Started playing Cairn a few days ago. It’s a rock climbing game that, with my limited climbing experience, seems to get climbing fairly well (at least as well as a video game could).
It also looks gorgeous, and the climbing is super satisfying.
Apparently quite a few people are having performance issues with it, but it’s working perfectly for me.
I’ve had my eye on that game for a couple days, love the cell shaded look and overall vibe.
If you’ve got the patience for it, it’s pretty rewarding. Don’t think it’s for everybody though, I can imagine people getting annoyed with having to repeat climbs after you fall. It can be pretty punishing in that way.
Reminds me a bit of Death Stranding in the fact that you have to stop and think about how you’re going to get somewhere.
I’ve only played the first third or so of Death Stranding, but I really enjoyed it.
Taking a break from Destiny to play Star Wars Outlaws, and a bit of Diablo 4
I bought 2077 shortly after it released with all the issues it had. I stuck with it and enjoyed it but for some reason I’m not feeling the pull of Phantom Liberty. Maybe I need to get it and start the whole game from scratch
CDPR has a history of releasing just truly amazing DLC that pay homage to other media. For example, one of the Witcher 3 DLC was clearly drawing on “Interview with the Vampire”, and the other on “Angel Heart”, thematically.
Phantom Liberty is not different - it starts out full on “Escape from New York”, but ends with something much, much more - that hits harder than the main 2077 story in ways.
Just discovered the Metro and Stalker games last year. I’m currently doing a second slow playthrough of Metro. I’ll do another playthrough of Stalker 2 once they upgrade the engine.
You had me at Escape From New York
Seriously the way it starts is even a pure giveaway… (Space Force One crashes in a anarchic, uncontrolled part of Night City, and the NUSA needs to send in a rogue agent to extract the President)
…and the way it ends is closer to Ghost in the Shell.
Just finished the main part of the So Mi ending last night.
Man. That DLC has four sad endings, but one is kind of the least bad, even though it sounds like the worst. I just did King of Cups, which ostensibly sounds the worst, but in the end is very likely the best (fake siding with Reed and then kill So Mi when she begs you to).
King of Wands (the one you just did) is the most selfless hurts you in other ways - not to mention Reed 
The other two, however, are categorically worse than those two.
I turned her over to Reed after she betrayed you, now I’m waiting to hear back about saving myself.
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Oh. That leads to either the King of Swords or King of Pentacles endings, depending on when you hand her over (at the spaceport or after she begs you to kill her). Sadly two of the worst IMO. They both do unlock alternate endings for the whole game though (the other two - kill So Mi, or kill Reed so she can go to the moon - do not.)
They are all horrible choices, because it’s Night City.
I’ve fallen back into Star Citizen with the latest patch and community event. It’s been shockingly stable for as popular as this event’s been. I expected way more jank, as is the usual SC Way.
That and continuing to make some slow progress with Blue Prince.
About 30% into Arkham Knight right now. I want to love it but God the Batmobile stuff sucks. I might switch to Fallout New Vegas which I’ve never played.
I’ve started that one three times and want to love it…but yeah, the batmobile segments just suck all the enjoyment out of the game and I end up moving on to something else every time.
I get that the Batmobiles iconic, and they did come up with a lot of stuff for it, but I feel like you just kind of have to be into a vehicle combat game in order to enjoy it. And they lock progression behind it so it’s not like you can just ignore it and swing around town. The most funnest part of the game for me is swinging around as Batman with my fucking grappling hook and whatever and they want to take that away every 5 Seconds.
Devil May Cry 5 is on sale on Steam for only 7.50usd, until Feb 26. Got the notice because I have it on my wish list.
Playing through The Evil Within 2. Still sad that we’ll never get another one. Eat shit, Microsoft.
