Yeah I did. I enjoyed it although the story was pretty weak imo. How about you?

Played it for a while recently and had fun. I only really play RPGs, but find my enjoyment of JRPGs wanes fairly fast so I never get near finishing them. Furthest I've got in one was probably Dragon Quest X. Normally if I stop playing for a ~week, game's dead to me.

I think rpgs are all I play as well, except for an occasional strategy game. I wish I had your willpower, I usually end up powering through games I no longer enjoy.

Guacameele 1&2 are free on epic, I played the first one and it's a very solid metroidvania, even though I do not enjoy beat'em-up-style combat

I struggle to understand the appeal of these linear 'cinematic' action games like God of War. For absurdly long portions you're barely doing more than pushing forward on the joystick. It's more interactive cutscene than game. Long cutscene, combat, long cutscene, combat. Unfortunately the combat's not much cop.

Spiderman: Miles Morales has a lot of cutscenes as well. But they're mostly never too long, and don't get in the way of gameplay. You're free to explore and do stuff right from the start. God of War's gameplay feels like watching cutscenes and occasionally engaging in combat.

I pretty much agree.

I played some of the God of war games (I think 1-3 but I really can't remember) back when I had a PS and while I enjoyed them, I would never put them anywhere close to the truly great games I've played.

I tried some Metal Gear Solid games and I've never gotten the appeal of them - it's 20 minutes of cut-scenes followed by 5 minutes of gameplay.

I love games that have a story, but it should be a story revealed as you're actually playing the game. Not just a movie where you occasionally get to push some buttons.

This exactly. Gameplay and story should go hand in hand.

Is there anything out there like slay the spire or dicey dungeons? I've tried monster train and across the obelisk and hate them both. All I want is a relatively straightforward deck builder that you can auto pilot

When it comes to deck builders, I just got Wildfrost a few days ago when the Steam sale started. Having a lot of fun with it. It starts off pretty hard, but you get the hang of it. I'd say it is significantly easier than Slay the Spire.

On the topic of deck builders, let me again tell you guys that Inscryption is an absolute must play. We are talking about game of the year material. Take my advice, don't read anything about it, and just go for it; the less you know, the better.

I'll second this - it's a great game.

Thanks for that - just bought inscryption

Not bought but added to wishlist, thanks for pointing me to it. This is the only thread I check on the only forum I visit.

Good to see you again, Mash!

Haven't seen it mentioned it but Dave the Diver is supposedly amazing:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...AVE_THE_DIVER/

it's just 10% off because it just lefts early access

Yeh keep seeing it massively recommended. I'm just not sure...but I thought the same about Vampire Survivors for a long time

Been playing Dive the Diver for the past week or so and it is confirmed amazing. Really fun game with a ton of different stuff to do.

May have to pull the trigger then. Might knock me out of my Vampire Survivor clone addiction.

Brotato, Boneraiser Minions, Halls Of Torment, Nordic Ashes, and Soulstone Survivors are all highly recommended though, if you're into that kind of game.

Picking it up based on your recommendations.

No idea how I am going to get to all the games on this backlog...

Age of Water is another game people seem to really like. It's not on Steam though.

It's in paid early access beta testing now but I've seen some rumors that it might be free to play when it releases.

Dave the Diver looks great, I’m getting some strong WarioWare vibes.

Wasteland 3 free on Robot Cache.

Recently started Elden Ring. Finding it a bit hard to revert to Souls-like combat after Sekiro. I appreciate even more how Sekiro managed to hit the sweet spot of pace, depth difficulty and mechanical complexity.

I'm excited for BG3 but will wait a few months until the major bugs are squashed. Reviews are unrestrainedly wetting themselves and can't be trusted. This ZTGD one gives it 9.5 and says none of the bugs are bad, even though one of them is: "I would direct one of my party to move into a position they would ignore my every command and wouldn’t do anything until I ended their turn." Whuh?! Sounds like a pretty bad bug to me.

Picked up BG3 yesterday - I've been tempted to pick it up during EA, but held off as it's a game I'm sure I'd enjoy best in the completed version.

Was going to wait for a sale, but the reviews and BG 1&2 being two of my favourite games led to me picking it up anyway. Also, rumour has it Minsc and Boo are in the game and there are certain things that cannot be resisted.

Not experienced any bugs, but haven't played for too long either - had to restart the game when I first leveled up because I only then realized that while making my character I'd forgotten to change the class to what I wanted ;P

Only issue is that I had to restart after playing for a few hours as the game started stuttering a lot - might be a memory leak or something. Annoying, but not a big issue if it doesn't become more frequent.

Enjoying it a lot so far, but still very early days.

One crash but no bugs yet. It would have to be pretty game breaking for me to care.