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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1606 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 19, 2026

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What are you playing this week?

I uninstalled Slay the Spire 1 and 2. I realized that the games (mainly sts2) took up a lot of time and capacity due to my need to play optimally, without giving me much joy in return.

Started and finished a Civ V game instead. I got around 30 wonders, because I was playing on a more relaxed difficulty than usual.

Tried out The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (demo) briefly. Dismayed to find it has no ultrawide support. And they call it HD-2D yet all the characters are pixel art style. Might play it in 16:9 on my TV at some polnt. They've priced it very highly, and it has denuvo, so I might wait for a deep discount further down the road.

Marathon season 2 is an ongoing interest. 007 First Light I imagine I'll be done with shortly (obviously IO knew how to make a real Bond game, they already had with the last Hitman trilogy). I started R-Type Tactics 1-2 Cosmos. It's essentially Advance Wars with a R-Type theme (which I enjoy). Having fun so far.

Is the 007 game actually good? I've seen accusations of blandness, generic linear gameplay, and "not being hitman".

So far, the story missions are indeed more linear than Hitman (though the latest mission I arrived at seems to open up); it's trying to tell a James Bond story, not your James Bond story. Within one mission, it will usually funnel you through all or most of the different "action types" of a Bond movie (social/exploration, sneaking, hand-to-hand, shooting and vehicle chases). Don't worry, though, you do "flow" between these in gameplay too through success or failure. Failing to notice an easy path or to social your way through a situation might force you to sneak, failure to sneak might force you to fistfight. In shooting sections, you can usually also sneak or firstfight, though that is often unreasonably more difficult than shooting, so the expected solution is obvious. Personally I don't find it any blander than Hitman or one of the lesser recent James Bond movies. The gameplay feels fun to me, the combat in particular flows really nicely.

Anyway, if I didn't have trust in IO from seeing how they handled the long-term support for the latest Hitman, I don't think I would recommend First Light at current full price.

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