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A friend mentioned this game to me ages ago and I was meaning to try it for a while. I totally forgot that I got it for free from epic, and I only learned this after pirating it.. lol
It's pretty good! The DLC scenarios are pretty challenging and it's fun to play through in a day or two. Interested in sequel that's coming out soon (maybe already out idk).

 
Frostpunk has been on my to play list for ages, I never seem to get round to it. I had seen most of what the game has to offer through Jake's vods, but I got it with DLCs for a pittance on a GOG sale as is tradition with games I never get round to playing.
Currently playing Civ VI, since I have the super duper version turns out I got a bunch of new leaders in some recent updates. It also seems Aspyr are doing God's work with the macOS port and it hasn't crashed on me once since I picked it back up, unlike the Windows version which was a crashtastic mess for me.
Started a game as the new Victoria (Age of Steam) leader, familiar but new, to derust and while I wasn't top tech nobody could deal with me navy.
So I upped the difficulty to Emperor and fired a game as Theodora - the new Byzantium leader, which I'm playing through now. I lucked into starting next to the Pamukkale wonder so it looks like a religious game this time. I almost rerolled the game since besides the wonder the start and surrounding area is pretty shit but I've made it work with autistic use of the Detailed Map Tacks mod.
 
Frostpunk is amazing and I am patiently waiting for the sequel.

Latest game I played was Dredge. Fun little game, but extremely short. I have around 7 hours and all the boat and fishing upgrades. Only thing left is to catch all the different fish and that just doesn't feel worth it to me.
 
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I’ve always been a big fan of the DOA series, but I do want to buy these games since they’re going for cheap at the moments. Plus, I also want to get the DOA Xtreme series for both the XBOX 360 and Nintendo Switch before the Summer season starts.
 
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Sniper Elite 4: Italia. It's okay so far. Is a pure game, when your game starts with some narration over film and ends with you going back to mission select screen, does not give a shit about presentation, like an old Call of Duty. Having to wait for noises to shoot is a pain in the ass so far. Definitely a better implementation of stealth (more realistic and punishing) than other stealth games I've played.
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I might have to give up on this shit, I only have three missions left to go but it's so bland. Soulless is one way I hear it put. You get some shitty cutscenes with Great Value brand BJ Blaskowicz looking smugly arms-crossed while a caricature of an Italian, or that weird-voiced American fuck, rambles. Then you drop into a map and sneak around until you get so bored of it you have to start a shootout, and then you get so bored of the shootout that you stop trying at all.

I think it is possible to make a map so large that it actively worsens the game. In this case, the runtime for the game is perfectly standard, about 16 hours. But the individual levels are too big, they're like two hours each, and that's with me going somewhat fast and not really soaking it in. It matters to me because while a person COULD save and quit, I feel like the nature of a mission is that you expect to finish it in one sitting.

There's also so many enemies everywhere, and the terrain isn't suited for sniping. I would have expected more dynamic noisemakers (like church bells and flying bombers, as you see in earlier missions) and high towers/mountains to get to, that you could spend a mission just working your way to a position to take one long-distance shot. Instead, the game is frequently asking you to infiltrate close-quarters buildings to blow things up in very conspicuous ways, and there's no shooting your way through that many troops, and you'll never be able to get those super long-range shots because everything is so tight and closed in. It's visually accurate to Italy but thoughtlessly put together for what it's supposed to be.

The AI is fairly impressive. Best stealth I've seen yet, in the sense that enemies do pick up on small sounds other games would totally ignore, and then use tactics. Unfortunately, their tactics often frustrate my attempts to sucker them into traps, I'd mine up a house and hope they'd come inspect it, but the AI is smart enough to just hang back and try to wait me out. It's a case where if anyone gets into a fight with you you're in a fight with everyone, because they're smart enough to respond to gunfire. But they're not smart enough (game's not designed for) you clearing a whole area and then going on to genocide the next area.

Very disappointed.
10/10 can shoot a panzer to death by shooting the gunner/driver through the window



Tried Star Wars: Squadron with EAPlay, too, just because it's one people talk about playing with the joysticks. (I got a new joystick.) It's apparently a dead game. I don't like Star Wars - boring, childish storytelling and world, warfare that has no weight to it - but I did enjoy Battlefront as a kid, and fleet actions against bots are like the space battles from that (without the best part, launching a boarding action to internally disable systems). It's okay for being free, I suppose.

Since I can only stand SE4 in short bursts, I started up We Happy Few. The gameplay seems a little thoughtless so far, but I am VERY pleased with the setting and presentation so far, it really feels like a AAA game on AA budget (I mean that as a compliment) and is compelling from the start.
 
Bought Wildermyth and Solasta: Crown of the Magister (plus all DLCs) on sale the other day and have been alternating between the two.

Wildermyth is a nice, cozy little game. The combat is pretty pathetically easy (mystics are OPed as fuck) there’s a little bit of wokeshit thrown in, but the game is pretty charming regardless.

