What are you playing this weekend? 2024-08-16
What are you playing this weekend? 2024-08-16
Still playing Borderlands 3 as my main PS game. 2 vaults down, don't know how many more left.
ATOM RPG is hard! I don't recall having such trouble with Fallout 1 and 2. Either they weren't this hard or I have become used to easier games. I think my problem is how I distributed my stats, giving me a very intelligent but a weak character, that keeps dying in actual fights.
Read up a bit on it about character stats, and thinking about starting a new game with new character.
While I kept dying in ATOM RPG, I looked through my backlog and started Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All. I loved the first one, but took a break before diving deep in the next one. So, playing through that now. Still a great game, might even be better than the first one. I'll probably finish this before I go back to ATOM.
Also started Trails in the Sky: Second Chapter on PC. Prologue was very interesting, just started Chapter 1. Playing it slowly on the side, when I generally don't have access to PS and Switch, not cause the game isn't fun, but because I don't enjoy playing on PC much. Fortunately only Trails in the Sky is left on PC, and all other games are available on console, so shouldn't be too much of a trouble.
What about all of you? What have you been playing?
Wz2100, wow, gitlab.
I was just talking about this a few days ago. A friend mentioned Warzone, and I got excited that he knows about this, but then it turned out he was talking about Call of Duty. 😀
It has been years since I last played it though. How does it hold up now
The legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure. Finally beat Trails from Zero yesterday, so i guess i start the next one.
Nice. How did you like it? Compared to other Trails games.
It's better than trails of cold steel 1, but that's not really hard i guess. I would say it's probably a nice start to play the better Trails to Azure (at least some of you say it's better), but i wouldn't say it's the best. The first half feels more like doing a lot of side quests, while the second half is more exiting. So far Trails of Cold Steel 3&4 are my favorite, it's not on that level. I don't know about the Trails of the sky games in comparison that well anymore. But i would rank it about Trails of Cold steel 2. While it's kinda nice how the Story envolved in Crossbell, you do a lot Backtracking and visit always the same places. But things that go for it, it has a simple graphic with a lot 2D sprites in a cheap looking 3D world, but some of the presentation is kinda charming. I like how the manage to do the Arc en Ciel part for example.
Gonna do some QTEing with Zenless Zone Zero. Gonna do some detective-izing with Nobody Wants to Die. Gonna do some couch co-oping with Cat Quest 3.
How are you liking ZZZ? I liked the original trailer, but am not a fan of free-to-play games.
Nobody Wants to Die is pretty short, you should be able to finish it over the weekend. Would look forward to your review.
Cat Quest is purr-fect for playing co-op! Have pun!
Starting Ghost of Tsushima, got it on sale!
Enjoy the hot springs!
I absolutely cannot stomach the newer Trails games; it feels like they fully leaned in to every anime trope hitting the millennium. But Trails in the Sky 1 and 2 are some of my favorite JRPGs, and I played them well past the age they came out in.
Something about the sense of adventure, the heart-wrenching emotional faults of the leads, as well as the maturity they take towards roles of leadership and governance, made it especially memorable to me.
Going from the next game on, they start repeating a lot of unnecessary patterns and get into Dragonball style “power escalations” that get really tiring. While the trope of getting an early forced loss to a powerful big bad is a common one, they start doing it multiple times in one game and it gets very annoying.
Hmm... well I haven't played the newer ones yet, but from what I have seen, most people who have played all the games rate Cold Steel below other games in series. Though people liked the latest one, Daybreak, I think.
Madden just came out. I wasn't going to bother (even though I'd buy way before it's discounted), but seeing flashes of polish from our rookie QB in preseason games got me back in football mode. Annoyingly, custom playbooks don't work online, and the play art in the new version is really goofy, but it plays fast and there's a big gap between making the right decision or not.
I was playing blasphemous 2 before that. It has a lot of the similar feel. I don't really like the thorns building up on multiple deaths, though. I'm buried in the currency, so it's more just an inconvenience to go all the way back to fix it than an actual "cost" of sloppiness.