“finished” state of decay 2 today… I say “finished” because still to this day the game is bugged if you play with the military leader/sheriff and you cannot complete the 4 legacy missions that you get at the end. Not even changing leaders and kicking out the prior one. I hope they dont rush the third game because there’s no excuse for this kind of bugs after having the game 4 years in the market and who knows how many in development…
I just finished “Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony” (otherwise known as Touhouvania) on Switch, which is a remaster of a 2009 indie/doujin game.
The final boss was fuckhard, and you have to refight a boss rush every time you run out of lives. Been through that a ton of times.
Here’s a clip of me finally winning. See those lasers? They’re very close to being instakill… And you see desperation set in and I tank the weaker hits to win lol
Overall the game was great though, holds up very well for an old indie title. Hope they bring the sequel to Switch too because I hear it’s much more refined.
Well…dropped Xuan Yuan Sword VII. It’s not bad, just very slow and couldn’t really get into it. Should have stayed with my original plan which was to play Sword and Fairy: Together Forever. I have a bad habit of finding a new franchise/series and then looking into previous or connected games or similar games and it rarely works out for me.
Anyway, I messed around with S&F for about 90 minutes give or take. Definitely more action oriented thus far. Good action sequence in the beginning of the game. Looks stunning even without HDR or any Ray Tracing. Combat seems solid. Played on hard for these 90 minutes. Almost died twice with the woman but thankfully, I didn’t. Will stick with hard and see how the game progresses. Made it to the village and completed a side quest before turning off the game.
I do have a few nitpicks. The text under the mini-map is small. Wish this could be made larger. I’m using large subtitles which is a must in my opinion. Would like to turn off the captions that go above NPC’s heads when near them. Side quests have no voice acting at all. Reminds me of Yakuza. Not a deal breaker but I wish they had the Chinese voice acting for side quests. At first, I thought the audio cut out or something. lol. There’s also no waypoints which is disappointing considering the Sword 7 game I was playing had waypoints.
Won’t be playing again until Monday due to work but definitely much more interested in playing Sword and Fairy than I was Sword 7.
Funny enough, I got the bug to play SoD2 again because I needed something I could just meditate with. I didn’t have any of those problems you are experiencing and I literally completed both the Trader and Warlord legacies without issue.
I tend to avoid pitchfork-statements like the ones you made, especially if others aren’t experiencing the same thing - precisely because, as a software engineer, I can empathize with the ever-moving train of bugs that aren’t always reproducible in numbers. Tyler Owens has a great Twitter thread on this very thing actually… will need to find it.
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As of the past week I’ve been playing cult of the lamb, arcade paradise, tribes of Midgard, destroy all humans 2 reprobed, and mass effect 3
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Way too much text and you chose to ignore the fact that buga dont randomly spawn for everyone. Cool that you could finish it, I couldnt like hundreds, if not thousands, of users that you can easily find on several places on the internet… without any fix or feedback from the devs.
I will continue SMT4 until Soul Hacker 2’s launch. I was planning to do a Lost Odyssey run this year, but I might hold off until I’m done with some other JRPG’s.
Now I’ll be going through some smaller titles like The Darkness series, Alice: Madness Returns and maybe the first Darksiders. Fable 2 & 3 and Dragon Age Origins & 2 are the RPG’s I’d love to finish this year.
I am playing scalet nexus right now. It is actually really fun, would reccomend giving it a shot if you haven’t
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Still Elden Ring, just recently got pass the ghost Godfrey fight and the second Margot fight, and as usual Magic is OP and Rock Sling for being such a low costing spell really just kills everything. You just need time and opportunity to cast it.
Bah, I forgot about this. I just started Yakuza: Like a Dragon, but I’m guessing Scarlet Nexus is leaving next month so it’s probably best to set aside Yakuza to jump into this.
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Doing something, for me, different and am currenty playing a handful of games at the same time.
Got sucked back into Forza Horizon 5 with the Hot Wheels expansion, which is great fun. Also started up Sleeping Dogs, found a co-op partner for A Way Out finally and are going through some small games too.
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I adore Sleeping Dogs… will never stop being sad about the demise of the developer and Square-Enix’s complete apathy towards what was a fantastic game, and could have been an equally-fantastic series.
Also, welcome to my world - I constantly juggle multiple games 
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I’ve only played a couple of hours of Sleeping Dogs, but yeah it is pretty great. SE ruins most things it seems heh.
I usually focus on one game at a time, but I have so many games I want to play and can’t control myself hehe. They are all very different games at least.
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Played through Mafia definitve edition. I was very confident before starting that I would enjoy this game.
I was surprised to see how boring it was. I though story would captivate me but I felt it was very bland. Has very good cutscenes and well voice acted but the core plot is very bare bones.
Game looks great and the time setting is well used but overall gameplay felt very repetitive
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Totally agree. I started playing it like a month ago and ended up dropping it because I wasn’t really having fun. It’s a great-looking game and I love the setting but gameplay comes first and it felt somewhat clunky as well as not very interesting.
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Spider-Man Remastered. So far it’s pretty enjoyable.
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Been playing Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 
, Gran Turismo 7 
, Insurgency Sandstorm and recently Eyes in the Dark & Cult of the Lamb (on #SteamDeck)
Sleeping Dogs is an excellent game. I enjoyed it more than GTA 5. The developer was United Front Games. My friend told me that when Embracer was asked about if they had acquired the IP from Square Enix, they refused to comment. Sleeping Dogs would be on of those 50 IP’s that Embracer acquired from Square Enix.
While they would have to go in a more mature and serious tone and nature with the game, Embracer does have a studio for it - Volition.
Dropped Sword and Fairy yesterday. Not a bad game at all but just wasn’t grabbing me enough to where I wanted to keep playing it. And playing Xuan Yuan Sword 7 for 6 hours or whatever it was beforehand was a bad idea.
I did play Genshin Impact last night for 4 hours. This shit isn’t bad at all. I’m just wasting time until the Cyberheist expansion for The Ascent tomorrow but if I would have played this game in 2020 when it launched, I might have stayed with it.
It really makes me hope, wish and pray that Ubisoft shows me a reveal trailer for Immortals Fenyx Rising 2 at their Ubisoft Forward event in September because I really want my prequel/sequel to that game. Hell, even if it’s a CGI trailer of 30 seconds, just announce it so I know it’s coming. lol. Just hoping they don’t change or alter the art style or template for the game because I loved Immortals!!!