new vegas, there was a mobile one, and i think there was an only-online one that i missed.

just never got around to playing those. my backlog is mighty, and FO4 was a freebie i picked up within the last year or two.

I‘ve completed Cyber Hook and I can‘t recommend it enough. Screw the story, the gameplay loop and movement is what it‘s all about. It‘s an absolute hidden gem, hands down. I strongly recommend everyone to give it a shot!

I‘ve also been playing some Horizon Chase Turbo and while I think it‘s pretty unique nowadays and runs great on the Deck, it‘s a bit too fast-paced for the small screen in the higher difficulty levels. Still recommend it though.

Lastly, I‘ve done some further quests in Assassin‘s Creed: Unity and I remember reading here that the movement reached perfection in this title and while it might be the best movement in the series (I dunno), I think the movement’s absolutely terrible lol, and the combat is worse still. Everything is so inprecise and slow, the character jumps to ledges I didn‘t even think about and takes ages to climb even when pursued or flatout refuses to climb something for five seconds… And I still don‘t know why AC had to turn into these permanent tavern brawls, stealth seems to be impossible, I‘m now resorting to just smoke bombing and cleaning up every fight. I do enjoy the sightseeing and world but man… I liked Origins more as a game. I won‘t pretend like I‘m an AC god, but other entries in the franchise clicked with me more (2, Black Flag, Origins).

Pokémon Emerald. I got an rg35xxsp, which has been perfect for getting through all the games I missed over the years.

After finishing Nier Automata in my Switch (quite an awesome port tbh, I cheated a bit as I overclocked my unit to make it run smoother) and Breath of The Wild I am focusing on smaller games, which are:

• Monument Valley (Android)
• Retro City Rampage (PS Vita)
• Pokémon Omega Ruby (almost finished, 3DS).

Started playing Half Life 1. Never played any of the Half Life games before.

As for a recommendation, Chrono Trigger and the Silent Hill games (1-3, including the remake of 2).

I'm playing two games this week. First is Pentiment, and the only reason I'm also playing another game at the same time is that I needed something to break up the sometimes excruciating sessions of playing Pentiment. I'm in the final act now so I don't think there are too many hours remaining.

Now, Pentiment is actually not a bad... I want to say game but let's face it, it's not a game. Pentiment is not a bad visual novel. It is absolutely gorgeous, it's extremely well researched and it has some interesting things to say, and some interesting characters to get to know that are more layered than you think at first. But holy shit is the game tediously slow and laborious to slog through. Half the playing time is spent blankly staring at the screen as your character slowly waddles around the town of Tassing. The conversations themselves are painfully slow, and many feel shallow and sort of... banal. There is good stuff sprinkled in there, but you have to sift through a lot of mundanity to get to it. It also sort of rubbed me the wrong way that everyone uses such modern phrasing and language when historical accuracy was such a selling point for the game. I'm still appreciating it - mainly the art and the history - but I need to take breaks from it.

...which I've done by playing Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree. I've had my eye on it since it's written by Bloodlines-writer Brian Mitsoda, and with it being 25% off at the summer sale I thought why not.

It's a Metroidvania Soulslike with a skill tree inspired by Path of Exile, and I'm really enjoying what I've played of it so far. Combat has been solid though I've only played a few hours, but the bosses have been good. There are a bunch of different play styles that all seem very different and I am already having fun thinking about builds and planning a second run with a completely different character. The game is beautiful too, the art style is great and I like the splash art for the characters.

The writing has been okay so far, the world is kinda cool but nothing earth shattering - generic evil energy threatening to consume everything type deal. I'm hoping for some twists down the line. You're playing as an inquisitor so I assume it will be revealed the witches you hunt are maybe not so evil after all. The goldsmith Yrsa is so far the highlight with some entertaining lines.

So far from what I've seen I definitely would recommend it if you like these types of games.

My son bought Cyberpunk 2077 on sale. I got hooked immediately.

Mandragora looks really cool, but apparently it’s got a bad EULA so I’m iffy to pick it up. I wouldn’t be getting it on this sale anyway, I’d probably wait for the next sale, I’ve already spent too much this time, hopefully they’ll fix the EULA before the next sale. It looks like an awesome game and is totally my style.

I think the data collection controversy was addressed in patch 1.2.7?

It's been a great game so far so I hope you'll pick it up, but I totally get overspending on Steam/GOG sales and causing an already bloated backlog to further overflow.

I just started it too. It’s a ton of fun.

Same here. It hit my <$60 AUD buy point for the ultimate edition.

Likewise. I picked up the ultimate edition and a dirt cheap game and that was it. The last few sales I’ve favoured getting a bunch of cheap games rather than one good game on a decent sale, but my backlog is getting out of hand at this point.

That’s good to know. I’ll probably pick it up at the next sale then.