It’s December! Which means vacations and deadlines. Which mean unreliable schedule to post weekly threads. So, bear with me this month, I’ll try to post them on time, but if I don’t, don’t worry, we should get back to normal weekly posts from January.
And since this post is so late, going to make it a post for this week and the next. Now, games!
Playing Fortnite, my kid regularly plays it, but when I saw the Lego Fortnite trailer I got intrigued, gave it a try and loving it. Also playing Rocket Racing mode. Haven’t gotten a chance to try the third one, Festival I guess it’s called.
All other games are on pause due to lack of free time, except for Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1, the smaller size of Vita makes it much easier to lug around, so getting some hours in the game when I don’t have anything else to do.
That’s all from my end, what about all of you? What have you been playing? Or meaning to play over the holidays?
After realizing I don’t actually enjoy Starfield any longer, I started playing BG3
I had some nagging feelings about Starfield from the start and I hoped they would go away. Many of the overhyped features lost their shine quite quickly.
I did give it a real chance and have about 60 hours logged. In the end what killed it for me is how small it feels. It’s just a bunch of levels connected by fast traveling, lots of locations are copy and pasted, the „capital of the universe“ has like 20 buildings and feels dead, etc
I have 300+ hours in Skyrim, and I am more likely to return to Skyrim than to Starfield.
Also, dragon shouts in space? Ridiculous.
Regarding BG3: I’m enjoying it. It’s a bit steep for someone who didn’t have much exposure to the D&D universe and D&D overall, but I already see the depth and the replay value. It’s a great game.
It’s Skyrim, but instead of overworld exploration and emergent encountersa, it’s fast travel from mission to mission. As someone who put 350 hours into Skyrim, it really hit me that half of the fun to be had in Skyrim was the overworld exploration and emergent encounters.
The universe feels very small when you complete a mission, open up your mission list, and after a brief loading screen are standing in another city on another planet with a new set of tasks.
That’s why I said in my comment below that I just want to fly my damn ship into outer space. The system would have felt so much more satisfying if you could select a mission and then that star is highlighted from your in-ship augmented display, and you press the buttons to warp there, and then you’re at the edge of that solar system and can navigate to the specific planet in real time. During that time, you might encounter pirates, or find an asteroid mining installation, or hear a distress call, or detect a fleet of ships near a moon planning an attack.
And that’s another thing: the backstory for this game is all about the Colony War, a conflict between three sides that involved mechs and xenowarfare (using alien creatures to attack settlements). That sounds amazing: why didn’t we play in that time frame? By the time we’ve joined the universe, everything’s resolved and relatively peaceful, except for random psychopaths. I guess Bethesda didn’t want to invite ethical questions about killing people who were fighting for a good cause on each side, but, like… why not?
I was super hyped for Starfield, was thinking about getting Xbox just for that, but the reviews are disappointing. I can see that there might be a game that I may “enjoy” for 40-50 hours, but it doesn’t seem to be what everyone was expecting.
Good luck with BG3!
Animal Crossing New Horizons. Received this two Christmas ago and enjoy playing now and then.
But on man do I wish I had a dodo code to an island where I could get cherry and pears.
I have apples, oranges, peaches, coconuts yet can’t get the others.
Vegetables I have tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, wheat, and sugar cain.
It’s ridiculous that you can’t use miles and get to an island that has the other stuff.
If you have Discord they have a very active community, or well it used to be active, haven’t checked in a while.
If you don’t have Discord, let me know, I can return to the island and send you my code. I haven’t really played in a while, so place will be a mess, but at least I can give you the fruits.
Quick question but you have a link to the discord? Couldn’t find it in search.
That’s the discord, people are generally pretty nice and helpful, though it has been a while since release so I am not sure how many people would be active.
Made me look at the calendar, I thought I had been in a coma for a few days!
… It is Wednesday, right?
I’m out of town and didn’t think a lot about which game to bring, so I just started a second playthrough of Pokémon Scarlet with only flying type Pokémon. I didn’t even like the first playthrough that much, but I had wanted to do a monotype run of any game one day, and this one was right here, so here I am. It’s ok I guess.
Made me look at the calendar, I thought I had been in a coma for a few days!
… It is Wednesday, right?
Haha yeah, this is last week’s thread which got delayed, so posted it now as a combined thread for this and next week.
Good luck with monotype run. Wouldn’t that make almost impossible to beat a gym leader if he has umm… whatever is the weakness of wind.
Bravery and Greed was on sale for $10 so I took a chance on it. It looked like it would scratch the rogue like itch for me and I have not been disappointed.
Multiplayer side scrolling rogue like. Four classes. Four different character paths for each picked from three random perks found at shrines. Four gear slots counting the wand with fun unique abilities (boots of flying for example).
Also playing Mario Wonder with my son. I expect both games will be on rotation all winter and spring.
The Deponia collection was a steal. Seems very Monkey Island-y. I liked the monkey island series so hopefully I’ll like this. I’ll be playing Deponia.
I tried little big factory before but I called it quits after realising it’s not for me. Also bought Move Out on sale but just seems too repetitive, maybe it’s more of a multiplayer game than single player…
I played Deponia series quite a while ago, the humour isn’t to everyone’s taste but I liked it, but it had the same issues that most adventure games have, very convoluted puzzles. So, I gave up and didn’t play them anymore.
You mean Little Big Workshop?
And yeah, games like Move Out are fun playing with others.
