Finished Any Games Lately?

Wrapped up Horizon's Gate this evening. I could explore some more and unlock the rest of the classes while doing a whole bunch of modded-in quests, but I think I've gotten the lion's share of the fun out of it. I liked most of the tactical combat, but it rewarded more fiddly optimization than I was really interested in giving it towards the end.

'The Warriors' (PSP, but played on the Vita)

Disco Elysium, played mostly on cloud streaming (GeForce Now). Boy, what an excellent game, I don't know why I waited this long to finish it. I waited for the voice acting update and I'm glad I did, it makes the game much more engaging than when I played during the original release. I hope to go through it again as a co-op game with my partner, just ride passenger while they play through it.

It's a shame there won't be a follow-up, looks like the talent at ZA/UM got routed by the new owners. I'm going to keep an eye out for the creative team and the projects they work on in the future.

I watched credits roll on Dead Nation. One of the few HouseMarque games I hadn't spent a significant amount of time with. I really enjoyed it.

mr_n00b wrote:

I hope to go through it again as a co-op game with my partner, just ride passenger while they play through it.

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Haha perhaps. We might just take the chill route and try not to disappoint Kim. Like ever.

Wrapped up Spiderman remastered last night. Didnt 100% of it but had a great time with it. Waiting for Miles morales to go on sale to play that as well.

I just finished Syberia, the first in a long list of point-and-click adventure games I want to play this year. I wouldn't say that it was great, but I found it quite charming and enjoyable, so the dollar it cost me was well spent.

Also, a few days ago I finished Spinmaster, the 1993 arcade game Data East made for the Neo Geo, and I had a great time with it. 2023 is going to be the year of old games for me!

Alan Wake's American Nightmare. It was OK. I enjoyed it more than the original. Even though it followed a Groundhog Day structure where you replay the same three maps, it still somehow felt less repetitive.

I just finished (for the second time) King's Bounty: the Legend. Played on normal difficulty as a mage, where much of the fun of the game is finding the most efficient way to obliterate as much of the opposition as possible with magic while your army watches bored from the sidelines. This was something of a low-effort game to play for me, with several objectively better games to play on the sidelines that I simply didn't have the mental energy to give the attention they deserve.

I finished playing the Portal 2 coop mode with my nephew. I had played it before when it came out and did all the challenges. I don't think he'll be into doing those achievement challenges. Anyone got any suggestions for good coop puzzle games? Ibb & Obb came up, so I got that for us to try. I'm having trouble coming up with anything else though!

We had tried Sea of Thieves and No Man's Sky. Both are difficult when you only have a couple hours a week. Portal 2 worked out way better where we felt like we were getting somewhere, and it was easy to find a stopping point.

The recent Lego Star Wars would fit the bill if it’s anything like the other ones.

Pode is a good one.

Blanc is out in a couple of weeks and looks promising, too.

Finished the FPS / rhythm game mash-up Metal: Hellsinger. Quite an enjoyable game, the combat was satisfying and the soundtrack was wicked. My only complaint was that the final boss was a bit frustrating, I ended up having to drop the difficulty to finish it. I think there was a missed opportunity here. Instead of a conventional boss that just spews a lot of difficult to avoid attacks at you, they could have based it around a djent track with some absurdly skewed time signature that's incredibly hard to keep the beat to, or maybe a funeral doom song that only lets you fire at 5bpm.

I also finished A Plague Tale: Requiem. An amazingly well put together action-adventure from a relatively small team. I would describe it as highly enjoyable based on the gameplay alone, but when you take the writing and story into account, man, that sh*t was f*cking grim.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I finished playing the Portal 2 coop mode with my nephew. I had played it before when it came out and did all the challenges. I don't think he'll be into doing those achievement challenges. Anyone got any suggestions for good coop puzzle games? Ibb & Obb came up, so I got that for us to try. I'm having trouble coming up with anything else though!

We had tried Sea of Thieves and No Man's Sky. Both are difficult when you only have a couple hours a week. Portal 2 worked out way better where we felt like we were getting somewhere, and it was easy to find a stopping point.

Not exactly puzzle games but It Takes Two is brilliant in terms of varied gameplay. Operation Tango was quite fun but challenging and at one point, after three or so missions, we hit a bug that wouldn’t let us proceed. I’ve seen groups of streamers play Human Fall Flat and have a wail of a time but I’ve not been able to persuade others to play it with me. Orcs Must Die 3 is very puzzly on higher difficulties.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I finished playing the Portal 2 coop mode with my nephew. I had played it before when it came out and did all the challenges. I don't think he'll be into doing those achievement challenges. Anyone got any suggestions for good coop puzzle games? Ibb & Obb came up, so I got that for us to try. I'm having trouble coming up with anything else though!

