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Love Oblivion, the window mod is amazing (allows you to actually see through windows instead of the bright blue light they usually have). Anvil is my favorite city, but I love how distinct they all are
Legend of Grimrock it’s an old school style dungeon crawler… brings back memories of games from the early 90s for me.
Played it around 2012/2013. I really enjoyed it! They absolutely nailed the aesthetics, mechanics and music.
Sniper elite v2 remastered. Pretty fun on the steam deck with gyro aiming.
https://navigatorsharp.itch.io/steponit
Lego racers brought back by fans. Worth a look.
I saw that yesterday too, I was messing around with it for a bit. Really cool.
Ooh, like Manic Miners! I’m definitely gonna have to get this one.
I just downloaded and started DC Task Force, a free fan game like those old 2D beat-em-ups, last night. It’s pretty cool how there’s almost an entire open DC universe to explore and fight in, with actually a ton of characters to collect and play as, and a lot of cool detail throughout.
ZVitor, the guy who made DC Task Force has also made a bunch of other free fan games like Marvel Infinity War (basically DCTF but Marvel), and remakes of old arcade classics like Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage and X-Men Arcade.
This looks amazing!
It’s super fun! Each character has alternate color palettes you can play with too. Like Batman has a colorway that looks like his TAS version, Superman has one that looks like MoS and a TAS version too. I’ve only unlocked Hal so far, but he has a red color palette
I fell into Frostpunk again. I love the game but have the unhealthy habit of spending way too much time in front of it and never stopping after a reasonable time.
Me: … Is that the sun?
RTS games. Never again.
Exactly. These games have no chapters or natural moments to stop playing, so you keep playing forever😅
A few years ago I played an Empire Earth skirmish for 13 hours. This was the last time I played an RTS.
I started FTL for the first time a few days ago and it’s hard to put down. You look at screenshots and it doesn’t look too interesting, but it’s well-designed and clearly very polished.
Even though the gameplay mechanics are quite different, Loop Hero feels spiritually very similar to me.
MLB The Show 26.
Blur
I picked up a cheap Xbox 360 last week so I can use Bad Update and Blur is my go to game. It’s a shame it’s not backwards compatible on the newer consoles because it’s an excellent combat racer.
Finally got around to playing Rogue Trader, its a great game, been sitting on it for a while. Its a bit hairy to get into, but rewarding when you do.
I’ve been jumping back and forth between three very different games since last week. They differ in gameplay, themes, atmosphere, art style and age, leading to a pretty significant whiplash when switching between them. These titles are: Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Cyberpunk 2077 and Dressmaker.
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
It seems I’ve hit a wall with this one - not in terms of difficulty but rather annoyance. The further I get, the more annoying new enemies (or their variants) become. I’m not going to say “the game is bad now” or anything like that, I just need a short break to avoid burnout. I’m also back home so it’s harder to just step away from my desktop and hop on the Steam Deck but that’s a “me” issue.
I’ll be back soon.
Cyberpunk 2077
I keep chipping away on this from time to time in an attempt to finally complete the main story. I managed to reach Phantom Liberty ending a few months ago but I never got past the start of act 3 of the base game - I complete the parade, do a few side quests and that’s pretty much where my playthroughs usually end.
I’ve updated and expanded my mod list, refreshed motivation to continue and decided to complete the game “eventually” rather than “as soon as possible”. I had to drop the difficulty a notch as my idea of playing extremely underpowered character doesn’t mesh well with the mod adjusted damage and the amount or type of mandatory combat this game has. I’ve been also having some issues with crashes when reloading saves - can’t say redoing sections in such circumstances is a welcome prospect.
So I’m back again, right before the parade. Can I stick around till the finish line this time? No idea. The only thing I can do is try.
At least I got some neat screenshots again.
Dressmaker
As the title suggests, it’s a cosy crafting game where you design and make dresses. There are dozens of individual dress pieces you can mix and match to come up with your ideal design, huge number of materials you can use to piece it together and tons of accessories to make it look exactly the way you want it.
Gameplay is also really good. You start by taking measurements of your client, then selecting the design for each piece of the dress (bodice, collar, sleeves, dress) to fulfil their requirements. Once that’s done you have to cut the necessary pieces from the material (gotta spread them the right way to avoid waste), align these pieces on a mannequin and get to sewing. The last part is a simple mini-game, where you manipulate the piece to keep sewing according to the marker - the better you do, the higher quality of the dress. What’s really great is the fact that the controls during this part are set up to simulate the act of real sewing (you press space to advance and mouse to rotate the fabric).
Last, but not least, there are accessories. This is technically an optional step (at least in the requests I’ve played so far) but some well placed additions can completely transform your creations so it’s definitely worth playing with.Besides client commissions, you can also just design and sell your own ideas. In this case you get to skip the first step (measurements) and don’t have to stick to specific requirements (style, main colour etc) - simply go wild with your imagination and make the dress of your dreams. Or whatever you’re able to do with your available funds/materials.
It’s a fresh release (came out last week) so not exactly a good subject for this community but it’s great so I wanted to mention it. It’s also really cheap (about €15 without the launch discount, I believe) which is pretty awesome.
To be clear, I’m talking about this game, not the application with similar name also available on Steam.Wife and I are grinding remaining skins in Sonic Racing Crossworlds which is our favorite local multiplayer racing game these days. It’s really good! Actually better than Mario Kart
Pokemon Red
Picked up HeartGold the other day. So many memories playing Gold back in the day.
Roblox unfortunately
I mentioned last week that I planned on being impatient with the release of Control Resonant, but that did not end up going well for me. Where I live has really shitty satellite internet, so in order to download most games I need to make a 1.5 hour drive to a family member’s beach house to take advantage of their sweet normal-world download speeds. Got there Tuesday, preloaded the game Wednesday, and was on my way by Thursday morning. Unfortunately, the devs pushed what was supposed to be an update/hotfix Thursday for the release of the game, but that got bungled and resulted in preloaded versions of the game being deleted automatically, which I found out about once I had made it home and got ready to boot up the game. Honestly, I wasn’t even mad, I knew patient gaming is the way and I chose to stray from that path. Oh well, way she goes, boys.
So now I’m kind of considering jumping ship on my plans for Control Resonant and instead doing a replay of some other Remedy games. Specifically Alan Wake Remastered, then Control, then Alan Wake 2. I’ve been meaning to replay the first Control for quite some time and the Alan Wakes should mesh nicely with the upcoming spooky season.
Additionally, I think I’m going to put an indefinite hold on buying games through Steam because GOG just lines up better with my values/interests and usually encourages a more patient approach to gaming.
And as far as what I’m going to play this week, I think it’s the perfect time to do another playthrough of Crow Country.
