Gaming

I'm kinda playing too many games in parallel at the moment. I bought Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty and did prepare to start, but I have yet to start the first mission. I played a lot of Barony, which has been great fun. And in between I also played some Whisker Squadron: Survivor, which is a funny little game imo. Cities Skylines 2 is also close to release, so it's gonna get even busier then

I started playing Horizon Forbidden West, while this game is still okay, it seems like it's taking some steps backwards:

• it's becoming more AssAssIn's Creed like, with lots of stuff on the map
• they should retire the focus / investigative / detective vision, because it's really hard to see now
• the movement is still janky, Aloy feels slow even on a mount. While the climbing doesn't feel good
• too many button inputs, sometimes they also feel inconsistent, and sometimes it feels like they are running out of buttons on the controller
• way too many weapons / armors that I probably won't use. Why not discard the rarity type, and let user level up the weapons instead?
• it also has the trap of games with HDR, aka it's too dark to see
• foliage sometimes obscures the whole thing that you can't see what's happening
• while side quests are unique, many of the characters are kinda boring and forgettable. Often I need to sit thru a long and boring / predictable conversation just to get a quest started.

Besides those complaints, I am still enjoying the game. It has an unique setting, and gameplay that prioritizes bow and arrows. However it feels like they are moving into AssAssIn's Creed bloat.

Armored Core 6, first time I'm playing a game of the series and it's kicking my ass! But it's fun and has a really great atmosphere and setting.

Been a mix of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Crab Champions on PC. The latter is surprisingly good for a game I thought was just a meme