Have owned it for quite a while, but finally beat Torchlight II today.
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I bought Dead Cells this weekend on sale and promptly dumped about 25 hours into it over the last few days. This⌠was not what I planned to do with my free time. Now my 9yo is playing it; itâs his first experience with the 2D âMetroidvaniaâ style of game play.
I enjoy Dead Cells, but some of the weapons are justâŚcrap. Any of the foot ones just require you to be too damn close.
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Bought Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis. Gonna give it a whirl this weekend together with my oldest son.
Iâm definitely at the point where if my starting weapons are rubbish, I just restart on the spot. I love me some electric whip.
I started playing Graveyard Keeper. Itâs a very dark version of the Harvest Moon type game. With a communist donkey.
Electric whip is great. Most of the swords are good in some way or another, or combo really well with something else (Oil-slicked sword and the fireball spell make for good times.)
Just beware the lightning spell. If you hold it, it will increase in damage, but if the lightning turns red it starts hurting you too!
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Yup, found out the hard way. Itâs a fun game. Scratches an itch. Wonder if it will work on my old laptop.
Only $15 on the Switch right now, so I just bought it again. I wouldnât have bothered, but Siglet Secundus is really enjoying it and this way I get the use of my Steam library back.
I talked about the game Tradewinds a few times back in 2017. You can get the first three games via Steam for $5 and you can find the physical versions on Ebay or Walmart. Whatever you do, DO NOT get the one called âTradeWinds Againâ from the Microsoft Store. Itâs not worth it even though itâs free.
The short answer is someone tried to create something Tradewinds-like by taking screenshots from the original game and cobbling them together, then stripping out features, leaving a buggy and unplayable game. The long answer picks it apart based on the screenshots alone is in my blog on the Tradewinds Wiki.
Iâve also got other blogs for tips on concentrating firepower, using warehouses effectively, how to maximize profit by going back to saved games, using loans to your advantage and how you can earn more gold by selling cannons to free up cargo space. Click on the âUser blog:RRabbit42â link at the top to see them.
The next PlayStation is going to have two versions: one with a UHD Blu-ray drive and an all-digital version. Thereâs likely to be the same for Xbox. The attraction with the all-digital version is the same as is being promoted with streaming services: you donât have to worry about losing the disc, you can watch it anywhere you want, etc., yada yada.
Thereâs an article on How-To-Geek about why you shouldnât get the digital version.. It points out some big problems with that sales model. Many revolve around it makes you dependent on the company, often costs more and games can be taken away from you at any time, just like how streaming services stop carrying movies and TV shows. If you think having the backing of a big company it can be reassuring, ask owners of the Wii and Wii U what happened when the WiiWare service closed last year.
Until all of the hardware is no longer available at any thrift shop, pawn shop or place like GameStop, buying the physical version of the games means youâll be able to play the games you want when you want, not when a company tells you you can.
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Donât get me started on my Ouya fiasco.
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Phoenix Wright trilogy half off on Steam, so I bought it and kids and I have been dramatically reading the dialogue as we play on the living room television.
Iâve got a reliable-ish config for one of my 8bitdo joysticks, so Iâve been playing the weird little game Psychonauts and hoping 2 comes out next year. (Which is about 3 years late.)
Iâve picked up two recently:
Hades has apparently been all the rage, so I grabbed it to see. Itâs a fun, roguelike action-RPG that definitely starts out hard but as you learn how the different buffs and weapons work can definitely get easier as you go.
The other is Hardspace: Shipbreaker. This is a bit of an odd duck, itâs in the âHouse Flipperâ or âSatisfactoryâ niche in my headâŚyouâre a random dude in a billion credits of debt and you work to pay it off by ripping apart spaceships in a spacedock berth, salvaging what you can and smelting everything else. ItâsâŚoddly calming. Itâs a âturn your brain off and just cut the ship apartâ type dealie for me.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker looks like an interesting time, but it requires something called âVRAMâ, and I donât have any of that.
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I picked up the league of legends card game on mobile, and i am in love.
I have discovered two problems with this gameâŚ
#1 is that if I shove a particularly large piece of ship framework into one of the furnace holes, the visuals of it burning/dissolving/smelting/whatever cause the framerate to go right into the floor until itâs sufficiently dissolved. This has actually crashed the game once because it stuck for too long and Unity gave up.
#2 is a more curious thingâŚAt first it was fine, but for some reason the last couple times Iâve played it, after I quit the game, I can no longer interact with Windows via the mouse. Clicking doesnât work, very occasionally Chrome will allow me to scroll but nothing else, and I can only fix it after a restart of the whole machineâŚand I cannot fathom what the deus would be causing that.
I think one version of Stellaris had a similar issue on Mac. Took over the mouse somehow and wouldnât give it back. Fixed in recent patches, though.
Yeah, Iâm hoping itâs just an early-access bug and it gets patched out relatively quickly. I like the game but Iâm getting tired of rebooting my desktop daily because of it.