Useless information but since I have it I have to share it - in the No Cartridge ep about it ( very generous readings of Adios btw), host says Doc told him this anecdote was something someone with a chestnut tree told him irl. Hard 2 believe when it strongly comes off like, “u stumbled on an article about this & felt stuffing it in would be cool” but…thats his alibi.
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playing hollow knight during mouth bimbofication recovery has forced me to realize how comparatively little I have enjoyed video games in the recent past. it’s really good! a masterclass in execution! like, a finely polished perfect charming sphere of a thing! it…it’s cute! it should not be this good! I have a little plush knight in the mail I will endeavour to fill their empty lil head with subversive transsexual propaganda
it’s entirely indebted to dark souls, really, but it’s surprisingly better at maintaining a really specific mood and repeatedly pulling off Anor Londo world-scale-betraying moments without getting tired or overly self-involved and the adorable bug design and ridiculous voicework elevates the mood rather than undercutting it. I found it incredibly approachable and hangoutable for such a punishing game. I like games that excel at being places and this one is really it
I also feel like HK taught me footsies and spacing better than most of the fighting games I have played
I bought this game three times over the past two years before I played it even once, and I cannot believe I slept on it so hard BC it’s so totally my thing
I must also face the possibility that I only like videos game that cute girls tell me to play
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am i still playing mr driller?
yes
it is difficult
what the hell
how many weeks have i been trying the expert course now?
it is good tho
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Hollow Knight is like, one of the handful of games that just gut punched me with how good games could be out of the last few years. It’s so much better than any of the thousand games that are almost exactly like it but…damn the mix actually works in hollow knight.
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Oh no dark souls is making me want kill myself again! The part with the lantern
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Speaking of Synthetik’s chat, where is the option to turn it off? I found it once, but haven’t been able to locate it again.
The sewage fountain is a major turn off to actually playing the game.
i got a refund on it and bought it when it was as cheap as possible because the chat thing is SO MUCH. theres like an X you can click but its fucking stupid and you have to do this all the time, and if you dont remember to do it when your on the main menu you waste ammo trying to click it in-game. unless you really want to be attacked by guys screaming I AM HEAD FEMBOY IN CHARGE and jacking off about duplex magazines. this is the demon brought about by gun fetishism
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The part after the lantern bit was really cool. This game would be perfect (to me) if it wasn’t for the gaslighting hit detection, especially on a double death. I hope kids playing it run to their parents to tell them that the game is cheating
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the latest mdickie wrestling game just generated one of hte most evil storylines i think ive ever seen. this game is operating on suda51 fire pro levels by default. i need to explain some stuff first so you understand…
in my first match the ref tried to extort me for 160 dollars to ensure my win, but i told him to fuck off so he said i made the biggest mistake of my life and he was gonna make me pay. he didnt give me rope breaks and slow counted every pin so i lost to the champ cuz he fast counted her. after the match i grabbed the champ, reversed her suplex and gave her like a flying headscissors out of the fucking ring, the ref is backing away in fear, i run out, kick the shit out of him and give him a piledriver onto his neck on the fucking concrete. the next match i have is against the ref, crash cougar, and i brutalize him for the title. my title reign is short however, cuz one of crash’s friends uses dirty tricks and attacks me with a baseball bat in a match to take my title…im out for a week with a busted open face, and i come back hurt cuz crash challenges me again. because of my injuries no matter how many times i put him through tables or powerbomb him onto the apron he just wont stay down…i brutalized him after the match, like literally doing the lesnar suplexes on cena to him on the outside, and i injured him so badly my boss got pissed at me and made me give him money for hurting him…i truly felt despairful. after the match someone asked me…don’t you hate the fans…don’t you want to make those ingrates pay? so i continued on my path and became a shooter, doing MMA moves and shit and hurting people for real. crash refused to accept when i challenged him to a match at the end of the month.
i hurt enough people and finally it seemed like destiny that i would face daniel bryan for a charity event backed by antonio inoki. we had a pretty brutal, even match until inoki tried to interfere and i gave him a spinning heel kick off the top rope, he flew off and broke his fucking head open on the steel steps. this pissed off JOE ROGAN enough at ringside that he interfered in the match, immediately charging in the ring to put me in a headlock and instantly hit a fucking finisher on me before the ref forced him out. after the match Rogan challenges me to a loser leaves town match on inoki’s behalf. it took 15 minutes and we literally beat each other to the point of near death while the wrestling coach and one of rogan’s italian buddies named like Frankie Spaghetti or something beat the shit out of each other at ringside, i won by breaking joes ankle. he is the puppetmaster
i was extremely hurt after these last two brutal matches…but still i had to fight. they booked me in a triple threat against cathedral and some jobber, i ended up tapping out instantly cuz i was too hurt…the week after we had a confrontation and i gave him a sitting powerbomb onto the railing and the match ended instantly. cathedral came to me and said, this isn’t right…we’ve taken each other to hell and back and i’ve had enough of it. we both agreed to bury the hatchet and look to the future, for the sake of the business…but then the next week they booked us in a title match against each other.
