Started playing Tera. Hit level 40. Seems weird to play an MMO on a gaming console. The reason those games are fun is for the communication with others.

Going back to Secret of Mana to finish and hopefully platinum.

I will be getting a PS during the next set of new consoles wars. Whenever that is.

Played a little Splatoon 2 this afternoon, it's a lot of the same from the first game which is great. Loved the remixed music with similar motifs, noticed some slight improvements, though I did also notice that the lack of Gamepad really hurts. Splatoon 1 really was one of the few games that really utilized that gamepad well, how it had the map displayed on the gamepad and you could take a quick look at it to see which areas need to be inked and you could tap it real quick to travel to someone else's spot. Having to pull up the map on the TV is a whole lot slower.

Adapting WiiU games well is def a huge order. Splatoon imo is worse on the switch but its still really good.

Terraria still. Addictive as fuck

It's also still not Persona.

State of Decay 2 is the best worst idea I've had in recent history. Still the same "I'm just going to do this one thing..." that leads to three hours later time sinks that the first one had. And this time, I can invite friends to help collect shit.

I guess I can say I'm "officially" playing it now. Had the preorder so got the "four days early" thing to start.

Just started it last night and really enjoying it.

As am I. Still has some of the... annoyances... of the first, though. A friend of mine said "If they spent six more months on it, it could have been Game Of The Year." I'm inclined to agree. Already had some issues with graphical/engine hiccups... including an instance of teleporting through a ladder I was climbing into the building's interior and becoming stuck on furniture. The only way out was to join a friend of mine's multiplayer game and go back (after helping him out a bit, of course).

It does appear they did away with the "game world still runs while you're not playing" mechanic, which is nice on one hand, but also means you can't start a major construction project before you turn the game off for the session and expect it to be built when you start playing again tomorrow.

Multiplayer is handled fairly well and cool in a number of ways - chief among them is you actually aren't stuck with your initial pick. You can swap talent with anyone from YOUR own community reguardless if you are hosting or not. Just anything you put in storage goes to the host. Anything you get from storage comes from your box. So if you load up on painkillers and ammo, and then decide you don't need it, you're better off switching characters, or you're going to basically give up your own goods.

Items are sharable if you place them on the ground for another player to pick up, and the dropped item(s) are clearly marked.

Also, every player becomes color-coded, and different parts of the same environment become searchable to the person of the corresponding color (host is yellow, player two is blue, player 3 is green. I am assuming player 4 is red, but never got on with a fourth yet.) So, a house that originally had 3 diffrent pieces of searchable furniture can end up with like 10 or so.

You do have to stay about 400m in range of the host, though, or you'll disconnect (represented by a big orange ring on the map screen that, ironically, the host can't see). Kinda stops everyone from running to four corners of the map and doing their own thing, but isn't so restrictive that you're joined at the hip or within eyeshot.

You know there is an "unstick" option on the radio that rewinds you about 10 seconds?

Just finished God of War. Best in the series. By far.

The s3kr4t ending just makes me want more. Now. Probably gonna have to wait for like 3 years or more :(

Hard to objectively compare them since they're so different, but I did enjoy the new one more than previous entries by a pretty wide margin.

Only criticism I would lay on it is there aren't many boss battles for a GoW game. What's there is a blast, but it's still worth mentioning.

Unreal Gold.

Epic Games was giving the game away for free on Steam earlier in the week.

Bloodstained Curse of the Moon

Yeah that is one of my few complaints as well. Like half the boss types become semi-regular enemies too and all of them are fairly routine for the rest of those fights except for maybe the . Also wish the last boss was different. It was an epic fight, to be sure, but I would have probably used someone else (even though there weren't many options set up, tbf) at that point and saved that moment for the sequel.


I also get why making the comparison would be hard. The games are very different. But the formula/gameplay/world for this one as well as the way the story is told are just so far beyond what came before that it puts this one way beyond the previous games for me. And I loved those games. This one is just something else.

How is it? Been wanting to scratch my Castlevania itch and it seems like the best option but I'm always a little leery of clones at first.

If you like castlevania 3 and dont mind short games get it cause its great. On my 3rd plathrough now. Actually literally at the final boss.

And just finished my 4th run. Might speed run this a bit. Really fun especially once you unlock the final and you have full access to everything.

I take it there is some kind of new game+ where you carry over your stuff? The way you are speed running it already and what not makes me think so and I always enjoy new game+ for multiple playthroughs myself.

I just finished up the platinum trophy for God of War as well. Couple of the trophies are a little grindy at the end but not so much so that it overstays its welcome. Prob gonna get Bloodstained due to Destors pitch as I want something smaller before I jump into another big game. Can't decide if I'm gonna go ahead and start Xenosaga 2 or jump on Shadow of War first.

There are modes you unlock but i dont want to spoil. It essentially ng+ but theres a lot of new to it too

Also to your rep castlevania 2 was my first too and that game gets a bad rap thanks to that avgn vid. Its underrated

LOL I just went and watched that. Pretty funny.

Video is hilarious

I'm with him on one thing though...that part where you gotta equip the red orb and kneel next to the random wall at the end of the world in order to advance stumped my ass for the longest time when I was little.

Didn't he redo it during his castlevania retrospective?

Just played Civ 5 with a friend for 6 hours. He had no clue it was 6am, thought it was 4am until the sun came up

Miss playing Civ with friends.

I have unopened copies of Nioh, Nier Automata and Witcher 3. Still meaning to get Zelda and Mario Odyssey on Switch soon. Theres a couple of games from Plus I actually would like to play (not many tbh), a Persona 5 NG+ on the horizon and let's be realistic I'm going to get Dark Souls remastered because praise the sun and all that.

So to make the best use of my time I decided to start on the digital re-release of FF7 instead. But to switch up from my dozen CloudXTifa playthroughs I'm going to be jerk Cloud and go on the date with Barrett so it feels like I'm doing something new.

Uh, yeah.

I keep wanting to plau nioh but dont lol

Have Civ 5?

It dropped down to £20 so I picked it up, played the demo last year and liked it. It seemed like a Shinto / Samurai based Dark Souls, if Dark Souls was a lot less polished. Kinda more campy, kinda less fair. I'm interested, but not in any rush to play it either haha.

Doom is only 20 bucks at retail last I saw.


If you haven't tried it, go pick it up. Super fun game. Hope there is a sequel announcement at E3.

Doom sequel is probably a year or 2 off at least. They are going with Rage 2 in the near term.

But Rage is gay tho

I wouldn't mind seeing Bethesda Game Studios announcing a Fallout spin-off game. Watched a VinylicPumaGamimg vid not too long ago on the possibility of it or (not likely but) even Fallout 5 being a surprise reveal for E³.

After Bethesda's utter shit show at last year's E³ however I'm not holding my breath.

Most people are banking on ES 6 or Starfield being Bethesda's big reveal for the show.

They said the same thing last year though, so who knows?

I didn't notice that before. I thought that was like radioing in for a hint on what to do next. Had someone else tell me that is what this did.

Saw the vid, and as I didn't kickstart RotN, this was an unexpected surprise for me. Looks like CV:III but with the bonus of being able to swap all characters instead of sacrificing one for another, and that got my attention. Does it play like it? If so, I'm sold.