TheMightyEthan

I really thought they were going to do that too, and was already cringing in anticipation.

Yeah, I do wish that All in all, though, I think they did a decent job considering the shit sandwich they left themselves at the end of Halo 5.

I think it was a weird coincidence, honestly. But yeah, there were a bunch this year.

Oooh, glowy.

It's definitely a possibility. You can use PSVR with Windows, but the tracking through the camera doesn't work, so you only have relative tracking and not absolute, and it tends to drift pretty quickly, but PSVR2 has inside-out tracking so it may not have that issue.

Looks cool, the foveal rendering especially should vastly improve apparent quality without putting too much strain on the hardware.

I was the opposite, I bounced off of Hades because I didn't feel like I was making enough progress with each loop, even with God mode on, but I loved every second of Returnal.

I've heard good things about Reigns.

Starting the year off strong.

I just watched that Halo video and I want to say as someone who has played approximately infinity hours of every Halo game, I agree the vehicle explosions are lacking oomph, but I don't think there's anything wrong with the grenades or the impacts from the tank cannons or anything like that.

Scarlet Nexus This game is exactly the kind of Persona-lite that I love, like TMS#FE. It doesn't have the full life sim, but between dungeons you do little side activities to rank up your bond with your companions. It's no Persona, but it scratches the same kind of itch.

Yeah, this was a great year for games. And a fair number of the ones you beat that I didn't I have on my list to get to.

Game Title Platform Hours Played Date Released Date Completed Dirt 5 PS5 18 11/6/2020 1/10/2021 The Order: 1886 PS4 7 2/20/2015 1/30/2021 Playstation VR Worlds PSVR 1.7 10/10/2016 1/31/2021 Hitman 3 PS5 10.7 1/20/2021 2/5/2021 Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Switch 32 11/20/2020 2/23/2021 Paper Beast PSVR 3.6 3/24/2020 2/25/2021 Immortals Fenyx Rising: A New God PS5 13.7 1/28/2021 3/2/2021 Maquette PS5 3.3 3/3/2021 3/5/2021 Sackboy: A Big Adventure PS5 11.4 11/19/2020 3/5/2021 Maneater PS5 7.3 11/12/2020 3/8/2021 Super Mario 3D World: Bowser's Fury Switch 3.1 2/12/2021 3/17/2021 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim PS4 30.6 9/22/2020 3/20/2021 Dishonored: Definitive Edition PS4 29.9 8/25/2015 3/31/2021 The Pedestrian PS5 3.1 1/29/2021 4/1/2021 Prey PS4 36.5 5/5/2017 4/12/2021 Surviving Mars PS4 71.5 3/15/2018 4/28/2021 Active Neurons PS4 2 4/28/2020 4/30/2021 Immortals Fenyx Rising: Myths of the Eastern Realm PS5 6.3 3/25/2021 5/1/2021 Immortals Fenyx Rising: The Lost Gods PS5 8.6 4/22/2021 5/4/2021 Returnal PS5 20.8 4/30/2021 5/9/2021 Mass Effect: Legendary Edition PS4 24 5/14/2021 5/22/2021 Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition PS4 38.1 5/14/2021 5/30/2021 Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition PS4 46.4 5/14/2021 6/9/2021 Final Fantasy VII Remake: Episode Intermission PS5 5.7 6/10/2021 6/10/2021 Active Neurons 2 PS4 4.4 4/15/2020 6/11/2021 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PS5 14.6 6/11/2021 6/14/2021 Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order PS5 17.1 6/11/2021 6/17/2021 Active Neurons 3 PS4 7.6 10/13/2020 6/23/2021 Death Squared PS4 8.6 3/14/2017 7/8/2021 Dishonored 2 PS4 31.9 11/11/2016 7/18/2021 Dishonored: Death of the Outsider PS4 9.5 9/17/2017 7/23/2021 A Plague Tale: Innocence PS5 9.8 7/6/2021 8/2/2021 Ghost of Tsushima: Tale of Iki Island PS5 8 8/20/2021 8/21/2021 Moss PSVR 4.9 2/27/2018 8/27/2021 Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning PS4 42.6 9/8/2020 9/3/2021 Deathloop PS5 16 9/14/2021 9/18/2021 Death Stranding: Director's Cut PS5 11.9 9/24/2021 9/27/2021 Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock PS4 21.2 8/31/2017 10/3/2021 Seasons After Fall PS4 4.9 9/2/2016 10/9/2021 The Suicide of Rachel Foster PS4 3 9/9/2020 10/10/2021 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus PS4 3.5 6/30/2021 10/17/2021 Life is Strange: True Colors PS5 8.6 9/10/2021 10/27/2021 Guardians of the Galaxy PS5 20.5 10/26/2021 11/12/2021 Forza Horizon 5 PC 27.5 11/5/2021 11/21/2021 Halo Infinite PC 29.1 12/8/2021 12/13/2021 Kena: Bridge of Spirits PS5 9.9 9/21/2021 12/18/2021 Lost Ember PS4 3.9 10/22/2019 12/22/2021 The Pathless PS5 5.6 11/12/2020 12/24/2021 Total of 48 games. And of course it wouldn't be me without the graphs! Apparently I kept my gaming pretty well spread out, there's a couple spikes but mostly it's right around 3/month. Obviously Playstation got all the love this year. I still have it divided between PS4 and PS5, but all of it was on my PS5, I just listed is as PS4 if it was backwards compatible instead of a native version. Next year I'm going to have to add Xbox in so I might stop making a distinction between current and last gen and just go by platform. PS4 and PS5 were pretty much tied for number of games, in fact PS5 had a slight advantage, but PS4 runs away with it in total playtime. That's because I played Mass Effect, Kingdoms of Amalur, and Surviving Mars all by backwards compatibility. Those three alone account for more than half of my PS4 playtime. It confused me that PC was so much higher than the rest, but then I looked and it's because I only beat two games on PC this year, Halo and Forza, and both were right around 27 hours. Apparently I leaned towards short games on PS5, and I think PSVR games in general are quite short, so that explains why that's so low. Next year I'm gonna put some green on the board!

