Video Games

Shadow Warrior 3: Take 2

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Dipped my toes into Shadow Warrior 3. My last taste of the game was a bit soured, having come from two previous games that gave you more weapon options and sword movement; but damn… don’t those cutscenes look nice??

As simplistic as the gameplay has become compared to previous installments; I did have fun playing with different explosives found within the variety of demons I laid to slaughter. I also obtained a drill gun from one of the demons, that was pretty cool. They also brought back one of my fave characters from the 2012 reboot! His lines and enthusiasm actually make me want to come back to this again, or maybe even return to the 2012 game to do a little achievement hunting!

I’m still a little mixed overall, but at least on this run I did find some positives. Maybe I’ll find more on my next session. 🙂

Serious Evening of Seriousness

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Played around in Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem tonight! Probably one of the tougher ones I’ve played in the series. My only complaint so far is the optimization; sometimes I get frame dips during combat. Other than that and dying a lot I’ve been getting through it. I may die a lot, but each time I last a second or two longer! That’s a second or two more to take more baddies out.

Suddenly Furries!

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I cleared a few sidequests in Dust: An Elysian Tail, and also did one of the trials! Sat outside on my Steam Deck and got some fresh air while making progress. I’m at level 28 now, and 61% completion. I’ve done JUST enough to merit another break! 😛

Another Agent 47 Enters The Frey

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Decided to check out Hitman tonight. I’ve been having fun coming up with multiple ways to assassinate the target, and I’m not even past the tutorial yet!

I’d have to say that my fave method so far has been disguising myself as a close ally to the target and then strangling him to death, it’s probably one of my fave ways to even spend a quiet evening.

We All Begin Anew Once More

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All these years I keep meaning to finish this one. Perhaps my Steam Deck can help with that? I played a bit during lunch today, and was happy to find that it supports cloud saves! But then I tried to download them to my Desktop, and no matter what I did it would outright refuse to download it. Then I decided to do a little bit of experimentation, and switched from the native Linux build to Proton, and wouldn’t you know it? I have cloud saving! I know they have the definitive edition out, but I figure for Steam Deck this would probably be better on battery life. I might consider it during a future sale, but first I want to try finishing the original. 😛

The Proving Has Been Proven

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We had a nice summer day of about 25C today! It gave me the perfect excuse to take a break from my desk so that I can take care of other things… like fixing buttons on a shirt, indulging in some kashmiri green chai while doing some e-shopping for my pantry, and Horizon Zero Dawn on my Steam Deck! I survived The Proving after some trial and error (with a side of fucking around).

I got about an hour of play out of it, which seems to be the norm with Unreal Engine games – especially the graphically intensive ones. I wonder how long it’ll be before I play it again? It’s one of those games that I keep meaning to get back into, but can’t seem to in my endless sea of entertainment. Still, the small break was nice. 🙂

One Episode Down!

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Finished Episode 1 in Duke Nukem 2! I had fun trying to figure out how to thwart the endboss with limited ammo supply, but I fucking did it! Now it’s three episodes to go, when I get around to playing again. 😛

Duke Nukem 2 isn’t currently recommended for the Steam Deck, not enough testing, and it does require keyboard input for naming saves and scoreboard; but even when DOSBox is running through Proton it has no issues with the Steam Overlay. So far this is looking like it’ll get a thumbs up! I still need to finish the whole game though, just to share more of the experience! It would be cool to see some of these games garner more attention.

One of the things PC has over Console is the ability to go back in time and play any game we feel like playing. We don’t need to dig out old hardware. Sidescrolling games are still popular today, so it would be cool to see more people checking out the retro stuff.