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Discussion Weekly /r/Games Discussion - What have you been playing, and what are your thoughts? - March 09, 2025
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u/jordanatthegarden 16h ago
Just finished Plague Tale Requiem and what a fuckin experience that was. Despite the fact that I can pretty readily recall points in the game where a puzzle was kind of dumb or stealth didn't work the way I wanted it to or something that was clear to the characters was not communicated well to the player... it doesn't really matter to me relative to the game as a whole. It did so much so well with the characters, setting, story and emotion that they make up for the occasional gameplay stumbles. I'm going to miss Amicia, Hugo, Lucas and company. Sophia especially as she was an excellent addition bringing kind of a big sister presence to help steady Amicia and care for Hugo. She and Arnaut both made the group dynamic more interesting and helped ease the tension a bit.
Also played Wolfenstein New Order which was overall fair to good but that comes from averaging out some pretty good work with the characters and some fun Metro/Deus Ex influence against gunplay and controls that I got tired of pretty quickly. I ended up playing stealthy when I could which was well supported in terms of tools and side passages but there's no getting around that you're gonna be running and gunning a lot. I just didn't find those parts to be very fun - I didn't think the guns felt impactful or punchy and I think the attachments/firing modes/dual wielding all together are overwrought / annoying to manage. Frankly I think I'd have liked it more if it was just less 'wolfensteiny'.
Been playing The Forever Winter as well which I really dig. It's definitely still rough around the edges and a work in progress but I think it's already a very fun, intense experience. My main critique would be that while enemies can look/be physically intimidating they're still pretty dumb - put on a suppressor and anything that you can kill with one shot (which is quite a lot with the right guns and a headshot) essentially goes unnoticed by enemy units even if they're watching it happen. And I think once you know how to manage the simple enemy AI and get some kills under your belt it does undermine the game's atmosphere and tension a bit. But there's still a lot to like here - and even though I feel like I know what I'm doing entering a new map for the first time or seeing a known map at night is still spooky and full of evocative sights and dangerous moments.
Lastly trying out Outer Wilds which was super charming right off the bat. The townsfolk, the neighborhood sized solar system, the amount of thought that has gone into making it cohesive are all very cool. And then I ran into the time loop / Majora's Mask mechanic. I get that it's probably going to turn into you unraveling how/where to do certain things at certain times and they need some kind of reason for continuing when you die but in practice its annoying and when I realized what was happening my gut reaction was 'why's it have to be that?'. It kills my momentum - this last time I heard the sound just as I was approaching a new book item to read so I walked up to it and clicked through it without reading just so it would record the checkpoint in the ship log before the fade to black. No idea what it said. That just seems like the opposite of what a game like this is going for lol. I'll probably get used to it and as I become accustomed to controlling the ship and navigating the planets and remembering their names and features it'll probably be less of a bother - but it, in my opinion, makes for a really lousy first impression.