I’m playing through Pathfinder:Adventures again. I think the game is a gem. The tabletop game is sometimes fiddly but still a fun campaign that I think was way ahead of its time. It died before the big campaign game boom and I think it would do well if it were released today. The app streamlines some of the fiddliness and should be way more popular than it is. Asmodee gross mismanagement hurt it.
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I’ve asked this question in the past but I’m going to ask again and see if it’s updated in any way:
I’m looking for quality games with high score chases and/or dailies that you can compare with friends, preferably with notifications of some sort that someone has claimed the top spot in the leaderboard
For reference, a couple of years ago a group of friends and I all played through Deep Space D6 at the same time and it was pretty fun getting notifications that your high score was beaten, which would motivate you to play more and more and more
Genre doesn’t really matter, but we do tend to gravitate to strategy/board/card games. Something like Geometry Dash wouldn’t really be up our alley, for example. I was thinking about maybe one of the Arnold Rauers games but also looking at any recommendations.
They finally revealed the story DLC for the Alters. It is to be expected to be more like a „The Alters 1.5“ than a mere post-credit cashgrab Epiloge. Roughly 15-20 hours of content. This puts it to 80%ish of the runtime of the main game. My mind is blown. Season pass done right? July 13 furious irresponsible gaming induced Insomnia here I come!
Edit:
Remember the ancient artifact of „Story expansion“? No not cosmetic dlc…no no time-saver dlc either…and especially not a 5 star gacha pull either…a story expansion!
…me neither…
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Pokemon Champions has now released on iOS / android if you are in to some poke battles!
I have beeen hammering this game lately, got to master all on doubles, couldn’t quite get there on singles.
climbing again with the new month!
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Think I’ve reached the end of my patience with Diablo 4 season 13. Had fun, but I’ve hit paragon 245 with my fully kitted dance of knives rogue and it’s a slog at this point for minimal rewards. Was aiming for paragon 250 but I don’t think I have it in me. Torment 12 is unbalanced and 11 is too easy. Whatever, it was fun for a bit, as D4 tends to be.
Been revisiting Dead Cells from the beginning; it’s a great pick up for a minute or ten and I love that you can leave it and come back to no loss of progression.
I’ve also slept on Clair Obscure: Expedition 33. What a great JRPG - fantastic story, great artwork, and cool mechanics even if I suck at dodge and parry.
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I am glad I am not the only one with that similar experience.
I managed to unlock the capstone season reward, and as a Necro, I also find it similar. T12 is one shot land - I can do the damage and get through it (did a pit 110), but one mistake and you die.
looking forward to s14 though, going to play a Druid or Paladin I think
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Agreed. I’ve never done a Druid, maybe I’ll give that a shot. Pally was a lot of fun too!
I played a high mobility Spiritborn this season that was a lot of fun, mostly JAguar with some monkey mixed in. I had played an aura Paladin in the previous season that was great. I stopped playing a few weeks ago this season though, usually by the time I get my last Paragon board up, I tend to lose interest.
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Maybe I’m in the minority in my views, but one of my issues with D4 is that everything ultimately feels very same-y. I know there are different builds but by end game, it always boils down to clearing the largest groups of mobs as fast as you can and the differences between classes don’t seem all that pronounced besides from their visual flair. This isn’t really a complaint because I do like the game, just an observation that the differences between classes almost feel more cosmetic to me than functional. Could also just be me.
I played through the D4 campaign once, and was pretty bored by the experience. Maybe that’s not a fair assessment of the game, but when a friend asked me to play the latest season of Path of Exile 2 “just for the first weekend”, I was immediately hooked on the grind again. For 3 weeks I gave up sleep and family time to grind maps with the new (to me) Druid class. While I still wanted to keep playing, I had managed to achieve the goals I wanted to that season, and realized it would be best to stop playing. Despite all that, I’d highly recommend it as an alternative to D4 (especially if you have more control than me)!
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100% on this. It never really hit me until this season, when my dance of knives rogue kind of just behaves like a whirlwind barb. I still like the midgame, when you’re finding new loot all the time. The end game is a slog; I don’t have the patience to go hunting or rerolling that item for an extra +5 dex or whatever.
Me, an overheating dried up husk of a Prinny, one step away from fatal heatstroke playing Dune 1 ( a game which released 34 years ago on the Amiga and MS-DOS): „Huh?“ ™
Ok I should stop, this gets ridiculous…or not? With Sony announcing the death of physical media for the PlayStation consoles starting 2028 the return to truly old gems seems more relevant than ever?
This time for the very first time on my Steamdeck via Emudeck emulation. Took me half a day today to set stuff up including a second attempt to import gog games into the deck, this time successfully! This but a true triumph of spamming google „ask ai“ (me dumb, me to friggin hot….darn this heat!)