We had tried Sea of Thieves and No Man's Sky. Both are difficult when you only have a couple hours a week. Portal 2 worked out way better where we felt like we were getting somewhere, and it was easy to find a stopping point.

There's the Trine series of games (Trine 2 & 4 are the better ones). I've heard good things about We Were Here Together (also a series).

Not a puzzle game but one that is fun to play co-op (I played once a week with a couple of friends to finish the campaign) is For the King - a turn based RPG adventure.

Thanks for all the coop suggestions!

Steam World Dig 2. Hey first game finished 2023. Pretty good. 10 hours and done. 69 percent done but I’m happy. Being crushed to death is the worst death.

Finally finished off Cyberpunk 2077. Kind of a weird game, really. Does a whole lot of things, but most just feel like they either aren't fleshed out enough, aren't utilised much, or just plain ordinary.

Yet it kind of still ends up greater than the sum of its parts. I guess part of that is because the story and setting are both quite strong? Regardless, I do think it's well worth playing, but go in with correct expectations. I feel like a lot of people were expecting/hoping it was some kind of cyberpunk Fallout or Witcher, but it's more like an open-world cyberpunk Mass Effect.

Anyway, now that's over, I can start making a proper dent in Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Finished Hunted: Demon Forge after seeing a YouTube video about it being an unknown gem from about 13 years ago. Enjoyed it, less than 30 hours and although badged as an action RPG it really was an "on the rails" hack and slash. I never actually worked out what some of the crystals did and why you collected money when there was no shop but it never got in the way.
Nice little story, you can flick between 2 characters (but I found it was easy just to play as the archer) and the female characters were designed by teenage boys.
Decent but unlikely to play again.

Yeah, I wouldn't go so far as to call it a gem, but it's better than its reception would lead you to believe. I played some of it when it came out on the PS3, then a few years ago dug it up and got almost to the end, only to be distracted by something newer and shinier. I'd go and finish it off, except I have such a backlog of more modern games calling to me.

Koning_Floris wrote:

For the rest I play a lot of MP games.

I'm glad I'm not into MP games. Setting aside the fact that I stink at them and exist for no other purpose than to populate the bottom of every stats board, I would never get to "finish" anything either. Oh, but it would be nice to sometimes have friends online to enjoy my pathetic noncompetitiveness ... HA, no time though...

Been playing Divinity 2 (not Original Sin) on and off for about 4 months and just finished at 70 hours. Really enjoyed the game, some challenging puzzles and great gameplay. Also heavy on the humour. The dragon bits were good but the last part of the game, the DLC that is, had a long stretch which was a pain before the final fight.
Story interesting as well, worth giving a go but definitely rough around the edges even for a 13+ year old game.

Just rolled the credits on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on the PS4.

Finished off Luna's Fishing Garden. A cute little game. Only takes about 3-5 hours to finish. Basically you're a girl who gets caught in a storm that trashes a series of islands. You clean up those islands, do a bit of fishing, do a bit of fetch quests, do a little bit too much of sitting around waiting for numbers to get bigger. There's a lot of busywork going from a to b, that saps some of the fun out of it. It's alleviated a little by the short run-time, but it's still there.

A decent enough chill-out game though.

Finished Floodlands. Learned about this city builder survival game during last year's steam next fests. It's got great vibes and the exploration of the world is interesting and the choices to go down different techs, laws/civics is interesting. Random events keep you on your toes (played on medium, I think). Enjoyed my time playing....except for the bugs. I didn't run into as many as indicated by the steam reviews did, but they are there. I lost about 4 hours of progress because of a save corruption. The bigger problem is since I didn't notice and didn't quit the game ever save after that for the session was corrupted too (even the auto-saves). I turned off the auto-saves and seemed not to happen again.

It's a shame, seems like it's been abandoned by the devs at this point, it just needed some more time in the oven to iron out some of these issues out.

Today, I finished Return of the Obra Dinn. This game deserves all the hype it's received: it is, frankly, a masterpiece of visual storytelling and such an interesting deduction / mystery game. The longer I played, and the more fates I solved, the more I realized how many clues -- even for people and deaths I had already identified -- were buried in every little vignette. If you think this game might be your thing, and you haven't played it yet: do.

Also, not crazy long, I think I was just under 9 hours in finishing everything.

I've had it on wishlist just waiting for another sale on Switch, for months it seems.

I think I bought it during the holiday sale in December. I managed to get a bunch of Switch games relatively inexpensively then.

LastSurprise wrote:

Today, I finished Return of the Obra Dinn. This game deserves all the hype it's received: it is, frankly, a masterpiece of visual storytelling and such an interesting deduction / mystery game. The longer I played, and the more fates I solved, the more I realized how many clues -- even for people and deaths I had already identified -- were buried in every little vignette. If you think this game might be your thing, and you haven't played it yet: do.

Also, not crazy long, I think I was just under 9 hours in finishing everything.

Woot! Incredible game.