last remnant sucks so i am playing ffxv now and having a great time (and feeling way less guilty about taking up space on elden ring’s lawn). the action is a bit trashy, but the rest of the game is far too expensive and thoughtful* for it to have a place in this thread.
*most of the time. the campsites all having big glowing runes on them is incredibly stupid.
You made the right choice.
i beat ffxv and killed the scary lvl99 demon snake lady in the lake so i guess i was wrong and i just need the right kinda game. ffxv owns extremely hard, but i still wouldn’t call it a trash action game. it’s more of a joyous disaster hangout rpg.
i’m deep in peg territory atm and have been playing resonance of fate (extremely stupid but also it kinda owns) and now ffvii cos i know nothing about it other than watching dylan play the remake. anyway trash action will have to wait.
i realised this word probably doesn’t make any sense to anyone other than dylan so here’s the etymology:
jrpg → jpeg → peg
now youse know.
Dissapointing
omg u just reminded me that i bought aeternoblade on switch the other day*
originally a 3ds game it has since been ported to a bunch of stuff and also has a sequel even tho literally no one cares abt it.
*edit: when the heck has anything ever been ported from a ds? that doesn’t happen.
iirc, aeternoblade was the first internationally released thai-developed console game
also does anyone have any experience with Sword of Etheria / OZ?
it looks like mega trash 
and is made by the ps2 3d castlevania team but it’s also extremely expensive (like 120+ AUD) and at that point i might as well save up a bit and buy the Last Story instead (the only reason i bought maken shao was because there was a wildly cheap copy (20 bucks!) that showed up a state over from me) which is a game i’ve been meaning to grab for so fucking long.
oops i impulse bid on a copy of the last story and no one else bid so now i own it lol
starting playing stranger of paradise yesterday and it feels real cool to be playing a new ps360 game lmao.
pretty devo that the controller config that allows for square to be the attack button just doesn’t work with the lance class unless you wanna play w claw grip.
i like the mage class best so far. 
deleted stranger of paradise today. it has too much contemporary videogame bullshit to be enjoyable. i don’t wanna pick up a fucking level 34 ring that gives me uhh +2 agility and +2.75% magic damage resistance go straight to hell.
shame, cos it has all the ingredients to be a great 6/10 braindead doobie smoker but like its systems are just so caustic: i could maybe deal w the million different classes and combat system which is trying to cram like 3 different paradigms into one controller but the loot and mission pattern is just so hatefully disrespectful of my time it’s fucking unacceptable.
idk i found it charming and then infuriating so 
maybe it’s ok if u play it on easy?
Gungrave Gore seems fun
I loathe to call it trash but Assault Spy is an exquisite example of the spirit of PS2 action games and over the top character action at an indie budget level. As far as I’ve gotten most of the levels are just arenas to fight enemies in but it does have a little stealth flavor where enemies don’t aggro until they make sight of you so you can manage your encounters a little. It has at least two campaigns with another character who is a Punchy American Lady with a gun and hype meter mechanic.
The loot really bummed me out on an aesthetic level because FF1 gear (following early D&D I guess) was so sparse. I was looking forward to wearing mid-level armor to the final dungeon and making three dudes share a single magic sword, Graeae-style.
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played up to part 4 of space marine today and dude it owns. proper post coming soon.
YES. The internet’s #1 Space Marine fan forum
SPACE MARINE! 
(2011, i played on pc but blown up on my big tv w a controller as the machine god intended)
dude i never get tired of turning to the person next to me and asking “hey man what game is this” and then having eight different enemies yell the answer at me.
this game feels so close to escaping trashdom, but the games workshop affiliation, the football helmet level design (), and the fact that every single enemy yells “space marine!” at you just scruffs the whole game by the neck and dunks it back in the dumpster. i love it!
the action is so good, all the weaps feel awesome (except maybe the lascannon which feels like every laser gun ever: 
) and i love the economy of shield-health management (the fact that glory kills don’t make you invulnerable is kinda crazy; it’s real weird to play this immediately after beating doom 2016). the run feels really cool, very different to gears but clearly a post-gears inclusion. speaking of: it feels kinda baller to not include a cover system in your thirps in 2011, like i imagine the thoughtless decision would have been to just include one, regardless of how it plays with the other systems. however, just to make me take back my compliments, there’s also no way to toggle which side the camera is on? as far as i can tell? so there’s always just one bad side and one good side to shoot from? hahahah what a stupid game.
the level design isn’t exactly revolutionary, but it knows itself and its verbs and there are no repeated encounters, which is actually kinda amazing! also the environments are great! very legible and easy to navigate, which is admirable given the subject matter. the artists really make great use of coloured light and fog to delineate foreground from background, and it makes such a huge difference to the clarity of the action.
also the game is like what 7 hours long? a good day’s scrounging in the dirt if you ask me. what a great little object. a shining beacon of what dumb games can be.
P.S. also dude what how did it take 10+ years for there to be a sequel to a game that ends like that??? how are there not 3 more of these that get steadily worse and worse until the new one is a fucking battle pass always online nightmare for no reason and we all turn our eyes away in shame and despair
