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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.
Played some more Nuclear Option. It's very nice. Went so far as to dig out my old Logitech Extreme 3D Pro for it, and it even still works! It's meditative sort of game. Check the map, see what needs doing in the current situation, buy a plane you can afford, take the right munitions for the job, wait a few seconds for the engine to spin up, taxi to the runway, open up the throttle and take off, and then make your leisurely way to the frontlines. Where I then usually realize that I should have thought in advance about the angle and altitude I want to approach from, and my map knowledge is several minutes out of date, my targets have gone up in flames before my arrival (an especially egregious problem in multiplayer!) and there are all kinds of planes or ground vehicles around that can hurt me while I either brought the wrong weapons to deal with them, or I brought a multirole loadout and I'm frantically fumbling to get the right weapons on the right targets, and then my wings are gone and my engine is on fire, and I vow that this time I shall learn from my mistakes, only to repeat them the next time.
It's fun.
I think the game has huge potential, particularly with the already thriving, somewhat supported modding scene. I'm honestly a little concerned the devs are spending too much time making new planes and not new systems/qol/optimization, because they'll announce a plane in the roadmap (eg. heavy cargo lifter) and modders will spin one out in half a month.
I agree, but it doesn't look like the devs have a more systemically ambitious game in mind. Optimization will surely come in time. QOL, I wish, but I'm not holding my breath - one man's QOL is another's unwarranted handholding.
I take it for what it is, and is likely to become, and try to keep my wishful thinking to a satisfiable minimum.
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