Into the Breach
Palia had an update recently that added ranching and possibly better home building so I’ve been doing that with twin.
Haven’t tried the home building yet cause I need to prepare for it. It’s extensive!
Phamsmophobia
Just my friend and girlfriend into it. Theyve added a lot of tools, ghost types, and cursed objects since i lastnplayed
Raft and switching back to modded Minecraft again
Went and tried playing Dark Souls again after leaving it on hold for a few months and this time it clicked HARD. I finally get why people love these games so much. The atmosphere, the combat, the sound effects, how it teaches you to persevere my god what an experience. The only thing I regret is not starting this sooner back when I had more free time lol
Enjoy. It’s one of the greatest games and one of the greatest franchises of all time.
If you continue with the series and play Dark Souls II next, keep in mind it’s the black sheep of the series. Not to say it’s bad or anything but it’s very different from the rest. You may prefer it, you may hate it, just don’t judge the whole series on it. Dark Souls III and Elden Ring are much more fast paced and a fair bit more challenging once you get into them. Sekiro is basically a different genre and plays much different from the rest but is imo the best first playthrough of the lot. It’s way harder though. Demon’s Souls is slower paced like Dark Souls but has a different world mechanic (hub world where you choose which level to enter, complete it, then go back to the hub and go elsewhere). Bloodborne is the only one you can’t play well on pc (Demon’s Souls isn’t native on pc but you can emulate it quite smoothly), but if you have a PS4/5 it’s a lot of people’s favourite game.
Thank you, I definitely will. I’ve only reached the second bell so far, but I’m pretty certain I’ll try the other titles fromsoftware has made so this info is nice to have. Funnily enough, I had a chat with my kinesiologist about souls games and he said dark souls II was very off putting for him, I guess I’ll try and see what the controversy is all about later on. Hope Ahead!
Good luck in your journey! I’m very jealous. They’re all fantastic initial experiences. They’re great on replays too but nothing beats the first time.
If you’re binging all the games in a row, maybe save Sekiro for the end. Or play some other stuff before going to it. It’s hard enough as is, but it’s especially difficult if you’re coming fresh off a Souls game. Your impulse reactions you’ve learned will only hurt you. Likewise if you play Sekiro and then go back to another Souls game you’ll struggle again. Not to scare you off, just to keep you informed. If you play different games between though you should be fine with any order. But it’s a commonly accepted fact by most of the community that the most surefire way to make Sekiro harder for yourself is to play Dark Souls first.
In case you’re curious why, Dark Souls (and the rest) mostly play by you dodging attacks and attacking back when it’s safe. Most bosses punish being greedy and reward being patient. Sekiro on the other hand doesn’t really have dodging, it’s more of a repositioning (very few invincibility frames compared to the other games), and instead you’ll be parrying basically everything (don’t worry, parrying is a lot easier in Sekiro than Dark Souls). You also need to give constant pressure to your enemies, and it’s basically suicide tackling more than one at a time. The reason is, while Sekiro does have health bars on enemies and bosses, their stance meter is way more important. Most bosses you’ll kill while they’ve still got a majority of their health remaining, because once their stance breaks you can deal a deathblow. Parrying and attacking both increase the meter which breaks stance, but if you’re idle for more than a second it goes down. Once it clicks it’s very satisfying and a ton of fun but if you’re used to Dark Souls it’ll be a struggle to unlearn dodging everything and taking your time. Again, not trying to scare you away, it’s probably my second favourite game of all time, but if you aren’t aware and go in blind you could get scared off pretty easily.
The exploration and level design too! Nothing gives you quite the same rush of dopamine as unlocking shortcuts in Dark Souls. The first time you kick that ladder? Priceless.
oh yeah so far exploring the world is a joy. The way it shows you bits of loot in places you dont get how to reach at first makes it all the better when you find the way to jump over a roof or roll into dubious falls lol. Also talking to the downer chainmail guy and seeing how he reacts to your progress is such a simple but cool addition, for me it makes the suffering very worth it.
