Sorry for the late post, I moved this week and it’s been pretty hectic. I just realized now that I forgot to make a post on Wednesday.
Mirrors Edge from 2008
Forgot how cool the visual aesthetic in this game is. I feel like it should get a remaster but Im guessing it didn’t sell well enough, could make great use of the ps5 controller.
Nice! I love that game. Now I wanna replay it…
Still holds up for the most part. Funny to think it’s a Dice (the studio) release.
Cyberpunk 2077
I got it on the Steam sale. Runs great on CachyOS without any fiddling in the settings.
Just reinstalled it for the third time. The expansion is great if you like the main game.
broke: I use Arch, btw
woke: I use CachyOS, btw
sincerely, someone who uses CachyOS, btw
and a happy pacman -Syu to you too
I reccomend a jack of all trades build where you get 15 in all stats but technical. if you don’t have the dlc just put what you can in it but if you have the dlc then bring it to 20 and make int 16. This allows you to repsec your perks to pretty much do any style of play. also cyberware will get you an effective str of 20 for doors and such and if you have the dlc you will be able to do level 20 doors. just a few int checks will be problematic. if you don’t do an addon to change it then checks increase with level so its sorta good to prioritize str and tech until you reach your max for those stats and upgrade gorilla arms as soon as you are able every time.
Thanks for the advice, I’ll keep that in mind. But I don’t play for efficiency, I play just for fun.
yeah I have this power gamer side that comes to the surface even though im not much of a power gamer. Its like I love table top rp but I gotta min max a bit. I will resist the impulse to choose min/max over rp but will min/max to the max within my story line.
Playing Hitman World of Assassination! I love causing chaos as Santa
Awesome pick! Easily one of my favourite games ever, and second most played game ever, but it doesn’t get talked about nearly enough on here. I try to mention it where I can, in hopes more people try it and love it, and then talk about it here. It’s definitely one of the most confusing games to try and buy, with all the different versions available, but once you figure it out, the game is excellent. It’s probably the only game I’ll actually buy all the small added content for.
Make sure to check out the Peacock Project, a self-hosted Hitman server that, among other things, lets you replay any of the old timed content you want. No more FOMO in your single player game!
Not the person you replied to but I’m definitely checking this out. Thanks for the comment!
That’s awesome thanks!
Still getting my butt kicked by Dark Souls 3. The end is in sight though. I’ve already beaten the final boss of the base game, but I’m going through the DLCs. Finished Ashes, but still stuck on the M. boss fight in the Ringed City DLC. (I’m too stubborn to just skip it – or, well, I have been so far, at least…)
Edit: I did it! Finally beat DS3!
Good luck! One of my all time favourite games for sure. I much preferred Ashes of Ariendel over Ringed City but the latter is still a good DLC. The final boss of RC is one of my favourite bosses in the whole franchise. Good luck with M, that’s the only boss I’ve never beaten.
Thanks. I finally managed to get him this morning! Just barely won though. 23 HP left, Estus flask empty and used an Ember for healing late in the fight… One Ashen flask left. Used the Pestilent Mist strategy in combination with Sunlight Spears and Tears of Denial (which triggered twice, I think, during the fight) – cast using Crystal Chime+5 and unequipped my sword to stay under the 70% weight threshold. 8 Estus / 7 Ashen Estus split. SL143. Ring of the Sun’s First Born, Morne’s Ring, Sage Ring, Estus Ring. Dragoncrest shield (for fire defense) + Crest shield (for Dark defense) that I meant to switch to for the second phase, but didn’t. Armor was a random collection of whatever seemed like it might help – most significant piece was the Winged Knight Armor; I look really goofy. Started game as Deprived and played early game as Dex fighter before switching to mostly pyromancy mid-game. Highest stat is currently 40 Faith – I did some grinding to get there from 35 to free up a ring slot for an earlier strategy that didn’t work. (The 3 guys who drop down on top of the Archive are worth about ~21K souls each with my best grinding gear equipped and are vulnerable to Rapport – best grinding location I’ve found so far.)
I’m sure the guys who live and breath this game will be like “Lol, git gud scrub” but it’s my first playthrough and I’m just happy I managed to pull it off at all. :p
Nice job! Sounds like a good setup to me. I’m way too stubborn and refuse to do anything other than FUGS and Fallen Knight set, hopefully one day I can git gud and beat him with my favourite setup.
Started bringing my 3ds to work for when I’m on break or otherwise not doing shit. Currently playing monster hunter 4. My DS’s growing up were basically just Pokemon machines, so if anyone has any classic gba, nds, or 3ds games you recommend I’m all ears
If you can get a copy:
Rythm heaven gold (ds)
Mega Man Zero (gba)
Any nds castlevania
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is a surprisingly amazing DS game where you hold the DS in portrait mode like a book and control your character with the stylus. I played it this year and was very positively surprised by it.
I’ve been making progress on my first playthrough of Bloodborne and am at the Witch of Hemwick. Aside from hearing so much general praise for the game over the years, I’ve gone in blind and it’s been a real treat. If the quality of the game remains constant, I can see this easily becoming my favorite From Software game, and probably one of my favorite games in general.
Just finished up The Last of Us 2 for the first time. Fixing to begin playing the story of GTA V for the first time ever as well- played it online at friends houses in high school but never owned it myself.
