DS prepares for Abzu

bad_hair_day wrote:

Don't see Alyx on there bud.

Alyx and Cyberpunk are the only ones constantly installed. Get my lenses next Friday so its game on.

Axiom Verge right now oh boy this is Metroid.

Yup I really liked it. Sequel not far off too?

It's absolutely shorter than that. Maybe about 8-10, but you can blast through it in about 5-6.

Sequel looks like it is leaning VERY heavily on what was the best gun I the first.

rc?

You literally used it in your post.

Your r are not c at all.

Well thanks to the wonderful Muzzy I now have Blaphemous.

Much love to the man!

They're not at all similar but Wandersong might work as a good cheer 'em up.

A shame there's no way to shortcut to other endings, then I might bother. But looks like you have to stay afresh and not sure I cba. Though maybe once more to see a totally different path...

A Short Hike is a fine videogame. A great one? No. It's short, shallow and asks nothing of the player. It entered my life, and was gone again in a couple of hours. More like a skirt hike.

Metro Exodus
That was quite enjoyable apart from the final level. I liked the changing of the seasons. The autumn level being a particular highlight. At times it felt like i was in Far Cry 2, thats high praise i think. The maps have a fairly large feel to them. The moving train being your base of operations was done quite well and highlighted to me how souless and bland and empty the base in MGS5 was. Dunno why that comes to mind.

The last level was a grind and a test of patience and boredom. It fell back to the underground metro tunnels which having spent 90% of the game away from felt like a misstep. Last level really wasnt needed. Nor the introduction of a new enemy in the closing 20mins of the game.

I got the good ending. Will watch the bad one online.

A solid 8 from me.

Played Abzu and What Remains of Edith Finch today.

Abzu - This was very much Journey but underwater, down to the very similar emotional beats... but it turns out Journey but underwater is a good idea that works well and I had a good time with this. Aesthetically, it genuinely looks great for its budget. It's less cathartic than Journey but more relaxing and meditative and I liked the idea of the meditation spots, which seem to be intended as a real-life meditation aid.

What Remains of Edith Finch - Also enjoyed this - it applies a lot of originality to what could have been quite a tropey story and is a really effective game. I don't know if I would quite put this on the indie masterpiece list as some have - for me it was a bit obvious in terms of its emotional manipulation and where the plot was going, but it's definitely a nice thing. I really enjoyed both this and Gone Home but I wonder if could play any more 'narrative adventure where you explore a house with no people in it' without it starting to feel repetitive.

The adventures of Deacon St. John are now over, as the (very long) credits of Days Gone have rolled. Where to begin?

First and foremost, should you play this game if you have a PS5 and the PS+ Collection? Yes, yes you should. It's a cross between GTA, the Last of Us and Uncharted, taking the open world setting, zombie killing and combat respectively. It is, however, not as polished as any of those games listed, so you will occasionally see a bear fly across the screen, or a texture disappear, as the various game systems collide and react to each other badly. On the PS5 the game ran at 60 fps, with the occasional stutter, but otherwise looked and felt excellent.

Story wise, it did some interesting things and some cliched things too. It's looooooong - perhaps too long for its own good. I can't say that I wanted it to end, but I was wondering how and when the ending would come around, after going by 2 or 3 possible places for it to finish during the latter hours of my playthrough. I probably put 30 hours into the game and enjoyed the vast majority of them. Missions are short, punchy, but plentiful and It kept on giving me new weapons and unlocked items right up until the end - albeit the combat did eventually get into that same enemies / more armour grove, which just elongated the battles.

Highlights have to be the horde sections that were heavily trailed before launch. It's quite something to be mobbed by hundreds and hundreds of zombies, while finding a way to funnel them and thin the numbers. What's strange is that that particular highlight comes in the end-game only, so you are playing through 20+ hours to get to it. I think it would have been better to have one at the end of each chapter of the story, or zone, so you have something to punctuate the narrative, rather than to save all the best until last.

I really wanna play that but time and too many games eh

Sack the rest off and play Cyberpunk