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November 9, 2023 - Day 313 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 332Game: WWE 2K23
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Mar 17, 2023
Installation Date: Nov 9, 2023
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 51mWWE 2K23 is a pro wrestling sports sim. It's game #2 in the November Humble Choice bundle.
I am not a sports fan; my wife passionately fills that role in our relationship. I'll occasionally watch a game with her, but sports just don't do anything for me.
Then there's professional wrestling. Not only do I not see the appeal, I find it actively repellent. The showboating aggressive and sweaty men give off the same vibe as the boys who used to bully me aggressively and incessantly at school.
There are few sports I want to know less about than pro wrestling, which puts playing a game like WWE 2K23 somewhere south of playing an F1 game, and almost at survival/escape horror levels.
Although, to be honest, I once went on a hyperfocus bender on the performance side of pro-wrestling, so I know what a heel turn and face turn are, but the sports side? I was even LESS interested in knowing more.
I was fully prepared to dislike this game. I WANTED to dislike this game. I figured I'd get in, play 15 minutes and get out, have a little rant about it, and free up 80 gigs of precious SSD space.
I loaded it up. The game aggressively loading up on the wrong monitor helped. Forcing me straight into a tutorial without first letting me adjust the settings? Pump it into my veins. Hiding the settings menu somewhere other than the options menu? Just trying to get it working has eaten up a good chunk of my 15 minutes. I'm ready to rant.
However, it's not a fair review of *the game*, so into the tutorial with some guy named Xavier Woods, who's part of "The New Day". Already learning things I don't want to know.
Xavier tells me that I need to train so that one day I can face off against John Cena. The tutorial walks me through the various moves, and combos, and it takes me a bit over 15 minutes to complete.
There are a LOT of moves to remember. At least now I can give it a fair review... except it's straight into a Wrestlemania ring. Xavier is now dressed in pink and yellow spandex, and is going up against his first opponent...
John Cena. Apparently. I can't see him, but I know he's there (sorry, not sorry).
"One day" is today. I'm wrestling John Cena. I can remember *some* of the moves from the tutorial. I'm... oh no...
...I'm enjoying this.
I'm playing WWE 2K23, and I'm having fun. I beat John Cena.
I BEAT JOHN CENA.
I put down the controller. My hands are aching.
I just had fun.
Playing a pro-wrestling sim.
Who even am I now?
I'm not about to sit down and watch WWE any time soon, but I'm not getting that 80Gb of SSD space back, either.
For a game that I was prepared to dislike SO much, I can't quite believe the words I'm about to write: WWE 2K23 is actually really:
4: Good
#WWE2K23 #ProWrestling #Sports #Sim #HumbleChoice #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay
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Apr 27, 2023 - Day 117 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 132Game: Phoning Home
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Feb 8, 2017
Library Date: Mar 13, 2018
Unplayed: 1871d (5y1m14d)
Playtime: 95mPhoning Home is a third-person open-world robot survival sim. It is also free on Steam (which is why there's a link at the end).
Phoning Home was developed by ION LANDS, who went on to create Cloudpunk, (one of my all-time favourite games).
I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of sandbox survival games. Valheim left me cold, and V Rising genuinely left me regretting spending the money on it.
Phoning Home, on the other hand, is a narrative driven survival game, which takes the exploration and construction and gives it purpose.
I only intended to play this for 15 minutes before work, and was an hour late starting work, so deep did it suck me in and make me want to keep playing, and further the story of the cute little WALL-E inspired robot, ION.
To the point that the new Warframe expansion The Duviri Paradox dropped today (it's free too!), and if I'm to have any hope of giving it a fair go, I'll need to play that first, because otherwise I suspect I'll be up all night playing Phoning Home.
Which means this is:
5: Excellent
#PhoningHome #OpenWorld #ThirdPerson #Survival #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay
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Apr 27, 2023 - Day 117 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 132Game: Phoning Home
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Feb 8, 2017
Library Date: Mar 13, 2018
Unplayed: 1871d (5y1m14d)
Playtime: 95mPhoning Home is a third-person open-world robot survival sim. It is also free on Steam (which is why there's a link at the end).
Phoning Home was developed by ION LANDS, who went on to create Cloudpunk, (one of my all-time favourite games).
