What are y’all playing? I started Silent Hill F. After about 8 hours in I think I’m going to put it down for now. The combat was a huge slog for me and was just not really enjoying my time with it :/
I’m moving on to “dying light: the beast” now. It’s been fun! Good game to turn my brain off to
I finally finished satisfactory! I’ve played during early access but there wasn’t really an ending for it then. 2,600 hours total in game, 550 of those were this last factory. It’s done!
Silksong mostly. Game is hard.
Cyberpunk 2077. I may or may not have developed a bit of a crush on Johnny. I also discovered photo mode and I may or may not have an issue.
slightly nsfw (and maybe nsfl)
Silent Hill F. The combat’s pretty easy and I’m enjoying my time with it.
Yeah I don’t think the combat is hard by any means, I just found it really boring
I’m currently playing The Forever Winter… and it is BRUTALLY difficult. Gorgeous game and worldbuilding though. It’s in Alpha so things are very much in flux but I just can’t seem to put this dystopian nightmare down.
Ooh I remember hearing about that game last year. I was intrigued by the appeal of the premise of like, playing a bit part character in the universe so to speak. The idea of the “real conflict” happening between massively powerful factions and creatures in the background while you scuttle in their shadow felt very interesting.
You heard right, and it is TERRIFYING. The tagline for the whole game is, “You are not that guy.”
Check out this trailer if you haven’t seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIRrKM4AUW4
Yeah I remember that. Definitely will keep tracking this game, sounds cool!
That new alien vr game they ported to pc, quite good
Slogging through Cronos: The New Dawn, probably around the 60% mark now, maybe a bit more? I’m at the Hospital area, which I think is the final main area out of three. I have a lot of things to say about this game, and not too many of them are positive sadly. I’m really on the verge of dropping it and have actually taken a break from it today playing other games.
And it’s a shame because Cronos does have its qualities. It’s beautiful to look at, both visually stunning and with environments displaying immaculate art direction. The atmosphere is on point, and both the alternate-reality Poland with its brutalist nightmare architecture and the sci-fi future tech is fantastically realized - with the caveat that the “Travellers” the protagonist belongs to might be a tad derivative of Bioshock Big Daddies.
Where the game falls flat, sadly is the gameplay. First of all it’s a survival horror with a heavy emphasis on survival and a very weak “horror”. The game is not really particularly scary, even accounting for the occasional cheap jump scare. Instead it’s an absolutely gruelling action slog where the real horror is inventory management and ammunition scarcity. And this would have been fine if the action gameplay was good, but it’s just… boring, stale and uninspired.
The enemies are just the blandest garden variety zombies you can imagine, the touted “merge” mechanic feels cosmetic at best and doesn’t factor in as much as you’d think and without a dodge button a lot of the fights are just running around kiting and waiting for a chance to charge up a shot and repeat. Most enemies are slow enough that it doesn’t even feel particularly thrilling, you’re not really in danger and are just waiting for them to go into an animation you can punish.
On top of that the ammo scarcity is so ridiculous that I often feel compelled to reload my last save if I miss more than two shots in a fight as I don’t want to risk getting soft locked. I know I’m not a god gamer and my aim isn’t the best, but it feels too harsh. And yes, I’m charging every shot to conserve ammo already.
On top of that the body-burning mechanic combined with the restrictions on flamethrower fuel dispensers leads to repeated situations of running back-and-forth between bodies and a dispenser for like 10 minutes straight, which feels like an enormously unfun waste of time and just adds to the endless tedium and frustration the game delivers constantly.
And it’s a shame because the story is actually kinda intriguing. It’s what’s kept me going this far. I do like the world building, the mysterious “Collective” you belong to has me interested still and when the story delves into some more philosophical musings occasionally I am enjoying myself. It could still all fall flat though, as this is a time travel story and those often devolve into timey-wimey messes full of plot holes that fall apart under close inspection. But so far I’m still wanting to see how it ends.
playing the witcher but I sorta don’t like it. thinking of dropping it and pal world and bringing in the next biggest (in disk size) onto my steamdeck.
I bounced hard of the first two Witcher games and to a lesser extent the third. The controls in the first are especially bad though
yeah the controls are not bad. I did take it off. Honestly its an rpg where I have to be in a character class that im not big on basically. I like the horse mechanisms and such. Would sorta like fast travel from anywhere to the markers.
I started the Witcher 3 and immediately the world feels like a checklist and for some reason I can’t take Gerald seriously. He looks comical, like a teen’s drawing, and the movement feels completely ungrounded.
Ghost of Yotei since launch day. I love it!
I recently got the relatively new Hatsune Miku Mega Mix on sale on Steam. Not a big fan of how it was cheaper to get the song pack DLC and cosmetics DLC bundled with the game than just getting the game and DLC separate, but otherwise the game has been fun enough.
I also got Cloverpit and it’s fun enough, assuming RNG lets me get a good run going. Lemon meta for the win.
I also finally decided to move on from Hotline Miami 1 to HM2 despite not having everything in the first. Just wanted to play the second, and so far I am not disappointed.
The Xbox store had Middle Earth: Shadows of War on sale plus all DLC for like six bucks and I’ve been playing that nonstop for the last few days
Borderlands 4. Max leveled vex last week and am on the grind for gear now. Not a huge fan of the level of rarity of legendary gear tbh. It’s fine when you’re not looking for perfect rolls but if you are its kinda bullshit.
Continuing Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, but mostly playing Ender Magnolia.
- Circut Superstars. I’ll never become good at this but close to finishing it on Amateur
- Diablo 4. I dislike the MMOification and despite Blizzard, but got it with the Xbox so might as we’ll play it. The campaign and monster bashing are fine
- Sound Shapes. Sweet game, taking it one album at a time
- Trials Rising. Cleaning up the Hard tracks and that ain’t no lie
- Dirt 2.0 demo. I’m OK at CMR 2 and 05 but I have no idea how to control my car in this one. It’ll come with time
Still grinding Hades 2. Just like the original Hades the game just keeps throwing new stuff at you, so you keep playing. One thing I do find weird tho is how quickly I managed to unlock the different weapons. And also that the initial staff weapon is by far my favorite, so every weapon unlock thereafter felt a bit underwhelming. I guess it makes sense that they provide you with the most all-round weapon first.
