Finished Diablo 3 Season 36. I was really hoping to fully fill out the Altar of Rites this time, but for the life of me and my necromancer, I could not get Ramaladni’s Gift to drop. Oh well. This week I’ll finally be starting Diablo 4’s new season in-between Thief runs (yes, I’m still obsessed, lol).

I have! It’s a really great game and I love it too. That’s probably why I’m having such a good time with Thief, since the gameplay is very similar. I’ve only really played 1 though; I did play Dishonored 2 once, but I couldn’t get into it like I did the first. I still need to play Death of the Outsider.

I’ve been absolutely obsessed with the 2014 reboot of Thief over the past couple weeks. I’m having so much fun just sneaking around and stealing stuff and finding new hidey holes lol. It’s making me really want to try out the older games. I don’t know how I slept on it for so long because it’s been great.

Last week I played through Ryse: Son of Rome, and I was pleasantly surprised in how much I enjoyed it, especially for a rather QTE heavy game.

Right now I’m working through Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel, and man there is so much backtracking for puzzles and lockboxes and whatnot. But it’s been fun, and basically feels like a first person Resident Evil game, at least atmosphere wise.

I’m working on Diablo 4 Season 9. I wasn’t hearing great things about this season at first, so I held off for a few days until some patches came out, but I have to admit, I’m kind of having fun so far. I have an actual reason to do nightmare dungeons again, and personally, I kinda like the reliquary cosmetics this time around. I’m going with a Druid build, which is a class I honestly haven’t touched since season 1, and it’s not too bad so far.

As much as I absolutely love Lies of P, I’ve been holding off since I’ve been hearing about a lot of bugs. Sounds like I maybe need to wait for another patch, unless the patch they released a week or two ago is the only one.

I’m not sure, as far as I know none of the VA names have been released yet, but I bet some Capcom regulars will show up.

Still working through The Sinking City Remastered. I’ve become incredibly distracted by photo mode lol.

The Sinking City Remastered was released last week, so I’ve been playing that. I’m having a lot of fun with the newly added photo mode.

Started Diablo 4 Season 8, and I can’t say that I’m really into it this round. I have a laundry list of complaints, but it all really comes down to not feeling near as fun as previous seasons, and the world feels weirdly tighter than it has before? And I’m not sure exactly why.

Since I’m done with South of Midnight and it kept reminding me of Alice, I’ve been replaying Alice: Madness Returns. I both forgot how fun this game is and how horrible I am at jumping lol.

I finished South of Midnight, and overall I had a good time, although I wish it would have given some of the later game characters a little more depth. I really liked Hazel as a protagonist. I would love to play more of her, even though this does seem like a stand alone game.

I started South of Midnight. I’m liking it so far, especially the animation style and the jazzy soundtrack. It has some major Alice in Wonderland vibes. Although it is a little jarring playing a straight forward narrative after all the open world games I’ve been going through the last couple months.

I finally finished Avowed! I really had fun playing it, and given that the map looks like it has more areas, I hope there’s an expansion soon.

Also played through Atomfall as well, though it wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be. I didn’t have as much fun playing it as I did Avowed, but there were some nice, spooky sections that I enjoyed.

Currently achievement hunting Kona before it gets removed from GamePass. The one for not using any vehicles is such a pain, lol.

I’ve been working on Avowed and have been really enjoying it so far. My only real complaint is the weapons. Aside from some of the unique aspects, they all feel kind of same-y to me as far as damage goes.

Same! I’m not usually into Soulslike games, but I really like this one.

Still going through Arthur’s chapter in We Happy Few for achievements.

Finished the Night Springs and the Lake House expansions, as well as Alan Wake 2 itself. I actually really liked The Lake House, and imo it was scarier than the main game. It got me really excited for Control 2.

Got through a few levels in Doom II.

Decided to have another go through We Happy Few, at least Arthur’s chapter, as kind of a palate cleanser after spending so much time on Remedy games. I’m working on a few achievements, so it might end up being a longer playthrough than last time.

I started Alan Wake 2, and man, I forgot how terrifying and fun it is. I’m having a blast. And since the last time I played, they added photo mode! I’m particularly proud of . But idk if it’s just me, but after having fairly recently played the first Alan Wake, this game feels like there’s a lot less enemies? Especially when walking through the woods. Like a couple will pop up here and there, but a lot of the walking from one place to another is just… walking. Maybe I should have bumped the difficulty up to Hard lol. I’ve also already gotten through two of the Night Springs episodes, since they added them in game, which I thought was pretty cool. I’m really excited to get to the Lake House expansion.

Found all the collectables and filled out the ability tree in Control! I’m a little sad to put this game away, but there’s not much more I can do in it. I could try maxing out the weapon mods, but there really is no reason to do so, so I’m moving on.

I was holding off on restarting Alan Wake 2 until after the Thanksgiving holiday, so I’ve been back at it again with Subnautica. I’ve got three bases so far, and now I’m working on building out a bunch of ion batteries and power cells for my equipment and Cyclops sub. I really wish you could get the ion stuff earlier in the game, since it’s fairly close to the end, but I’m going to see what more I can do before finishing this out.

I finished the main game for Control, and the DLCs and the side quests, and got all the outfits, but I’m still not ready to put it away, so now I’m just working on finding all the collectables and filling out the ability tree.