Folks, it’s been a minute since I’ve posted, but my tastes…they’re still very normie.
I bitched a lot about Modern Warfare when it came out, but pretty quickly discovered that the solution to “ugh everyone just camps in Team Deathmatch” is to never play TDM and just play Domination instead. Probably mentioned that before!
So yeah, I still play that fairly often. Sometimes it’s alright! Sometimes not so much!
Anyway, for whatever reason I got an itch to play Crackdown 3 (I think I got it on sale ages ago), and wound up, uh, playing that all day.
It’s not…good, I don’t think. But it’s extremely mindless fun? I’m probably playing it on way too easy a difficulty, but whatever. I’m hopping around and throwing shit and blowing things up and scratching things off a list. Good podcastin’ fodder.
It’s also maybe one of the better uses of HDR I’ve seen in a game. Like, nothing is gonna top how good those torches in Assassin’s Creed Origins made things look at night, but the art designers just go whole hog in plastering the city with bright neon/holographic signs, and it looks pretty great?
all i’ve been playing is Final Fantasy XIV. it’s a lot of fun and it’s nice to talk to friends while playing, so it’s scratching a lot of itches. i’ve put a lot of other stuff on the backburner, but that’s fine. maybe i’ll finish DQXI next year and maybe i’ll finish Spider-Man uhhhh idk.
super castlevania 4 puts me through many of the same emotions as dark souls 2. (not all of them are positive. most involve some degree of bewilderment)
this may be covered in part by the grotesque games thread, but is there a galaxy oddity for games that come off as distinctly “between generations”?
i’ve owned this game since i was a teenager, and last night i finally finished the berserk dreamcast game. took me about twenty years because the game is hard as shit, and not in a particularly fair way. aside from that, it’s actually still really good. plus having actually read berserk in that time, there’s more to my appreciation of this than just “wow cool violent game i saw in incite magazine a couple times!”
i battled with BJORN THE BEHEMOOSE in dragon quest v and it was very challenging but i beat him on my first try. im obviously in the last stretch of the game but i have no idea how i was supposed to figure out the last couple things i was supposed to do without a faq. ahh…classic jrpgs
After nearly dying and putting it down for a couple of months, I lowered the difficulty and have been going through Ring Fit Adventure daily on a steady clip for the last week. It’s a really impressively put together little package and works better than you might expect. The JRPG battles aren’t deep by any stretch but they do have things like enemy weaknesses, AOEs, healing items (smoothies that you make my squeezing the ringcon to get juice out of fruit), boss gimmicks, etc. Shops with equipment, minigames, the works. It’s nice!
it took me like five tries across two separate releases but I actually managed to push past the early hump and get into pathologic (2)
it’s a very admirable combination of like, twin peaks small town murder investigation + RE4 inventory tetris and herb mixing + mongolian steppe mysticism and folklore
