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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
I figured out how to get Hitman 2: Silent Assassin working on my PC and I've been going through it. Cool stuff. Lots of freedom to perform hits. AI's a bit wonky with detecting you even while disguised though.
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Killing the Shogun was probably my most infuriating memory of that game. The Russian levels was a close second.

Contemplating if I should replay Shenmue. Just don't want to have to kill time in Dobuita, playing Hang On and darts just to advance the story.
 
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Playing Gex 2: Enter the Gecko. One of the best games to play when you're feeling sick and delirious.
 
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Warframe has sucked me back in like a black hole.
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Sevagoth is a really fun frame and I just finished building him out. Everything about his aesthetic is great, and he just cant seem to die in steel path so far.

I never really played Railjack before and now I am loving it. I love flying the ship and then having to board others to destroy them, hopefully it doesnt get annoying later.
 
Celestial Being said:
Warframe has sucked me back in like a black hole.
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Sevagoth is a really fun frame and I just finished building him out. Everything about his aesthetic is great, and he just cant seem to die in steel path so far.

I never really played Railjack before and now I am loving it. I love flying the ship and then having to board others to destroy them, hopefully it doesnt get annoying later.
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It will. Most of the nodes are fairly fun, except the Orphix nodes.

You cannot use your frame, you have to use a Necramech. If you haven't grinded the Necraloid rep on Deimos don't worry, you'll get a rental mech with no mods. You have to move quickly to destroy the Orphix devices before the Sentients take over, but even modded mechs are slower than frames, so you're going to struggle solo.

What makes it worse was that the timer was more generous during the event. I couldn't finish the last Orphix nodes solo, I had to have friends help clear them.

Other than that, Railjack is pretty good solo.
 
Currently playing Guardian's Crusade for the PS1.

It's honestly a very fun and unique JRPG so far. You play as a young knight, but you accompany and raise an AI controlled small hippo creature that is able to learn transformations from fighting certain enemies while trying to make your way to a tower where his mom supposedly is. Spells in this game take the form of living toys that serve as temporary AI controlled teammates that can do various things such as healing you, doing damage based on the number of steps you've taken, inflicting status ailments, or just simply fighting alongside you for a few turns.

It's also a fairly humorous and quirky game. You have a fairy companion that scolds you every time you examine drawers or chests in people's houses, comment on how dumb your character is for mistaking his reflection for somebody else and nag at you over what you should have at your house, how you should read more books and be more chivalrous. She's so purposefully obnoxious it somehow loops right back to endearing.

Also has two items in your inventory labeled "Courage" and "Smile" both described as inherited from your father and mother respectively. Oddly enough, both are in the "Junk" section of your inventory. Little details like that definitely help win me over when playing these kinds of games.
 
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Been a mix of Blazblue Central Fiction, Smash Bros Ultimate, Stardew Valley and Fire Emblem Path of Radiance (again lol).
 
Just got done with Rage 2, pretty fun game. The combat is genuinely great and the game looks fantastic but felt very undercooked. There is a big open world with not very much going on and the story is just crap and I swear it finishes half way through a cutscene. Like they just ran out of money at that point and didn't bother to animate the rest of the cinematic. Also wonder if it was made with a controller in mind. It incentivises you to use special abilities on harder difficulties but the control scheme on mouse and keyboard just feels really fucking awkward.

Think I'll give Pathway a go next, its been sat in my backlog forever because I want to play on my living room TV on the couch but it was mouse and keyboard only until recently. The game came out on Switch and it took the devs two fucking years to patch in controller support into the PC version. What the fuck.
 
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The Penultimate Warrior said:
Alien Isolation - the game that proves you can have too much of a good thing. First 10 hours or so are superb, constantly tense and absolutely nails the atmosphere of the film. Problem is, it just doesn't know when to quit and just keeps going. The story has already had 2 climaxes but they're only just past the halfway point, and having to constantly turn on generators or find keycards as everything breaks becomes annoying rather than tense.

Case in point, there's one part where you need to do a spacewalk to contact a ship. So put a suit on, spend several minutes slowly walking along the gantry, try the switch, it doesn't work, walk down to the next level, generator doesn't work so you need to flip all 3 switches, walk back, tune in to the frequency, walk all the way back to the space station. That's not fun or tense, that's just time wasting.
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I had mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, the Alien can be very terrifying and my experience in the Medical area was very memorable. I felt the same as you about its length, however, because after awhile it just gets tedious and you have to backtrack through a lot of areas you've already visited. I think they would have improved the game by making it a bit shorter. After awhile the Alien is less scary, anyway, because you have a lot more weapons to drive it off. Also, the ending sucks.

