I know we’re already in February, but what are you looking forward to playing this year?

I am currently limited to my PS4 and an older laptop as far as big-screen gaming is concerned, and I am going to be playing some sequels:

  • The Witcher II - The 3rd part is more famous but I hear 2 has the better story. I am also one of those who really enjoyed part 1!
  • Pillars of Eternity 2 - the first one was so good I can’t wait
  • Red Dead Redemption II - which I got for my birthday. It is absolutely HUGE. RDR1 is in my all-time favorite games list.

As for handheld gaming, I have recently gotten a Nintendo DS Lite and a PSP so I will be playing some:

  • Deadeus - a 2D horror game that someone recommended on this thread

  • Final Fantasy Tactics funnily enough, I never played this! I did enjoy the GBA version a lot though.

  • Jeanne D’Arc apparently it is one of the PSP’s best titles.

As someone with a lot of IRL obligations, I will be very happy if I make it through this list.

What is on your list?

  • Malix@sopuli.xyz
    18·
    9 months ago

    I’m trying to play through Control, finally. It’s been sitting on my to-do list for ages. Not nescessarily a projet for the whole year, but it’s what I got on my plate at the moment.

    Playing on PC, with the unofficial patch (improves RT, texture streaming, stability, newer dlss… all the good stuff) and settings cranked. It’s pretty dope tbh. I definitely suck at it, but the accessibility options (extra damage/health/regens etc) are pretty nice to scale the difficulty to my level.

    Got to enjoy the SCP vibes and brutalist architecture. And Ahti, ofc.

    • WarmSoda
      5·
      9 months ago

      Dude. I never even considered there would be a community patch for Control. You just blew my dumb mind. For some reason I always just considered it one of those It’s Done! games that magically didn’t need anything else. (Not that there are any of those games these days).

    • li10@lemmy.ml
      3·
      9 months ago

      I started with Alan Wake 2, then went back to Control.

      Both really great, unique games, and Remedy are now up there with FromSoftware for my most anticipated games.

      Control was absolutely great, but they really hit another level with AW2 imo.

      • Malix@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        9 months ago

        I keep hearing AW2 is great, but… tbh I didn’t much care for the first AW (and haven’t played the dlc/expansion?). Kinda found the combat really annoying to deal with, but I was interested in the story. Does the sequel do combat any differently?

        • Ashtear
          2·
          9 months ago

          AW2 is classic survival horror combat. Limited resources and such.

          I don’t like survival horror gameplay to begin with, but even setting that aside, I really think it clashes with the story at times. It’s better in Saga’s sections, at least.

        • li10@lemmy.ml
          2·
          9 months ago

          I know what you mean about AW1, the sequel is different mechanically and much more refined.

          You still make use of the flashlight, but now it’s a bit more developed and for the most part it feels like a modern horror game.

          You get a lot of tense situations where people are running at you and you have to hold them off with the flashlight and weapons.

          I can’t really put the differences in to words, but it is just much better imo.

          • Malix@sopuli.xyz
            4·
            9 months ago

            welp, sounds like I have to check it out at some point. Thanks!

            I’ll check some gameplay video and wait for discounts & it releasing from epic-jail