Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
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I've been playing some Bomberman.
I feel like I've started so many games these past weeks and months but haven't stuck with any... but I guess nothing new for me really as I never finish games anyway.
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Finally playing through all the Hitman reboots in one go (They're called 1-2-3, or now "World Of Assassination" for the whole experience, plus paid DLCs for additional missions). I played through all the original Hitman games back in the day.
While you can of course cheese your way through each mission pretty easily (NPC: "Well, he only held that weapon in his hand for less than 2 seconds, so I'll ignore it." or "Oh, coins on the ground! Better open that locked door to get to them so that you can follow me inside!"), it actually IS a lot of fun if you deliberately take it slow and discover all the stories that are hidden in each mission. It opens up crafty ways of getting to your targets & entertains much more than just exploiting the game engine's weaknesses. Truly something for #patientGamers
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I’ve never heard of Cyber Hook before but it looks awesome. I’m definitely picking it up. Thanks for the recommendation.
I’ve added Horizon Chase Turbo to my Wishlist, and downloaded the demo. I’ll probably check it out soon.
Horizon, if you enjoy it has an F1 dlc mode that I think is even more fun than the base game
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Still trucking on the [email protected] with Antimatter Dimensions, lovely unfolding mechanics, would probably appeal to completionists because getting achievements actually gets you in-game bonuses. Also have been playing the Zachtronics puzzle programming/electrical engineering game Shenzhen I/O that could make a person a bit more comfortable with in real life assembly languages.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I love Shenzen I/O, and I want to go back and 100% it, but I can't justify losing myself into another Zachtronics game when I have personal programming projects to work on
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still Morrowind in XR.
having fun just wandering around again.also Vintage Story. chill minecraft flip but more. wandering around public rooms seeing what is up.
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Haha same here, backlog is not going well. I made a bunch of folders in steam to organise it though so there's that.
Crash Nsane trilogy and Stanley parable were cheap so I got those too.
CP2077 now feels like it's what it was hyped to be before that awful launch, so I'm glad to have waited 5 years.
I need to play through all the short games on my backlog, that would make me feel a lot better about it. Maybe I’ll sort everything in folders based on length so I can finally put a dent in it.
Stanley Parable was awesome. Enjoy it.
I know what you mean about 2077. I’m glad to have waited as long as I did, both because of the cheaper price and also the patches and extra content. It’s a really good game now.
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Finally playing through all the Hitman reboots in one go (They're called 1-2-3, or now "World Of Assassination" for the whole experience, plus paid DLCs for additional missions). I played through all the original Hitman games back in the day.
While you can of course cheese your way through each mission pretty easily (NPC: "Well, he only held that weapon in his hand for less than 2 seconds, so I'll ignore it." or "Oh, coins on the ground! Better open that locked door to get to them so that you can follow me inside!"), it actually IS a lot of fun if you deliberately take it slow and discover all the stories that are hidden in each mission. It opens up crafty ways of getting to your targets & entertains much more than just exploiting the game engine's weaknesses. Truly something for #patientGamers
If you combine my hours for all three since it’s all a collection now anyway, it’s my second most played game of all time, only behind Skyrim. I’m a massive fan. How far along are you?
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Horizon, if you enjoy it has an F1 dlc mode that I think is even more fun than the base game
Duly noted, thanks.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I really wanted to like Pentiment, but I gave up on it. Still happy I bought it to reward the cool concept.
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I really wanted to like Pentiment, but I gave up on it. Still happy I bought it to reward the cool concept.
Finished it today. One of the hardest games to rate ever, for me. There were some undeniable highs in there but large parts of the game were just not enjoyable to play through. The final act in particular felt like pulling teeth.
I think I'm happy to be able to say I have played it, but I honestly don't know that I think it was a good use of 20ish hours. Large parts of it honestly felt like just designed to waste your time.
