What We Played #666 – DOOM, D&D & Cat Quest III
thesixthaxis.comOoooh, it’s the big spooky edition of What We Played, the one possessed by the Devil’s number. So, in the finest traditions of this feature, I asked everyone to not only tell me their gaming habits of the week gone by, but to also tell me their favourite thing about the Devil and/or the occult.
For me? Well, I kind of just think that pentagrams look neat and are fun to draw. It’s a bit like the ‘Cool S’, but more witchy and goth. Also, I think The Good Place could probably count here. I need to rewatch that show sometime!
My gaming this week has been anything but devilish… unless you think pirate cats are the work of the dark one. I wrapped up our review of the cute and fun action RPG action of Cat Quest 3!
Jason’s favourite thing about the occult is a bit of silly wordplay, as he says “Dungeons and Dragons is a cult but is also good.” He should know, because he’s a fully fledged member, having played D&D three times in the past week an had “a blast every time”. He’s also played an awful lot of Dome Keeper.
It’s “everything” occult for Nic, with the one caveat that the cult of Taylor Swift is “too intense” for him. And so he’s been burrowing back into MTG Arena, shifting back into the digital game after a spell – geddit? – of only playing paper. He has thoughts on the new Bloomburrow expansion, which “is phenomenally cute, but it turns out underpowered relative to what we’ve had recently. Its effect on the meta has been somewhat less than I had hoped!”
Steve reckons that “demons have all the best tunes, but no full quantitative study has yet to be carried out regarding video games.” He’s been playing a decidedly un-fiendish mixture of games, including Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Dungeons of hinterberg, rattling through boomer shooter Bloodhound and the original Breath of Fire, and finally made a start on Spider-Man 2, since it was taking up SSD space on his PS5.
There was a little tickle of Destiny 2 for Tuffcub, of course, but he also finished off RoboCop: Rogue City, “and
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