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agreed. and Zelda just came out too!

hi-fi rush owns so far, likely goty for me

I just paid for PlayStation Premium so now I've got Netflix syndrome of tons of games I want to play but not being able to decide on them.

Back to Dark Souls it is

Started "Stray," it's really gorgeous.

With all the TOTK talk I picked up Breath of the Wild again. I quit the first time after exploring too freely and getting frustrated by the short stamina bar and short-term weapons. Didn't help that I started out going north and tried to take down a centaur guy. This time I stuck to places the game was pointing me towards and focused on the puzzle shrines, running away from most enemies. Once I got the stamina bar doubled, it became a lot of fun. I'm around 75% of the way through it now.

solo Q’d to masters for the first time. diamond 1 was painnnnnnnnnnnnn
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Stray was pretty, but not much of a “game”. Hold A/X and press forward. Didn’t feel worth finishing

JFC need a Signalis break now.

I liked what I played of Stray. They should probably add a "skip combat section" option though... that aspect was super undercooked.

a lot of games would be better without combat. just let me explore and search for some keys to unlock doors or whatever

embrace simply being an adventure game

Started Sekiro. It's fun. It's gruellingly hard and I'm still getting used to some of the mechanics but I lurrrrve sneaking around and getting the drop on enemies

ciderpress OTM here. We need Sable-likes, dammit! A game like that with TOTK's vehicle/device building would be sick as hell.

i should play sable is what you're saying huh

It's pretty cool. I did lose interest after around 10 hours, but I did seriously enjoy the time I spent in it. It really is like a combat-less BotW/TotK if that sounds like your jam.

the zelda games have very little mandatory combat anyway

yet they won't let you kill beedle smh

still chipping away at the megami tensei series. i think i'm nearing the end of one of the persona 1 paths. havent decided if i am gonna play it again for the other path or just go straight to P2, leaning to P2 because i've heard better things about it?

I'm publicly admitting to playing the demon game from the studio with terrible management (Diablo IV)

Finishing up Breath of the Wild -- I beat the game, now I want to get all the memories and do all the shrines. Maybe get the DLC too. Koroks I don't care about. Weakest part of the game was the combat -- my main strategy was to run away from everything, because I disliked the combat so much. I didn't laser-parry once until I beat the game and looked up some guides.

Also slowly working through Danganronpa V3 which I find to be a slog so far. Far too much wandering around trying to find the next cutscene trigger. I'm only on the second murder. It works great on Steam Deck despite the steam page saying it's unsupported.

Next big game is SF6.

Finished Stray, thought it was a sweet, creative, simple, visually stunning little adventure. Maybe next is ... A Plague Tale? At some point I want to start be Witcher or maybe even Skyrim (bought it on sale for $10!), but those seem like winter games. Maybe Plague, too ... hmm.

Just finished rachet and clank: riff apart. Was average, too much kiddie dribble for story I had to turn all sound of and podcast it. Combat was babies first shooter. I’m complaining but it’s me who is the joke finishing the whole game despite not liking it a few hours in. Nostalgia of playing the original at my local small town library and fond memories of getting in trouble for saying “up your arsenal” in grade 4. Playing lots of indies on the steam deck too, slay the spire getting the most love at the moment. Liking this bloodstained game too.

I picked up ps extra and feel obligated to play these big song triple A’s (ghosts, returnal, horizon, death stranding). I think I’ll have fun with returnal but will have to get over not playing with keyboard and mouse. I’ll try keep on open mind to ghosts/horizon but I’m not confident I’m going to like them, and here’s hoping Kojima was able to chanel some of his magic into death stranding. If anyone has any strong recommendations of which of those four to go for first I’d love to hear it

Just finished rachet and clank: riff apart. Was average, too much kiddie dribble for story I had to turn all sound of and podcast it. Combat was babies first shooter. I’m complaining but it’s me who is the joke finishing the whole game despite not liking it a few hours in. Nostalgia of playing the original at my local small town library and fond memories of getting in trouble for saying “up your arsenal” in grade 4. Playing lots of indies on the steam deck too, slay the spire getting the most love at the moment. Liking this bloodstained game too.

I picked up ps extra and feel obligated to play these big song triple A’s (ghosts, returnal, horizon, death stranding). I think I’ll have fun with returnal but will have to get over not playing with keyboard and mouse. I’ll try keep on open mind to ghosts/horizon but I’m not confident I’m going to like them, and here’s hoping Kojima was able to chanel some of his magic into death stranding. If anyone has any strong recommendations of which of those four to go for first I’d love to hear it

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart definitely seems like kid stuff, but sometimes you need something bright and smooth and colorful to offset, say, A Plague Tale: Innocence, which I just started.

Plague Tale imo is bad, narratively and gameplay wise, but I seem to have the minority opinion.

Death Stranding was something I played for a few hours that bored me out of my mind.

