I'm still learning Cities Skylines, and zoning out with Age of Empires II HD & American Truck Simulator.
I bought What Remains of Edith Finch today and beat it in one 2 hour session. It was great, easily the best walking simulator I've played (which isn't many, but I do enjoy the genre). Its a real guy punch of emotion, in a good way. Its about the story of the Finch family, and the fates of most of the members being found out by the last surviving Finch, a 17 year old girl named Edith. It was a well crafted story, with all the individual stories of the family members being told in unique, creative ways. It was $20, but the story was so good I don't mind paying $20 for a two hour story. I pay that much for a good movie, and this was like that but interactive. I also got the Telltale Games Guardians of the Galaxy game today, along with a murder mystery groundhog day puzzler called The Sexy Brutale (both for PS4, just like Edith Finch). My brother got Arms and Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Switch, and I'll probably try both of them.
Yesterday I bought Papers Please. Yesterday night I finished it. I should probably do it again and try to keep everyone ALIVE this time..
I just finished MDK 2. I really enjoyed it -- loads of fun, especially the humor. I don't like "all out" shoot-em-ups. I prefer to have some puzzle solving. MDK 2 featured a decent amount of puzzle solving, although I wish it went further and offered a few more sophisticated/complex puzzles. I really enjoyed the concept of having 3 protagonists that you get to play one at a time. Also, the range of things you can do, like operate different vehicles, jet packs, powered surf boards, plus a whole boat load range of weapons and defensive devices. Super creative. And the range of aliens / enemies was pretty nifty. Alas, Interplay had considered making an MDK 3 but it was never realized. A shame. Is there anything else out there similar to this?
I REALLY hope they don't delay Far Cry 5 again. March can't come soon enough! I noticed they made Far Cry 2 backward compatible on Xbox One. I'm tempted to give it another chance, as I rage quit years ago when I kept having to clear out the same areas of the same enemies over and over and OVER and OVER again.
Just finished Mass Effect: Andromeda, the ending feels so rushed like not the boss battle but the cinematics after it.
The cinematic after the credits implied there was more to come in DLC or a sequel. I enjoyed the overall and am sorry to see the franchise shutdown. I'm currently playing through Minecraft Story Mode, peak Telltale. AC: Origins, Ubisoft dun gud. And replaying Dead Space bit by bit.
Didn't like The Sexy Brutale, so now I have Final Fantasy XV. I'm not sure how it will go (I hate Dudebro stuff and most of my favorite FF characters are women, and this whole game is apparently 3 of the dudeist (dudeiest?) bros going around being idiots, but I'm hoping the gameplay compensates for the story, especially since I don't expect a good story out of any FF game at this point (with IX having the last good story). I also read the wikipedia summary of Kingsglaive since I'm not hunting down a mediocre cg movie to get backstory to the game.
Today bought Nier Automata and Nioh, about to start Nier. Why do gamers seem to tolerate having to sit through 45 minute update install every time they start a new game? Like "SO EXCITED ABOUT TO START A NEW GAME and...have to wait...45 minutes...hrm okay now to kill some time". This seems like an issue that the gaming companies could solve if they really had motivation to. There's no other consumer product where the users would not get pissed about this. Feels like progress moving in reverse here, like the sort of thing we would have gotten used to putting up with in the 80s and 90s but now got solved with improving technology. This update is 93 ****ING MINUTES. What am I installing a MacPlus game from 20 floppies?
Any good? I thought about playing it or Sim City. I've always thought about playing those games though I wonder if I have the patience or skill to play them. I even downloaded the original Theme Park the other day, god I loved that game on my AMIGA 500+ as a kid. Just started Rise of the Tomb Raider - aside from the writing, it's a good follow up to the reboot.
Once I learned the interface, I started really enjoying it. Transportation is harder to manage than SimCity 3000 or 4. SimCity 3000 is probably the easiest, but I have a strong sentimental attachment to it -- it was the SimCity game I played the most in middle/high school, and I really liked the advisers and petitioners who would ask the mayor to this-or-that. SimCity 4 or Cities Skylines are better city simulators, though...there's more detail.
Been playing Pokemon Ultra Sun lately along with Fire Emblem Heroes and a bit of Pokemon Shuffle and Pokemon Go.
I've finally been making some decent progress on Horizon: Zero Dawn after struggling with it for a while. I just finished up the story arc dealing Erend and his sister.