cathedral came out and was like, can you believe they booked us against each other, now that we’re friends? i hope you understand that means i can’t go easy on you…
and i replied, of course. i wouldnt have it any other way, because were friends, and i respect you. but i can’t afford to lose this match…
we had a hardcore match, and i gave him an air crash onto a broken ladder, and i pinned him,
my shooter persona had finally taken me into the death zone…absolute despair
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i like that this is all happening and you’re still in wrestling school
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hell yes
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i approached HK skeptically while i was playing other metroidvania games and i must say… i was almost disappointed by how much i ended up liking it. lmao. i say that because there are some kinda basic-ass design trendy decisions cribbed from Dark Souls or whatever that i could easily hate on. and some boss fights were annoying… in some ways i got bothered by the usual metroidvania-ness of the structure of the worlds because some were definitely better than others (loved the City of Tears… some areas were less memorable). and i hate the complete insistence on following those games’ format. but the world of the game as a whole was too compelling for it not to work.
i like (most) bugs also. always been a bug fan. bugs that aren’t mosquitos, moths, or flies anyway. so the bug-based nature of the game helped a lot. it gave it a distinct character. plus the scale of the game was super impressive. felt kind of like an AAA game in terms of scale in spite of being a platformer. but in a good way. kind of a scary thing for other indie developers that this game is now kind of what everyone is being held to as far as scope and polish though. in that way the game is kind of an ominous portent for the future.
some really quite involved and ambitious and interesting optional/secret stuff in the game as well. most people hate The White Palace but i actually thought it was great. why not have an optional uber-hard Super Meat Boy-esque area at the end of your game that is otherwise nothing like it? lol. i don’t know, there were things about the game that felt kinda funny in a self-aware way.
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i always bring this up but beating 3/4 of the game without ever upgrading the main weapon (because i totally skipped the city of tears) is one of the highlights of Video Games to me. just, it’s such a stupid thing to let somebody do, but i love that it let me do that.
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beat dark souls lol fuck that game tomorrow i find my dream job and soulmate
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just looked up how to access the dlc/whether i even did it and that sequence is so obscure that kawazu must be seething
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It’s disgusting how good Auto Modellista upscaled looks in an emulator, and still is the slipperiest handling thing.
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Eventually you reach the maximum level for mobs in a zone so the only way the game makes it harder on you is by increasing the amount of monsters that spawn at once. If I hadn’t found out about the animation speed mods from this forum I would’ve stopped playing this game at this point (or, realistically, earlier)
Also these (very frequently visited) houses in a certain midgame zone are exactly high enough that you can’t climb them, at least not on a modern system - the physics engine is tied to framerate in some way, so to scale these 30cm looking things you have to switch away from DirectX7 to one of the two bad rendering modes that makes the game run badly, at which point your party happily jumps the stoop and climbs on inside.
I’m not really sure why I keep playing this game outside of dogged determination. The combat is quite a bit more fun again now that it’s faster, and my guys keep some new options (like an instrument that hastes the entire party which roughly doubles damage output, which was a complete gamechanger), so I keep getting just enough mechanical breadcrumbs to push me forward.
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Lego Builder’s Journey left me feeling like a grumpy old man. Sometimes a game can turn you off within 5 seconds of encountering an obstacle. It’s very meditative to build stuff at your own pace but, not 15 minutes in, it introduces time-dependent puzzle-platforming in the form of swamp blocks that will sink if blockboy steps on them. It is not fun to place blocks under pressure. It is not fun to place blocks under pressure when the blockboy is picky about height and distance to jump between tiles. It is not fun to place blocks under pressure when the interface requires so much time to get a precise block placement confirmed. It is not fun to place blocks under pressure because the block you are trying to place down is being interfered with by moving terrain as part of the timer. This shit hurts my wrists Lego!
Rotating and placing blocks is fine as long as you’re not trying to do finnicky path construction which is most of the game. This game isn’t really about building outside of specific narrative scenes. It’s mostly path construction. Lego Pathlayer’s Slog. The puzzles are neat as little dioramas but it’s not very fun step-stoning the blockboy to his destination one step at a time and often forcing him to retreat, slothfully, out of the way to rearrange one brick.
Tragi-whimsical pixar shit is the tone. It is at least a bit more ambitious than the template most modern Lego games subscribe to. Not many of them really speak to the experience of pure brick-based Lego but I was really hoping for more free building. I would love a free build mode or suite of virtual sets to tinker with in this game.
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