Cyberpunk which was a rushed glitched out mess, poor game developers at Projekt Red.
Really? I wonder how the PC version is, assuming that's not what you're already playing. Even after all these years since its release, I still haven't checked out The Witcher 3. My only excuses basically boil down to being put off by the hype, not being in the mood, and just anhedonia in general. I also wanted to replay the first 2 Witchers before going on to the third, so that sort of makes the whole thing more daunting in itself.
finished Goetia today. It's a nice point-and-click that has a solid plot and good puzzles.
Heh, that's interesting. I played through that one too when I was on a bit of a point and click binge a couple years ago. Some of the puzzles in that game kicked my fucking ass to tell you the truth. Most of them were fine, but I seem to recall some being so ridiculous/indecipherable that a walkthrough was pretty much required. Kudos to if you managed to solve all of them on your own.
If you liked that, then I'd recommend the Rusty Lake/Cube Escape series. It's a very morbidly unique series, that takes a lot inspiration from Twin Peaks and David Lynch. The puzzles also felt a lot fairer versus something like Goetia and there was only a couple I ever got stuck on, but, even then, I managed to avoid needing a walkthrough. I don't know about you, but whenever I get stuck too much in a P&C game, I just tend to drop it. The more the answer eludes me, that more stressed out I get, and the more I just feel like a big dumb idiot.
I dropped Baba is You for pretty much this exact, since some of the bonus stages were just too mentally exhausting for me to try and figure out. I'm sure I could have pieced them together after enough time mulling it over, but enh. When it gets that involved, I'd rather just play something else. In Baba is You's case I just kept forgetting what all the rules were, which made it a lot harder to keep track of everything later on.
There's working on remakes of the first 3 me games.
Are they really? Huh, that's interesting. I might just check that out then. I replayed the entire series back in 2019, since I'd never played 3 before. I still found myself enjoying ME1 even after all these years, but, due to my own insane antics, I kind of soured my playthrough of it near the end. So much so, that I had to download someone else's save in place of my shittier one. I'd never done a renegade playthrough before, so I thought I'd focus on that for something different, but, in the end, that mostly just screws you out of content in the other games. By the time I realized that, it was already too late. In my case, I didn't want to waste time replaying it again for a second time, so I just went to a ME saves websites where you can pick whichever one you want, right down to the most insignificant choices.
The thing that soured it the most though, was when I thought I could salvage my original save and go back a little to change some choices around, but I just ended up wasting like 4-5 hours of my time in doing so, which really, really sucked. I was also super absent minded with my quicksaves while I was playing and would sometimes do something stupid, like say the wrong thing to a character or get myself killed, only to have to replay like 40-50 minutes because I forgot to quick save.
There was also a lot of lame things about ME1 that I had forgotten about. Like the tedious loot system and all the clutter and useless crap you get buried in, the constant map recycling (I swear you see the same underground base and warehouse map like 50 frigging times at least and nearly every side quest seems to end in one of those two places), the sheer generic emptiness of each world, and all the forced Mako centric combat
corridors in each major mission which are really gimmicky and boring.
Still, even despite all that, I would've come away from it satisfied had it not been for all the bullshit I got up to because of my OCD tendencies and generally stupid nature. When it comes to the remaster, I really hope they add in a couple new environments/maps to spice up the side quests, but it seems doubtful they will, which definitely sucks. If it's like nearly any other remaster out there, it'll just be a slight graphical upgrade with little to no extra content added.
Setting aside ME1 though, I really enjoyed replaying ME2. Yes, it's way more linear and stripped down versus ME1, but the content and side quests feel a thousand times more meaningful and interesting. The only thing that really bothered me about it was at the very end, where a certain DLC character isn't considered a proper fire team leader, despite having decades of combat experience under his belt. I always used Garrus in the past, but thought I'd try Zaeed this time, only to get slapped in the face by Bioware's arbitrary decision to not include him as a proper pick for the very final mission. I mean, c'mon, Jacob and Miranda are proper fire team leaders, but Zaeed isn't? That's just total bullcrap, to be honest. It's a small annoyance, but I still found it an inconvenient thing to suffer with, in what was otherwise still a really great game.
ME3 I actually hated at first, but about halfway through, I'd say it started to almost become my favorite entry out of all of them. To tell you the truth, I honestly have no idea why people were so pissed off about the ending. Believe it or not, but I actually thought it was pretty satisfying. Keep in mind though, that I played the complete edition, which I believe included the expanded ending, which added much needed closure to all of your team mates. It also had hands down the best DLC content of the entire series and the one involving pretty much all of your party members from across all three games was really memorable and fun.
I'll also quickly mention that while ME: Andromeda was really shoddy in certain areas, it still wasn't even remotely as bad as people made it out to be. There was still a lot of great stuff about it, especially the combat, and I for one didn't regret playing it.
Anyway, it'll be nice to play the remasters regardless. It'll give me a chance to make up with ME1 and I can tell you for one thing that I won't be making the same mistake of going renegade again. Maybe I might for ME2 and ME3, but definitely not for ME1. Already learned that one the hard way.
