I have been making pretty great progress on Silent Hill 3. My goal was to finish it in February but that didn’t happen. But regardless I only have like 3-4 areas left in the game and then I’m done! I’m not sure what the next game is in the series. I’ll have to look but it isn’t on my challenge list anyway so I gotta start focusing on something else but I do want to eventually play through the series so we’ll see what happens.
I haven’t made any progress on Puyo Pop so I think that’s going to be the next game I focus on and in between rounds of that, I’ll be working on Kunitsu-gami. I got past the part I was stuck at. I’ve hit another hard side objective but I think I can do it without too much problems. It’s just not super easy to do. I feel like the end is in sight and I’m excited. I love this game so much. I’ll be very happy to finish it.
Do you… do you all see how many edits I have on my Millennium Challenge post? It’s of drinking age now. My list has had to change quite a bit… but some stuff has stayed the same!
I’ve continued having troubles with my very old PS3… it’s like when I fix up a leak, another springs out. But at the very least will I be able to play the Ratchet & Clank games that are on there before I get it repaired proper to play all those long-term JRPGs I love so much on. The poor thing’s just old and tired. Same, little buddy.
But… I have been playing some stuff. Six games down now, twenty to go. Tokyo Xtreme Racer rules, and even if I’ve played enough to know definitely I love it, I’ll certainly be returning to that game to vroom around throughout the year.
Pools was my first proper replay of the year; I first played it when it launched on Steam, but recently played through it on PS5 where it ran and looked much better than on my dinky hardware. While as a concept I find the “liminal space” thing creepy, I do think a lot of renders of it come off a bit hokey and tropey. I think this game does the rare thing of managing to just put you in these vacant spaces and just walk about and get totally lost in them. Leans more towards being a vibe than being creepy, but I think there is space for the two to co-exist together. I will take a meditative and atmospheric experience such as this over many modern horror filled with jump-scares and chase sequences any day of the week. I got scared at the midnight launch of the Nintendo Switch because I forgot where I walked in and got really lost in a big dark public mall. So… y’know. I’m a big jittery baby. I like horror games though!
Oh I replayed We Love Katamari too. I’ve played it like every year since it’s come out. It’s now been over twenty years. Still one of the best games ever ever ever.
Gonna be splitting my time up between FuRyu’s cry-centric action-RPGs Crystar and CRYMACHINA and playing YUZUSOFT’s recent official English release of 2012’s Only Game About Horny Vampire’s Living on a Casino Island, Dracu-Riot!, and Key’s recent Reflection Blue remake of their own Summer Pockets. All I know about the latter game is I love Keys’ work and I think I get to play ping pong in it. I’m excited.
Anyway, that’s it from me for now… more games coming soon. Am I making good time? I’ve got no idea, I don’t know maths! I do know FACTS, though: one is I love vimdeo games!
Dang, for 2017 I was finally gonna play through Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, but it turns out the game doesn’t run at all on modern Ryzen PCs! Supposedly there’s a workaround with some random file from Github, but I’m not sure I’m willing to go that far.
Ayep. I’m sure I’ll cave and use the workaround eventually.
But for this year’s 2017 entry I’m now thinking I’ll finish Super Cloudbuilt, instead. It’s one of my absolute favorite 3D platformers and I’ve never even seen the ending!
Maybe jumping the gun a little bit seeing as it’s only June, and honestly I’m loving the millennium challenge and would be cool with doing it again, but I randomly thought of a new format for next year and wanted to run it by y’all.
Basically, the idea would be to pool together a bunch of small challenge prompts from the community, and combine them into a big 5x5 bingo board. Each square would be something unique like “monosyllabic title”, “bottom 100 Grouvee game”, or “genre you never play”, and then folks could either go for a bingo or try to hit all 25 squares.
Does that sound like something we might want to do? And what could be some of the micro-challenges, if so?
This is a wonderful idea!! There’s lots of fun challenge the community could come up with. Even if it scares me… I will play an RTS for the sake of bingo.
For some micro-challenges think I’d suggest:
ROULETTE: pick a game library (Steam, GOG, etc) and use a number generator/select at random a game you own but haven’t played
DEMAKE: play the original version of a game that has received a total remake—or vice versa
TEAM PLAYER: play an online multiplayer game with a fellow Grouvee community member
CONTRARIAN: play a kart racer that isn’t a Mario Kart
THE GAME—THE MOVIE: give your thumbs a break! Watch a movie based on a game
THE MOVIE—THE GAME: play a game that is a tie-in to a movie
THE @BMO SPECIAL: play a game with a fishing minigame in it
ARNOLD-TAILORED: Play a game James Arnold Taylor voice acts in
Half-way through the year, but IRL priorities got me focused on other goals. I wouldn’t expect to clear this challenge at this rate, yet it’s too soon to say. I might do a 180 one day…
2000 - Ground Control Anthology
2001 - Max Payne / Grand Theft Auto III
2002 - Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
2003 - Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon / Prince of Persia: Sands of Time / Max Payne 2
2004 - Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
2005 - Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
2006 - LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
2007 - Crysis
2008 - The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut / Precipice of Darkness, Episode Two
2009 - King’s Bounty: Armored Princess / Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Director’s Cut
