What are you playing this weekend? 2025-07-25
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Flier only run sounds fun, but doesn't this become tough when facing enemies which are strong against flying?
there aren't that much bow units in the game. And if they run into you, you always find an opening to kill them first. There are a few parts in the game i use teleporting or the additional live stone of tiki to survive harder moments. It's possible, no even that hard. I play on hard, not maddening, so it's probably a lot harder on maddening (besides the maddening difficulty), especially on the fog of war maps.
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Also, I can't remember if I mentioned this previously, but I bought a secondhand 2DS a couple of months ago so I've finally got around to starting Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask. The DS Layton games were some of my favourites but because I never owned a 2DS/3DS, or a portable device that could emulate them well, I have held off on playing them until now. Layton games are best played in a cosy space, like in bed or an armchair with a rug, with headphones on and the weather has been colder and wetter here recently which is perfect for this type of game!
Other than that, I haven't had too much free time for gaming lately, and to be honest I haven't really had the drive for it either. I am approaching my mid-30s now and sometimes wonder if I'm going to "grow out of" gaming as a main hobby at some point in the near future.
Congratulations on getting 2DS! I had been thinking about getting a 3DS but eventually decided against it. Can't even manage current systems, don't need to add older ones too
I have heard good things about Professor Layton games, looking forward to the next one, it was announced quite a while ago, hopefully we will be getting it soon. I think latest update said in year 2025. Let's see.
Don't worry about growing out of gaming. It's just a hobby, and there is nothing wrong with switching them up once in a while. That being said, I am nearing my 40s and haven't grown out of it yet. There was surely a lull for a few years, but that was more because of family and kids then due to age as a number. Though the amount of time I can give to games has surely decreased, and I am much more willing to drop games I am not liking then I used to before, which is more of an evolution then anything else.
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I'll be interested to read your future updates about AI: The Somnium Files. I really like Kotaro Uchikoshi's work, he has written some of my favourite visual novels previously including Ever 17 and 999. I'll wait until you're further in before I talk about The Somnium Files (I don't want to spoil or influence anything for you).
Oh, I didn't realise it's written by the same guy who wrote 999 and Zero Escape series. Those are already in my wishlist, if I knew I would've preferred to play those first. Ah well, too late for that now.
I post update weekly in this thread, so let's discuss it more when I have played it further.
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Almost done with Star Ocean Second Story R, I'm literally right before the dungeon called 'Phynal'.
My initial love for the game didn't fully carry over into the second half. There's been a big change in scenery and ever since that, the writing got worse by quite abit. It's just one guy with little to no personality sending you from one fetch quest to the next. There are still good things in there, but it started off way better.
Next up, I think I'll go back to something turn based, which means either Octopath 2, SMTV:V or Baten Kaitos.
lol at "Phynal".
That's a bid sad to hear. Have heard great things about it so had high expectations from it.
Hadn't you finished Baten Kaitos?
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there aren't that much bow units in the game. And if they run into you, you always find an opening to kill them first. There are a few parts in the game i use teleporting or the additional live stone of tiki to survive harder moments. It's possible, no even that hard. I play on hard, not maddening, so it's probably a lot harder on maddening (besides the maddening difficulty), especially on the fog of war maps.
Ahan, thanks for info.
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lol at "Phynal".
That's a bid sad to hear. Have heard great things about it so had high expectations from it.
Hadn't you finished Baten Kaitos?
Could be just me and the game is definitely worth experiencing. I haven't checked yet if other people thought so too. However, personally speaking, I thought the second half of 'Star Ocean The Divine Force' was executed way better. It does have a similar structure and the same split between two different viewpoints, one native to the planet and one from a futuristic civilization.
Nope, I haven't played it yet. However, I did mention it several times as a potential next game - I just never commited to the 120h+ journey, assuming I play both back to back.
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I've had that thought about "growing out of" gaming several times. Even when I was younger, there were times when I would just play my old consoled a few times a year and thought about getting rid of it all. But then something new comes out that catches my eye and I will get right back into it, or I just rediscover some game.
I turned 40 recently and I've been enjoying gaming as much as ever. Sometimes life just gets in the way or we lose interest in gaming for a while. And it's also completely fine if you just grow out of it. But you can always come back to it if it's something you enjoy. Anyway, enough rambling, back to my cave...
I guess part of the reason I think about it quite a bit these days is because almost all of my friends who are my age and older have mostly stopped. The guys who haven't are the ones who are still single, living by themselves with no responsibilities to anyone beyond their employer.
One guy I know has vlogged and blogged quite a lot about his experiences "quitting" video games. The realisation he came to was that gaming was holding him back in many other areas of his life, and that he had been reluctant to acknowledge this earlier in his life because he was scared about what that said about all the time he had sunk into video games instead of solving his problems. It's not that severe for me, but I do wonder whether it's a hobby I maintain out of laziness/fear of trying something new, rather than because I still love it.
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Yeah, plan to start with the first one.
Awesome! I hope you like the first one! I really liked the time crunch element that was in the first game lol
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Could be just me and the game is definitely worth experiencing. I haven't checked yet if other people thought so too. However, personally speaking, I thought the second half of 'Star Ocean The Divine Force' was executed way better. It does have a similar structure and the same split between two different viewpoints, one native to the planet and one from a futuristic civilization.
Nope, I haven't played it yet. However, I did mention it several times as a potential next game - I just never commited to the 120h+ journey, assuming I play both back to back.
I havenāt checked yet if other people thought so too.
Yeah, once I plan to play the game, I try to avoid any other further info about it, so haven't actually read (or watched) any review in detail, just have seen/heard the mentions in passing, so I can't say if people thought it was a good game with certain issues, or just a good game.
Wow, good luck on your 120h+ journey!
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Awesome! I hope you like the first one! I really liked the time crunch element that was in the first game lol
I hope so too. I get anxious when there is time limit in the game, so not sure how much I would like the first two.
