Beat again? Horizon Zero Dawn. Fifth play-through. Objectively 8/10, personally 9/10, as I've always said.

Beat first time? En Garde! Fun, charming, short, sometimes feels more like a proof of concept than a full game. 7/10.

Still on my second play-through of Horizon Forbidden West.

But man... ...this April 30th-May 1st junction has been super awkward. First, Creative Assembly released Thrones of Decay DLC and patch 5.0 for Total War: Warhammer III, which not only included the Elspeth vs Tamurkhan matchup I've been hyping for years, but also - finally - a fix for the bug that's been ruining my beloved Sisters of Twilight since patch 4.1 back in November. Five months, CA, five bloody months it took you to fix this.

Then, about 24 hours later, Digital Extremes launched Protea Prime for Warframe, an improved version of one of my "Main Six" frames which I've also been looking forward to for years. And I'm not even mentioning the jam-packed gaming schedule that lie ahead of me for months to come.

For now, I'm sticking to my plan with Warframe; log in to cash in my Standing reserves, but I won't be farming and cracking relics until I finish HFW. As for Warhammer III... ...that's going to have to wait until who knows when. Keeping my focus on HFW for now, but argh, having three different games I love demand my attention simultaneously is making me feel pulled in three directions. Downside of having a varied taste in video games.

RTSs are niche these days. I don't think this will be a super-duper high-budget AAA game, but it should still be alright.

Eh. Everyone does Assassin's Creed-style games for a reason; it's a solid formula that lots of people like, including me. Nothing wrong with a default genre - as long as you do something interesting on top of it. That was my real problem with Ubisoft; they did nothing interesting with Assassin's Creed. Their world-building and storytelling felt blatantly like they were making it up as they went along, and they had me fight dudes in armours ad nauseam.

No, it is not a mental illness. You just have certain taste in games. People are built differently. Stick to what you like and don't worry about it.

Is this an actual question, or just a roundabout way of bragging about how you only play hard games? Because if it's the latter, I can assure you that nobody cares.

Homeworld 3, obviously. Ghost of Tsushima PC under normal circumstances would be insta-buy, but I might have to take a bit of a break from sneaking around stabbing people in a massive open world after I finish my 2nd play-through of HFW. Hellblade II also looks interesting.

Eh. Objectively, not really. Still don't have, nor have any interest in, Days Gone, Uncharted or Helldivers. Also zero interest in TLOU2 - that game sounds miserable. Only God of War, Spider-Man, Ratchet & Clank and the Horizon games have significant playtimes. Only R&C and Horizon are completed so far. And only Horizon have multiple completed or planned play-throughs.

More accurately, I would say I just really like the Horizon games, and everything else are just bonus.

Finally started my long-planned back-to-back Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West play-through, which will be my 5th and 2nd respectively.

I was actually ready to go last week, but, well... ...Warframe. I happened to be only a couple of days away from getting 7-day boosters from a login milestone, and I really wanted to use them to farm as many Stelas as I could. So I delayed. But then the farm went better than expected and I got enough Stelas to make 44 Tauforged Shards on top of the ones I already have, so I moved up the start of the my play-through from Thursday as originally planned to Monday night, and let the rest of the boosters expire.

Also completed En Garde! last week. Short, charming, surprisingly challenging, fun. Sometimes feels more like a combat proof of concept, but otherwise feels like a game that maximised its limited resources. 7/10. Recommended.

It was an okay-looking game releasing in a crowded release window from a studio whose reputation has fallen slightly in recent years.

It was always going to struggle.

@DEVILinIRON:

We don't know of any aliens yet, but they're likely just as bad as humans. The universe tends to operate on "might makes right," which tend to produce predatory opportunists like humans.

AI could improve the human race, or it could end it. Either way, an improvement.

Dolphins are psychopaths who rape each other and play underwater soccer with live baby seals for fun. Octopuses get brain damage if they try to swallow anything too big. I don't think highly of either of them.