Now I know what I’ll be doing after finishing all grade 9 developements, and taking a break for like a third of a year!
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Well I am posting here again which can only mean it is time for an exciting round of “What videogame was Jack playing?” It was/is Borderlands 4 since my brother bought a copy, got busy with work and decided why not? It stops me from waiting for a sale even if it suckers me into paying full retain for DLC or the season pass.
Game is good probably the second best in terms of an overall experience, the transition to open-world sandbox isn’t completely seamless and the sandbox itself conforms to the mold set by pretty much every game the last five years but it is never overwhelming. I think the traversal needs work because it is severely behind in terms of liberal invisible wall use but the glider is cool and digistructing from anywhere is cool.
The story isn’t absolute ass either even if I did pick up on a few plot beats before the game even thinks about even foreshadowing. If you don’t think Arjay would come back then you need to play more games. But everything is treated with much more reverence and some of the more base forms of humour are used more judiciously than in 3.
All in all? Pretty good, it would be an 8 out of ten if Randy fixed all of the glitches in the game instead of calling us plebs and idiots.
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At last, 4 years and 367 hours later, my journey is over… (to get the most baby, easiest, non-hidden-secrets-path ending)
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So Death Stranding 2 had an easter egg mask from Ghost of Yotei, right?
Well it seems the shout-out goes both ways! Cool masks for everyone!
It’s Higgs’ skull mask! I haven’t unlocked it myself, but it’s cool to see it’s out there somewhere!
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Spelunky 2 wins are like buses - you wait 4+ years for the first, and then another shows up 12 days later:
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The Evil Within. I absolutely love this series but very doubtful we’ll ever get to see a third one day.
Played it the week it came out in 2014 and loved the characters and story. With it being Halloween season it felt the right time for another playthrough.
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The spawn and the spawn’s mother have left me at home to fend for myself, while they visit the sister in-law on her birthday. They will first be back tomorrow around 16-17 pm.
Leaving me to myself. This lucky turn of events, coincides with the BF6 release weekend. The morning started with taking care of the spawn, until they left. Then an early full body workout, to get swole and pumped. I will be living my best teenage life today and most of tomorrow.
Then BF6 and a lot of energy drinks to keep the thirst at bay. Dinner time is going to be a awesome homemade smash burger with fries on the side. Then early bed around 22 pm. Because I’m not a teenage, but a 35 year old man who isn’t 16 anymore.
I feels so good to be back in BF, especially when the latest two games where duds on release. BF5 did become a lot better with time, BF2042 never really managed to find the same footing. It’s the best BF game since my personal favourite BF1.
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@Silvereyes and I had a great time with Dying Light 2 tonight.
We had a mission that involved silly easter eggs, ridiculous plans-gone-wrong, really cool parkour setpiece, and impressive character-focused scenes.
Basically, in regards to the easter eggs, well,
We started off getting to this building we need to climb with some soldiers.
One of the troops tells us “Leon already went up on his own, but we can’t get ahold of him.”
We joked “haha, Leon Kennedy.”
So, we go up to see a dying Leon. He tells us his friend Chris was with him too and “he punched through” the door behind him to escape the zombies.
Haha. Chris Redfield. Punched through. 
Later unfortunately, all these soldiers die, and we get to take their dog tags off of them.
And wouldn’t you know it, we were right. Kind of.
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Ohhh was it an easter egg homage thing?
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Spend 16.5 hours of playing BF6 this weekend. Been a blast, I really enjoy it. Everything been smooth on my end, I have experienced one visual bug, with artifacts all over my screen. Changing weapons helped.
I lived my best teenager weekend without child nor the mother. That said drinking 3-4 energy drinks out through the day really fucked my body up. Felt drunk and had a hard time falling a sleep at 10 pm.
This morning went with cleaning up the house, vacuuming, doing the dishes and grocery shopping. Then playing BF6 until they returned again.
I can’t recall a BF with a smooth launch, BF3 awful server launch and bugs galore. BF4 was the same. BF1? can’t recall. BFV awful launch, bugs bugs and server issues. BF2042, best not to mention. There has been one major issue, everyone who bought the game through the EA app, couldn’t access the game for 6 hours, due to files missing.
I’m in full swing grinding mastery with the first sniper, I switch between Recon and Support. It’s such an engaging multiplayer game. Something new for me, is playing the bigger modes and not just TDM and DOM. Currently I prefer Breakthrough, Conquest is very situational.
It’s the best BF game since BF1.
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You meet the 2 of them during the story quest, so I guess you would call it a homage.
