Another week in the book, and 2022 is chugging along towards a truly mental game release month, or February as it’s more commonly known. I’m hoping to have gained the use of my hands back by then, but in the meantime I’m mixing a range of slow RPG things together with Lost Odyssey, Fantasian, and Pokémon Shield taking my time up.
With Horizon Forbidden West out in a few weeks, Tuffcub has gone back to replay Horizon Zero Dawn. “I have to say it has aged quite badly in terms of combat. After many months of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla it just feels very clunky and the shooting with bows is pretty awful. And yes, the facial animations look bad. But the rest of it it still fab.” He was also very meh on what he played from Rainbow Six Extraction.
Jim feels a bit more favourably toward R6 Extraction – expect his scored review next week – but found playing Horizon Zero Dawn’s Frozen Wilds DLC “a struggle.” He had much more fun with Inscryption, which he found to be an incredible mix of genres, and the DLC expansion Final Fantasy VII Remake Intermission: “After a sluggish start, it was great getting to grips with Yuffie as Remake’s fifth fully fleshed out playable character. The way this side chapter compacts itself while also exploring FF7’s wider lore makes it a must-play before the eventual release of Part II.”
Also digging through the PS4’s heyday was Steve, who has been playing Bloodborne. “Finally got past the opening roadblock and starting to get a feel for things,” he said. “I love how you get in the zone working through areas and then suddenly get wrecked by something new, or a boss fight out of nowhere. Hope it finally gets a PC port so I can replay it with a smoother frame rate and shorter loading times.” It was joined by Aggelos, New Lucky’s Tale and Human Fall Flat.
Aran has continued on with Far Cry 6, and while he’s basically in control of half of Yara, he’s only done a handful of story missions. It’s a similar story for Nick P who’s been “taking bases and messing with faces!” He complimented that with Dead by Daylight for the Bloodpoint bonus event, where he’s been enjoying the Cenobite killer.
His (almost) namesake Nic B has been playing [redacted] and Pokémon Go, so we’ll move on to Gamoc, who played the Far Cry 6 Pagan: Control DLC, UFC4 and gave Genshin Impact another go… but couldn’t remember how to play and so went back to Immortals Fenyx Rising instead.
Miguel beat the Halo Infinite campaign and complimented that with Apex Legends, Fortnite and Aliens: Fireteam, while Ade was on hand for out Windjammers 2 review – it’s just waiting a final score after he’s played some more ranked matches. Ade also played some Miles Morales which, while the story isn’t as good, is still a lot of fun, and teamed up with his partner for Kingdom Two Crowns – “I think we finally might have figured out what the heck is going on!!”
Finally, Tef made a move away from Halo Infinite after completing its battle pass, but probably only because he had to play Total War Warhammer 3 for previews and roped in Tuff and Jim to play some Rainbow Six Extraction, a game that is…. fine?
Now, then, what have you been playing this past week?
doomsday619
This week I have been spoiled with games, my 40th last week and my wife got me a Xbox Series S. So this week I have been playing a lot of games from gamepass, Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, Lake, Psychonauts, Tell Me why and Rainbow Six Extraction. I completed Tell me Why and Lake, now slowly working through the others. On PS5 I have played a little of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla river raids. Also a few games of Mario Party Superstars on the Switch with my wife.
Dominic L
Happy 40th!!
I’ve downloaded Lake and I’m hoping to check it out this weekend.
TSBonyman
Happy 40th!
doomsday619
Thanks guys, The Lake is a nice chilled game. But I enjoyed it for what it was, Tell me Why has been my favourite I’ve played on Gamepass so far, big fan of Life is Strange series so I’ve wanted to try this one for awhile.
hornet1990
I’ve gone back to Mass Effect Andromeda and re-familiarised myself with the controls etc only to then have 3 hours of progress wiped out by a door glitch in one level that stopped me going forwards or backwards so had to revert to a much earlier manual save. Grrrr! Still, made it through that bit last night so I’m happier now and am now manually saving on a regular basis.
MrYd
Plenty of Deep Rock Galactic, which I’m still enjoying.
And finished off Ghost of Tsushima. Well, got the platinum and finished the story on Iki island. A few more bits to do I guess. Enjoyed every second of it.
And then because I clearly hate myself, I got Snowrunner on sale. So far, it’s wonderfully slow, and frustrating, and incredibly annoying, and kind of enormously satisfying and fun. No chance of the platinum on that one though, I guess. (Only 3 of the trophies are classed as “common”, with more than 50% earning them!)
Dominic L
Enjoy Snowrunner! It’s an absolute git, but I love it!
MrYd
That just about sums it up perfectly.
It’s not like certain other notoriously difficulty games where you come across a new thing, die, try again, and eventually learn how to beat it. It gives you everything you need to know right from the start in the brief tutorial, and then you just have to get good at doing that one thing. That one difficult thing.
And then you fuck up doing that one thing and it’s entirely your fault, and it’s annoying and you’re going to do it right this time.
KippDynamite
I recently played Horizon and thought it’s aged very well! Absolutely love the combat. But I haven’t played Valhalla so maybe ignorance is bliss?