alien_observer

Keeping tigers away is a more convincing argument.

I mentioned last week that I planned on being impatient with the release of Control Resonant, but that did not end up going well for me. Where I live has really shitty satellite internet, so in order to download most games I need to make a 1.5 hour drive to a family member's beach house to take advantage of their sweet normal-world download speeds. Got there Tuesday, preloaded the game Wednesday, and was on my way by Thursday morning. Unfortunately, the devs pushed what was supposed to be an update/hotfix Thursday for the release of the game, but that got bungled and resulted in preloaded versions of the game being deleted automatically, which I found out about once I had made it home and got ready to boot up the game. Honestly, I wasn't even mad, I knew patient gaming is the way and I chose to stray from that path. Oh well, way she goes, boys.

So now I'm kind of considering jumping ship on my plans for Control Resonant and instead doing a replay of some other Remedy games. Specifically Alan Wake Remastered, then Control, then Alan Wake 2. I've been meaning to replay the first Control for quite some time and the Alan Wakes should mesh nicely with the upcoming spooky season.

Additionally, I think I'm going to put an indefinite hold on buying games through Steam because GOG just lines up better with my values/interests and usually encourages a more patient approach to gaming.

And as far as what I'm going to play this week, I think it's the perfect time to do another playthrough of Crow Country.

Life with hair was an illusion. Rid yourself of what remains and join us, brother.

You ever been to Silent Hill... on weed??

Moving on from streaming services was one of the better choices I've made and I'm happy I did it before all of this AI nonsense.

I browse for music on RateYourMusic. I give the music a listen using Soulseek. I buy the music through Bandcamp. I see the artist when they come to my town. Recently completed the pipeline for Osees and have Chat Pile and Los Thuthanaka coming up soon.

It's a peaceful life.

I've been playing Dredge and Night in the Woods this week for some nice autumnal vibes. I also played Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, and while it's not quite as good as The Secret Salami, I still enjoyed my time with it and I hope there are more games in the series to come.

Also, I plan to be impatient this week and get the new Control game. I know, blasphemy, but the heart uh wants what it wants.

I figured it was time to check out some of the more hyped-up games out there, so I've been playing Hades, Hollow Knight, and a bit of Slay the Spire. I'm not sure if I'm at the point where I'm ready to no-life any of them, but for the most part, they all live up to their hype. And the nice part is that they all have sequels available, so if I stick with them and finish/get my fill of them, there is more to come.

I also played Duck Detective: The Secret Salami and it was a really nice short, relatively easy detective game that I recommend if you want a little break from whatever you're currently playing.