CharlesReed

CharlesReed, 4 dni temu

Yes, he's the player character this round instead of Jesse.

CharlesReed, 4 dni temu

That's true, but they still make a LOT of indirect references to it.

CharlesReed, 5 dni temu

Yes, click on the title instead of the image.

CharlesReed, 9 dni temu

A friend finally convinced me to try out Dark Souls. I'm not too far in, and I'm not having a bad time per se, but I am having a little trouble getting into it and caring about why I'm hacking and slashing everything. Maybe I just haven't got enough lore yet. Though I do like seeing the other players' messages and their "ghosts" running around, that's fun.

CharlesReed, miesiąc temu

Finished Diablo 3 Season 36. I was really hoping to fully fill out the Altar of Rites this time, but for the life of me and my necromancer, I could not get Ramaladni's Gift to drop. Oh well. This week I'll finally be starting Diablo 4's new season in-between Thief runs (yes, I'm still obsessed, lol).

CharlesReed, 2 miesiące temu

I've been absolutely obsessed with the 2014 reboot of Thief over the past couple weeks. I'm having so much fun just sneaking around and stealing stuff and finding new hidey holes lol. It's making me really want to try out the older games. I don't know how I slept on it for so long because it's been great.

CharlesReed, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

I have! It's a really great game and I love it too. That's probably why I'm having such a good time with Thief, since the gameplay is very similar. I've only really played 1 though; I did play Dishonored 2 once, but I couldn't get into it like I did the first. I still need to play Death of the Outsider.

CharlesReed, 3 miesiące temu

Last week I played through Ryse: Son of Rome, and I was pleasantly surprised in how much I enjoyed it, especially for a rather QTE heavy game.

Right now I'm working through Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel, and man there is so much backtracking for puzzles and lockboxes and whatnot. But it's been fun, and basically feels like a first person Resident Evil game, at least atmosphere wise.

CharlesReed, 5 miesięcy temu

As much as I absolutely love Lies of P, I've been holding off since I've been hearing about a lot of bugs. Sounds like I maybe need to wait for another patch, unless the patch they released a week or two ago is the only one.

CharlesReed, 5 miesięcy temu

I'm working on Diablo 4 Season 9. I wasn't hearing great things about this season at first, so I held off for a few days until some patches came out, but I have to admit, I'm kind of having fun so far. I have an actual reason to do nightmare dungeons again, and personally, I kinda like the reliquary cosmetics this time around. I'm going with a Druid build, which is a class I honestly haven't touched since season 1, and it's not too bad so far.

CharlesReed, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

Dead Space 3. Sure, it has some issues, but I didn't realize how much others actively disliked it until I tried talking to people about it.

Edit: And the point of the post is immediately proven lol

CharlesReed, 6 miesięcy temu

This looks it might be more related to Outbreak, since the (presumably) main character Grace is the daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft.

CharlesReed, 6 miesięcy temu

I'm not sure, as far as I know none of the VA names have been released yet, but I bet some Capcom regulars will show up.

CharlesReed, 6 miesięcy temu

That's Rose Winters (Ethan's daughter), and there's a DLC for Village that features her that's worth checking out!

CharlesReed, 6 miesięcy temu

Still working through The Sinking City Remastered. I've become incredibly distracted by photo mode lol.

CharlesReed, 6 miesięcy temu

The Sinking City Remastered was released last week, so I've been playing that. I'm having a lot of fun with the newly added photo mode.

CharlesReed, 7 miesięcy temu

Started Diablo 4 Season 8, and I can't say that I'm really into it this round. I have a laundry list of complaints, but it all really comes down to not feeling near as fun as previous seasons, and the world feels weirdly tighter than it has before? And I'm not sure exactly why.

Since I'm done with South of Midnight and it kept reminding me of Alice, I've been replaying Alice: Madness Returns. I both forgot how fun this game is and how horrible I am at jumping lol.

CharlesReed, 7 miesięcy temu

I finished South of Midnight, and overall I had a good time, although I wish it would have given some of the later game characters a little more depth. I really liked Hazel as a protagonist. I would love to play more of her, even though this does seem like a stand alone game.

CharlesReed, 7 miesięcy temu

I started South of Midnight. I'm liking it so far, especially the animation style and the jazzy soundtrack. It has some major Alice in Wonderland vibes. Although it is a little jarring playing a straight forward narrative after all the open world games I've been going through the last couple months.

CharlesReed, 8 miesięcy temu

Every time I see this game brought up it makes me want to play it even more. It looks like so much fun when you have a good group of people!

CharlesReed, 8 miesięcy temu

I finally finished Avowed! I really had fun playing it, and given that the map looks like it has more areas, I hope there's an expansion soon.

Also played through Atomfall as well, though it wasn't as good as I hoped it would be. I didn't have as much fun playing it as I did Avowed, but there were some nice, spooky sections that I enjoyed.

Currently achievement hunting Kona before it gets removed from GamePass. The one for not using any vehicles is such a pain, lol.

CharlesReed, 9 miesięcy temu

I've been working on Avowed and have been really enjoying it so far. My only real complaint is the weapons. Aside from some of the unique aspects, they all feel kind of same-y to me as far as damage goes.

CharlesReed, 9 miesięcy temu

I liked the investigating the first game, so I'm glad to see that they're keeping that aspect, even if it is as an optional part of the story. I hope the open world is similar to the first as well.

CharlesReed, 10 miesięcy temu

Same! I'm not usually into Soulslike games, but I really like this one.

CharlesReed, 11 miesięcy temu

Still going through Arthur's chapter in We Happy Few for achievements.

CharlesReed, 11 miesięcy temu

I don't play as much anymore, but I have roughly 1200 hours in Diablo 3.

