I 100% thought this was a made up game that Butters was playing in the WoW Southpark episode.
It was a made up game at the time that episode came out. But now they’ve made it into a real game. The developer apparently said it wasn’t inspired by that South Park episode, but I don’t buy it.
That’s hilarious, and yeah no way it wasn’t capitalizing on that.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Highly recommended.
I am in the final two chapters or so of the game and it has been a hoot. Great action, hilarious script, amazing voice acting. It has a fun story.
One of the best comic book games I’ve played, not quite up to those Arkham Batman games, but still really great.
It is long. I mean, a bit too long for me. I’m surprised to crititque a game with so much content, but I am actually running somewhat out of steam here near the end. I’m ready for the finale.
I wasn’t sure about only controlling Starlord, but it honestly works really well. He can issue commands to Rocket, Gamora, Drax, and Groot, and this makes it fun. They team up for some of the kills and have a lot of interesting powers or combos.
If you haven’t played it, you should check it out.
My copy was a free copy from one of the Epic giveaways. I used the Steam Deck to play an Epic game and experiences minor issues. Had to reset the game a couple times and it ran fine every time I reloaded it. In 20 or so hours, it’s had 2-3 issues. Effectively flawless in my opinion. I don’t test frame rates, but it seemed fine? Over 30, anyway, dipping once in a blue-moon, but never during combat.
I love actually playing a free game on Epic. I collect so many, but I think I’ve only played GTA V, Guardians of the Galaxy, and maybe one or two more(Assassin’s Creed Origins, I think?).
Fun game.
Interesting, I could’ve played more. But I also wasn’t diligent about finding all the secrets. Otherwise I agree with your assessment: excellent game, great design and directing choices. Making them distinct from the movies was a stellar choice.
Might be just me. I didn’t pay, but it was definitely a “you get your money’s worth” game.
Bioshock Infinite
I’m playing this on Steam Deck and it looks fine and I think is fine, but I find that sometimes when I turn while walking(I’m not even to shooting), it either underturns, refuses to turn, or lags and then overturns.
I’m not sure why or how to fix it. Not sure what is causing it. If it persists or makes it so I can’t play, that’d be a shame.
Weird. Did you already try tweaking the controller profiles on the Deck? E.g. Xinput on/off, compatibility modes on/off, gyros on/off, etc.?
Nope. I’m using an external controller and have it docked. Controller is not at fault as it has worked perfectly for my other games on the Deck.
I will keep going and see what it is like.
I almost wondered if it was the auto-aiming or something even though I’m not shooting.
Maybe it needs some kind of tweaking in the controls and graphics.
It seems to be working better for me now. I just met Elizabeth.
I unlocked the FPS and I don’t know if that made a difference, but it seems smooth. I should point out I have NEVER played a FPS with a controller, so it feels very odd to me.
I have it set to Easy and I hope I can make it through. Seems like a cool game.
I still can’t get used to that either. Grew up playing Wolfenstein and Doom with a keyboard, then eventually Duke Nukem with a mouse.
That said, most games will let you turn on or increase the level of aim assist on a controller. Helps a lot!
You can also just connect a wireless keyboard and mouse to the Deck, can’t you?
You can. Or get a base for it and connect wired peripherals if you want. But obviously those options aren’t great for couch/car play.
It has “Aim Assist” on, but no levels of it that I can see. I mean, I am pointing at guys and killing them, so I am through the very easy opening area.
I guess. I’d rather just massively up the aim assist so I only have to vaguely point near a guy and it adjusts the rest.
Finally found an Xbox One version of Hades on sale (CAD $12), so I picked it up. (I got stuck on the hard version of the eagle temple in Curse of the Dead Gods, so I’ve mostly given up on it.) Maybe I’m supposed to be boycotting U.S. products, but too bad.
I just started a game called Cabernet. It’s a sort of point & click game where you’re a young vampire who has to learn her place in their society. Beautiful and fun so far. Big thumbs up.
The Steam Spring Sale starts today: Spring Sale Featured Deep Discounts
- CRPG Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is $4
- Cozy Spiritfarer is $3
- Telltale’s Walking Dead adventure game series is $4
- Quantic’s Heavy Rain is $2
- Hades is $10
- All the BioShock games in a collection for $12
- Guardians of the Galaxy for $9
Many other titles are ~20% off.
In unrelated news, I wanted to mention that my favorite free to play online survival shooter game, Once Human, just moved to a permanent servers model where you no longer lose progress. It used to be seasonal, but no longer — there are still seasonal events, but you can keep your character and base as long as you want.
Good time to give it a try. It’s got beautiful graphics, great building mechanics, OK gunplay, kinda a silly storyline and not the best dialog or voice acting (it’s made by a Hong Kong subsidiary of a Chinese publisher), but still thoroughly enjoyable… especially with a few friends. It’s truly free to play and you only pay for (optional) cosmetics.
It was a surprise find for me and ended up being one of my favorite games of this last decade, if not ever.
The Steam official sale page isn’t great. SteamDB has a better list of well-reviewed games that are at least 50% off, most recent first: https://steamdb.info/sales/?sort=release_desc
Cyberpunk 2077 is 60% off. Is it similar in feel to, say, GTA 5?
Yeah, I mean kind of. You drive around an elaborate city and you have a gun. It’s first-person instead of third-person.
It’s scifi and you use high tech stuff, but also shoot guys and even use melee.
Skyrim + GTA V + Deus EX + its own thing.
Thanks; the sale is pretty good.
I like Fallout/GTA open worlds where I can explore and get into trouble, or not.