
Shooters!
- Black Ops 6 (mainly zombies & story)
- The Division 2
- Ghost Recon: Breakpoint
I'll probably put my military shooters away on Remembrance Day tho and just chill
I'm playing as much Dragon Age: The Veilguard as I can fit in
Lots of Disco Elysium and I need to catch up on my WoW.
In other words Baldur's Gate 3 and HELLDIVERS 2 will ruin my plans.
Probably some Taxninaut, maybe some LOTRO, I don't know yet.
My plans:
- Complete my first playthrough of Trials of Mana, the remake.
- Complete Crow Country.
- Play some more Monster Hunter Rise.
- Relax while playing Webfishing.
We'll see how this all pans out.
Metro Awakening - So far this has been a bit disappointing. One for bugs and the other for a bit of the gameplay. The main gameplay complaint I have is not much is interactive. In the Metro games you're scrounging around for ammo and materials. So this would be the perfect VR game where you would need to go through drawers, push books aside, lift up items to find materials.
But the game is more basic than that. Can't even open any drawers. So a big miss there.
There are some nice touches such as having to physically wipe off your face mask when condensation appears. And the backpack has basically everything on it so if you want to change a filter you have to unscrew it from your mask, pull a new one off your backpack, then screw one in. It's kinda satisfying.
But for bugs the two main issues are One, the gun aiming is off, you actually have to aim a fair bit lower than expected to hit anything. Others have reported the same issue so I'm not alone. Two, the game is so dark on PCVR. Even at max brightness it still feels like it needs to be slightly brighter. Anything lower and you can barely see anything in the game.
There's some other annoying minor bugs like characters mouths not moving when they're speaking and some low-res textures popping up. So hoping a patch fixes all that soon.
Got it on the Quest 3, which has crossbuy, and allows me to play the PCVR version too. But the Quest 3 version suffers the same aiming bug and there is no antialiasing being applied, so lots of jaggies. A 3rd party program I use called Quest Game Optimizer should fix that however as it allows you to increase the resolution - just waiting on the author to create a profile for the game.
Will still play the game this long weekend regardless.
Update: They released a patch the other day that resolved the weapon aiming issue. So all good there now. For the game being too dark it turns out it was a setting I had on for Virtual Desktop which makes darks even darker. So, once I turned that off I could see a hell of a lot better. Those two changes really changed things and enjoying the game.
Gonna try to finish the stories of my main party in Octopath Traveler II.
Also, I want to finally start Cyberpunk 2077.
Well, didn't get that far in Octopath last weekend, so gonna take another run at that. Want to get back to Cyberpunk, but after this week, I feel like I need to shoot some things instead. Therefore, I'm thinking whatever boomer shooter that catches my eye the next two days.
Beneath Oresa I was desperate for it to come to PS5 and searched for on a whim only to find it had been out for months without me realising. That’s the second time that’s happened.
Resident Evil: Village for me.
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf
I don't care if it isn't the actual name, it is still a cooler name.
Also Dragon Age but I think I’m getting close to finishing it.
Also just noticed that Nimrods: Guncraft Survivor is now out in early access, I played a lot of it in one of the Steam Demo weeks. As the name suggests it’s a Vampire Survivors clone but instead of powering up abilities, each time you level you choose one new weapon attachment for your gun, with no limit to the number of attachments you can equip (aside from whatever the theoretical maximum level you can attain is). It’s also set on one huge map that keeps opening up new areas as you complete objectives and defeat bosses. It’s not my favorite Survivors-like game (toss up between Bio Prototype and Brotato) but it’s up there.
I'm also playing Dragon Age for the second weekend in a row.
I am now basically plowing through the DEATHLOOP end game (46 hours in). I got the weapons I like and skills I prefer; I am wrapping up the last couple of story branches before I undertake the final, "perfect day" runthrough that should be the culmination. There are still tons of secrets that I am stoically refusing to look up on the web, but none of them seem to be critical for completing the main storyline.In short: love it , love it, love it. I love the story, the style, the graphics, the atmosphere, the gameplay, the writing, the performance (did have one crash, though), and the holding power. Awesome game. It bumped up Dishonored 2 dozens of places up on my imaginary Pile of Shame list.
And then, completely unexpectedly, tonight I finally dove into Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. I had it forever (maybe even preordered, I don't remember), and it popped up on November Humble Bundle, being the only game in the bundle I already had. Turned out Abe already has it on Gamepass, so I went in for "the orientation" and instantly burned 3.5 hours on prologue and couple public expeditions... I play as an Ogryn, of course, and I really had a great time those first couple of hours.
Resident Evil: Village for me.
How did you get on with Teslagrad 2 Mario_Alba? I'm not sure if I completely missed your post in another thread or did you bounce off it?
