This week, I have only played a couple of games. If you recall last week’s thread, you might recall that I was trying to play World of Tanksand while I could get into the game and was rewarded with a bunch of anniversary stuff but couldn’t get into the actual random battles, which I blamed on my potato laptop. As it…

I adored Subnautica for a while, and then got too annoyed by a specific thing. I don’t like its feeding pace. You could either switch of the need for food and water (which cuts out an important gameplay mechanic), or switch it on, and then it takes all your time. The time you catch a fish for food or water, your…

This weekend I shall be finishing off Dragon Age: Awakening. I’ve done all the main quests and now am just mucking around with runecrafting before the final attack on Amarantine/Vigil’s Peak.

I don’t want to be overly critical of what’s basically a free (at this point) mini-sequel expansion pack, especially one which…

People, I have a problem.

I friggin’ love Subnautica.

Well, thanks to pandemic supply chain issues, my new PC is never going to materialize, so I’ve deleted everything off of both PCPartPicker and NewEgg. I’ll get one eventually, I swear. Until then, I’m stuck on my potato laptop for the foreseeable future, so I’m kind of in a gaming funk since I’ve had tomorrow circled…

I’m playing 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand, which is weirdly good for a game about 50 Cent blowing up half a country because a shitty promoter didn’t pay him for a concert.

Backlogged: Funklord Edition

I went back to Skyrim and started to play a pacifist run. Not truly pacifist, but a zero kills run. Basically a lot of Muffle and Invisibility to avoid being noticed, Calm to stop things from attacking me, and some Fury or Frenzy to turn bandits and necromancers against each other. Plus some of the Apocalypse mod…

I don’t get my new glasses until next weekend, so I don’t know how much gaming I’ll even be doing; but if the stars are right, I’ve got a Terraria session tomorrow and an ongoing Civ 5 game on Sunday. In between I might binge some Hades.

Am slowly finishing to mop up the Riddler’s trophies in Batman: Arhkam Knight Rider, and it turned out a more enjoyable game than I expected. I’m surprisingly not too irritated by the batmobile parts, and I don’t take Batman seriously enough to be irritated by how dumb it is (street thugs keep commenting on the…

Last week I mentioned how I had just picked up 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim but hadn’t had a chance to play it yet, and now that I have hoo boy is the west sleeping on this gonzo masterpiece. It’s definitely not for everyone, being 70% visual novel by volume, but if a hybrid point-and-click adventure/RTS is something you’d…

I’ve been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for a while now. When I was first getting used to the controls I’d accidentally pull out my gun at NPC’s when I was trying to talk with them. I once even unloaded my shotgun into The Trapper when I was trying to sell some furs. I now have to consciously make sure that I have…

I agree with the entire review, however, my biggest complaint is that the main character Ellis, just isn’t likeable. Say what you will about the movies, but each of them has at least one character that you can root for despite all that’s going on.

I finished Sonic Generations last Friday and have been just dipping my toes into the water on a few games to see what I want to play next. Played through Jotun in a couple sessions. I liked the feel at first, and the achievements really encouraged mastery of the fights, but the last of the five minor gods I played was…

I have been blasting my way through THPS1&2 and it’s occurred to me that I can’t think of many other games where they got the mechanics so right on the first attempt that change has basically remained unnecessary for 25 years.

Huh, I made practically the same joke. I told my friend that I imagined the goal of a Blair Witch game being to make your way out of the forest before you died. You’ve got food/water/energy meters and meager rations. You’ve got a compass and a map that somehow don’t seem to help at all; the forest seeming infinite and…

I finished Knights and Bikes and it was terrific. Easily one of the best games of 2019. The way it captures childhood make-believe and that sense of being a bit overwhelmed by everything, it’s just great. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Pure joy. Missing it already.

Thank you for this review and specifically this little gem. It was a great read.

So much Tony Hawk, it’s basically consumed all of my gaming time, plus still having fun with Fortnite, because it’s the only game my partner enjoys watching me play.
Spooky Season starts soon, so I’m going to have to play a ton of Dead By Daylight and go find a cheap/used copy of Until Dawn