What PC games are you playing?

Nitefly said:
I’m playing Animal Well at the moment, which is a ‘MetroidVania’, retro-styled, with an atmosphere that shuffles masterfully between peaceful and ominous.

Not yet finished, but I’d recommend it. Really leans on making you figure out how to progress… very little handholding. Absolutely zero dialogue / story as well. Basically, all the best bits of a metroidvania distilled down into something weird and smart.

Great stuff. Definitely a ‘Nitefly’ sort of game… I like quirky, odd things and appreciate these nuances.

You might not get on with it if you prefer more combat / story / dislike retro visuals.
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Really like the look of Animal Well. Metroidvanias are one of my favourite genres and the gfx on this look cool too. Next on my list after Nine Sols.
 
Sc00p007 said:
Really like the look of Animal Well. Metroidvanias are one of my favourite genres and the gfx on this look cool too. Next on my list after Nine Sols.
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Cool, I need to check out Nine Sols myself! :)

Re: visuals they are ‘more basic’ than you might expect, almost NES like in places with the CRT-like filter it users, but there is clever modern lighting and ambient sound that gives it a modern twist.

I’d say go in blind and get lost in it :)
 
Picked up some extra copies of The Forest so I can play with my three older kids - it's peanuts at the moment. Dear me, it's quite the experience together. First the cannibals, but afterwards, the next things that arrive. I've never seen monsters in a game where I've said WTF is that attacking me like in this game!
 
TerraTech. Was fun to begin with but the long travelling distances on wheels which are far too slow makes it a bit of pain. I know there would be faster means unlocked further along but so far it feels like a grind.
 
I started playing Ori and the Blind Forrest but not sure how I feel about it.

Celeste is one of my favourite games and I love that sort of skill-based platformer, right up my street, but a lot of the deaths in Ori just feel sort of tedious and cheap? Like I’d just be walking along and a rock will fall on my head for an insta-death. Eh, takes me right out of the game. Or more accurately, takes me right out of the world they are going for aesthetically. Lots of people online seem to be saying the same thing.

Also, the world isn’t packed to the brim with snacks to collect like in a usual metroidvania so although it’s beautiful it ends up feeling a little empty.

Hmm. Not sure if I want to persevere.
 
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Nitefly said:
I started playing Ori and the Blind Forrest but not sure how I feel about it.

Celeste is one of my favourite games and I love that sort of skill-based platformer, right up my street, but a lot of the deaths in Ori just feel sort of tedious and cheap? Like I’d just be walking along and a rock will fall on my head for an insta-death. Eh, takes me right out of the game. Or more accurately, takes me right out of the world they are going for aesthetically. Lots of people online seem to be saying the same thing.

Also, the world isn’t packed to the brim with snacks to collect like in a usual metroidvania so although it’s beautiful it ends up feeling a little empty.

Hmm. Not sure if I want to persevere.
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Skill issue :p

I always felt it was more of a casual game compared to Celeste, not sure I'd ever recommend the two together. I always felt this was another game that was pretty average but it just gave OLED owners something to gawp over
 
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Noxia said:
Skill issue :p

I always felt it was more of a casual game compared to Celeste, not sure I'd ever recommend the two together.
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Yeah the comparison was just to highlight that I really relish a challenge, but Ori has elements of ‘die then try again’ that don’t feel very satisfying to me.
 
Nitefly said:
Yeah the comparison was just to highlight that I really relish a challenge, but Ori has elements of ‘die then try again’ that don’t feel very satisfying to me.
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Fair. It's been quite a while since I played it tbh.
Though sometimes I think a death is cheap but then as I learn to avoid it I realise it was on me and it was just my frustration making me think it was cheap.
Not saying that is the case here by the way, just something I'm aware of personally.
 
Red Dead Redemption, really enjoying it, yes the graphics are dated, but still doesn't look bad, especially when out in the wilderness.

I didn't play it for some reason when it came out, but RDR2 is one of my all time favourites and it works saying them in this order.
 
The original Half Life. I picked up Black Mesa last year but wanted to play Half Life first as I'm not 100% sure if I ever fully played it. I'm quite enjoying it and feel very nostalgic about it. I'm looking forward to seeing what improvements Black Mesa brings.
 
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