I’m only about an hour into Solasta but it’s caught my interest. It really captures feeling like you’re playing a tabletop game in a way I haven’t seen since DOS2. Not the biggest fan of 5e D&D but it is a very faithful representation of the rules.
 
nothing atm. just finished dbz kakarot, was pretty good.

boot up mario 3d world every now and then (i love course clear marios)

just trying to find something cool to hold me over until breath of the wild 2
 
I had to try Battle Cry of Freedom for $3. It's actually really good for being jank garbage. See, it's jank garbage in how it handles, lack of draw distance, everything just having shitty production value, but it's really good in terms of being fun. The actual main mode with players is cancer, imagine listening to a bunch of hyper little kids spazzing out, and that's basically what playing with other people in the play-as-a-soldier mode is. But there's a commander mode where every player is the senior officer of a unit (there's a chain of succession if you die, size tends to be about 30-60 troops depending, sometimes a lot more or less). I thought that a musketshit game would have to have gimmicks to make it enjoyable, but it turns out that fiddling with your positioning and watching the situation occupies enough of your time to not really need it, though the core gameplay IS very repetitive (unlike a modern shooter, you don't have interesting different scenarios popping up every time). It's like playing a Total War game where you have to move the unit from the first person perspective.

Pretty good, recommend (for $3).
 
Death Stranding; it's definitely got that Kojima thing where I'm not sure I understand half of what's going on or what the words people say mean, but it's a pretty Zen game and surprisingly fun being an apocalyptic postman. I do wish the music would play more often than just during story set pieces as it fits the world very well.
 
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Juggling playing Lost Judgment and a 1.12.2 Minecraft modpack. Coming off of Yakuza 7: Like A Dragon, I gotta say the RGG engine is one of the closest to making characters look like a flesh and blood human I'd see IRL. Also, bread.
 
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I’m only about an hour into Solasta but it’s caught my interest. It really captures feeling like you’re playing a tabletop game in a way I haven’t seen since DOS2. Not the biggest fan of 5e D&D but it is a very faithful representation of the rules.
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The game would seal the deal if the character animation and graphics didn't look half done.
 
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Ghost of Tushima and the FF7 Remake. GoT is a really well put together open world game with very satisfying combat and FF7R is a really cool take on the original.

I tried Deathloop but gave up after 2 or 3 hours because it isn't very good at all.
 
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The remake of Destroy All Humans! Never played the original, controls are iffy to me. Then again, i just started. I want to 100% it before it's removed from Game Pass.
 
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The remake of Destroy All Humans! Never played the original, controls are iffy to me. Then again, i just started. I want to 100% it before it's removed from Game Pass.
 
Just finished Bioshock Remastered 1 and 2. Loved them, and had an absolute blast with both.

Just started Alien: Isolation. Made it to mission 6 so far. Beautifully rendered world and graphics. Creepy as hell. Fun to play so far, but damn it can be frustrating at times. Even on the easier setting, it's a hard game and the lack of numerous save points can really set you back. Lots of sneak and peek, and no matter how careful and stealthy you are, the Xenomorph often gets you anyway. This one's gonna take some patience.
 
Played through the entirety of Crash Bandicoot 1 on my PS3 in one sitting. The game gets pretty hard towards the end, but somehow I managed to not get a game over.

Still a really good game in my eyes. Maybe not quite as good as a lot of other platformers (like Crash 2 for example) but the game was a pioneer in the 3D platforming genre, so it deserves respect there. Plus, it has so much personality attached to it, you can't help but smile at it even when you die multiple times.

I also like how transparent Naughty Dog is in the manual. "The islands are teeming with danger. But that's why we gave you a lot of lives!"
 
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Imperator: Rome with the latest Invictus overhaul. It was an absolute tragedy how Paradox screwed this game when it was one of the strongest they'd released in a long time. Launch was rocky but after the patches it's very solid and a lot of fun.

Guess releasing more shitty DLC for EUIV was a higher priority. That game has been unplayable for at least 5 years.
 
Currently playing Binding of Isaac Repentance on a fresh save. Just finished the 3 Victory Lap achievements:
Started as Lilith, going to Dark Room. Triggered Cambion Conception two times, one gave me Dark Bum, the second gave me another Incubus. Got Sinus Infection from first treasure room, Holy Shot from angel deal, then Brimstone from devil deal, plus a whole bunch of tears + damage upgrades.
First victory lap gives me the Conjoined transformation due to me also lugging around Sister Maggy, Rotten Baby and Robo-Baby 2.0. Also, since I have Steam Sale and Restock, I also get a whole bunch of nifty items, most importantly There's Options & More Options, the latter giving me Mutant Spider and Dr. Fetus in the treasure rooms. Then I also get Cricket's Body from a stone chest... And now that I'm also walking around with the Perfection trinket, every bomb is guaranteed to trigger the Holy Shot effect.
That's not counting all the bomb-related items I get, like Brimstone Bombs, Bomberboy, Bob's Curse, Mr. Mega...
The result is total CPU death.
I have to spend the next two victory laps firing extremely sparingly, relying on the damage from Radioactive, that new angel item that creates a damaging aura around your character, and my blue flies since by the second victory lap I'm also Guppy (I have to generate them by placing down regular bombs and having their brimstone beams hit enemies).
The good news is that I get Holy Mantle from an angel deal, plus Dead Cat from Dark Room on the second victory lap and it carries over all the way into the final victory lap, where your character gets turned into The Lost. I have a few close calls, but it all goes smoothly in the end, and when I get to The Lamb, I just pop a Chariot card I've been carrying since the beginning of the run, before letting it rip with Tammy's Head. Still probably the most stressful run I've had yet.
 
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