I finished South Park Stick of Truth. Being an Obsidian-developed game it was excellent. Now I'm at a loss as to what to play next as I was looking thorugh my PS3 library and I've pretty much beaten them all or as much as I want to and don;t want to replay anything. So I went over to PS1 (My gaming at home is limited to the Playstaion products I've hooked up to a second TV, since the main TV is not generally accessible to me). I figured I'd stick with RPGs and put int eh classic Grandia... And holy shit it doesn't hold up. The graphics... I almost cut my eyes on them and the pacing... oh my god.... so slow. Has me totally re-evaluating my retirement, that PS1 library was going to carry me for at least 6 years of gaming!
So I've hooked up a PS2 to the "Playstation Station" and will explore that library for a while.
I spent the weekend with a couple dungeon crawlers. Both were entertaining and short bursts, but got frustrating After a couple hours.
The first was Source of Madness. It's got a very lovecraftian vibe. You play as occultist during some end of the world catastrophe and you fight randomly generated monsters that are basically pieces of legs, arms, tentacles, and teeth. It's a neat idea, but the end result is everything just looks messy. Trying to create randomly generated 2D levels the way they wanted to didn't quite work either. It was all very ambitious though, so I'll give the devs credit for that. For all it's faults, it actually was pretty fun, but even at the easiest difficulty level it's hard. Probably too hard. Judging by the percentage of people who made it past the first hour or so, I suspect I'm not in the minority on this thing in.
Then I played West of Dead, which is basically an western dungeon crawler set in purgatory with Ron perlman doing the voiceover for the main character. There's a lot of great fun to be had here, but unfortunately the game is a goddamn buggy mess. In just a couple hours. It crashed on me twice and created some infinite cannot save error. Nobody's got time for this.
Oh one other kind of humorous note for this week's gaming. I saw that A-train Exp+ was on PlayStation Plus, and I've heard of this series being very popular in Japan for quite some time. Time. It's been ages since I played a good sim, and train travels. Been something I've been increasingly interested in recently, so I thought I would give this game a shot.
Unfortunately it really looks like it's meant to be played on a PC. There are so many menus and everything is so tiny and hard to read, even on a giant TV screen. I didn't even make it 3 minutes after I started the tutorial level before. I said I can't do this and gave up.
So far this weekend, I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3, Baldur's Gate 3, and Baldur's Gate 3.
About 10 hours in, and I am painfully reminded how much I suck at playing D&D RPGs. BUT I am determined to learn and IMPROVE!
I've been playing Gears of War Ultimate. Then my children found out Game Pass has Goat Simulator 3 and I haven't had a turn to play since .
I finished South Park Stick of Truth. Being an Obsidian-developed game it was excellent. Now I'm at a loss as to what to play next as I was looking thorugh my PS3 library and I've pretty much beaten them all or as much as I want to and don;t want to replay anything. So I went over to PS1 (My gaming at home is limited to the Playstaion products I've hooked up to a second TV, since the main TV is not generally accessible to me). I figured I'd stick with RPGs and put int eh classic Grandia... And holy shit it doesn't hold up. The graphics... I almost cut my eyes on them and the pacing... oh my god.... so slow. Has me totally re-evaluating my retirement, that PS1 library was going to carry me for at least 6 years of gaming!
So I've hooked up a PS2 to the "Playstation Station" and will explore that library for a while.
The first was Source of Madness. It's got a very lovecraftian vibe. You play as occultist during some end of the world catastrophe and you fight randomly generated monsters that are basically pieces of legs, arms, tentacles, and teeth. It's a neat idea, but the end result is everything just looks messy. Trying to create randomly generated 2D levels the way they wanted to didn't quite work either. It was all very ambitious though, so I'll give the devs credit for that. For all it's faults, it actually was pretty fun, but even at the easiest difficulty level it's hard. Probably too hard. Judging by the percentage of people who made it past the first hour or so, I suspect I'm not in the minority on this thing in.
Then I played West of Dead, which is basically an western dungeon crawler set in purgatory with Ron perlman doing the voiceover for the main character. There's a lot of great fun to be had here, but unfortunately the game is a goddamn buggy mess. In just a couple hours. It crashed on me twice and created some infinite cannot save error. Nobody's got time for this.
the Wii version was absolutely awful. It's definitely best left forgotten.Unfortunately it really looks like it's meant to be played on a PC. There are so many menus and everything is so tiny and hard to read, even on a giant TV screen. I didn't even make it 3 minutes after I started the tutorial level before. I said I can't do this and gave up.
This weekend has been pretty much all Baldur’s Gate III for me as well. Had to play a bit of Goat Simulator 3 because why not.