ConstableJelly

It’s official, folks. Unfetter your hype and submit those pre-orders if you’re inclined.

I have to say, I’m surprised they brought back the MJ missions. I’m trying to remember how much I enjoyed them on my first playthrough, but I can say in subequent ones I was desperate to move past them. Maybe they’ll let you skip them in new game plus like they did for the science “puzzles” in the first game.

Edit: obligatory bring-back-original-peterface. I feel a twinge of bitterness every time I see peterface 2.0.

I just finished Alan Wake Remastered a couple weeks ago. I played it back when it released too, but it didn’t leave a huge impression at the time. My interest revived after Control, which I loved.

I enjoyed Remastered, even completed the DLCs, but I definitely had to push myself through at a lot of parts. The game spends too much time in the forest at nighttime, so the environment feels homogenous very quickly. And I really disliked the enemy’s compulsion to run off screen in different directions and attack you from where you can’t see them. Combat encounters almost always involved running to a corner somewhere and swinging the flashlight just to keep my bearings. Admittedly, the game offers a much greater quantity of tools like flashbangs and flares than I allowed myself to use, but I got irritated from the loop very quickly.

Still, it’s over a decade old and there was a lot otherwise to like. Plus Control was great and Alan Wake 2 is supposed to be top-tier, so I’m glad I refreshed myself on the first one.

I’m one of the weird ones who kinda liked the batmobile. Game just felt really good to play although no argument that it was off balance, especially in the narrative department.

Honestly I loved it my first time through. There were certainly bugs (minor spoilers), but they were more amusing than game-breaking. I’m mostly waiting on new game plus (fingers crossed) to revisit it.

I’ll begrudgingly admit this is a slightly better month. Not much here for me though, I already own Shadowrun and Salt & Sacrifice. I played my fill of GTA V in the five years since it’s original release, and I have limited space in my heart for Soulslike Metroidvanias, which is entirely filled by Hollow Knight.

Plus, at $8 a month, this is far from a bad list for games you get access to forever, even if you stop paying.

Did this change? It used to be that if your subscription lapsed or ended, they’d still technically be in your library but they’d be locked.

Game looks great, but I’m cautious just because none of the Don’t Nod games I’ve played (Remember Me, Life Is Strange 1, and Vampyr) have clicked well with me.

I feel like that list wouldn’t actually be that diverse.

Arkham City
Spider-Man 2018
Arkham Asylum
Spider-Man 2
Arkham Knight?

I’d check the video to see if he lists them out, but I must have some kind of analogy dyslexia, because as much as I respect ACG, his reviews start to sound like gibberish after about the 3rd consecutive analogy.

"I know the game industry is tough and how much work is involved in a group of developers and artists working together to build a game, and the last thing I’d want to do is shit all over that hard work.

So I guess that’s the end of the post."

-@rodhilton

A generation living too late to explore the Earth and too early to explore space–also doomed to live so long in the era between a fledgling, pre-corporatized internet and a free and open post-corporatized internet (which I consider inevitable, eventually, because a capitalist, enshittified internet can’t sustain indefinitely…right?).