Batman Arkham knight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_Ebb

Such a fun game. Its dnd like.

…after work today it will be deltarune. Looking forward to that.

I don’t know. I have a vague state of being this week, so I really don’t know.

I finally got Cyberpunk since it was on sale and been playing it on my Steam Deck. I’m only a few hours in but I’m blown away by how pretty and performant the game is.

I typically scoff at AAAs, especially after CP77’s initial release, but they seem to have smoothed out quite a lot and filled out missing chunks. I can see myself sinking the next few weeks of free time into this one.

Luigis Mansion

I finally got around to 3ds.hack.guide and started playing LM on the 2DS. The controls take a bit if getting used to but it’s still a great game.

Balatro

I finished my first run yesterday but still have lots to discover :)

I never got to finish Randal’s Monday when it launched, so picking it up now again after many years.

I just finished Avowed yesterday. I give it an OK 6/10.

Visuals and exploration were top notch. The music was fairly forgettable. The story was OK… IMO it had too much speaking in metaphors to be coherent at times. One of the companions was cool, I didn’t really like the others. The ending of the story was very abrupt and followed by a huge dump of written exposition.

The combat felt pretty good (I played wand wizard) but got old as the game went on as there weren’t many new abilities or gear from mid to late game. The gear upgrade system was survival game level shit… open chests for 60hrs to get mats to upgrade. The gear itself was mostly pretty boring stat boosts. Unique gear is just better making all other gear useless. The uniques don’t have particularly interesting effects.

I’ll remember the world and the general world building fondly but not much else. Hopefully if there is an Avowed 2, the gear and ability systems will get more fleshed out. If you’re gonna try it out, I think it’s worth it on sale.

Next up is Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time. So far i’ve spent 1.5hrs on character creation and getting the game to look good with a decent framerate with the help of OptiScaler.

Edit: I actually ditched Optiscaler now. Using Proton-GE I added the flag PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 to the Steam launch options and it works great. Along with some tweaking of the graphics settings this got rid of some flickering/textural/lighting issues I had (i7-9700k & RX9070).

I’ve had a couple of weeks where I’ve been in a real gaming rut. I guess part of it is the World Cup taking up a lot of time and brain space, but it’s not solely that. I’ve just not really been able to get into any game at all recently. I’ve played a couple of hours of Lost Odyssey but it hasn’t hooked me. I also feel a bit fuzzy in the head and lacking the focus to commit to a hundred+ hour JRPG. I played a bit of Splinter Cell: Double Agent on Xemu Xbox emulator but I’m not quite feeling it. I don’t know what I’m in the mood for, maybe I’m just not in a gaming mood at all. But… I feel like there is a hole in my life I want to fill with a game, I just can’t find the one to fit the shape of it. Eh, I guess I’ll just keep scrolling my backlog, I’m bound to find something eventually…

I’m rollicking through Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Die Nazis, die.

$5 on steam, works on Linux.

I fired up Stellaris and I’m kinda annoyed at how much has changed since I last played. Like you don’t even have the FTL options any more. I specifically wanted to use the gates this time and was confused as to when and where you’re asked to choose that stuff; looked it up and found it’s not a thing anymore. Along with a few other fun things I loved about the game at launch.

I don’t suppose anyone knows of any mods that return some of those things back to how the game was when it first came out, do they?

I’m playing Heretic. Because it’s always installed and it’s a quick way to have fun and unplug the mind.

Playing some arcade-inspired modern-retro stuff and enjoying it. Not sure which I like the most of my pickups, but as a recommendation Freddy Farmer has an OK amount of content and challenge for a game I paid €2 for.

I played Fable: Anniversary last week and finished a good playthrough. I started Fable 2 a few days ago, and I just finished the Spire. Once I finish 2, I’ll start a new game on Fable 3, which I still kinda love even though it was incredibly rushed and you can definitely tell while playing.

I’m still playing Quantum Break and Cronos: The New Dawn. A couple of technical issues have slowed me down a bit.

I’m mid-chapter 4 on Quantum break and I had to restart it yesterday because the game bugged and I fell through a broken bridge and didn’t die when I should have and the game autosaved right there, leaving me with no way of getting out without dying, which took me back there again. I saw the Night Springs easter egg in the beginning of the chapter, pretty funny.

In Cronos I was having trouble with

that was being made even more fun with the help of my dying XBOX Series controller. The USB-C port was dying and I had to hold the controller in a very specific position to keep it connected, but sometimes even the vibration disconnected it, and it sometimes took a couple of seconds for the game to register the controller disconnected. The triggers get stuck while pushing them most of the time now, which made charging shots a unique experience. The extra tension was not welcome. I finally bought a new controller (8bitdo Ultimate 2) and yesterday I was able to get past that section, but it still took me a couple of tries.

Planning to finish Doom Eternal, then start on my next game in my backlog, Caves of Cud. Not sure what to expect or why I bought it in the first place but we’ll see! Was thinking about setting up a streaming thing too, not for money but just for fun.