That fun was halted by a brick wall of difficulty as the main story progressed. Not the games fault unless you count the RNG nature of it. Maybe I'm just making a lot of bad calls with it. Either way I'm no longer playing the game on a 'normal' difficulty by default, it's all casual suave from here on in(more than before). I can see how a lot of players can take this game super seriously in a hardcore way and make it as difficult for themselves as possible. Each to their own. Difficulty for difficulties sake isn't why I play the game. I'm happy to mix and match. It's fun as long as I'm making some progress. With all that said I've been having more fun with an 'aggressive' deck.
A game with great music and gameplay; But one I'm having as much fun with out of game editing videos with as in game with the action. Yea just for the fun of it.
The 'shorts' video yesterday was a tester made from this fight(replay).
Fights in Tight Spaces had been on my radar for a while. It has a playable demo 'prologue' which I'd played a good bit. It made it onto the Steam wish-list almost directly after initially playing that prologue; But it's only in the current sale that I've purchased it. Very much more a me thing than the game; 'Just' looking for a bargain. It's a great game and one that is much better than any near rival(John Wick Hex).
Since getting it I've been having much more fun with the games world. Not in any hardcore way, Anything approaching the medium difficulty beats my áss. So casual is casual after all, for fun.
With the summer sale on Steam now on I got a few e-mail updates saying games I'd wish-listed were now 'cheaper'. This lead to two things. Me buying some of them and removing others from the list altogether.
It's been a couple of years since I last did an overview post on what I'd been playing, what was 'done', what was being continued and what was 'removed'. I did this list in 2018, this list early in 2019 & updated again in late 2019 and this one in late 2020. The early 2021 version was in progress when the post got wiped and it's content lost. With it I lost motivation to recreate it(it was a long post). I'm hoping that I'll get around to it again.... Maybe later in the year with a massive update of 2021/22. Time will tell.
Anyhow...
Three games kicked from my wishlist.....
They are Billions is a game I've watched streamers play and one I've wanted for a while. It's not been on a 'good' sale price so I never got it. Funny(not haha funny) that now it's on a 'good' sale price I'm removing it. It's a hardcore game of wave/rush RTS survival. Maybe a bit too much so for my casual tastes. I'd only end up buying it to have and it'd not get the gamepaly it or I deserve... If you get my meanings..... The killer blow on my decision this time is that I've previously bought Diplomacy is Not an Option on sale a while ago(still not really played it yet but on my list todo). A more 'fun' experience even if it can get hard.
Synthetik 2 is from the looks of it a better game than the original. It improves on the first in many ways. Like being on multiple platforms etc. The reviews seem to say you take the new good with it's own issues. It's still an Early access game so has some leeway on it's current 'issues'. That said it's been a 'while' since I last really played the first game. The second hasn't really been on my radar, just the wish-list to keep and eye on. So seeing it now even on sale isn't conducive for me to get it from what I've seen. I'm happy with the first game. There's noting I've seen in the second that makes me want to get it over just loading up the first.
Comanche is a game I wanted to see due to my nostalgia for Comanche Gold, back in the day. The 90's had a massive overkill of sims and sim like 'gunship' games. So my nostalgia was real for Comanche. Playing it via Xbox Ultimate was good at the time if short lived. I'm not sure if some of the graphical choices were on purpose for retro nostalgia but in retrospect it took away from it being 'modern' and didn't grow on me. Also in retrospect I think it's casual arcade but simulation take was too blurred. A mix the original pulled off but I feel didn't work here with the new iteration. The game may be 'released' but it still 'feels' early access with work to be done. I'd seen it on sale on other occasions but was always hesitant; That alone should have removed it from the list.
Slipways.... A space management, game that is a slimmed down grand strategy take. So grand strategy 'lite'. It's a game I've seen streamed and liked what I saw. A pretty chill game with lots of micromanagement to get lost in.
As for Shooty Skies Overdrive.... My recent return kick to VR had me looking for something else to virtually do/shoot This game looked to be 'it', cheap(cheaper now on sale) quick fun.
Speaking of that channel, ABC Gamer has gone through a few reworked iterations over the years. It's gone more younger viewer friendly(tho not so much now but still not watchable for me) since the Nichboy days. Which is a pity. Really liked it back then(but also like his new 'show' Back Pocket)...
Then again so many channels in competition to one another that all do such similar content....
Fights in Tight Spaces; A really interesting game! Especially now that John Wick Hex isn't as smooth a game as (I) expected! I've not played JW Hex but from what I've seen it's a bit disjointed and that jankiness is off-putting. Fights in Tight Spaces, once I'd seen it, I wanted to play it and as it's prologue is free I did. It has ticked all the boxes wish-listed it.
Fights in Tight Spaces combines a lot of 'cool' mechanics(rogue lite, card, turn based puzzle, secret agent, fighter). Combine all that with the visuals and music; It all works for me. Heartily recommend it and as the Prologue is free.... Give it a try!
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