Scary edition of the weekly thread 👻
What have you been playing!
I’ve been playing the re4 dlc! And, on the other end of the spectrum, the original yoshis island, as I had never finished it before.
Playing Path of Exile for the first time! I’m trying a Witch Elemental… Mischief build? I don’t really understand it at ALL and that feeling of being a newb is the most fun thing about it.
I really like this kind of discussion, I wanna see more discussion where community members are the voice as opposed to news where a journalist is the voice.
Dodgeball Academia. It’s an awesome little indie action RPG. I love the art, combat, and character designs. It reminds me a bit of Pokemon (though you don’t catch anything… besides dodgeballs). It’s a 9/10 so far!
I started playing Horizon Forbidden West, while this game is still okay, it seems like it’s taking some steps backwards:
- it’s becoming more AssAssIn’s Creed like, with lots of stuff on the map
- they should retire the focus / investigative / detective vision, because it’s really hard to see now
- the movement is still janky, Aloy feels slow even on a mount. While the climbing doesn’t feel good
- too many button inputs, sometimes they also feel inconsistent, and sometimes it feels like they are running out of buttons on the controller
- way too many weapons / armors that I probably won’t use. Why not discard the rarity type, and let user level up the weapons instead?
- it also has the trap of games with HDR, aka it’s too dark to see
- foliage sometimes obscures the whole thing that you can’t see what’s happening
- while side quests are unique, many of the characters are kinda boring and forgettable. Often I need to sit thru a long and boring / predictable conversation just to get a quest started.
Besides those complaints, I am still enjoying the game. It has an unique setting, and gameplay that prioritizes bow and arrows. However it feels like they are moving into AssAssIn’s Creed bloat.
I’m kinda playing too many games in parallel at the moment. I bought Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty and did prepare to start, but I have yet to start the first mission. I played a lot of Barony, which has been great fun. And in between I also played some Whisker Squadron: Survivor, which is a funny little game imo. Cities Skylines 2 is also close to release, so it’s gonna get even busier then
Recently beat Lies of P.
I am a huge souls fan, and Elden Ring is probably my favorite game of all time.
I was expecting Lies of P to be a competent souls knockoff, but it’s so much more than that.
It has some issues, sure. But I really think the game is superb. I am beyond excited to see what they do next in the genre. They got so many things right.
