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What Are You Playing? Jump-Start January 2025
What are you up to this month? Have any games in mind for the future? Let us know in the comments below!
It's a new year, if you didn't notice, which means it's time to get excited about all the games that might/will come out in 2025. My list includes Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Borderlands 4, Lunar Remastered Collection, DOOM: The Dark Ages, and more. It's gonna be a packed year, for sure! Of course, we don't yet know when they will come out, so in the more immediate future I have the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 port to Steam as my next-closest game to be interested in.
Currently, I am going back-and-forth between Path of Exile 2 and my modded run of Baldur's Gate III. I bought a Horipad Steam Controller from Amazon - although I'm still waiting for it to arrive - and with that fancy new device I'll have everything I need to play (& review!) games...except maybe a better computer lol. I've got my Switch, my PlayStation 5 as backup, a PC that can run Steam, a Steam Deck, and now the controller.
The Horipad is supposed to have programmable buttons, so it damn well better be able to take screenshots with the push of a button! I'll be really annoyed otherwise: pressing F12 on a Keyboard + Mouse setup is really hard mid-gameplay, and pulling screenshots off the Steam Deck can be annoying. I hope the controller is the perfect middle-ground option.
I'm hoping to review even more games this year; new ones, of course, but also some older titles via our "Timely Reviews" line. It irked me a little that my "favorite games of 2024" article was literally just the ones I reviewed lol - I need more! I am also hoping to do a light bit of game-streaming: not such that you can see my face or hear my voice, per se, but just dipping my toes in the water while I play games with my sister in the passenger seat (like when we were kids).
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I'm fully into POE2 at this time. And it's awesome. Except some UI quirks which i hate :) Also, i wish they integrated the trading web page into the game.
Right now, cruel difficulty is kind of hard, so i'll have to trade for some better items overall. Also, refunding passives is TOO EXPENSIVE. Changing builds is not gonna happen soon - another issue i have with the game.
On mobile i'm playing Balatro. Reached ante 16 or 17 the highest. There's so much rng involved that most runs end up squashed quite early due to lack of increments of any kind. Probably getting a good/fulfilling game out of 4-5, but i guess it's fine. I'm not known for being lucky lol.
Damn life doesn't let me play the whole day, so i had to pause Stalker 2 and others. At least i'm glad there's no burnout with POE2 yet, but i do hate having to redo all the acts on cruel difficulty. I always hated this formula in Diablo too. Hopefully i won't get bored soon.
If it helps, the whole "redo the story, but on a harder difficulty" is just an Early Access thing. The first Path of Exile did something similar: once the full campaign was (finally) released, they dropped the need to go back through.
There will be six Acts of story in PoE2, and then you'll be able to head straight to end-game.
Wow, another month went by,
In my case I have my mother in law visiting so I will see if I am able to finish AC. Syndicate, and keep going with Hades and Balatro.
Other than that, my usual F2P suspects are still present.
Lemushki - The one and only since the 2006 rebranding.
Took me eight and a half hours to complete my first playthrough for my review.
It's quite a bigger beast in content than the first game, but it's still fun.
Happy New Year everyone!
My answer for this month is going to be quite boring I'm afraid. I plan to continue Stardew Valley, I'll be checking out the WoW update dropping soon (but not likely to do much with it), and I'll get in some Tarkov PvE here and there which I played during the Winter break with a couple of friends.
I've got a few titles that are in my queue for reviews for the site that hopefully I can get to. It would be refreshing to play something new and possibly be surprised by how good it is.
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Still playing an ungodly amount of Diablo 4, I'm very close to what I'd consider my character finished though. Between that and the new season hitting I'll try to tune it down a bit.
Hearthstone sees a little less play, I'm not even legend in Wild yet. There are rumors of a Wild tournament on EU this month but it seems they want to wait for the mini set to drop before doing it. That one should be right around the corner and I expect it to be just as overpowered as usual. Not very happy with the state of HS to be honest.
Maybe I'll just get a PlayStation Portable and make diablo my main thing. We'll see.
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