June 2020 Progress Report
This month was relaxing in some ways but crazier when it came to work.On the PC front, I’ve been eyeing a CPU/Mobo/RAM upgrade to a Ryzen 5 3600/B550/16GB DDR4-3600, but I think I’m going to try to hold off on it until before or on Black Friday when better deals and increased motherboard supply is available after the recent high demand on the heels of new CPUs in recent months. I’ve also been looking at monitors, but when I’m looking at decent 1440p+ monitors with 90Hz+, I don’t think the increased potential fidelity relative to my current monitor (because my PC can’t push that res+FPS on all games) is worth the minimum cost of $350. For that much money, I think I’d rather get into VR with something like the Samsung HMD Odyssey+ on sale. Enough drooling over new PC stuff, let’s get to the games.
Stats
I only got two games from the Steam sale: Titanfall 2, and Conduct DELUXE.
All my other games have been from bundles and a few SG wins.
912 games (+31)
75% never played (+1%, +29, 684)
9% unfinished (+0%, +1, 79)
12% beaten (+0%, +1, 106)
1% completed (+0%, +0, 12)
3% won’t play (-1%, +0, 31)
Last month:
On Going Games
Finally picked it up again, beat up various magisters, and got some treasure. Very challenging but satisfying battles. We need more res scrolls.
Beaten
A branching story-driven game where a group of people get stranded on an island, needing to survive and find a way to get rescued. Its only a survival game in the sense there can be life & death choices impacting who survives being stranded. It was worth playing once, but scripted dialog was so simplistic that it was kid friendly. So with that and my meh engagement in the game, I wasn't motivated to play through again.
Played but paused
Still my favorite roguelite I've played. I've now completed more than half of the campaign, a few more endless games, and played but haven't completed one adventure. Adventure seems to be a generally longer or deeper campaign. I had to pause it though because I won…
Playing
I was excited for this SG QGG group win on Steam. So I jumped back into the Fallout FPS RPG franchise that I've previously enjoyed, and so far its been good and worth playing. Its all very familiar, but with some enhanced visuals and a few new welcome features like more mods, reworked perks system, crafting, and settlements. So far it doesnt seem much more buggy than FO3 OR FNV, though the load times for going to the Commonwealth seem unusually long even with an SSD and 24GB of RAM. Maybe loading stuff into VRAM of my GTX1060 is what's adding time? The game does seem to use all 6GB of VRAM, and I haven't downloaded hi-res texture packs.I want to build up settlements later when and if I feel like it. Right now they're mostly a means to crafting, with Red Rocket being my base where I store stuff, because I want to focus on exploring and quests.As for alignment, I'm trying to avoid joining the minutemen because I don't want to have a bunch of "defend the settlement" quests, optional or mandatory. I'm leaning toward joining Brotherhood because I've enjoyed that before, but I might go Railroad since that's more unique to FO4. I do have a feeling that the story isn't going to be as elaborate as the other Fallout games I've played, but I haven't even gotten to Diamond City yet because I'm exploring and doing many side quests north of there.
Next Month’s Queue
This hinges on how much more time I spend on FO4, but here’s what else I might play…
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Fallout 4
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Split or Steal
236.7 hours playtime
no achievements
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Tower Unite
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Divinity: Original Sin 2
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Hand of Fate 2