Fiddling around with my deck for the first time in a long time, writing a thesis on steam controller layouts for obscure 90‘s games hardwired for keyboard/mouse inputs? Tough Stuff!
Playing Battle Isle 2 and Dune 1 on my Steam Deck lazily on a bench in the garden instead of hunched over in front of my PC? WORTH IT!
THE SPICE MUST FLOW!
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And now to something completely different!
I am playing the Story Expansion to „The Alters“ called „Last Variable“ ON RELEASE DATE! This must be some rare oddity of me to play something recent or to be more scientific about it (that Jan S. Dolski is rubbing off on me) brand spanking new! It could be even the first Day 1 game I played since the release of the original „The Alters“ released exactly 13 months ago. Such a fantastic emotional rollercoaster that was.
Even better this DLC came with the Deluxe Edition I bought back then. Even my wallet is in tears!
20 hours of content in a Story DLC? For a game which had about 30 hours in itself? A true „Expansion“ not a costume/cosmetic dlc? In 2026? Am I hallucinating? *Checks thermostat* Oh? oh well….maybe dying from heatstroke is more likely.
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Does anyone have an Assassin’s Creed game that they particularly like or recommend? I’ve dabbled here and there and, admittedly, open world games often don’t hold my interest, but I kind of want to play something with a historical bent right now rather than fantasy or science-fiction.
I’m looking at PS5 (or 4), for the record.
I enjoyed the setting and protagonist of Odyssey (playing as the female character). It was pleasantly sunny, and the usual cameos from all the famous folks of the era seemed a very small amount less forced.
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Counterpoint to @rinelk suggestion:
The Ezio remastered trilogy (AC2 and AC Brotherhood and Ac Revelations).
Sure a bit more clunky than modern games. But way less bloated on the other side imho. I usually prefer RPG elements and open worlds….but the Horizon Zero Dawn / Horizon Forbidden West games ruined all other open world RPGs for me. They are so much better that I seriously struggle to get shit done in the newer AC games (played all classic games up to AC syndicate at least twice. AC Origins once, AC Odyssey….aborted two times, won’t play Valhalla or shadows before beating Odyssey first)
Or go for the recent Remake of AC 4. Subpar AC story. But Pirate ship cannon go boom - all day every day babyyyy!
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The Ezio Trilogy is also excellent! I didn’t find Ezio’s personality that endearing, which made it a little harder to care about the rest of the game, but it was very well-done. Similarly, the ship subgame was quite enjoyable, once I was able to accept it on its own terms rather than wishing for something Patrick O’Brien would respect. Heck, I think both Origins and Shadows are also strong contenders–Origins seemed like a high-water mark for me in both the tomb raiding and history bits–they clearly felt ridiculous having a AAA-game budget with which to do voluminous research and make very careful 3d models of all sorts of architecture and artifacts which are hard for people to get to, and not sharing it. So there’s basically a museum of Egyptian history built into the game, and it’s very cool. Meanwhile, Shadows felt like the AC team looking at Ghost of Tsushima and deciding that, rather than bitch about someone stealing their game, they’d just do the same thing even better (and, in a lot of ways, succeeding).
If I were looking to play any of these for the first time, I’d probably choose based on aesthetics. They’re all competently designed with mostly fun gameplay, but you’ll be looking at a lot of mediterranean islands, renaissance Italian cities, Caribbean pirate ships, dunes, or Japanese villages, and they’re all recent and well-funded enough that they don’t look absurdly janky.
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Hm, that is intriguing. I haven’t kept up much with the news/hype cycle for AC Shadows.
Haven’t played Ghost of Yotei either. But really loved Ghost of Tsushima and its expansion ….something to look forward to then…….in 10 years or so when I finally have beaten AC Odyssey and AC Valhala (and AC Mirage, I always forget that there was one more game ;-p ).
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GoT was fantastic, I need to go back and finish it once I’m done with COe33. Still waiting for Yotei to hit Steam.
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Boy, do I have bad news for you….
Sony could not accept Microsoft winning the Bad Press race 3 years in a row, so in a deluge of any press is good press even shit press, they:
A: cancelled PC ports of all Single Player games from here henceforth (to protect their Plattform)
B: sacked a bunch of developer studios (even Bluepoint their best horse in the race called reheating ahem remastering old games)
C: announced the closure of PS3 store and PS Vita store (this time for real, after going back on it earlier in the pandemic times (while quietly sunsetting purchases of some games individually anyways))
D: announced the death of Physical Game Discs starting January 2028 i.e. digital for the win (only 1 week after deleting several Studio Canal film licenses you may have bought from their online film/video storefront)
…I am to old for this Microsoft vs Sony thing, but man do they make it difficult to be a Sony-pony in disguise…
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