I recently finished Wolfenstein: The New Order and The New Colossus back to back, and damn, New Colossus was a big letdown regardless of how you feel about its more "woke" narrative. A game shouldn't be 50% cutscenes ever. The new characters are either annoying or forgettable except for the fat chick who was funny at times. Grace was an asshole and so was the anarcho-communist guy but he barely plays a role in the game because you rescue him 2/3rds into it. B.J.'s backstory was a fucking joke and totally unnecessary. I also can't believe how stupid the Resistance was in that they didn't even notice that there was a huge section of the U-Boat that was blocked off, and how did they use a nuke if all the nukes were in that area? The Venus base could have been anywhere because there were no interesting vistas like the Moon base in New Order. Irene Engel was a weakass villain compared to Deathshead and you don't ever get anything resembling a boss fight in this game. Also, it was way buggier and would lock up during loading screens all the time.

New Order was a hell of a lot of fun, though, and I want to play The Old Blood and even try out Youngblood this year.
 
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Jerri's Kid said:
I recently finished Wolfenstein: The New Order and The New Colossus back to back, and damn, New Colossus was a big letdown regardless of how you feel about its more "woke" narrative. A game shouldn't be 50% cutscenes ever. The new characters are either annoying or forgettable except for the fat chick who was funny at times. Grace was an asshole and so was the anarcho-communist guy but he barely plays a role in the game because you rescue him 2/3rds into it. B.J.'s backstory was a fucking joke and totally unnecessary. I also can't believe how stupid the Resistance was in that they didn't even notice that there was a huge section of the U-Boat that was blocked off, and how did they use a nuke if all the nukes were in that area? The Venus base could have been anywhere because there were no interesting vistas like the Moon base in New Order. Irene Engel was a weakass villain compared to Deathshead and you don't ever get anything resembling a boss fight in this game. Also, it was way buggier and would lock up during loading screens all the time.

New Order was a hell of a lot of fun, though, and I want to play The Old Blood and even try out Youngblood this year.
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Definitely give The Old Blood a chance, but I heard Youngblood was thoroughly mediocre.

Maybe give it a chance if you have a friend since solo is a miserable experience, but even then the twins are awful.
 
Insurgency Sandstorm.
Fairly realistic shooter, withouth the need to communicate with others like in Squad or Arma or the likes.
 
MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries.

It's, well, fine. The stompy robot stuff is fun, but the Mechlab pales in comparison to previous entries, and the missions almost feel like MadLibs. The DLC where you pledge yourself to a House to fight for them is pretty nice, though, and it lets me drive my favorite mechs (Phoenix Hawk, Dragon, Marauder).

It's a good thing it is decent, though, seeing as it's the only MechWarrior that works on modern systems with minimal fuss and I'm tired of 4.
 
I started playing A legionarys life. It's all dice rolling and stat check shit but I'm having a good time with it.

Feel like the new game plus cost for enhanced sword and shield skill is fucking absurdly high, especially when the game only gives you the points from your previous best run to spend. I wish it was cumulative but maybe that would make things too easy.
 
Playing some Wargame: Red Dragon, specifically the updated Ash & Shadows mod. Quite a fun update, and a fun way to get back into the game while waiting for the SOuth Africa DLC, but holy shit adding APS to basically everything makes missiles, and even some glide bombs utterly irrelevant which sucks

M3xus said:
The stompy robot stuff is fun, but the Mechlab pales in comparison to previous entries
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I just finished the eampaign and the DLC missions recently. Fairly new to Battletech, but even to a complete noob i noticed the mechlab seems super basic/unfinished. I've heard there are mods that make it a bit better, and I'm tempted to come back in a few months and try them. For now whenever I have 15-20 spare minutes and nothing to do I boot it up and stomp my way through a bunch of unfortunate enemies with my pimped out Black Knight.
 
The Definitive edition of Sleeping Dogs was put up on sale at GOG.com a couplenof days ago. Since thatg ame was originally going to be True Crime 3 (and it feels like a True Crime game), I had to grab it! Been in my backlog for a while now.
 
Started another playthrough of Elex to get ready for Elex 2. I've also been playing Stalker Anomaly and Enlisted.
 
Last night, I just completed Shenmue 3, and while I could go on and on about the game's lackluster design and pacing compared to its predecessors, the thing that disappoints me the most is this:

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Sixty seconds. This lady did more in sixty seconds in the game's climax than Shenhua, the game's poster girl since the dawn of the franchise and Yu Suzuki's personal Mary Sue, did the entire series.
 
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