I don’t think there’s any point in trying to convince anyone on the fence because you can just tell them to try the demo and see if they like it
do your own taste finding people
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Game seems OK-ish. I bought it in a moment of weakness/depression and I guess it sorta scratches some sorta kart racing itch. Gotta agree that it lacks a certain something the Sumo games had. Also getting hit by any item in this thing is fucking brutal. The high level attacks some enemies can do to you that summon a ring portal over you seem completely unavoidable? You’ll be in first place and then struggle the rest of the race because fucking Charmy Bee dropped an anvil on you.
The Crossworlds aspect is confusing because by my guess you’ve got like 30 Sonic friends + Hatsune Miku and I guess Ichiban and Joker coming soon, but after that it’s a bunch of Nickelodeon and Minecraft characters and I guess the leaked eventual Mega Man stuff.
Just saying…you can’t claim to be doing a big Sega thing and not have Amigo and Ulala and everyone else…it ain’t right…
Anyway, booted up Silent Hill f. It seems good, but I gotta figure out what the fuck is going on with my graphics settings. Screen flickering like crazy. Shit’s scaring me more than the initial chase sequence…got me worried about my eyes, hahaha.
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i have literally not seen a single (other) person express this opinion… but i find Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing to be great and Transformed already a step down from that one. it’s more polished, but i hate the boats and planes. i haven’t played TSR nor CrossWorlds but those sound like additional steps down. too many gimmicks!!!
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I didn’t put nearly as much time into Team Sonic Racing as I should have, but I recall what little I played feeling very tight. Like they excised the cruft of the boats and planes from Transformed (a game I do like!) and just got the racing itself down pat. The gimmick of performing better when you’re sorta “in formation” with your team is whatever, I guess, but the game seemed alright.
I think the plane and boat stuff in this one feels kinda bad. Your drift button becomes a boost button in those modes, which locks you into a straight trajectory as you hold it, and while it’s mostly fine as the boat (it culminates in a little jump that lets you grab stuff floating over the water), it makes the planes control like shit. Like whatever slight direction you may have been holding/stick was drifting, you’re gonna veer that way hard as the plane.
I should go back and play that first Sumo Sonic racing game again.
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re: the first one; it’s a little too derivative of Mario Kart Wii but it controls fabulously, time trials are a riot, and it is very charming
i should try TSR, your description sounds good. i got scared off by the team mechanics as well as some middling reactions from the Transformed speedrunning discord (at first - one of their main gripes got patched out i think)
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I cant do multi-vehicle racing. The mode switch is too jarring and knocks me out of the zone over and over. I just want like 1 kind of really tight kart but I know that era is over. But also I really only want to play karts in couch multi-player and Im no longer in that situation often.
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GT5 is so boring IDK why I got it.
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Rise of the Golden Idol got its final DLC (4th). The wheels are off, the second case is a clear Obra Dinn homage and the overall plot feels like fanfiction for the first game Curse of the Golden Idol.
I greatly enjoyed the deductions. Nothing felt revelatory : it was, always, tales of reckless hubris punished. But such stories feel like a welcome breath of optimism nowadays
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Oh nice, I need to get back to this—I had to step away before I finished the second DLC episode, and life got away from me. Despite those circumstances, I’ve enjoyed the latter day Golden Idol mysteries as much or more than anybody else I’m aware of.
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amazed at discovering the final boss of edf 5 is bootleg galactus
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Baby Steps impressions first five minutes: This isn’t too difficult. Pretty funny when you stumble. Oh get the cup okay I’ll just mosey on over there.
Thirty minutes later attempting to get the cup: Oh I guess the real Baby Steps starts here. This is pretty good.
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Dunno if you can really “beat” a lawnmower game with a million things to do and collect (I mean I guess you can, but I don’t want to live that life…), but I finished the main “story,” if you can call it that, of Goat Simulator 3.
Dunno, needed a brain-off thing to play after having one hell of a week, so this worked.
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tried playing akalabeth on whim on the internet archive:
got to the overworld
pressing left moved me west. pressing right moved me east. pressing enter moved me north.
i tried every key on my keyboard and i could not find a way to move south.
stellar emulation at work
on the flipside of things i played this “falling block” jam game
my progress was stymied by the fact that i don’t know the rules to… *checks notes* Cleopatra Fortune
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this is fine
the Cleopatra Fortune loremasters might actually be aliens. smart aliens.
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After a few more unsuccessful runs I’ve decided to put down Balatro for good. The last straw was coming up against a Big Blind that made me draw all my cards face down, which completely stuffed an otherwise pretty good thing I had going. Just completely demotivating.
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If this was “cards after your opening draw are drawn face down“ then the trick is to win on your opening draw by discarding to get the perfect hand and using the Sort buttons to try to intuit what the replacement cards are.
If this was “face cards are drawn face down“ then the trick is to read it on the map and sell Pareidolia beforehand.
Either way, they can still be kind of rough if you get really bad draws (if you’re doing a Straight build or something)
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It was The Mark (All Cards Are Drawn Face Down), so all cards right off the bat, numbers and faces. I guess I should have been looking forward to it and trying to plan accordingly. Maybe convert a bunch of cards into a single suit to try to blunder into flushes?
Either way I’m out cause the rest of my backlog beckons. Though this feels like the kind of game I could randomly revisit in the future if I get an itch.
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