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I'm currently playing Farming Simulator 19. It's surprisingly addicting.

GTA V

Animal Crossing New Horizons
Bayonetta
South Park: The Stick of Truth

Gotta stay busy during COVID-19

FFVIII remastered for PS4

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/level ... i/guardian

Oooooh! Tough or what?

I've been playing Half Life Alyx over the past week and finished it today. It's a brilliant game, and really feels like it's heralding the beginning of a new era of gaming, in the same way Super Mario 64 did for the first 3D games. It blends frenetic action, nail biting horror, exploration, puzzle solving and environmental storytelling, with the familiar structure of the Half Life games. It's a new Half Life game and shares its DNA, but it draws influence from other games, like Boneworks and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The end product is polished and feels thoroughly playtested, with the mix of different gameplay styles never threatening to fatigue the player, like many other VR games before it.

The gravity gloves are an ingenious gameplay mechanic, one I expect to be copied in other games. Not only does it solve the problem of the need for complex movements in VR games where space constraints may be an issue, but the mechanic is used as the basis for many of the game's puzzles, traversal and loot acquisition, and leads to many dynamic action sequences. Use the gloves to retrieve a nearby live grenade and lob it back at your enemies, grab distant ammo in a firefight when you've used your last magazine, or nearby objects to shield yourself from pouncing headcrabs.

The guns are all fun to play with, and the game's system of upgrading them with items found in the environment works well in tandem with the gravity gloves and the abundance of physics objects.

There's some small issues, like the lack of melee feeling like a missed opportunity, and the game's difficulty overall is low even on the hardest setting, with an overabundance of healing items. Enemy AI is nothing special, with the game's most memorable encounters being heavily scripted and the game's difficulty scaling being primarily based on enemy hitpoints.

Overall, it's one of the best games I've ever played, and feels like a worthy Half Life sequel.

^ Does Dr Judith Mossman feature in this? If so, what becomes of her?

That would be a massive SPOILER, so the answer is...

SPOILER WARNING FOR HALF LIFE ALYX
I think so. There is a female human that you overhear collaborating with the Combine that seemingly knows a lot about what happened at Black Mesa, and many assume it to be Mossman. You don't see what happens to her but if it is Mossman, since she turns up again in HL2 she must somehow prove to Eli that she's trustworthy or offers something of value. Since he hears the same conversation he'd likely remember her voice in future interactions.

FFVII remake

I’m about to play Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet......BUT the whole thing says it’ll take 7 hours to download! Ugh!

I'm playing Shilla, an old text-based online RPG game right now.
Have played its 3 versions of the game before since year 2000, and now is the new 4th one.

A very good game if you like random number crunching and clicking with your mouse

PS4: FF12, FF10, Jedi fallen order, Star Wars Battlefront 2.

Switch: Let's go Pikachu

PC: CIV6

Playing Doom64 on the Doom64.Ex sourceport. Played it on the N64 soon after it came out in 1997, and this must be just about identical to it, as it uses the Doom64.wad extracted from the original ROM. Currently on map 22, playing on the highest difficulty level in continuous format.

I've also got the Doom64 Absolution and Doom64 Retribution versions, which I hope to take a look at some time.

I've been playing Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Decided that given the Covid lockdown, now's the time to do an epic replay of MGS 1 through 5. I never had a Gamecube back in the day and I've been wanting to play this remake for a long while. It's great to see the characters and animations in better quality than on the PS1.

I've been playing a recently released Chinese developed Touhou fangame, Touhou Elegant Impermanence of Sakura. I've cleared it on normal and hard modes, and trying my hand at lunatic mode. I like the game's mechanics, it has a bullet canceling mechanic that rewards killing enemies at the right time in proximity with bullets and other enemies. It also looks and sounds great, it has this distinctive art style for its character sprites. Here's my very scrappy clear of the game's True Last Boss.

I've been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons w/ my boyfriend. We send each other cards with gift attachments to the cards. Yesterday he visited my island which was fun and also funny considering I was sitting right next to him.
I think I strain my eyes when I play. I either have to wear my reading glasses or adjust the brightness.