Warframe: It’s a free to play online third persion sci-fi shooter where you control characters with different powers. There are a wide variety of weapons and, while there is in-game currency, it’s not necessary to play the game or unlock characters or weapons.
It’s fast paced and fun enough that I’ve played it for years without completely ditching it.
I think Warframe is the only (non-open source) free to play game I have nice things to say about.
I never felt any pressure to pay, but every few months of playing and I would think, “I feel like I should chip these folks some cash, again”.
And then they do make it fun to chuck them some money.
Most of the purchasables may as well just say “trust us, it’s fun”, for all I understood any of them before buying. (I think I bought maybe 4 frames while playing for about a year.)
After playing for awhile, I do trust them. I’ve not been disappointed with any purchased frame or item - with the understanding that both are pretty much just amusing “thank you” gimmicks for supporting.
Warframe has been a good time. I sort of expect it to enshitify at any moment, but for now they seem chill.
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Things are moving pretty smoothly so far, as I reached a bit over 50% last night according to the in-game progress tracker. I know it includes secrets and that I don’t need 100% to finish the game but that’s the most specific metric I’ve got so…
I’m quite happy with the game overall. I did start to notice some things I’m not a huge fan of but they’re not enough to make we want to quit or even degrade my experience in a significant way. The main annoying element are probably the constantly respawning flying enemies - I know they are a staple of the series at this point and they aren’t difficult to deal with but that doesn’t make them any more enjoyable (especially when they try to block your climbing routes in certain rooms).
Still, game is more fun than I expected it to be before starting so that’s good.
Jack Orlando A Cinematic Adventure
Ahh, another instance of a rare point-and-click adventure game. I played this one years ago and I’m pretty sure I even managed to complete it back then but I wasn’t certain and that’s not good enough. Because of this I decided to go through the game once again to make sure that yes, I did in fact play through the whole thing - it wasn’t easy.
For those unfamiliar, Jack Orlando is a game about a private detective in 1933 America (something they really commit to with the writing, character prejudices etc). On his way home from a night of drinking Jack stumbles upon a murder, gets knocked out at the scene and ends up being the main suspect. Due to his status as a hero cop and years of friendship with the police chief, he get 48 hours to clear his name and find the real culprit - that’s where the player steps in.
So yeah, I said I didn’t remember much about the game, right? Boy was it true. I thought I remembered some bits and pieces from my old playthrough but besides the very beginning of the game everything else turned out to be a complete fabrication on my part. I’m actually shocked how wrong I was about the whole thing.
That said, while my faulty memory is one thing, there are some completely out there sections I would’ve never guessed they were from this title. Did you know prohibition era America had medieval-fantasy-like catacombs with an indoor fountain and automated, Indiana Jones style mechanisms in the middle of the city? Yeah.My lack of experience with adventure games really shined here but even if I wasn’t THIS bad at the genre, the strict and often extremely weird progress requirements, mixed with a ton of junk items strewn everywhere meant I would never finish this without a guide. A straightforward game this ain’t.
Presentation is pretty good. We have nice looking backgrounds and smoothly animated characters (even if I’m not a huge fan of the art style used for them). Voice acting is pretty solid for the most part, except for some really bad accents here and there.
Music is also great though it can get a bit grating after one too many loops. That’s probably just me though, as I have a hard time listening to saxophone and similar instruments for long stretches of time. Not great position to be in when playing a noir detective story.I can’t say it was my favourite point-and-click played so far but it was enjoyable enough. I’d just like to know where my completely fake memories came from…
Finished AC shadows after the DLC has been cracked. Reinstalled RDR2 because I never finished it.
I’m trying Into The Breach, the Normal difficulty level feels so hard! I had to launch an easy game just to finish my first island
Rounding out my Metroid playthrough with Fusion. Trying to play the classic games on my Anbernic and so far no issues. Even was able to play AM2R
I’ve been getting excited for Wardogs, the last playtest was working nicely with Linux, but they’ve just started a beta test and have disabled Linux access which is a huge shame.
So I’ve been playing ARMA 3 & Reforger with the King of thr Hill mod, this is the inspiration behind Wardogs and it’s really bringing me back those old school FPS days I’m loving it
Reinstalled Control, slowly trying to progress. The story is interesting, the gameplay is hard for me.
Tried Tamriel: Rebuilt, a mod for Morrowind. I’d like to explore the world, but it’s just so damn slow, and the combat is strange too. I guess that is to be expected for such an old game. I think there’s an ongoing project to bring this world to Skyrim, maybe it will be more fun that way for me.
Still playing Dark Messiah. I like it.
Ace Combat 7 in VR! It’s so much fun having to track targets by moving my head inside the cockpit is such a unique experience. I’m a way better shot in VR too
I recently played through Slice of Sea, which is an adventure game, a bit similar in spirit to the old LucasArts games. I could give a lot of criticism on the gameplay, but it was so artistically captivating that I’d call it worth my time regardless.
I got through it in about nine hours without a guide, but I think trying to play it in a couple sittings would be miserable. If you get stuck put it down and come back a couple days later.
