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I've been playing Cyberpunk and really quite enjoying it. The general consensus seemed to be "there's actually a pretty good game buried under all the bugs" but I'm actually enjoying it more than that led me to believe. The world is really cool, and the hacking stuff is well integrated into combat. Honestly the biggest issue I have is that it's too engaging, something about it encourages me to really really roleplay, doing only what my character would actually do, and not do things for out-of-game reasons. The reason that's an issue is because it means I've been doing almost no side content, since V's got some pretty damn good reasons to want to deal with the main story ASAP, so I feel like I'm not getting the most out of the game (though I have been doing sidequests that feel emotionally important to V, so mainly the ones that deal with main characters, just not the random job type ones). The other thing is the shooting doesn't feel good at all on a controller, but since I'm playing a netrunner I typically avoid most combat, and now I have a smart gun that auto-targets with guided bullets so it's really not an issue. I'm coming up on the end now, and assuming it sticks the landing I anticipate giving it high marks.

Oh no, lol, I understood what you meant, I was just making fun of your government for focussing on people helping the defenders and claiming that's warmongering while ignoring the people who actually invaded the country in the first place.

Dark Souls Remastered, you have officially been platinumed. Now to put you away and probably never play you again because your younger brother has utterly surpassed you. Grinding for all the rare weapons, not to mention the sunlight covenant that requires 25 faith (who the hell levels faith?!) was a total slog.

150 Hours into Elden Ring and I think I've finally found my build. After spending 20 minutes trying to complete a certain parkour section (20 mins doesn't sound like much, but when each run is 20-40 seconds, it feels like an eternity lol) I got a giant shield, when upgraded and paired with the shield boost talisman, it blocks every physical attack without issue, and even without draining stamina at all. Add the shield charge ash of war and the talisman that increases non-physical defence and I'm now an impenetrable wall that can constantly charge against enemies dealing a fair bit of damage. Certain things, like poison, bleed, etc, still affect you, but it's pretty fun to just run around with a giant shield. My weapon history: club -> knight greatsword -> THE GREATSWORD -> Gravitational Greatswords of DOOM -> Giant Hammer -> Other more different Giant Hammer -> Shield

I decided to go for that Dark Souls III platinum and holy shit, I forgot how ridiculously hard it is right out the gate. Even the tutorial boss took me five tries. I've beaten the game before but it's been a long time and I no longer have my save file so I had to start from scratch. I just hope it lets up a little later on because if not this is going to be a really painful platinum.

inb4 the Mexican Missile Crisis