Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing.
Showing posts with label Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Games. Show all posts
Monday, 2 November 2026
Monday, 26 October 2026
Monday, 19 October 2026
Tabletop Games
Daggerheart
Well, this is a funny one: technically all 3 games are continuing, but I'm away right now, so I'm not really participating in them. Hmm. But as they go on "all the time" and I only log them once per week, I'm still logging them, as I'll still check in and whatnot at some point this week.
Well, this is a funny one: technically all 3 games are continuing, but I'm away right now, so I'm not really participating in them. Hmm. But as they go on "all the time" and I only log them once per week, I'm still logging them, as I'll still check in and whatnot at some point this week.
Monday, 12 October 2026
Tabletop Games
Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing — in fact, this week is the one-year anniversary of joining my first!
All 3 games continuing — in fact, this week is the one-year anniversary of joining my first!
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Video Games
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk...
Like so many random games I buy nowadays, I can't remember how I came across this; but it has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam and is only 62p in the sale. Made an effort to play it today (not much of an "effort" — it's a visual novel so mostly just clicking through, and it only took 20 minutes) because its sequel (Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk...) is also Overwhelmingly Positive and only £1.54, and the sale ends tomorrow afternoon. I liked it enough to buy that too.
Like so many random games I buy nowadays, I can't remember how I came across this; but it has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam and is only 62p in the sale. Made an effort to play it today (not much of an "effort" — it's a visual novel so mostly just clicking through, and it only took 20 minutes) because its sequel (Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk...) is also Overwhelmingly Positive and only £1.54, and the sale ends tomorrow afternoon. I liked it enough to buy that too.
Monday, 5 October 2026
Sunday, 4 October 2026
Video Games
Aperture Desk Job
Nearly two weeks after it arrived, I finally actually played something on my Steam Machine. And I started the same way as on my Deck: with Aperture Desk Job. Despite all Valve's talk of the Steam Controller having input parity with the Deck, this shows it's not true: it shows the wrong command for taking a screenshot (it timed out and auto-completed before I could remember the button combination); there's a bit that requires a microphone (the Controller doesn't have one and, again, it autocompletes in silence); there's a bit where you have to sign your name that I guess used the touchscreen on Deck but says to use the mouse with the Controller, only the trackpads don't work like they should (I'm not even sure how I managed to force my way past that bit in the end); and the gyro only works if you enable a user-created control scheme, not the official one from Valve themselves.
Bright Memory
I picked this because it's also short, listed as being an hour or less. Took me an hour-and-a-half. It's really my first experience of more modern-style combat in games, which involves dodging and using multipe types of attack with timed refresh, rather than just running around and shooting. I tried the latter a lot at first, and died a lot. Once I got the hang of dodging all the time I didn't die again to combat, only struggling with some awkward platforming sections (I maintain that first-person platforming is dumb), but I was still mostly button-mashing rather than really using my attacks in a planned way. Still, only my first hour-or-so with this style, so maybe I'll get used to it. I mean, I guess I'll have to, as I think a lot of more recent games are more like that, which is why some people complain about the older-style combat in games like Skyrim. I quite enjoyed it in the end, though its story is nonsensical (I'd say nonexistent, but I think it thinks it has one), and it kind of just stops and tells you you need to play the sequel. I do already have that, so I guess I'll try it at some point.
Nearly two weeks after it arrived, I finally actually played something on my Steam Machine. And I started the same way as on my Deck: with Aperture Desk Job. Despite all Valve's talk of the Steam Controller having input parity with the Deck, this shows it's not true: it shows the wrong command for taking a screenshot (it timed out and auto-completed before I could remember the button combination); there's a bit that requires a microphone (the Controller doesn't have one and, again, it autocompletes in silence); there's a bit where you have to sign your name that I guess used the touchscreen on Deck but says to use the mouse with the Controller, only the trackpads don't work like they should (I'm not even sure how I managed to force my way past that bit in the end); and the gyro only works if you enable a user-created control scheme, not the official one from Valve themselves.
Bright Memory
I picked this because it's also short, listed as being an hour or less. Took me an hour-and-a-half. It's really my first experience of more modern-style combat in games, which involves dodging and using multipe types of attack with timed refresh, rather than just running around and shooting. I tried the latter a lot at first, and died a lot. Once I got the hang of dodging all the time I didn't die again to combat, only struggling with some awkward platforming sections (I maintain that first-person platforming is dumb), but I was still mostly button-mashing rather than really using my attacks in a planned way. Still, only my first hour-or-so with this style, so maybe I'll get used to it. I mean, I guess I'll have to, as I think a lot of more recent games are more like that, which is why some people complain about the older-style combat in games like Skyrim. I quite enjoyed it in the end, though its story is nonsensical (I'd say nonexistent, but I think it thinks it has one), and it kind of just stops and tells you you need to play the sequel. I do already have that, so I guess I'll try it at some point.
