Duly noted, thanks.

If you combine my hours for all three since it’s all a collection now anyway, it’s my second most played game of all time, only behind Skyrim. I’m a massive fan. How far along are you?

I need to play through all the short games on my backlog, that would make me feel a lot better about it. Maybe I’ll sort everything in folders based on length so I can finally put a dent in it.

Stanley Parable was awesome. Enjoy it.

I know what you mean about 2077. I’m glad to have waited as long as I did, both because of the cheaper price and also the patches and extra content. It’s a really good game now.

Likewise. I picked up the ultimate edition and a dirt cheap game and that was it. The last few sales I’ve favoured getting a bunch of cheap games rather than one good game on a decent sale, but my backlog is getting out of hand at this point.

That’s good to know. I’ll probably pick it up at the next sale then.

I just started it too. It’s a ton of fun.

Mandragora looks really cool, but apparently it’s got a bad EULA so I’m iffy to pick it up. I wouldn’t be getting it on this sale anyway, I’d probably wait for the next sale, I’ve already spent too much this time, hopefully they’ll fix the EULA before the next sale. It looks like an awesome game and is totally my style.

I played Black Mesa (HL1 remake) and loved it. I haven’t played HL2 yet though.

Enjoy HL1, it’s a great game, or at least the remake is. I’m assuming the original is good too.

I haven’t played Retro City Rampage before but Monument Valley was awesome, and so was Omega Ruby.

Nice, enjoy. I’m a total Pokémon nerd for gens 1-4. Gen 2 + remakes takes the cake for me, but Emerald would be next up. It’s probably objectively the best game in the series (that or Platinum) but I’m super nostalgic for Johto. SoulSilver will forever be my favourite Nintendo game.

I’ve never heard of Cyber Hook before but it looks awesome. I’m definitely picking it up. Thanks for the recommendation.

I’ve added Horizon Chase Turbo to my Wishlist, and downloaded the demo. I’ll probably check it out soon.

That’s a neat concept, and it’s got a cool art style. I’ll be checking this one out for sure.

True, I could see that, but I’ve seen many people give up on DS1 because they found the intro too difficult. The ER intro is far easier. DS3 I could see being a roadblock too though, I just haven’t seen it myself.

Fair enough. I played DS1 after DS3 and thoroughly enjoyed it, but my experience probably wouldn’t be everyone’s. If someone is planning on playing the whole series anyway, yeah start with the first. But if they’re not really sure, I think DS3 is a safer bet. Though now I’d say Elden Ring.

That’s true, but I find the sluggish pace (by modern standards) and the second half of the game feeling a little unfinished or rushed makes it a toss up with newbies. I’m a massive fan of Dark Souls 1, but I can see why some people would find it dated. Dark Souls III on the other hand feels like a modern game still, so for someone used to mainly playing modern games I can see why they’d be turned off. Personally I mostly play games from the 360 generation so DS1 doesn’t feel dated to me, but I totally get it.

Good to know, I’ll keep it in mind. Thanks!

I love all of those. I’m excited to play it tonight

That’s a good point, I hadn’t thought of it that way before but you’re right. As much as I love Sekiro and Dark Souls they don’t really encourage you to do better, more just punish you for messing up.

In Demon’s Souls, when you died the first time you were stuck at 50% max health until you regained human form, and dying in human form darkened the world tendency.

In Dark Souls, if you got cursed your health was capped at 50% until you removed the curse which wasn’t free. In the original build of the game the curses stacked all the way to 1/16th of your max health but thankfully they changed that.

In Dark Souls II you lost a fraction of your max health after each death until you were down to 50%.

In Bloodborne, your heals didn’t replenish after death so each time you healed and died you lost that heal and would have to go around finding more heals.

Dark Souls III wasn’t too punishing, I can’t think of anything at the moment that was super punishing about that game. It was my go-to recommendation for beginners until Elden Ring for that reason.

In Sekiro, every time you died you lost half your money and couldn’t get it back. You also had a chance to make a random NPC sick which would prevent you from continuing their quest until you healed them, which wasn’t easy or cheap. The chance to get someone sick also increased the more you died. I think the baseline was 13% chance to get someone sick, and increased every subsequent death until it capped at 50% each death, though there was a way to reset that number.

Elden Ring is kind of like Dark Souls III in that it doesn’t really punish you for dying, which I think is the right approach. If you go with Elden Ring and love it, and do the DLC and love that too, I’d strongly recommend going to Dark Souls III next. It’s the closest to Elden Ring.

Cyberpunk is on sale for 65% off so I finally picked it up (and its DLC). Currently downloading, I’m looking forward to checking it out. I tried it out shortly after launch, I think a demo or a friend’s house, but it never clicked for me so I didn’t get it. It was also incredibly buggy. I heard it’s far better now though, especially with the DLC, so I’ll give it a real shot.

Personally, I’ve never played the Ace Attorney games so I can’t comment on them, but between Elden Ring and Lies of P I’d suggest Elden Ring if you’ve never played it. Lies of P was fun but it never quite hooked me the same way. Also if you’ve never played a Soulslike before, Elden Ring is a fantastic place to start. The DLC is also amazing, and is probably my favourite add-on content of any game ever. It was a bit controversial at launch for being very difficult, but I think that’s kind of the point.

Elden Ring is definitely the easiest to get into, but I think by the end becomes the hardest of all the Souls games on a normal playthrough. Due to its open world though it is easy to trivialize the game if you’re really struggling, with the exception of the final boss of the DLC who is just a brick wall no matter what (or at least was at launch, I haven’t played the DLC in a little while so that might’ve changed). Elden Ring wasn’t my first Souls game, but it was for all my friends who played it, and they all loved it just as much as I did. I’d put it in my top 3 of all time, maybe #1.

With all that being said, Lies of P is still a really good game, and I’m sure other people feel differently than I do comparing the two, those are just the thoughts of a massive Elden Ring fan so maybe take it with a grain of salt.