Been knocking stuff off my backlog, just finally got around to finishing HITMAN (I liked the different mechanics in the last two Patient Zero levels). Still not sure what I’ll pick up next. I’m actually doing pretty good cleaning up my PC backlog, but I’ve got a bunch of console stuff to work on still.
I hear you, I’ve been chipping away at my backlog myself. Finished five games since the turn of the new year so far, and working on cleaning up Shadow Warrior 2 now. Thinking about it, I may have finally cut my backlog under 50 games, and most of them are actually on console at this point. Kind of crazy given it kept…
I’m waiting to play till later, didn’t feel like either paying a subscription plus buying the game to have it long term and get to play day one, or dealing with the problems of not doing one of those. I’ll pick it up when they seem to have worked out any kinks and have a sale instead.
Shadow Warrior. I’ve managed to knock out five games from my backlog in the last month, hoping to keep the pace up. Going to do Shadow Warrior 2 afterwards, then maybe Far Cry 5.
Not sure since I’m doing them in order, but I will say that the game is definitely buggy. Even with the SRP bugfix, it’s still problematic. Particularly artifacts and the faction war bit.
STALKER: Clear Sky. I’d been meaning to play the entire series for a while, finally decided to get around to it, since I wanted an FPS with loot and I was running low on them.
Yeah, this killed my decision to buy it at launch. I love playing online games specifically at launch, while they’re fresh and everyone is rushing through content. Admittedly, Anthem lacks some of the features that make that experience, but I still love this subgenre enough that I was on the fence buying it at launch…
That’s kind of an interesting point, since if you look at a lot of what they release, the bug fixes are done by the community. While this is extraordinary even for them, they don’t really have a great history with such things.
I’d consider this an example of who the actual ‘consumers’ benefiting from competition in this marketplace are.
I admit, that’s not the kind of thing I expect to need feedback. Still looking forward to it though, could use more loot based shooters.
Agreed, I still miss it. I’d quit after maxing out, and intended to play again later (hopefully after they stopped hating on farmers and went back to their original update schedule), but then I hear the whole thing is shutting down. Real pity, it was one of the better D2 clones out there.
Does developer discussion/trademarking count as announcement? Maybe Chrono Break in that case. If not... I really don’t know, the only really major cases of vaporware I recall off the top of my head were The Last Guardian, Duke Nukem Forever, and BG&E2. All of which are either released or at least getting major news.
Subnautica. I’d been vaguely interested in it up till Epic offered it free, decided to take a glance. Was surprised by how good it is. I’ve put probably twenty hours in already.
Cleaning up some of my backlog, more specifically I’ve finally gotten around to playing Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Honestly enjoying it, it made me consider how much more I tend to enjoy this type of absurdist theme. As strange as it may be, I often find them more compelling than settings that try for realism.
Honestly, while I know it’s the same amount of time I feel like there was less change packed into the last sixteen years than the previous. At least in the sense that such a game would encapsulate. It actually makes me worried in a strange way for progress.
I mean, lets be entirely honest here I was going to buy this either way, but I will admit that I’m appreciating the sneak peek at what we’re going to be getting here.
Still playing with Grim Dawn’s expansion, but considering starting to work on my backlog again. Which I’ve actually been doing decently on for a couple years, it’s down to around 50-ish games now. Not so well this one though.
By double the enemies, do they mean active enemies? I recall it limited those to 12 at a time, which was disappointing. I could definitely go for murdering larger numbers of demons at once.
I mean, to be clear here it was obvious that company went down after the whole Blizzard North/Vivendi fiasco a decade and a half ago. Not saying I disagree (if anything you’re understating things, and didn’t even get into D3's itemization or the bastardization of bnet), but this isn’t really a suprise.