Backlog/archive

All past entries of my recent thoughts section from the main games page here.

• Haven't updated the site in a while (depressive episodes and being ill have stopped me feeling up to typing out my thoughts) but I've been up to lots of gaming stufff!! I won't go into all of it but I've just finished LIS True Colours and as I was ttyping a tumblr post about my first thoughts upon finishing it I though "Wait this is what I made my website for. DUH.". SO (bc I've already run out of steam and can't write more. Stupid cold is almost gone but I'm still exhausted.) here's the tumblr draft: 'Just finished LIS True Colors and can now confidently say it's my second favourite after LIS2. It has a lot of heart and it's a great game with very impactful moments AND it's also got a lot of happy moments which was unexpected for a LIS game but definitely a welcome change (not that it's needed just that it's nice). Good cohesive story and a dream/nightmare/memory sequence that was really well done (which I can't personally say about the first game).' Good vibes, good romance, simple but effective mystery. Great game!! (04/11/2024)
• Sims is so fucking annoying atm, I wanted to play last night bc I missed playing and my current storyline (Hannah just wants to move back in with her mum but Milla knows that she still hasn't learned her lesson + it's not like Milla was ever maternally inclined in the first place) but on top of the EA app making me log back in EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I OPEN THE GODDAMN APP!!!! there was NOTHER fucking mandatory update for no reason that took a billion years so I ended up playing episode 5 again on my secondary save (even though I literally replayed that scene YESTERDAY to get edit clips) because atp replaying the same part of a story game for hours is more appealing than waiting for sims to update. I wish I didn't like it so much, then maybe I wouldn't keep going back to it and staying in the horrible little claws of a corporation that really doesn't give a shit about if what they make is working, let alone good. Sigh.....what can you do (T-T) EA will keep beating this dead horse and unfortunately I can't help but hand them the bat. TTYL XOX (02/10/24)
• Fallout 4 is so annoying. I like it enough to keep playing but overall it's so frustrating and nowhere near Fallout 3 or me. I'll play for a few hours (I think 3 tonight) and stop playing feeling annoyed or bored when I've played Fallout 3 for 12+ hours in a single day without getting bored or mad enough to stop. Thee story is just so predictable and there are too many sidequests to distract you from what you're supposed to be doing AND EVEN THEY AREN'T THAT FUN. They're mostly repetitive "go kill raiders to help a settlement" quests and it's just so eughhhh. It's sm busywork without giving the settlers even a sliver of personality to make you want to help them. I finally found the guy who killed my son after an annoying segment trying to find my way to the room the guy was in (which was harder than actually killing the synths blocking me) just to have a short conversation and kill him. After that I assumed I could leave but NO!! I was partway out when it turned out I was supposed to look for more information on his computer??? Like why would that have been my first thought after a shootout?? Idk it was just frustrating. The guns piss me off too, bc there's no condition degradation there's no incentive to switch weapons apart from ammo (that's really not hard to come by) so I end up lugging around a bunch of weapons I'll never use unless I scrap them. The Fallout 3 gun system was sm better, FO4 seems like they were overcomplicating things. Picking up guns and hanging onto them feels sm more worthwhile when you can use them to repair and improve your guns rather than holding onto them for scrap. The inventory seems to just fill up way quicker in FO4, even though most of the time you have a companion who also has a full inventory carrying things for you. It's all just so UGH. Falout 4 makes me so mad bc it should be better than the previous main title game but no!! It's just needlessly complicated. The only thing I like more is the workshop but even that has its issues as it breaks immersion. Fallout 3 feels like a world my character is moving through that shapes her, Fallout 4 is moving a character through a world they can shape with minimal effort. The player character being voiced just makes it feel sm less like I'm shaping them, especially since she has such a predefined backstory as a lawyer, mother and wife. I miss making my character up with only the predefined traits of 19, loves their dad (even that isn't solid) an new to the wastes. It's harder to connect with and just so bleugh in comparison. Rant over now, I'm done. (01/10/24)
• Woke up thinking about LIS2 before my brain was even awake enough to remember what I was thinking. I keep thinking about it though. Sean is a character I feel sm affection for and sometimes thre's something so funny about things he says or does. Him asking a guy who'd been leaning on his leg and calling him sweetheart a few minutes before if he likes guys makes me giggle sm, how is he that clueless T.T he's so funny for that one. I've been playing the save I made during my first playthrough to branch off starting at the last night in chapter 3 and seeing the little changes from my first one and it really shows how much your decisons influence everything, even the small ones. I think playing LIS2 has affected how I view LIS1 in the same way playing Until Dawn made me reevaluate The Quarry (but a little less harshly bc LIS is still a great game, just a little messier, whereas The Quarry was unfinished and didn't get to live up to its full potential.) I'll probably be thinking about this game for a while, in the same way I still think of Invincible often. There's just so much there and it's such a rich story emotionally and plotwise that there's a lot to sink your teeth into.(28/9/24)
• I finished Life Is Strange 2 earlier (right before I started making this site) and WOAH. One of the best games I've ever played I think. It's super heavy and a little slow at first but so worth the time emotional investment. It's just so human. So many terrible things happen bc of bad people but there are good people along the way too. You really get a sense of who the people you meet are and what they've been through which makes it so easy to emotionally connect with them, whether you're with them for a chapter or only a scene. Daniel and Sean are such great humans and I got maybe a little too invested in playing as Daniel's big brother and wanting to keep him safe, but honestly that's just another point in the game's favour. The ending I got was bittersweet (I wish they didn't have to be apart from each other) but at least they were free and alive. Phenomenal and very underrated game, absolutely loved it, the good moments and the painful ones. (Finn's hair still pisses me off though-_-) Later skaters, little review OVER. (27/09/24)

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