Forza Horizon 6 is gorgeous and fun but the progression is bullshit. I can't just do races to get my purple wristband? I've completed every race and I have half the bar to fill, but all that exists are the stupid open world marker bullshit and I hate that shit. Why can't I complete the game just by doing races? What a crock of shit. And to get the legendary wristband you have to do 95% of those things? Fuck that noise! Ugh, this makes me mad.

i downloaded the star fox remake demo, i remember playing star fox a lot as a kid so i expect to experience some sort of sense memory that overwhelms me, reminding me of my childhood innocence, making me reflect on how much was lost on my journey to adulthood. tears may flow!

Holy shit, lol, I can't believe this is actually a thing being made. I am 100% preordering this, I can't stop laughing.

so i'm about 2 and a half hours into gothic 1 remake and i like it a lot, reminds me a lot of dragon's dogma, just way more punishing. you walk in the wrong direction and run into an adult dino bird thing and it can kill you in one hit, the smallest critters can kill you in two hits at first. so... you gotta quick save constantly lol

I am pretty hyped for Crimson Desert. I hope when it comes out in ~2 hours that it doesn't suck!!!

I'm about 20 hours into Project Gorgon now and I pretty much love it. It was exactly what I wanted / needed in a new MMO. It's got the atmosphere of ESO, the combat of GW2 / WOW, the leveling grind of a much more old school MMO, all mushed up into a great package with a very nice community. It reminds me a bit of playing on MUDs back in the day. I wish I had played those old MMOs when I was younger...

I've been feeling the itch to play an MMO, and since I have essentially played all of them at this point, I had to go digging and stumbled on Project Gorgon. It's meant to be old school in the way Ultima Online and Asheron's Call was, which I never played way back in the day because I was a pretty lame excuse of a gamer back in the day.

I'm about 4 hours into it and it's a lot of fun. Not a lot of hand holding. You've got to rely on your experience playing RPGs all your life to know that you need to go into a town and talk to all the NPCs to figure out what the hell you're doing.

I'd say the only negative to the game so far is that the NPC, interactive objects, and player nameplates are all the same white color by default, which makes it nearly impossible to recognize in a town which characters are NPCs and which are players. But that just required a trek into the settings menu so I could configure the colors differently myself, and everything started to feel a lot less bewildering.

Apparently what I really wanted to play was Ghost of Yotei, which was originally supposed to be what I played over Christmas break, but I was distracted by ARC Raiders.

This game is unbelievably good looking and really makes the case for the PS5 Pro more so than any game previously, I think. The amount of plant matter on screen at any time is pretty staggering, definitely a 'generational improvement' over Ghost of Tsushima.

Compared to Assassin's Creed: Shadows, Ghost of Yotei has a very distinctive feel to it. Every bit of gameplay feels bespoke, from the combat down to the way the horse controls. It's somewhere approaching Red Dead Redemption 2 as far as physicality goes, though it doesn't go quite as far as that game.

Since finishing Trails in the Sky: 1st Chapter, I have been "between video games", which is this terrible state where I flail around vaguely depressively trying out a lot of video games until I finally settle on playing one in a dedicated way. It's terrible. I have played, or we should say sampled, a great variety of games. I should give you a list. You'd be shocked. But I turned off my PC already tonight and, I mean, that's a bullshit excuse–I'm just lazy, okay? I'm fuckin' lazy.

I'm too lazy to write this post, fuck it, I'll talk to you later.

I'm playing Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma and I am having a blast so far. It's a great combination of a variety of games, all wrapped up in terrible graphics, but that's okay. It's fun anyway.