I did indeed choose to play something else, but it's only slightly less gory than RE7: Sniper Elite 5. Thing is I'm always tired now so I'm definitely not playing it properly, no stealth involved, but it's still fun so they've definitely been taking notes from MGS V in that respect. It was just too tempting to post up in front of the heavily fortified position between the starting point and the objective in the second mission and just go to work, in hindsight that was the game giving you a choice - do the stealthy thing and flank around either side or do what I did and spend the next hour or two in combat as reinforcements get called and trucks casually stream in, discover piles of bodies and begin the process all over again.
That's the only thing in my Steam cart after spending some time browsing the sale, I briefly considered Mass Effect Legendary edition and Blade Runner Enhanced edition but then realised I'd be spending a not insignificant amount of money on games I've owned for years but have never played. Granted I'd be doing that in order to make them easier to pick up and actually play on my Deck (I have yet to work out how to install Blade Runner from GOG in a way that works) but I think I'd rather just buy Dave, I know nothing about it but it looks and sounds like a good time.
It's a chill game where you run a sushi restaurant and need to catch fish for the nightly dinner service. You get money and can upgrade your gear to dive deeper and get better fish. There are a couple other stories mixed in as well and pop up every couple of in games days. You meet a really interesting cast of characters that have different subplots. The game is broken up into 7 chapters that have their own story, but you still need to run your restaurant while venturing all over the place.
I need to go back to Sniper Elite 5 at some stage. I'd never played any of the SE series before this one and I had a lot of fun with it (even if it didn't really feel like a sniper game at times). Just enjoyed the design and detail of the levels. The Spy Academy level in particular was fun to explore. Probably spent a good 4 or 5hrs on that one alone.
Yeah, spy academy is excellent, it's what I hoped MGS V's outposts would be like after Ground Zeroes suggested they'd be big, detailed and multilayered. I've played about 20 hours now and only just did the fourth level last night, I've played the first three twice each but spy academy was easily my favourite.
The frame rate at launch made the game not so enjoyable for me, will have to retry it now as it is 60FPS.
