I just finished my first (and likely only) playthrough of Horizon Forbidden West+DLC Burning Shores (I loved the previous game Horizon Zero Dawn).

I wasn't prepared to get slapped in the face with sinophobia (the writing re: the Quen) but yeah it really soured my experience. I know it's not like super overt but I understood the angle where it was coming from and what the writing was trying to communicate to its audience. Maybe I'll find it funny in a few weeks (as many sinophobic tropes/accusations are more reflective of the west than they are of china;; "moral lessons" about finding the truth for yourself is much more applicable to westerners "forced" to reiterate antichina-isms than it is applicable to whatever the average westerner thinks about censorship and free speech in china) but right now I'm just unhappy.

At least I didn't spend money on it this time around🏴‍☠️

Haven't been able to play much this past month due to some personal issues, but I started up NGU Idle and It's been a blast.

Favorite genres have to be city-builders/sims, and strategic or turn-based combat games.

Didn't watch TGA since it's super bloated, but I did see and enjoy the BG3 director's comments about the industry.

The thing I enjoyed most this year is personal, but I started playing a lot more of the silly co-op games with friends and it's a great way to spend time with them when they don't live close.

I am playing enlisted (ww2 multi-player first person shooter) and WOWS (naval warfare simulator) as a way to disconnect my brain.

Also emush from eternal twin group project which is a recreation of a real time (multiple days) cooperative game kind of merging alien and the thing movies. The game predates among us but is kinda similar.

Quite fun due to the mistery and cooperation element, not gonna lie, but on long runs you are just fighting the environment by repairing the ship which is breaking down basically every other cycle (3h per cycle, on cycle changes stuff happens)

Been playing a lot of South Park Fractured But Whole, pretty funny game and the combat is decent. I think it’s slightly better than Stick of Truth. Other than that I just finished RDR2 and I wanna play RDR1 soon

Tagging more that were here last time:

I'm still playing Resident Evil 2. Now I'm doing the Claire playthrough, I'm a Jill man myself but I'm beginning to see the appeal. Anyway, I'm nervous as hell because the game keeps giving me all this ammo and all these crazy weapons and that means they expect me to use it.