Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2024

On 6/1/2024 10:04 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

* Dead Space Remaster
* American Truck Simulator - Nebraska DLC
* Tomb Raider: Shadow of the Tomb Raider
  Well, that's my short list for my month. Did you do any better? Let's
find out.

Hours wise maybe, who knows.  Titles wise no.

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

Fallout 3 Unmodded.  I'm determined to get through the DLCs this and I've got through 3 of them.
Operation Anchorage - I enjoyed this more than last time.  I decided to leave this until I was what 17 or so and felt pretty powerful so as not to screw up the game by getting power armor and a stealth suit so early.   I enjoyed it much more than last time, possibly because I had a good small guns skill and a number of perks that helped.  I still missed some stuff and felt a bit too powerful.  But that ended pretty quickly once I hit level 21 and started running into the bullet sponges that were added.  I don't like the bullet sponges - ghoul reavers, super mutant overlords, etc.  I just feel lie I'm spending a bunch of time in a not very enjoyable fight.  Fallout is best when the fights are short and brutal.
Mothership Zeta - This was initially more enjoyable, but as I hit it after 21 it too had a lot of bullet sponges.  I couldn't tell which by name as they were all named "Alien". I went through blind and after getting through looked some stuff up about it and missed a perk that would've made the alien weapons perhaps useful.  I always like the alien blaster before.  But the alien weapons weren't very good compared to what I already had without the perk.  Unfortunately I hadn't really set up for energy weapons either, which I'm sure doesn't help.  It felt excessively long and repetitive after awhile.  From what I've read you're better off doing it before level 20 due to the shields they get at 21+.
The Pitt - This is my favorite so far.  I probably short circuited the quest though by killing off the ex-BoS boss as soon as I met him, but I was playing a goody two-shoes with no bad karma and didn't see why not. I discovered why not, only after killing him :(.  Too late then.  I didn't like hunting down all the steel, and felt robbed as I couldn't find the last of it to get the last reward (I tried looking up where they were but as I'd got 90+ of the 100 I didn't feel like going back and checking every location again, not to mention a lot of the locations are very non-descript so it's hard to do a proper guide.)  This one feels like it should be played much earlier than I did.
Overall the rest of the game was getting pretty boring by the time I got to the DLCs.   I also really should've not installed Broken Steel (raises the level limit and adds the bullet sponge enemies) until end game, and I still think the game needs the xp reduction mod I was using previously.  I probably should still mod the game as the CTDs are getting more frequent, perhaps every couple hours now, invariably when I finish off a mob for some reason.  But I'm close to the end with only the two DLCs left.
I at one point didn't fire up the game for a couple days, not for lack of time, I just wasn't that into it, but I didn't fire anything else up.   I'm just on the old 'determined to finish' attitude I used to have for everything right now.
I probably shouldn't be dragging Red & Shorty everywhere, as they're supposed to be temporary companions, and probably making the game too easy.  (I had Sticky earlier too, but finally decided to drop him off at Big Town as he was annoying for his constant talking and penchant to take friendly fire.  For some reason Red and Short don't seem to get in my way even though I've got them set up with melee.)
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I'm torn what to play next.
Fallout NV is looking a bit more appealing to me now, as whatever love I had of the open world of Fallout 3 has long worn off, and feel like I'd appreciate the more linear quest of NV now than when I played it when it was released.  However I do remember it has a lot more crafting which I hated and still dislike in most games.
Elden Ring DLC is coming out soon and it seems many people have started playing again to hone their skills, which means co-op is probably flourishing again, so I'm tempted to go back for that.
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