Random Thoughts on Video Games

Started playing the story mode again recently. Love that game.

 

I gave up on Fifa ever being fun again, and even Efootball or PES every doing whats right.

I just play modded PES these days for my footy fix.

 

Football games are just terrible due to the ai generally

I really dislike nba 2k24 as well this year, seems like animations and badges killed the game for me

 

I game pretty much exclusively on PC and bought myself the PlayStation Dual Sense controller because I like the adaptive triggers. It really adds to the experience when you play Sony exclusives like God of War, Ratchet & Clank as well as Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West.

What I didn't know was that third party controller support for anything but the xbox controller would be complete ass if it wasn't for Steam's translation layer. I was previously using a xbox controller from a decade ago so I was clueless these issues existed.

This week I tried to use the Dualsense with a game that claims to support it (Jedi: Fallen Order) and the experience is very bad. EA is just lying, they do not properly support the DualSense. There's no rhyme or reason to when the game detects the controller and when it doesn't. Sometimes wireless works and sometimes it doesn't.

I am really considering to sell the controller on German version of craigslist, because the experience is just inferior compared to what you are getting with the xbox controller where everything just works.

 

Manor lords looks amazing but I don’t have anything to play it on

 

Hades is on sale for an all-time low price. Can't recommend the game enough if you're into the genre. Very addictive.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145360/Hades/

 

Just bought it. Ive had the game on my wishlist for quite some time.

 

Finally played Jedi: Survivor. Despite some technical blemishes on PC, it's a really good and enjoyable game with a story doesn't quite hit the same heights as the previous one but is vastly improved game-play wise and offers up to 80h of fun for completionists without ever getting tedious.

 

If you haven't already played it and are into 3rd person shooters in a fascinating slightly creepy sci-fi setting with beautiful graphics, I strongly recommend "Returnal".

I bought it the other day during the Steam Summer Sale and I already know it was worth the thirty Euros after just playing it for just 5-6 hours.

 

Alan Wake II with Raytracing on an OLED monitor is *chefskiss*.

Absolutely gorgeous game and I can't even run it with all the bells and whistles on my RTX 4070 but enough of them to make it look stunning.

 

Alan Wake II is like a very delicious but dense piece of chocolate cake. I am having a very good time with it, but have to consume it in moderation.I can't play it more than 2-3hours at a time before I have to take a break..

 

I’m playing Jedi - fallen order

when u get used to it, it’s actually really good

 

Jedi Fallen Order and the sequel Jedi Survivor are probably the first new games EA has published that I actually care for and bought since Titanfall II in 2016.

 

I played RoboCop - Rogue City. A surprisingly enjoyable RoboCop game that is basically telling a cinematic story. It's only from a small Polish studio so don't expect AAA production quality but it's punching far above its weight and every RoboCop fan will definitely enjoy it.

Then afterwards I started Far Cry 6 that I picked up on sale last year for 5.99€ and I can see why they dropped the price of the base game so low.

I played the opening hour and I am already bored and not interested one bit. Too bad because I liked Far Cry 5 quite a bit.