Starfield, Diablo 4, and Tears of the Kingdom for me.
Starfield was a hard pass at 30FPS on my Series X. But also, the gameplay and story just didn’t interest me at all.
Diablo 4 was monotonous. Grinding for hours to get a percentage of a percentage increase on gear was not fun. I’ve played every other Diablo game along with numerous other action RPGs of that style, but D4 is a snorefest. It’s frustrating being chain stunned by all the crowd control, it’s frustrating that a lot of enemies have a lot of health for no reason, and it’s bland when you face the same few bosses over and over again. It wasn’t so bad in the other Diablo games because you could just nuke the bosses, but in D4 each one is a straight up chore to kill.
Tears of the Kingdom… it’s a fun action adventure game, but if it has The Legend of Zelda on it, it needs to be held to The Legend of Zelda standards. And it, just like Breath of the Wild, is an awful Zelda game. If it didn’t have LoZ on it, I’d probably rate it much higher.
Dunno if I’d call it a stinker, but my excitement for Starfield waned very quickly as I played. 20 hours in, it was still fun. 30-40 hours, I’m like, eh. Past about 60 hours I was completely disillusioned with it. The perk system is a nightmare, leveling up gets really difficult really quickly. Making money (especially after they hid all the vendor chests), getting materials, etc. is a tedious slog. The UI/UX for ship building and settlement building is painful. Settlement building in general is a pointless waste of time and takes way too long to get the perks enough to make it even remotely worthwhile.
It also doesn’t help that there’s not a native version for the Xbox One, and Cloud Play is miserable. Constant disconnects, jitters, long load times, long wait times.
SPOILER BITS
The main quest is completely pointless. It has no effect on anything. Outside of Constellation and the other Starborn, no one even knows anything is happening. Your choices don’t have any impact on anything. Side with the Hunter? Side with the Emissary? Outside of the number of dupes you fight at the end, it literally doesn’t matter. And getting to the end does absolutely nothing. Now you have to start over with a shittier ship you can’t upgrade, some armor that’s mostly fine, and literally nothing else. Nothing’s different. Sure, after enough times through, silly things start happening at Constellation. But what else? It’s not worth it.
The faction quests are fun, but then again, have basically no bearing on anything.
The companions are disappointing: ostensibly you have two lovable rogues, a religious zealot, and the most Lawful Good character who will judge you for even the slightest non-Squeaky Clean choices you make, though they all end up being basically the same.
Otherwise, you just keep running the treadmill: get all 10 upgrades to your Space Shouts, ship, and armor? And then what? Just keep going. Do it again. And again. And you still don’t have enough perk points.
On second thought, maybe I would call it a stinker. So fucking disappointing. It had so much potential.
Nebulous Fleet Command is cool, but not finished and maybe just not my cup of tea, but definitely very much knows what it wants to be and is very good at that.
And the rest are well known good games not released this year.
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead with the Sky Islands mod Absolutely best survival game I have ever played by a long mile. There is just so much time and love behind this game.
Deep Rock Galactic A flawless game
Halo Infinite multiplayer it is actually good now!
Battlebit So good to have a battlefield not owned and ruined by EA
Of the OWSC-type games that I’ve played, the one I’ve enjoyed most is Raft, and even then I get burnt out on it pretty quickly. I think it’s because, at least until you get your raft surrounded with metal plated platforms, there’s a very direct relationship between the materials you pick up and the amount of ‘base’ you can build, and so you’re pretty constantly engaged with collecting, refining, and using most of your supplies in a very straightforward and immediately gratifying manner.
The thing in these games that burns me out is, it seems to be a neverending parade of collecting materials and recipes to get better materials and recipes, to the point that you’re thumbing through like eight different pages or tabs of schematics looking for what you need to make, then digging through some arcane storage system to get the shit you need to make the shit you need. After a certain point, it feels like having a second job.
Subnautica of course was a banger, but recently I’ve been insanely addicted to Icarus. The mission oriented gameplay makes the survival gameplay less tedious even though I’m doing similar stuff. You drop down, figure out what you need to complete the mission, set up and get the mission done, then get out. You have meta progression to make missions quicker to work through and you have a levelling system to further impact your strength. Just a super satisfying loop to me.
Zdarza mi się streamować z soundclouda i kupować z bandcampa czy bezpośrednio, ale reszta piractwo, bezpośrednio lub przez ulubione radio i youtube po ublockowych filtrach wycinających chociażby sugestię możliwości zasitnienia reklamy. Na codzień dość mocno angażuję się w kulturę niezależną, dając niszowym artystom przestrzeń, więc jakoś nie rusza mnie, że za darmo posłucham sobie jakichś zagaranicznych czy tym bardziej takich którzy już nie żyją (patrzę na was wydawnictwa dalej publikujące Musligauze).
Spotify odrzuca mnie podobnie jak serwisy próbujące zarabiać do piratowanej treści.
Nie używam tych wymienionych, ale używam open.audio i bandcampa. Youtube niestety trochę też. No i płyt CD słucham. Spotify to byłoby kolejne bagno, nie chcę im dawać hajsu. Nie miałbym też kontroli - mogłoby skasować moje ulubione kawałki gdyby tylko przestały zarabiać.
korzystałem ze Spotify przez jakieś 6-7 lat, z czego ostatnie 4 z Premium. znalazłem mnóstwo świetnej muzyki i byłem przez długi czas całkiem zadowolony. w ostatnim czasie ich system polecania zszedł na psy, często poleca mi ten sam szajs, którym nie jestem zainteresowany, a dodatkowo mobilna aplikacja postanowiła ciągle działać w tle nawet gdy nie słucham muzyki, i zjadać mnóstwo baterii (oraz oczywiście robić te wszystkie głupie rzeczy, np. dawać pieniądze Joe Roganowi). przerzuciłem się tymczasowo na Deezera, a długofalowo planuję przerzucić się na żeglugę i bibliotekę offline. tylko coś czuję że ze znajdywaniem nowej muzyki będzie ciężko.
Deep rock Galactic is my vote. It doesn’t have a narrative, but it does have a very thin campaign. It’s mostly a few voice overs and random missions. However, the difficulty is scalable, if you’re looking for a challenge. The game is incredibly movement focused. Each class has a movement power that’s unique. Gunners get zip lines that are slow but go up and anyone can use them. Scout has a grappling hook that’s fast and unlimited but only they can use it. Engineer makes platforms that anyone can scale. Driller can tunnel thru the rock any direction. The terrain is deformable.
Wydaje mi się, że wszystkie czeskie są zwrotne, tylko większość punktów sprzedaży/dystrybutorów w Polsce nie chce tego ogarniać. Czy naliczają kaucję - szczerze nie wiem. Na pewno holba, litovel, budwar, radegasty są przyjmowane w pobliskim monopolu.
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Zaraz zaraz... Nie ma takiej alternatywy, że albo serwisy streamingowe albo piractwo. Zapisanie offline muzyki z youtube czy tego typu serwisów, na swój własny użytek NIE jest piractwem. W każdym razie wg polskiego prawa. Tak samo jak nim nie jest słuchanie muzyki zripowanej z płyt CD.
Więc ja mogę odpowiedzieć, że słucham prawie wyłącznie tego co mam dostępne offline (w tym zawartość zgrana z wszystkich płyt jaki kupiłem w życiu) albo ze źródeł online, które taki zapis umożliwiają. Nawet jeśli robią wszystko, żeby to technicznie utrudnić.
jak Tobie działa? Bo też korzystam, ale szczerze mówiąc działa... źle. Wiesza się, ma problemy z wyszukiwaniem, przy przełączaniu piosenek są długie przerwy...
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