The first RPG I ever played to completion. Having played other similar games on newer platforms, I never felt any RPG truly sparked my interest. Radia Senki or Chronicle of Radia War was quite the adventure and I will gladly come back to it in the future!
Gameloft Montreal (Disney Dreamlight Valley) kündigen ein neues Spiel an: "The unnamed #DnD game will be set in the #ForgottenRealms and will be a cooperative game built around an "innovative hybrid of survival, life simulation, and #ActionRPG." The game is described as a "real-time survival" game that will feature resilience, camraderie, and danger at every turn."
Get ready to witness the ideal form of the male figure! 💪🏽 Lloyd_Lloydster's Twitch stream of Faith: The Unholy Trinity tonight at 6pm eastern time! 🕰️ Don't miss out on the action-packed gameplay and killer vibes! 🎮
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Ich bin mal wieder sehr spät dran, aber ich habe von der #GamesCom2023 noch ein paar Empfehlungen aus der #IndieArenaBooth, die ein bisschen mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdienen.
Ein düsteres #Pixelart#ActionRPG mit einem an #DarkSouls angelehnten, fordernden Kampfsystem in einer #Skyrim-artigen Welt mit Entscheidungsmöglichkeiten, die die Story nachhaltig beeinflussen.
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
Mar 26, 2023 - Day 85 - NewPlay Bonus Review
Total NewPlays: 91
Game: Lost Castle
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Sep 1, 2016
Library Date: Mar 12, 2018
Unplayed: 1840 days (5y14d)
Playtime: 20m
There are some games, that when I play them for the first time, I'm terribly disappointed to discover something that I have missed in my library that I could have been enjoying all this time.
Lost Castle is not one of those games.
It's a 2.5D "action RPG" with roguelike elements. Apparently the devs looked at the table of roguelike elements, scooped up a bunch, looked at "fun" and went "Nahhhh".
Repetitive mobs, repetitive soundtrack, 20 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
The Surge was one of the earliest reviews I did in this project, and the game that gave me an understanding of the mechanics of Soulslike gameplay.
In April I found that I had a Steam Key for The Surge 2, from the Humble Choice July 2021 bundle, and so I loaded it up.
For the last few days, it's been bugging me that the gap between play days and new plays was 19 days. It feels... unordered. Threw in a bonus newplay to round it up to 20.
The Surge 2, like its predecessor, is a sci-fi themed third-person Soulslike action-RPG.
It's also the game I've sworn more at than any other since January 1.
I've gotten frustrated with some games, but my frustration with The Surge 2 was on a whole different level.
After a cut-scene intro, followed by a character creator, you wake up on a hospital table in a prison.
Unlike the first game, you don't have an exo-suit, just a couple of defibrillator gauntlets. Yeah, I have no idea why.
The game does the same thing as the first one, too. Throws you up against larger enemies to teach you the movesets, and then suddenly throws you up against an armored boss.
Clad only in a hospital gownsuit (no bare bums here), and a pair of defibrillator gauntlets.
I died.
And died.
And died, and died, and died some more.
For the first 45 minutes I couldn't even land a single hit on him before he took me out.
The swearing became increasingly copious, eventually quitting out in frustration, and looking up a Google video on how to kill the boss.
It didn't help.
I went back in, and locked on, targeting the one exposed part of his body (his head).
Died.
Died some more.
Eventually I got a single hit in.
Died a few more times, ragequit and went grocery shopping.
Came back from the shopping, sat down at the PC and tried again.
I died.
I honestly don't understand what people see in Soulslikes. The sheer frustration of dying over and over again.
Eventually, I was managing to avoid him, so I was still dying, just slower.
Then I noticed he was telegraphing his attacks, and there were... gaps. I might be able to land a punch and retreat.
I did.
Then two attacks in a row.
I started to feel the pattern. I still died, but I was doing increasing damage.
Then suddenly... I didn't die. He did.
I won the fight.
It was then, that I understood what it is that people see in Soulslikes. Breaking through that frustration to clarity.
The satisfaction of taking down a boss that seemed impossible to kill, or even hit. Not by coming back with bigger guns, but by recognising the patterns, and countering them.
The Surge 2 is the Soulslike that gave me an understanding of the satisfaction to be found in Soulslikes, and is: