Due to the fact that I finally got a “real” GPU towards the start of the year, I’m finally playing the graphically intense vampire survivors.
Also, cyberpunk 2077, which I’m still pretty early on (10-15 hours?), but it’s much less bad than I expected based on the thread. Some of the game is janky, but I’m enjoying some side missions and the main plot seems OK so far - but I know not to rush it, so I’m mostly just doing side missions so I can pew-pew people.
Also, Immortals Fenyx Rising, because @BrianRubin posted in some thread about how it was super on sale. This is the game getting the majority of my play time, as it’s good to pick up and do something for half an hour when I have it free. It would probably get old and wearing if I tried to really binge it, but I don’t have the time to bing any games right now.
To my shame, I got to the very last fight of Elden Ring and decided I don’t care, so it sits forgotten on my hard drive, wondering if I’ll ever give enough of a fuck to start it up again. Probably not! Great game, but for me it was too damn long.
(Example: I played the latest Assassin’s Creed this weekend, and it’s terrible! Or I played Sniper Elite 3 and I’d recommend people go back and give this one a second look. Or I played Outer Worlds last weekend, and it continues to be pretty mediocre, but I still enjoy it and recommend it).
So I am going to replay Dragon Age: Inquisitions starting today. I have the DLC now and figured to give it a try. But man are the controls unintuitive, and I have played this once already.
Not a lot of time this weekend, but I’ll be checking out Interstellar Space Genesis (PC), the new No Man’s Sky expedition (PC VR), and on the table I have Burncycle that just arrived, so probably a bunch of reading rules and drooling over components there!
You say this like it’s a joke, but getting 60fps during the endgame was an actual incentive for upgrading to a new PC. The current overly-demanding nature of the game is why they’re in the process of porting it to a new engine.
Anyway, I also played Vampire Survivors on my day off. A new update came out on Monday and added a lot of new content that I tore through on Tuesday.
My other day off this week is tomorrow, and I’ll be playing Assemble and Install a New Computer Desk 2022.
During my just concluded bout with COVID (when I wasn’t feeling too crappy to play at all) I was all over the place. Some Control, Days Gone, No Man’s Sky (after a 3.5 year hiatus) and finally Trek to Yomi on Game Pass.
We are down to the last 3 bosses in V Rising after last weekend so getting ready for the upcoming weekend on the new ARK map Fjordur on the Qt3 ARK cluster.
The disappointment that is Diablo Immortal has got me back into its polar opposite - Grim Dawn. Working my way through Forgotten Gods which I haven’t actually done to completion yet. And timed as they have just dropped another patch as well!
I’ve been indulging in some gaming comfort food recently and playing combat challenges in the Batman Arkham games. One intensely annoying thing that happens in Arkham Asylum and makes you break your combo is this: you’ll be on a decent streak of hits and you see the visual indicator of an enemy behind Batman’s shoulder just about to hit him, so naturally once you land the blow you’re on, you push the counter button (triangle on PS or Y on Xbox). Unfortunately in some cases like that Batman has moved just far away enough from the dude about to hit him for the counter button to have no effect and make you, the player, lose your combo. GRRR. Which really sucks if you’re going for a high score or even better, the Flawless Freeform Bonus.
I don’t know if moving the stick to where the attacking mook was (assuming you remember correctly) when hitting the counter button would yield a different result, though. Anyone know?
I actually finished Cyberpunk over the weekend! That’s quite an accomplishment for me. I feel like lately I’ve been hopping around from game to game, not finishing any of them.
