Games

Today's game is the Silent Hill 2 Remake's New Game+. I made it all the way through the Apartments today, and started the hospital. I'm making good time on this run, hopefully if i'm lucky i can knock out the Under 10 hours achievement along with the gunless one and the radioless one. I got a collection of screenshots that i really like how they turned out too. Such as this one of the bar:

I also got this goofy one of James throwing the Chainsaw over his head:

One thing i found out too is that it's very fun to take screenshots of Pyramid Head. Ig he's just photogenic from any angle.

There was also this shot i did of the mannequins under behind the bars and under the sheets. I didn't realize this my first play through, but i think one of them is a mannequin (as in the enemy) rather than a clothes mannequin.

Today's game is a modded Minecraft server. After months of trial and error (and maybe just a little procrastination), I finally got it set up. This thing has Ice and Fire, ICBMs to deal with Ice and Fire, Create, Thermal Dynamics, TWO Space Mods (Mostly because I accidentally added a second one and I can't figure out which mods are the space mods), and a ton more. It's a bit of a kitchen sink modpack, but it's mostly for me and my friends to play on. So as long as everyone is having fun, then that's okay.

The ice pillar in the screenshot is where I spawned. Nearby, there were 3 ice and fire dragons, so I immediately had to book it after they saw me. After a while of running, I came across an abandoned mine colony village taken over by a dragon I nicknamed Smaug, as it seemed appropriate for him having taken over a city. Unfortunately for Smaug, he was stuck in a rock, and I had the ability for ice and fire dragons to destroy blocks turned off. (Coming home to find your base demolished by a dragon you didn't know was there can turn out to be not fun.)

After a while, I came across an Ice Tower (major upgrade from the Ice Pillar) and decided to build my home there. We have large biomes on because we have Create Steam and Rails on here and thought it would be fun to do our own little nation thing to encourage us all to set up rail systems and collaborate on things for fun. (Mine colonies and Minecraft Comes Alive will help sell the "nation" part.)

After a few hours of mining, I ended up starting to build a café terrace thing on the top of a mountain. I got the terrace part done, but the café will come later.

I also got a Cobblestone generator with a Water Wheel Setup, so I'm leaving it running while I sleep. Here's the little hole I made to AFK in while letting it run:

Jingle Jam is a yearly bundle of games where the earnings go to charity! It just started today and will run for 2 weeks, although the keys are limited so they might run out of games before the sale ends.

The games:

• Dungeons & Generate Gamblers

• Wildfrost

• Two Point Campus

• Patrick's Parabox

• Shadows of Doubt

• For the King 2

• Citizen Sleeper

• Another Crab's Treasure

• Mars First Logistics

• Sticky Business

• Hadean Tactics

• Submachine Legacy

• Scorn

• Orcs Must Die 3

• Fights in Tight Spaces

• Death Sprint 66

• Eternights

• Frostpunk

So, looks like NZXT are looking to rip off gamers with their computer "subscription" service.

Found this to be a good interview with the developer.

Ireland crossed its threshold, meaning the minimum of 7 countries in the EU have now done so. At approximately 395k total people signed, it is currently not on pace to reach 1M by July 31st without a signal boost from someone with a lot of followers.

The 9800X3D just came out, so I'm looking to upgrade my 2017 PC to join the modern era, which means I'm waiting to play Baldurs Gate 3 (runs, but not ideal), Dead Space Remake (poorly optimised), Space Marine 2, Cyberpunk, Metaphor etc when I build my new rig in a couple of months.

In the meantime, I've finished some indies like Rise of the Golden Idol, first run of Satisfactory, did the Elden Ring DLC.

Then, there's the gap from now till the next RGG game and Monster Hunter, which would really scratch that action, open world itch.

Any recommendations for action games that feels like you're doing some exploration? Trying to get into a flow state. I may actually take a break and go read a book instead.

Hello, I got 20 euro to spend on the autunm sale, so wanted to ask what games you would recommend to get.

Any kind of game work's of any kind of game work's up ti 20 euro.

You can reccommend one amazing game for 20 euro, or multiple small addctivie indie titles for up to 20 euro, anything goes.

Looking forward to check out your recommendations.

Some more of Silent Hill 2's New Game+. Just a disclaimer, but some of these screenshots I messed with the light levels of because they were too dark to see anything (such as the main one). Personally, to me, the presentation of the screenshot is just as important as the screenshot is itself. But just a heads up that some of these are not how they'd look in-game (though I try to avoid it unless I feel it's necessary).

This one I took during the first encounter of Pyramid Head. I no-clipped onto the other side of the bars and took it. I also got a second shot I liked from the other side of the bars. I did it from a distance as I felt it added a menacing vibe to it, like he was watching from a distance, but I think I overdid it from too far as I feel you have to squint to really see it and I think I did the light levels wrong so it didn't really help it's visibility. I think I made the colors too vibrant on accident too so it really killed the gloomy atmosphere.

There was also this screenshot I took of the balcony in the apartment complex. I like the way the fog melts with the shadows under the other balconies.

I wanted to also mention how cathartic the chainsaw is to use. After being terrorized by the enemies for the entire game, it's amusing to basically have James be mowing them down in one strike lol. I think he's become the horror villain. I also am doing a Melee and Radioless run for those sweet, sweet achievements. Honestly, with the chainsaw, I'm not too worried about Melee only, but with the Radio off, I honestly feel like it's become easier to fight enemies than with. I can usually pick up on their sounds unique before they see me, so instead of just static, I can hear them instead.

Which games blow your mind, but only if you know nothing about them in advance?

Best examples I can think of are:

• Outer Wilds
• Doki Doki Literature Club
• The Stanley Parable

What are yours?

(please no spoilers)

Used to spend most of my days playing live service games that required a huge amount of time, or big AAA titles that are critically acclaimed. For example, Fallout 4/76, Battlefield 2042, rainbow six, World of Warcraft, RuneScape, Skyrim, Destiny 2, OverWatch.... Basically any really big game that you would find on the top 20 of steam or by player count, I would spend a huge amount of time playing that. But I got pretty bored of all these really big games having overplayed them so much, and now I have no idea what to play anymore...

So I'll spend a few hours playing something, and then jump to another game and then another game and none of them give me any Joy. For example, playing 3 hours of 7 Days to Die, 10 hours of No Man's Sky, 5 hours of stardew Valley, play fortnite with a friend for 2 hours, login to World of Warcraft and get bored Within a day or two. Tried going back to Battlefield 2042 because it saw a small uptick of players....

Honestly have no idea what to play anymore. So I just bounce around trying to look for something that'll bring me some joy and don't get much luck

I started Silent Hill 2's New Game+ today. I plan since i now know how everything will go it should be much quicker. I think this time i want to go for the rebirth ending. I also found out the Photo Mode mod exists which has made my day. I intend to use this to take way better screenshots. Here's one of the Backseat of James' car. If anyone has seen discussions on other people using a free cam mode lately then you know what's under the blanket. Apparently the outline filter makes it even more obvious.

I also got to explore some more of my favorite with the mod: Landscape shots. Here's one i took of the road to Silent Hill:

I also took this shot of the house right after the first encounter. The way the lighting works on it is really pretty, though the shutters were tweaking out on my end:

And then finally i tried to recreate one of the glimpses of the past using the Camera Mode for fun. I have very vivid memories of this one specifically from the OG because i struggled with it at first (and it also scared the piss out of me). It's still one of my favorite memories of the original game though.