I am going to be wrapping up Silent Hill 2 Remake! I'm about 11.5 hours in, so I probably have a few hours left. They did an amazing job, I'm actually looking forward to Bloober's next game now lol.. but hopefully they get to do Silent Hill 3 & 4. Other than that, I could continue playing Metaphor Refantazio! What about you, SW? What are you playing this weekend?
Metaphor. Just about 22hrs in and the game is fantastic. A few issues, like massive difficulty spikes on some side quest dungeons compared to main quest, but overall really enjoying messing with the different Archetypes. Getting through Brilehaven atm.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits. The game stroking itself over its art direction still makes me want to vomit, but I'm about half way through the game now, so I might as well finish the damn thing.
Also, a few more games of Sins of Solar Empire II. After a slow start, it's pretty much back to the old Rebellion groove again. The game is noticeably much faster; a typical 1v1 game in Rebellion would be 4 1/2 hours, while here I'm done and dusted in 2. Aside from that, everything is so familiar... ...maybe a bit too familiar. Still, I won't complain about getting to enjoy my beloved Advent (the angry psychic ladies faction) again.
Probably more Resident Evil 7. Almost got the Platinum trophy for it. Some Alan Wake 2 dlc. May start playing Resident Evil Village as well, this time I'll be playing the PS5 version.
@Litchie: Yeah I love it, I won't be surprised to see it on some people's GOTY list. If you enjoyed playing one of those NES multicarts just to see what kind of weird games are on there, then you will enjoy this.
To me it is best described as similar to Retro Game Challenge, except all the games are unlocked from the start and there are a lot more of them. If that sounds good to you then get this.
If you don't have an affinity for retro games, you might bounce off a lot of these early and not appreciate them, or find some too hard and not stick with them.
If you do like retro games, you might think they did some clever things to make these enjoyable, and had very good inspiration for how to make these games. They also have some nice touches in the UI, such as getting to see a caption about each game as if they were giving you info about the original developers and inspiration, which they made up.
You can sort the games in this collection by the fake year they are created, and you can see them progressing to be more complex, although only as complex as an NES game might get. That is how I'm going through them.
If you play it then I suggest starting the game "pilot quest" as, maybe not the first, but like maybe the 5th game you try, because this is a game where you can gain resources in the background. You will have to do a few things to start the resource farming, but once you do that then you can play another game while your resources get farmed.
Metaphor Refantazio, it’s sooo good. Basically the perfect combination of P5 and FF ( back when they were jrpgs)! Without all the super annoying social/school that imo got old really fast!
New World Aeternum, Metaphor Refantazio (currently stuck), Siege, and might try more Off the Grid.. although I wasn't really enjoying the few games I played the servers were laggy, so I'm hoping they fix them so I can then quit playing it.. lol.
Probably finishing Silent Hill 2 remake for the first time. Definitely going to play through it again. For my first playthrough, I did hard combat and normal puzzles. I would have changed the puzzles to hard, but I can't do that without starting a new game, so I'll just do that on the next run. Absolutely loving the game and how horrific everything is in it.
Also, more Elden Ring with the GF. Changed up my build to a colossal sword that I primarily two-hand along with sorcery.
@lundy86_4: First main boss, I'm playing on hard and I have the wrong combination of classes. I just probably need 3 melee based classes and I would beat him, but my mains specs are 100 percent magic, so its a little rough. I just need to level him a melee class and hopefully the min strength can still carry. I don't have enough dps to take out the necromancer before the zombies get the buff, although I know light magic buys me an extra turn the zombies take at least 2 hits so it negates the bonus. However, I think the zombies take more damage when they get the buff, so perhaps I'll let them be until they get the buff.
@WitIsWisdom: I'm assuming it's Zorba. Definitely worth having a healer/mage/knight/warrior. It is worth investing in magic early game, so you can make use of weaknesses. I'm on normal, so not sure the difficulty spike for hard.
Just beat Silent Hill 2 remake. 21 hours. Bloober did an amazing job. They stayed true to the OG while updating it in all the right ways. I really hope they Remake 3 and 4!
I'm still playing Black Myth: Wukong but lucky enough, I'm almost done beating the whole game as I finally defeated Erlang (secret hidden boss) as he was truly the test of your skills in the whole game and I'm on my way to the grand finale of the game. I'll be so happy to put it down and start something newer.
That being said, I'm reinstalling Dragon Age: Inquisition in preparation for Veilguard despite my expectations on that game is extremely low, wanna revisit Inquisition as I haven't played it in 5 years already.
I'll also throw in Silent Hill 2 Remake since its part of my 31 on 31 Halloween gaming month. Blooper Team nailed this remake. The fact that it's not simple and there is actual risk to not saving health items or bullets is so much better than having items helpfully spawn out of nowhere. The atmosphere is both beautiful and disturbing, true to the original but with modern graphics.
@mrbojangles25: OLED is a joke. It doesn't get bright as LCD overall, and the highlights are limited. If 20% of screen area is bright, generally the picture starts getting darker overall because of ABL. So if you get a full white screen or a flash in a game or come out of a tunnel to bright surroundings or cast a bright spell, it will look darker overall. If you have owned a good LCD, all of this is very noticeable.
And the selling point of OLED is more definition when the picture is darker. That will make scrolling credits look better, but almost nothing else. 99% of scenes where you think on an LCD "this would look completely black on an OLED", you're wrong! Most very dark scenes are still some dark shade of a color in those spots, and will end up looking lighter than a good LCD backlight. Not just in movies but in games too.
Most of the time you won't be in a very dark scene anyway, unless if maybe you enjoy retro games where there is a perfect black background then it will probably help there. But a lot of retro games have bright scenes and flashing white during attacks or a bomb or something else and then you will see the screen drop to like 150-200 nits when that happens.
And oh but the haloing on LCDs. It really isn't noticeable on a QLED, again probably will only notice o a credits screen. Most of the time, the game or movie will add bloom and flare anyway when it is a movie or an in-game scene, and you won't have any advantage at all with an OLED, and again a lot of sacrifices. The solution for everything on OLED is to limit the brightness.
Don't believe the hype. The sacrifices are big with OLED and the advantages are slim. It can look good 80% of a time, but an LCD will still look better and brighter and won't have the distracting flaws. There are all kinds of features built in to extend the life of the screen, all of which limit the image compared to an LCD. And if you find some unofficial way to bypass them you are only trying to bring it up to the level of an LCD display and sacrificing the lifespan of the device.
@warm_gun: Yeah I don't get it. A big 16:9 can fill your entire vision and give you peripheral all around, an ultra wide will be missing the top/bottom.
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