Games You Played Today: 358 Threads Over 2

[Drem]

Went to an anime con. Wanted to get some merch of new things because I moved to a new place this year and realized all my decorations are from 10 years ago.

What I ended up coming home with:

I dunno what I’m going to do with them.

There was an Exa Arcadia cab with Aka to Blue Type R and Dodonpachi Whatever Exa Whatever, but the button command for switching games wasn’t working so I only played Aka to Blue. It seemed like an accessible bullet hell. It wants you to use the bomb a lot so it lets you charge it by doing things in the game like killing enemies and grazing, and the bullet patterns felt more straightforward than what a lot of the genre has been recently. A nice casual time.

I played the story mode so I could enjoy the story it raved about on the menu screen. There was no actual story.

[Sakurina]

congrats, your decorations are now from 24 years ago

[Cerium]

I played Final Fantasy 14 for ~6 hours on my PS5 (which is prob more powerful than my POS desktop) then called it a night. The next day I tried to log in and realised that I couldn’t remember my password so I gave them my email and got an activation code. Once entered, I set a new password and the answer to my secret question and they said that my birthdate I entered was incorrect, such that they wouldn’t let me reset it in this fashion.

After that, I go to my computer and try to reset it on there, entering my email into the Square Enix store and get an email immediately EXCEPT in THIS case they say that this email isn’t associated with an existing account DESPITE BEING THE ADDRESS THAT THE RESET LINK SHOULD HAVE BEEN SENT TO IN THE FIRST PLACE! I find a contact form on their website which doesn’t have a contact number so I instead write a short piece on my issue and get a ticket number except the tab refreshed before I could note it down and amazingly they DON’T send you a receipt of your problem so that entire ticket’s now lost in the ether (to make matter’s worse I look online alternate contact forms to give a more detailed description of my problem and thought I’d done a really good job and click send… the page refreshes, I get the new ticket number which I make sure to write down and only then do I notice the Final Fantasy 11 logo in the corner -_-).

Today I wake up and find my ticket hasn’t been resolved. Realising that doing this on a computer will get me nowhere, I go back to the PS5, enter all my information again and get told about my incorrect birthdate. Every permutation of possible mistakes I could have entered are rendered fruitless until I decide to google if anyone has experienced even mildly similar issue issues…

Buried at the end of Page 2, I find a reddit thread and something catches my eye.

I enter my birthday of August 18th, nothing happens.

I switch this to August 8th…

And the game welcomes me to Limsa Lominsa for the second time.

This post is over SIX FUCKING YEARS OLD AND IT HASN’T BEEN FIXED YET

anyway, game’s mid so far. Combat’s like the worst parts of ff12 and I haven’t got used to playing this with a controller yet. I’ve never played an MMORPG before but it does a good job of making you feel lost with indistinct quest markers littering the map. Maybe I’ll change my mind in about 300+ hours but idk if it’s worth the hassle of tattooing my password on the inside of my eyelid so I never have to go through any of this again.

[u_u]

you just completed the special FFXIV tie-in ARG

[villain]

I’m still locked out of my original FFXIV account I created at OG launch that they suspended in like, 2015 because the IPs didn’t match and I didn’t have access to the e-mail account I had registered with anymore, but they kept charging me for months after locking me out. Square-Enix are scumbags and their customer support is pretty much nonexistent.

[HoboSupportAct]

“it’s a great game if you get the spiked mace off the plump pyromaidens and dump all your points into strength.”

I’ve done this twice now and rate it above the joys of Dragon Tooth Roughhousing

[Tegiminis]

It takes a bit for the combat design in FF14 to pick up but around late-Heavensward to early-Stormblood there’s a sharp increase in quality. Most classes get their class-defining tools in the 60-70 range, and the boss design starts leaning real heavy into safety dancing and watching either the ground or the arena edges.

All the early game FF14 combat is like FF11 combat without any of the fun stuff (like buffs that last half an hour, or debuffing enemies) so it’s mostly just a slog. It’s in the fuzzy ground between the RPG it came from and the action game it evolves into. That said, it’s funny as hell that you can stun almost all of the ARR dungeon bosses.

As for quest markers, the only ones that are vitally important are marked in blue (unlocks content) or have a flame frame (main story). You can ignore the rest until you’re more situated and interested in exploring the world and the stories within.

I think it’s worth sticking with (account and password issues aside) because it’s probably the best “theme park” MMO out there. The story and combat and progression design just gets better and better with each expansion, and it really encourages you to embody a “character” instead of the sort of faceless hero you get with other MMOs.

