i think i mentioned this in the ttrpg thread, but the wuxia/xianxia ttrpg weapons of the gods contains several pages of rules detailing how gay and lesbian couples can increase their power like straight couples do
also, there’s a free to play cultivation clicker game on android called immortal taoists
I keep getting really funny ads for this game about like a Goofus and Gallant duo of taoist cultivators where goofus throws a dragon egg away for some reason and gallant raises the dragon egg into a big dragon that gives him 900000000000 cultivation exp
picked up both Luigi’s Mansion 3 and Metroid Dread in the past couple weeks.
the former was bought mostly because my gf was interested in it and i’d heard it was good for co-op. and…it is! very cute game, and Gooigi is really perfect for a 2nd player who isn’t necessarily well-versed in 3D action games.
Metroid Dread - picked this up on a trip to the Nintendo Store the other day, and so far…yeah, it’s neat. i’m still not 100% sold on the EMMI stuff but i’m still really early into the game. but definitely feels like it picks up right off from Fusion (in a good way).
also been playing Ogre Battle on the SNES. i remember playing this on the PS1 as a teenager and having it kick my ass later on, but i think what i lacked last time, was patience. this game really requires a time investment to play it, and you have to like fiddling around with systems and menus and looking at individual stats of party members with a UI that is kind of like molasses. it’s nice!
Kinda get the feeling that Guardians of the Galaxy is a game that maybe feels better when you do a New Game Plus with more abilities unlocked. That’s not a knock on the first go through - it just genuinely seems like a game that lends itself well to a second playthrough.
I spent a good…five? Six hours? Playing it last night. Had to hit a point and say “OK I’m good no more” or I just wasn’t going to get any of sleep.
I dunno! It’s as brisk as you want it to be (or you can be me, and stand around and hear all the possible dialogue recorded for its idle moments), it’s snappy, it’s well-written, it looks good. I am having a good time with it. I will probably play it a second time. Maybe even right after the first! I never do that!
Yeah GotG seems like a game I’ll probably pick up on Cyber Monday or something.
I picked it up hinging on “the movies were OK and I could use something kinda Uncharted-ish” and have been pleasantly surprised by just how much it has surpassed my low expectations.
It also seems to lean hard into the comic lore vs. trying to chase the MCU, which, y’know, good!
My impression of watching a streamer play it was they tried to make an action game out of Xenoblade or a AAA version of your PS2 action/rpg like Rogue Galaxy. Some parts still look a little undercooked but the game also feels pulled thin in trying to garner the movies aesthetics but being told not to get to close because of licensing and money stuff and couldn’t find its own identity.
I just got creamed by a bunch of manifestations of SelectButton posters thanks to a funny gimmick in an Inscryption boss fight (spoilers for part 3):
Andross won’t have his way with me.
That Outer Wilds DLC is very, very good.
the k’ ending in kof2000 is probably the best fighting game ending
Yeah I just finished the game a minute ago and got creamed by the exact same boss fight. Fortunately it is basically the final boss of the game so it feels a fitting end.
Liked this game quite a bit, I appreciate the variety of card game mechanic they put into it.
They randomly decided to put up a demo of Owlboy on Steam for its 5th anniversary, so I got a chance to try its first section/tutorial. It seems rather unremarkable, although I do dig some of the pixel backgrounds. The included trailer when you hit the end of the game content seems to show a bunch of stuff the demo didn’t even begin to hint at so that was also a choice. My feeling is that I lucked out in ending up with Iconoclasts instead of this as the “ambitious pixel 2d vaguely action game hyped for reasons I no longer recall” game I ended up getting to play through.
Turns out Legend of Zelda is pretty good.
Either urine or yer’ out.
I’ve been fucking around with various hacks that I was hoping mostly just QOL changes but included goofy shit I didn’t want at all or would just break (like, I feel like a lot of these difficulty changes are made to fuck with Nuzlockers, and it’s like, fine, if you want to be an asshole to that specific subgroup, then make that a game mode, but I’m just trying to pass the time).
So, I just played something called Shin Pokemon, which is mostly just a QOL hack for Red/Blue (that unfortunately doesn’t have an option to skip Nurse Joy’s dialogue) that makes it so you can catch every Pokemon in one ROM, buy TMs from various shops, evolve trade evolutions via level-up, etc. There’s also a patch that will convert one of the versions to be more like Green, so that’s what I did. All of the PokeMarts say “Shop”, which is weird. I’m on my way to Fuchsia, which is the farthest I’ve gotten in a replay of R/B/G in well over a decade.
I should probably start over and ban Abra/Kadabra/Alakazam, because it dominates everything with Psychic.
The ideal hack would let me:
I’d just play modern Pokemon, but it’s so slow. Like, OG Pokemon is slow, too, but there are considerably fewer cut scenes and dialogue to sit through. I don’t care about the story.
Also, there are way too many single Pokemon challenge videos when you consider the “challenge” is just grinding until your Pokemon is over-leveled enough to kill shit. Like, isn’t that how most of us played the first time, anyway?
…damn i have repressed most of my pokemon interest by now but i do still want a pokemon game with Big Dungeons and dqxi hardtype balancing pretty bad
pokemon as a single player game would be fixed if you just took your six pokemon into battle like wizardry
my issue is that I can only handle the same 1v1 battles for so many hundreds of hours. they keep these games the same so the new generation gets to experience them. I feel like pokemon stopped being for me at a certain age
Just let me be Team Rocket gdi
