Ooh, will be fun to see you work through these. The remake series is polarizing to be sure, but I quite like them despite their flaws. The combat system in particular to me feels like such a fun blend of action and ATB-gauge style inputs.
TotK is a great game. And I’ve heard Baldur’s Gate 3 was excellent although can’t play it until I’ve got myself a new computer. I think they’d probably count?
I do hope it eventuates, but…I’ve seen enough ‘credible’ leaks that its right around the corner to last me a lifetime
I hope it arrives for you, because RDR2 is a beautiful game, in its own slow way. Well worth replaying!
I’d love to replay, but I spent so many hours in it. Much like Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk, I think I can’t actually play any more of it because I played so much already
I don’t recommend the upcoming Lenovo Legion Go 2. The Go 2 is around $1300, and only offers some 20% performance increase over the previous gen (with the Z1E CPU) which is currently $750. The ROG Xbox Ally X pricing is yet to be revealed.
The elephant in the room is the Steam Deck OLED, which you can find refurbished/certified for $440. It’s not as powerful, but power is never going to be a handheld’s strong suit anyway. They’re everywhere and tons of indie games are made with it in mind.
If you’re willing to get a bit nerdy, game streaming is getting pretty good these days, and is really easy on battery life. Moonlight lets you stream games from your desktop PC, while Xbox Remote Play can stream from your Xbox. If cloud gaming is your jam, Nvidia Geforce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming are available. For any of these, the Steam Deck would be perfectly adequate, but if you want something smaller and lighter, you could also go with an AYN Odin 2 Portal, which is an Android-based handheld with WiFi 7 and a nice 120Hz OLED screen for around $330.
Nintendo’s always been litigious and controlling of their brand. What they haven’t been (until recently) is price-gouging peddlers of derivative schlock resting on their laurels. They used to be afraid of low-quality games and rehashes diluting their brand (they witnessed the carnage of 1983). Now they just don’t care.
What kind of games are you looking to play, and what form factor do you want?
I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus on sale two years ago and ended up liking it so much I wish I'd bought a more expensive model with analog sticks. There are quite a lot of devices like it on the market, if you want something small for retro emulation look into all the different options.
Meanwhile, my Steam Deck largely gathers dust because it's just too bulky to feel like a replacement for the handheld-sized handhelds I grew up on. Switch (2) is good for running Switch games, and it's at least a bit smaller and lighter than the Deck, but mine rarely leaves the dock.
The Planet Crafter. I can't believe how much fun my girlfriend, my friend and I are having with that game. When we first picked it up, I expected we might play it for a couple days, maybe enjoy it for a couple of weekends. But it has really turned into one of those obsessions that you get from games like Satisfactory, No Man's Sky, Favtorio, etc., where the whole world just disappears around you, and a 7 hour session feels like 3 hours at most. This game has just perfectly straddled the line between challenging and relaxing for me.
I personally like it a lot more than Satisfactory currently, but that's because my life is pretty stressful right now, and managing the conveyor belt spaghetti and machine connections is too tiresome for me at the moment.
With The Planet Crafter you are striving to unlock buildings by raising your Terraformation Index, which is comprised of pressure, oxygen, heat and biomass. You do that by crafting and placing down various machines and buildings, but none of them are feeding each other like in Satisfactory. Instead you are out exploring, finding ores in the wild, in old bases, scattered crates, and raiding old, abandoned, crashed spaceships for resources and parts. There are no enemies in the game, so no combat and no weapons. Instead the challenge is to manage your oxygen, hunger, thirst, and various environmental hazards like meteors and weather events.
As you raise your Terraformation Index you'll start seeing your planet change in flora and atmosphere, which is such a cool experience! New areas will be unlocked by you heating up the planet, which will introduce new resources. I just can't recommend this game enough. I think it's definitely worth the full price, but based on previous sales, my guess is that it'll go on sale again within a month, around 40% off, if they stick to the pattern. I also really appreciate their pricing structure for DLC, which is just a new planet to start out on (Base game has 2 different planets to choose from as your starter), at 8 euros. I ended up getting it, since only the player hosting the save file, needs to own it, in order for everyone in multiplayer to join in.
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