After getting annoyed at New Vegas, I picked up Red Dead Redemption 2 and have been really enjoying it. I kind want to get a cowboy hat, not ironically. My wife would probably hate it though.
I have just started Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order. My reaction to the opening controls training sequence: Dear lord why am I working in such a dangerous place?! This is the most dangerous environment I can imagine! Why is it so difficult to get anywhere? What am I trying to accomplish by risking my life right now?! WORST SHIPYARD EVER.
Trying to play Spiritfarer again. I had to quit the first time because the list of tasks became overwhelming. I will hopefully take it one step at a time this time.
Picked up Marvel’s midnight suns when it was on sale in november and oh boy does it scratch my itch. 60 hours in and on the final mission. Definitely going to go back for a second playthrough/new game plus!
Been intermittently trying to finish Jedi Fallen Order, but for some reason I gave in to my kids that kept getting on my case that I should try the best game of all time: Stardew Valley.
I am playing Cyberpunk 2077. Pretty much finished the main story and playing the DLC story line right now.
It’s great fun but when I hit the level cap I got bored regarding my playstyle (SMG and sword) and started experimenting with different weapons and skills. Since you can’t max out every skill I cheated to achieve this.
Now I’m a omnipotent killing machine and should probably increase the difficulty…
I’ve been playing Horizon Forbidden West. Beat the main game and am in the DLC now. Pretty good, but would recommend not going super completionist on it. There’s just so much.
Oh, by the way, you don’t have to play Machine Strike to fill out all your passive skills. Heck, I’ve maxed out several valor surges too. You can comfortably skip it if you want.
Pretty good so far, but i’m still in my first 5hrs of the game. Can recommend especially if are a Harry Potter fan. (I bought for around 30usd i think.)
32 hours into my first playthrough of Metro Exodus. I think I’m on the last chapter now (dead city). The game is simply a great piece of art. It adds open world like mechanics but in such an immersive way that even if you are “clearing” a marker, it takes a lot of deliberate thought and planning that it genuinely feels like a linear level inside a cohesive open world. There have been attempts like this, in games like Gears 5, TLoUP2, Uncharted 4, where you suddenly are in this huge space and going back and forth to clear out stuff in a shallow way. This feels much more deep (TLoUP2 was better one of the three, but Exodus is much more detailed) and for me it really worked well.
The game is bit clunky, but I feel it only works in its favour. If you think of a cool FPS like Far Cry, everything is smooth, quick and snappy. Guns feel great, killing is fun, traversal is pretty much brainless. Metro Exodus is completely opposite as your guns keep getting dirty, out of ammo or discharged. Killing isn’t fun as you’ve to be careful with ammo and also the moral points. Traversal is slow or so finicky that you have to pay attention. All that clunk makes you actually feel everything the game wants you to feel.
The criticisms that I do have though are largely to do with dumb AI and the good ending/bad ending system that is a series standard. I know I should not kill, so I try to be sneaky. But when I fail, then I can predict enemy movements, come in and out of dark places and just knock them out. This breaks everything and what should be either fun shoot out or a stressful stealth mission, becomes a cat and mouse game of knocking everyone out. You also don’t want to skip any of the locations as the game otherwise teaches you that important loot or lore can be hidden, which is generally true. So if you want the good ending, and want to upgrade gear, you pretty much have to do the dance of knocking everyone out. This is why I’m 30 hours in to the game. If the game wants us to find all the lore, and wants us to improve our gear and use newer weapons, I think it shouldn’t let us have agency over story, or it should have non lethal weapons to make it more fun to take out bases without killing anyone.
Overall I’m very happy with the game. I’ll probably replay it and not care about good ending and just play it as a shooter even if the game doesn’t want you to do that (OMG the terrible music it plays when you do something wrong lol).
You might consider turning comments like this into posts in this community in the future. You didn’t do anything wrong, but I think people would engage with you more and be interested in having a separate thread to discuss this in.
The Ace Attorney Chronicles. It's two ace attorney games bundled, and I'm playing it on switch. You play as a defense attorney and try to solve crimes and defend your client, and the cases are top notch.
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