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  • Does Half-Life 2 count? I played it years ago but fully replayed it over a couple of days to hear the new developer commentary. I never thought Valve would get around to making one for Half-Life 2, so I'm glad they did.

  • Started playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice this week. I may or may not have bought it because I got it mixed up with Ghost of Tsushima, so the fact that it's essentially Bloodborne but in Japan caught me a bit off guard, but it's not bad. There's been three separate times now where I've gotten stuck on a boss, closed the game thinking "I hate soulslike games, this was a waste of money," and then beat the boss on my first try the next day.

    It seems like they took into account the fact that you can't summon friends when they tuned the difficulty. It's not easy by a longshot, but it's not as impossible as other Fromsoft games.

    The posture gauge is my favorite game mechanic. Having both defense and offense move the fight along makes it so much less of a slog than other soulslikes. Normally I just dart around the battlefield getting one light attack in every 30 seconds, but this game has me standing right next to the boss, actively rewarding me for memorizing telegraphs and attack patterns. It's super satisfying.

    ETA: I almost forgot another good thing about this game! You don't level up individual stats one at a time! Some see this lower level of customization as a drawback, but I see it as an improvement. You'll never get to the end of the game and hit an insurmountable roadblock because you levelled up stamina too much. You can get every skill and use every tool. Boss fights become a matter of mutable equipment loadouts instead of irreversible level choices.

    • I've gotten stuck on a boss, closed the game thinking "I hate soulslike games, this was a waste of money," and then beat the boss on my first try the next day.

      Ah yes, the classic Souls experience.

      It's super satisfying.

      It is, being in a 5 minute sword fight with swords clashing all the time is really rewarding. Many of my favorite Souls bosses are from Sekiro.

  • I gave the first Armored Core a try and played a few missions. The movement is rather clunky coming straight from the buttery smooth Armored Core 6. However, the other systems seem pretty robust for the first game in the series.

  • Took me a while, but I finally took the time to play Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2, and recently started Watch Dogs: Legion.

  • Been on Monster Hunter Sunbreak for a couple weeks now. It's absolutely become my favorite modern monhun game, and it's significantly improved my mental state.

    Also playing Redout 2 and Blue Revolver, an old bullet hell shmup that just got a massive game revision.

    Other than that, I was playing NFSU2 because of the 20th anniversary and the release of a great soft-remaster mod

  • I've finally been playing through Mad Professor Mariarti on the Amiga. I saw it played many times as a child but now I'm finally playing it myself - and beating it!

  • Nothing new yet. Well, the last few weeks I started a new character in Valheim, the first one for me since the mistlands biome update.

    Valheim has been on steam for a year or so, but is only just nearing 1.0 release. I had gotten on fairly early to play with budddies, and it was 20 bucks well spent. Played a good bit with my buds, Iv played a lot more solo. Survival/Base builder. Norse mythology setting. Not sure the price now with release imminent, but worth adding to the watch/wish list if the genre is right or you.

    But, iirc the game is called Druidstone. Turn-based tactics game, foresty magic pg 13 looking. Been on my steam list for ever and was 5 bucks recently. Gonna play it soon I swear. I'm a little disheartened because it looks like you are stuck with 3 specific characters, instead of building a party. But hey maybe skill trees? Anywhoots I'll post more about that one later.

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