Another week, another recommendations thread.
Let everyone know below a game (6+ months old), that you have played recently, are currently playing or intend to play soon.
I’m currently going through Little Nightmares for the first time. I’m having a lot of fun! It’s short and sweet, and if you enjoy good atmospheric tension and not just jump scare city, then try it out!
Stand back while I blow nobody’s mind: Hades is pretty damn good. I’m not a big fan of rogue likes, but they’re making each run easier as you upgrade. And I guess also maybe I’m getting better. But it feels like doom in the sense that these mobs should be the ones afraid of you.
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I grabbed the Batman pack off the Steam sale - Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight. I had played Asylum on PS3 way back when but got stuck on one of the late game fights and never went back to it. Very fun, I’m a pretty casual gamer and it’s good at making me feel capable even when I’m just doing average. Almost done Asylum and looking forward to getting into the other two.
With OpenMW v0.48’s (non-RC) release imminent I was reminded of how I’ve been wanting to give Morrowind a fair try since forever, as I’ve never really played the game, just seen parts of it as I watched my cousin play many games back then. Last week I actually started playing. I don’t know how far I’ll be able to get through the game as some of its gameplay mechanics really are rough to get used to. But so far I’m farther than I’ve ever gotten in the game, so that’s something already :).
I came across a philosophical take on Morrowind that not only stuck with me, it pulled me deeper into the game. I don’t know the origin of this take, but essentially it’s that all the versions of this main character that you play, infinitely varied as played by everyone in the world, have all co-existed in the same infinite cross-dimensional slice of time, which the daedric prince Azura has locked in a time loop. This has resulted in stories of what actually transpired being vague, and most of Morrowind being obliterated after the events of TES III.
There is something both moving and creepy about feeling like I’m contributing to the machinations of this seemingly benign daedra, whose aim is ultimately one of the pursuit of perfection and humanity, which is so impossible to achieve, it can only be expressed like a chronological equivalent of a math equation that approaches infinity, but with the lives of those poor people of Morrowind, and the never-ending reincarnation of Nerevar.
Creepy indeed yes 😅. But certainly an immersive way to pull yourself further into the world, I imagine. Thank you for sharing!
Crusader Kings III. Please don‘t play it if you‘re a busy person or have busy days ahead, it will wreck your schedule.
Just got horizon zero dawn (2017) on the steam sale and I am loving it. Only about 2 hours in. It’s been on my list to play for awhile. Glad I’m finally playing it.
Just finished off Shadowrun: Hong Kong, it was a really well written story and the RPG mechanics are easy to pick up, the game has some funny UX choices but I could deal with it, and there’s tons of content on the Steam Workshop like extra campaigns.
I’m also starting Divinity Original Sin: Enhanced Edition, I played the first release of this when it originally came out and didn’t really enjoy it, but I’m excited by the Baldur’s Gate III release coming soon, so I thought I’d give a Larian game another go, it’s been interesting getting back into it and it’s going well so far.
Just started playing Tooth and Tail with some friends. It’s an arcadey gamepad-oriented furry indie RTS game. It draws obvious inspiration from Animal Farm and Secret of Nimh - it’s a bloody revolution in a furry pseudo-Russian setting, where the animals are fighting over the process by which they decide who gets eaten. The single player campaign is dark as hell and excellent. I played through the first two single player campaigns and had 3 other guys who’d never touched it were kicking my ass inside of an hour. Very easy to pick up, which is rare in an RTS.
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Not the first time I tried it, but this time something clicked and I really enjoy it. After getting what to do with the spells I was amazed at variety of weapon you can create. Great game
