PS4
Dark Souls-There are things I've never done in this game, such as speaking with Kaathe (which I've since done after returning to DS on the PS4) and finding Sif in the Artorias of the Abyss DLC. Working on that second one but Artorias is a bastard on NG+.
Bloodborne-Never finished this game and I don't really feel like skilling my way through it anymore so I'm just grinding Chalice Dungeons so that I can just tank my way through the last boss. It's not that I don't like the game but this is a task long unfinished and I just feel very low effort about completing it. Overall, it was a marvelous experience (although I still prefer Dark Souls over this. I'd love to see a character class in DS that used the Hunter combat style in Bloodborne (aggressive play to recover lost max health, no blocking, gun stunning, etc.)
Middle Earth: Shadow of War-I never played the Desolation of Mordor campaign and as much as I loved the core gameplay of this series, I felt that the post game epilogue ending was way too much of a grindfest (although I went through it anyway). I really hate how eventually, the orc captains are immune to practically everything and everything enrages them. It just becomes tedium spending all that time carefully crafting a strategy only to see it all unraveled so easily. The devs didn't really think about the endgame very much, but I imagine that has a lot to do with the in game marketplace, which has since been removed. Anyway, I played the new DLC and found it pretty interesting, with some mechanics that take a little from Tenchu (the grapple line movement) and Assassin's Creed II (parachute movement). I truly feel that for pure stealth assassinations, this game is as good as any that's ever been released. Additionally, the Nemesis system is very unique and the Arkham style combat makes a lot of fun. Just too bad EA shat the bed with the RMT stuff.
I just picked up Dragon Age: inquisition new for $13. I owned the game when it first came out but was so underwhelmed with it that I sold it. Now I'm on a bit of a fantasy kick after Gen Con and I'm making money again so I figured I could spare 13 bucks to restore it to my collection.
Switch
Octopath Traveler-Feels fresh despite the ancient genre trappings. Sometimes it's nice to go back to basics. After seeing Ready Player One, I've found reaffirmation in an old value I once held; to just enjoy things that are simple. In fact, just like Ready Player One's protagonist discovers, the point of the prize is just to find it. To learn that the prize was meant to be used for a specific thing diminishes its discovery.