Dying Light 2 is an interesting game, I’m definetly going to have some thoughts about it when me and @TheChicken finish it. It feels like it was made by somebody who didn’t want to make a Dying Light sequel, and instead wanted to make their own post-apocalypse IP instead. It is very flawed, but still interesting. I reckon by the time Dying Light 3 materialises, Dying Light 2 will earn a bit of a cult status, the kind of thing you’ll see a Youtube essayist make a 5 hour video explaining how it’s an “underrated masterpiece” sort of thing.
I’ve finished Borderlands 4. I had a great time with it, mostly. Nice to have some good writing. Maybe not exceptional by any means, but I think the plot here is good.
Still a bit conflicted on the open world nature. Like so many open world games, I think it’s a bit too big. Granted, I brought it on myself because I wanted to go for all the collectibles in the check lists. But still, compared to a game like BL2, it does feel like at times you can just be doing a bit of fillery activity.
Gun selection is wonderful, the whole new parts system adds so much depth. I can imagine trying to grind for a certain gun to get the right attachment for it. I mostly like the idea of relegating RPGs and grenades to the “heavy ordance” category, which operates on a cooldown. As someone in older Borderlands games that would often forget to use my grenades, only really using them in dire situations, and trying to save them, this new system really incentivices players to actually use grenades, or throwing knives, or miniguns, or rocket launchers. Love the throwing knives, they were often my favourite.
Some gun balance issues I did find. Order guns all have the ability to hold the fire button to charge a shot, at the cost of consuming more ammo. But charging every shot means a very slow fire rate, and the damage for a full charge never seemed to be worth the slow fire rate. Not to mention, Jakobs brand arguably has a thing where their guns tend to have slower fire rates but high damage output, and just far more reliable to boot. Heavy ordance kindof suffered from this I think, basically any gun you find that had a long cooldown and only a few shots, again, never seemed to justify it? I guess that is all circumstantial, but at least that’s what it seemed like to me.
Never understood the Daedalus gimmick, of guns being able to switch ammo types. Ammo is kind of a joke in this game, besides raid bosses I guess, and guns with absurd fire rates like Vladolf. There’s probably a utility I’m missing. Guns that can switch to overcharge though, holy hell, that is just an absurd mechanic. Chews through ammo, but the DPS can just melt through enemies. Had an SMG that managed to still be useful even after levelling up 4 times due to the insane DPS it had.
As for the story, I’m not sure how much I have to say. Think the Timekeeper makes for a great antogonist, but honestly, I think the Ripper Queen and Vile Lictor make for pretty memorable secondary antagonists. I like the new characters. Hell, as somebody who never really warmed to the BL3 Vault Hunters, I actually quite liked Zane and Amara here, they both worked really well. Have some thoughts on the whole story, but I don’t know how to use the new spoiler tags on this forum, and I’m tired.
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I know I’m really late to the game. But a co-worker told me to play «The Stanley Parable». So I’m giving this a try. Bought the Ultra Deluxe version. From what I heard from my co-worker it’s one of the weirdest games.
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If you’ve played Portal, it has a similar vibe 
it’s unusual and very meta
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Oh yeah, I’ve enjoyed Portal. Great game!
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I played it when they added it to PlayStation plus it’s a very fun game
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Can only agree, it is a very fun game. 
Got through my first playthrough and began my second one, quite early in yet but so far this and the previous one brought me past 150 hours playtime. Very impressive game, so many possibilities! A true dream for roleplay fans, even if I am not that much into the fantasy genre.
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The mark of a good game is one that can capture your interest even if you’re not normally into that genre 
I was the same with the Last of Us, and remember going “Not another zombie game…”
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Ah yes, very very good.
Make sure you do a lot of the “standard endings” before you go into the NEW CONTENT Door! That’s when it really shakes things up in the Ultra Deluxe way!
Unofrtunately the “Other Games” Ending was changed because they couldn’t get approval from the devs/publishers of Portal and Minecraft when it came to this new console version (I think?). So instead it changed to Rocket League and Firewatch in the new game.
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Guys Silksong is so freaking good. I’m frustrated, I’m overjoyed, I’m dejected, I’m ecstatic.
I’m happy and I’m sad and it’s endless and they’ve thought of everything.
Absolute masterpiece. Perhaps the best video game sequel of all time; sorry Bioshock 2/Diablo 2/Half Life 2/Uncharted 2/Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge/Riven/Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and The Flame!
Spoiler tag is spoiler:
I’m 145 hours in and in Act 3. This shit’s amazing you guys.
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I respect anyone who rates Bioshock 2 that highly. Not sure it is the greatest video game sequel, but it is damn underrated.
@Codename-24 forced me at gunpoint to beat Undertale. I’m not sure what to say honestly. I knew bits and pieces of spoilers going into it. The game is 10 years old now. But it still holds up. Fantastic experience. Phenomenal OST. I cried a few times. Will have to play Deltarune.
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