Alan Wake Remastered. Great story, characters, voice acting, music. Love the setting and ideas. Just wish the actual gameplay was as good. Still glad I played this, but I also can’t imagine ever wanting to replay it.
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Well that is every mainline GTA from Vice to V completely done (more or less) so bring on VI.
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Resident Evil 3 remake. I recently played 2 through once again and absolutely love that game.
As short as 3 is, it’s still incredible and the intro with Nemisis is superb.
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Nearing the end of the Gizeh chapter in Indy and the Great Circle, I really loved this scene confronting the main bad guy. Absolute slapstick combat fun, very in-line with the series.
The guy playing Voss has such a good grasp of acting ridiculous even when it’s to mock and get more power over others. Menacing in a quiet way because he knows everyone else is beneath him.
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Finished The Outer Worlds 2 earlier this month. I think it’s very good. My tastes veer towards immersive sim, interacting systems games, and TOW2 is very much a conversation tree, looting crafting modding shooter. It has a lot of flexibility with combat, lots of dialogue outcomes and lasting impressions with characters, and allows for a little creativity of approach with missions.
It does not however really let you interact with the physical space of the world beyond talking or killing creatures and npcs, some light platforming, and the occasional environmental puzzle. For example, blasting some doors requires the “explosives” trait, and if you don’t have this trait, throwing grenades at the door will not cut it. Which is fine. Just understand that that’s the kind of interactive world this game presents. If you can accept that, the game is great fun. And the companions are not as bad and bland as the collective gamersphere would have you believe.
Now I am playing Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. It is excellent. This is the most perfect palate cleanser Metroidvania after the brutal exercise in alternating masochism and joy that was Silksong. The game is fluid, fun, forgiving, creative, expansive, efficient, and addictive. The gameplay is impeccably well designed and the biomes are beautiful and unique. If you like Metroidvanias, don’t miss this one.
I grew up on PoP – and when I say that, I mean the original, and The Shadow and The Flame on Apple Macintosh©, which was me and my brother’s JAM. I also played The Sands of Time and Warrior Within later on. And I was already on-and-off playing The Rogue Prince of Persia (which is also very good). I don’t want to give Ubisoft too much credit, as I do not really like their tentpole games… but they published two great titles with these recent PoP games.
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Are those games that have mass market appeal at the expense of creative originality, but prop up the studio so it’s in a position to gamble with new ideas?
That’s a valid way of looking at it.
I seeee. I wasn’t being sarcastic by the way, I really hadn’t heard the term before 
I have ONE tarot card I need to unlock in Cult of the Lamb before I can get the platinum trophy! It spawns in a random “?” Room with this Moth (that I’ve never seen despite finishing the game) and I’ve been having the worst luck just save-scumming to save time on starting crusades!
AAAGH it’s driving me crazyyyy.
(I hope to get the platinum before tomorrow when Woolhaven DLC comes out, in case they add more free cards in an update or something, since in each major “Free Major update” they released for the game, had some new content be required for base achievements, meaning the quota to get it got longer and longer…) 
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Do you think Jacques de Molay used this excuse at his trial for heresy?
“Hon hon, monsieur judge-man, I am not a Baphomet worshipping heretic it is just that these things take time. You know?”
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Stupid fucking wheel! The little white ball is taking all of my fucking time and money. I need that money for eye surgery, sarsaparilla, rifle mods and microfusion cells.
So yeah I have been playing New Vegas again. I have just let go of poverty for the second time I have ever elected to do it in the fifty or so runs (hyperbole) I have made of this game.
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They did add Mirage DLC achievements so I reinstalled to play the new content.
It was awful. I hated it.
The missions were incredibly tedious, consisting of:
- look around a graveyard for ages, follow a lady, kill some people
- annoying chase sequence that you have to lose
- locked in prison and have to wait around doing nothing until the mission progresses then finally escape (without any gear just to make it not fun, the worst mission by far)
- investigate a house
- track some baddies to their camp and do some more investigating (okay mission)
- sneak into the bad guy fort and kill the bad guy (okay mission)
- really long slow walk and talk that takes forever
And something else about it that was pretty minor but really showed a lack of care put into it to me, was your character mispronouncing his eagle’s name at one or two points - stressing it throughout the entire main game as En-kee-du but for some reason in this DLC randomly as Enky-du…
The replaying missions thing was also not well implemented and just annoying to navigate the menu of it.
A game I enjoyed more lately is Strange Horticulture.
One of those sort of “figure out what the customer wants from your shop” type of games with a couple of mysteries to investigate by going to areas on the map. It’s not very challenging but it’s engaging enough and I like these kinds of puzzles where you’re given clues/hints and have to look things up or make observations.
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I thought similar to you.
The missions sucked, too restricted on the player or far too drawn out. (Some of them were just really boring)
I though the story was fine, though the big bad was apparent from his name, let alone his face and personality.
I only things I liked was the new unlocks, (always welcome) the new contract replay feature, (though a little clunky and I dislike the challenges for those unlocks as some of them are unnecessarily tedious) and finally the ending cutscene with Basim and his father, the player and Basim himself coming to terms with the character’s dementia
This one is stuck in the middle for me. The new parkour is nice, though outside of certain areas (mainly the old Baghdad map) I can’t see myself sticking around long enough to properly experience it.
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Having finished the RE3 remake, the PS store had a big sale on last week and managed to get Tomb Raider (2014) for £2 and it’s been about 7/8 years since I last played it so giving that another outing.
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Finished Kingdom Hearts re:Coded on the Nintendo DS.
good game with a very choose how you wanna build your virtual sora approach.
8/10 would recommend playing and not watch the movie.
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I’ve been playing True Crime: New York City (the PS2 version on PCSX2 since the PC version is a broken mess). You won’t believe who the developers added in the game 
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Cult of the Lamb Woolhaven easter egg/secret
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Prince of Persia The Lost Crown was an excellent 30-hour Metroidvania with beautiful environmental art, easy to understand mechanics, and fluid, responsive, and creative combat.
Blue Prince is NOT the game to jump back into after a 6 month break.
I did it friends, I downgraded from Game Pass Ultimate to Premium tier. Xbox, sigh, why are you like this?
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Some of the bosses are ridicilous hard in the lost crown, that giant Snake comes to mind. Maybe i just suck at the game 
i couldnt beat the guy whos the last boss - i think hes the final one.
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