What are you currently playing?

Sony released a free theme for LGBT players on ps4. It's lovely Well, time to switch my LIS theme for this one.

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Shit, it was just kept changing the language for me. I thought it would happen to everyone else with their native language.

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I have been playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided. And I love it so far. The art style and the music are very pleasing. But the best part is the level designs where you have so many ways to complete missions. You can shoot everyone in your way, explore secrets to bypass enemies, hack doors to avoid fighting, hack robots and sentry guns to fight for you, or stealthily sneak around. These options are so fun.

I also love the portrayal of racism against augmented people in the game where your PC experiences it first hand.

seems like the kind of game i'd like! it's what i love best about dishonoured, getting to chose routes and different ways to complete missions. i love being sneaky and non-lethal.

Yeah, I got the GOT Telltale game too. I'm not sure when I'll get to that one, because of other games needing to play, and from what I understand, that one was one of the more underwhelming series they've done.

Oh, and I finished Until Dawn. Oooh boy did I suck, only two characters survived. I've looked up what I did wrong, and I think in a week or so I'll go back and try to fix my mistakes.

Right now, I think I'm going to either go back to Horizon: Zero Dawn. I'm thinking of going through Life Is Strange, since I have it still downloaded on my PS4 and only went a bit into the first episode, but I should probably balance out the teenager games.

I am watching HZD on YouTube right now and really enjoying it. It's more of the same as a lot of other action adventure platforming games but it's a fun original setting and I enjoy the dialogue and Aloy's character. I'm happy to be watching it instead of playing it, since I really prefer RPGs if I'm going to be investing a lot of hours in playing, but it's a fun game. And I love that it's a female PC not overly sexualized and that the NPCs are very diverse.

I played GoT and enjoyed it but kind of lessened my enjoyment as the episodes progressed and it was obvious that there wasn't actually much choice with consequence. IMO that seems to be a failing of TT as a whole, since their gimmick is that it's narrative gameplay with choices and consequences, but usually it's a small change that doesn't affect much. I realize it's impossible to have branching choices influencing all further content, but it still feels like false advertising.

Since I don't have the money for a new desktop PC at the moment while mine is currently self-destructing (after 7 years, I can't blame it too much, hardware isn't forever), I've been replaying the old first Dishonored on my laptop. It's still so much fun and has one of the most immersive settings I've ever experienced in a video game. Not that it is the first to do industrial steampunk, but Dunwall is so well-designed: the dirt and grime, the rat-filled backroads, the pretty old houses of the nobility, the concrete-and-metal whale oil processing plants, the tension of dodging the Tallboys that make the whole screen shake when they come by and the moaning and retching of the Weepers, it just all works together so well. Sure the graphics are dated, but it really shows what cohesive design can do for a game.



Also, Clean Hands/Ghost forever. Now if only there wasn't that bug that prevents you from actually getting the second achievement if you trigger the Granny Rags quests. I forgot not to talk to her, damnit.

I have enjoyed the TT games I've played, I'm not saying they're bad. Just that I feel their spiel about choices and consequences ring hollow and it's a false accomplishment that a lot of the media seems to buy.

I get it, I don't realistically expect there to be much variation possible from a game, otherwise it will have to be fairly short, like Tyranny, in order to develop enough divergent paths to explore.