In Steam, my top most hours played are:
Sims 3: 945
Mad Max: 609
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: 230

Xbox doesn't tell me the time played for all of my games, but I know for sure I have a stupid amount of hours invested in Dead Space 2 and LA Noire. It does say I have about 650 hours in Resident Evil Revelations 2, but that's because I really enjoy Raid Mode.

CharlesReed, 11 miesięcy temu

Finished the Night Springs and the Lake House expansions, as well as Alan Wake 2 itself. I actually really liked The Lake House, and imo it was scarier than the main game. It got me really excited for Control 2.

Got through a few levels in Doom II.

Decided to have another go through We Happy Few, at least Arthur's chapter, as kind of a palate cleanser after spending so much time on Remedy games. I'm working on a few achievements, so it might end up being a longer playthrough than last time.

CharlesReed, rok temu

I started Alan Wake 2, and man, I forgot how terrifying and fun it is. I'm having a blast. And since the last time I played, they added photo mode! I'm particularly proud of this shot of Mirror Peak. But idk if it's just me, but after having fairly recently played the first Alan Wake, this game feels like there's a lot less enemies? Especially when walking through the woods. Like a couple will pop up here and there, but a lot of the walking from one place to another is just... walking. Maybe I should have bumped the difficulty up to Hard lol. I've also already gotten through two of the Night Springs episodes, since they added them in game, which I thought was pretty cool. I'm really excited to get to the Lake House expansion.

CharlesReed, rok temu

Found all the collectables and filled out the ability tree in Control! I'm a little sad to put this game away, but there's not much more I can do in it. I could try maxing out the weapon mods, but there really is no reason to do so, so I'm moving on.

I was holding off on restarting Alan Wake 2 until after the Thanksgiving holiday, so I've been back at it again with Subnautica. I've got three bases so far, and now I'm working on building out a bunch of ion batteries and power cells for my equipment and Cyclops sub. I really wish you could get the ion stuff earlier in the game, since it's fairly close to the end, but I'm going to see what more I can do before finishing this out.

CharlesReed, rok temu

I finished the main game for Control, and the DLCs and the side quests, and got all the outfits, but I'm still not ready to put it away, so now I'm just working on finding all the collectables and filling out the ability tree.

CharlesReed, rok temu

Popped in to Diablo 3: Season 33 for a little bit. Chose the Crusader this round, but I'm not feeling super motivated to get through the season quickly.

Finally got through the final boss in Quantum Break. I really wish there was a sequel. Beth deserves the best.

I'm not sure how canon Alan Wake's American Nightmare is for the overall Remedy Universe (the game itself says it's kind of a alt reality, like a dream within a dream), but, like with Quantum Break, there are references to it in Alan Wake 2, so here we are lol. Besides, it's a fun, short game, so why not. I was a little sad I couldn't re-pick up documents (as I've played this a couple times before), but going back through them there is a surprisingly large amount of lore that's dropped if you do consider this canon. Overall, I'm glad I played it.

Currently working through Control, and I've made a surprisingly large amount of progress story wise. It might be a bad idea that I am doing a replay, since I'll want to collect every single little thing again, and that might take a while, but I love this game, so I won't complain too much. Also, I absolutely forgot that they straight up mention Mr. Door. When I first played this game, it was before I played Quantum Break, so when "Mr. Door" popped up I was very confused, and by the time I got to Quantum Break I had forgotten the comment, I didn't make the Door/Hatch connection. So it was a cool light bulb moment that makes me glad I'm going through the Remedy games again.

CharlesReed, rok temu

I finished Max Payne but idk how I ever got through the first couple times I played it... I had so much trouble this round that I would be seriously stuck if it wasn't for console commands T_T I briefly thought about playing Max Payne 2, but thinking about the final fight in that game is kind of off putting, so I'll leave it be.

I originally wasn't going to go through Quantum Break again, but since I had already decided on playing Max Payne and Control, I thought, what the hell, it's a great game so I'll go another round in it. Besides, Alan Wake 2 technically does reference it, so... lore! Plot points! The game is still great fun, incredibly underrated, but I am a little miffed that I now had to install the show episodes to watch them. Not a huge deal, but having to stop and wait a few hours for all the versions to download took me out of the moment.

Started a new playthrough of Subnautica to do between Remedy games. I'm trying to explore more and utilize the beacons and the scanner room, and man, I've already come across stuff I haven't seen before. This might end up being a game I put on regular rotation as a "filler" game, like Mad Max or V:TM Bloodlines.

CharlesReed, rok temu

Popped back into Diablo 4 for a couple nights for their Halloween event.

Finished Alan Wake and its DLCs! I always forget how much I love this game. It makes me very happy to have replayed it again.

Next on the Remedy list is Max Payne, which I just started last night. I also love this game, but man, I always forget how terrible I am at it. I don't know if it's because it's an older game or because I play with mouse and keyboard, but my coordination is absolutely abysmal. But, I'm still having fun, and that's all that matters.

CharlesReed, rok temu

Yeah, same here. The mount was pretty neat, but I couldn't get the Butcher to spawn either. I should have put "event" in quotes, because it really didn't feel like I did anything. I kind of wish they had done something like the Midwinter thing they did last year where you had to complete world events for currency for the cosmetics.

CharlesReed, rok temu

The first two paragraphs of the spoiler is one of my favorite parts of the game. It is such an awesome detail and had me giggling like a crazy person.

CharlesReed, rok temu

Eh, I'd argue it's because of the modding community that Bloodlines 1 is still played today, especially with the unofficial patch.

CharlesReed, rok temu

I would love to see F.E.A.R. with updated graphics. Preferably just a remaster, but if it was remade in the same spirit as the Dead Space remake was, I'd be down for that too, especially if they brought back Fettel's voice actor.