What Have I Played This Week? (Wk03)

Lots of games this week, thanks to the Steam Spring Cleaning event, an active local gaming store and the slow nature of snail mail. I do intend to get back to the 1001 list, whereupon this type of entry will get smaller, but until my post arrives and hopefully gets played (for it'd be a right joke if I couldn't get it to run or something), I'm left to see what else is out there.

Once again, let's get the games that you know about out the way. Dead by Daylight, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Sorcery! and Chroma Squad have all had an outing thanks to the Steam Spring Clean event. You can read much more detail about them in their respective posts, but the long and short of my time with them would be 'nope', 'neat', 'not ideal, but yeah' and 'nice idea, hope it pays off'.

The only other game that is old this week is good old Star Realms, which has seen quite the development - I've actually bought the full version. I say full version, for it's a little bit of a cheeky name. You don't get absolutely everything, you just unlock a few extra modes and options. I also bought the Colony Wars expansion for it, which effectively doubles the number of cards you can play with.

Why this change of heart on not buying the digital version? Well, myself, P2 and White Wizard Games are all in the same area at the same time next week, and there's a tournament for us to put our money where our mouths are and see just how good we really are. P2 is not expecting to progress far. I'm not expecting to get much further, to be honest, but anything can happen. It'll be my first tournament for anything of this nature, so it'll be an interesting line in the sand. Or an afternoon of getting my arse whipped. I don't know yet. Looking forward to it.

Now, I've been much busier than just those lot of games though. Mostly on the PlayStation 4, and there's a fair bit of VR in this lot too. See what I got up to after the fold.

What Have I Played This Week? (Wk02)

Another week, another opportunity to tackle whatever floats in front of my face long enough for me to register an interest. Before going into the new stuff, a quick summary of the games I'm still playing from last week.

Star Realms continues to be my go-to game when there are five minutes to kill, and over the course of the week, I got better and better, seemingly overcoming my slump. Still, it's only getting better against a medium strength A.I., so it's not where I want to be playing really. I'm still not sold on buying the digital version of what's sat behind me. Hopefully, there'll be a deal or something when the next big lot of physical cards get shipped out in a few months.

The Witcher 3 still looks pretty, but all I was doing was hoovering up treasure in the form of Witcher gear diagrams. If you really want to be critical of the series, it's an awful lot of fetch quests, but they're well written and set in wonderful environments, so it get's a pass.

I dabbled in Superhot again, now I've got the endless mode unlocked. 49 kills, not too shabby. Wasn't the neatest of rounds, with lots of silly decisions made but I managed the situation for a while - until the red dudes really started rushing in.

In two lengthy sessions, we appear to have come to an end of a Pathfinder campaign, but perhaps not the end, I'm not too sure. The fight that dragged on through the night did appear to involve the big bad evil guy (albeit in the form of a small, possibly radioactive child), but he's still alive and kicking, and some of the players get the impression that there's more to come, that there has to be, because it's a bit of a let down if this is the end of the super dungeon. We shall see how it goes next week, I suppose.

And now, continue reading for the new games.

What Have I Played This Week? (Wk01)

The Evergrowing Backlog is focused on my journey through 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, sure, but it is not exclusive to that goal. The games on the list were all released earlier than 2010, and I believe the second edition expands that to 2012, but here I am, in the middle of 2018, playing games that weren't even conceived when these books were published.

None of us can hope to stay on top of such huge amounts of games in any reasonable time frame, not with jobs and social lives and other hobbies and whatnot, but I do try to play more than what I'm told to. I try to play games I like, or games I've been wanting to play for some time because playing games you don't like or don't want to play is stupid.

And so, here's a quick look back at what I've played this past week.