Yeah, that's kind of what I'd heard, and was trying to relay (perhaps poorly), that you will get more out of LaD if you've played the others, but it's the kind of stuff where if you haven't then you aren't going to notice that you're missing it.

I really need to give House of Ashes a try.

lol, it's funny you say it's long, when I did the NG+ recently I was shocked by how short it was.

Looks like there's conflicting information out there then, because I've definitely seen the general info is "you don't need the others to follow this one, and won't feel like you've missed anything." I'll let you know after I play it. The rest of it's fair enough though, if you want to play them anyway then no sense in skipping them, especially since as I understand it LaD does have spoilers for the others.

From what I understand, Yakuza: Like a Dragon is separate enough that if you haven't played the others you won't feel like you're missing out (though if you have you'll pick up on stuff you would have missed).

Okay, this should be the final update for quite a while: (Not the main attraction, but the sound bar is back because I ultimately decided that while the TV speakers do sound better in a lot of ways they don't have the same oomph. It was a battle scene in The Expanse that made me realize it.)

I have never bought a multiplayer mtx before. What have you done to me, Halo?!

I'm waiting to do my list, but it's looking increasing less likely I'll add anything else.

That would be quite the twist though!

No I'm pretty sure it does the 90's movie thing of "kid does something magical to divorcing parents and they realize they actually do belong together". Which is problematic for entirely different reasons.

And another one, Hollow Knight. Like Subnautica, this game actually did grab me at first, but also like Subnautica, I don't feel like I have a good idea of what I even need to do, let alone how to go about doing it. I found a boss, but I'm not strong enough for it, and the game has not introduced any mechanics for getting stronger. I don't even have a dodge ffs.