I picked up a new schmup as well called Birdcage. Only played about 15 minutes so far while I finish Backyard Hockey, but this game is cool as hell! Reminds me of Radiant Silvergun with some Metal Gear Solid 1/cyberpunk anime style aesthetics and an equally cool techno soundtrack. Looking forward to playing more of it!

All time classic! Fave SMT game

Picked up the remasters for Outlaws and R-Type Delta. Should be a fun weekend!

Trying to get Silent Hill 2 going. Quite interesting so far, just really vibey and atmospheric yet I see no point in an open world map if everything is linear anyway. It's good, hope I continue.

Yotei is on hold. It's not bad, but it has such a strange structure idk what to do half the time I play. I'll loop back around to it cause it is better than just good.

My Steam Deck OLED arrived today so I’m doing a Half Life Anthology replay as I’ve never played them all back to back, starting with the first (standard version not the Source version ofc) and yeah, good times.

2/4 finished with my HL Anthology replay. I think this is the first time I’ve ever played through Half Life 1 uninterrupted. Last time I played it I was a kid playing a bit here and there weeks apart. NGL … it was surprisingly challenging, really having to explore to find your way through. Also I died likely close to triple digits .. lol. Definitely far more challenging than modern FPS games are. Took just short of 10hrs, which is a lot more than Blue Shifts 3hrs.

Also really impressed by the comfort of the Steam Deck. Comfort wise feels far closer to a standard controller. Even without the case it’s comfortable to hold for long periods in my personal experience anyway.

Next up, HL: Opposing Force, another game I’ve never completed uninterrupted. 

Finished The Outer Worlds, gameplay is descent but the story is boring and mediocre.
I will start Cronos - The New Dawn but this will be the first i will use a mod because the game has no difficulty settings and the ammo is so scarce that you cannot play it.

Also tried to play Zelda breath of the Wild but quitted after some hours. I don't have the patience to search for hours for ruins for a game that i don't really like its gameplay.

I also stopped Cyberpunk 2077 after some hours of playing, it was like Grand Theft Auto RPG. I will pass.

I'm playing Firmament atm on PSVR2.



From the studio that made Myst and Riven, which shows. Very cool to walk through Riven like scenery. The puzzles are kept 'simple' by just having actions like shown in the picture. You connect with sockets you can reach to perform actions, with puzzles mostly consisting in figuring out the order in which to do things next to exploration. Operating cranes, walking things, aligning transformers and upgrading the tool to extend it's range and be able to manipulate multiple things at the same time.

Unfortunately the port to PSVR2 is rather bad. I'm playing on PS5 Pro and still get severe slow down in some places, dropping to 20fps on smooth turn, also affecting the turn rate. It's only a few places luckily, but probably avoid on vanilla PS5 :/ The social screen always runs at lower fps. I recorded some gameplay, running around smooth in VR only to find a stutter fest in the recording. It does some weird trickery where it renders a full 360 degree view it seems for every frame since when smooth turn chugs, turning your head is still smooth all the way. It must do some interpolation when running forward as well, it feels smooth yet when you concentrate on stuff next to you (looking sideways while moving forward) it looks like 30 fps.

No foveated rendering either and it looks a bit low detail in the headset. Sure it's the same as in the screenshots but textures and geometry look a bit rough blown up to 110 degrees fov. Not the wow factor Myst and Riven had at the time, quite a bit behind the detail in RE8. Yet what it lacks in detail is made up in scale. The environments are huge, draw distance as well, and thankfully smooth movement lets you run fast :) (There is teleport too, haven't tried it) A bit too fast at times as I've had to use reset to safe point numerous time when flying off the path lol.

Anyway, adventure games like this are awesome in VR!



Finding a way onto and operating that crane on the right in VR was mind blowing :)

Recommended on PC with beefy hardware, PS5 Pro if you can stomach some severe slowdown (or play with teleport / snap turn on PS5)

Started Bananza, can confirm its really good and im only in sublayer 200. Somehow finding bananas and other collectibles is more addicting than in Mario Odyssey.