twenty fifth July
Good day and welcome again to our common function the place we write just a little in regards to the video games we have been enjoying. This week, Bertie goes again to historical Greece for an odyssey of his personal; Kelsey goes chook watching; and Connor crosses all his fingers and toes for Sony to repair PlayStation Community.
What have you ever been enjoying this week?
Here is one other query: do you keep in mind what you have been enjoying final week? You do not have to! The What We have Been Taking part in archive has you coated.
Murderer’s Creed Odyssey, PS5
I watched The Odyssey final weekend and, in a rush of enthusiasm for it – I cherished how actual it felt whereas additionally remaining extremely bizarre – I reinstalled Murderer’s Creed Odyssey to have an Odyssean journey of my very own. It hasn’t aged effectively. I do know 2018 is a very long time in the past, however The Witcher 3 was launched three years earlier than it and holds up higher, possibly due to patches, I am probably not certain.
Regardless, AC Odyssey exhibits its age. The character fashions are like outdated plastic toys. However it’s broader than that, in the way in which the sport is made. It is imagined to be a world you’ll be able to immerse your self in, however each second, the interface flashes one thing at your eyes, pointing you someplace, shoving you someplace, geeing you up. It is like an arcade recreation is layered excessive of a sandbox world.
Look, I do not hate it. I’ve really obtained numerous time for this strategy; or slightly, I respect the time it is saving me by utilizing this strategy. Some video games are so impressed with their open worlds and their sense of exploration and discovery that they allow you to flounder aimlessly, and that is wearying. AC Odyssey is all ahead momentum.
I’ve additionally obtained a whole lot of love for Kassandra, the feminine playable lead, who presents like an precise soldier, with musculature to be gawped at. She’s precisely what I think about a feminine soldier would seem like – she’s plausible – and we do not see that sufficient, not in 2018, nor even now.
-Bertie
Flock Round, PC and Pokémon GO, Cell
Flock Round is a co-op steam recreation that duties you and your pals with going bird-watching, and that is about it, and that is the fantastic thing about it.
Armed with the birdwatcher’s greatest pals, a digicam and a few binoculars, you are thrown into an lovable, simplistic world with numerous biomes that possess totally different American birds so that you can try to take snaps of. That is how I spent most of my Saturday, and to make it worse, I accomplished a lot of the sport solo as a result of the dopamine from getting three-star pictures of geese, pigeons, and extra was too good to show away from. There are shiny birds too, turning birdwatching into an adrenaline-pumping exercise, and also you would possibly even be blessed by these digital birds touchdown – and pooping – on you. It is a charming recreation with a low price ticket, and for those who’ve any affection for birds, I extremely advocate it.
After I’ve not been watching birds, I have been enjoying Pokémon GO once more after a two 12 months hiatus from the sport. GO Fest 2026 actually sunk its claws into me, and after touchdown myself a shiny Kyogre and extra shiny Pikachu than I can rely, I’ve totally obtained the Pokemon GO bug on the behest of all my pals (who’re already uninterested in me participating in Fitness center Battles on the pub, however wants should).
-Kelsey
Marvel Tokon: Combating Souls beta, PS5
Gosh I had a very enjoyable half-hour with Marvel Tokon earlier than PSN went down. I hopped into coaching mode and tried my hand with a number of of the characters out there – and was feeling fairly good about Magik. She’s obtained some tough teleportation methods and a pleasant mixture of ranged and melee instruments that I used to be actually excited to take on-line.
That was this morning. I took my lunch break right now and booted up my PS5, giddy prefer it was christmas, after which whomp whomp. PSN is down. In my head it is the world’s revenge in opposition to me particularly. Assuming the community remains to be down by 5pm right now, I am going to must do far much less thrilling issues, like studying the 5 books I purchased and have not touched but. Or possibly I am going to go to the fitness center, or enhance my life in significant and materials methods. That sounds lame as hell, assist me out Sony.
-Connor
