Splatoon 3 is keeping me away from all my responsibilities.
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got the new pathfinder as a late birthday present. haven’t even dented kingmaker. just gonna spend a month studying for my character creation finals.
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I’m still playing the first one 
Yes, there is still an active scene every nights. And we play online for free.
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Portal 2.
The game was free for Xbox ultimate, and I’m finally playing it for the first time.
It’s short(ish), it’s well designed, it’s well known, it’s portal 2.
That’s it, that’s the post. I had some fun. It feels good.
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Portal is such a Valve product its weird to think it once was on consoles too. I still own Portal 2 on disc for PS3.
It weirds me out now, but when I first got it I had no idea who valve was. 
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cave johnson cracks me up to no end.
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Especially on the PS3. Valve was no stranger to consoles, they even ported HL1 to the PS2 and HL2 to the OG Xbox but Gabe was always vocal against the PS3 because how difficult it was to make games on it, especially in the first few years. The Portal 2 announcement caught everyone by surprise
Damn, you missed a lot of sales then
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Tried to play ECHO again, from the sadly defunct UltraUltra (ex-Hitman devs, now Hitman devs once more)
Got through the first chapter where enemies start popping up, but I think I’m going to leave it there for the time being. I’ve played through it all before, but I don’t want to force myself through a perpetually-stressful experience if I’m not in the mood.
It’s an interesting puzzle-stealth game, with some fascinating eldritch palaces and deep lore, plus great banter between main characters En and London, but the creep factor is off the charts.
There’s little downtime between encounters, and it’s a very isolating experience (you vs. the absurd amount of clones hell-bent on murdering you), always on your tail. Kind of reminds me of Alien Isolation.
Anyway, there is a really cool stereoscopic audio effect in the prologue section, where your first waypoint is projected across a hallway you have to follow.
The overall game itself has some great sound design too. Figured I’d mention that.
Also, very surprisingly, there’s gotta be a super-fan or two out there who love this game enough to write extensively about it and its story. I just found a TV Tropes page on the game, and it goes very in-depth about the game’s lore and how it relates to tropes. Impressive to say the least. It was pretty obscure.
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Tell that to my Steam library, exquisitely furnished with a backlog by Humble Bundle. 
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I’ve had ECHO on my wishlist for quite a while and coincidentally just thought about buying and playing it a few days ago (don’t think it ever goes on sale though…). The gameplay concept looks super interesting, so I’m pretty curious about it.
It’s a great game no doubt (and J.K. Simmons is worth the playthrough alone), but it felt unnecessarily bloated at times. I feel like I enjoyed P1 more, even the humour felt better (and not so forced). Love the ending though, Cara Mia is one of my all-time favourite songs in games.
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Im currently playing multiplayer with a friend, im surprised the servers are still up!
It’s Valve, even Half-Life 1 MP servers work.
Christ, Valve.
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I’ve had it on my wishlist for a few years, too. On PS, it’s gone on sale once, in February 2018. I keep telling myself to just buy it (or Volume, which also hasn’t gone on sale in four years), but there’s always another game that is on sale. 
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I’ve started playing Mutant: Year Zero today for the first time, so far its pretty cool and interesting!
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i’ve been eyeballing that for a while. reminds me of xcom/divinity: os/phantom doctrine type of thing. the duck looks ace too.
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I’ve played it only for a few hours so far, but if you’re into the genre I’d recommend it to you so far. The Duck is my favorite character so far, it reminds me of this “Ducks of War” Advertisement in one of the Blood Money Newspapers haha.
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I just finished Horizon: Zero Dawn.
It was really enjoyable, I think I did most of the stuff I could, maybe a side quest or two I missed or did not bother at the end. Also did not the Hunter challenges. I am glad I stumbled on the unlimited Fast Travel thing at a merchant or else I would have played this game like a route planner, like I do when playing Fallout 4’s survival mode. 
With this I “only” invested 65 hours in this game.
The story was really nice, very original. It is not the typical “Oh everything was nuked” or “Oh Skynet happened”. Although, the classic malfunctioning AIs play a major role in this story, also once again we play “The Choosen One” type of a character.. But it worked well. I really liked the backstory and how it was made personal to the main character, who also had a believable and well pictured personality.
I also think the game did not leave big loose ends behind, the story wrapped up nicely. Note that this game lacks roleplay mechanics. You have very few dialogue decisions but they have no meaning in almost every case.
The creatures are quite cool but I underestimated how hectic the fights were. I had no big issue with that, but dealing preceise bow shots at short distances when everything was jumping over or on your face, no idea how this used to be a Playstation exclusive. 
Sadly the last fight was the generic deal of arena fighting big things we know from every adventure game these days. Surprisingly it did not introduce a new type of robot..
On the technical note, this game was apparently very buggy at PC release. But most was patched as people said. For me it was mostly smooth though I suffered some crashes, which was annoying after the long loading times up to several minutes.
Sadly the extension, Frozen Wilds, was much more unstable for me with huge framedrops in the latter half, one sidequest that was uncompletable and it’s final quest almost locked me hard because of path finding issues with companions (this game only has temporary companions in missions). At one point I updated my GPU driver but I can’t be sure that was fixing things without retrying. It did enable me to get to the concluding talk at the end of the DLC though.
I surely will play Forbidden West if that comes to PC as well.
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It doesn’t and probably never will. I waited and waited for a sale up until I couldn’t wait anymore and UltraUltra said they were closing their doors. It still never went on sale (after the point I had missed it)
It’s a fine purchase for a good length game. Though the gameplay loop and environment variety doesn’t evolve all that much over the course of it.
(The game was probably made on a miniscule budget, but UU did some amazing project planning to get the most out of all of it. The Voice Acting is extensive for just two people, there’s probably only like 2 character models across the entire game, one chapter features dark “crypt-like” areas, but it’s basically colour-swapped versions of the same Palace props you’ve seen all along.)
So if you ever get a gift card for something, see if you can spend it on this, worry-free.
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