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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 days ago:
Neon White
I think I‘m almost done, minus the rushes. I kinda dread handing in all the gifts cause the dialogue‘s been pretty bad but I also kinda wanna read it now that I’ve collected them all lol
SCARLET NEXUS
I can‘t really recommend it. It runs kinda poor for essentially looking like a PS4 game and the game’s whole movement and combat feels insanely awkward and clunky. The story‘s ok but yeah. I like anime games but this one‘s a stinker in my book. The systems just aren‘t coming together.
Deathloop
I don‘t really have an opinion yet (outside of the game seemingly randomly enabling/disabling settings like vsync for me). I‘m still confused about most stuff and haven‘t found my groove yet. Dishonored‘s for sure better though. But this might be alright. We need more immersive sims honestly.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
I seem to already have all the deep discounts I‘d be interested in… I currently only buy 80%+ discounts (if anything) since experience has taught me that anything lower than this will get there again very soon, so I’m not missing out by skipping now. I have like 200 untouched games anyway so I‘d probably just be throwing more on the pile… Gifts for friends are in the cart tho
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
Should‘ve probably clarified that I was talking about AAA games, the big budget big asking price kind of. Indie games usually run great.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
I played like three games from this year. PEAK, MH Wilds, MK World.
The joy of playing older games is that they run well since they‘ve had years of patches and there‘s been years of faster hardware to power through most of the lack of optimization. And they‘re about a quarter the price. For running four times worse, new games also certainly don‘t look four times better.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I‘m playing Neon White and thankfully the gameplay manages to make up for the dialogue/voiceover or else I wouldn‘t last long in that game lol
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 weeks ago:
I‘ve sorted my library by release date, and there are five games which have released this year in it that aren‘t just remastered or early access which finally hit 1.0. Of those five I‘ve played three. Also of those five, three are indie games.
Monster Hunter Wilds Poorly received across „enthusiasts“ as too easy of a MH game. I personally liked it a lot. The wounds mechanic is fun, focus mode is good but too much, performance is absolutely horrendous. One of the things I’ve always hated with MH are those stiff ass animations that made you miss combos by a cm, focus mode helps with that but now you can just 180 during a swing which is overkill IMO. I miss tracking monsters - which made me feel more like I‘m actually hunting game - as well as wallbanging them. The current mounting feels less interesting overall. 150 hrs played and they were a lot of fun with friends.
PEAK Probably my GOTY (cause I didn‘t play much from this year anyway, see above lol). There‘s only one thing that bums me out: The game should have DLSS/FSR cause it‘s really heavy God knows why and the internal upscaler is meh. Otherwise, the most fun I had in a multiplayer game in a long time. Did ascension 7, unlocked all the stuff, gobble up every update, great fun with friends (also if solo but less so). 110 hrs, amazing game for less than ten bucks. Fuck those sencient tornados.
Mario Kart World Idk, as the successor to MK8 it‘s kinda mid in comparisson. The feeling of speed, the racing flow, they‘re kinda missing. Lots of uninteresting filler tracks. Idk why this had to be an open world game. Some of its soul died for that. I got gold on all the cups but haven‘t touched it since. Pro tip: If you have trouble at max diff, stop drifting. The game ups the difficulty (read: rubberbanding) PER DRIFT, and it stacks up across the whole cup!
- Comment on Don't mind me, just enjoying a perfect Wednesday evening 2 weeks ago:
I think I have that same keyboard, altho mine doesn‘t have the huge Cherry logo. Was a third the price of the Logitech I had before and is about 3 times better lol
- Comment on If your username were a Scrabble word with no bonuses, what would it score? 2 weeks ago:
7, apparently! Am I the lowest?
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 3 weeks ago:
They‘ve been so successful with singleplayer stuff but would somehow rather burn billions failing live services than sticking with them. They could‘ve put that money into several offline experiences and made at least SOME money but yeah, rather lose MOUNTAINS of money, I guess.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 3 weeks ago:
How did that game pan out? Last I heard the hype died down pretty fast, I didn‘t follow it further.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I‘ve mainly been playing Assassin‘s Creed: Rogue so far this week and the camera‘s been killing me. How did they end up thinking this was good or to not at least have an option to not have the camera on roller coster rails? Otherwise the game‘s alright but obviously the camera‘s with you the whole game whether you want to or not lol
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
I‘m wrapping up Crime Boss and I‘ve enjoyed my time a lot. Way more than with Payday 3.
Since we‘ve done all we could there, I‘ve been playing some Deep Rock Galactic with my friends and we‘ll probably hop onto Risk of Rain 2 soon as well.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 4 weeks ago:
I have successfully (?) played (sometimes semi-suffered, cough, Sekiro) through a buncha popular hard games and have a way less „strong“ opinion on this but also think that an „easy mode“ as an accessibility feature is a good thing.
