Well, turns out that my game of the year so far, is a game I’m too chickenshit to play myself, and it’s actually not that great of a game anyway. SOMA, the new title by the folks behind the first Amnesia, offers one of the most interesting pieces of Sci-Fi I’ve seen in years however. It’s a story that keeps you guessing all the way through and is asking some really great questions. Shame it’s a horror title.
But what’s everybody playing over the weekend?
- Andrew (Twitter): Dead Rising 2. I'm also playing through Arkham Asylum for the third time.
- Dante: Hearthstone, TF2 and Dragon's Crown.
- Thomas (Twitter): Still on MGS, Mad Max and now also Mario Maker. I hate this time of the year. Did I mention Forza? No? Well, Forza too. Oh, and Blood Bowl 2, because I need to review that. Guess I need to kick some of those from my list for this weekend. NOT MGS THOUGH! NEVER! NEEEEVEEEER!!!!
- Greywolfe (Twitter, YouTube): hearthstone - mostly just messing around, rex nebular: escape the prison!, inca [i /really/ need to finish that game off - i'm so close] and police quest 3- in which i walk around a park. the big wow project continues apace: i'm nearly at level 20 :) - and evoland 2 was /amazing/ - i need to find something to play in it's stead.
- Yoda0VGs (Twitter): Hopefully I'll be whitting my pants this weekend playing SOMA!! (Thanks again Dr. S!!) if I can't handle it for long periods of time I'll break it up with some Dota2 to break my spirit!!
Well, Rocket League of course… Almost level 40 now. It’s surprising the skill level people are playing at now that I’ve joined the higher level ranks.
Also picked up Path of Exile again. Turns out over patch periods they refund all your skill points. So in the year-ish maybe over that since I’ve played I’m having to try and redistribute 71 passive points on a map tree correctly. I don’t remember a thing about how I built the character in the first place so it could be all wrong now, who knows. Might just start a new one anyway and relearn how to play before I go too deep in remaking the level 61 I have.
And I picked up a free title called Destination Sol that seems pretty fun. 2D over head game play in space. Controls like Asteroids but it appears that you can fight pirates explore to pick up upgrades and even land on and explore worlds you may come across.
Swtor used to do this as well, but online a liked building something completely different to see how it plays. Too bad they went the WOW route with the 3.0 patch and the skill trees are gone now :( and they changed the character controller and it’s kinda shit at the moment :( sigh. I miss being a jedi
Right, and I mean it makes sense that the skills are refunded as the effects have probably been modified and changed etc. so it allows you to research it and make new choices for free. I just wish I had taken a screenshot of the build that I had before so I could remake it more or less the same. But meh, not that big of a deal you can pay gold for a respec in the game so I can change things as I go if need be.
I just finished MGSV. Man…that was like having a 2nd job (I finished most of the side ops in parallel to the main campaign). I’m glad I found out that the higher difficulty re-runs of old missions aren’t necessary to advance the story at all.
Haven’t really thought about what to play next. Maybe Galak-z, flame in the flood, the evil within, r6: siege beta, enslaved…the backlog goes on and on.
A 6 month vacation sounds really, really good right about now.
I want to play it, but I’ve never played a metal gear game the year it came out lol plus learning about how chapter 3 isn’t even in the main game makes me want to just wait until at least that is available for purchase. And I certainly don’t wanna spend 100s of hours just to play throw 2/3 of a story. Basically #FuckKonami
Tomb Raider on the X1 has made me it’s Definitive bitch this weekend, but I have now completed the story and found 100% of the collectibles. Nothing on the PC has grabbed my attention well lately, except some user created content in Shadowrun Returns. I’m considering wrapping up Sunday by going back to Sunset Overdrive for some DLC I have yet to play, or picking back up in Fallout New Vegas to finish the last two pieces of DLC there before November.
Sunset Overdrive looked like a lot of fun, I’m hoping for a pc port of that in the future.
The new Vegas DLC is for the most part pretty cool, I didn’t like the Sierra Madre DLC much at all. I think that’s the Dead Money DLC if I remember right. It’s got an uninteresting story and a bland area with it’s own currency that once you start you’re locked in to and once you finish you can never go back to. So it’s worth doing cos you’ve got it and you may as well, but just make sure you’re ready to devote time to it cos at some point you’re probably gonna just want it to be over with. At least that’s how I felt.
Yeah, Sunset is fun and the humor is at times pretty funny.
I totally agree on Dead Money. I’ve played that and Old World Blues, still have Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road to complete. I am playing with a mod on my PC that allows for unlimited followers, so I’ve been able to run through them fairly quick and painlessly. I did play Dead Money first on the 360 and it did drag on just a bit too long.
Old World Blues was a fun one,with particularly great dialogue. Honest Hearts is kind of refreshing, but Lonesome Road was just plain good.