Finally got Dragon Ball FighterZ during a sale, it's pretty great. It's not as packed with people as I expected (at least in my area), which is a running theme of most fighting games I tried out. Currently playing through the story mode, hopefully I'll learn a thing or two after this ends.
Update: turns out night time is pretty populated! This might be my latest obsession, gonna learn the game more while there's not much new games I'm interested in coming out anytime soon.
@bard91 It looks like an anime arena fighters game shoddily turned into a football game. Looks very loose and janky, but who knows it could still be fun as heck.
Started watching AGDQ 2020 runs, and this Fallout Anthology speedrun is probably one of my favorite GDQ runs ever, it's so god damn entertaining.
The Garou: Mark of the Wolves port for PS4, PC and Vita got rollback netcode now! I already got the game downloaded so there's no excuse for me to not play this game.
More psychological stuff from Ninja Theory.
"Based on real lived experience accounts and in-depth research, our aim is to recreate the horrors of the mind as accurately and realistically as possible."
Also, there's this:
I missed out on Josh Homme's Desert Sessions Vols 11 & 12 last year, so I got around to it some time ago and really enjoyed it. It sounds like QOTSA's Era Vulgaris, with the crunchy sounding production and experimental tendencies. It's certainly sounds more exciting than QOTSA's last record.
I also listened to Vulfpeck's Hill Climber and I'm very impressed with this. The catchy old school grooves, snappy production, and upbeat energy makes the whole thing a really fun listen.
Watched 1917. I wish it fleshed out the characters and the emotional moments a bit more, and there's one moment where the music choice distracted me, but those are the only things that annoyed me. It's a really good movie, especially in the technical aspect. There's one scene in particular that will be stuck in my mind for a while, it looks so beautiful. 8/10
Finally got to see Parasite. Been waiting for this to show up at my local theaters, and I narrowly missed the last screening of it. I enjoyed this so much, what a great movie. The pacing is impeccable, everything flows naturally and it never stumbled even for a second. There's also a degree of respect that I really appreciate, showing little things that would mean much later in a way that doesn't distract my viewing experience at all. All of it makes it so easy to appreciate the amount of skill and thought that is put to this movie. This is an easy 9/10 for me.
Finished the main quests of Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds, and it turned pretty great. The new enemies are really challenging, and the extra lore and story is pretty neat. I'm not sure whether I'll do all the side stuff. I don't have the luxury to enjoy my plates to the fullest this year. I'll keep it on hold though.
Messing around in Horizon Zero Dawn's DLC area (except for the one photo in the desert).
Also, here's the one photo I took "accidentally" in Concrete Genie last week.
I hope using Twitter to share these isn't too bothersome, I lost my one and only flashdisk and Twitter's the next best way to share it.
Started Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds. 3 hours in and so far it's pretty good, the main quests seems interesting and there's already a wealth of stuff to do and collect. The new snowy area looks fantastic, this game still holds up pretty well graphically. Also, I forget how fun the combat in this game is. I'm a bit rusty now, so I have to thank my past self for amassing the best gear and resources possible in the base game, which helps me brute force through the enemies.
I had a lot of fun with both seasons of Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts, it just keeps making things crazier without normalizing it, which made it funny the whole way through. All the characters has hilarious moments, and there's a lot of running gags that never gets old (I can't control myself every time the FFF inquisition shows up). The second season felt more disjointed, but it's still very entertaining. I wish there's a third season.
I also finished The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. I love how it potrays the main characters' superpowers, it all makes some sort of sense and it makes him experience amplified annoyances from what normal people would have, so it naturally would lead to ridiculous moments. It certainly helps that the supporting characters are all batshit insane one way or another. I laughed less as the show goes on, mostly because everything became so normal to me that it's less ridiculous because of it, but I'm still very much entertained.
Through pure luck and no skill, I managed to beat Tetris Effect's journey mode. Man, I suck at Tetris.
Finally finished Tetris Effect's Journey Mode. It took me a while because I really suck at Tetris. On the plus side, I got to listen to the songs more so its not too bad.
The songs are overall great, with a variety of well executed influences from all over the world (Prayer Circles Gamelan hype!), but man there's some that really stand out (to name a few: The Deep, Dolphin Surf, Downtown Jazz). Even the ones that felt more like intermissions aren't half bad. I especially like the vocal songs, which mostly show up on the last leg of the journey.
The visual effects are pretty trippy. I didn't get to really focus on them since I was at the edge of my seat most of time trying to survive the onslaught of blocks, but there's definitely some that stand out (Starfall's galactic rave comes to mind).
All I need right now is the actual OST to release...
I have been hooked on Holy Ghost!'s Dynamics recently. It's a super solid and groovy synthpop record with a good sense of style.
And another one.
Finished Concrete Genie. This game is just very positive and heartwarming at its core, and I love it. The way everything came together at the end is not unpredictable, but still makes me feel fuzzy inside.
I said it before, but I really like how this game looks. The satisfaction from painting mostly comes from how beautiful the painting effects are. I wish we got more of the 2D drawing scenes, they look gorgeous. Mechanically it's quite simple, and it's very much fine the way it is. I also like when the game turned...
..to an InFamous-lite action platformer to change things up a bit near the end.
Overall, I'm very glad that I got to play this now. It's another one to consider for the neighboring 2019 GOTY thread (8.5/10)
Started Concrete Genie. I really like the spirit of this game, despite the dreary setting. Seeing all the paintings come to life and making the genies happy gives me the feels. Not to mention the game looks pretty great, especially the colorful painting effects. It's not the smoothest running game I ever played, but it's still off to a wonderful start.