Heads up, looks like Google Analytics is on the Switch now.
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Hmmmā¦ donāt see this on mine and my Switch is using system update 19.0.1, not 11.0, so iām confused!
Really digging Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Just finished the second major area.
Playing easy combat and regular on the puzzles, I want the exploration and puzzle solving not the fighting. The puzzles havenāt been particularly hard at all, generally solve them no problem. Had to google one, and I was doing it correctly, just apparently couldnāt tell cursive a from cursive o on a terminal spot on a word.
Heads up, accessibility is a mixed bag on this. You can tweak some things, but uggghh, the map. They went for immersive over usable. Also the aforementioned cursive issue. You can easily get readable text for all the notes, but itās translation not the original language which is what you need for the puzzle.
This shows why I keep combat on easy. I may tend to blow the stealth sections some.
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Started it yesterday and so far so good. Troy Baker does a great job channeling Harrison Ford (Iād expect nothing less). Iām only to the Vatican area so far, but itās a lot of fun.
Stealth kind of stinks, and combat feels very clunky to the point where itās clear the game designers prefer you avoid it.
I completely agree that the map sucks. I also find navigating through the book to find notes and objectives and stuff to be overly fiddly.
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Things get so much easier when once you get enemy uniforms. Then you really only need to worry about the captains.
Get the boxing quests as soon as you can. Thatāll give you a pointer straight to the uniform you can steal.
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If you havenāt yet, and after youāre done with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, I highly recommend having a go with MachineGamesā two Wolfenstein games:
I remember stealth being both easier and more useful in the first game rather than the second, although in both cases it tended to punish recklessness pretty harshly, at least on the middle difficulty.
I think they are good and underrated shooters, but the real draw to me is the story. The solve the silent protagonist problem in an effective way, and create a number of compelling and well-written characters besides.
There is a sort of prequel:
Itās decent enough, but pretty light on story as compared to the others.
Thereās also this sequel:
This one is more of a side project/experiment. It was developed in part by Arkane. Thereās nothing inherently wrong with that, but it differs significantly in mechanics from the other two.
I hope someday theyāll be able to finish was was clearly meant to be a trilogy.
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Itās not that weird. They were releasing Just Dance games all the way until 2020:
From Wikipedia:
Just Dance 2020 is the final Wii video game released physically in North America. It was reported in 2020 that Nintendo of America was no longer able to physically distribute Wii video games in that region because some of its departments could no longer retrieve the necessary equipment to do so.[6] Consequently, this was the final video game in the main Just Dance series released on the Wii console, the platform where the series made its debut in 2009. By extension, this was the final Wii video game published by Ubisoft, the final Just Dance game released on a seventh-generation console, and the final Just Dance game available on a Nintendo optical disc.
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I picked up Tiny Glade during the winter sale:
Itās a lovely little diversion with no goals, timers, anything. Just building castles. I like it. I just tried it out for the first time after a frustrating phone call trying to provide tech support to family. I made this thing and feel very relaxed:
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About a year ago I got into arcadey racing games. Carmageddon: Max Damage is a lot of fun and really silly, and after that I played all the way through Flatout and Flatout 2, which were great, with awesome soundtracks. Then I got Dirt 5 and DiRT Rally 2.0 and played them for awhile in the spring.
This winter, I was having fun playing Burnout Paradise, which Iād had for awhile but hadnāt played much. Then the winter sales came up, and I saw that Wreckfest (by the makers of the Flatout games) was on sale, so I grabbed it, the Complete Edition with all the DLCs.
I donāt know why they do this, but itās the second game Iāve gotten where, if you get the Complete Edition, then it starts you out right from the beginning with a buttload of cars and even gives you a few achievements that you havenāt achieved. That just makes the campaign awkward and totally spoils it in terms of the sense of achievement - completing things and unlocking upgrades and new cars. So after booting it up and playing a couple one-offs, I disabled all the DLCs and looked up how to reset achievements in Steam.
