I’ll vote for Conker even though it’s likely not going to win again. It’s the only game on this list I own lol. I had to cancel my Game Pass subscription for now, but I’ll get it back soon.
Also, I’ve been missing a ton of games here. Too bad I don’t have the time to play most of them.
I'm almost to the end of Evil West and absolutely loving it. I'm not even sure it's a very good game (for most people) but the combat is fun as hell and it's just combat arena after combat arena with very little story or exploration to get in the way of the chaotic and fun combat. I love that towards the end of the game it is just throwing multiple bosses at you with swarms of basic enemies. There is so much going on and it's so much fun to manipulate the battle field so you can strategically use all your abilities in the most effective manner.
I don't have a vote for next month. I will be travelling most of the month so I will mainly be playing on Switch. I really hope we get an Xbox handheld soon.
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Favorite Games - Slay the Spire, Mario Kart, God of War R, Mario Odyssey, Celeste, Control
I'm on the 9th chapter of the game. I read that there are 16 so I'm going to zip through the last part of this game on the weekend and not play anything else.
A couple more chapters down and I'm not going to lie, I'm sort of tired replaying the same bosses over and over. The set pieces and gameplay are great, but there's barely any variety other than "oh you beat this boss last chapter? Now here's the same one plus the 2 bosses from the previous chapter." Kind of bland honestly.
@NintendoByNature yeah, the endgame is about dealing with a lot of the earlier bosses at same time which can get a bit tiring. I don't think I ever done more than a couple of stages in a single play time because of it.
Might be shelving it unfortunately guys. I'm on chapter 13( just started). And yes, I'm very close to the end here, but from what I've read online, nothing changes from here on out. You're still just fighting rehashed bosses and groups of enemies at once. Its been that way the entire game. Unless someone here( @balta666) can tell me that things get really great from this chapter on, I'm good with deleting the game and moving on until the next game for the club is announced.
So this month we have on our hands an early season horror game with Still Wakes the Deep as it has released just a few weeks ago as day one on gamepass.
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Some HLTB Stats:
Main Story - 4.5 Hours
Main + Extras - 5 Hours
Completionist - 6 Hours
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American McGee's Alice -
Conker's Bad Fur Day - 2 (Ysf, Ptl)
Contrast -
Gears of War 2 -
Genesis Noir -
Ghost wire: Tokyo -
Halo 2 -
Inkulinati -
Inside -
Jusant -
Planet of Lana -
Remnant 2 -
Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 -
Steamworld build -
The Evil Within 2 -
The Quarry - 1 (Acp)
Tomb Raider Definitive Edition -
Unravel -
We Happy Few -
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Still Wakes the Deep has a bit of pedigree behind it in this club as it was developed by Brighton based developer The Chinese Room who made Amnesia Machine for Pigs which was part of the Amnesia Collection that we played a few months ago.
They also made Dear Esther, which was one of the first games I ever bought on Steam. I was a bit of a lapsed gamer back then with a rubbish PC so the relatively novel idea of a walking sim set in Britain was appealing to me.
Even though The Chinese Room is based in the opposite end of the UK, Still Wakes the Deep returns them to their video-gameified Scottish roots from Dear Esther.
Might be shelving it unfortunately guys. I'm on chapter 13( just started). And yes, I'm very close to the end here, but from what I've read online, nothing changes from here on out. You're still just fighting rehashed bosses and groups of enemies at once. Its been that way the entire game. Unless someone here( @balta666) can tell me that things get really great from this chapter on, I'm good with deleting the game and moving on until the next game for the club is announced.
I think you had a good crack at it so well done! Sometimes life is too precious to grind out a video game!
Seems like everyone is voting early now…I will vote for Conker’s Bad Fur Day again. Freaking love that game and I want an excuse to play it again now that I’ve finished a ton of other games that have been on my radar. Been always wanting to do a full second playthrough of it, though I might play the remake version if Bad Fur Day gets chosen.
@Balta666@ralphdibny yep I gave it a fair shake. No reason to continue on if nothing changing from here on out. Not a bad game by any means, but also not a good game. From what I've played, it's nestled right around a 6.5/10. Great gameplay and combat, just needed some more variety.
Now onward to still wakes the deep. Excited to see what this ones all about.
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