I actually enjoyed the surface levels of both 2033 and LL a lot more than the underground. They felt more tense (in no small part thanks to the gas mask filter mechanic), and the atmosphere more oppressive. Both games also had this weird dissonance for me, where they somewhat encourage you to stay stealthy, scavenge and save ammo, but then throw you into a shootout with a horde of monsters every now and then where you deplete most of it (at least I did, lol). Still, good games. Gotta give the books a whirl some day.
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Played Sleeping Dogs and oh boy, I was in for a treat.
Great and Fun Combat and Gunplay, Great Story and Enjoyable DLCs.
A Man Who Never Eats Pork Bun is Never a Whole Man
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So last night @Silvereyes and I were playing some Dead By Daylight, just something funny happened I felt I had to clip.
A killer and a survivor cross paths. And keep walking away… 
Disclaimer: I was mid-conversation, gushing about Alan Peak Wake again, don’t mind me. 
Also dear god, my laugh gets more high-pitched the more intense it gets 
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He does this literally every time I’ve played with him and silver btw
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I mean Alan Wake is peak and Alan himself is in DbD as a character.
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I think the funny thing is as the only person in this group that hasn’t played it I’ve been playing as Alan more then he has 
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You should play Alan Wake then, the have a remaster of the first one on all storefronts. You have no excuse.
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In your defence, it was me who brought up Alan Wake that time. But yes, Alan Wake is peak. Codename gets confused when we talk about Alan Wake dancing with Hatsune Miku is totally canon
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False. Untrue. Zero chance.
But also yayyy, do you like his voice acting? It’s impressive how many lines they gave him (and how good Matthew is at it)
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I have two yappers in my ears and a British guy in a fursuit chasing me kinda hard to hear Alan over all of that
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Ah right fair.
Then you better play some more Alan when we’re not connected and yapping at you 
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Begun playing Resident Evil Requiem, not to far into the game currently. I found the opening level as Grace to be pretty dreadful. Not dreadful in the terms of horror and not wanting to move on, but wanting to move on due to it sucking all excitement I had for the game. Luckily it’s not to long and the Leon part is a lot more fun.
I just begun to play hide and seek with the abnormally large girl, I instantly ignored the children book that urged me to stay in the light after she blocked my path, running into a dark room with no escape and turning my light off. I quietly said “fuck and it’s getting late” (20.20 pm) and I exited the game.
This isn’t BF, I played nothing but BF6 since October. 237 hours of BF6. Ain’t no abnormally large girls in BF6. In BF6 I’m far remove from the battle with my sniper, not running around narrow hallways in the dark.
I’m far from done with the game, horror games is one of my favourite genres. Other then a awful opening level, it shapes up to be a great entry into the series. Something RE8 wasn’t.
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I made it past the abnormally large girl, I did not enjoy her. This might be the scariest Resident Evil game to date, the Grace sections are very unnerving. The abnormally large girl definitely played a large part.
The Leon sections are just fun, not very scare as off yet.
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Finished Metro Exodus. I enjoyed it the most of all three, though of the two open world maps I liked the very first, the cold swamp, the most. The other, the desert, was good too but I somehow was annoyed by the sand as much as the crew.
All other parts, which were still more than the half of the game, felt quite linear. @Norseman gave me the impression there are more open areas. 
I guess some see the lush river area open world too but it did not feel like that for me. It was always getting through camps of local factions along the river.
Might do the Stalker games next.
Oh wait I forgot Exodus has DLCs.
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We’ve got a brave one right here. Hope you’re ready for some early 2010s Euro Jank.
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I’m a platinum hunter on PlayStation so I’m currently platinuming Resident evil 9 and other games like Poppy playtime chapter 3 and gta 5
Wish I could platinum hitman again tho
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I’m playing Tomb Raider 4 Remastered, what a great game.
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I reinstalled Ghost of Yotei in anticipation of the multiplayer update next week.
I thought hey, I’ll check out New Game Plus and turn on Kurosawa mode since I know it has new cosmetics and charms.
(Never actually did either in GoT, first time)
Well uh, silly me was surprised to find that looking at all the new cosmetics and colour swaps of weapons in the New Game+ shop really loses its lustre when everything is in a black-and-white filter. 
Also, it skips the awesome prologue for some reason, at least give players the option to do that or not! 
Now the story has less bite. It’s not the revenge story on the Yotei 6 now, it’s the Yotei 5!
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I’ve also been playing Resident Evil Requiem, really enjoying it.
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Well after finishing RE Requiem I have some thoughts.
Grace’s sections are fantastic, honestly my favorite survival horror gameplay since RE1’s remake. Limiting ammo just enough to make situations tense, plenty of options for crafting resources, and some very threatening feeling enemies. I love that they finally brought back zombies leaving a pool of blood so you know you’ve killed them, and I love that finally they gave an option to have limited saving on standard difficulty instead of restricting it to hard.
Leon’s sections I found to be kinda disappointing. They’re fine and I love certain parts of them, but they’re nowhere near the highs of RE4/RE4R. Zombies in Grace’s section had a ton of personality to them, but the ones Leon faces are far more generic. Ganados they certainly aren’t. There’s no merchant to ask what he’s buying, just a plain digital weapon store. RE Village was a much more fun action horror to me.
I think a big flaw is that only half the game is Grace, and half is Leon. It would have been much stronger going all in on survival horror or a big action thrill ride rather than trying to merge the two styles.
Requiem also makes me question some decisions made for RE2R a lot more. Especially things like not explaining that multiple Mr. Xs were deployed into Raccoon City and deciding to not include spiders as enemies since those moments in Requiem kinda come outta nowhere to people who aren’t familiar with the original RE2.
But on the flipside, Requiem does make me a lot more optimistic for an RE1 reremake being excellent. Requiem includes a crimson head mechanic and spiders as enemies which up until now were the two biggest things I was worried they would cut out in another RE1 remake. And with how good Grace’s part is, I think they’d do a similar great job with the Spencer Mansion.
Overall Requiem’s a solid 8/10 for me. That number might get bumped a lot higher in the future, because given its success you know they’re already working on some sort of DLC for the game! Of course, my biggest complaint with it is the same I had with Village. It should’ve been called Resident Evil 9: Requiem instead of just Resident Evil Requiem. Man I hope the next game is called Resident Evil 10 and not something like Resident Evil The X Factor.
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