Hey y’all! What have you been playing this week? I played a bunch of the recent Talos principle remake. It was cool! The story hits differently with the way the world is with AI but I still thought it was enjoyable. Now I’m starting up the sequel!
been doing escapism to overwatch 2 since march 17, which I don’t know how does it really affect my mental health. I get real mental breakdown from work, then burnout & unable to be productive, but not at all from losing streaks of games.
Enderal and Tetris 99
Diablo 4 season 8
Core keeper, Webfishing, Helldivers 2, and powerwashing simulator. I’ve been in a very chill gaming mood aside from the hectic fire fights of helldivers.
Mainly Guild Wars 2, but Leafblower Revolution recently introduced fishing, so my GW2 time has taken a small hit while I explore this tomfoolery :D
Tempest Rising, the new modern command & conquer game. I really like it, and struggled for weeks how to beat the computer in skirmish on hard as GDF.
Turns out i hadnt realized the huge value of comms…
I’ve been playing Xenoblade Chronicles X.
The combat is pretty fun. It’s a bit more complex than the other two Xenoblade games I played (1 and 2), as there are more support skills you can use and overdrive requires a bit of planning. Enemies also have breakable parts, which add a bit of decision making during combat, although it does still feel a bit passive as there aren’t many enemy mechanics to interact with.
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I have unlocked the Skell after ~30 hours and it was pretty underwhelming. Grounded combat feels more fun and it’s pretty disappointing that you can’t customize much of the mech’s aesthetics apart from color (and I’m not a huge fan of the designs).
The main story is fine and the sidequests are pretty good. They are very short, but they have interesting stories. The “affinity” quests feel like they are the focus of the game instead of the main story.
Blue Prince and Massive Chalice
Blue Prince is such a masterpiece.
Same! Good picks!
Dusted off Raft and started a new playthrough. For all it’s upolished and unforgiving nature, it’s a good game.
I’m on a fire emblem warriors (3ds) kick.
AC: Shadows, still enjoying it after ~28 hours. Couldn’t finish Valhalla due to it just having too much of everything, let’s see if this one’s different. Also, started playing Doom Dark Ages, seems fun!
The Sinking City Remastered was released last week, so I’ve been playing that. I’m having a lot of fun with the newly added photo mode.
Played through DOOM: The Dark Ages. It’s good, and I already wrote a wall of text elsewhere in the comments. The second half of the story is pretty bad, even for Doom standards. I wanna do another playthrough, where I change some of the difficulty sliders.
I loved The Talos Principle! I haven’t played the remake, I didn’t realise they added new stuff I thought it was just updated graphics which didn’t interest me.
The Talos Principle 2 was great, the puzzles were fantastic, some of the new concepts totally broke my brain for ages and had me trying the dumbest stuff because I was fully lost lol but it was so fun! I recommended the DLC too, I loved the Hexahedron in the Isle of the Blessed and I hope they do more puzzles like that in the future.
I just wish the world was smaller and there was less emphasis on the story, when it comes to puzzle games I just want to get to the puzzles asap I don’t want to run back and forth across the world just to sit through cut scenes. I do kind of get why it was so big for the bonus stuff outside the main puzzles and also
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on my first playthrough, I did manage to finish the whole game without completing any puzzles,
which was pretty funny.
I’ve been playing Balatro for what feels like the last 84 years and I constantly rage quit and say I’m done with the game when I know my run is over then stare out the window for a minute and start the game again, its painfully addictive.
I’ve also been playing Angry Birds on the 3DS its so fun. I haven’t played it since it first came out on mobile 15 years ago, I didn’t realise how old it was! I’ve needed games like this for the past few weeks with life being so busy, they’re so easy to pick up and then just pause whenever I need to.
The current Diablo 4 season and I just finished little nightmares, so now I have started Hogwarts legacy
