I think an exception is okay every now and then, I personally just like this community the most so I also broke the rules last year and talked about playing Blue Prince and E33 on release last year. Sometimes you can’t actually wait to play a game, you know? I felt both of those merited it, especially Blue Prince as participating in the zeitgeist of that and being part of discovering the game at a point where the community hadn’t even discovered all the secrets yet was amazing.

But yes, in general this is for the more patient kind of gaming.

Let’s hope the upward trend continues. They still have yet to recapture the quality of Season 1, but I thought Season 7 last year was the best since then and largely inoffensive.

Plus the Singapore episode where they handed out burner phones and had a handful of drivers film their own footage was probably the single best episode of the whole show.

Not the most patient of gaming, but I don’t blame you as it looks drop dead gorgeous! I was also enticed when I saw it release but as always with the genre I have to hesitate a bit since I both such at and don’t particularly enjoy platforming and will easily get frustrated and not enjoy it if there is too much difficult precision platforming.

Will be interested to hear your thoughts on it regardless, I did still wishlist it purely because of the art.

F1 fans are not ready for Osama Lind Bladen.

I finished the Banner Saga. I really wish I enjoyed the combat in it, as I’m sadly probably not going to find it in me to finish the trilogy. Which is a huge shame, because the rest of the game I really loved. Art was beautiful, music gorgeous, world building interesting and the story and characters were well written. I really do recommend the game, especially if you can grab it on sale. I love a game that doesn’t shy away from tragedy, that allows characters to die and that lets your actions actually have consequences. The tone and style felt really distinctive and just… refreshing compared to a lot of recent RPGs I’ve played. It’s slow, melancholic and somber. I really liked it for that.

Next up I’m probably tackling The Last Express, a game I picked up on sale a while ago and have been really keen to experience ever since randomly stumbling upon a video essay about it some months back and stopping the video about 15 minutes in with the realization that this is a game I need to experience.

Interesting. I didn’t really enjoy LIMBO as puzzle platformers really aren’t my jam, but the vibes and art were cool. Still have yet to play INSIDE though I own it, and have been told it’s better.

This looks really cool, I can see the inspiration clearly and the art looks beautiful. Still probably too much platforming for me, unfortunately.

The thirteen year gap between Alan Wake 1 and 2 really is felt. I still agree with you that the first game is not enjoyable mechanically, but the overall payoff of the Remedyverse is worth going through it. The story is good and has several memorable characters, and the enjoyment of Control and AW2 is much higher if you’ve played the entire back catalogue.

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare is actually a mechanically much more satisfying game than AW1, if you can stand the low budget nature of it being an Xbox Live Marketplace game.

I hate to be negative but… it’s almost an achievement in itself to produce something this comparatively boring with such strong base materials. Their colour scheme is so strong, going with mainly a semi-glossy silver is great and the orange insides of the air intakes make it look rad from the front but…

Why did they stop there? Why is the overall pattern just like a “default livery pattern from Motorsport Manager”? Why doesn’t it follow the lines of the car?

It’s not by any means horrible, it just feels like it could have been an all-timer and ended up being just okay. Still very happy to not have the Stake monstrosities on the grid anymore.

You’re the best ♥️

Ooh, that looks cleeeean. I really dig that. The gazoo racing logo looks perfect on it too…

I don’t get it. Is it meant to be funny? Is it meant to make fun of FE? Is it meant to get people into FE?

One of the best photographs I’ve ever seen. A chilling indictment of fascist America yes, but what a fucking shot.

Having Disco Elysium on the same kind of niche list as an absolute obscurity like Nox just feels kind of weird to me.

Jag håller med. Först måste vi sparka ut den nuvarande regeringen, dock.

Trump har tidigare sagt att det ”kryllar” av kinesiska och ryska fartyg, något som bedömare beskrivit som överdrivna eller felaktiga.

Kan vi inte bara säga rakt ut att han ljuger i stället för detta inlindade fluff?

I’m really sad it never took off properly, it sounds like such a great idea on paper.

I hope the move goes well!

Love the time of year when I get to watch KYLE.ENGINEERS and stroke my chin over a cup of coffee while muttering “ah yes… vortices, I see…” pretending I understand aerodynamics.

I’m still just spending most of what would otherwise be my gaming time on TALKER Expanded, and my backlog is huge. As tempting as it is and as cool as those mods look, I don’t know that I can allow myself to replay games at this point in time 😅

I don’t know if this is the right place to piggyback onto, but on a similar-ish note one small thing I miss from other apps is having pinned posts use a different font color. The little green pin icon is not super visible and I found having for example green font text for pinned posts helps me either find important posts in my feed, or quickly scroll past pinned posts in a community.