TerraFirmaGreg Modern got a lot better recently. New playthrough is fun.
Been playing Halo: Campaign Evolved on and off via ps5 (technically xbox too if you count cross platform progress), up to Mission 3: Truth and Reconciliation currently
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Stellaris.
(I started watching star trek after seeing lemmy talk about “fully automated luxury gay space communism.”)
Grim Dawn: Fangs of Askeram
The latest and last DLC for one of the top ARPGs out there, apart from a new end-campaign quest line there is also a new class and hundreds of new uniques
Blades of Time. So many mechanics for a short action game. I thought I was in for another mid budget OG God of War clone a la Marlow Briggs, but so far it’s a lot more fun and exciting to play.
I’m still playing Alan Wake 2:
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I finished the Oceanview Hotel part with Wake, the atmosphere was so thick you could chew it, but it surprised me less than previous chapters in terms of inventive.
I finished the retirement home and Sheriff Station with Saga and it’s getting better, the story picks up but I still find her parts less interesting.
I started the Lake House DLC and it’s nice to play some new FBC-related content, I have high expectations for this one.
The DLC seems to run better than the base game, they probably optimized it better, I don’t know. Overall Saga’s parts are the worst offenders in terms of performance for whatever reason.
When in doubt, comfort food, take 2:
I have nearly 80 hours clocked in Heaven’s Vault, but all those hours have been spent playing it on handhelds (first Steam Deck and then Legion Go). Now I don’t have a handheld to play it on and I can’t get into it that much, so I changed games.
I am reading The Invincible, a book I got after playing the game based on it, so I thought a second playthrough would be a good idea. And it was, I love this game. It’s a short walking simulator with great atmosphere and story, and the graphics are quite good for what it is, they are not too complicated but everything is solid. The art style deserves a mention here, the 60s high tech sci-fi aesthetic is gorgeous, I think they nailed it. It looks gorgeous on my CRT.
I almost forgot, the voice acting is pretty good too IMO.
I’ve played Tainted Grail a bit longer, the game is fine and runs fine, still not sure if I’ll finish it but I think I’m going to keep playing it.
The Lake House DLC is great, nice tight survival horror and a great commentary on Gen AI to boot.
I’m glad you’re having some more fun with Saga at least. I found the retirement home to be an awesome horror level, some of the best scares in the game there and some nice creepy atmosphere. Dilapidated hospitals are clichés maybe, but they are so for a reason. And I don’t know, I still found it effective.
Speaking of clichés
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I think the abuse the sudden creepy face with disgusting noises jumpscare a bit too much, don’t you think? They seem self aware of it though, even Saga complains “aw come on” at some point in the retirement home.
I advanced a bit further in the DLC, I’m starting to see what you mean about gen AI.
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I don’t know, I know what you’re saying and I’ve heard some other people complain about the same thing. I kind of didn’t mind it. Since they’re used pretty sparingly and only in association with the overlaps to signify reality being rewritten and to ratchet up the tension I felt like it was okay. They wanted to build a bit of tension-release flow and this isn’t a game where you can have zombies conveniently jump out from behind a bookshelf or whatnot. I don’t know. I enjoyed the scares (especially in the retirement home, Cynthia’s face is just terrifying hahaha) but I can’t explain why it worked for me since I agree that on paper it’s “cheap”.
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LOL never mind. Jules Marmont just delivered one of those jumpscares.
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That’s true, at least they make sense in what is happening in the game. I haven’t seen one of these in the DLC, now that I think about it. And yes, Cynthia’s face got me good :)
I am playing Jedi survivor right now. I just finished fallen order and it was amazing. Now I’m on the sequel, maybe 8 hours or so into it. It’s cool, but it feels like they went overboard adding things to the first game to try to make the sequel better.
Last week or so I picked up Cyberpunk 2077 + Phantom Liberty for $45 during the Steam Summer Sale. I’ve only just started Act 2 and I’m loving it.
I had played it a tiny bit on PS5, I borrowed a friend’s copy, but it was the PS4 version so it was relatively awful. The PC version after all the bug fixes and on a more powerful computer make a huge difference.
Now if I could only find Johnny’s pistol, man… I’m having so much fun.
I just played that a couple months ago and it was so good. I was a bit worried since i didn’t like witcher 3 enough to finish it, and cyberpunk gets compared to it all the time, but i liked cyberpunk so much more. The world is just so well done, it feels like a real city.
Just beat MotorStorm: Apocalypse this morning.
I played through the first 2 and the PSP/PS2 spinoff last year but Apocalypse wasn’t in a playable state on RPCS3 so I stopped there. Tried it again this week and it runs great after you tweak the settings and apply the community patches to disable resolution scaling.
I’m moving on 🎶 Moving so far away 🎶
Hexen.
I’m playing the new extension Vestiges Of Grandeur from the remastered Heretic + Hexen pack, on Steam.
Super Mario 64
still doing sto and no mans sky. not sure I will return to something single player im trying to get all the way through.
