Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN OCTOBER 2024?

On 11/1/2024 8:27 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 Here we go again. As summer comes to a close and the days lengthen,
what's there to do but go inside and play video games? So the question
is, what have you been playing? Let's find out!

Unfortunately been pretty busy, so not really.

  If Brevity is the soul of wit...
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* Jusant
* Star Trek (2013)
* Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

All those sound horrible.

* Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster

This sounds horrible too, but in a way that desecrates the revered corpse of an awesome game that I came too late to.

 What Have You Been Playing... IN OCTOBER 2024?

***** Mass Effect: Andromeda.
It feels almost perfect to me, closer to what I loved about the first one, but modernized with cool exploration, tons of character interaction, choices seem like they may matter and satisfying combat.
Sure I'd like some space combat, but that's it.  As mentioned I find it superior to Starfield in almost every way.
Ok there's a touch of bad voice acting (probably more the direction/lines really) from the protagonist, and I couldn't seem to make a face that didn't make me go "Ugh" every time I saw it when talking.  Nor make one so bad that it was funny (as is the case with DS games.)  Even my son glanced at the face and mentioned it looking stupid one time in passing, which I agreed with.  They still looked slightly better than whatsherjaw from Horizon at least.  Both still relatively minor issues for my tastes.
I wish there was more, a DLC, a sequel, something.  I felt so much that way that after I finished it, I tried/flipped some of the free prime games, but after each I still had the itch to go back to ME:A.  So I did, I went to NG+ as I found you can switch to the other sibling while still keeping all your weapon and class progress, and change the difficulty and skipping the real struggle that was low level the first time around.  It feels like it's intended to play that way.  Also making different choices from the first time around.
Great game, and I'm sad I didn't play it when it was first out, and judged it on the latter games in the series which turned me off.
A couple worth mentioning:
* Samurai Bringer.  While the gameplay of this roguelike was intriguing the colors were somehow clashing so badly that it hurt my eyes.  I've never had that happen before, at least not like in this game where it was 100% of the time.  I had to give it 1 star as it's completely unplayable due to this even if it had the best gameplay of any game in existence.  The graphics aren't good, true, being some sort of chibi giant headed rounded block characters.  Strangely I like the thumbnail of game a lot, which is more a Japanese painting than the bad graphics, if they'd done that I would've been over the moon.  I've played games with far worse graphics that I enjoyed without the constant eye bleed in recent times.
*** Wall World.  A side-scroller procedural rogulike where you're mining and the world is a wall, with timed monster attacks on your mech attached to the wall.  It was fun, and it had started to grab me, but not enough compared to the itch to go back to ME:A.  Might be worth checking out if you happened to pick it up while it was "free" on prime and that sort of thing appeals.
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