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52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!
kamikazekeeg:
29 - Dredge (PC 2023) - BEAT - Gotta love casual and lightly creepy indie games. This reminds me a lot of Dave the Diver, get fish, upgrade your gear, follow through a story, nothing too crazy or challenging, but overall nice. I actually experienced some elements of Dredge in Dave the Diver with a collab DLC they did that made a ton of sense to do.
Basically you are a guy on a boat that goes around catching fish to sell, making money, gathering scrap, upgrading your boat to get better gear, all while there's this creepy thing happening in the area that you need to solve the mystery of. There's not much challenge to the game, you can certainly get hurt (Hull gets damage which causes gear to break and become unusable or damage and ruin fish/items, losing them in the process, though you can get it repaired at shipyards. Very solid length, doesn't overstay it's welcome and while there's two DLC expansions, I think I'll save those till next year.
Overall had a good time, I do like Dave the Diver alot more if I had to pick as they are very similar ideas, just different executions of it, and there's just a lot more variety to do in that game compared to Dredge. I do recommend Dredge though, solid time, been meaning to play it since last year, but Twitch came through with the rare free game I actually want to play. I get so many free games from different platforms and almost never play any of them lol
kamikazekeeg:
20 - Astro Bot (PS5 2024) - BEAT - Didn't realize I was right at the end of this game too lol Overall I think this is a pretty solid experience, it's kinda funny how it still feels like a tech demo, despite being a full length game, because a lot of the game is just like, "Here, looks at all these pretty visuals and physics items". Not saying that in a bad way, but the game really loves showing that sort of stuff just for the heck of it.
I don't think I would put this game over something like a Super Mario Odyssey, but I had some good fun with it, no real complaints, they tried to have a lot of gadget variety and some of the bosses were pretty fun. I feel like the only weak point I have is that there's so much just "REMEMBER THIS CHARACTER?!" and that can be nice in its own way, but I would've loved more of a focus on outright Sony history characters, more levels built around them and their kits.
We do get stuff like that with God of War, Horizon, Uncharted, Ape Escape, and there might have been one other I'm forgetting, but I personally would've loved way more of that. Give me a Crash Bandicoot level, Jak & Daxter, Twisted Metal, whatever, that's more fun than having 100+ cameos. There was a comment I saw that kinda hit it on the nose, where all these characters are treated more like "parade floats" than truly celebrating their history, which isn't terrible and I don't mean all this in a negative way also.
Good bit of fun though, I didn't 100%, might go back and finish up the levels, I'm probably like 80 to 85% complete if I had to get, but I'll do that on my own time.
kamikazekeeg:
30 - Marvel Rivals (PC 2024) - ENDLESS - Put a couple hours into this and yeah I'm loving it still. The beta was fun and this is just that but with more content and heroes. I kinda stopped participating in the hero shooter genre for awhile now, but this brings me back to the days of early Overwatch more, abit more chaotic, doesn't seem like you need to be as strict with your character loadout, it's fun.
Love the art style so much, so many characters look amazing. Squirrel Girl is turning into a bit of a favorite so far to me, mostly because she gives off Demoman from TF2 vibes, which I enjoyed, just sorta lobbing nuts at people to pester the crap out of them. Simple, but fun. Really need to try out the rest of the new characters, but there's so many lol I've tried Captain America who is okay, didn't get enough time with Black Widow, but she could be good for the long distance action I get in the mood for unless Hawkeye turns out to be fun, though I feel like her melee is garbage, maybe that's just me, seemed like it did so little damage other than using her spinning kick to knock people away. Hoping Wolverine is good as I want another charge melee character to play alongside Magika. Hoping it's kind of a more enjoyable version of Black Panther, who I didn't gel with in the beta.
Definitely going to be into this for awhile which is nice, felt like I've been struggling to find a multiplayer game to get into for awhile now other than just casually playing Fortnite.
kamikazekeeg:
31 - Delta Force (PC 2024) - ENDLESS - It's kinda funny that two games released this week (DF is technically in beta still, but it's basically feature complete other than the campaign coming out next month) that I think are great examples of how to do a clone/knockoff game and how not to do one. Marvel Rivals took it's concept and just layered it with sick art and visual flair, and offered it into a package that I think is meant to be abit more chaotic and free than what Overwatch is like these days. Delta Force takes Battlefield 2042, the worst Battlefield, puts it into a F2P model and kinda does everything in a way that is lesser than the current state of BF2042.
It's all very functional and plays well enough, but I can't think of anything more positive to say about it and the whole time I mostly just wish I was playing a Battlefield game, even going back to BF2042, which I stopped playing months ago. This is just the most bland take on a Battlefield styled game and after 11 hours, I'm already bored with it. The Operators aren't good, the maps don't interest with only Threshold being decent to me, and content is pretty light. I also don't care about the extraction game mode or the upcoming campaign.
I'm cool with a knockoff/clone if it does something unique or interesting, but I'm gonna stick with Marvel Rivals, a game in a genre I don't even particularly love, while dropping Delta Force, a game in a genre I do love, because it's just got boring real quick.
realpoketendonl:
27. Do I Pass? (Game Boy Homebrew / itch)
This is a homebrew game, made for a game jam, available for free on itch and also included in a bundle for charity. So I just can't be harsh to it. With all of those factors in mind, it's sweet and a good effort.
The game is about a trans woman who's worried whether she passes. In case you don't know: passing is for a trans person to be seen by others as the gender they identify with, without people noticing they're trans. So in this game's example: whether the other people on the bus see the protagonist as just "a girl", and not "a trans girl". Not all trans people attribute equal importance or value to passing, but it's definitely a common thing to think about and be aware of. As a trans person myself, I of course can relate. I wouldn't say I was super touched by this game, but I can see in the comments on itch that others were, which is lovely. The game is very short: getting all three endings only took me about 15 minutes. I can't say it really left a lasting impact on me, but with what I said earlier, how can I not say to at least check the creator out? I see she's made some other games too, I may check those out too at a later date.
Also sidenote on the challenge: I've recently picked up Atari 50 and I've been playing the games in it. Quite fun, but I don't think I can count most of the games in there for this challenge (I mean, a round of Asteroids, Centipede or flipping Pong doesn't count, right?). Still, playing all these games from way before my 1998-ass time is very fun, and I'm looking forward to getting to games I can add, like Adventure or the Swordquest games.
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