I like to play Hades. I bought it for the switch because I heard so many people raving about it.
It’s better than I thought it would be. I do not like these sort of games, I like to save scum.
I have not beat it yet, but I got to the final boss in under 30 turns and I have a strong desire to speed run it once I finish it.
If you have any IRL friends who you think might enjoy Smash, definitely hit them up once this pandemic is over and it’s easier (and safer) to meet.
In my opinion, Smash is the most fun when there’s some face-to-face competition. The Online is fine to battle others (when it works), even friends, but it lacks that sense of tension you’d get IRL… On the odd day my friend brought his Switch to school last year, it was a great way to get some friendly competition going on breaks.
I echo your thoughts about Kirby too. He’s a great all-rounder and easy to learn. Love to use him and his down-special rock move. Personally, my other fighters I main are Mii Swordfighter, Zero Suit Samus, and Toon Link.
About Online, I recommend using the Spectate feature where you can spectate random online matches. It’s fun to see others fight (especially if they’re high-skill players) and maybe learn a thing or two if you can.
HITMAN 2, I have to finish Siberia Mastery. So I decided I’ll stream til I do it.
Just finished my second completion of Deus Ex MD.
Shame Square Enix seemingly has no interest in making another entry and it’s one of my favourite franchises.
I’m at the end of Ghost of Tsushima, 4 missions left and I hope I will finish it before Hitman 3 hits my mailbox, I will not have time to play anything else for months 
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Kenji from side missions Tales of Tsushima on the left and my Jin Sakai on the right in Ronin clothes, sitting together and are drinking sake after a mission 
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I just finished Middle-Earth: Shadow of War and I’m somewhat torn on the experience as a hole.
I really enjoyed the first game back when it came out, but I never been able to replay it more then first time and I retried on multiple occasions. Both games suffers on a lot of the same fronts, the sequel just prolongs these aspects by far to much.
The Story is good and engaging when it gets going and battling the Nazguls is a lot of fun and I liked the twist that Talion becomes one of the 9 Ring Wraiths. Securing his tragic tale in a futile battle to keep back the darkness until one of the 9 rings given to men consumes him. That said they threw that ending away, by resurrecting him after the One Ring was destroyed.
That said there is a lot of things that introduced into series overall that I think cheapens the experience and downright underplays Tolkien’s world. Worst of all is when Sauron and Celebrimbor becomes “one”, I didn’t mind that they created a Second Ring (technically number 21) to oppose the One Ring. However instead of the two rings being equals, I would have enjoyed it a lot more if Celebrimbor realised he was never going to surpass Sauron and being destroyed (can ghosts die?) due to his misplaced confidence.
Sidenote: No to Sexy Shelob.
The thing that soured my experience most of all is the repetitive gameplay loop, go to a region, dominate/Kill orcs, Destory strongholds, find collectables, lay siege Fortresses and overthrow Warlord. Repeat this process for all five regions (you only need 4). It doesn’t help one some of the story mission can best be describe as old school World of Warcraft quest, such as kill 5 of those, poison 10 of those and free 6 captives. Then occasionally throwing a mission in there that progresses the story.
Yet the worst of all was the Balrog boss who you fight over two missions, the first act can be described as the following. Shoot Arrows in weakspots while the Balrog battles another Monster of “equal” strength, also avoid falling rocks. Then mount said monster and beat the shit out of the Balrog. It’s pretty easy since you can parry or dodge all his attacks and easily stun lock him. After a while he runs away.
Then you in the next mission you track him down. Where he chases you inside an ice cave while you are ridding a well Mordor “tiger”. Shooting chunks of ice down to slow the Balrog. Until you have to battle him on a big frozen lake and here you might being to hope that you are going to have a real fight, using everything you learned. No, soon after a flying tree Drake comes swoops in. The rest of the fight on the back of the Tree Drake. It boils down to shoot frost breath at the Balrog until he becomes dazed and the ice beneath cracks, then hold “X” to fly directly into him. Knocking him into the water, repeat this 3-4 times and he’s dead. The Drake got some dubious controls and hold “X” didn’t work with a gamepad, so I had pause unplug it and use my keyboard to preform that one action, repeat 3-4 time.
The game still suffers from a lot of bugs after 4 years.
Then when you complete the final mission and you think you are done. No, now there is a hold lot of grinding (or buy loot boxes) to do so you can unlock the true ending. Take control of all Fortresses, defend your fortresses 20 times with increasing difficulty. You need to level up your orcs, which is a slow process or buy loot boxes with top tier orcs. the last 10-15 hours out of 31 hours, I just wanted to be done and enjoy somewhat engaging story. Then learning what I had to do to get the real ending, so I decided to go to youtube and save myself a lot of time, also 100 GB of SSD space.
At this point I’m not even sure I felt the game was worth the 9 eur I gave on steam. There where aspects I enjoyed, but overall it was a frustrating and repetitive experience.
I’ll give the game 9 out of 20 rings of power.
I’ve been playing Zelda Breath of the Wild quite a bit in the past week, and it’s cementing itself quickly to be one of my favourite open-world, action-adventure games ever! The world is so perfectly crafted for an adventure that you, yourself must craft, rather than other open-world games that are a lot more guided and hand-holdy.
There’s so much freedom and different systems that can work together beautifully.
This is the best video I’ve found that summarizes my experience so far.
Coolest thing I did happened the other day, and I unfortunately forgot to clip it.
