Anders

A few years ago I used to carry a fold out pocket knife with me. I very rarely used it for anything, but it was nice to have just in case I needed to open or cut something. I then discovered that carrying a knife is very much illegal in my country. It's been living in my kitchen drawer since.

Personally I don't really see the point. The reason why I bough a Steam Deck is so that I can play while lounging on the couch or in bed, and that I can bring it anywhere I want. I see people on the Steam Deck subreddit with huge elaborate setups involving external monitors, controllers, keyboards, mice and huge powerbanks, and in my opinion those kinds of setups just goes against the whole point of the Steam Deck. Also, I have the OLED Steam Deck, so in order to get an external portable monitor at nearly the same quality, you would have to spend a looot of money.

I probably have at some point, but what I do remember is the time that I didn't fake being sick. When I was in high school, pretty much everyone in my small class played World of Warcraft. I got legitimately sick the day after Cataclysm was released, and absolutely no one believed that I was actually sick.

I remember playing the original Eye Toy Play on the PS2 as a kid. My friend that lived two houses over had a broken leg at the time, and we figured out that nearly all the minigames could be played with just your arms, so we each pulled up a dining chair in front of the probably 24" CRT and sat there waving our arms. Good times.

Not sure if this qualifies as "delayed" as it was outright cancelled, but last month, on the 6th of may, a game called Captain Blood was released. This game was originally announced for the ORIGINAL XBOX in 2003! The developer apparently ran into some legal trouble and it went back and forth until the developer went bankrupt in 2010. A few years back some of the original developers were able to aquire the rights back and finally finished the game. I played a bit of the demo, and while it looks pretty decent, it definitely feels and plays like a mid-2000's hack and slash. A nice throwback in my opinion, I'll probably pick up the full game at some point.

I didn't really expect to like Persona 5 going in, as up until that point, turn based combat really wasn't my thing, but the asthetic of the game really made me want to play it, and I ended up absolutely loving it. I still haven't actually beaten it, but I put over 100 hours into it.

I have *nearly* all consoles released in the last 30 years, but these days the only ones I actually use regularly are the Xbox Series X and my Steam Deck. The only real reason I use the Xbox over PS5 is because of Gamepass, I rarely actually buy games for it. My wife also uses the Switch pretty regularly.

I definitely do, and it becomes especially apparent with remasters. With the recent Oblivion remaster for example, when I first saw gameplay of it I though "It looks good, but not that much better than the original" until I went back and actually looked at gameplay of the original. I think we have a tendency to look at old games, especially ones we remember fondly, with rose tinted glasses.

I've fallen into a pattern recently of buying a bunch of games on Steam, playing them on my Steam Deck for a few hours and then jumping into a new game. Over the past two weeks I've played a little bit of: Alice: Madness Returns Warhammer: Chaosbane Curse of the Dead Gods Devil May Cry 5 The Witcher 3 Ryse: Son of Rome Rise of the Tomb Raider Lil' Gator Game River City Girls Young Souls Whisker Squadron: Survivor The Division The Division 2 I really need to pick with one of them and stick with it

To be fair, Psychonauts got a sequel in 2021 and Beyond Good & Evil got a new remaster less than a year ago, so I'm not sure I would call either of those franchises 'forgotten', but I would still love to see sequels to both. The first thing that came to mind for me was Jazz Jackrabbit. The last game came out in 1998 and I've hardly ever heard anyone ever talk about it, but it was a big part of my childhood. I remember my friend coming over and us playing multiplayer on our family computer, both playing on the same keyboard.

The best games I've played so far this year have to be Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 and Doom: The Dark Ages. I'm not done with either of them yet, but I'm really enjoying both.

I would love to play this game at some point, as I am a big fan of the Alien franchise, but to be honest I've been too scared to play it. I started playing Avowed a couple of days ago when it came out on gamepass, and I really like it so far. The combat system feels very satisfying. So far I've been using a gun in one hand and sword in the other, I think I'm gonna go with a build like this going forward an spec towards ranger

I bought and played though Mouthwashing this weekend, and I really liked it. I won't say too much about it, but this is the kind of horror game that I like. It was creepy enough to always keep me on edge, but not so much that I was too terrified to keep playing it. It takes place in space, on a long haul cargo ship, and some shit goes down, that's about all I want to say for the story. Gameplay wise it's more or less a walking simulator, with some pretty light point-and-click gameplay, I wouldn't quite call it puzzles. If any of this sounds like it might be up your alley, I would recommend just playing it without looking too much into reviews. It cost me about $10 on sale and I got about 3 hours of gameplay out of it. Worth it in my opinion.

I've actually beaten a few games over the last few days, all on the Steam Deck. I've been playing Nier: Automata for a couple of weeks, and beat it on thursday. I did enjoy the game, but to be honest I kinda expected more. It's been hyped up by some people as one of the best games ever made, and I didn't feel like it delivered on that. Overall good game though. I also played through all of Mouthwashing this weekend, and I really enjoyed it. I don't want to say too much about if for fear of spoling it, I would rather recommend going in blind like I did. I will say, if you're like me and kind of enjoy horror games, but don't like getting jumpscared, this game has some great atmospheric horror, but is very light on the jumpscares. It's a very short game, according to Steam it took me about 3 hours to play through, so I absolutely think it's a game I will play again just to get a better grasp on exactly what is going on. Thirdly, I picked up Stubbs The Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse along with Mouthwashing, as they were both on sale. I started it on saturday after I was done with Mouthwashing, and finished it on sunday night. This is a really fun, lighthearted game. In short, you play as a zombie, and the main point of the game is basically just to run around town wreaking havoc and eating brains. It originally came out in 2005, but has definitely had some pretty major updates in the last few years. It looks and runs great on Steam Deck.

It's been a racing-heavy weekend for me. I went to visit my parents and brought my Steam Deck. I mostly played Dirt 5 and Hot Wheels Unleashed 2, both really fun arcade racing games.