You’ve got one more weekend of summer left before the weather becomes tolerable enough to go outside
You’ve got one more weekend of summer left before the weather becomes tolerable enough to go outside Read More Gaming
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It’s fall, y’all. Well, almost. Officially, summer ends this weekend on September 22. So this is the last weekend for you to get in some quality gaming time before the trees start to change colors and the weather gets to a tolerable temperature. Even that’s not promised, given the state of global warming. But you know what is promised? Video games. That’s a top tier weekend activity that you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Here are a handful of games we’re playing over the weekend, and you can too!
Play it on: PS4, PS5, PC
Current goal: Give it a second chance
God of War Ragnarök did not hit for me the first time I played it in 2022. I adore father-son co-protagonists Kratos and Atreus, but Ragnarök felt somehow bloated and breakneck in its pacing at the same time. Attempting to introduce and wrap up a trilogy’s worth of plot threads left a poor taste in my mouth, as it felt like Ragnarök overcommitted and underdelivered on too much. I missed the 2018 God of War reboot’s conciseness, and despite some highs, Ragnarök never felt quite as impactful. However, all of that changed with the game’s free Valhalla DLC, which distilled the experience down to the best parts. The roguelike felt like the sequel I wanted, and it’s retroactively improved my feelings on the game as a whole. But the game is on PC now, and we’ll have some impressions up sometime next week. In the meantime, I gotta play it and see how it runs. Maybe if I’m not rushing through it to see how Kratos and Atreus’ story ends, I might have a better read on it? I hope so! — Kenneth Shepard
Play it on: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
