I've been working on Abaddon, (a first person Lovecraftian horror game) for Almost 4 years now, this journey has been amazing, I can't believe It's almost ready for release! If you are into horror games please consider wishlisting it as it helps me out a lot! Thank you all so much for the support ❤️

But players online who have hopped in already are reporting that the DLC’s main questline can be completed in about two to three hours

Seriously you greedy assholes?

Today’s game is Ghost of Tsushima. I was originally planning some more Final Fantasy 8, but I came down with something that made me sick and really wasn’t in the mood for a RPG with how much strategy it can involve sometimes. I’ve had this installed for a bit so I opted to play this instead. Its combat requires a lot less thinking and I already know the plot from borrowing it from my local library and playing it all in one week (seriously, Libraries are great).

The thing that was most memorable to me was this games grass (that and a few story moments). The game has really pretty grass physics that make me just want to sink into the grass and lay there. The color grading on the game also is gorgeous. The colors are like a sort of pale but vibrant shading that I’m in love with. It reminds me of early spring.

My favorite section of the game are these Hotsprings. They really were memorable to me my first playthrough years ago, and upon playing again I love the way the smoke sits on the water. I don’t know if it was a problem with the PC build but the shadows really seemed to dislike the water there though.

I made it as far as one mission because my controller (an old PS3 DualShock) doesn’t want to play nice with the game for some reason. So I can’t sprint. That leaves me only with walking which makes getting around a lot slower. I sunk some time into the mission where you’re hunting the Archer’s prodigy and then got off to try and fix the bug. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it fixed because it’s causing issues and I’d love to play this simultaneously with FF8.

Team 17's Bullfrog-like strategy game releases next month.

Steam link (thanks to @bluegrass_addict@lemmy.ca): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2213700/Sintopia/

"When asked how he feels about there being less prolific “auetur” developers in the scene, like Hideo Kojima, Suda51, SWERY, and Kenji Eno, Niikawa suggests that this might be due to the “corporate” nature of the video game industry. “That’s a bit unfortunate, to be honest. To put it in my own words, I feel like the salaryman-ification of creators keeps progressing,” he says. For context, a “salaryman” in Japan refers to white-collar workers, employed at large corporations, who stereotypically prioritize work over anything else and are subservient to their organization."

"On the other hand, when you’re a developer who works for a company, various other factors, like company policies and decision-making, as well as profitability, come into play, making it more difficult for “individuality” to come through..."

Isn't this also happening in the West? In any case, AAA rarely appeals to me; almost underground-like indies/mods/Foss games are the places to find the really experimental works.

Waiting for the "Whoops, we 'forgot' to remove it".

Today’s game is some more Halo. Today I felt a little experimental. You might notice that the aspect ratio is 9:16 rather than 16:9. I in fact did not crop it but went through the effort of setting up my monitor that way to get experimental with portrait screenshots. I’ve done Landscape for 619 Days, so mixing things up seemed like a good idea.

To start things off we did a game of Assault in Halo 3. With Halo I feel like there’s sometimes a “perfect” combo of map and game mode, like Zealot and Infection. Or Beaver Creek and CtF. Or Blood Gulch and CtF. And this feels like one of those situations. It’s a pretty basic setup. You have the “Stronghold” and you have the “invaders” who have to invade it. It makes for an amazing setup though. Especially because the Invaders have such little space before they breach the walls. So it feels like you’re always on your toes while still having the inner walls to work with.

Speaking of Beaver Creek we also did that with CtF. The way this map is done it feels like it could work with Assault too, but with the routes above and on the ground it really feels like it was made for CtF. I personally prefer the above route. Crouch out the side door and up the ramp and then across to my own base with the flag.

It was nice to get to socialize again after being out sick since like yesterday. Really Halo feels like the perfect social game on top of the PvP. Hopefully if I’m feeling better tomorrow I can really sink my teeth back into something like Final Fantasy 8

How old were you and maybe most importantly was it worth it ?

All hail enshitification!

Today’s game is some more Halo: Reach. With our new friend joining us we did some more games. Namely starting off with Capture the Flag on Blood Gulch. Me and one of my friends on my team managed to sneak in the back of the enemy base with the teleporter and grab the flag while they were distracted. We snuck around the top of the ridge and he covered me with the Sniper Rifle. It was a really profound moment of teamwork for me which is what makes me love this game so much. It felt like we were on the same wavelength for that brief time.

With Blood Gulch I also wanted to mention how I love the warm color pallet. Especially if you’re in the red team it’s like camouflage sort of.

I also was playing around with Dark table and made this edit to see what I could do with a JPEG (I normally work with RAWs in editing software). I don’t think editing will be standard for my posts, but I did want to share this one.

We also continued the campaign a little. We had more than 4 though, and initially I thought we could get upwards of 8 players through the Alpha Ring Mod, turns out though I was wrong (partly) and that’s only Local from what I understood, which is why we made the switch to multiplayer, so everyone could join.

Tomorrow I think I’m gonna sit down and try to play some more FF, as Halo I think after needing to reinstall needs some more config. Namely the AA seems a little worse than before. I don’t know if that’s an issue with the game or my setup though. I’ll have to look into it.

I've been playing Crimson Desert since it came out. It didn't start out all that great story-wise, but the rest of the game was fun so I kept going. Eventually I got enough stuff to start free roaming, and exploration has always been my favorite thing to do in games that are rich with it.

I found a train while just going around getting fast travel spots unlocked for easier mission progress later. I got to the train and hopped aboard. It seems to be a steam train, and there was no one aboard, not even a conductor. I realized I could open the window, and then went into first person, eventually snapping this screenshot. It's one of my favorites just for how the whole thing came out while on a moving train!

I spent at least an hour or two atop the train, just to see where it would lead me. I've got a few more screenshots I'd like to share as the days go by of that train ride. For something so mundane, the sights I was able to see were pretty and very interesting.

I haven't played a game that sucked my attention so wholly since Elden Ring came out! Hopefully you'll see tomorrow's screenshot! :-]

It's a grittier take than the recent Like a Dragon games, but I'm sure it'll still have bonkers mini-games.

It's truly interesting how differently we see things when we are children; how our lack of understanding, whilst often causing problems, can likewise create wonders, and let our imagination run free in ways that we, as adults, can only ever dream of. In that respect, you could say that there is a genuine sense of…