle has also been consuming my free time. As an avid idle game collector, I genuinely believe this might be the current top of the genre - at least in the current year. Every aspect, prestige layer and mechanic builds on top of each other, always pushing your momentum and never having a “Now you’re going to stop having fun for hours” period of upgrading.