One side quest has you bring a special blue flame from one location to another. There’s an ideal path to take with lanterns you can light to serve as checkpoints if your flame goes out or you put it out accidentally. The path is also littered with monsters and obstacles, so it’s not a very easy straight shot. One area has you blocked by a fallen pillar, unable to climb up or your torch will be put away. So, you’re supposed to take a long way around a lake to get back on the path of lanterns.
I discovered an awesome cheat, however. Using a nearby lantern that I ignited, I took out my bow and arrow, lit the arrow with the nearby blue flame and tried to shoot it to the lantern from the other side of the lake. It took me a few tries, but eventually I nailed it, making my journey across the monster-laden rim of the lake much less stressful.
MGSV for 80 hours over 2 weeks. What a game.
Started DOOM Eternal DLC again. Next to Ori, it’s easily the most challenging game I’ve ever played.
Great Gameplay, good Metal Gear Lore, Unfinished story.
Maybe, I’m on Episode 39 and don’t want to finish because I do know you lose Quiet. (But can get her back)
Plenty of other things to do. Best cinematics in any game I’ve ever played, sucks about the story. Hideo gets a pass from me just because.
lf you replay your first encounter numerous times you will get her back 
I agree the opening is a good example of this.
I bought the game at like 10PM. I got to Mission 2 by 3AM or so 
Good horror element too. Skulls
I’m very diverse in my gaming. A few of these sound too outlandish to be true, but I assure you that they all exist.
For years I’ve played The Sims. I’m sticking with The Sims 3: when The Sims 4 came out, it was apparently an incomplete wreck of a game which didn’t even include toddlers(!)
Euro Truck Simulator 2/American Truck Simulator.
You drive real-brand trucks around Europe (or the US), making deliveries and money, and eventually managing a company. It’s as realistic as it can possibly be, and many players get excited when updates include things like “automatic-drop axles”, whatever that means. Is driving on the inside lane of a motorway a bad idea?
GTA V/RDR 2 - Self-explanatory. RDR 2 especially is like taking part in an amazingly realistic play.
Project Hospital - Another realism simulator. You micro-manage a hospital. I recently made the mistake of taking in patients with infectious diseases, and now the whole place is locked down. I blame the specialist I hired to tend to outpatients: he saunters about too much and spends his breaks loafing about in Internal Medicine.
Democracy - The developer of this insists that it isn’t a game, but rather a government simulator. You spend all your time trying to balance your chosen country’s budget, implement policies that appease the people - and ultimately get re-elected. In other words, half the country is constantly angry with you.
100% agree. Wish they´d at least add in that Chapter 51… There´s plenty of analyses about how the “unfinished” story is intentional and what it means, and they´re very good and persuasive, but I´m still drifting to the “it´s unfinished because of the Konami-Kojima falling-out” explanation 
Gameplay is top notch though.
Glad I´m not the only one who thinks that!
Been playing MGSV for the second time recently (doing a “clean” start, and am planning a third to get all the unique MB members) and it´s easily clocking up. Additionally, I´m mopping up the remaining challenges in H2 to finally hit that 100% completion, and have also started Heavy Rain (even though I already know the story and endings from back in the day - but I´m glad it actually made it to PC).
The game I enjoyed the most recently though was Valiant Hearts. Absolutely gorgeous.
Very nice. Yeah I love MGSV.
So for female characters, to unlock cool swimsuits, you need FOB mission rewards. I don’t use Xbox Live so am I screwed there?
that’s very questionable. it gives you all these tools yet forces a particular playstyle and it’s not a very engaging one. because you have to fulton everyone and everything to progress otherwise you’ll be stuck with bad equipment. also, the side missions suck pretty bad since they are literally the same at least 2 times on each location and aren’t well designed in general
I was referring mainly to how the game feels and controls, being (mostly) very smooth, responsive and intuitive, and how the AI (re)acts. I think it´s pretty hard to fault it in that regard. But I understand your point(s).
The “fulton-to-progress” mechanic is indeed hardly the most engaging one, especially in the early stages of the game, but once you get far enough to “not care too much”, you can get more and more experimental with the gadgets and playstyles (which is why it´s good that the game keeps giving you new stuff to play with, and even the fultoning itself is less of a drag).
Yes, the side ops are immensely repetitive and hardly phenomenal, but I see them there mainly as a way of accumulating GMP/staff and experimenting with different gadgets and playstyles (since you´re not subconsciously “limited” by the rating).
It´s not by any means perfect in every way, but still miles ahead of other games in many regards I think.
No, don’t worry. The only function Xbox Live/PS Plus has in MGSV apart from Metal Gear Online is personally defending your FOBs. If someone is detected infiltrating one of your or your friend’s FOB, you can warp to it and try to kill or extract them. But it’s not mandatory, and the Event FOBs (the ones that give you the rewards) have no connection with Xbox Live or PS Plus.
At the moment, a multi massive online sandbox roleplay game called Black Desert on Playstation 5. I play it mostly since it is very relaxing for me.
I can’t recommend it for PS4 besides you have a SSD so bad optimized is it.
I was planning to play Cyberpunk 2077 and I played for arround 30 hour’s but I refund it and got my money back.
Now I seeing forward for Hitman 3, On the road for PS5 and a few other titles this year but honestly Hitman 3 is my most anticipated game 2021.
Otherwise 2022 my most anticipated games will be Eiyuden Chronicle which I backed on Kickstarter and the next Final Fantasy games and Battlefield as long it doesn’t force you to Crossplay with PC.
You forgot, vrong voice actor 
, Sutherland did a good job, but it was weird to not hear Hayter, but I forgot about it the further into the game I got.