More LOTRO, where this time I think I shall be joining the expedition over into Mirkwood. There's only so much Lothlorien you can do without sunglasses.
Other than that, I finally got around to starting Like A Dragon : Infinite Wealth. I've completed the first chapter, so am off to Hawaii apparently, but I'd have to say that nothing about it is really grabbing me thus far, so it remains to be seen whether I get much further.
I picked up the Trese Brothers bundle and have started Templar Battleforce and Heroes of Steel. They are good.
There may be some more Sandrock. We are approaching level 18 for our shop and slowly churning through the community projects.
Empyrium is tricky. On the one hand I'm having fun. On the other hand I'm struggling to feel motivated to expand and exploring has not felt as impactful as I was expecting. Which is why I picked up the Trese bundle, but I fully intend to push into Capital Vessels before I decide whether to walk away.
Mario_Alba wrote:Resident Evil: Village for me.
How did you get on with Teslagrad 2 Mario_Alba? I'm not sure if I completely missed your post in another thread or did you bounce off it?
You did not miss it --I just did not say anything. I am about an hour in, but I am extremely terrible at controlling the main character, so I've put it aside in frustration. It's pretty, though.
You get an ability further in that completely changes your play style if you go back to it
That's good to know, because I do want to go back. I am encouraged!
I’ve done something stupid. I’ve been playing through Metaphor: ReFantazio and I think I’m about halfway through. If anyone wants to confirm that I’m at
the early part of Virga Island
Then I just bought Dragon Age: The Veilguard and started that last night. So I’m juggling 2 big rpgs. And I have a 5-month-old baby.
Still kicking it with Xeonblade 3: Future Redeemed DLC, and getting close to the end. It's a solid entry, but it's also hopefully wrapping up before it outstays its welcome. And probably keep going with Super Mega Baseball 3 with the franchise.
I’ve done something stupid. I’ve been playing through Metaphor: ReFantazio and I think I’m about halfway through. If anyone wants to confirm that I’m at
Spoiler:the early part of Virga Island
Then I just bought Dragon Age: The Veilguard and started that last night. So I’m juggling 2 big rpgs. And I have a 5-month-old baby.
I did that too a week back (minus the 5 month old baby). Dragon Age is a much more chill game than Metaphor, and with ... everything ... it felt better to play at this time. I'm sure I'll go back to Metaphor later.
The Halo Infinite update. It's pretty good. The 3rd person view looks to make things a bit crowded. Also Vampire Hunter, it's very fun, and brightly colored for a horror FPS. I said the Halo HUD is a bit crowded, but stacking a bunch of guns along the bottom and sides, plus over the shoulder weapons that hang to the left and right of the top of the screen is absolutely insane.
I decided to try out Avatar Frontiers of Pandora on my new PC. It seems that it has picked up a bug that makes it unstable on the current version of Windows 11. So yeah. Great.
I have a couple of Archipelago games going with some friends. Multiworld randomizers where you can find items that are sent your friend's games and vice versa.
Turns out Heretic, Doom '93 and Doom 2 on UV are pretty hard randomized!
Only thing it's been (besides wrapping up some M:tG deckbuilding) has been completing my Minecraft compulsion of Build A Glass Obelisk. Perhaps I'll expand out, or perhaps I'll go where the whims of fate take me next (either within or without Minecraft, been really listless this week).
Two classics this weekend:
- Castlevania Symphony of the Night (PS1)
- Terranigma (SNES)
Not sure why I waited so long to play SotN, that game's pretty good!
Hoping to play a mix of Final Fantasy XIV, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Coffee Talk, and Coffee Caravan
Well, I'm not entirely sure. Got a Smashing Pumpkins gig to catch, and some much needed training to do... If there's any time left over, I'll likely split small sessions among Lost Odyssey, Cyberpunk 2077, and Monster Hunter Rise.
Death Stranding - I just started this up on Xbox Series. I'm not a Kojima super-fan or anything but I'm already feeling this and get a sense for what he was going for. Too bad I was playing this later in the evening, got sleepy and dozed off slightly during one of the lengthy cutscenes. Not a knock against the game (yet)... it's different, a bit opaque and requires my full attention.
The Division 2 - I have a MUCH more appreciation for this game after playing some less mechanically-satisfying third-person shooters. I've started a new save on the PC version. It looks glorious in ultra detail and runs like a dream. Yes, now I remember: this game has some of the most satisfying firefights of any TPS in recent memory.
CoD Black Ops 6 Zombies - Gotta keep grinding away
Stretch Goal:
Dragon Age Origins - Started a nostalgic replay a couple months back and may return to it again over the weekend if there's time. Ya for Game Pass, I don't have to mess with my old 360 disc and can just download digitally, play with a controller and not have to deal with eye-bleeding font on the Steam version.
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