I am back! (hopefully) with properly scheduled weekly thread.
Not much change from what I mentioned in last thread couple of days ago.
Still playing Sniper Elite 4, I think I am about 60-70% done. And got back into Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 after taking a break over the holidays.
What about all of you? What have you been playing?
And while we are at it, what are your new year’s gaming resolution? Play more games? Play less games? Don’t pre-order? Always pre-order?
I don’t have anything as big as resolution, but I have been meaning to focus on older (J)RPGs from my wishlist / backlog that I haven’t had time for. So, unless something changes, I am planning to go to my “patient gamer” roots and ignore (most of the) new stuff.
In spite of getting new stuff, I’ve mostly been playing Warframe and Honkai Star Rail still. The latter is 100% grinding at this point. Too many characters needing their traces upgraded. Warframe I’m mostly trying to unlock the map, but I’ve also been building things and leveling them too.
I will say I’ve been playing Warframe mostly on PS5 and PC, but the Switch version is solid, if the graphics are cranked way down. Now that it has screws save, I’m way more interested.
What I should get playing is one of the four things I got for Christmas, Scarlet Nexux, FF XVI, Horizon Forbidden West, or Division 2. Might be playing more of the first today.
Ah, good to know about grinding in Honkai Star Rail, it means I can forget about it now.
I have heard mixed things about Scarlet Nexus, would love to hear your thoughts on it, once you have played a little.
Yeah, I figured it was coming, but it isn’t bad for just some mindless battles. I think I’d have puttered out one way or another about now anyway.
Getting there with Warframe too.
I’ve read reviews where they mention the plot is ehh, but combat is good. That’s the vibe thus far.
I’m still playing through Starfield… For whatever reason I feel compelled to beat every Bethesda RPG with 100%, even the B- efforts like this one. I’m just over 200 hours in and hoping to wrap up by this week. Just some remaining main quest missions and a bit of grinding. We’ll see.
Wow. So, are you actually enjoying it? I mean not every game is “best game of all time”, but you can sometimes enjoy B category games too.
Or are you just going for 100% it because it’s Bethesda RPG?
It’s fun for what it is, like all Bethesda games. I played Skyrim for 350 hours, and I loved it but recognized it still had the same jank and poorly realized characters and quests as every other Bethesda game. It’s not as good as Skyrim was. More comparable to Fallout. They need to change things up for their next game, but they’re already in progress on Elder Scrolls 6, so I guess they won’t in time for that.
ES6 was supposed to be in pre-production, so there is more than enough time to fix things.
On Switch I’ve just started M&R: Sparks of Hope. It’s great so far! Feels really polished, and I like the new changes to the movement system. If I remember correctly the first game required you to buy more powerful weapons throughout, whereas this one you attach and upgrade ‘sparks’ to a character. It’s a pretty neat system as you can change out sparks to suit the battle.
On my Steam Deck I’ve been playing through the Spyro trilogy. A lot of love has clearly gone into this remake. It looks beautiful and the levels are fun and well-designed.
On PS4 I’m most of the way through Cyberpunk 2077. It’s… rough on PS4. But I’m pushing through because the story and gameplay is great for the most part. I wouldn’t have bought it on PS4, but a friend lent it to me. Can’t complain with free.
Oh and I don’t really have a resolution besides continuing to work through my backlog! I made some good progress over Christmas.
I’ve finally moved on from Dragon Quest XI to Pokémon Violet expansions. I’m holding off on finishing them completely and have been raiding a lot.
Yep! Well there are two battles that are just unbeatable for me, so I decided to stop bashing my head against the wall for it and just moved on.
Mostly Splatoon 3 (gotta keep up my catalogue progress!), but I’ll probably put more time into Palia. It’s a bit of a mess (plenty of bugs, and pretty choppy while docked), but it’s charming enough to keep me loving it.
I also have to make more progress towards finishing Tears of the Kingdom.
Catalogue progress is important!
I tried Palia, but I think my internet was a bit wonky that day, which kind of put me off from it. May give it another try someday.
How far along are you in Tears of the Kingdom?
Basically right before facing Ganon. I’ve been trying to clear out more of the Depths, but I should switch to gearing up.
