Games You Played Today: 358 Threads Over 2

[swarm]

Incredible post.

[DaleNixon]

Sat down and played through El Shaddai in one sitting while chatting with some SBers last night. It’s extremely cool in the audio and visual department. It feels like a much bigger game than it is. I was surprised when it ended. That usually means I really enjoyed a game.

The combat system really clicked with me this time around. Tho the excessive cruel platforming sections annoyed me a bit. Still, I was never frustrated enough to just give up.

[captainlove]

Best adaptation of the Book of Enoch to date.

[ellaguro]

i just want to point out that this is what that guy (who is also the director of 12 Minutes) looks like

[Felix]

looks like a stock image search result for “tousled”

[doolittle]

What I wouldn’t give to cross-examine interview this guy

[ellaguro]

i was going to say something far less generous about my impressions of this person based on this picture that i will not share here

[u_u]

i try to stay on top of video games stuff despite being very distant from it at this point, esp. the indie stuff, and yet there is still so much shit like this where my only context for it is SB posts trashing it

silently cursing all of you for putting this on my radar

[doolittle]

The weird thing is this is a big indie game, like if Focus Features was distributing a Noah Baumbach movie that was principally about incest but elided that fact in trailers

[boojiboy7]

so many red alerts in one picture

[Felix]

splitgate is very good

I used @stylo’s referral

[Gate88]

you playing on pc? i was playing it on console maybe that was part of my mistake

playing on console forced it to be directly compared to halo controls and it did not impress me in that light

[Felix]

yup

it feels like a very nice combination of halo controls and like, tribes controls (there’s probably a more modern referent for this but idk)

[wourme]

I finished Psychonauts 2 the other night. It has an impressive number of unique and elaborate environments. I particularly liked the look of the mail sorting robot room and the psychedelic world, and the cooking show was amusing.

Like many modern video games, this one has too much talking. You’re frequently stopped and required to listen to something that might be interesting and might not. And even when I was presented with a set of presumably optional dialog choices, I felt somehow obligated to go through each of them even though I didn’t care about half of them or wanted to get on with the game.

A lot of the story could have been more in the background, and the attempts at being serious and sentimental often fell flat for me.

That said, it’s more Psychonauts and I enjoyed the game, overall. I’d recommend it to anyone who liked the first game and would like more of the same but with flashier presentation and new places to explore. I did encounter a few bugs that required me to reload my save, but those didn’t set me back much.

[teh_blend]

outer worlds on switch runs well enough but man these downgraded unreal textures, there has to be a better way

[Mr_Mechanical]

Finished Psychonauts 2 a few days ago and was going to go back and get 100% completion but just learned that one of the psi challenge markers needed to do so was the reward for a side quest I didn’t complete before finishing the game and is now unavailable. So now I’m trying to figure out if I’m annoyed enough at that bullshit to be done with the game for real or if I still like it enough to start a whole new save with an eye towards completionism.

I wasn’t really done playing the game but that stuff always sours me. Then again on a replay I’d skip all the cutscenes and dialogs so it would probably go by pretty quickly and might be fun just to see how quickly I could get through it (without leaving any side quests unfinished of course).

Damn you, Queepie! Your name will forever be piss in an open wound to me.

[VastleCania]

aria of sorrow is kinda boring and i’m a little sad about it

[slime]

SotN was the last great Castlevania game

[bib]

i played through circle/harmony/aria/dawn/two characters one all back to back like two summers ago and i know discussion has been down on it but i came out the other side warmest on harmony easily

[wourme]

I was/am also thinking of collecting everything in Psychonauts 2, but there are a handful of figments that I just can’t seem to find. I guess I did get that missable item, if it was the Queepie one.