I never finished TLOU2. Once you reach halfway and have to do you know what, for like 15 hours, I noped out.
GTAV is a great sandbox and has a pretty fun main story too. Is it overrated? Probably. Is it still a ton of fun? Fuck yeah it is.
Foundation - Probably the closest I’ve gotten to that pure bliss city building feeling of SimCity 4. That’s with 500+ hours of Cities Skylines 1 & 2 being the last CB games I really sank time into. It’s simple but deep. Bog standard colony building ala Banished. A trade system that’s fantastically responsive and again simple. Production chains that are sensible and responsive to change. It’s a little micro heavy but it’s fine. There’s always something to do and that’s what really had me into it. When you solved one problem you move to the next one and that keeps going and going. It’s wonderful.
Stardeus - Rimworld in space. I’m not the biggest Rimworld fan but this version of it has its hooks in me. The tutorial took almost 3 hours. 12 “chapters” with page after page of info thrown at you. Once you get beyond that and start a campaign it quickly falls into place. So far I’m loving it. I usually don’t like games that you spend hours building up a base for it to be blown to smithereens in minutes for God knows what, but this one makes sense. You’re set up with the knowledge that time is not on your side and the environment inside and out will kill you. Expectations are set in a way that’s better for a player to understand losing is a part of the process.
That being said it’s a lot. I’ve barely scrapped the surface. I’m already wanting to swap body parts and put human brains into robots. I just hope the space exploration is good because I haven’t even got that far yet and my mind is like let me set up a mining operation that can rob other ships and shit.
Two I’ve barely scrapped the surface with Mechabellum and Heroes of a science and Fiction. Mechabellum doesn’t have key rebinds but it’s kind of ok because 99% of the action is mouse based. I’m a wargamer and this game is basically lost building and testing in real time against other players. Fantastic concept. I need to dig deeper to see if execution is there. I will complain about the key bindings if it starts to effect the actual game play. In one brief match it didn’t. Verdict is out.
HoSF is HoMM. Not much to say about it besides it’s been enjoyable so far. If you like Heroes of Might and Magic you will like Heroes of Science and Fiction. It could probably use some faction diversity but if you really want that go play HoMM.
I’m replaying Devil May Cry 2… man, this game is putting me to sleep 😂 I don’t even know how to describe it… it’s like playing a pre-alpha build of a DMC game made by people forced to develop it at gunpoint. Always a surreal experience.
Halo: Reach
I thought I’d start the year off by playing through the series using the MCC. Reach is my favourite but I haven’t actually finished any of the other so that might change.
Playing through the collection in order is it’s own fun, but Reach is another level.
still ff12 with the post draklor things. I had realized I had not made it a point of getting all the stuff from each map so besides all the side quests and espers and such im getting those. few more maps to check and not sure if im going to even try getting the cockatrice from rabinastre again. also not sure if im going to try fishing at all. hopefully will be back to story soon.
Editing this because I just did Zeromus and was having a tough time and online searches were not doing me very well. I finally found a guy who broke down whats needed which is essentially to use demon shield or black masks to absorb dark damage from his minions (I had one of each) and then there is an accessory which will reduce dark damage by half. Then use shades of black or attacks with items of course. In my case I put the black mask on the person I could get the highest magic power on that had shades of black and for the other two I pioritized who had remedy 1,2,3 and then potions/phoenix down improvement licenses. Of those I took the two I could push attack power up highest. Everyone was set to use phoenix downs, remedies, and x-potions. So I sorta forgot one of the things I learned in this game and I got into a remedy loop with all the minions. I turned off using remedy and potions for the shades of black user. Since so many black mage spells are area effect about half the time the shades of black will do an area effect that takes out the minions which starts to free up the other two to attack zeromus along with the shades of black damage. Because of my mess up at the start I still came close to having to put in the other three who were not so well setup to fight him. It did help drill in my head the nead for a team to essentially always have two stat removers, ressurectors and healers and dps and not to do three (it can be split between three but no more than two doing stat removal and healing as the activation condition can happen to often. resurction is fine as if that activation condition is happening to much your likely screwed) as it can get caught into infinite loops but not just having one as death or status effects can remove the one person doing it. sending aggro away from the dps is great but less necessary than the rest.
After the too many connection problems with poe2 this league, I fallback on Grim Dawn.
I need my arpg fix, and there is a new expansion cooking right now.
Still barely gaming as I’ve been spending my time on my mod making project instead. I’ve been playing Chaos Zero Nightmare a bit on my phone though and it continues to be a guilty pleasure. Can’t say I condone gacha monetisation, can’t say I love all the character designs, can’t say the story isn’t terrible and the English translation is amateurish. All that being said, the roguelike deckbuilder gameplay is actually just really good. The dopamine hits of unlocking rare card variations during runs and making new builds work just keep me coming back.
I did end up buying two new games for myself on the Steam Sale as a Christmas present: Chrono Ark and The Banner Saga. I’ve had my eye on them for a long time, and so I’m looking forward to getting to a point in the mod making where I can take a break from it and actually play some games.
Still playing Factorio with a friend. We took a break over the holidays but are slowly getting back into it. Thank Fate for the new tag system, because otherwise I would have no clue what I was working on a month ago.
Also Pyanodon’s mods are more complex than difficult, so if you are interested and able to take your time, I would definitely recommend trying them out.
Uncharted 4/5
