The non-ME3 games recently enjoyed by ME3MPrs

I couldn't resist getting RETURNAL to see how well (or not) it would run on my current setup. Pretty good actually. Not as good as on my friend's computer who can basically just max every setting but it looks good and for now I'm okay with just stable 60fps. I haven't played that much yet but I enjoyed what little I played. Gameplay has some ME:A vibes, but better...

Seeing as how I my Xbox won't sign into this game and only this game, I've played a lot of older games I had queued up on my Xbone. Halo: MCC for some nostalgia, Gat Out of Hell, Army of Two, and Civ Rev (probably the most fun) to name a few. Will probably rebuy Sleeping Dogs because I remember that being fantastic back when I played it years and years ago.

Interesting, it's been on my list of games to play for a long while, I will need to bump it up the list, it's right along RE4 and Deadspace remakes, too many games not enough time!

I just finished the main story of Ghost of Tsushima on PS5. I'm personally pretty tired of open worlds due to the way my brain works, my playstyle quickly devolves into the fastest route to 100%, however I actually enjoyed the main story and team mate side quests, certain parts of the game looked like Japanese art rendered in real time. Started on Hard and the early game difficulty curve was good but by midgame I felt like batman, the Mongol hordes just didn't stand a chance.

I've played more Binding of Isaac (punishing roguelike), Dark Souls (obtuse lore) and ME than I could possibly track, this sounds like it has elements of all three. Next in the queue is RE Village simply because it's on loan and I need to get it back, you've cemented Returnal as next up after that.

Having only ever played Skyrim in vanilla, I decided to take a plunge down the modding rabbit hole and by the Goddess that hole goes deep. The NSFW section on Nexus have thousands of mods alone  .  Playing it back in the day on my ol' Xbox360 I would have given it a 10/10 if it wasn't such a buggy mess.

Thanks to this massive modding community, most of these bugs have been cleaned up and the graphics have been given an extensive overhaul in just about every aspect of the game. No wonder Todd Howard is hesitant to release The Elder Scrolls 6. No way it can surpass the present day version of Skyrim.

While I've never been part of any Skyrim community (like here on uBSN), I still sense a schism in the fanbase: Those who want all the content to be immersive and lore friendly and those who are perfectly fine with running around in bikini's and high heels in the middle of winter. If you can't tell from the pics below, I fall firmly in the last category 

I don't see anything wrong there. Garrus fits perfectly in my opinion. You can probably put him into any game and it will look like he belongs there 

Even though I hardly have any time to play at all I went ahead and did something I usually never do: I pre-ordered a game

I just couldn't resist getting the "REMNANT 2" Ultimate Edition and I really hope the (pre)launch won't be plagued by performance issues and nasty bugs. I'm looking forward to be playing this game over the weekend prior to launch in coop with 2 friends that I have been playing the previous game with a lot (vanilla as well as Hell mod).

I don't like these "play a few days earlier if you buy XY Edition" practices or getting stuff right from the start which will be obtainable thoughout the course of the game otherwise. But since I'm planning on getting all the DLC anyways I pulled the trigger on the Ultimate Edition.

I'll just leave this here in the meantime

FInally started playing Elden Ring. Held off for over a year because I wanted to play it on most up to date hardware (wasn't up for playing a PS5 gen game on PS4) and let me tell you.... my mastery of DS/BB hasn't helped much. Some areas feel like NG+ and the game teaches you new features to the soulsborne games only to make them useless on most bosses.

You playing blind? Game is confusing as hell at first and there's no obvious "you're under leveled go away and come back" til you get your shit kicked in by a few random mobs. Then again it is a Fromsoft game and that can even happen at high levels. The thing that took me forever to learn as far as bosses go was waiting for the delayed attacks and rolling into or to the side of attacks. Back rolls tend to get punished by bosses. I'd say going from DS3 to ER the vast majority of boss fights are like Nameless, Friede, and Gael with dragon fights being akin to Midir. Jump attacks are dope and I used them a ton, they do great poise damage.

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Yeah first run through, though got a side character i'm playing off-stream too. I dunno, I'm playing a strength build and even with a colossal weapon the jump attack isn't breaking poise very often, at least not against the enemies that it would be needed. Small mooks and nights get fucked up fast enough, but bosses with major combo spam just don't stagger. Was also getting annoyed with some enemies moves. Like the ones where you roll through 1 swing and get caught by a 2nd faster swing that happens when you're still recovering from the first roll. Doesn't feel fair when you're picking which attack you're getting hit by.




That's kinda why I find it kinda meh, it's better than DS3 in terms of world space and originality but in gameplay it feels like it takes the worst of DS2 (Large mobs and ranged enemy spam) and the worst of DS3 (Reskinning, Demon's Soul character vs Bloodborne enemies, enemies with infinite stamina and stupid poise levels) and put it into one game. The thing I love about ER so far is it's open world. But I kinda dislike that you don't know you're in a high level area until it's too late. Think I'd prefer an immersion breaking enemy level next to their health bar tbh.


Should point out, I posted in here and gave a negative steam review after my first session, which was 11 hours of playing, the game is growing on me but I'm still somewhat disappointed. Had to roll my eyes at some of the reskins. Imps are DS3 Thralls, Erdtree Avatars are Stray Demons and Giant Dogs are just Watchdogs of Old Lords from Bloodborne (or Sulivahn's Beasts from DS3). Also reusing Giant Crabs, Basilisks, and the exact same Rat models going as far back as DS1 is lazy. It's a shame because there's a lot of cool enemies. As much as I hate fighting them, the Rune Bears a cool

Finished a second fallout NV playtrough. Had a lot of fun. Despite the personalization being mostly cosmetic, the vastness of the world, all possibilities, great character design and cool feelling gameplay makes it great if not top notch.
On the minus side, it clearly miss dialogues with NPC aknowledging your progress, but yeah, seems impossible to do in such an open world.
Also, i should have done a legion run, but felt impossible again cause i like to kill them too much and missed the opportunity to talk with cesar /
150 Hrs, so i sure hope i wont redo one