What Is TheGamer Staff Playing This Weekend?
It's almost the Fourth of July and, while it currently feels like a really stupid time to celebrate America's alleged greatness, that doesn't mean it's a bad time to drink beer, eat brats, buy a pack of those sugar cookies with red, white, and blue frosting, and take a paid day off. Plus, it's never a bad time to celebrate sticking it to the British monarchy.
In other news, with the notable exception of Fire Emblem: Three Hopes, there aren't a ton of new games coming out right now. So TheGamer staff is mostly playing older stuff and/or trying to catch up with the cornucopia of good games that have already come out this year. Will I ever beat Elden Ring? Not this weekend.
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I'll be on vacation with my family this weekend and through next week. I'm packing light, so just the Switch and my laptop… and maybe the PS5 too, because the house we're staying in doesn't have Wi-Fi and who knows if they'll have a Blu-Ray player?? My Dad introduced me to adventure games as a kid, through games like Syberia and Riven, and as an adult we've played some bits of the Portal games together, so I may take this trip as an opportunity to introduce him to the work of Cosmo D, whose first-person adventure games are set in a surreal, jazzy world. I think he might respond to The Norwood Suite, which is the one that feels closest to a traditional adventure game. We'll see. Other than that, I'm hoping to make some progress in two of the RPGs I've been playing: Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire and Triangle Strategy.
I’ve been playing quite a few different games lately – it’s something that comes with the job, after all. Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes has eaten up a lot of my
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