I've been diving back into Ghost Recon Wildlands after discovering just how damn enjoyable the game is at the highest difficulty levels. Suddenly sniper rifles and stealth are the only viable playstyles, and I feel like I'm actually being tested by the AI rather than watching all these paper narcos obligingly fall over and die for my amusement. I also love how unwoke the game is. Very America Fuck Yeah.
I also dusted off Master of Magic. Still haven't found a 4X that rivals it in my eyes, and it's not nostalgia talking. I actually never played it growing up (though I played MoO and MoO2 like my childhood depended on it). Good shit.
I played work while staring longingly at the desktop shortcut for Death Stranding. Finally have some free time today and tomorrow though so hopefully I'll be able to dig myself out of the game's tutorial island.
Any good? I watched an hour of Let's Plays of it on YouTube and kind of felt like killing myself.
It's kind of a niche game. It's the sort of game you might really like if you enjoy moving freight in EVE Online or Elite Dangerous or something, because the core of the game really is delivering cargo and figuring out your route through the landscape/hazards. Plus some horror elements and the standard Kojima oddness. There are mechanics related to how Sam, the MC, moves and how the distribution of cargo affects his balance and all that sort of thing. Most of your items are relevant more by how they help you traverse the environment than anything else (ladders, climbing ropes, that sort of thing).
I quite like it, but I like exploring and traversing the map as it's own thing, with DS seems to be built around. Of you're looking for a more traditional action game I don't know how much you'd enjoy it.