What are you playing this weekend/these days?


Undying

Got it free from Epic and this is the only reason why I'm playing it, because by default I don't like survival games.
Turned out it's pretty interesting, you use a mother that is slowly becoming a zombie but before that happens you must instruct your little son to become able to survive alone in a zombie infested world.
The game is a rogue-like, there are random events and the main locations changes at every play, there are a lot of upgrades for the main character and different ones for the child.
At some point in the game, the mother will start to get a lot of downgrades and very bad statuses, some of them will make impossible for her to build stuff or fight, so it is better to have instructed well the child by that time.
The story is interesting, it is unveiled very slowly anyway.
For the rest is a survival, so you'll have to manage well the resources you have and constantly go around to find more stuff and food.


Dishonored

I finally started to play this game after a lot of years that I wanted to, but in the end I don't like it very much... maybe I played too much games of the same genre...
The story is ok, but I can't find it too catching, anyway there is a lot of dialogs and books to uncover what's happening in the background.
At the beginning I was thinking it was an open world game, but it has only episodes with map based missions.
There is a set of cool skills, but mostly you can't use them if you want a good ending... and speaking about that, a couple of levels were bugged... took me a lot of time to finish the level without killing a single person, and at the end the statistic were telling that I killed everyone, so now people speaks about my character as a cold killer... I didn't have the will to redo those levels, so that's it...
The "puzzle-dream" levels to obtain new skills are pretty boring.
I didn't finished it yet, but I'll have to find the force to do it just to play the other games in the series ... hoping that them are better.
Some very similar games that I found a lot more fun were "No One Lives Forever 2" and "Deus-Ex".
 
Do you mean you completed Dishonored levels with no fatalities but did have alerts? I went for stealth assassinations, quite enjoyed that. Blinking around, killing people.
 
Do you mean you completed Dishonored levels with no fatalities but did have alerts? I went for stealth assassinations, quite enjoyed that. Blinking around, killing people.
I chocked all of them from behind, then hid all the bodies... they were still snoring the last time I have seen them... it took a lot of time... then at the end of the level, the statistics told that I killed every single one... and at the pub the people were telling that I did a bloodbath.

After the second time that this happened I started to use rats everywhere ... at least the game is faster this way.
 
I just remembered playing Big Bang Mini on the NDS and loving it years ago. Check it out if you can, it's utterly unique.
 
Been playing Elden Ring off and on since release. Today I just could not deal with a boss fight. Stepped away, thought about the fight, came back to change my equipment and tactics and killed the boss "first" try. Just to find out that there's a trick to the fight that makes it a cakewalk if you pay attention and think a little. Great experience. And thanks to Doctor Who S01E11 I now know that Blaidd ("Bl-eye-th") means Wolf :-)
 
Borderlands

This game is super fun, the devs got the right recipe of an action shooter with arcade rpg upgrades in an open world just made for that.
The soul of the game is clear, it's a shooter, but it's made in a way that is more similar to a multiplayer fantasy hack & slash game like Diablo, because the enemies constantly respawn and there is random generated loot everywhere, especially weapons with all sort of stats, but anyway it doesn't exaggerate on those and the game in general is kept simple.
The quests are just "go there and kill that" (or maybe "go there and get that"... but you'll have anyway always to kill something first, so...), but it's fun to go around the map, there's also an armed vehicle that is not excessively developed but it does the work to speed up travels (when you don't use the teleporter).
Like the "real games", the story is there, but is completely skippable, and also are skippable all the videos at the start of the game to go directly at the initial menu !!
There's a lot of splatter and sarcasm.

It is becoming more and more difficult for me to find a game that I really play with joy and curiosity, and this one is doing the job.

Anyway... the only downside of the game are the Bosses... almost all of them are in an arena, and are excessively strong or fast or destructive... I only beat them because when you die you respawn immediately and can continue exactly where you left... and also I used "level-design-cheats" hiding in a spot where you should not be able to go... but well, it's better like this than retrying the same boss from the start forever like in many other games... also even after dying on a boss, you can also change idea and go around the map to do more EXP before retrying... there is total liberty (on how to kill things) in this game.
 
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