Mister Jack

I was originally planning to just play this on Gamepass at some point but 20 bucks on the steam sale is a pretty good deal and the friend pass I can use to get my friend to play it with me for free made it worth the purchase. Plus, I just like Mr. "Fuck the Oscars" and his passion and I wanna support his game. Also got the Yuffie DLC on the PSN sale along with the free PS5 upgrade.

The one thing I wasn't happy with in the prebuilt PC I bought recently was only having 1 TB of space to work with. That is no longer a problem now. Installing it was kind of a pain because my case interior is shaped a bit funny but I managed to get it done and now, with 3 TB on my desktop and 2 TB on my PS5, I am officially all set for this gen.

On a whole I wouldn't say SMT V's soundtrack is as good as P5's but when it slaps it slaps hard.

PERSONA 5 THE LUNCH BOX! PERSONA 5 THE COLORING BOOK! PERSONA 5 THE BREAKFAST CEREAL!

I feel like there must be some kind of exclusivity deal between Sony and Atlus we don't know about. Something like "only Sony consoles can have the most recent mainline game" or something. Or if not an official deal at least some sort of gentleman's agreement to maintain good relations between the two companies. Sony does push Persona pretty hard in their advertising.

I refuse to play anything that's shoving in NFTs. I don't even know why they're doing it when Valve has already said NFT games will not be welcome on Steam. Do they really expect uPlay to pick up the slack on this?

I've only been playing the multiplayer but I think this might be the best the gunplay has ever been. The classic weapons just feel more satisfying to shoot somehow.

Metroid Dread Finished with just under 6 hours on the clock. Yeah, it's kind of a short game, but what's there is pretty damn solid. The levels are well designed, the power-ups are fun, the boss fights are the most intense in the series, the counter mechanic is cool, and for once the story is actually pretty good when usually I don't really care at all about Metroid lore. Other than that, if you've played Super Metroid I don't have a whole lot of good things to say here that you don't already know. My least favorite part of the game, as is the case with many Nintendo games, was the unique gimmick, which in this case is the EMMI robots that chase you through the levels. Pursuit enemies add some fun tension in 3D games, but in a 2D game like this one they became more of an annoyance than anything. If you so much as touch one it's a one-hit kill and since it's a 2D plane it becomes that much more of a hassle to evade them. They're faster than you even when you haven't been detected and while you do technically have a last chance to escape from their grab the timing on that is so deliberately precise that I only pulled it off successfully maybe five or six times in the what I'm sure is over a hundred times they killed me. Thankfully, the only penalty for being killed by one is that you respawn outside the room where you were killed. If it sent you all the way back to the save point I probably wouldn't have even finished the game. I think the gimmick would have worked better if getting caught simply did a huge chunk of damage rather than killing you in one hit regardless of how much life you have.

Glad it's not just me who noticed. I literally said out loud "this looks like Sunset Overdrive."

The exact opposite.

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is free to claim on steam right now.

I read all the documents I could find but obviously you can never be sure without consulting a list if you've found everything, which I did not want to do.

Deathloop It's alright. Figuring out everyone's daily routine over multiple time loops so you can learn how to arrange the deaths of your targets is a pretty neat idea and the guns and powers are fun to play with, but there were a few things about this game that I had a hard time overlooking. For starters, the story leaves a lot unexplained. I don't know if they're planning DLC to fill in the gaps or something but I was left with several unanswered questions. But if we ignore the story and focus purely on the gameplay, the fact is that in order to win this game you have to kill all your targets in one loop and there's only one right way to do that. Most of the game is spent researching how to get everyone where you need them to be so they can all be killed in one day, but don't expect the freedom of a Metal Gear or a Hitman game. While you can kill targets individually to take their gear and powers during any loop and there are multiple ways to accomplish that, when you're ready to get them all in one fell swoop it's extremely scripted. It's still fun, but a little bit disappointing. My other complaint ties to the sometimes unforgiving nature of the time loop. You get two respawns before the day resets most of the time, which is perfectly fair, but sometimes there are objectives in the game where if you fuck up even once the entire loop is shot and you have no choice but to start over from the beginning of the day. It's not like you can just pause the game and restart the loop from the menu either. You have to either kill yourself until you run out of lives or go all the way back to your home base and move time forward until it loops back to where you were. There are two targets in particular who I found more frustrating than fun to hunt because there was so little room for error. In fact, one of them will ruin your progress for the whole loop if you're so much as detected while in their area, an area that's already crawling with guards. I legit hated this part of the game and felt immense relief when it was over. I'd still say it's worth playing but maybe get it on sale. I wouldn't quite put it up there with the Dishonored games, but I will say that Colt was a much more likable character compared to Corvo.

Even though 2020 was the year dominated by Covid, 2021 was the year where Covid really screwed over game development with a ton of releases I was looking forward to getting pushed back. I honestly didn't see a whole lot to get excited about this year, but that doesn't mean there were no good games. You know the drill, one winner and one runner-up. For me it was not a hard decision. Putting aside all the titty vampire mommy memes, this was a great game. You can debate as much as you want about whether Resident Evil is going in the right direction with its gameplay and story and characters and monsters, but to me this was a bigger, better version of VII, a game I already loved. I ran through this game probably five or six times just to unlock everything I possibly could. My only regret is that there's no VR option, but if they ever add one after the PSVR 2 comes out you better believe I'm gonna dive right back in. Runner-Up I was really torn between this and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. Both are great games and, objectively speaking, Rift Apart is the more technically impressive and "next gen" title. The reason I ultimately picked Psychonauts 2, however, is that I just felt like it had more heart. Not to say that Rift Apart doesn't, Insomniac clearly worked their asses off on that game, but Psychonauts 2 is the result of a 15 year old promise that actually lived up to the hype and I can't tell you how great that feels. You can tell while playing that this wasn't just some slapdash sequel Double Fine put out because they were obligated to. They tried their very best to fulfill all the hopes and dreams of their eager fans, and even if you don't like how it turned out you could never accuse them of being lazy or half-assed. The animation is whimsical and charming. The new characters are lovable and memorable. The writing is better than before with both hilarious jokes and poignant parables about the importance of confronting your past mistakes. The level design is the best I've seen in years. The story started in the previous game is wrapped up nicely. I don't know if there will ever be a Psychonauts 3, but if this is the last time we see Raz and company then this is a great way to send them off.

I believe it's the latter.

So uh, Jojo part 6 just dropped a dozen episodes out of nowhere.

I use an AIO, yeah. I see no real reason to bother with a custom loop when it's no longer necessary to get the benefits of liquid cooling.

I was surprised how big my case was too. Still need to add another hard drive to it at some point. If you haven't tried liquid cooling before I highly recommend it if you can swing it financially. My desktop is nice and quiet no matter what I play on it so far.

Perhaps this?

Black Friday deal. 1 TB for 200. Still kind of steep, but I don't see myself ever keeping more than 2 TB of games on my PS5 at one time, even with the increased size of games in the current gen. Kudos to the Sony engineers because this was super easy to install and set up. Took maybe 5 minutes.

Youtube is disabling the ability to see dislikes. This brings it back.

https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com/