I have been one busy individual this week. Hopefully after a fairly quick chore list today I'll get to hop into some games.
Armored Core 6 is here and it's very good. Straight forward, re-playable missions and fast paced third person robo-combat has me entranced. I'm not very far into the game on account of my being so busy with work and tired from said work. However I am enjoying it quite a lot when I can get into it. It seems that folks are having a rough time of the tutorial boss, including myself. It took me some five tries to claim victory. I do think that it's not necessarily the boss itself that's so difficult, rather I think it's the arena borders. Specifically the fact that the player is bound by the "curtain" while the boss can move beyond it and attack from there. This, more than a few times, resulted in my being stuck in a boost movement to chase down the boss resulting in running headlong into the curtain and being just pummeled by attacks. I eventually managed to keep the boss in the arena, but that particular situation seems to be the big issue at least as far I'm concerned.
Still, I'm having a ball playing and hearing the corny anime lines being spouted over radio chatter while I launch salvos of missiles and laser blasts while I'm hopping around mid-air in physics defying move sets. It's wonderful chaos and I recommend it.
Starfield is quite an anticipated open 'galaxy' exploration game from Bethesda and It will be here soon. Promises made in terms of game play and size are pretty extreme including all planets being explorable and players can expect to spend over a hundred hours just getting started in the game. Now comes the "NPC's will be messy" statement. Basically saying that people have personalities and StarfieldI isn't planned around utopian ideals. We can expect a dirtier, more human experience and that includes NPC's. A quote from the game's director says "People are still people". Here's a little bit from PCGamesn.
What are we playing this weekend?
Greywolfe: i'm free! i beat major/minor again - this time getting the true ending. it was JUST as dumb as the original ending, but more! anyway. on to better games. i'm now playing foretales. it's another cool little find for this year. it's a little like hand of fate, but with more resources and less fussiness about finding specific cards in the "travel" deck. i like it a lot.
added in later: ah. i forgot. i also beat postmouse. play postmouse! it's mostly pretty good, but a little janky around the edges and a /lot/ of it is just fine until the very end, where it starts being a qte mashfest. but it's free, and you can probably find your way through it in a sitting [of about 3/3.5 hours. more if you want to be completionist with its collect-a-thon nonsense.]
AJ: Sifu and The Quarry.
Scrooloose: Armored Core 6 for me this weekend. So far it's proving just as good as I've expected it to be.