I played the demo of Rogue Heroes (4p coop zelda like), and it was very good. It’s a little basic in terms of items, but it’s nice and snappy. The combat was decently well tuned, too. Anyone else try it out?
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god, y’all are gonna talk me into trying sekiro again huh. is there a recommended route i should follow? i liked the open-endedness but i feel like i kept hitting brick walls with some of these bosses
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i had a harder time with drunkard than the final and postgame bosses lol
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I personally didn’t find any of the mid game to be particularly frustrating, but that was after restarting twice because I hated the feeling of limping through the early game so much that it had soured me on actually trying to make progress. honestly if you get to a point where you aren’t limping through the beginning it’s pretty smooth.
I found Drunkard intimidating at first but then realized I could backstab all of his henchmen before backstabbing him and then talking to the helper guy. That setup took a while, which is why I didn’t try him again right away when I made a mistake and died at the very end. I think I will defeat him tonight, though.
I came across this comment the other day when I was on the verge of quitting, and realizing that there was probably a lot of truth in it annoyed me a little.
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excited for the natural follow-up: FromSoftware is your dad and is taking you to soccer practice. it’s really hard but you want to do your best and impress him. on the way home he tells you that he’s proud, and you get to stop for some mcdonalds.
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Can’t wait for From Software to snap up the Manhunt licence
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my dad took me to soccer practice once and I got distracted standing in the middle of the field trying to make sure that the drawstrings on my shorts were perfectly symmetrical, and then he told me that we weren’t going to go to soccer practice anymore
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as a kid i once got put under general anasthesia to have some teeth removed and on the way home my dad got me a rubber t-rex toy, not sure what videogame this experience analogises, possibly mario.
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in 4th grade i participated in the ymca intramural roller hockey league and in the final game of the season i got the ball and rolled it to the other end and scored a goal to win at the last moment and then the team all went to get pizza and the coach came up to me and said “man that must have felt great to go all the way up the court and score the winning goal”. i retired from sporting thereafter.
also that same year i had to go to the doctor and get some kind of shot and was very upset about it and then afterwards my mom took me to target to get a treat and let me pick out a vhs copy of the mighty ducks 2 and a tube of bbq pringles which i was allowed to eat in one sitting
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good dad
bad dad
yeah, this tracks
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I stopped playing soccer after I got kicked out of the only game I was in for actually tackling someone, and then I (unrelated) shattered my elbow and got a bunch of metal it in it.
My dad was not really involved in either.
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oh yeah, my dad also attempted to play soccer with my middle sister during the “parents play with the kids” bash at the end of her third grade season and, having not gotten much exercise for the year or two prior to that, immediately popped his achilles tendon and was in physical therapy all summer
sometimes your whole life is negative reinforcement, idk
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I keep avoiding this since the Sekiro will never end but as someone that played through the game 3 times and “became great”: I don’t like it. I don’t like what successful playing feels like. Dodge/jump/parry selection never didn’t feel like twisting my hands.
It’s like extremely well made but it might click with you and you still might not realize “wow I don’t like this!”
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Towards the end of the game (Sekiro), I really did feel like I had a telepathic connection with it. I felt more physically connected to it than any other Fromsoft game. That doesn’t mean it’s my favorite or that I think it’s a lot better than any of the others. It just felt more like effortlessly pulling off perfect tricks in THPS or something. I really liked where the level/enemy design went, and it just kept going.
It may be one I revisit some day and remember I had a much greater fondness for than I thought.
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i just got the newer macbook air w the m1 chip and thought it wouldn’t be able to run windows but by jumping through a few hoops i was able to get it working. ffxi is currently patching (remains to be seen if it will be playable, will report back) so all i’m really “playing” is the playonline viewer and even if this is as far as i can go i’m happy with it.
every time i interact with this piece of software i always end up thinking about how sour the internet has become in just twenty years and feel thankful for the relics of the hopeful, excited turn-of-the-century internet; seems like each of us has one or two in their pocket
edit: game chops a bit when there are lots of people around or particle effects but i’m running around in zones just fine, happy as a clam. yeehaw
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how is ffxi in 2021?
i played for a few weeks in ~2003 and rage quit after levelling down and having a generally miserable time but i often think about hanging out in that strange world again, both to legit engage with and conquer this thing that i found utterly inaccessible back then and as a retreat into that old internet, yeah
post pix
you and i both know there’s only one thing to post pics of!
@idiot there are a decent amount of qol features added (although there’s only so much they can do, it’s still very archaic in very many ways). depending on the server you choose it’s either low-population or totally barren. basically the entire campaign is solo-able now since you can have npc party members. if you’re down to wrassle with playonline it’s totally worth checking it out with the two week free trial just to run around and hear the music.
my partner and i wanna play through the whole game, so i might end up reviving my ffxi photo album thread, we’ll see!
edit: damn the chatrooms are still up, just empty
oh, i’ve swallowed my pride and i’m playing dragon quest 1 rn after reading through @HOBO 's dq3 game boy thread. i hate admitting how comfy it feels! i’d like to slowly play through the first 3 games as well as the first 3 final fantasies and then go from there, see how those games pingpong off each other
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played a whole bunch of final fantasy vi. up to the part where terra for the first time turns into an esper.
i don’t actually feel a lot at this yet. i don’t really care that much for exploring the maps, dunno if thats a predisposition i came into the game with or if i’m actually that bothered by these hyperdetailed nontiled-looking tiles. or maybe it’s something else? i dunno, i just think about how exploring a space in dragon quest is pretty fun whereas here it feels both nothing and bothersome. some of the character moments have been good tho, i’ll give it that. the combat interruption first time terra casts a spell with edgar on team is cute. i guess i’ll give it a couple more hours later on and see if i start liking it.
also, atb sucks
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