Grounded has been a good combination of rewarding and terrifying. Stressful and yet, really fun survival game.

Now that I’ve put a lot of time into Deathloop, I can say its one of the most unique, well designed games I’ve played. I can see why it got crazy high scores.

I wasn’t super interested in Redfall but if its like this, I’m in.

Good to hear you are enjoying it.

I beat Disco Elysium yesterday. That was the most original game I've played in years - it's look, it's controls, it's concept- everything! Probably the most text in a game I've ever played though. I'm not sure how I feel that the core development team is a subset of an actual cult.

I recently bought this again so I can play it on Xbox next time. I'm trying to decide what's a good amount of time to wait to do a new playthrough (it's been about a year and a half).

What ending did you get?

I solved the case and got interrogated by my team and remained their leader. But 7 people died at the shootout earlier in the game. I completed most quest lines. Only ones I didn't complete was the Cuno one (I failed at least 3 times with a success probability of >90%) and the final mixtape. I'm guessing there was also the Cocaine Skull quest I missed, but you could only start it when your partner wasn't present - I missed the window. That one never appeared in the quest menu though. I'm happy I finished the phasmid quest.

After Googling, I got the Recruit Kim Kitsuragi ending.

Sounds like we had similar experiences. I agree about the phasmid quest being particularly compelling.

I also ended the game with Kim by my side. I did some googling after finishing and apparently:

Spoiler: show

If Kim dies in the shootout, you can recruit Cuno to be your sidekick, but that leads to a different ending for the phasmid quest.

I did an intellectual playthrough the first time (very high in Encyclopedia, for example, which helped me learn about the world). If I played through it again, I'm thinking of doing a big brusier/fascist playthrough to see how things change.

I guess a bunch of the people deeply involved with Disco Elysium were recently (like this month) fired by the studio, and the collective around it has been dissolved.

I really hope the writer's novel gets translated to English someday.

I read that Zaum (?) is a cult and the development team which is also named Zaum was a subset of the cult. It's so bizzare. I wouldn't be surprised if the sequel falls apart entirely.

It sounds like that's where it's heading.

Went to the trampoline place today. They have a VR setup you can use; not sure what system?

Anyway they have a Creed boxing game and I fought Creed for 20 minutes and my heart was racing by the end. Legit workout!

Also my left hook needs work.

That’s cool dude

Now he's suing Zaum.

Death's Door (came back to it after several months away)
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
Splatoon 3

Persona 5 (god damn these JRPG’s take a while to get going)
Deathloop - about 60% done. This game rules
Grounded - great survival game
MW2 - The UI is horrendous but MW is the only COD’s I like to buy

Is the text on screen completely unreadable (too small)?

I really only play MP. Played two missions of the campaign and that was it.

The 1-2 punch of Death's Door and Mario+Rabbids is hitting the spot right now.