I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of sandbox survival games. Valheim left me cold, and V Rising genuinely left me regretting spending the money on it.
Phoning Home, on the other hand, is a narrative driven survival game, which takes the exploration and construction and gives it purpose.
I only intended to play this for 15 minutes before work, and was an hour late starting work, so deep did it suck me in and make me want to keep playing, and further the story of the cute little WALL-E inspired robot, ION.
To the point that the new Warframe expansion The Duviri Paradox dropped today (it's free too!), and if I'm to have any hope of giving it a fair go, I'll need to play that first, because otherwise I suspect I'll be up all night playing Phoning Home.
Which means this is:
5: Excellent
#PhoningHome #OpenWorld #ThirdPerson #Survival #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay
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Apr 27, 2023 - Day 117 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 132Game: Phoning Home
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Feb 8, 2017
Library Date: Mar 13, 2018
Unplayed: 1871d (5y1m14d)
Playtime: 95mPhoning Home is a third-person open-world robot survival sim. It is also free on Steam (which is why there's a link at the end).
Phoning Home was developed by ION LANDS, who went on to create Cloudpunk, (one of my all-time favourite games).
I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of sandbox survival games. Valheim left me cold, and V Rising genuinely left me regretting spending the money on it.
Phoning Home, on the other hand, is a narrative driven survival game, which takes the exploration and construction and gives it purpose.
I only intended to play this for 15 minutes before work, and was an hour late starting work, so deep did it suck me in and make me want to keep playing, and further the story of the cute little WALL-E inspired robot, ION.
To the point that the new Warframe expansion The Duviri Paradox dropped today (it's free too!), and if I'm to have any hope of giving it a fair go, I'll need to play that first, because otherwise I suspect I'll be up all night playing Phoning Home.
Which means this is:
5: Excellent
#PhoningHome #OpenWorld #ThirdPerson #Survival #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay
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Apr 27, 2023 - Day 117 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 132Game: Phoning Home
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Feb 8, 2017
Library Date: Mar 13, 2018
Unplayed: 1871d (5y1m14d)
Playtime: 95mPhoning Home is a third-person open-world robot survival sim. It is also free on Steam (which is why there's a link at the end).
Phoning Home was developed by ION LANDS, who went on to create Cloudpunk, (one of my all-time favourite games).
I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of sandbox survival games. Valheim left me cold, and V Rising genuinely left me regretting spending the money on it.
Phoning Home, on the other hand, is a narrative driven survival game, which takes the exploration and construction and gives it purpose.
I only intended to play this for 15 minutes before work, and was an hour late starting work, so deep did it suck me in and make me want to keep playing, and further the story of the cute little WALL-E inspired robot, ION.
To the point that the new Warframe expansion The Duviri Paradox dropped today (it's free too!), and if I'm to have any hope of giving it a fair go, I'll need to play that first, because otherwise I suspect I'll be up all night playing Phoning Home.
Which means this is:
5: Excellent
#PhoningHome #OpenWorld #ThirdPerson #Survival #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay
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Apr 27, 2023 - Day 117 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 132Game: Phoning Home
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Feb 8, 2017
Library Date: Mar 13, 2018
Unplayed: 1871d (5y1m14d)
Playtime: 95mPhoning Home is a third-person open-world robot survival sim. It is also free on Steam (which is why there's a link at the end).
Phoning Home was developed by ION LANDS, who went on to create Cloudpunk, (one of my all-time favourite games).
I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of sandbox survival games. Valheim left me cold, and V Rising genuinely left me regretting spending the money on it.
Phoning Home, on the other hand, is a narrative driven survival game, which takes the exploration and construction and gives it purpose.
I only intended to play this for 15 minutes before work, and was an hour late starting work, so deep did it suck me in and make me want to keep playing, and further the story of the cute little WALL-E inspired robot, ION.
To the point that the new Warframe expansion The Duviri Paradox dropped today (it's free too!), and if I'm to have any hope of giving it a fair go, I'll need to play that first, because otherwise I suspect I'll be up all night playing Phoning Home.
Which means this is:
5: Excellent
#PhoningHome #OpenWorld #ThirdPerson #Survival #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay