Monster Sanctuary (not as good as I wanted it to be. Regular Fights take a long time to go through if you don't minmax as if you were endgaming and the plot and characters is kinda meh)
Against the Storm (pretty cool)
And Zelda Toks of the Tiks.
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On Monster Sanctuary:
Depending on where you are in the story/general progression, it really does take a long time for even basic fights. If you don't appreciate this kind of "challenge" I urge you to explore the skill trees of your different monsters. With a bit of experimentation it's easily possible to make some whacky and downright op team constellations, if that suits your playstyle more. :)
Hope you're having fun with the game, (at least in my opinion) it's something special!
Been playing through Cult of the Lamb mostly. It's pretty good aside from some repetitiveness involving your cult management and dungeons, but it's still got a nice amount of variety to it. Quests are super easy to just ignore if you don't feeling like completing them too. Looking forward to finishing it soon.
No one said running a cult was going to be easy.
Replaying Hellblade. I absolutely loved it on my first play-through a couple of years back, and I'm excited to go through it again.
The sound design on that game is amazing.
I've read for years that Prey (2017) was a game you do no research on and just go in blind. My goodness I'm glad I did. Love the game so far at about 2 hours in
I wasn't super keen on the mimics at the start, but the game just kept getting better and better.
I've started Mooncrash but it's on hiatus at the moment, until I find more time or tick another couple of games off the list.
I've been playing Divinity Original Sin II with a buddy. I was pretty hesitant to try it out cuz I haven't played turn based games before, but I'm really enjoying this one!
I've also been not so patient playing Tears of the Kingdom. I'm admittedly a Zelda fanboy and I don't buy many games on launch so I let myself cheat this one time. I'm enjoying it so far, but there's just so much to do that it's overwhelming sometimes.
ToTK looks epic. It's out me though, or is it 100% Eden Ring but Zelda?
DOS2 is on my backlog of shame. Maybe one day.
To be veeeery honest, Elden Ring is actually Dark Souls but Zelda. One game learned a lot from the other, and they're both great. The way I understand it, TOTK is expanded from BOTW and makes it even more of a physics engine game, with people engineering their contraptions (usually to torture the poor Koroks lol)
This is probably fair. Just watching people play it some if the details struck me a weirdly similar. Like starting in a location where a big enemy is riding around on horseback. Having large above and underground worlds.
I just started playing the system shock reboot and Ion Fury. Boomer shooters as a genre are all new to me since they're before my time, but they've been a lot of fun so far.
Ion Furry was my first boomer-shooter. It's really good. Like if someone made the best ever Duke Nukem mod.
This weekend I managed to get in some time with Boltgun and Signals. Apparently I was in need of chunky pixels.
Botgun - Warhammer 40,000 boomer-shooter nonsense.
Signals - Dead space but Silent Hill via the inventory management from RE (6 slots are enough for anyone, right?)
I just finished signalis today. What do you think about games with abstract/obscure style of narrative? Where you have to speculate a lot, fill the gaps yourself and maybe, ultimately, getting out without any clear picture, about wtf happened there at all lol?
It's one of those types of games. I personally tend to like them. Pathologic, for example, is one of most special gaming experiences for me. But after finishing Signalis, I felt mostly frustrated with how incoplete the story was - I haven't even managed to feel any connection with the protagonist and her goal.
Anyway, yeah, it's a great game, that will definitely live in my head for some days, but it's a shame the story didn't click for me.
Yeh, I don't know how far in I am, probably not very, I just entered the mines. I suspect much of the plot is passing me by. Though understanding German is probably a help.
The plot not making much sense is very Silent Hill. You basically needed to get a secret ending to have any idea at all what was going on in SH1. Got the same vibe here.
But I'm happy soaking up the atmosphere and looking at the freaky shit.
I'm not the most patient gamer, and usually I would skip story/lore related notes in games, and even main story cutscenes. Here I was kinda invested.
I looked through the wiki for a couple of hours, and I got the impression, that even the connections between the main story bits are just fans' speculations. But anyway, I think, it would be a good idea to recollect the facts on your own, read about the references and build your own picture first before checking online - I feel like I kinda spoiled it for myself a bit by rushing to the wiki.
I always read in game notes, but still often don't pick up on thing's in games, partly because I'm terrible with names. Not going to spoil it for myself, at least until I've finished it and tried to come up with my own interpretation.
I've been playing Shapez that I picked up for $3 the other week. It's like a chill factorio, so it scratches that itch for me. Apparently they're working on a sequel, so maybe I'll play that next decade when it's on sale.