Usually games that are often updated. For instance, Dreamlight Valley, even though I've finished most of the content still gets updated regularly with new content even in the base game.
I'm really curious about that one. How does the game start, and what's it like as you progress? Is it single player?
Well, if you've played any crafting rpg like Stardew Valley, it's kind of similar. The idea is that you're thrown into a dream world inhabited by Disney characters, but there's corruption going on as part of the main story and the way you progress is by completing quests. Each character, which are unlocked with further progress within the story, give you these crafting related quests. Some quests even require you to unlock characters by visiting their own world, like say the Lion King world, or Moana, or Beauty and the Beast. At first the play area is quite small, but you'll unlock access to more places as you progress. If there's one criticism I have, it's that the quests are not particularly deep, and can be rather repetitive. It's a single-player game, but about a year ago they added the ability to invite friends to your session.
Well I don't have friends
so that doesn't matter and I don't like online playing with other people either so that's fine. I prefer the single player experience.
I bit the bullet and got Dreamlight Valley. That first part of the game with the night thorns is tedious.....
The tiny little house you start with only one room. Where do you sleep? is there a sleep option?
The tiny little house you start with only one room. Where do you sleep? is there a sleep option?
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I'm very early in Jedi Survivor, only got through two bosses. I'm not sure if it stays that way the whole game but I'm finding a whole lot of enemies are so good at guarding you don't get a major opportunity to damage them until you land a couple parries, otherwise they block everything.
The kind of platformers I've gotten into in the last few years are things like Celeste, Hollow Knight, Metroid Dread. Technique heavy games where strategy is about figuring out how to find your opportunities to damage while getting out of the way of attacks. Getting out of the way of attacks is fun, memorizing reaction windows is not fun, in my opinion.
I'm kind of liking the platforming puzzles so far though I'm feeling they're too linear with not enough creative solutions. And sometimes things that look like they should work don't because of invisible walls.
Actually in Jedi Survivor the thing I'm struggling with the most so far is when you're dealing with a melee enemy and a ranged enemy at the same time without any cover. Particularly the recovery time between attacking and being able to evade is *really* throwing my gaming instincts from a lot of games much more friendly about letting you evade when you want.
One thing to add about Trails Through Daybreak 2. They are *really* overdoing the time rewind mechanics. In small doses it works, but the amount they use it it feels like "Oh my God, they killed Van! You bastard!"
An amazing castlevania fan game for PC called The Lecarde Chronicles 2. Its good. I forget I'm not playing something official.
Strider 2014 on PS Plus. Fantastic game, can't believe its 10 years old.
9 Sols on Gamepass, but its paused until I put some more money on the card that pays for Gamepass lol.
Strider 2014 on PS Plus. Fantastic game, can't believe its 10 years old.
9 Sols on Gamepass, but its paused until I put some more money on the card that pays for Gamepass lol.
Not really. You just enter your house and your energy replenishes. You can also do this by sitting on stuff in the game world, but sometimes just entering the house is quicker. And btw, about the house, you can expand it although it's not straightforward. When you enter your house, you have an active square near the entrance which is where you make modifications, such as adding floors and rooms. It's kind of clunky. Strangely enough, the game doesn't tell you how to do this.
And yes, the night thorns are a little annoying, particularly because it's the game's way of gating progress, especially early on. You might have noticed that they block you off to certain areas.
And one of my biggest peeves about the game is just how grindy it can be. I've only got the core game, and none of the expansions (because dang it, they're expensive) , yet I've completed everything up to the Aladdin content which they've just released. But because I don't have any quests left, it means I have to grind away with gardening and selling to slowly accumulate enough dreamlight to open up that world. I feel that's a problem with the end-game content. Too little to do in ways to be able to gather up what you need.
I think my fav part of the game is watching characters from other worlds interact during quests, or just in general. Some of the interactions are quite funny. And the voice acting for them is quite good too. Although there are some characters where the one-liners grate on my nerves, ie Mike & Sully from Monsters Inc for instance.
I'll be curious to see what you think over the course of the game.
I finished Balsur's Gate 3. Ending was just ok. I am a little disappointed that I couldn't save Karlach from Hell, and only I could join her, but my team not
I must revise this statement.
Its one of the best Castlevania games I have ever played.
Well now I found a second game that I thought I'd never like but have kind of become hooked on. Forspoken.
This will probably be my second favourite game right next to Forbidden West. Loving the freedom of movement inside this game, and the huge open world.
Dreamlight Valley is coming along and even that I am finding fun
This will probably be my second favourite game right next to Forbidden West. Loving the freedom of movement inside this game, and the huge open world.
Dreamlight Valley is coming along and even that I am finding fun
There are 2 Karlach endings. The first one either you or Wyll join her and if you join her then Wyll also joins her as well. They patched in a second version where it can just be the two of you with Wyll still in touch but it's more a couple third wheel situation.
I feel like Karlach getting doomed to hell was the set up for a major story DLC but with everything that's gone on with Wizards of the Coast, Larian backed away from DLC. Though with all the patches and new classes they've been putting at it doesn't seem they've completed moved beyond it. I hope they can change out there minds on this one... the team getting together again for one last adventure to rescue Karlach from Hell could be an epic DLC. TBH it could be it's own game with Karlach as main plot A and Astarian's vampirism being secondary plot B (on that one you could say that Astarian didn't originally do the ritual but after years of trying to cope with his sunlight averse state, he can't handle what has taken place again and so he does do the ritual. And with Gale upjumped to godhood that could be one helluva game.
Really? It got so much hate that it kinda kept me away from it.
Don't believe the gamer bros and the haters. Make up your own goddamn mind
It really is a fun game. Yes Frey is kind of a cookie cutter character and the spoken dialog is a little clunky but the traversal, the fighting, and spell casting mechanics in this game are really fun.
When games cost $70-80, it is hard to take that hit if it ends up being something you don’t want to play.
That's a fair point. I got my copy from G2A which has lower prices then places like steam
i get my games from places that cost ... .well, nothing.
i tend to stay in my emulation / fangame / ROM hack sandbox, with on occasional outing on the high seas.
I've paid for a few things on playstation plus when they have their crazy sales though. lol.
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