Monument Valley is/was free on Epic. It’s a nice little puzzler. I like it, enough to beat the main game and start on the DLC (included). Lightweight, cute, not too many mechanics. It’s not nearly as visually impressive or as challenging as my favorite space bending game, Manifold Garden, though.
Other than Hollow Knight (thanks Gog sale)
Metroid Fusion and dread. Picked it up and haven’t put it down
Cyberpunk 2077
Apparently the game was such a disaster at launch that shareholders sued the game’s producer CD Projekt Red and won a settlement against the company.
I recently picked it up on sale and with the addition of a healthy dose of mods (the game is the fifth most popular on Nexus) it’s a truly enjoyable experience. In fact, it sets the standard for open world games so high for me that I don’t think I’ll be able to enjoy Bethesda games ever again.
Cyberpunk modding scene is incredible, the only sad thing is that while 2.0 was an incredible patch it did break a lot of old and amazing mods. Scissors was an absolute GOAT and stuff like Vehicle Combat, Breach Takedown and Drone Companions were just incredible.
Port Royale 3 from GOG on my Linux machine (I do not run Arch, BTW).
Mind you, I think Port Royale 2 is a better ballanced with less fancy graphics version.
Trying to get back into Dragon Age Inquisition. I really didn’t care for the combat, but I’m there for the story.
Petition for Silksong to be considered an honorary patient gamer game, given I waited seven years to play it.
Yeah I’ve been playing Silksong too. Bouncing between that at a replay of Assassin’s Creed Origins whenever I fail on a platforming section too many times.
Picked up the original Hollow Knight on sale a little while back. With the all the buzz around Silksong I finally booted it up, having a blast so far!
Enjoy! It’s a great game. I’ve been cheating on this community and playing Silksong, it’s a great sequel. It’s one of the rare times I’d recommend buying a game when it’s still new. But definitely play Hollow Knight first, it’s such a great game.
My exact experience!
Got some total war cravings and bough total Warhammer III on a sale. It has a very strong “just one more turn” factor and it’s been eating up a good chunk of my free time the past week, but I’ve finally got it out of my system. Warhammer II still has the best factions, but the mechanical improvements in particular how allies work are really nice. If you own all three games you can play the “immortal empires” campaign including the whole old Warhammer fantasy world and all races. This is an absolutely massive game world, at the start of the game there are 280 factions, although this count decreases quickly
I feel the description of this community fits me to a tee.
I’m playing Silksong.
Typically this community is for games that are more than a year old (i.e. you were patient to buy it) but I think Silksong is an exception and I’ll allow it in this community. I’m also playing it so I can’t judge too hard.
That previous game I played through was Portal 2. I barely ever buy games on release.
Just that it was kinda funny this one time I’m playing a recent released game.
Portal 2 is awesome.
I make these posts every week, I hope to see you comment on a future post too!
no doubt
Also Silksong released at $20, which is a price point people are often waiting for older games to hit.
Regardless of semantics, Silksong is the only game I’ve played since it released.
I’m in a Monster Hunter Rise shaped hole, this game is a marathon!
I’m motivated to ‘finish’ it because I want to try out Monster Hunter World, but I’m not sure that healthy.
About 120 hours in so far, I’ve just got the end credits for the DLC at Master Rank 5 for killing the Arch Demon, according to people in the community I’ve just finished the tutorial 🥲
Good luck! That sounds like a marathon. It sounds like something I would’ve been into as a teenager but as a soon-to-be father I don’t see myself with the time for super long games anymore. Shorter games seem a lot more attractive these days.
Yep, I don’t disagree,. A couple of hours every night soon stacks up.
The problem is, I don’t play anything else and I was halfway through Kingdom Come Deliverance!
KCD has been on my backlog for a while now. It’s definitely my type of game but I’ve just never bothered to download it. Not sure why. I really should give it a shot.
