I snagged this today and it’s great so far. Will post more about it soon.
good lord
lmao squall looks like mobile game bishounen
this is what ff8 fans deserve I guess
Dicey Dungeons is out! Played the alpha a while ago and liked it quite a bit. The most impressive thing about it is Terry Cavanagh’s willingness to program and design unique mechanics for each character. And then each character has variations that required even more bespoke design and programming. It’s wild!
final fantasy 8 fans are so starved for attention im really excited to see how bad they fuck up this game and how excited the ff8 fans have to pretend to be about it
Let me know how it expands; the alpha was nice but I didn’t really see it having the legs of something like a card game under the same structure, I couldn’t see how far the bounds of it went.
its really neat to see the games that come out when designers have all the time they want to tinker
like of course it can cause problems and people might not finish shit but like
terry is just able to make games at his own pace and release them when he wants, living the dream
I don’t think it’s as replayable as say, Slay the Spire, but I also don’t think it needs to be that. Dicey Dungeons is packed full of ideas and you play with each of them for twenty minutes to an hour, and then you move on to the next one. It’s not some cohesive five course dinner. It’s a variety pack of gum and you chew on each piece until it loses its flavor or your jaw gets sore.
hey fuck you too
I’m a ff8 fan okay
well fuck us both then
is it possible to fast forward in any ps1 emulator? I remember trying to do it with one with ff8 but it barely sped it up!!!
like tbh the main reason I’m looking forward to this ff8 remake is the cheats so I can catch back up to where my old savefile is quicker then, uh, usual
beetle psx (in retroarch) fast forwards very well for me, i use it all the time when practicing speedruns
i think default is spacebar
Finally, the world can agree with me that System Shock 2 sucks, but now in HD
EDIT: Oh, we’re talking about this in the games you played thread
From Tiny Cartridge:
the first internally developed title since Taito has re-entered the consumer market
If you have the computer for it you could also just try overclocking the emulated CPU? For most JRPGs it usually just speeds up the action with not too many issues while keeping the music mostly the correct speed.
Definitely agree with this, and to expand a little:
For me, Slay The Spire’s replayability is predicated on achieving one of 1-3 viable builds per character, with bad luck essentially dooming a run by Act 2. Thus, you have to replay over and over until you get the right streak of luck that you can get ahead of the game’s difficulty curve.
Comparatively, Dicey Dungeons is far more flexible, there’s a good variety of builds and mechanics, and there’s not obvious “trap” builds or cards that hobble your future potential and narrow the percentage chance of you finishing a run. It has a relatively gentle difficulty - I beat the game on the two novice characters the first time I played them - and, as you mentioned, lots of “bespoke mechanics” to explore and experiment with.
I think I prefer Dicey’s approach and variety for this reason. Not quite so much “well, this was a wash” when playing a run, which is a really bad feeling.