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Plus, there's like a gazillion mods to keep you entertained for hours upon hours!

Quite a few, too.

Fair enough, but I love that game. Best part was having to think way outside the box to beat the time trials.

Looking at what I posted looks a lot more negative than I actually feel, aha. I still don't know if I liked it or hated it, but don't get me wrong - I thought there were lots of great stuff in there.

Still not the best game I've played with an end credits song called 'Still Alive' though .

I love Mirror's Edge (obviously; somehow missed your review and BDA's comment), but admittedly more in concept than execution. Playing through on Medium difficulty as a pacifist was stupidly difficult. Playing through allowing myself to use guns on Hard was a breeze. Hopefully Catalyst fixes that, though I don't see why they felt the need to reboot when they could have continued; the game ended on something of a cliffhanger, and the comic is a prequel, not a sequel.

Edit: Nevermind, already mentioned Lollipop Chainsaw a couple pages back. That's what I get for only now starting to release the videos I played and recorded a couple months ago v.v

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I blame you people for this...

I'm only an LP hour in so not much has actually happened, but this game is GAAAAWWWgeous.

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My current (and for the last two and a half years) game obsession is Kerbal Space Program. Imagine LEGOs + Rockets + space exploration and EXPLOSIONS when the rockets don't go so well.

It's a perfect game in regards to trying and failing as failing is generally hilarious and success feels insanely rewarding! I remember the first time I docked two ships together (after about two hours of attempts) and the first time I successfully landed on the Mun (after eight or so tries). Felt like I had really accomplished something.

Here's NerdCubed giving it a shot.

I also just installed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed because I never played it before. Before that, I just recently finished the Arkham Origins story and The Wolf Among Us, both of which were great - Arkham had some gameplay issues, but the story it told of Batman's early years and Gotham transitioning from mobsters to supervillans was fantastic.

I really enjoyed Arkham Asylum, but City didn't do much for me and I stopped playing after that.

Force Unleashed was good but shines in New Game Plus; all of that power getting cancelled as soon as you get it is good for gameplay balance but feels cheap, so being able to romp through the opening two acts while fully leveled is stupid fun.

I managed to get in to the early access beta, so I've been playing this for the last couple of days. Now that the beta is public, I thought it'd be fun if a few of us on here got together for a few games.

F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon

I've played this to completion once before around when it came out ten years ago, and played the demo a ton of times. A more recent attempt to play through ended with me going "nope nope nope" and looking at pictures of kittens. I don't handle horror all that well even if it is the simpler jump scare and creepy chord flavor.

So naturally I'm now doing a playthrough for YouTube. The duty to keep posting them should keep me on track to finish.

Though horror isn't my genre at all, I keep coming back to the game because of its AI. In the video that just went up, I die because I thought I'd taken out all of the enemies, walk into the next room and get ambushed by a couple hiding behind crates. When I reloaded, they weren't there anymore - it wasn't a scripted event, it's just what they did on the fly (12:45 in the above linked video). While playing the demo way back in the day, one hid behind a water tank. I covered left and right for him to come out then started getting hit; he'd climbed under the tank and was shooting at me from a prone position.

The game's old enough now that most systems should run it just fine (mine is having problems because of a temporary video card downgrade and a bug with Logitech devices, the latter of which I've fixed for next time). If you get the chance, check out the demo and see what it does for you.

And safely ignore the two expansions and the two sequels.

Halo 5: Guardians

Hoo boy, that sure was a Halo game. The second installment of 343's Halo trilogy borrows a lot of pages from Bungie's second installment of theirs - a lot of ideas and moments borrowed from Halo 2, which I wouldn't have expected to enjoy as much as I did.

I plan on recording a video with my incredibly rambling thoughts on it, but my VERY SPOILERY thoughts going into Halo 6 summed up in one somewhat paraphrased quote:

I enjoyed the game, and dernit if you like Halo then so will you. Constant tweaks to the formula but it's the same Halo franchise you've played for a decade and a half now.

...Single player, anyway. Dunno about this Warzone, and REQs, and complete and utter lack of local multiplayer, buuuuut dat campaign. I'm happy.