Last Game You Played

TheSameIdiot said:
The music fucking rocks. I was never as high on Hades' music as I was on Bastion's. Hades II is in my pantheon of great video game soundtracks. I mean, listen to this shit:
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I have no opinion on the game as I have not played it yet (currently just started my first playthrough of Rogue Trader while waiting for the last DLC for KDC2 to drop later this month). But the soundtrack dropped some time ago and I've listened to it a bunch. I've literally got I Am Gonna Claw Out Your Eyes Then Drown You To Death on my Spotify playlist for when I'm driving around. Good stuff.
 
How was KDC2? It's on my short list of things to get into for the winter.

And yeah, my DM for our longform game runs Hades music left and right lately for mood setting. It's entrancing.
 
I downloaded Ghost of Yotei last night and I'm having fun with it so far. It reminds me of the Spider-Man games, and I like riding the horse (lol). I'm not a big gamer so I haven't played any other games it may be reminiscent of; I usually only play Marvel/DC games + WWE 2K.
 
I don't have anyone else to talk to about this, so I thought I'd share it here. It's a podcast, largely from a gaming media perspective, about how to handle Xbox. Xbox, which has laid off thousands and supported genocide in Palestine. It really challenged my notion of my responsibility to this moment. Their discussion of privilege (a meaningless buzzword at this point) was particularly eye-opening.


I thought, instead of buying Outer Worlds 2, I'd get Gamepass for a month instead. Same for next year's Halo: Combat Evolved remake. After all, I'm just a smol bean and what difference can I really make? After listening, I'm not so sure.

I'm an insufferable moralist when it comes to most things. I'm exhausted and somewhat defeated by the worst people in the world getting rich, destroying the planet/our society, and dragging the rest of us with them. Instead of throwing my hands up and asking how my $15 can possibly change anything, maybe it's time for me to become even more insufferable.

I'm not judging if that approach isn't for you. We all need our comforts to get through this administration. Plus, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. I just think, for me, it's time to be an immovable object.

@Damien will be thrilled to learn that one of the cohosts is the critic whose Ghost of Yotei criticism I shared on the last page.
 
altcunningham said:
Quite enjoyed everything about it. Haven't really heard much word of mouth about the sequel.
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Then you'll like the sequel. It's very much just '...and the continuing adventures of Henry.' If you liked the first game, it's just more of that. I mean, it's tightened up. Looks a little better. Has more overall polish to the mechanics and functionality. But it's fundamentally the same gameplay. I enjoyed the story a fair bit. The side quests are, in my opinion, mostly better in this one than in the first one. Voice acting is still great.
There's even a secret ending you can get where you save Bohemia but die immediately -- full on Game Over screen. Which was honestly pretty hilarious.

So yes. In my opinion, it's just KCD1 but better in basically every way. Anyone looking for another hundred hours with Henry should be pretty happy. I will say that I wish I'd waited to start it until the two current DLCs came out (I have the gold edition, so I get all three - the last of which comes out this month). The first DLC is great for being able to paint shields, and has a really fun story. But the second DLC is fantastic if for no other reason than it gives you some really pretty swords and your own house you can customize and dump money into. Being able to fast-travel to your house AND have basically all the things you need right there (wash-tub for clothes, free food, bed, chest, forge, etc) is a game changer. But I'd already beaten the game when the DLC came out.
On the other hand, it was fun to unlock tons of stuff for the house immediately because I had like 145,000 groshen when I started the DLC.

I DID get the 'kind of bad ending' (I didn't know there were alternate endings), so I'll probably end up re-playing the game at some point. I played the first one twice, so stands to reason I should play the second one twice. But yeah, if you're the type that wants to do one good playthrough and call it done, beware that you can get a SOMEWHAT bad ending if you spend the game killing and stealing. I won't spoil it beyond that.



TheSameIdiot said:
@Damien will be thrilled to learn that one of the cohosts is the critic whose Ghost of Yotei criticism I shared on the last page.
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That guy is super cool. Big fan.

But I mean, yeah. It's tough to know what to do anymore. Sometimes it feels like the only way to be true to my own ethics is to just not buy anything from anyone anymore because everyone at every level fucking sucks. Horrible people have attached themselves like leeches to every part of our society; from video game development to book publishing to movie studios to toy companies to restaurants, to grocery stores. It feels like there's nowhere you can go anymore that you're not putting money directly in the hands of the worst pieces of filth that our species has ever shat into existence.

So then it becomes the exhausting game you play with yourself of 'which company is objectively bad ENOUGH for me to distance myself, and which ones can I put up with, or which ones do I have no choice but to put up with?'

I already cut out any future purchases of EA products because of the Saudi/Trump deal. I try to avoid Ubisoft just because.. you know.. they're shitbags to their employees. I tried to keep up with all the companies guilty of using crunch to get games out, because that's awful and I hate it. But that also ended up being basically every video game studio that isn't a few of the small indie guys (and even they do it, they just do it to themselves, so.... that's okay... I guess?).

I do already have Game Pass. I've had it forever. It's saved me tons of money mostly because of my son. He plays so many games. I found it was cheaper to get Game Pass and PS+ than to even attempt to buy every game he wants to play (most of which he plays for a day or two and loses interest after being DESPERATE to play it for the entire month leading up to release). At the same time, I do still buy tons of games, so it won't kill him if we get rid of Game Pass. Definitely something I need to mull over.
 
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