I’m to broke to buy it but still watched the video 😭

First step to enjoyong Sekiro is to stop thinking its a Souls-Like. Its not. Its an action game.

I hope Elden Ring was just the necessary step towards something as good as DS3 was, and not the actual new direction of boss design philosophy, otherwise I don’t think they will ever be able to top DS3.

my comfort game is monster hunter, especially world. it's something that I can play now without a care what monster I'm fighting - either the last endgame boss or the easiest first monster I encountered . I always go back to this game whenever I want to waste my free time or literally have nothing to do.

yes

I can totally relate! A few years ago I repurchased a whole bunch of PS3 games that I had finished in my 30s so that I could "make content" (even writing these words seems icky). I had fun revisiting them, but after sitting on them for many months, nothing came of it. One day I decided to finally make a quick video about one of my favorites: Max Payne 3. It's short, it's scripted and my voiceover sounds pretty stiff, but I had fun recording it, capturing gameplay, and editing the whole thing in just a few hours. A few more months passed and I felt guilty for not creating any videos, so I sat down, wrote a longer script, and finally produced a video review of sorts for one of the other games. My end goal was to create a video for each of the 30 games I had on my list. However, I had very little fun, I was constantly scraping scripts or recordings only to redo them and still not be happy with the result. I eventually gave up. I created a couple more videos because "I had to", only to take them down a few weeks later because they felt soulless. I do want to make videos about the things that I love, but I also came to terms with the fact that it's fine to mess around and not care about "KZbin growth" or "subscriber count" (gross!). Sure, some consistency would be great, but I would rather put out fewer videos each year that I had fun making rather than churning them out for the sake of it. Anyway... this is a long-winded way of saying that you're making the right call. :) And to anyone reading who's feeling guilty for not making the videos they know they're capable of making... don't be so harsh on yourself and remember all this should be fun.

I played sekiro first. Then I started DS3. It took me the longest time because Im not a gamer . Through darkness and frustration I pulled through. When I started Elden ring on the other hand I was delighted. I can actually jump now and I have so many checkpoints unlike DS3. Moral of the story try not to start with elden ring because you might be a bit overwhelmed. DS3 feels as if you are the final and only candle in a dark world. The world dark is an understatement .

The best thing I did was start looking at my backlog as a library of future fun, though it didn't completely fix my problem. I also tend to favor coop games if anyone asks & my one buddy is essentially permanently online unless it's before 2pm or after 1am. Which means I've pumped too many hours into games like Helldivers 2 & even beaten games like Suicide Squad & Gotham Knights (this ones pretty fun actually). So I've still got work to do, but over the last 2.5 years I've beat over 60 games which in my books is a healthy number.

GTA, any of them since GTA3. Load it up, get in a car, turn on the radio and go for a drive, before committing war crimes. Pokemon, again, any of them. It's about knowing what to expect and still enjoying it. Rocket League, load up Spotify and play game after game after game for a couple albums. Latest one may be Persona, I started 4 Golden after Christmas and I've beaten that and 5 Royal. The gameplay loop is very satisfying.

KZbin finally recommended something i like

My problem is that I have games that I want to play and games that I want to play AGAIN. The latter take from me trying out new games. I keep getting back to the old ones that I enjoyed for years.

A perfect 10/10 DLC for a perfect 10/10 game (my only one I‘ve ever played in 30 years).

SOTE diff is artificial enemies stats cranking up, and then forced exploration to get the scaducrap to balance it. Lazy and simplistic design, really.

I love going back to Skyrim. I think I’ve sunk a few dozen hours or so in the same game at least once a year for the past 8 years and I still feel like there’s more to do. 😅

This is the best vid about the whole difficulty in this game . He explained it like a boss. Keep it up mate

Yes. Is it a 10/10? Absolutely not. Too many empty areas, not enough of some of the new weapons, story was extremely lackluster, it has flaws. But every single game does, compared to the base which I'd give as close to perfect as possible this is a solid 8-8.5, absolutely nothing to scoff at and it only isn't higher to me is because I'm comparing it to the base game. Compared to others? 9-9.5. If that makes sense lol.

The only answer is yes.

No

I'm not one of these elden ring milkers saying it's the best thing ever lol, I love the lore but the game has its issues, and I think other souls games did it better, but its very woth it for the price of admission.

Metal Gear V The Phantom Pain is a huge one of mine. Reinstalled again recently and realised I've nearly 300 hours in it. Just love exploring and infiltrating bases, collecting supplies, upgrading mother base. Never thought it'd be my biggest comfort game.

Its the decent into madness the hunter and thus the player experiences. By the end, you realise real life's not so bad and go out and touch grass.