Monday, 28 September 2026
Saturday, 26 September 2026
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
Technology
Steam Machine
Thirteen months since getting my Steam Deck, ten months since it was announced, and three months since they let you join a list to buy one, I've finally got my hands on a Steam Machine.
And, like when I got my Deck, I don't really have time to play with it right now, but I did unbox it and set it up, so that was... fun, in its own way. The games I most want to use it for are ones that are a bit too much for my Deck to run, which tends to mean they're big downloads, so the chances of me playing anything tonight anyway were always slim — even now, it's still downloading the two I most wanted to get on there. It's fundamentally a more powerful Steam Deck, anyhow, so the experience was all very familiar.
And I haven't got it completely set up yet (I need to install Decky, and Heroic, and RetroDECK, and move over some games I'd added by other means that I was intending to play docked, and prettify my library like I have on Deck), so there's still hours of fun to be had getting it 'working'. Maybe I'll even play games on it at some point!
Thirteen months since getting my Steam Deck, ten months since it was announced, and three months since they let you join a list to buy one, I've finally got my hands on a Steam Machine.
And, like when I got my Deck, I don't really have time to play with it right now, but I did unbox it and set it up, so that was... fun, in its own way. The games I most want to use it for are ones that are a bit too much for my Deck to run, which tends to mean they're big downloads, so the chances of me playing anything tonight anyway were always slim — even now, it's still downloading the two I most wanted to get on there. It's fundamentally a more powerful Steam Deck, anyhow, so the experience was all very familiar.
And I haven't got it completely set up yet (I need to install Decky, and Heroic, and RetroDECK, and move over some games I'd added by other means that I was intending to play docked, and prettify my library like I have on Deck), so there's still hours of fun to be had getting it 'working'. Maybe I'll even play games on it at some point!
Monday, 21 September 2026
Monday, 14 September 2026
Tabletop Games
Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing (well, one of them is technically on pause, but it's not cancelled).
All 3 games continuing (well, one of them is technically on pause, but it's not cancelled).
Video Games
Doom
Time flies: it's almost a year since I last played Doom! But I fancied some uncomplicated action (I'd like to get back to Rogue Trooper, but its controls are a pain) so it seemed a good pick. Having played all of the first episode last time, this time I kept going til I got through all of the second, The Shores of Hell. Once again, it took me way longer than it probably should (the best part of two hours), but those levels are torturous mazes! I finally realised you really do need to use the map to find your way around.
Time flies: it's almost a year since I last played Doom! But I fancied some uncomplicated action (I'd like to get back to Rogue Trooper, but its controls are a pain) so it seemed a good pick. Having played all of the first episode last time, this time I kept going til I got through all of the second, The Shores of Hell. Once again, it took me way longer than it probably should (the best part of two hours), but those levels are torturous mazes! I finally realised you really do need to use the map to find your way around.
Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Monday, 7 September 2026
Friday, 4 September 2026
Thursday, 3 September 2026
Video Games
Titanium Court
I've accumulated over 1,000 PC games since I started a spending spree provoked by my Steam Deck acquisition a year ago, and about a dozen of them I'm 'officially' already playing, but then I'll do something like buy this (currently half price) and immediately boot it up. Who knows why I am the way I am? Anyway, it's really weird, which I was expecting, and pretty fun, so far. It's a bit Strategy-y, which might turn me off in time (especially if it gets too complicated/difficult — Strategy has never been my genre), but I'm enjoying its quirkiness (especially its story) so far.
I've accumulated over 1,000 PC games since I started a spending spree provoked by my Steam Deck acquisition a year ago, and about a dozen of them I'm 'officially' already playing, but then I'll do something like buy this (currently half price) and immediately boot it up. Who knows why I am the way I am? Anyway, it's really weird, which I was expecting, and pretty fun, so far. It's a bit Strategy-y, which might turn me off in time (especially if it gets too complicated/difficult — Strategy has never been my genre), but I'm enjoying its quirkiness (especially its story) so far.
Monday, 31 August 2026
Thursday, 27 August 2026
Video Games
Buffet Knight: Decadent Full Course
Classing this as completed — I only got ending 1 (of 4), but it wasn't immediately obvious how to get 2 and 3 (and 4 is a whole extra palaver), so I couldn't be bothered. Fun game, though.
Classing this as completed — I only got ending 1 (of 4), but it wasn't immediately obvious how to get 2 and 3 (and 4 is a whole extra palaver), so I couldn't be bothered. Fun game, though.
Wednesday, 26 August 2026
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