games

Just finished the first Jedi fallen order game and just started the crash bandicoot remake

i played indiana jones for a number of hours yesterday.. its not particularly the best game but somehow its just good enough to keep me playing.. kinda like some of the other bethesda games but without most of the bugs

though trying to jump through a window and ending up jumping through the window, sliding over a railing, and falling to my death is getting a bit old

Started playing Path of Exile 2, looks great, plays great too, but I think the difficulty is a bit overtuned, I don't necessarily want it to be a breeze but I'm starting to really struggle and I'm barely into Act 2

Also playing Project Zomboid multiplayer with friends, it's a different beast from SP but I think it works even better

I'm in a bit of a tangle with Outer Wilds (it's funny how much of this game is spent thinking about the game and figuring out potential solutions to puzzles while in the shower) so I got Balatro.

Full House gang. Best hand.

yakuza kiwami

Technically not what I'm playing right now, but I recently played Nobody Wants to Die and while I didn't think it was a particularly good game, I was absolutely blown the fuck away by how unbelievably good that game looks. It's one of the few games I've played that made me literally go holy fucking shit out loud just looking at it. My jaw hit the floor about five minutes in when you get the full reveal of the game's futuristic cyberpunk noir setting. Just check this shit out at around 8:15, when the character opens the door of his car hovering over Times Square.

The aesthetic is like LA Noire meets Bioshock meets Cyberpunk 2077 and it's absolutely impeccable. It's a brand of art deco noir 30's retrofuturism that I don't remember ever having seen anywhere else, and it fucking rocks. A visual masterpiece that's sadly wasted on a game that's the definition of meh.

Overall it's a very mediocre game, the plot is pretty confusing and derivative, just a more noir version of Altered Carbon with a hundred different indistinct characters that I mostly did not care about or even remember who they were as your character does the murder investigation. You investigate by putting together a kind of puzzle visually connecting characters and events, but I have to admit that most of my progress was by trying random shit because I had no idea who anybody was and didn't care. The gameplay loop is repetitive and kind of annoying, but holy shit is it an absolute visual feast. Soundtrack's pretty solid too.

Finally got myself a new GPU a month ago and decided to give Cyberpunk 2077 another shot and... damn, it's actually a pretty solid game nowadays. There's a bunch of bugs here and there, it doesn't feel extremely polished, but I'm really into it now. It was absolute ass at release, but now that the major bugs have been squashed I'm having tons of fun with it.

The combat system really gives you that badass power fantasy. I went for a high risk high reward melee build with throwing knives and a katana and it's a blast to activate Sandevistan, throw a knife into an enemy's face then leap to the next one, swinging my katana.

Also, I think the writing is way better than I thought it would be. Not Disco Elysium levels, sure, but I like the worldbuilding and character development. Johnny Silverhand is a really fun character and Keanu's performance actually elevates him.

I've been playing a lot of metaphor! I'm loving every bit of it so far! I've also been getting back into Isaac since repentance + launched and that's always fun.