Ghost had fun combat but dumb dialogue and an exhausting map, I played several hours but gave up on it too.

HFW and HZD are among my favorite games on PS, I find the story to be fascinating.

I'll report back on Plague Tale, a lot of people did seem to like it (and the sequel, which is one reason I'm finally playing the first game). Seems fine so far.

rats aplenty

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Sable is 50% off on steam right now btw

thanks i'm probably gonna save it for after zelda though by which tiem there will have been another steam sale or 2

So far I'd say "Plague Tale" is kind of rudimentary, generally well done but mostly pretty simple. In other words, despite being indebted to some aspects of it, it's no "Last of Us," though tbf, what else really is? I am still curious to see what if any advances or changes they made with the second one, though. And this one shouldn't take too long.

Ghosts of Tsushima is pretty. I can see why these open world games can get their hooks in people. Sometimes a popcorn flick is a good pallet cleanser

I loved Ghost of Tsushima. The DLC was also very worthwhile.

HP, in response to yr post about pickups a few days ago, Returnal and Death Stranding are some of my favorites of the past few years, but are going to be a little rough-going to start. Worth sticking with them.

I’ve got flack for sharing this knowledge here before… but shock horror Ghosts is a great podcast game! Blitzing through this history of rock podcast while slicing up mongols, it’s a good time!

I gave Returnal a go with a pirated version on PC and it is tough moving from Kb+M to controller! Think I will stick with it though, I really enjoy and appreciate the game design and aesthetic. I have started DS twice already and yeah, the beginning is rough with all the exposition. Kojima has enough good will with me (MGS2 is my all time fave) thought to keep pushing. Thanks for the recs!

"Plague Tale: Innocence" was pretty by the book, and by that I mean it felt like a YA novel (with some lazy surprise Star Wars tropes tossed in as well). Too much hand-holding as well, in every sense; Hugo was an annoying sibling, and the game explicitly spelled out too many solutions to its modest puzzles and challenges. Still, it had its moments, and I respect any indie game swinging for the AAA fences, even if it fell short of more its polished, more compelling cousins.

^^thanks for the review, seems like a definite skip for me

Ghosts of Tsushima was too mediocre for me. Did not seem to have a ingle new idea. Gameplay was not fun. Just a pretty wallpaper over a done and dusted video game design. Yet saying all this, I am enjoying forbidden west? It is much prettier. It has a unique visual identity (Tsushima was pretty, but boring, forbidden west is pretty and interesting!). The shooting mechanics are fun. The story actually “tries” to do something. Good Lord this Aloy voice actor is exasperating though. Her sigh after every word, absolutely infuriating. Ghosts = open world + nothing new + no variety. Forbidden West = open world + unique identity + much variety.

Playing this game on hard vs Tsushima on normal has probably heavily influenced my opinion too.

Rogue Legacy 2 dropped on PS Plus Extra yesterday so looking forward to spending about 30 hours on it without ever once getting past the first boss.

just broke 200,000 on robotron2084 for the first time. (blue label)

Rogue Legacy sounds like a cool idea, but when I see videos it looks kinda lame & shallow compared to Hollow Knight or something?

I'm playing Sekiro again since I couldn't find anything else to keep my interest, it's a blast so far (mostly because I'm much better at it now than on my original playthrough four years ago).

Started "Signalis," sort of for the second time (I'd played a bit of it with my 13-year old nephew, which was slow going). Nice change of pace from what I'd been playing, though I did forget there was no autosave and accidentally quit it too early and now need to play the (slow) beginning for the third time.

Just got a psvr2 for cheap second hand. Head hurts, brains hurts, not interested, going to sell it on and hopefully make $50 off it (I got it reaaaal cheap). At least I know now, it’s the 2d plain for me!

Bouncing between:

Rogue Legacy 2 (Exactly what I wanted from a sequel, even if I am awful at it)
Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Very chill, very hard)
A Hat in Time (This is too janky to actually enjoy, and I really want to enjoy a mindless 3D collectathon)
Yooka Laylee and the Whatever it's Called (Rock solid 2D platforming, still don't love the overworld stuff)

Might also try Inscryption later, too.

lonely mountains downhill is a masterpiece imo

Creeping through Signalis still, there is no way I could do this without a cheat sheet for the puzzles.

Not unrelated, the combination of puzzles and backtracking and limited storage and math/logic challenges in the map free area (Nowhere?) is kind of starting to really get on my nerves. Get the Wooden Ring and bring it to the alter behind the door that needs the Stone Key that can be found in the Blood Den that can only be opened when you're carrying the Silver Shoes, etc. I know it's old school par for the course, but it's a huge pain in the ass even before you throw in enemies. Almost bad enough to make me stop playing.

Yeah Nowhere was when I broke down and used a guide.

Raft, with friend, played for a week because we started to enjoy the story mode and visiting the larger islands/structures. Well, until they decided to make one of them completely underwater and highly frustrating. mugs.