GAMES

I'm currently playing Star Trek: Resurgence, and it's REALLY good. Sure, the graphics are a bit dated, and the gameplay is what you would expect from a Telltale title, but it's all about the narrative and the performances, and they're both top-notch. It's a highly authentic experience.

Escorting Ambassador Spock to a mediation between two alien races, and I was legit surprised when I heard the voice. The voice actor has NAILED it. It really sounds a lot like Nimoy.

Baldur's Gate II was released 23 years ago. I remember buying the boxed edition from Gamestop and hurrying home to install it. I was engrossed for weeks, and to this day, it remains one of the best RPG's of all time. Larian Studios has been working on the sequel for 6 years, and to say I've been anticipating its release would be a severe understatement. Now it's finally here, after 20 hours of barely scratching the surface of Act I, It's everything I hoped it would be. It's OUTRAGEOUSLY good.

There are 174 hours of cinematics. 17000 different permutations of possible endings. You have devs complaining on Twitter that they don't want BG3 to be the new industry standard because it's impossible to live up to. There is three times the dialogue of all three Lord of the Rings novels combined. The script is roughly two million words long. It feels limitless in scope.

This is a once-a-decade game.

Between this, Tears of the Kingdom, Resident Evil 4: Remake and with Starfield dropping in a month, this has been an INSANE year for pure gaming nirvana

This month I've been playing Yakuza: Kiwami which is a remaster of the 2005 original Yakuza game (now I've finished 0, I'm on the mission to play everything up to Infinite Wealth; just another 7 games to go) a ton of online chess, and this little gem that has me fully addicted:

I have a very expensive and powerful gaming PC and nothing I've played in the last couple months has utilized it at all. GRAPHICS AREN'T EVERYTHING.

I have been playing the Early Access of Hades II. It's very good. Some of the game balance is still a bit iffy but SuperGiant are working diligently to update stuff due to community feedback. Hades I is a masterpiece and this looks like it will be just as good. There is a lot of fanart already.

I...there isn't enough TIME in the world to play ALL the things. This is going to consume so much of my already limited time, it's going to be a serious problem. I have thousands of hours in POE and been waiting for POE2 for what feels like forever. It looks so insane.