Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?

On 6/1/2025 7:10 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

* Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017)
 But I now see the chinks in the armor too. The weird AI that moves
around quite artificially, for instance. It gets stuck on terrain, or
bounces back and forth between two pieces of cover, or --in at least
two instances-- phases directly through an object as it charges
towards me. Or the array of player weapons, none of which really feel
distinctive from one another. The too-close viewpoint, with your
weapon weirdly dominant in the center of the screen. The almost
complete lack of interactibility with the game-world; everything feels
static. It's a world that is made up of unbreakable and immovable
items. And --especially after shows like "Andor" raised the bar-- the
in-game narrative and characters feel shallow and unrealistic. The
setting can offer up better stories.

Isn't this mostly multiplayer?  The AI doesn't need to be any good when you're just battling other players.  Or am I thinking of another game? So many SW games, I can't keep most of them straight.  Also is this the one there's 2 of.  2 Star Wars Battlefront 2's, that's brilliant. /s

* Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

In the first "Hellblade",
protagonist Senua fought with her own inner demons (a product of her
broken mental state and her harsh upbringing) and wrestled them into
submission.

This doesn't sound appealing, I don't want to play through someone else's inner demons and psychosis.  Yes I've heard how great it is, but I haven't been able to bring myself to play it because of that.

 What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?

** Dark Sector (free from somewhere)
Sigh.  I wanted to like this, as it was a game from the makers of Warframe and thought it might have some background story.  Well not really, it just had infected that looked like some of the warframes.
I somehow managed to force myself to play through it.  Looking back on it, it's pretty janky, both in looks and controls.  If it was even ever state of the art it's not now and doesn't hold up.  I didn't appreciate being one hit repeatedly for some of the bosses, and the hidden tricks I had to look up several times to get past them, which often ended up as things I'd already tried but didn't seem to be working, and I just had to do a lot more of it.  The glaive is cool, but often enemies would camp just outside of it's range where theirs was further and if you tried to advance you'd get gunned down quickly by all of them for being out of cover.  Late in the game you get a shield to avoid that, and you could use your pistol or pick up a weapon to pick them off at that range, but it made the glaive feel like they'd given you something really cool just to deliberately prevent you from using it to full effect.
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