What game are you playing?

[gabito]

I should play Doki Doki Literature Club before it gets spoiled.

I'd say play it if you're interested, you might like it (or not). It's free and it won't take more than, say, 3 or 4 hours to finish it. The first 1 or 2 hours can be BORING though. Absolutely nothing happens and I couldn't find anything compelling enough to keep playing besides my curiosity.

I played it knowing nothing beyond "The internet loves it" and "There's some kind of twist at some point".

 

[wankerness]

I've been playing nothing but Cyberpunk, I'm about 50 hours in. I think I've done up to the final main mission, but obviously have side gigs all over the place, and am also a ways into the DLC stuff. I am consistently impressed by the world, but annoyed by some of the "chores." My least favorite of them is the DLC jerk "El Capitan" (I think he's DLC, anyway) who constantly is telling you to steal cars, and then invariably you have to drive them like 2.5 km minimum to some drop point, usually while he tells you there's a time limit or a damage done to the car limit, and it just sucks and totally interrupts whatever you're doing. I'm thinking about just ignoring him, but I bet he's like the other gig people where after you do a bunch of them it unlocks some final gig. I'm also a bit confused on the police scanner gigs, it seems like they only trigger if you get close to them and if you get out of range they vanish off your map until you get close to them again, so chasing those down will probably require a guide or something.

Been playing as a netrunner, nominally, but usually end up just headshotting everyone, tossing grenades, or attacking them with a katana if my ammo gets low. I think if I ever play this game again I'm going to go all in on "Body" and do a build with gorilla arms, cause that looks hilarious, and I'm barely taking advantage of the hacking anyway except to disable security cameras and turrets and occasionally light people on fire or blow up the grenade on their body.

 

[brector]

Finished up and platinumed Spider-Man 2. Now playing Ghost of Tsushima. I mistakenly thought this was a Souls-ike game and had skipped it. Man what a mistake, this game is amazing so far. Just happy to be getting my back-log down a few games.

 

[TedEH]

I've gone back to replay Prey, since I know I really enjoyed it when it came out, and sometimes it's nice to just do something you know you like already. It's not quite as challenging as I remember, but that could just be because I've seen a lot of it before, so I know what to expect and how to prepare. Also been going off the main path quite a bit just to do a lot of that "I wonder if I can get in here early" and "I wonder if I can solve this differently than the first time I did it" kind of stuff, which I think is leaving me over-powered for when I return to the critical path, but I'm perfectly fine with that.

 

[Kaura]

Resident Evil 2 finally got released on GOG. Played for a few minutes and got a glitch where I could only walk forward/backward. Great port...

 

[p0ke]

So, anyone try that Chinese Souls-clone (Wukong or whatever it's called) thing yet? Is it any good? It looks pretty decent at least based on some short clips I saw, but idk. It's not out on xbox yet though, I saw some mention about some memory leak they have to fix before release.

 

[wankerness]

So, anyone try that Chinese Souls-clone (Wukong or whatever it's called) thing yet? Is it any good? It looks pretty decent at least based on some short clips I saw, but idk. It's not out on xbox yet though, I saw some mention about some memory leak they have to fix before release.

That one is a pretty funny political football cause some of the developers were total assholes on social media, and that made all the total assholes in the western world proclaim the game THE ANTI-WOKE SAVIOR GAME OF ALL TIME and won't stfu about it. It's just a goddam action game where you're a monkey, and the only actual thing that could be described as a political statement is the fact they cut out most of the female characters from the original story, so they're all idiots. Anyway, it sounds like the game has a couple things in common with soulslikes (no difficulty settings, "bonfires," "estus flasks") but basically nothing else, and it's much more an action button-masher like God of War. I will buy it when it's like 50 bucks cause the console versions are supposed to be pretty rough in the performance department right now.

 

[TedEH]

I think I'm on a similar page as wankerness, where I have a passing curiosity maybe, but have no real interest in a game that has been mostly marketed so far as "it looks good and IT'S NOT WOKE". I read a review that said it was leaning pretty heavily on an audience that already mostly understands the subject material. Maybe I'll try it some day if it comes to one of the subscription services.

 

[p0ke]

Yeah, I'll probably also give it a spin when I can get it for 20€ or something. Maybe sooner if someone actually says it's good The fact it's based on Chinese mythology is kinda interesting since I don't know anything about it, but other than that I guess it looks kinda generic.

 

[wankerness]

Yeah, I'll probably also give it a spin when I can get it for 20€ or something. Maybe sooner if someone actually says it's good The fact it's based on Chinese mythology is kinda interesting since I don't know anything about it, but other than that I guess it looks kinda generic.

The chinese mythology thing would be a selling point if it didn't assume you were already familiar with it. I had similar issues with games like Nioh, Wo Long, Rise of the Ronin, or even Like a Dragon: Isshin, since all of them like, are designed for people that already know the history and people involved in the story and if you don't it's just a whirlwind of cool stuff that doesn't fully connect or make any sense. And it's not like a game like Dark Souls where it is intentionally vague, it's supposed to make sense but doesn't bother adjusting the story for non-Japanese audiences. I think it's kind of the equivalent of a game like some of the Assassin's Creed games where they'll just casually drop Leonardo Da Vinci or George Washington or whatever into them and assume you the player already know roughly who they are.