What are you playing?

Been playing Phoenix Point off and on for a bit now that my Demons Souls remaster play is over. Thinking about picking up either Chorvus or MW5 as an action game to play on my PS5 setup. But mostly grinding New World with the wife.

Randin said:

Kena: Bridge of Spirits. It's a shorter game (and the price tag reflects that, happily), but I'm enjoying it. Surprisingly difficult combat too; wasn't expecting that from a game with this sort of Disney aesthetic.

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Can't really remember why but I just stopped about 3/4 through it.

Sekiro. Terror can go die in a fire as a game mechanic. Also, firecrackers sometimes doing the thing they are supposed to and other times not. Everything else has been good.

Cyberpunk 2077 and it's a cluttered unrefined mess. Reminds me of Dragon Age 2 and ME: Andromeda, except it doesn't suck, and it just feels like it needed more refinement and polishing. The driving is some of the worst I have experienced in years, the aiming of guns feels off, and generally everything, from the ui, gameplay, world design (though I recognize this one is by design), and character progression is a cluttered mess. Not a bad game, might even be an alright game, but you can see where the greatness could have been and that, in a way, only adds to the disappointment.

Like I said, it's not a bad game but there is just too many annoyances for me to consider it a good game. It's not unfun, which is nice, but isn't exactly fun either. Another case of "all that could have been" but once again... it's not a bad game, just not a good one. It's a'ight.

The Ascent.

All the immediate feedback on release turned me off otherwise would have played it back then. Really awesome atmosphere. Everything feels hand crafted, dirty-cluttered-appropriately-sci-fi- megagolobohomo-corporate-dystopian, over the top violence with exploding so it feels comical and not torture or cruel.

Not too far in maybe, the new yCorp has taken over, level 17 character. Quests are about what I’d expect but with all the lore and encyclopedia entries they give it it feels fleshed out. Voice acting is hit or miss but fine.

Complaints are tired mainly to the cyber deck / hacking and the map. I think they did themselves a bit of a disservice on both that could have been fixed with a little play testing and feedback. Apparently the chest and door having was even worse on release so now it is not game breaking. But the system sucks. It feels like punishment to go out of your way or fight through higher level mobs only to find an ICE-2 chest / door you can’t open. It disincentives exploring and punching up. The deck upgrades at least seem to be mostly on path for quests, but with such a cool world and fun combat I just wanna go pew pew and loot. They should have tweaked this a bit. But it kind of ties in to complaint two…

Mapping. Lack of custom waypoints is a bummer, exactly for those chests / doors you can’t hack. Figuring out if a location is on your level or higher / below is frustrating, or identifying platforms and stairs is difficult to not possible. Maybe they were thinking a confusing map would force more exploration, but see point 1 when it feels worthless to explore. It is useable but distracts more than it helps.

Hope it isn’t too short though, having a good time. No clue about multiplayer. Just doing Machine Guns and focusing on Crit Rate, Aim, Reload. Also, playing with KB/M just because GamePass and DS4 windows weren't playing well together and couldn't get the DS4 to work in any configuration. May force me to Best Buy to pickup an Xbox controller since Amazon seems to not carry many?

Really enjoying this game right now, a shmup (Shoot'Em Up) with some modern mechanics and quality of life. I should have played the Anniversary edition before I played Reloaded, I got them mixed up when I started playing.


Fully recommend Reloaded. Anniversary's visuals are aged and have that muddy'ish ps3/xbox3 look but is still a solid game though I only played it for an hour or two before going back to Reloaded which had I spend a couple days on.

Falstaff said:

Played and beat Uncharted 4 as my first post Elden Ring game. Haven’t played since the 1st one on PS3, or maybe that was the 2nd game I can’t remember. But it was fun and quick which is what I needed after Elden ring.

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I've had a lot of trouble getting into anything in the Post Elden Ring Era, but I managed to knock a couple more things off.

Uncharted 4 is what I'm working on now, as well as Memories of Celceta (Ys 4 remake). They're both short (10-15) but it's taking me a while to get through them.

Next up after those is Live A Live on the Switch, a game that I actually emulated back in 2000 or so, and I'm pretty excited for that one.