What Videogame(s) Are You Playing?

You’d consider me wholesome, right? :blush:

Because why then am I so fascinated and interested in the Outlast Trials?
A game by all rights, has too much gore, jumpscares, heavy atmosphere, and disturbing themes, that I should have dropped it after my first session?

But no, here I am, mostly enjoying the game and how best to avoid and run away from the spooky scary stuff. (Also, the scare factor probably diminishes after the first shock to your system)
I’ve roped in @Silvereyes somehow, and also want to sound the alarm that it’s free on PS Plus this month, yay!

And I’m even considering making fan-art, often with my silly chicken OC, hahahahaha :laughing::upside_down_face:

Maybe I’m part of the, weird horror-ish-fan demographic of this. Like, people on the subreddit often post about how they love the unhinged, sadistic, abusive antagonists of the Trials, painting them as silly little guys who do murder for fun :sparkles:. Weird, right?

And like, look at this? Someone compiling positive voicelines of the main antagonist of the game? The guy brainwashing you? Okay.

(Side-note, when his voice isn’t being crunched and blared out of old 60’s speakers that make him sound creepy, Easterman actually sounds fairly soft and nice… good job on the voice actor!)

Even this review I found recently. Silly mouse persona talks about really scary game, the disonnance is weird! But cool?

Anyway expect me to post about this game again in a bit, they have a new Season of content coming out I’m kind of excited (and surprised) by… :shaking_face:

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The next Netflix serial killer drama: The Chicken.

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I’m Kentucky Fried Crazy is what I am! :squinting_face_with_tongue: :upside_down_face:

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I’m currently playing Blood and Mario & Luigi Brothership, quite the difference in tone lol

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Oh I see they’re continuing to do a game with 1 extra character besides the bros

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Dispatch. Great fun, glad to see the 2010s Telltale lads smash it. Hopefully there will be a sequel with the mental sales numbers that they’ve pulled.

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Oh my goooood it’s out its out its out

Also yay there’s an Act 6, gosh. I finished Act 5 recently and while there’s a nice “wrap up” level for the chapter – which also felt like a culmination of the other chapters and characters, it felt kind of abrupt of an ending. Yay there’s MORE AAAA :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :confetti_ball: :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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okay okay okay Outlast Trials update today, pretty cool, but the coolest thing of all, in the gameplay trailer there’s a chicken outfit in the game!!! Hallelujah!! Best update ever wow.

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Resident Evil 2 remake. My PS Plus ran out yesterday and I’ve have no real interest in renewing it immediately so I’ve decided to replay the resi series leading into the newest game next year.

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While y’all are still waiting for the Bond game where you can do some real espionage other than running and gunning, I’ve just finished it. The movie tropes, cheesy dialogues, the casino - it’s all there.

James Bond 007 (1989) for Game Boy.

I mean, it’s kind of a more clunky Link’s Awakening, but still pretty cool little game.

Marathoning 007 movies and games before First Light. So far watched all the movies up to Tomorrow Never Dies, but the games started from GoldenEye for N64, because the '80s ones are mostly licensed mediocrity anyway. Next up - Tomorrow Never Dies the PS1 game.

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Tomorrow Never Dies is a good one :slight_smile: don’t remember ever finishing it though!
World Is Not Enough had an annoying split-second rappel sequence that always annoyed me :stuck_out_tongue:
GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Everything Or Nothing. They really went all in with Pierce Brosnan in the era when the Bond games were truly born, plus Nightfire and Agent Under Fire. His face (or an homage to it) is Bond in video games

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Good to know, 'cause I’ve heard a lot of criticism towards it. Guess it just wasn’t as groundbreaking as GoldenEye at the time.

Speaking of which, the way enemies were animated in GoldenEye is absolute cinema. Their movement with jumps, rolls and charges, their bullet stuns and deaths - smooth as hell and just enough over the top to feel like Bond. I also liked that you have to read mission objectives and figure out on your own, without handholding and highlighting everything. The game was hard as shit, especially Train, Control and Aztec on 00, but 100% worth it.

Also played Blood Stone many years ago, which is a Craig era game. Don’t remember much of it, but really enjoyed it back then.

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Blood Stone was my favorite! :grin: that and Everything Or Nothing are (I believe) the only ones based on original storylines, instead of just being based on a Bond movie. Nightfire and Agent Under Fire are original too, but don’t have the actual Bond actor in them

007 Legends is worth a look too. Gameplay is a bit repetitive but it’s still fun and nostalgic :slight_smile:

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Finally 100%-ed Disco Elysium tonight, 5 years after I started. Feels good. (@EvilGeniusRo @Accidental_Kills98)

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Sweet. Speaking of 100% I am working my way through San Andreas again

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I saw people dislike this one, but I’m curious, because the idea sounds really cool. Gonna try to beat all of them anyway.

Nice, how’s your progress? Took me like 90 hours last year, even though I’ve beaten the story several times before. But I’m also kind of a slowpoke, so maybe it’s that.

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67 percent in what the game thinks is 32 hours of play, I have just hit Las Venturas so I am doing what I can before playing on.

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A lot of people complained that it was bland, which is kinda was. It’s a re-imagining of classic Bond moments but with Daniel Craig as Bond, so it’s modern. Goldfinger for example, is set in a retrofuturistic 1960s that blends art deco with smartphones. It’s at least worth watching on YouTube, if for no other reason than to see what the Bond movies would’ve been like if they’d been shot in the 21st century :stuck_out_tongue:

Every level does have a compulsory hand-to-hand combat scene that is utterly staged though :smile:

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Congratulations on unlocking ALL achievements, shame they didn’t fix the bug where it shows 44/45 since there isn’t any achievement left. Nope.

What a strange coincidence…

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Recently finished Night in the Woods.

A wonderful, charming game about reconnecting with old friends in a small town while trying to run away from old trauma.

It’s really well-written and I love the interactions you can have with the various characters, the oodles of exploration for side conversations to have each day, and the art style + music is such cozy fall vibes.

Gregg is my silly ADHD dude and Germ is an adorable little guy with lots of fun factoids. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I think I do have a few issues with how intense and fast-paced (and potentially suddenly supernatural) the climax of the game gets by the end, but it offers tons of reflection and different meanings to it depending on who you ask. It’s a bit jarring to me in the moment but after reflecting on it for a day, I think it’s alright.

I also recorded my own playthrough of it on the request of a few HMF members :blush:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-ePSHUBrzTZX8qJaGuvtkFaGYCTxyCX_&si=WF8ahv5yAQeoEDMp

(As for what I might get into next, I think God of War Ragnarok is calling to me! Winter vibes, and I wanna beat and chop some baddies up!! :right_facing_fist::collision::axe:)

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