The internet is a funny place. My 11yo's best friend just showed her this song and they're both CRAZY about it. Neither has actually played The Outer Worlds, which is one of my favorite games. But the song slaps even if you're not a fan. Obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvANy49Kqhw #TheOuterWorlds
• #CultOfTheLamb — wanted this for ages! Looks both cute and fun/chaotic
• #VampireSurvivors — heard it’s good and a friend said it was good and it was cheap
• Divinity: Original Sin 1 & 2 — I have so many CRPGs to play but for $21 USD for both I figure I will enjoy them … someday 🤣
Now when I will actually PLAY these is a mystery! 😂
Oh yeah, whoops, forgot about this month's #HumbleBundle and decided to pick that up this month as well because #TheOuterWorlds looked pretty neat and some of the other stuff did, too.
I'm a retired novelist who adores story-driven games (PC, PS5, Xbox) and roleplay. You can find several of my social gaming handles in my bio. I founded and help run a roleplay guild in #WowClassic, and I post a lot of stuff about my current playthroughs of various games including:
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
First cab off the rank, is The Outer Worlds "Spacer's Choice Edition". The Outer Worlds is a first-person ARPG that answers the question "What would the love child of Fallout: New Vegas and Firefly look like?"
The "Spacer's Choice Edition" includes all of the DLCs and some graphical spit-and-polish to the original release from October 2019.
As it turns out, after turning to Google, I suspect the main reason it feels like that is because it was developed by Obsidian who also developed... Fallout: New Vegas.
Once I reached the ship ("The Unreliable") that apparently serves as the main hub of the game, and completed the first quest onboard, I turned around and started exploring the ship.
Entering the hold, was an immediate raised-eyebrow moment, as it could have all but been the Serenity. Up the stairs, and further exploring lead me into the galley/dining area, which - once again - could have been lifted straight from Firefly.
There are differences, of course; it's obviously a homage, rather than a straight-up lift. With Disney owning Fox, I'm sure the Microsoft-owned Obsidian wasn't looking for a lawsuit.
Still, it provides some nice sans-Whedon warm-and-fuzzies.
So far -and in 39 minutes, I really didn't get very far, what with the character conversations and all, it seems like a capable ARPG that want to give a bit more time to.
It's very polished, and is gently tugging at me to come back and play a bit more, but... alas, the incessant coughing means I really need to try and sleep.
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition pretty much justifies the cost of this month's Humble Bundle; it's:
okay, hello, hi, so happy to have found a place where I don't feel terribly out of place talking about things like how I totally wrecked a Genji while playing Kiriko