[isfet]

i picked up the new Mario Golf because i’ve been in the mood for a golf game and i also keep looking for titles that my gf might like. unfortunately, she does not like it (the game makes her feel too bad for losing [even though imo getting a +1 on holes is actually incredible for someone who has never played any golf game ever, but i digress]), but fortunately it is indeed a golf game.

my general impressions are that it feels good to play, but somehow the whole package seems weirdly barebones. there’s an RPG built into it that i guess i should play but i sort of don’t care.

speed golf is cool, but sadly almost unplayable online (and judging by my ranking after a few plays, no one actually plays it).

the super shots seem to be kind of broken in standard golf, and online players just wait to take their shot until the effects of the shot are over so, lol

feels like the online experience doesn’t account for people going afk or just avoiding attacks by not taking their turn. seems like kind of an obvious oversight to me, idk

neat game with some weird flaws

[MintyJuffowup]

I’ve also been hankering for golf, so I picked up 2017’s Everybody’s Golf. Did you know that it includes fishing? I didn’t. Now I lose several hours each day alternating between golf and fishing. I just wish there were a mode to race the golf karts around the courses.

[bib]

i’m completely owned by the title “everybody’s golf” every time i remember it. just incredible

[nastypaul]

Tried Eldest Souls and Death’s Door, and don’t like them.

then start to play Street Fighter 2010 on NES, feels better than those

[notbov]

me, far removed enough from the last time I played a golf game: man, golfing video games sure are fun, I should get one

me playing a golf game:

[bib]

@nastypaul

Eldest Souls

lol how the hell’d they get away with this

[ticky]

I’m finally getting to the point of feeling comfortable with the mechanics in Metropolis Street Racer, the lineup of cars is pretty spartan even a few chapters in, so I’m pushing this disgustingly green Opel Astra OPC as hard as I can until I get the option of something a bit more tasty

The Kudos mechanic starts super weird, as the first batch of cars are very difficult to do any sliding in, and that’s just about the only way to rack up Kudos, which you need in abundance in order to advance, and initially that feels really difficult! That being said, the persistence is finally paying off as the requirements to unlock a chapter is based on your total accumulation of Kudos, not completion of all the prior races, so I’ve now got two in-progress chapters unlocked at once, and I’m not far from having three. Feels a lot better!

The Astra OPC is just about the fastest car I’ve got access to right now (it’s got a “CPF” score of 2.7, which nothing comes close to) but the rating is sort of averaged out from several stats, so the fact that the OPC is the absolute heaviest car I have access to means it’s absolute wheelspin hell off the line; you absolutely must control the launch carefully, wait for it to get some road speed, then start to go harder or you’ll spend a good five seconds producing nothing but smoke. What is this, a muscle car??

The temptation to swap over to a Renault Mégane is growing; not quite as powerful as the OPC but it absolutely destroys it in grip off the line, which might be the edge I need to do better at head to head races, where you have the option to give your opponent a head start for extra kudos. This isn’t reflected in the CPF rating of 1.9, however. That being said, there’re some mysterious new cars on the horizon…

Can’t imagine what those are…

The early mix is very heavy on European compact cars, the presence of the MX-5/Miata/Eunos Roadster being the one exception (I do like that you can choose which region’s badge you want, a nice touch!), and most of them aren’t particularly sporty. For a game with international aspirations as it had, I’d have liked to see more variety early on. It looks like there are some Toyota, Nissan, Ford and Mitsubishi badges further up the unlock tree, but they feel pretty far away at this stage!

[teh_blend]

The slave-freeing minigames in Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry were so frequent that they bordered on cartoonish; the mission with the sinking slave ship was the first time that I found a videogame to be actually disturbing

Having a blast with AC Rogue! It has a character with a Quebecois accent

[doolittle]

The seasonal epilogue in D2 had a frankly illegal amount of sincere pathos in it so I’m snotty from crying and my partner called me a “little bitch baby”

[yarusenai]

doubles ddr is the #1 thing that would make me consider coming out of rhythm game retirement. it looks so fuckin fun and dynamic

[slime]

I dislike pretty much every design choice about Sekiro

[Felix]

Same but the mid game is v good if you get on its level

[slime]

I keep coming back to it but not because it’s fun it’s because I know all of the mechanics and I know exactly what it wants me to do and it’s so frustrating that I suck so much despite all of that so I keep trying just to prove to nobody that I know what it wants me to do