Picked up Death Stranding: Director’s Cut for PS5 at $30 and Killzone: Shadow Fall for PS4 at $10.

I recently bought Resident Evil Village for $20 (PS5) and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection also for $20 (PS5).

Archangel3371 said:

Yeah I had a great time with Resident Evil Village as well. Also a bit disappointed that the dlc didn’t turn out that well but still interested in getting it sometime in the future.

robio said:

Street Fighter V was a sad wake up call that fighting games are no longer for me. Not sure if they've gotten too fast or I've gotten too slow. I suspect it's a combination of the two, with more of it being I've gotten too slow, because when I got the Street Fighter Collection earlier last year, I was absolutely awful.




Fortunately, we still have Dig Dug, so I've got that going for me.

I was planning to wait until Street Fighter 6 came out in June to get seriously into fighting games. But I saw that Street Fighter 5 was on sale on Steam for 75% off last week and decided I might as well start now, because a lot of the fundamentals seem like they would transfer over. So I picked it up and think I'm going to shelf COD:MWII for a couple months and main SFV instead.

My goal is just to get to silver rank. The rank distribution in SFV is super messed up. Just getting to silver would make me better than 60% of active players.

I've only played about 6 hours so far but just managed to get from Rookie to Bronze rank. Reading Reddit posts and stuff, it seems like some people get stuck in Rookie for hundreds of hours or months, so seems pretty promising. Bronze already puts me ahead of 30%+ of players. Still got Super Bronze and Ultra Bronze ranks to go.

So far it's been both the most rewarding and most stressful thing I've done in a long time. Any ranked game gives me huge anxiety and this is no exception... death gripping my controller so hard that my hands hurt, and my body so full of adrenaline that I could only do 3 matches before being exhausted the first few days that I played. But the challenge is fun and keeps me coming back. And going into it with a learning mentality, I can see myself improving and having a-ha moments, learning new things about different characters and how I need to react to them in every match.

If you're anything like me, then your biggest obstacle is just going to be overcoming all the bad habits and button mashing you've learned from fighting games to date. I watched the simplest Youtube tutorial I could find and went completely back to basics. My strategy is basically just throwing fireballs, uppercutting people when they jump in at me, or blocking and then punishing when they throw unsafe attacks at me. Sometimes I throw in something flashy when I get impatient or panic, but more often than not I regret it and get punished for it. If fighting games feel too fast for you, it's probably because you're trying to do too many things at once. My mental flowchart for the game right now only has like 3 things to choose from at any given time. There are still plenty of 30+ year olds in the competitive fighting game scene, it's not like first person shooters where you need twitchy reaction times.

Fighting games are one of those few things like chess that I've never really been able to wrap my head around. But seems like 5th time is a charm for me, and it is possible to figure it out. So I'd recommend giving it another go. Just don't let yourself get overwhelmed with things like frame data or hundreds of other fighting game-specific terminologies that you can probably ignore for your first hundred hours or more.

I've bought Fire Emblem Engage. Maybe I'll play it soon. Or maybe in August.