>Also if there are any games coming out next year you are interested in?

Actually, no. I read gaming news every day, but it's difficult to think of a single game I'm aware of that I'm interested in. I don't know if Diablo IV is coming this new year, but it's the only think I can think of. Ark has a new map in the summer, so that's something, too.

What about you?

I read an article last night about George R. R. Martin's involvement in writing the world of Elden Ring. I don't know much of anything about the game though.

Control is available today.

I'd like to get FFVII Remake and the Kingdom Hearts games from there, but money. LOL

Thanks! I haven't played these games (nor any we've mentioned in this post, heck I haven't really played many games I've claimed). There's someone on YouTube who uses one of these games for benchmarking.

So I guess...if you want to find out how good your PC is play Tomb Raider. If you want to find out how bad your PC is play Ark. 😆

Ark just released a new community-made map (not the first time) that contains three new creatures. On the same day, the Winter Wonderland event started, so I'm doing that until I feel done, then I might return to Skyrim Anniversary Edition. I almost always return to Ark for holiday events.

As for what I'm watching that would be Hawkeye, though there's only one episode left. I went to see Spider-Man: No Way Home last night. The Witcher season two is out today, so I might watch that soon.

Also, I'm actually not planning on buying anything during this year's Steam Winter sale. I'm trying to save for a new monitor and I can't think of any games that I want really badly right now.

Thanks for the Boba reminder, Will_Ball! I watched season two of The Witcher recently along w/ the animated movie The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. I'll finish Hawkeye this week, too.

The last game I played was Pocket Morty on my phone. It's a Rick and Morty version of Pokemon. Instead of collecting Pokemon, you collect different versions of Morty. It doesn't have elements like Fire and Water, but instead Rock, Paper, and Scissors. Now I'm about to go play Tale of the White Wyvern and then back to Ark. LOL

No rating? I sometimes find it difficult to give games a rating.

You didn't mention the co-op part, which I think is a very big mechanic in the game. I know you don't have to play w/ another person (as per our conversation in another post), I was just asking if you thought it would be better. Perhaps the question I really mean is, how is the AI co-op? Does it also switch weapons depending on an enemy's weakness?

You said you hit a wall. I'm guessing I hit that wall much earlier in the game than you did. I barely played it and didn't enjoy the difficulty and just gave up.

Since you mentioned the Switch, I kind of feel sorry for the Switch. It does seem to be popular, and really it's the only current gen console I care about, but it seems incredibly weak. It seems to be getting the same games as the current gen, but they appear to be much worse, or at least very graphically unappealing due to the hardware. This makes sense for how the Switch operates, but I find it quite disappointing. Maybe some people care more about the ability to travel and play these games and that's more important than graphical quality and performance.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this!

>AI co-op is a lot of fun. You have three lives that you share with your co-op partner so if one of you goes down you have some time to revive them without losing a life. That mechanic basically meant we didn't lose very many shared lives. Also, there is a cool mechanic where you can toss a death metal hand gesture in the air and send you and your partner more armor every 30 seconds or so which is very helpful.

>That said, I didn't feel like I was babysitting my AI partner and she helped out quite a bit.

Cool! Thanks for sharing that tidbit. I think that's an important thing to know about, since co-op is a main feature of the game.

>I hit it pretty early on, I just kept going with it. But it's really different than any other Wolf game and I just started the original Dishonoroed and you can tell Arkane made Youngblood because it feels a lot like Dishonored.

I think I hit that wall right away. Seeing that you hit it early on, too, makes me feel not so bad. Sometimes games *really* piss me off. I give up very easily, too. I've been trying to think that if a game really pisses me off that much then to give it up, it's not worth it. I can't say I've been good at following that, though. Part of Mad Max really pissed me off, but I stuck w/ it and eventually finished it, but it was brutal.

>Compared to your PC most of my computers are weak. 🤣

Yeah, but Travis has me jealous of his hardware now. LOL I very much want like a 3090 Ti (for some reason when it comes to PC hardware I pretty much won't settle for less than the best), but it'd take me a while to save up to afford one. I'm already hoping to save money to buy a monitor that's about as expensive, though I may end up settling for one that's about half the price. This is the same 1920x1200 60hz Dell monitor I got w/ the Alienware. It's still fine for me, but I want to experience new tech, which I'm sure it's going to drive me to want a new GPU, since it'll probably make mine look much weaker. (As an aside, my GPU currently costs double what I paid for it a couple years ago.)

>The mobile aspect of the Switch is a big draw to it for sure. That said, I've been playing nearly 100% XBox Series X lately but Celeste pulls me back to the Switch when my son wants me to play it which is generally whenever he is staying with me.

Yeah, some games on the Switch seem quite logical to me. Terraria is another great example of a game I think that's perfect for the Switch. But something like the new GTA remastered trilogy just doesn't make any sense to me. Ark is on it, too, which blows my mind (and I've heard it's the worst version of them all).

Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts on Youngblood, I appreciate it!

I barely played Terraria on the Wii U, but I agree with you.

I wish I had a "fond" experience with this game. I suspect I'm not doing the game play right. I have a neutral or slightly negative perspective of it. I've only been playing at 1080p and I've limited framerate to 60. I definitely prefer the remastered graphics. I have the D2 Battle Chest, but I could never get over the original graphics. This is probably because I was late to Diablo and started with D3. In comparison, the original graphics are terrible. I'm finding I'm picky about this although I have an "acceptable" range. I did play both Warcraft and Starcraft games when they were out and I really enjoyed them. If I was aware of the two Diablo I might have played them and would see how much it looked like those games so I'd probably be ok with it.

Thanks for sharing the video! I liked and subscribed!