Continuing the discussion from Games You Played Today: 358 Threads Over 2 - #5129 by Tulpa.
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Games With Cheese You Played Today
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Need for Speed Heat is the first game pass game Iāve tried whose PC version is so dogshit that itās actually preferable to play it via cloud streaming - consistent latency is better than constant inexplicable stuttering
Thereās kind of an entertaining racer underneath that, though
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Victory Run on PCE, it has a wierd system, each parts of the car has a status point system, eg if your gear shift was turn red (I guess it turns to zero), thatās mean you couldnāt up your shift and drive the car in lowest speed.
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Ahem
Btw with the thread limit being approached i vote that the next title be
Games You Played Today (Taylorās Version)
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if i remember right, it also has a day/night cycle thatās based on how long youāve been playing, rather than having the sky change from stage to stage. itās a game with a lot of ideas
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maybe itās a joke i donāt get, but this just seems like a reference to modern culture i am trying to ignore??
Just me trying to make a cheesy ātopicalā joke
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been playing A Short Hike on the switch lately. Itās a very ābreezyā type of exploration game. All non violent, some fun minigames, fixed camera and no map. Itās like it was made for me. Itās no GOTY, but it is very joyful.
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When I was rambling last thread about mobility and pacing being the point of open world games, I thought about A Short Hike too. That game is breezy for sure. Fun to explore too. Blessedly short as well. Itās basically a collectathon game, and maybe the only one I ever really enjoyed playing.
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I beat Dark Souls II. Itās a very good video game with a lot of bad parts that frustrate the hell out of me. Best level design in the series so far
draw-distance-fog level with a bunch of invisible enemies? mwah 
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After not really playing anything recent this whole year aside from GG Strive and one session of Splitgate, I decided to see what I missed. Turns out, not much! I mean, Iām doing a sprint of smaller, lauded titles so thereās probably some other things that stand out.
I started with Echoes of the Eye, which probably gave me too optimistic an outlook for the other games I would be delving into. It was about as perfect an addition as could be possible for Outer Wilds. I played so much within four days that I dreamed about it, which was a little unsettling given the material. It is great.
I followed that up with Inscryption which really left me wanting. I thought the start was very strong but that its mechanics and narrative didnāt develop meaningfully afterwards. All in all, it was fine.
Wanting for more of an emotional heart, I then jumped into Unpacking. This really reminds me of florence with its blurry, stereotyped characters. It wound up boring me. After the fourth time putting nail clippers into a vanity drawer, I called it quits.
Now Iām trying to compensate for that gameās a lack of detail with Black Book, but I donāt know if I have more stamina in me to keep playing games before I go back to work.
There were some moments here and there where I thought, āWhy am I doing this? Why am I spending time with these.ā Iāve been getting a lot more fulfillment out of movies lately and itās hard for me to think of my time spent with games as a fair trade.
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Dark Souls 1 is perfect in every way, but I love all the weird systems-design choices they made in 2 while still keeping the overall combat flow the same. The new covenants are cool and interesting (Rat King!!!), thereās a wider variety of approaches, thereās fun environmental puzzles, THE GENDER CHANGE COFFIN, etc. I like it a lot more than 3 because, unlike 3, it maintains the slow and steady pace of Demonās / 1.
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I thought I liked movies better but I hadāt played a game since Friday and was incredibly cranky which was the same the whole month my wrist hurt. The very act of video game must be doing some necessary brain defragmenting.
I watched 3 movies! But that was worthless for my mental state compared toā¦what even did I play last night? 20 minutes of Disco Elysium before getting sleepy?
Oh yeah I picked up that space invaders collection. I should have looked it more carefully because this only had 3 mobile ports and none of the Arcade Games. Iāve played Gigamix as intended! There is almost no point to playing it outside of that circumstance.
You play Arkanoid versus Space Invaders with the PS Trackpad Iām not going to play a mobile game on my television!!
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The Rat King kind of fails because the areas are completely optional. I tried for two month to complete the RK Convenant at release and once players realized the reward wasnāt worth it no one entered that area.
I never got people at the Grave of Saints one, but the Doors of Pharros sees a lot of activity bc itās on the way to the castle, and is also full of water so people move slow and are easy to kill lmao. I didnāt have any trouble finding victims in my most recent playthrough (a year or two ago). Also I like Rat King cuz it doesnāt punish the person ābeing invadedā, since they are technically summoned to YOUR world. Very low-stakes PvP.
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yeah i feel this too, itās kind of interesting. itās hard to see the actual value of games for me but i know that itās doing something important
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FH5 is good, but itās also so saccharine sweet that it starts to make you feel sick after a while. This is the perfect Gamepass game.
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Really wish Dark Souls III didnāt queue up every button Iāve inputted since birth, immediate whiplash coming out of the previous game
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Well this worked last time soā¦ sure would be nice if a mod made this topic sticky 
EDIT: Yay again! 
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