I'm replaying ds 3 rn. I honestly prefer the linear style of dark souls 3 but a lot of the bosses are very gimmicky and feels way easier after elden ring.

Can’t be bothered playing anymore its slow and boring

Performance issue ruined it for me and I stopped gaming for since. I'm doing coding and config on arch now for a hobby. I learned to stop spam rolling a while ago, but to learn to not spam roll when the boss does a super attack that's really hard to dodge and drops my framerste to 20fps, with crazy stutter, isn't something I wanted to learn.

Video would've been way better without those cringy unfunny tv clips in between, that shit is so 2010. Just tell your story without interruption...

For me with the last patch cant use perfume bottles just killed my build its a great game but its to hard and for 40bucks its just i dont have money to piss away when its not fun anymore, but thats me..

I just use a Playing Now list on Steam with 5 titles max.

Honkai Star Rail is a good example. Do dailies, auto-battle, and get easy rewards.

Yes.

I think smaller communities are much more community like. When channels get large, it loses the community feel.

Add CrossCode to your backlog. Played it on Steam Deck but it's available for basically any system. You won't regret it.

One good tip to keep the overwhelm of numbers down is also being intentional when you're buying our obtaining games. Is it in your cart because you couldn't pass up the great deal in this sale? Why did you feel like that? Look at all the sales steam has and realise that the game will probably be on sale again later so you don't have to impulse buy it now. Just because it's a great deal now doesn't mean you have to get it now or that you are actually interested in the game. Just let your cart sit fit at least a night, longer if you're someone who is easily hyped up and impulse buys stuff and come back with one simple question: do I actually want to pay this game? And if yes, how soon, might a better deal come along, what is the max price I want to spend on this title? This keeps you from inflating your library with stuff you're not 100% interested in to play at some point wedged you get it. In the same vain: just kick out free titles you're no longer interested in unless that might means you will permanently lose access. A bit of intentional living never hurt anybody and you from a hoarding problem.

Outside the final boss, I think the DLC was fair and well-balanced.

Stuck between ds3 and elden ring dlc already completed elden ring and sekiro just don't know what to do next cause i like the look of both of them so any suggestions if you've played both?

At one of my lowest points I got into the yakuza/like a dragon series, and I’d consider them all comfort games but in particular Yakuza 0 is my favorite as it’s the first I played, It felt like the perfect game made for me and I feel like a learned a lot while playing it.

Watch dogs 1 and 2 definitely... completed them multiple times and still return to them quite often

I dunno if you'll ever read this comment but how many games can I play? A limit of two or just focusing on one is the way to go?

I watched your comfort games video that came randomly in my recommended. I really enjoy your chill content style and that you don’t take it all too seriously. Keep it up brother you’re doing great 👍🏾

After playing this through. I'd recommend you do the base game final boss (don't go Ng+) before the DLC final boss. You'll feel overpowered if you go back to the base game.

I never replay a game. Every fall I get in the mood to replay Bloodborne, but there’s always something new (to me) to experience. I’m the same way with tv, movies, and books. There’s too much other stuff to experience that I can’t bring myself to do something again.

When I think of a comfort game I think of stuff like Stray and Spirit of the North, not souls games lol

Mine are Fallout New Vegas and The Witcher 3. Neither are my "favorite" games, but I never uninstall them.

Thank you everyone for all of your kind words. Can’t believe how many of you have tuned in to this and taken the time to comment 💙

I resonate completely with what you have said here. Some video ideas feel like an obligation and it takes me ages to get through them because I'm not enjoying the process. Same with family coming first. They will always win over making videos

Gotta admits, playing the first BioShock has me feel comfort just because how familiar I felt playing it. Despite how dark the game is, I felt like I strangely comfort, is also probably because I beat it multiple times, even on hard mode. With Survivor Mode being the only one I haven't tried it yet. Another comforting game I had was Legend of Mana with the whimsical art, the pixel art looks so amazing, the looked gorgeous for a PS1 title. Made me so glad to see it get a Switch remastered port. Having to get it physically since I wind up getting the Korean import with English support since the US didn't have that, only digitally. Looking forward to getting Visions of Mana when I get the chance of getting it. I'm glad that the Mana series is still continues. The Mana titles I got the chance to play has always cheer me up.

Recently found your channel and this has quickly become one of my favorites! Congrats on 2k (nearly 3k!)

Breath of the wild is an easy one but an odd obscure one is Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure 2 on the xbox. A banger i assure you

Congrats on your progress so far man! Love your videos- keep it up!

Hey Baldie. Do you know about Backloggd? I'm thinking this could of interest to you. I'd like to follow you and see your progress without going through your spreadsheet, so I can compare my own reviews/backlog to yours.