Seems to be the perfect time to find a Switch OLED instead! With a new model coming, surely people will try to offload their current gen consoles at a cheap rate!
Please do keep on with Death Stranding! It really opens up and shows you the whole world in a bit of time. Its an investment, but to me it is pure cinema and art. I adore it so much.
And thank you, I'm just happy to get any comment saying these are positive for people. I appreciate you saying so!
I'm unsure, but the last game on the blacklist for your country for giveaway was F1 Manager 20X (the 'X' means I can't remember its year...2024? 2023?) - really recently. And then 6 days afterwards it was offered for claiming in Australia (edit: AND Brazil, by memory. This was maybe 3 weeks ago?).
So...there's a snowball chance in Hell that maybe it still will? Maybe?
I didn't include a link to it in case my post felt like it pushed people to shops, or whatever (tbh its probably a remnant of paranoia from Reddit days - having mods remove posts for a myriad of reasons!)
I think I found KCD II easier to sink into than the first. The first one I played maybe 10 hours of and kinda walked away. I told myself it was too open-ended. Maybe I need a little structure to my games to make me feel less overwhelmed?
That turned out to be obvious nonsense though, since the second is even more open-ended and I just love it. Like I said though, I really found I needed mods to make it less like 'work'. But I know I am in the minority because it's not as the developers wanted it to be.
I'm...waiting for more before I can really form an opinion on Perfect Dark. I adore how it kinda feels like a loose spiritual successor to Deus Ex, if that makes sense? I'm hoping it stays true to what the original was. Weirdly I feel like Selaco gave me similar feelings of 'high-tech-corpo-espionage/action' that Perfect Dark once did, though it's a completely different game.
This is honestly so sweet to read, thank you for making me feel like my silly little posts can make a little bit of an impact :)
And, I think everyone here - especially on Lemmy - understand that feeling of things becoming 'too much' lately. Heck, I just ran away to Rome to drink coffee, play chess and avoid real life because it all feels a bit much right now. So I understand completely!!!
Keep on claiming those free games! Its my fav deal in gaming now - for the cost of a Prime subscription you get a whole bunch of games, each week! A lot of quality GOG games, alongside Epic and Amazon's own.
You can't lose by claiming them, each month suprieses me with how much I get for an add-on to a subscription I already use :)
Its a tough one! I tried twice before it made me head over heels. Just...take your time, the whole first gigantic area (to me) is like the tutorial area, just get through those cut scenes and then you're really on your own.
Try soak in the atmosphere, but do remember it's not for everyone!
I really, really love the game now. It actually takes my breath away. Heck it even inspired me to get Death Stranding items (I'm loathe to use the word 'merch') from Japan. And let me know what you think of it! I'm super interested how you find it :)
I haven't ever been too picky with FPS when playing on the Steam Deck, so I'm not the best to ask. They have optimized it far more than the first KCD. And to me? It ran beautifully.
Sadly the price of Japanese consoles went up a heap over Covid, though you can still get some amazing deals with proxy bidding and buying services, if you take your time!
Seems to be the perfect time to find a Switch OLED instead! With a new model coming, surely people will try to offload their current gen consoles at a cheap rate!