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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
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Comment on What have yo been playing recently? in ~games.tabletop
Aldath LinkI play on multiple platforms at once, but here's what I've been spending my time on: PC - Pillars of Eternity 2 - I'm level 8 at the moment, still running around the first major city, Neketaka....I play on multiple platforms at once, but here's what I've been spending my time on:
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PC - Pillars of Eternity 2 - I'm level 8 at the moment, still running around the first major city, Neketaka. I've always disliked big cities in cRPGs, if only because of how large they are. Ratio of running around and talking to people vs. combat is too skewed. I can't wait to be done and go back to being a pira-imean Gentleman of Fortune.
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PS4 - Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Remix - Played KH1 and 2 back on the PS2, bought the remix so I could experience the full game again before the third one comes out. Being able to watch some of the other games as cutscenes is also nice. I've missed out on a lot by only having played KH1, 2, and BBB. I will say that KH1 has not aged well, but I dipped into the 2.5 Remix and it seemed like it would hold up.
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PS Vita - Demon Gaze - A dungeon crawler that was recommended to me by a friend. Some of the art is pretty fan servicey, but the game itself is solid.
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The Callisto Protocol
I've been playing this in sporadic bursts since release. I didn't have the issues so many others were reporting, so I won't really speak much to that; I told NVIDIA to optimize my settings, then adjusted a couple of things, and it's been running well.
It's been a competent survival horror so far. As loathe as I am to make comparisons, the moment-to-moment gameplay feels like a melee-focused Dead Space. Once you've gotten a couple of the baton upgrades (which can happen very quickly) it feels good to bash the creatures around. The boxer-esque dodge mechanic took very little time to get used to. The GRP feels great after upgrading the throw velocity, but aiming it can be a chore at times, as on more than one occasion I've tried to throw a creature into an environmental hazard that instead stopped dead five feet away because its pinky toe caressed the top corner of a knee-high box.
The story... works, for what it's doing. It's nothing groundbreaking or new, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, and I've really only felt one contrivance WRT an NPC you meet early on, but that could be tied to the story, so perhaps it'll get better.
Apex Legends
Not much to say on this one; it's something I play a couple times a week with some friends. Entertaining enough Battle Royale.
Warhammer 40k: Darktide
I will sum up my feelings here because I don't want to get too into it.
The moment-to-moment gameplay is phenomenal, but everything around it is such an un-fun, near insulting chore.
Hades
Another game I play sporadically in bursts of one or two runs, I've got about 40 hours into it so far. A staple of modern roguelikes is having some form of permanent progression baked in, but this goes a step further and incorporates that mechanic into the story. It is expected that you die to further conversations and relationships with the various characters, on top of the usual permanent progression systems. Very easily one of the best roguelikes I've played.