June'22 overview
My progress is negative...
Yes, really late June overview. Almost in the end of July…
| Games owned | Added in June’22 | Never played (change in June’22) | Beaten/Completed in June’22 |
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| 268 | +19 (-6 deleted from library) | 145 (+4) | 7 |
On the bright side: I have bought only 5 games for myself. “Fallout New Vegas: Ultimate Edition”. I’m big fun of classic Fallout games and I was completely disappointed by the Fallout 3. Never followed franchise after that… But recently I was convinced by the fellows gamers community that “New Vegas” is a thing and that as fan of original Fallout I must try it. Now it is in my backlog :`) Also it was dirty cheap in my local retailer.
The second one is Fibrillation HD - it was originally released in 2012 by the developer of the Armored Head (one of my favorite games, it is one of those hidden gems on Steam). Wanted to support one-man-company and will eventually beat it.
“Vampire Survivors” - At first I made a giveaway of this game, after the end of giveaway almost all participants bought this game. So did I to try it some day as I like the genre… And I spent there about 17 hours :) Good game, hope to get back to it one day again.
And the last one is “100 hidden cats 2”. I liked the first part, was playing it with my 2.8 yo daughter for more than an hour :) Plan to play it once again with a daughter later.
On the “dark side”: I took a part in the “Summer Secret Santa” event on SG (for a local community) and as result I got huge amount of excellent games… I planned that I will gift some and will get some, but everything went out of the control… I got 8 gifts in June and 7 more in July. Made a separate list here to follow the progress, all games are from my whilst so I will eventually beat them. Community was crazy and total amount of gifts went beyond 429 games!
Also I started to remove from my library games I got as freebies just because they were free, or games that were part of the bundles that I never intended to play (I even didn’t know that they exist in my library).
Still ashamed, hope this felling will push me in the right direction and won’t cause extra depression :)
Games highlights of June:
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BioShock Remastered
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Vampire Survivors
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FAR: Lone Sails
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Armed with Wings: Rearmed
BioShock Remastered: First of all I need to say a huge THANK YOU to Skanda as it is fully her responsibility for me playing this excellent game as she named it for a challenge. Without being challenged I would probably keep it under dust in my library. The game, as I already said, is excellent. Before I only played Infinity and can say that Bioshock 1 is not worse, maybe even better in some cases.
I enjoyed both gameplay and the story. Also graphics still is beautiful to my taste. Also game helped me to stay in positive mood during treatment in hospital. There were 10 days when I had to do drips and every morning I was playing the game awaiting for my drips to be ready. That rare case when game was more that just a game.
Vampire Survivors: Very addictive gameplay, also not very time consuming. Runs are from 15 to 30 minutes, so it is easy to progress in game if you have just 15 or 30 spare minutes :) Can recommend to all genre lovers, well made game.
Next two titles were my submissions for “June is a “play a game you won on Steamgifts” month” and I will allow my self to just copy-past the aftertaste I had from there.
FAR: Lone Sails: First play run was a charm.I enjoyed mechanics, graphics and tension in couple of places. It was really interesting. Second run (to get “finish game under 90 minutes” achievement) was also good as I got even more tension because of time pressure. But after that I had to farm miles to get last achievement That is a piece of stupid achievement for such a game. There is no content to play it for that long… At first you are trying to manage resources, avoid threats… But once you know that game is 100% scripted and that you can burn engine 100% of time (you get more stuff to burn then you actually need) - there is nothing you can still enjoy. Still 4/5 - can recommend at least to play once.
Armed with Wings: Rearmed: I was expecting it to be more of a platformer/puzzle game (because of the bird). Turned out it is more of a grindy action game. Story line was uninteresting and unintriguing. Fighting was good after I learned how to make combos and opened some good swords. Didn’t like that at first I was straggling to progress in campaign because my attacks were to weak and that lead to unnecessary grinding to open better swords. Once I have got a really good sword - difficulty dropped significantly. And once I learned that after getting all relics you can beat a special level and get access to a god-like character… Well, that It devalued all past work. With this character you can rush through all levels on basic difficulty without any problems (I tried final boss on lvl 40 with this character and beatn it in 3 minutes or so). And on hard difficulty you also car rush all levels, but in last boss fight die from 3 missed blows (aslo tried finall level from mission picker). My overall experience was 6/10. I enjoyed playing the game, but not ready to grind all the achievements. Can recommend only for genre lovers.
woo Bioshock! I also played Infinite first but the original Bioshock just has an amazing atmosphere and story! Bioshock 2 is also really good. The story is not as strong but the gameplay is super fun.
I’m looking into playing Bioshock 2 as soon as I will finish SG wins and what I got as presents. Even if it will take some time - it won’t be lost in my library - I’m really motivated to play it :)
Thanks for the report– a good read. I played FAR: Lone Sails not long ago. I only made one real speedrun attempt and it was a disaster. I think more went wrong than in my first playthrough! I aborted about 1/3 way through. I might have to go back and try it again someday.
Thanks! On my “under 90 minutes” speedrun in FAR I had to restart once after I glitched into textures. But thankfully it doesn’t broke my attempt. FAR is pretty balanced in terms of effort/joy and time needed to finish the run. So probably it worth a replay :)