What are you playing this weekend?
The vacations are over, and it is time to get returned to regular. Whatever regular is, truly. What’s everyday for you may now not be for someone else.
For instance: a regular day for me (of late besides) is getting up early, grabbing multiple handfuls of unsalted peanuts, and stepping out of doors to unfold them onto a glittery plate. Then, I clutch a caller out of my gown pocket and use it to hail the neighborhood pair of Crows to breakfast.
When we moved returned to our place of origin two years in the past, one factor I observed about the neighborhood in which I bought our domestic became that it had at least 3 units of Crow pairings. I have become all giddy on the idea of corvids touring my backyard. You see, we lived on a big farm for 12 years before we needed to pass residence, and at the same time as there has been a mess of birds of every species regarded to our place (even owls, hawks, and as soon as a Bald Eagle), for some reason we in no way had any crows. Maybe one or two might pass via, however they by no means stayed lengthy or came close to the house.
During our stint at the farm, I made buddies with a couple of Blue Jays. Bribing them with cat meals worked wonders and ultimately, one of the jays became snug sufficient to take a piece of kibble right from my hand. Of route, the chook feeder helped convey the jays in, however they simply love dry cat meals. So do raccoons, however I digress.
Missing my Blue Jays, I decided while we moved right here that I might try to befriend the Crows. After failing to seize their attention after about a year, no matter all of the peanuts put out (squirrels love them too reputedly), over the vacations, I purchased a Crow Caller and a plastic decoy for the birdbath. I were the use of it each morning for the ultimate week, and certain enough, the pair that rule my avenue have started out to pay greater attention to me.
Tomorrow, I am going to try to bribe them with scrambled eggs and cat meals, and subsequent time I reduce the fats off our steaks, I will shop it for them. Maybe then they will take into account me a friend, begin placing round my backyard, and sooner or later, do my bidding by way of spying on my enemies and robbing my buddies of their hard-earned coin. Mwahahahaha!
Anyway, it is normal for me. I don’t have any lifestyles. For the relaxation of us here at VG247, after gulping down masses of spirits and eating an excessive amount of meals at some point of the vacation festivities, it is back to gambling video video games. Not that we didn’t play any over the vacations, because we did, it is simply we’re lower back to doing it “generally” instead of binging or gambling sporadically.
Here’s what we are gambling this weekend:
I’m a touch burnt out on video games at the moment, but however I’ll be spending some time playing a few fun stuff this weekend. Most probably, a few Sunless Skies which I’ve jumped returned into currently. I’m also tempted as well up League of Legends once more, that is an lousy concept, but hi there, what the hell. Maybe I actually have the intellectual fortitude for it.
I’ll also be analyzing thru a ebook I got over Christmas, Jon Ronson’s “Them”. I realize proper, an actual bodily book. Hopefully, I get through this funk soon, before some of the big games of this year pop out!
Dom Peppiatt, Features Editor – Bloodborne
If you examine my function from earlier this week, it’ll be no wonder to you that I cleaving and tearing my way through Yharnam with a pistol in one hand and a few type of ludicrous broadsword-cum-epee in another. I am tinged with bloodlust, raving with insanity, pulling apart wild beasts like they’re naught more than rotting meat and sinew. FromSoft has possessed me, granted me the understanding of the old ones, and made me deadly. There’s no way I’m going to step again from the brink before the whole thing and something that’s been given life in this foul land has fallen to my greatsword.
And you already know what I’m going to do after that? I’m going to play Dark Souls. I’ve in no way absolutely performed it – now not properly – and the concept of stepping back into Lordran to take in the doomed ambiance properly now that I’ve been troubled with the FromSoft curse feels me with a giddy sense of masochistic pleasure. There’s a international event kicking off this week that goals to convey misplaced souls again to the original Dark Souls, so I feel my timing is spot on. If you’re eager to remind your self why this is one of the maximum influential games ever played, I sit up for seeing you at the ramparts, too.
James Billcliff, Guides Editor – Prey
I actually have performed the outlet of Prey (that’s a superb set piece and nearly worth gambling the game for in and of itself) a grand general of four times. Once in a pre-launch demo on PS4, again on PS4 when it became on PS Plus, then when I first offered in a Steam sale multiple years in the past, and now – hopefully for the very last time – at the Steam Deck.
I love Arkane video games and Bethesda-posted RPGs, however for some cause I’ve by no means managed to stay with Prey beyond installing the primary Neuromod. But now I’ve loaded it into the ultimate backlog-buster, the Steam Deck, maybe that is ultimately the time I’ll get the maximum out of it.
With orange-jumpsuited Alien vibes out the wahzoo, and at least a visual similarity to the wrench-core fight of Bioshock, I still can’t believe I’ve left it this long.
And it’s us. What approximately you? What are you gambling this weekend? Were you proficient a outstanding cool game over the holidays, or did you take advantage of the myriad income? Tell us all about it!