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Post by tuigirl on Jan 17, 2024 21:43:26 GMT
Further update! Well, I have given up on Shooters for now.
Metal Hellsinger is a really fun game with great music, but I just am not able yet to press all the necessary buttons to regain my health during combat, so although I tried for hours to beat level 1, I just could not do it. I appear to have no hand-eye coordination.
However, I finished the Samurai game Sclash, it was fun, challenging, strategic and I loved the story. Very much recommended.
I also finished ABZU, a relaxing diving game. It is more of an art work than a real game, one has to swim with fish and whales in the ocean, with some beautiful classical music. Very nice game that awakens one's sense of wonder.
I have grown very fond of some simpler racing games! I have never been very much into racing games, but playing some simpler ones (where one does not have to press 10 buttons simultaneously to make the car go forward) is very rewarding and enjoyable on my Steam Deck.
I have been playing Truck Racer, an older game where trucks compete against each other in demolition derbies. It is really fun, easy and runs flawlessly on the Steam Deck. Lots of stuff to unlock, and many different tracks and challenges.
Then I also got Driftwood, this is a chill racing game (yes, that is possible!)- one plays as a sloth on a skateboard and one has to race downhill while performing some cool tricks. Several different tracks, they even included a ski-slope, where one can race down on a snowboard. The best thing about it is the great music- really nice, chill music. Runs great on the deck. Love it.
And then I started on Road Redemption- I had this on my wish-list for ages. I knew I would like it, but never got around to it. Now I tried it out and it is perfect for the deck. It is extremely violent and brutal- one plays as a member of a motorcycle gang and has to kill other drivers (and fight against the police!) to win the races. This is great to blow off some steam.
Further I got some survivor-type games (they came in a bundle), so I had a look at God of Weapons (I like the backpack mechanic, where one has to arrange one's backpack efficiently to pack all the items necessary to survive), Halls of Torment (I live the old Diablo vibe!), Brotato (which certainly deserves all the praise it gets, it is easy to learn, hard to master and just is so easy to pick up and play short sessions, for such a simple game, it is remarkably deep) and Soulstone Survivors. I personally like Soulstone Survivors best so far, it is the most colorful and most rewarding. There is so much to unlock, and so many achievements, it is basically a dopamine mine for getting small feelings of reward after playing short sessions.
However, for me, I cannot play these survivor type games for hours on end. I just lose interest. But on the Steam Deck, for playing short sessions, they are ideal.
Honorable mention for the monster horror game Carrion. I got the game ages ago, played a few minutes and quickly lost interest. However, it plays PERFECTLY on the deck, it is so slick and FUN to play as the horrible monster, stalking humans and eating them. It is such a joy to play on the deck. You basically BECOME one with the monster!
Then I also got a couple of JRPGs, just to see if I will do fine with them on the Deck. They are turn based, so I hope I will be able to handle this.
I got Sea of Stars (which is absolutely beautiful, I love the art-style) and Persona 4 Golden (I just loved the idea of an RPG that mixed high-school drama with a horror plot from "the Ring"). I played the tutorials of both games and they play fine. Now I have to find some motivation to actually dive in and dedicate time to these RPGs.
As you see, I am still trying to find out what works for me and find my feet around this new toy.
I have some other games that can be played on the Steam Deck, like The Witcher 3 (which I bought a couple of years ago and never played), but since I have some real issues with being able to learn my way around the controller input, I will keep these for later.
On the other hand, I learned that some other games I would never have suspected work very well for me on the Deck, and I enjoy myself, like with the simple racing games and Carrion.
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 3, 2024 11:07:07 GMT
Beyond- Two Souls- this is a great interactive movie. Exactly my type of story, it is very X-Files. You play as a haunted and hunted young woman who is inexplicably linked mentally to a poltergeist. You are used and abused for you abilities by a scientist (Willem Dafoe) and the CIA. I liked the non-linear storytelling (there is the option to play it in chronological order, but I decided I wanted the original version).
I also think this was very well performed.
I also fired "No Man's Sky" back up. I got the game years ago when it had VERY bad reviews and got it back then for 5 Euro (it is now 60 Euro!). I never had gotten into the game, I was just bored out of the mind by the gameplay loop of mining and crafting. But right now, I am enjoying myself, I play in relaxed mode, have found a nice paradise planet where I am building up my main base- right next to a little lake, surrounded by some glowing palm trees, and I have trained some giant horned sloths as riding animals. I also have found a crashed starship which is better than the starting ship, and my mission now is to repair and restore that ship. Nice, easy, slow and relaxing.
And then, for some reason, I got also hooked on two nice little indie games, a little colorful arcade racer called "Horizon Chase Turbo" and an oldschool arcade roguelite shooter "Whisker Squadron Survivor". Both very fun games, great for playing short bursts.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 4, 2024 23:02:45 GMT
My oldest nephew came over for lunch today and we played Mario Kart for awhile. It was nice.
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Post by sherlock on Feb 4, 2024 23:20:27 GMT
The Science Museum in London currently has a shedload of games consoles available to play, as an exhibit on evolution of gaming (well, nominally at least. Educational value is questionable). So, for a date, popped along and tried out a few.
Mario Kart 64 made our eyes hurt. Too used to higher quality graphics maybe, but this iteration was just hard to focus on. I died an embarrassing amount of times on NES’ Super Mario World, and button mashed on the WiiU’s iteration of Smash Bros (it probably has a name; I dunno it). One day I’ll learn how to actually play that game series. They also had Portal 2 which reminded me I need to actually play through that series.
Oh and appropriately for the Science Museum they had a copy of Kerbal Space Program too so I got to nerd out on basic orbital rocketry for a couple of minutes.
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Post by number13 on Feb 5, 2024 9:15:40 GMT
The Science Museum in London currently has a shedload of games consoles available to play, as an exhibit on evolution of gaming (well, nominally at least. Educational value is questionable). So, for a date, popped along and tried out a few. Mario Kart 64 made our eyes hurt. Too used to higher quality graphics maybe, but this iteration was just hard to focus on. I died an embarrassing amount of times on NES’ Super Mario World, and button mashed on the WiiU’s iteration of Smash Bros (it probably has a name; I dunno it). One day I’ll learn how to actually play that game series. They also had Portal 2 which reminded me I need to actually play through that series. Oh and appropriately for the Science Museum they had a copy of Kerbal Space Program too so I got to nerd out on basic orbital rocketry for a couple of minutes. The first time I ever thought "I'm getting old" (I was about 30 ) was in the Science Museum. On seeing an example of what had been my first computer now displayed as an historical relic, in a glass case, with a label and a panel of explanation... quite the 'Space Museum' moment
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 12, 2024 7:46:40 GMT
Started on two games yesterday: "The Invincible", a well received game re-enacting the novel by Stanislav Lem (one of the great Sci-Fi writers). It is an interactive walking simulator and looks stunning, it really makes you feel marooned on a faraway planet.
And then for something totally different, I finally decided it was time to try out the Jack Black Metal game "Brutal Legend". This is a comedy game, making fun of every Metal trope out there. Yes, some of it is cringe, but so far, I had a few laughs. I had thought about getting this for years now, but always held of since everyone praised the humor, the acting and the music (it features more than 100 famous Metal songs), but everyone moaned and despised the gameplay.
Both games run fine on my Steam Deck.
I also continued playing "No Man's Sky", I have fun with it and I think it plays so much more fluid on the Steam Deck than on my laptop. There is lots of stuff to discover, like exploring haunted abandoned freighters in deeps space, spooky caves, helping stranded astronauts and running a frontier village in space. I play myself as some kind of salvage operator who earns most of the credits by finding crashed ships and freighters.
I agree with the thought that this game is "wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle", since yes, there is a whole universe with millions of planets to explore, but in reality, it comes down to the same planet types over and over again, the quests are always the same and the animals and plants are created from the same building blocks on each and every planet. Still, a great pick-up and play game to kill a few hours, colorful, but without any depth.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 12, 2024 12:26:21 GMT
Been playing Mario Party matches online in the mornings.
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 14, 2024 22:47:46 GMT
How awesome is Robocop Rogue City?
I nearly had given up on shooters. But then I did read the reviews to this game, and since I like the classic movies, I gave this a chance. This is not a fast run and gun shooter, you do not have to press 3 buttons while doing a summersault all the while aiming and shooting. You play as a slow, methodical, walking tank.
You really feel like Robocop. It plays well on my Steam Deck. The writing is great, it gets the humor of the old movies, the characters are voiced by their original actors, the side characters are fun and well developed, the villains are sufficiently insane. I could go on. This is very well made and very close to the movies. Bonus- you get to issue parking tickets. And shoot people's heads off. I am enjoying myself.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 15, 2024 15:08:07 GMT
I've dragged out my old Wii in order to play Wii Fit and Wii Sports again. Just a really great way to do some light exercise in one's own home.
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Post by mistfall on Feb 21, 2024 16:51:01 GMT
Just downloading Tomb raider 1-3 remastered.Gonna take me back late nineties on playstation 1
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 21, 2024 17:08:50 GMT
Embarrassing admission- I have never played Halflife 2 yet. Reviews on Steam say that if one has not played the game, one has no right to have a Steam account. I will rectify this issue and have downloaded the game onto my Steam Deck. Let us find out of it is really "one of the best games ever made".
In other news, I really like the Robocop game and have not only played through it, but have now started the New Game + to find the missing achievements and secrets in the levels. Honestly, for me one of the best games I have played recently.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 21, 2024 21:27:20 GMT
Played some Smash Bros Ultimate with my youngest nephew this weekend
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 22, 2024 23:58:28 GMT
Started on Last Epoch.
Had this on my wish list for a while, but held back because it has still issues on Steam Deck and wanted to buy it when these issues were solved. (right now, on the Deck, there are some button issues, the menues do not work correctly and the mini-map on top of the screen does not work, so Steam lists this game as "unsupported" for the Deck).
Anyways, today I saw that some impatient kids were review-bombing the game because it had server issues at launch and right now, you can NOT play online, only offline. Since I hardly ever play online games and play ARPGs to relax and I generally do not have anyone to play with me anyways, I could not have cared less. So I actually took the plunge, bought the game and installed it on my old laptop (not the Deck). I have to run it on low settings, but it runs fine on low settings. I am looking forward to playing this on my Steam Deck on much higher settings (when the issues are fixed).
But non-the less, it does not look bad, even on low.
I am actually enjoying myself. It is the usual ARPG formula, and it lets me play a summoner, I went for the buff Barbarian who can summon animals and you can later class him as a Beastmaster.
I just like playing summoners. And summoners who summon wild animals (as opposed to the undead) are an extra bonus for me.
Plus, as a Barbarian, the guy has some "oompf!" when smashing enemies.
Plus, BIG plus, this game comes with a real-world clock in the top right corner. You lose track of time when playing ARPGs, so this feature is a MUST for me.
Happy with my purchase and happy to support the devs. I am generally not a big fan of first day release review bombing.
Will leave a good review when all the temper tantrums have died down.
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 23, 2024 20:56:28 GMT
So I installed Last Epoch on my Steam Deck, and for some reason (I am NOT a computer voodoo master, I barely know what I am doing!) this runs fine on my Steam Deck. I do not even observe some of the issues everybody else is reporting, like the missing mini-map and the missing Cloud Saves and Cloud connection. It is all there and running smoothly. I am very happy about this, because I realized, as soon as there is more action happening on the screen, my old laptop really starts wheezing and stuttering. I was so elated, I actually left a positive review on Steam. Just to create a counter-voice to all the disappointed people.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 26, 2024 2:41:27 GMT
My nephew introduced me to a new game, Fall Guys. It's a party game type video game where you race through obstacle courses against other players.
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Post by christmastrenzalore on Mar 1, 2024 22:59:38 GMT
Undertale Yellow A fan-game that's been in the works for 7 years. The writing's not quite as sharp, and it's a bit derivative is some areas, but it nails the look and feeling of the source work. The music's on point, the graphics are a big imporvment, and they do some really cool stuff with the combat encounters. With the 3 year gaps between Deltarune releases, it came at the perfect time.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Played it in a group. Hard to say how intuitive it would be solo, but the ammount of cool powers you can get is nuts. And it has some of the prettiest pixel art, and has a lot of fun with how it portrays perspective.
Sly 2: Band of Thieves Damn this holds up. Writing and Gameplay slick as ever.
Poacher Thinking about it, this might be the first Metroidvania I actually played. It's a very charming game by Yahtzee Croshaw, about a Yorkshireman who gets embroiled in a subteranial war between two ancient races.
Portal Something about the Portal games really make me feel the passage of time. Not while I'm playing, that's very brisk. But just thinking about how old they are. Maybe it's something about the lonliness, and the vast empty spaces, or even the passage of time in the story. But they just dig into my heart-strings.
Populous: The Beginning Finally, after all this time I beat the game. I took a big break on the last six levels, since all the rapid mouse movement was doing my shoulder in. Turns out there's a zoomed out version that's a little easier on the arm. Anyways, it was a satisfying finish. Kinda wanna do some drawings of it now.
Cave Story & Yume Nikki These are old progenetor games of the indie boom (as has been communicated to me). They haven't quite struck a chord with me so far. Cave Story is good, but a little finicky in the handling. Yume Nikki... I have no damn clue what I'm doing. Looks interesting though.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Mar 3, 2024 19:39:59 GMT
Just finished the Mass Effect Legendary edition. When I first played the games I didn't have a home internet connection so this was my first encounter with much of the DLC (such as Arrival, Citadel, Omega, Leviathan)
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Post by timleschild on Mar 3, 2024 19:58:29 GMT
pentiment
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Post by Kestrel on Mar 8, 2024 9:01:18 GMT
Quick PSA: Electronic Arts finally unlocked their dungeon and let loose a bunch of old, classic PC games onto Steam, including Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the Dungeon Keepers, and all of the remaining Command & Conquer games (including Red Alert 2)! Anyway, this week I'm excited to dive into Vanillaware's latest masterpiece, Unicorn Overlord. The story is... pretty bad, but the gameplay is phenomenally good. There's a very generous demo available and if you're even remotely interested in strategy games, I highly recommend checking it out. Now there's a fantastic game. Kind of weird we got two really nice-looking games about marginalia the same year, though. i recently picked up the other -- Inkulatl, i think's the title -- but haven't had time to try it out yet.
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Post by bethhigdon on Mar 8, 2024 15:24:11 GMT
My nephew wanted to show off his classic NES console that his mother gave him for Christmas, so I went over to his new place with some pizza and we played classic Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Tetris and Marble Madness. I'm not a fan of most NES stuff, except for Duck Hunt and a few classic rpgs, but it was nice to spend some one on one time with my nephew. He's so excited to have a place of his own now, yet I still remember when he couldn't even walk yet. And he's still not as old as some of those games we played. lol
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