Finishing up a playthrough of Tokyo Xanadu eX+ after picking it up a while back during a Steam sale. Enjoyed it quite a bit. Hits similarly enough to Persona.

 

Metro: Last Light Complete Edition is free to keep if you get it before the 25th of May on Steam.

 

I was always going to be getting this day 1, but I am *absolutely* going to be getting this day 1.

 

Fairly weak showcase from Sony in terms of first party. I wonder if there's something going on in the background as they skipped a showcase last year because they didn't have anything to show either.

Some exciting games were shown however and Spider-Man looks dope.

 

Spooderman and FF16 were the showcase highlights.

Intrigued by Dragon's Dogma 2... but I dunno. The trailer didn't do much for me beyond tickle some light nostalgia. Graphics and slow combat looking a bit dated.

New PS portable is exciting as well.... but if those handles don't detach like a switch that thing is going to break so easily.

 

If this is the device I'm thinking of, it's not really portable. It's gotta stream from your console, meaning it's gotta be on the same wifi network. Meaning it's like the WiiU tablet in that it mostly just exists so that you can game while someone else is using the TV.

 

Not a fan of how the symbiote looks on Peter. Too much like a suit, attacks / gameplay aside. And it looks weird, like the textures haven't loaded fully yet.

 

Anyone into Diablo? Reviews seem to rave about the IV, reading them now - compilation of reviews on reddit - https://reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/13vu969/diablo_4_review_thread/

 

Seems like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is still a thing:

https://twitter.com/VtM_Bloodlines/status/1666403803090886658

An announcement for an announcement in September - that's when they reveal who's actually working on the game, but I don't think we'll see anything before 2024. The twitter account has deleted all older posts and they posted five new screenshots from a post-alpha version of the game, seems like they completely tossed away what Hardsuit Labs did:

 

I genuinely don't see this game being any good.

Waaay to many redflags

 

I'm morbidly curious about the end result. World of Darkness just seems like a cursed IP when it comes to video games.

 

Anyone playing Street Fighter 6? I know Sree is playing.

I've had a lot of free time since getting laid off from work and my parents have been incredibly understanding so I've had the opportunity to play 15hrs per day since the game came out. I have never been more in love with a fighting game or game period.

Plat JP/Gold Guile Shooting For Masters with both my mains

 

New gameplay footage of Armored Core 6 without commentary:

 

Finally finished my (first?) run of Baldurs Gate 3. Absolutely loved it, although not without the odd frustration. I can easily see it being my GOTY, although Spidey 2 might knock it into second place. Already thinking about other playthroughs. I'm sure most people who were even vaguely interested have already played it, but if you're on the fence, go for it.

 

I love that BG3 released early to avoid competing with starfield, only to completely show itself to be a superior game. This isn’t a knock on starfield which is fun, but BG3 def stole starfields thunder.

 

did you take the White Illithid from the emperor?

Lol, I'm pretty much stuck there. Not sure what to do

 

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If you mean the special tadpole he gives you in act 3, I left it in my inventory. Didn't use any tadpoles on this playthrough, although I probably will on others

 

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Yeah, I'm talking about when you have to save the emperor from the githyanki
failed the check so it automatically bonded with me.

My guy doesn't look good. But from a bit of research I would be giving up some pretty cool abilities.

 

This obviously spoils aspects of the Endgame to some degree, but fwiw,

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as far as I can tell the visual change is the only downside to using the tadpole, although I understand it's a substantial one. There's no mechanical or character difference to using it other than the expanded power set, from what I've read.

 

Finished Spidey 2, and overall I think it's great, but not quite as good as the first game - that's more about how highly I rate the first game than a knock on the second though. But 2 ramps up the action and spectacle at the expense of some of the emotional heft that 1 had, with the final third or so of the story throwing a lot into the mix in - canonically, without allowing time for doing side missions or random crimes - quite a short amount of time. It also perhaps doesn't help that some of it's apparently drawn quite heavily from storylines I'm not familiar with, so some of the later 'holy shit' moments were mixed with 'wait, what?' for me, but obviously YMMV on that. Also, my criticisms, such as they are, are about the last third of the game; the early stages are much more effective, and do an excellent job of selling how terrifying

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the symbiote is

- and a great job of making Kraven an effective villain; I'm only really familiar with his Ultimate version, who is definitely played for laughs.

Gameplay wise, it's mostly more of the same, which I'm perfectly OK with. A few refinements to some of the stealth elements, and fewer moments where you have to take charge of someone without powers/in a situation where they can't use their powers for reasons - and when you do play someone without powers, it's generally better (there's one section in the late game that's a bit ridiculous if you think about it, but eh).

I'm already excited for the next instalment, with the hooks of

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Norman going goblin mode, and the return of Otto

...but hopefully it'll have some better outfits. A lot of the ones in 2, especially for Miles, are Not Good.