I was half way through playthroughs of Dying Light 2 and Hogwarts Legacy when my ADHD brain decided to hyperfocus on the Last of Us for a couple of weeks. Now both are beaten, I am feeling a bit lost to be honest!
I sorta dunno whether I am too far removed from Dying Light 2 and Hogwarts to get back into them, but also too far into them to not want to play them all over again from the start and relearn everything again. Especially with Dying Light 2, I remember that having some really frustrating missions despite being overall really fun to play (the dropkick is everything). I don't remember getting as frustrated with Hogwarts Legacy but I did find that game kinda boring more than anything else from memory. Combat was cool, but kinda clunky as you got more spells.
I guess I could resub to Gamepass and try Atomic Heart and see if I hated it like others did. But if I don't like it then my problems aren't solved.
There has been quite a lot of stuff that has come out that I haven't got around to yet like the new Need for Speed or the Dead Space remake. I'd really like to try Wild Hearts, but I understand that game is a bit of a mess right now.
I see Wo Long game is getting good reviews, but that is a Soulslike, right?
@Pizzamorg Having read the recent review, it does look like Wo Long is definitely a Soulslike but it does some innovation of its own, it appears. Sounds like it’s hard as nails though. I’m going to steer clear for now until some consensus on how to make the game more manageable is put out into the internet ether.
Following up an emotional gaming journey like you’ve just had is always tough. My personal approach is to play something very different to cleanse the proverbial palate. Maybe a fresh indie or something really arcadey with less focus on narrative? Would definitely steer clear of A Plague Tale or something too similar to TLoU. I can’t speak to Dying Light, but Hogwarts is a little more of the “do combat encounters for a while, watch story cutscene, repeat” despite it being open world. I’m loving it though, but I’m an pretty big HP fan, so it doesn’t feel as boring.
Have you played Returnal? I was promoting it as a great game to play for those wanting to just immerse in some addictive quick and kinetic gameplay. I can’t remember if you played that yet.
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@Pizzamorg "Wo Long" (which is indeed a Soulslike) is on Gamepass as well as as "Atomic Heart". If neither of them land for you then give the excellent "Hi-Fi Rush" a try. It's a bright as a button 80's anime inspired rhythm action game (think "Devil May Cry" meets "Guitar Hero") with an absolutely kickass soundtrack. Probably the gaming antithesis of "TLoU" now I come to think on it.
Oh are they both on there? That kinda makes me think Gamepass is a winner. I can try both games and if I don't like either of them, then I can try Hi-Fi Rush or some of the other indies on there.
@Pizzamorg Having read the recent review, it does look like Wo Long is definitely a Soulslike but it does some innovation of its own, it appears. Sounds like it’s hard as nails though. I’m going to steer clear for now until some consensus on how to make the game more manageable is put out into the internet ether.
Following up an emotional gaming journey like you’ve just had is always tough. My personal approach is to play something very different to cleanse the proverbial palate. Maybe a fresh indie or something really arcadey with less focus on narrative? Would definitely steer clear of A Plague Tale or something too similar to TLoU. I can’t speak to Dying Light, but Hogwarts is a little more of the “do combat encounters for a while, watch story cutscene, repeat” despite it being open world. I’m loving it though, but I’m an pretty big HP fan, so it doesn’t feel as boring.
Have you played Returnal? I was promoting it as a great game to play for those wanting to just immerse in some addictive quick and kinetic gameplay. I can’t remember if you played that yet.
Yeah I'm not a fan of the whole souls thing. Been playing games for years, but never been very good at them lol I like a challenge in genres like ARPGs or a looters where you spend the main campaign crafting builds, then go into the endgame and push the game as hard as you can, but the Souls flavour of masochism has never really been my vibe. It is also why I haven't played games like Returnal, or gotten into games like Hades which I know are held to a really high regard, as to me joy is not found through repeated failure, I'd rather just progress.
I was enjoying HLs combat and the main story thread, but I thought a lot of the quest design outside of the main thread was kinda boring. You get like MMO tasks from your teachers or whatever, I would have liked to have had a proper experience of going to Hogwarts, but they give up on the elements of a Hogwarts life sim pretty quickly to me, and it becomes a blander game to me after that.
@Pizzamorg Gotcha. Souls-style isn’t for everyone. Nor are Rogue-likes. If you don’t want that repeating loop with multiple failures then you’re right to steer clear of Returnal. It just came up as a more visceral, reflexive, primitive-brain, experience that could be cathartic. The sense of progression is there but not very immediate. Apparently Hades is better with feeling like every run makes you stronger but I haven’t played it yet.
Sounds like @LN78 has a really good idea there. I don’t know anything about Hi-Fi Rush but it sounds cool. A rhythm game or arcade game could be rejuvenating.
I have liked the other Housemarque games like Resogun and Super Stardust for some pure gameplay arcadey diversion. Tetris Effect is really good too if you desire pure gameplay, no narrative shackles, and zen-like music and visuals.
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@Pizzamug If you like horror/zombies maybe it could make sensr to try one of the games in the Resident Evil franchise like the Resident Evil 2 Remake for exemple. As for the orter catagoire a game might make sense.
@BearsEatBeets That was brilliant! ‘…I don’t see it that way. You know why? Because I’m Collar Blind’😂
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@Fight_Teza_Fight I don't know if you've seen the first one, @Thrillho posted it a couple of pages back on this forum. The person who made them has done some other good ones too.
@JohnnyShoulder That one must be someone else as it's not in their list of videos. They've got Home Alone Macaulay Culkin in RE7 which is good. Austin Powers in Mass Effect and Frank Drebin in Detroit Become Human are also really good. Quite a few others but not watched them all yet.
@JohnnyShoulder lol that keeps popping up in my feed and I should get round to watching it. But until you mentioned that now, I thought it was a legit video.
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Those memes are creative but the AI impersonation memes frankly terrify me, I watched a video of an AI impression of Trump, Obama and Biden debating the rankings of a Legend of Zelda game tier list and it sounded so real It blew my mind. I honestly think this technology should be banned there is way too many ways it can be abused.
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@PegasusActual93 I hear there is also one of them playing Destiny 2 or something? Not seen any of those as yet. But you are right, what it is now is funny, but how long before someone goes too far as a prank or something similar?
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Not even just pranks going too far, think of the kind of threats to national security of any given country on this planet that this tech could cause in the right hands
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