have 0 free time these days but i had an hour to myself and ran a quick 1cc of castlevania bloodlines and i think it’s the most fun i’ve had with a game all year
(besides nocturne hd, obviously)
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this week is pretty wide open and I felt like an RPG so I decided to give larian’s baldur’s gate 3 another shot
I still like the production design considerably less than original sin and am somewhat disappointed that this is what “success” looks like for them (see also obsidian’s post-deadfire work, the miniature CRPG renaissance has passed I think) but the characters are actually quite well-drawn and the combat still fun enough for it to work. will probably see how far I can push into the first act now that I’m in the mood for it.
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i’ll never play it again but god gsc were good. this looks like a fun rework!
opted to play sayonara wild hearts on ipad instead of getting the switch version on sale and actually had quite a nice time once i played through it real quick. not sure if i should have paid the tenner to get HD rumble or if the better screen for free was the go though. anyway colours pretty, and that one song that was in the trailer is fun to play through
also tried that Aer game a second time last night after @Mikey’s measured praise and god idk hey. the character’s movement has no friction, for a game that’s mostly flat-shaded polygons it somehow has too many polygons, and my switch was heating up and chugging in the first little cave. plus the menus are too slow. extreme post-student unity project vibes
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We let the kids get into pretty much whatever garbage in roblox but they Are Not Allowed to play fortnite
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tried playing lufia curse of the sinistrals on my r4, but it still doesnt work. i even spent another hour trying to fix the issue again!
I haven’t technically played it but I wanted to get this out before I forgot:
been trying to figure out why I am not at all interested in nickelodeon all star brawl despite a bunch of melee pros being really into it and seeing that it’s ticking all the boxes as far as movement mechanics go and I’ve narrowed it down to the fact that none of the attack animations seem to give any sense of what their hitboxes are supposed to be and that bothers me a lot! there’s a lot of legibility to melee, even at a non-professional level, that just does not seem to exist in nick all stars and I’m not super interested in relearning something that is “supposed” to appeal to me specifically because I have a familiarity with the game it’s referencing. that and the lack of voice acting gives the whole thing a real playstation all-stars flatness that I just really don’t get along with regardless of how good the mechanics might be
I guess I just don’t like being pandered to like that! especially given that melee now has rollback and matchmaking that gets me playing in less than 10 seconds
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oh my god i did not know that was the way the horse girls ran ahahhaahhaha I FUCKING LIVE FOR THE HORSE POSTING
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Decided to end my replay of Vice City tonight, didn’t want to get the cash required to buy all the properties you need in order to unlock the last mission. I think I like VC less than 3, or at least I had less fun with it, even though I really like the gameplay features they added like diving from moving cars, shot tires, the ability to shoot out of windows. Part of this might be explained by my skipping the night club and movie studio missions this time. I didn’t even know you could do that. Those are the missions or cutscenes or areas I think of when I remember playing VC years ago, and I just didn’t realize they are technically optional. I wonder if maybe I would have had more fun if I peppered those missions throughout my time with VC, but eh! It’s still a fun game, but I think there is something kind of endearingly simple about GTA 3 that’s lost with this sequel. And I was strangely disappointed to discover VC is nowhere near as frustrating to play, which is definitely why my time playing it was much less interesting.
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Do you not do the side jobs? I’m always swimming in more cash than I’ll ever need by a quarter of the way into the story because I end up doing all the side stuff up front.
Crucially, VC’s map is also way too flat, which is unacceptable in a game series that I feel to be entirely about ramping your car as much as possible.
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I am currently utterly stuck on a late game puzzle in Yugo Puzzle (new qrostar game, go buy it you knuckleheads who like puzzlers) for I believe three days running now. I’ve hit the point where I’ve taken the stage apart and put it together again in my head a few times and am no longer sure which aspects of it that I’ve figured out have to do with an eventual theoretical solution and which parts are just random noise that have nothing to do with anything that no one would even think of if they didn’t stare at it for three straight days.
I alternate this with playing Gradius V, where I am slowly piecing together how to deal with its 6th stage after my initial attempts went poorly (I legit lost about 35-40 lives on my first full attempts in practice). I think I have a decent strategy for most of its ending boss rush, although the third one in it continues to massacre me.
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when i have time i’m definitely going to dive into it. at first i thought it was just jelly no puzzle but i’ve seen the half grid hops in a video and now i’m excited!
Inscryption is extremely cool, some of the most chaotic genre mixing I’ve seen in some time. It’s so full of ridiculous twists that I can barely describe the game without spoiling something, but I’ll try:
It starts out as a very enjoyable, well-designed Hearthstone-style roguelike deckbuilder with major horror vibes. You’re trapped in a cabin, and a mysterious being is forcing you to play cards with it. The wild thing is that you can step away from the card table and walk around his cabin. It turns into a retro point-and-click mode of gameplay where you can investigate the cabin to discover secrets. It actually feels a lot like the first-person apartment segments in Silent Hill 4. The card game and the cabin interact in interesting ways. Like, destroying a certain card allowed me to gain access to something in the cabin, which unlocked something new in the card game.
Beating the final boss for the first time causes things to VERY suddenly shift, and it seems I am about to start an entirely different style of game. I’m hooked, can’t wait to see where it goes.
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It is very much a spiritual sequel to jelly no puzzle but it has a few little twists to that formula (you’ve seen one of them) that can mix things up significantly. Also without going into it here it goes a lot deeper than it initially seems it will.
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I roped my sister into playing fortnite and we seem to just win all the time. we almost always get 1st or 2nd place. I don’t think I killed another player the entire time I played apex legends but I’m unkillable in this for some reason. all you really have to do is play it safe as you can until the end. anytime we’ve tried to group up with random players they want to act like fools, run in the direction of any gunfire they hear and get killed. I guess it was interesting to see from the perspective of the people we keep killing. even just the 2 of us in the mode where most everyone else is in groups of 4, we just win faster cause more of them die at a time. anyway I’m tired of the game already but my sister is addicted to victory and keeps trying to drag me back to it
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