Death From Above

So yeah, Helldivers 2. The jump in how missions feel when the difficulty goes from Medium to Challenging moves the game from "this is okay I guess" into "holy fuck this rules". That concludes my day 1 experience. I'm level 5, I stink, but this game is fun. Playing solo sucks but luckily I haven't hit any toxic idiots in random matchmaking yet.

I bought it but haven't played it. The fact it's by Some Bioware People was enough to make me at least curious.

I got bored with MK1 relatively fast compared to 11. If you're not a lab monkey there's just nothing to do in single player by comparison. Online died down to the same 3000 people that ruin every fighting game within the first month. A studio of that size launching a multiplayer title with no cross platform in 2023 is just insane.

Time for me to disable ad block by the sound of it

I've never played Helldivers 1 but I just saw a review of it today, and honestly it looks like Remnant and Starship Troopers had a baby, which is fucking awesome. Added it to my wishlist.

I've gotta say, as a super latecomer to the modern Hitman trilogy, I expected it to be good but not this good. I haven't had this much fun with any game that used stealth mechanics of any kind in years. Almost all the maps having several different "stories" you can go through gives it a ton of replayability, and that's not even getting to if you play on the hardest difficulty where you can't load back mistakes. Almost all the maps are genuinely fun to explore. It's wild how the game can alternate between extremely serious and deeply unserious based totally on how you feel like playing at the moment, and both absolutely work within the same space. If IOI's next game is supposedly the liscenced James Bond game I'm all in on seeing what these people do with that, because they certainly have all the tools already to make that completely sick.

I'm in for well north of $100 on several games including DLCs, it is what it is.

I'm really not prepared to deal with a reality where Butterbean weighs less than me. I've made some choices in my life.

A list of Darby's most dangerous bumps would probably make Spike Dudley go "what the fuck, brother"

Never fight anyone named Geezer, that's just common sense.

I mean, they gave us said fish. And the Flamingo Suit. The blessed, beautiful Flamingo Suit.

Fantastic game.

I hear you but the thing that fascinates me is how I strongly feel that's also an intended playstyle, just a less serious one. I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall during Hitman's team developing a map.

Yeah pro wrestling is fucking awesome. WHITE SUITS~ https://youtu.be/IqWKRduNr-0?si=OOM9YJcXLVyAaZtg

Sting is actually out of his fucking mind doing balcony dives at 64 years old like 4 weeks before his retirement match. It's reckless, stupid, all that. I fucking love it. The true spirit of pro wrestling. That Darby tope/side slam bump was so fucking great. I swear to god Darby is made of rubber. I think he's probably my favourite current wrestler.

Hitman 3 World of Assassination is on sale so I grabbed it. One of the strangest, most confusing store pages on Steam in terms of figuring out what the hell you're actually buying. I had to ask on the forums to make sure I was buying what I actually wanted. Anyway, man, this game is really fucking good. And I'm not good at it. I think I'm too stupid to be a secret agent assassin in real life.

Borderlands 3 has more (and better) endgame than Borderlands 2 but it still didn't stop nerds bitching about the story so I have to admit I'm worried what lessons the studio will learn from that.

Has anyone played Portal: Revolution? It's some Portal 2 mod that's supposed to have like 40 new chambers and it's free so obviously I'm going to play that.

Just another reason to hate the switch, as it once again delayed the inevitable of the Nintendo catalogue being actually available on PC

Pretty fair (but long) review https://youtu.be/reQKHNg0jh8?si=vqVmYyI77BbHlQ07

Spotify decided to give Joe Rogan another $250 million Anyway, I downloaded TIDAL today no reason

Career Mode and Create A Fighter launch on February 12th, and it's also been announced that will be the last major update of early access. Everything else will be small polish and then official full release 1.0. As someone that's been on Undisputed since a very early time in early access, I won't claim there haven't been points in the ride that have been bumpy, but I still think there's plenty of reason for optimism that we're finally getting a proper high end boxing title again. At least unlike fucking EA and the UFC we're getting an honest effort out of these guys.

Nobody saw this coming

The Day Before - A Scam to Remember https://youtu.be/tdQXfXm8rjg?si=mUTh6PDdjVmpVhjX

You really do need to get a bit creative with some of the adventures, especially right out of the gate where you have limited options. Vamprie Survivors is nuts for how good it is at that price point.