If, for example, a parent wants to connect with their child and also experience that game they‘re playing, it‘s really no big deal to me if they could turn on easy mode in, say, Sekiro to stand a chance. Not like it‘d impact my own experience at all, and I don‘t feel the need to force them to go through my own experience either. In Celeste, for instance, you can literally fly through the whole game if it makes you happy, and yet I still grabbed all strawberries the normal way and don‘t care if others did as well or just flew to them.
It‘s less of a demand from me and more of a „if you can you should definitely include it,“ though. Obviously doesn‘t work for full on competitive multiplayer titles or something similar though.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 4 weeks ago:
Chromatic Aberration toggle Motion Blur toggle Distortion Effect toggle Vignette Effect toggle FoV slider DLSS/FSR implementation (cause fuck TAA)
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 4 weeks ago:
Far Cry games at least until 4. I like mindlessly collecting 300 map markers sometimes. Funny enough, I don‘t like 5 cause there doesn‘t seem to be a collectibles map that lets me just move up and down the map collecting everything lol
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
I‘m playing Crime Boss on my PC and AC Rogue on my Deck. Crime Boss is kinda underrated, it‘s got fun gameplay and flashy visuals, just gotta skip the nostalgia bait story. It also gives me old CoD Zombies vibes sometimes I‘m enjoying it.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 month ago:
I don‘t get why they’d cheap out on artists, a couple people drawing illustrations is surely not gonna balloon development cost - and arguably one of the easiest places to spot when it‘s AI slop. It‘s as if they think there must be gen AI stuff in the game somewhere or the game‘s worse or something.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
My first thought was Minecraft. I‘m not sure if it‘s playable offline still but a google search makes me believe so.
It runs on basically anything, and if the kids in question are still super young, there should be a peaceful/creative mode without monsters to scare them or survival mechanics to worry about, making it essentially just more complex LEGO.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
Horizon: Zero Dawn. I have yet to finish it but apart from robot dinosaurs, it feels so generically open world… Admitedly, a very pretty-looking open world. Can‘t really get into the story so far either since it takes itself so seriously while I‘m having a hard time not thinking too much about how ridiculous its world is.
- Comment on Beach Day (Black Desert) 1 month ago:
It’s Black Desert as mentioned in the title
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Still on GTA Online (send help) with friends. We‘re doing the Criminal Masterminds challenge but we‘ll probably be done next week and then it‘s onto other games.
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 2 months ago:
Yesterday when I played GTA Online with a friend cause the stuff the heist givers say is so absurd, I love it
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Is this by the same people? The studio seems different but you never know… Wishlisted for sure, didn‘t even know this was being made
- Comment on Day 460 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I‘ve gotten Zomboid as well, haven‘t had the time to try it yet though. Any tips for a complete clueless beginner?
Also, crazy how you‘ve kept these posts going!
- Comment on similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it? 2 months ago:
Funny enough, 5 hasn‘t really clicked for me yet cause there‘s no icon spam on the map I can checkmark LOL. Hope you‘ll have a good time with em!
- Comment on similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it? 2 months ago:
Probably Slipstream. I just bought it cause cheap and it turned out to be an absolute vibe.
Also, Far Cry 3. Turns out I don‘t mind putting checkmarks on collectibles and just find it oddly relaxing.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
For me it‘s Darkest Dungeon. I just don‘t enjoy „scraping by,“ I like to take care of and connect with my party, and that‘s just not the kinda game it is. It‘s just bleak everywhere, by design and fully intentional; and just not my thing.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
I think artificial scarcity in survival horror is kinda annoying. A flashlight burning through batteries as if it was a battery-powered oven is just an eyroller to me, the dude having the stamina of someone who‘s just woken up from a decade long koma doesn‘t help my enjoyment either. It just makes it annoying to me to play. I know it’s meant to make me feel weak and scared but I’d prefer if they could realize that in other ways.
The story was alright though IMO. I enjoyed the town sections the most.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I‘m still playing GTA Online (legacy) with a couple friends. Sadly, we were unable to do 4 men heists so far, we tried looking for a random fourth but we got kicked due to „inactivity“ while searching for someone cause it took too long; seems kinda dead.
- Comment on Massive Pokemon leak purportedly covers next-gen games, scrapped ideas, and more 2 months ago:
The only alternatives I‘ve played were Nexomon and TemTem, and Nexomon‘s grind sucked the life outta me, especially when they pulled a „oh nonono, this new region has different levels you have to grind from 0!“
TemTem was pretty fun in co-op though… even though I had to play with a VPN for the first time in my entire life cause somehow players wouldn‘t move on my screen with my „raw“ connection. No game has ever done this before nor has any game acted like this since lol, completely weird.