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Been playing a new save of The Witcher 3 on my Steam Deck, had played on/off from 2015-2017.
Had originally finished Heart of Stone Expansion, never got to Blood and Wine. Knowing there is another one ahead has motivated me to start a fresh save and do all content.
Heavily modded Skyrim.
I love heavily modded Skyrim. Which mods are you running?
What are you running?
It’s been a while since I’ve played modded Skyrim so I don’t really remember right now. The only ones I can really think of right now are Beyond Skyrim, Apocalypse Spells, Ordinator Perk Overhaul, some College of Winterhold overhaul mod, some ENB and graphics mods. But I know I’ve done way way more than that I’m just blanking at the moment.
About 170 of them. Not able to list them all right now, but I go for a heavy realism run, so Hunterborn, Campfire, Last Seed, Frostfall are mainstays.
Oh nice. I think I’ve used those all before. I don’t usually do a realism run, but the odd time I get the itch for a Bosmer hunter with as much realism as possible.
Finally tried Vampire Survivors. Surprisingly fun to chill with. Only other bullet heaven I've played is Megabonk, but now I'm kinda getting into it. Might be impatient and try Arms of God next for the Doom+Warhammer vibe.
finished Super Metroid last night, and I'll probably go back to A Link to The Past. never played any Zelda title before so I thought I'd check what the fuss is about.
When taking a break from studying at uni today I went to sporcle on my laptop (pro tip: use ublock origin), hopefully anyone nosy enough to spy on me was impressed at my flag-guessing skills. And y9u know what? I'll do it again tomorrow, maybe I'll try and name every country in the world again
Just started Cyberpunk. I gave it a go a little while ago on PS5 but it just didn't do it for me with the controller. I'm only an hour in and I'm already a lot more comfortable with mouse over stick. Keyboard will take a little to adjust to since its been a while since I've played anything resembling an action game with one.
Picked up Stellar Blade because I like games with pretty girls in them. Turns out the actual gameplay is utterly phenomenal.
I just finished Control. I really enjoyed it. I haven’t finished a game since Borderlands 3 (what letdown that was). Now I think I’ve got my gaming mojo back. What would y’all recommend next?
If you enjoyed Control then there is a whole universe of other Remedy games you could potentially explore, culminating in Alan Wake 2. Would highly recommend.
Enshrouded. I've been addicted it to for a few months. Might even finish it!
Space Engineers 2, Terraria, Warframe
I finished Signalis, very Silent Hill-esque story, much better than Silent Hill F's IMO. I need to dig deeper and check the rest of the endings, I got the Promise ending.
I started playing Rule Of Rose and the gameplay is quite clunky, however I like the setting and atmosphere and the story is vague but interesting so far.
Restarted my second RDR2 playthrough because a mod broke my savegame :(
If anyone else is playing, DO NOT install SgtJoe Bank robberies; it breaks interiors.
So, I just figured out I can plug in a PS3 controller to my desktop and RPCS3 accepts it for motion controls basically out of the box for my setup. This means I recently got back into Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time. Literally felt softlocked at the very first motion control section before this!
Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart. After this I'm selling my ps5. Probably my last console. I'm very happy with my steam machine
Just finished Alan Wake American Nightmare. Not too special; glad it was short. I'm pretty far into Abiotic Factor but only play co-op with my cousin so that will be a bit still. I am just starting Cyberpunk 2077.
Sifu
I have a Halloween-themed recommendation this week: Kingdom of the Dead is a fun little boomer shooter with stylized graphics. It's playable on Steam Deck (I had to change the controls), but I'd recommend playing it on a larger screen.
Just saw the screenshots... Wishlisted :D
Started up a new save of Bloodborne on pc and talk about a fine wine. Unfortunately I kept on experiencing freezes/crashes via ShadPS4/BBLauncher, so I've put it down for the time being. I've heard about the newfangled decomp/recomp that lets you run it natively, but idk, I don't really think that scene is for me.
Otherwise I've been chipping away at Dredge and am considering a new playthrough of The Case of the Golden Idol. Never got around to the DLC with the latter, but also just going back through the base game to see all of the artwork again sounds like a good time.
Also, if anyone has recommendations for horror games that aren't Resident Evil or Silent Hill, I'd love to hear them. Can be action horror, survival horror, scary horror, cozy horror, and so on, I'm interested in it all.
Driver: Parallel Lines!
Driver 76 was one of my favourite games on the PSP but somehow didn't get around to play the other games until recently.
I'm still making my way through Dragon's Dogma 1. A bit grindy with having to rank up multiple base classes to get all of the desirable passive skills
Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker. I’m playing through all of them out of order. The controls in the Master Collection are a delight compared to the PSP port on Vita (they didn’t opt to utilize both sticks for some reason).
Is Vita version a proper port or just running the PSP version, like Persona 3 Portable for example?
I think it’s just running the PSP version.
Yeah, that's just backwards compatibility doing its thing so I doubt anyone touched the game in any way beyond testing it works. It would be more surprising if they did put in the work to add the second stick support.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice (I had similar problem with The 3rd Birthday) but it's not really a proper port so it's hard to blame them. Good thing the later re-release fixed that so at least you have an alternative.
How're you finding the Master Collection overall?
I like it. It’s great having all of the games on physical cartridges (I opted to do this on the Switch), and so far everything’s looked and played great. The bonus material is nice, but some of the games are super janky as I’m sure they were originally — there’s a reason they’re bonus material.
It’s neat to see how all of the games have functions that eventually got incorporated into The Phantom Pain but also frustrating in that they’re inconsistent with movement: crouch-walk in this one but no crawl, crawl in this other one but no crouch-walk, etc. Overall, I’m really glad they re-released all of these in one go with only minimal tweaks for the current-gen.
I can see how going through the games back to back could throw one off with gameplay changes, they did not take it easy with each new game that's for sure. I can only imagine how much weirder playing them in chronological order would be.
It's cool to know they did a good job with these collections, I might have to give them a shot as well some day. Thanks!
After more than 500 hours spread over 6 years, many multi-month breaks and 7+ characters I finally managed to finish the base story of Cyberpunk 2077. I went through 3 endings The Path of Least Resistance, The Sun and The Devil - even at the very end things would not go perfectly.
Despite these issues all of the endings were pretty engaging though I can't say they hit as strong as they could under better circumstances. Between multiple partial playthroughs, already finishing the game through Phantom Liberty and being spoiled on the main points of all of the finales, there was just too much going against having a full experience.
As for The Star, I'm leaving it specifically for my next playthrough as my canon ending for the game. Before that happens however I intend to spend A LOT more time in Night City. As mentioned last week, I'm planning to start from scratch just to enjoy myself as a random NPC living their life whenever I feel like it. It might take a few months or a few years, the important thing is that I already beat the game so the pressure to progress is no longer there.
I'm doing a proper setup this time too - mod manager, serious testing and no mod list changes after I start. It should help with instability and other issues I had to deal with this time.
Anyway, that's that. Not as emotional as I'd like but the feeling of closure is just as important. It's certainly better than disappointment. Now to sort through all of my pictures in search for something worth keeping...
I started Minishoot' Adventures two days ago and I cannot put it doen.
Great mix of twinstick / "Bullethell" Shooter and action adventure gamed like the old top doen Zelda games.
Not to easy, not too hard and the game respects totally your Time (no unnecessary fetch quests and it always helps you out where to go when you forgot it)
Can highly reccomend it and I think i gonna do a second run on hard mode after I am done :D