Now Iām having a blast with it. It starts off on a fun note, as the first event in the first level of the campaign is a demolition derby on riding lawnmowers, which is hilariously stupid fun. Then there are several normal races and demolition derbies in normal beater cars.
But also thereās a tournament mode, which has some normal races and derbies but also some where you drive a monster truck racing against a bunch of bumper cars or drive a semi racing against buses and trucks and the police T.W.A.T. van. I think because itās winter, all those tournament events are in snow, which makes them quite unpredictable.
Itās not a highly-detailed rivet-counter sim. Itās a game, and a lot of fun racing along and wrecking the competition. No turbo boost or goofy powerups or minigames where you try to wreck in such a way that you send the driver flying through a target, though. Itās just racing and wrecking the competition via maneuvering.
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Ia the Wii dead? There are still new games coming out for the Commodore 64.
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Gallery Experience is much better than CAPTCHA DOOM. If I encountered this while trying to access a web page I think I would scream.
Link directly to the CAPTCHA:
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Oh shit, I feel seen. So, so seen:
And frankly, at this point, I very almost never even buy games anymore (they tend to be given away about the time I might buy them, so Iāve been trained to waitā¦). My unplayed backlog still increases exponentially, however.
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I hear you. I just bought and started Bastion, despite committing to working on my backlog and still doing a second play-through of Alan Wake 2 (absolute masterpiece, thus the new game+ā¦ I think the last game I did new game+ on was Chrono Trigger).
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Coincidentally, Bastion is one of the small number of games Iāve actually played through completely. (I not only have a problem starting games, I also rarely finish them. Itās always been true, but especially in the post-Steam era) I still havenāt finished Alan Wake 1 (or played more than 30 minutes, come to think of itā¦) I generally have this terrible problem, any time a sequel comes out: I look at it wistfully and realize I bought all the previous games in the series like 10 years ago, and still havenāt played any of themā¦ I think I have about 50* installed games, most of which Iāve played very little of.
Last night I sat down to play a game, I was in the mood to try a game I hadnāt played yet, but decided I was going to continue with something already installed, spent 20 or 30 minutes looking through my lists, then gave up and read a book instead. Which is what usually happens.
*Oh shit, no I donāt. I just checked, and I have over 100 games installed on Steam alone, almost all of which Iāve played a negligible percentage of. That doesnāt include what I also have installed via GOG, Epic, Itch.io and various other sources. I think I have a real problemā¦
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I settled on Bastion because I was looking for sort of a top-down action-adventure-rpg, like Diablo but with lighter vibes. Thought of Hades, which I played and loved, looked at Hades 2, then thought to go back and see what else SuperGiant has done. Figured I would start with the beginning. Loving the narration so far, and enjoying the slower pace than Hades (Alan Wake is a lot of anxiety, despite being fabulousā¦ I had to take a break for a while after the election).
Iāve started and not finished far more games than Iāve finished. Iāll get back to some of them someday, too (looking at you, Baldurās Gate 3). Thatās just how it goes, I try not to stress about it. Iām still working on Star Trek: Voyager and David Tennant-era Doctor Who. Thereās just too much good stuff to play/watch/read.
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You are not alone. I have over 200 unplayed games on Good Old Games alone, plus a few dozen on Steam, plus an ever-increasing number on Epic Games thanks to their regular giveaways, even being picky and only accepting ones that personally interest me. Not to mention a handful of Switch games (the only ones Iāve actually invested a significant amount of money into rather than getting for free or on deep discount).
Being a full time Alzheimerās caretaker with severely limited free time is certainly a big factor, but I think the only circumstance where it would even be remotely possible to catch up is if I were unemployed for several years straight (and even then Iād have to give up on my similarly overwhelming reading pile to make it happen). I think back to myself as a kid with a Game Boy and, like, four games that I played to death over and over, and imagine what the reaction would be to this unfathomable overabundance.
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ETA:
Did some counting, Iāve actually finished 10% of those. Figuring out unplayed is a whole lot harder though.
My account just turned 15 
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