For me it should be mostly Immortals: Fenyx Rising. I might also play a bit of Yakuza: Like a Dragon and American Truck Simulator.
I should have less gaming time this weekend because I want to dedicate some of my free time to music. Just bought a Bitwig Studio license and I thus have a lot of things to play with. ;)
Assassins Creed: Valhalla is weird. It’s quite fun while I’m playing it, fighting and seeing what’s at each dot on the map, but kind of boring when I’m thinking about whether I want to play it… but will probably play a bit.
Mainly though I’m going to try Immortals: Fenyx Rising this weekend I think, and see how that goes.
One thing I am definitely playing more of is Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate on the Switch, one of the best rogue-likes.
So if all goes well, probably try and finish Fez and make some progress in Batman Arkham Origins
Clearly I am on the bleeding edge.
Mostly Immortals: Fenyx Rising. I had zero interest in it as of a couple days ago. Now, in my top games for the year. After I got to the Hall of Heroes, I uncleared the fog from that area and have just been wandering around finding things to do. Hey what’s that building over there? Ooo it ha a little fight and then I need to figure out how to get the resources inside. What’s that over there? An arrow mini game.
I enjoy these puzzles. The combat is OK - kinda a means to an end. Climbing a hill to see what’s on top and getting surprised with a goodie is a ton of fun.
I have 12 more days of UPlay+. I think I can get through Fenyx Rising by then. Not sure I’ll play any AC: Valhalla while I can be playing this, but I would like to make it a little further in Valhalla before my sub runs out. I don’t I’ll be able to finish though.
I picked this up a couple days ago on Steam. I guess it’s also free for PS+ people, but I don’t own a Playstation.
I’ll probably put at least an hour or so into it each day this weekend, which will be 10ish games, as they run about ten minutes per match. It’s a great game to just load up for a match or two at a time.
(This is the only screenshot from the game I could find without nudity.)
This is a solid Dark Souls wannabe that took me a couple hours to acclimate to, and now I’m having a blast with it. Though I won’t finish the game this weekend, I’m sure I’ll finish eventually, which is praise in my book. This seems like one of those games that would be even better during a replay on NG+, because of the greater importance proper builds and such would play, but I don’t typically play through these types games more than once. My backlog would resent any extra attention given to this or any other game.
Any gaming time I have this weekend goes directly into Project Wingman. It has some rough edges here and there, but the game is an absolute delight.
Have you tried it in VR?
Doom (1993) on PS4. Holds up very well as a fast action FPS. Finding secrets drives me crazy, so I accept the fact, that I can’t find them all and move on. Also -> some enemies are bullet sponges, lol.
Star Wars Fallen Order. I got it on the game pass for XBox One. The heavily scripted start of the game annoyed me very much. Thank you, game. They should have opened it with the 1st planet, full player control. And introduce the character and the story later. I fixed the controls by rebinding. Attack is of course R1, force attack R2, feels correct now ;)
Wolfenstein New Order. Same story here, heavily scripted in the beginning. I hate it when a game takes control away. It just does not feel good. Hate it.
Bard’s Tale remastered. Some study for a dungeon crawler project. I was looking where to buy it cheap, when I checked Steam I noticed that I already own the remastered trilogy. I don’t know when and why I bought it. Maybe part of a bundle. I can’t remember, I have this condition, did I tell you about it?
Nope, I don’t have a VR setup. Some users have been running into issues, but the dev is hammering those out for the first patch coming up soon.
So you don’t have to fiddle with menus and inventory and stuff too much? That was my main concern from playing the fiddly tutorials in the demo.
I don’t know how mothers play, but I only bother with that stuff if I have to fight a boss for the second+ time (and there are quite a few bosses, I think I’ve fought 9 out of 25+). Other than that there hasn’t been a need for me to mess with much besides swapping out one resist skill for another on fire maps or something. But since I doubt I’m halfway through the game this could all change any time.
There is a bunch of menu diving for unlocking skills or upgrading equipment, but that mostly happens at the home base.
Much MSFS 2020. VFR flights as the fancy takes me. I might be stuffed in my condo as the world collapses around us, but I can still see the world.
Playing Zorbus, poorly
So is this a big game with mothers? From what I have seen it would be more popular with fathers. :)
I purchased Prey at the recent Steam sale and I can’t figure out if I’m disliking it because of the implementation of first person or its because I have the “olds”. I seem to just swing wildly at the mimics instead of aiming properly. Will keep trying, hoping that my aim improves.
I finally bought and started Ghost of Tsushima and promptly got stuck in a silly place–where you go to see the Sensei early on, but are shown his dojo on the hill first, and I thought I was stuck in photo mode but it turned out Jin’s gaze was trained elsewhere and one had to point it at the building to recognize it before it would let you continue.
Also have been playing a ton of XCOM 2 WotC, with turn timers doubled and Avatar Project speed halved, just to avoid frustration. It does seem to make it a bit too easy on normal but right now that’s about my speed.
Company of Heroes
Great choice. I replayed the campaign of that one a few months ago but got stuck at the same point I had before: the mission where you have to hold the top of a hill. I just couldn’t seem to beat it, what with mortar strikes coming in right and left. I think it comes right after the one where you have to take the same hill. I know there’s got to be a way to do it but it probably requires better/quicker micro than I can possibly achieve at my age, even with giving orders while paused.
Should be a pretty good weekend. For Space Game Junkie, I’ll be recording video of Pandora Galaxy. For myself, definitely more Bloody Rally Show, as well as playing the new season in Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr. Also likely gonna buy Capitalism Lab after learning of its existence and dive into that. Should be a good weekend!
Cyberpunk 2077, mostly, I expect. With (maybe) a bit of Immortals: Fenyx Rising and American Truck Simulator on the side.
