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FromSoft worshipper. SoulsBorneRing nut. Love a great single player experience, mostly RPG's and story driven action games.

Live service online multiplayer shooters and micro transactions/pay to win games can fucking die in a ditch.
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Favorite Games

Demon's Souls
Demon's Souls
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
Bloodborne
Bloodborne
Dark Souls II
Dark Souls II
Elden Ring
Elden Ring

604

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Played in 2024

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Balatro
Balatro

Mar 28

Cocoon
Cocoon

Mar 25

Pentiment
Pentiment

Mar 12

Submerged: Hidden Depths
Submerged: Hidden Depths

Feb 20

Rain World
Rain World

Feb 18

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Jesus Christ, this thing has its claws in me, but good! I was immediately hooked, and the last few days have been me playing a few hands of this whenever I have a spare minute, with sessions going way past the midnight hour. This is the game I needed to fill the big Inscryption size hole in my heart, and I'm loving the hell out of it. A story would be nice, or some characters of some sort, and that's where Inscryption has the edge, but its still an absolute banger. I could have spent $125 on a new AAA game, but I took a chance and bought Balatro. Best $17 I ever spent. Just give it a chance people, you wont be disappointed.

Super short DLC, and not much story to speak of. Its super hard, much harder than the base game, with some of the fights being very cheesy and unfair. Enemies are just sponges, and it takes about 10 knockdowns to beat one enemy. Plus they all hit like trucks, if you get hit 4 or 5 times, you're dead. So fights are all very frustrating and not enjoyable. Its nice to see hot goth Harley but that's about it. Pretty weak DLC that could have been much much better.

Another playthrough of Arkham City has revealed more of what I love and more of what hasn't aged so well about this classic. Its still super fun, super atmospheric, great graphics that hold up to this day. The feeling of gliding around the dark, crumbling city is just unmatched. The story is pretty good, not outstanding but good enough to keep you playing through til its end. I liked Asylum's story more, but the bigger map and more open world design really works better than Asylum's more linear, smaller playground.

Where City fails is in its side missions. They start out so cool and interesting! Deadshot is sniping people, someone is going around skinning the faces off off inmates, some myserious ninja guy is appearing in random locations and leaving strange symbols, the Riddler is kidnapping paramedics and holding them hostage....i was pumped to do all the side content. But the problems are two fold. Firstly, its easy to start the missions, but then they become super hard to continue. Finding the clues to continue to the next parts of these missions becomes like finding a needle in a haystack. Like searching this huge open world map on the off chance youll run across this guy standing on a rooftop somewhere, and when you do actually find him all he does is spout some nonsense and leave a symbol for you to scan. Rinse and repeat 5 times and the missions over. And you're just sitting there like "wtf was the point of all that?" This applies to all the side missions. Some are especially half arsed, like rescuing the political prisoners, or the Mad Hatter mission, which you can barely even call a mission. They all feel so half baked and unfinished.

But then you've got the worst of the worst. Perhaps the most time consuming, ridiculously over bloated side mission in all of gaming. The Riddler. So in Asylum, tracking down all the Riddler clues and riddles was so fucking fun, its made a very good game a great one. And there was a lot, but not an overwhelming amount. But they went SO far overboard in City. Asylum had from memory 240 collectables, City has 400! And its much, MUCH harder to get all of them, some of them just being so fucking aggravatingly hair pulling and frustrating. I have never got them all. In this latest playthrough I was determined to get them all, but after about 300 I was just so fucking burned out and annoyed I gave up. Takes A LOT to get me to that stage, as I'm usually an OCD completionist. The pure amount of time consumption is mind boggling. Beating the actual game, and most side missions will run you about 20 hours. Beating the Riddler side mission will run you about an extra 20 or more just on its own. Hell, you might even spend an hour on just one of the more difficult ones by itself.

So Arkham vs City. There's stuff I love from both games. Asylum had a better story. City has a better open world. Asylum had just the right amount of content. City has way way too much content in some areas, like the Riddler mission, and not enough in every other side mission. So I love both and consider them classics for different reasons, but both games definitely aren't without their faults.