I love hiking. I think you've got a decent start with what you've written already. I would advise getting familiar with navigating yourself with a map and compass, a lot of places don't have phone signal so at a minimum download your map and make sure you've got the battery to last the trip and some extra. I definitely agree with your thoughts about carrying more water than you think you'll need, generally water will be the heaviest thing will carry but one of the most important.
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I love hearing about DF but it's so dense that I was never able to get into it myself. Plus I struggled with the art, or lack of it on the earlier builds.
That sucks, I hope your weekend goes better. It is nearly Friday at least.
Kittens may be the cutest baby animal.
Me too, I've binged it twice (takes a good few weeks each time). Haven't been able to get into the sequel nearly as much though.
I can second all of these. Generation zero is the only one I didn't enjoy much but I suspect it's a lot better with friends.
The rest are fab, I'm currently playing Kena it's like Pixar/ Disney meets dark souls. Beautiful game, has these little critters which follow you around called rot who are super cute and you can put hats on them.
Control is just excellent. The combat feels great and for me the whole game was worth playing just for the Ashtray maze sequence.
We really need a big push into bacteriophage research I think. Get the bugs all killing each other so we can keep our antibiotics for emergencies.
My wife was playing Ori around its release, we both got stuck on the first tree escape, where it floods. Absolutely massive difficulty spike for a relatively chill game to that point. Beautiful game though and I love the sound track.
I love the STALKER games, the atmosphere is absolutely top notch. The section where you have to go into the lair of the invisible dudes was terrifying. I remember meeting my first one, before going into the tunnels, and losing half my health in its first attack, I fought it standing on top of a tractor because they couldn't climb thankfully.
They (Arrowhead + Sony) decided to make ps plus sign in mandatory on pc, a change as it was optional since release. Ps plus is not available in like 2/3rds of the planet.
Thereby locking out loads of people who have been brought the game.
I'm working my way through forbidden west as well. I'm really enjoying it. It's always good to spend more time in an interesting game world. I really appreciate the more free form climbing system in this one, not quite breath of the wild climbing but way better than grab the yellow ledges only.