bodmcjones

It's usually at about this point that I resort to tearing at things with the teeth of an (unimportant) key. Sometimes works.

The standout example of this for me would be Qube. I was having a bit of a difficult time when I first bought the game and that soundtrack lured me in and getting through to the end just became a total compulsion. I was a lot calmer by the time it was over, too.

Kairo had a bit of a similar effect on me, except that the very last jump in the whole game just would not work, spoiling the zen. Quantum Conundrum also got a full playthrough in one sitting but tbh I think that was because I wasn't enthusiastic about coming back to it another day.

On PC I had a couple of crashes (three Atlas prayers in, took a break after crashing for the second time). It's not dreadful compared to some, like the time an update bricked derelict ships entirely, but it's not at its stablest.

The purple haze on the stormy dissonant planets feels like it has intensified though.

Me too! A few years back the Wii U was my main gaming platform - the only one, really, except for Linux PCs and a Mac, neither of which were exactly mainstream gaming choices although both could run Portal and so on. I enjoyed it a lot. At the time I was addicted to Batman, but the Wii U somewhat faded from use when it turned out that other people, selfishly and inexplicably, wanted to use the telly for stuff other than stealthily suspending criminals from gargoyles.

I kind of don't want to be excited about it because a lot of component parts of the game seem to exist in other games, plus I don't really play that many Bethesda games, but by the time they got around to "oh yeah and here is a mecha ship design" it was pretty clear that I was going to end up buying a copy of this weird No Kerbal's Dangerous Sky crossover thingy.

Yeah, the new No Man's Sky expedition has lured me back once again, not that I was all that disinclined - it was just the immense update download that was discouraging me, alongside the fact that I recently discovered how well (some) Wii U games can be emulated on PC and finally got around to starting to play Breath Of The Wild. Two divine beasts done, two still to go.