The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:24 pm
by Phaseknox
Played: Nothing
Finished: Nothing
Playing: ?
Added: Nothing
Games releasing this week
Against the Storm
Age of Empires IV - Knights of Cross and Rose
All in Abyss: Judge the Fake
Armored Brigade II
Asgard’s Fall - Viking Survivors
Aviassembly
Battlefield Waltz
Big Buck Hunter: Ultimate Trophy
Bioid
Blue Prince
Burden of Command
Commandos: Origins
Crashlands 2
Cursed Dawn
Dave the Diver - Ichiban’s Holiday
Dissent on Mars
Driveloop
Electro-Bop Boxing League
Fortune Avenue
Gedonia 2
Girls Made Pudding
Hollow Survivors
Hollywood Animal
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
IXION
Jumping Jazz Cats
Junkyard Builder
Kaya’s Prophecy
Leila
Locomoto
Milord
Monaco 2
Peppered: An Existential Platformer
Pocket Bravery
Polo and the Holobook
Promise Mascot Agency
Sandwalkers
Slimekeep
Snow Bros. 2 Special
South of Midnight
Star Overdrive
The Talos Principle: Reawakened
Typing Ninja
Used Cars Simulator
Velev
Wild Assault
Wildgate
Wind Story
Re: The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:23 am
by argyle
Games added: Rogue Legacy 2, Jitsu Squad
Last week: Finished nothing, played Enter the Gungeon & Rogue Legacy 2
This week: Same.
Enter the Gungeon is good, but RL2 is excellent. Absolutely loving that game so far.
Re: The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:26 am
by canedaddy
Played recently: GTA San Andreas
Finished: GTA SA
Added to backlog: nothing
Current backlog: 45
I haven't figured out what to play after SA. Nothing in the backlog is calling my name at the moment.
argyle wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:23 am
... RL2 is excellent. Absolutely loving that game so far.
Hmm, that might be the one. I enjoyed the first one.
Re: The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:56 pm
by isthatallyougot
I really enjoyed the first Rogue Legacy, but never got around to the second.
I've mostly played OOTP this week, but I have also been enjoying Ion Fury. It's a boomer shooter with a wise-cracking female protagonist in a cyber-punk future setting. It's greasy fast and fun, and if you have any affinity for such games, I'd surely recommend it. The level design is really nice and the shooting is really satisfying too.
Re: The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 2:15 pm
by argyle
canedaddy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:26 am
Hmm, that might be the one. I enjoyed the first one.
isthatallyougot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:56 pm
I really enjoyed the first Rogue Legacy, but never got around to the second.
That was me. DG has actually been playing it for 2-3 weeks now, he's the one that got me to bump it up my list. Glad he did too, it's really scratching the gaming itch I had right now.
Re: The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition
Ace Attorney Trilogy is in the books! My thoughts are below:
Positives:
- Story that comes together at the end of the trilogy
- Music is fantastic, very catchy, might have to find it for download
- The hand(s) slamming on desks sound effect I need this for my phone somehow
Negatives:
- Sometimes things in the trials and investigations are overly long and drawn out. All of the games are way longer than I thought they'd be. The amount of dialogue is staggering
- Several wacky ass annoying characters
- That damn judge seems to vary between super smart and the dumbest person in the room. It was mostly for comedic effect, but was still off-putting at times
Re: The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2025 9:07 am
by argyle
jfissel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:32 pm
- That damn judge seems to vary between super smart and the dumbest person in the room. It was mostly for comedic effect, but was still off-putting at times
Re: The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition
jfissel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:32 pm
- That damn judge seems to vary between super smart and the dumbest person in the room. It was mostly for comedic effect, but was still off-putting at times
Re: The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:04 pm
by Phaseknox
isthatallyougot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:56 pm I've mostly played OOTP this week, but I have also been enjoying Ion Fury. It's a boomer shooter with a wise-cracking female protagonist in a cyber-punk future setting. It's greasy fast and fun, and if you have any affinity for such games, I'd surely recommend it. The level design is really nice and the shooting is really satisfying too.
Ion Fury is one of my favorite FPSs in recent years.
Re: The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 12:45 pm
by isthatallyougot
Phaseknox wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:04 pm
Ion Fury is one of my favorite FPSs in recent years.
I can surely see why. What a fantastic blast of fun this game is! I'm a little surprised that you feel that way though, given how you feel about challenging games. Although, maybe I'm just not that great at FPSs, well, actually I'm sure I'm not, lol. But even on normal, I feel like this is a nice sense of challenge and resistance - very satisfying on the default difficulty. And even though I almost only play on PC nowadays, I still prefer controller over KB&M, so I'm even worse because of that, I'm sure, ha.
Anyway, I just finished the rooftop fight with the Revenant 8991-PX last night and
took the long elevator to the underground railway after setting off the self-destruct sequence, blowing everything to hell
, and what an incredibly fun and hectic battle. I usually enjoy FPSs, and so I play them from time to time, but they rarely crack my own personal hall of fame, even when they're good, but this has a chance. Such a fun time! It's the only thing that I've played recently that has had any sense of pull against my desire to keep playing OOTP baseball at every free moment. Nice to hear you chime in on something phase.