Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th
What have y'all been playing?
I'm currently not totally sure what to play. I finished what remains of Edith finch, and pretty much every short game on my backlog is now done. Everything left is a decent size. I'm between Chrono trigger, finishing/starting over Majora's mask, disco Elysium, and nier Automata!
I've been playing the remaster of Front Mission 1st, mostly. I also found out I had Life is Strange 2, so I'm trying that one.
I played a ton of Cyberpunk 2077. I've done a lot of side missions, a bunch of the main missions and then started the DLC, when the game pointed me in that direction. The game still has many bugs and glitches, but they are pretty minor. The DLC seems to be worse than the main game, although even then it's minor stuff.
Nothing 😭
Doing my second play-through of Stalker 2. Really enjoying the game (140 total hours), but it does still have quite a few bugs. Most of the bugs are minor, but a few have been pretty serious.
The F1 season kicked off, so I played around a bit with F1 Manager 2024 since it was free on Epic a few weeks ago. It's much like the previous iterations of the series - great presentation but vapid and shallow underneath. It's a real shame, because there are things about it that are compelling. Having all those real team radios and proper circuits and gorgeous cockpit views during races and all the official branding does make a difference. In-race management is also pretty damn fun.
The problem is that it was designed by a team that don't understand management games. Everything about it starts falling apart the more seasons you play, which is the complete antithesis of what management players are after. The great things like team radios disappear as you replace your drivers and staff members with youngsters or generated people who don't have voice clips. Nobody has a personality, there are no off-track events that make you invested. The greatness of the perfectly replicated race calendar fades as tracks aren't added or removed between seasons. There are no interesting regulation changes over time that change fundamental aspects of the car or the rules. The power ranking and properties of the engines never change.
There is no soul or depth here to hook you for years upon years and make you want to build a dynasty. It basically only works if you pick a top or midfield team and try to manage a championship win during the first or second season, beyond that it loses its shine. Still, it'll be a decent distraction this week as there is no race to watch.
Trying to finish Trails of Cold Steel II.
My opinion hasn't really changed on it from last time, it still drags and most of the game feels like padding, the characters are uninteresting and the combat is a downgrade from the older games. The tone of the writing also really doesn't fit the setting and that bothers me a lot.
As with CS1, the bond system feels unnecessary and it's not really used for character growth (which would have probably been fine if they were interesting in the main story). I'm still playing only because I really liked the previous games, otherwise I'd have dropped them early into CS1.
Borrowed Nine Sols and tried it for a few hours. It seems quite good, I really enjoy the art and parrying feels really satisfying.
I finished a couple of games last week, SotN and Sayonara: Wild Hearts.
I'm currently back on DOS2 and I quite enjoy the slow pace of the game.
I might also attempt another playthrough of Bloodborne.
I've been playing Sea of Stars for 25 hours now. I love the Golden Sun vibe. The gameplay makes fights interesting and not spam the same attack. Puzzles are quite easy. The story is decent. I will definitely 100% this game.
Sea of Stars was such a fantastic experience for me, I became so enamoured with that game. Hope you have as much of a great time as I did.
Just 100%'d MiSide. A really great horror experience without being overly gory or using a bunch of cheap jumpscares, and there's some fun and silly elements, too.
Avowed is still going strong! Loving it! :)
I’m currently playing Final Fantasy 16, about 3 hours in. So far, so good.
Once (finally) my new monitor arrives, I’ll re-start with couple of games that I had to put down due to monitor giving me trouble (white lines, lagging and such);
I'm between Chrono Trigger and New Vegas, but I'm leaning towards New Vegas.
Currently hoping between CoD:BO6, Space Marine 2, MH: Wilds, and Valkyria Chronicles 4.