Finished Red Dead Redemption 2. The game finally caught my interest in the last 20-25%. Started to care about the story and some of the characters. It was also nice to play the epilogues, it connects the game with Red Dead Redemption 1. There are also some very cinematic moments in the game, enjoyed those too.
Overall, not a bad game, just not for me. I recall loving the first game when I played it on PS3, so maybe it's just me who has changed.
Didn't play too much of Splatoon Raiders, but I think I am nearing the end. Most of the may have been revealed, so there shouldn't be too much of the game left. Also, changed my main tank from Speed to Power. It has the better combination of gadgets that I want.
Played some more Final Fantasy XII - The Zodiac Age. I am finally in mid game. Got access to second license board, and spent over an hour agonizing over which combination of classes to go with, and that's when you can reset them (almost) anytime, imagine how long it would take me decide if the choices were permanent.
Happy with most of the combinations. One characters has Melee + Melee combination, most of the others are Melee + Magic, and 2 are Magic + Magic. So both set of parties have one pure mage, and two melee users with magic for healing or certain cases where it is required.
Currently at a boss which applies tons of debuff for my whole team, and I don't have any magic to dispel that. The last shopkeeper was selling Esuna (magic to remove all debuffs from a character) but I was tight on money and hadn't had a need for that yet, so didn't' buy it, will probably have to go back and get it. The boss isn't too difficult but when your characters can't even hit it, or do any damage, or case any spell, you can't really do anything no matter how easy the boss is otherwise.
Started Hogwarts Legacy on PS5. Objectively, the game is probably not as good as RDR2 (they are so different that we shouldn't even compare) but going from a slow game like that I instantly fell in love with character movement of Hogwarts Legacy and how fast everything is in the game. The game isn't bad, but I think I wouldn't have liked it as much I did if I hadn't played it right after RDR2. Not to mention as a Harry Potter fan it's great to see a modern game in Hogwarts and the wizarding world.
The game has it's bugs though. Around 4-5 hours in, it refused to start the next main mission, and turned out it's a known bug, you have to start this mission right after finishing the previous one, without doing anything else in-between, otherwise it has a chance of getting stuck. Only solutions are loading a previous save or restarting the game from start. I almost gave up then, cause while you can get to that mission in around an hour and half if you only do the main missions, I had spent hours exploring, solving puzzles and collecting stuff. Didn't want to do all that again.
Eventually decided to load a previous save from couple of hours ago and play again. Hope there isn't anything like that further in the game, I am saving before and after every main mission just to be safe though.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
I've restarted Pokémon Legends Z-A, which I haven't played since completing my shiny dex 6 months ago. I spent the first 8 hours looking for a shiny Pancham to be my starter (luckily it appears in an area that's really easy to cheese) and now I have a full Dark type team.
While I liked the character customisation the first time as a girl, it's a lot harder to scrape a good looking outfit together as a boy. Here I am with Gristle
I never use the same species more than once, at least not as part of a new team (I'll recreate old "characters" in each game to add to a roster to mix up the endgame), so since that takes about 200 species off the table that makes building them a fun challenge, especially for single-type or gimmick teams. This one's Pangoro, Krookodile, Sableye, Sharpedo, Malamar & eventually Yveltal.
I'm also replaying Batman Arkham Asylum, possibly for the first time since Knight came out. I was devastated to learn even that one's already over a decade old. These games are masterpieces. The plan is to get 100% in all 4 of them over the next year or so, and I might go for all achievements while I'm at it because I'm missing a bunch of the challenge room stuff.
Then I've recently gotten into games like Quarantine Zone (decent) and That's Not My Neighbor (fantastic), that are all about attention to detail and thoroughness. QZ you're checking for symptoms of infection to let people into an evacuation camp during a zombie apocalypse and TNMN you're making sure doppelgangers don't get into an apartment building.
After beating both of those 100% I was waiting for Security 51 which came out a couple of days ago but I've been working too much to play it. It's like Papers Please but you're guarding an alien lab. My girlfriend can't believe I come home from my job as a security guard just to play security guard games. Contraband Police is on sale so I picked that up today too, it's more of the same but it scratches an itch.
That's an interesting way to play, I guess that keeps the game fresh too. And I think you just made me realise my issue with these games, I usually stick with same "monsters", so should try to change that.
Arkham Asylum was probably my favourite Arkham game. City was good, but I liked Asylum better. Good luck with 100% though, some of those challenges can be annoying.
Never heard of Quarantine Zone / That's Not My Neighbor, but they look similar to Papers, Please in concept, loved that game, don't recall I ever finished it though. There are a few in my wishlist in the similar genre (one in fantasy setting, one was in sci-fi IIRC), will have to look them up. Another one that was released a few days ago on PS5, 1998: The Toll Keeper story. Do let me know of any good ones you find.