Games You Played Today: 358 Threads Over 2

[teh_blend]

I wish I could play the 2D version of DQ11 on my phone

[vegetables]

For Frog the Bell Tolls is pretty cute, I like the jumping animation a whole bunch. I really want to kick Prince Richard’s ass and prove everyone wrong about what a dope they think I am. I thought that they made the Prince of Sable a POC, but I looked up the artwork for him and it seems like they just needed a way to differentiate him from Prince Richard. Darn.

It’s really made me realize how much I hate playing games on my computer, though. My dude said he ordered a mister, but he always says stuff like that so we’ll see.

[ticky]

Does Yakuza 3’s combat ever stop feeling extremely sluggish and stilted? I get that it’s a much older game than Zero or Kiwami 1 and 2, but it’s a struggle

[zombieman000]

There is an upgrade category you can dump points into to increase combo speed but yeah, I agree and recommend just throwing a bike around as much as possible. I think as you buff Kiryu up it’ll flow a bit better.

[Rudie]

I burned through a few more games today. Several random itch bundle games. Midnight Manor? Where I…did chores for unclear reasons. Really great character sprite wasted on throwing boxes to make flimsy stairs to collect keys to do burn bones. Like opening a door with a key the only thing behind the door is another key and another locked door. It was almost a statement on how stupid video games are.

Realized I had the next game from the sands of Voltar people but didn’t recognize my controller and I will never KB&M again. Update:Without my laptop open cannot figure out what game I was talking about.

Got a few minutes into Far From Noise with shrug and tigress. Supposedly it has unflappable reviews. Will maybe hang out with it when we aren’t just being grumpy and flippant at an Art Game.

Tried seeing if anyone on SB had talked about Diaries of a Space Port Janitor. All I found was an ellusive post from @Tulpa . I really enjoyed my hour with it but am deeply afraid it will become coddified and the city is deliberately and overtly confusing.

After staring at it for years and year Twitch Prime (now Amazon Gaming?) dropped White Night in my lap. It’s okay? The visual style is great. The understanding of American time-periods and culture is suitably European and baffling. The Noir dialog is sometimes present but continues to confirm that “Noir” is this etheral culture concept that never existed in the tropes that are ever present.

The actual game is reading diary entries and lighting matches and running away from a Mother Ghost. I’ll probably beat it but over the course of six months 10 minutes at a time.

[falsedan]

@Rudie

if anyone on SB had talked about Diaries of a Space Port Janitor

I think about it a bit, probably played it more than thought about it. Mostly about how it tricked me into keeping a bunch of stuff I found on the ground “in case I need it later” and the next day: you gotta eat! you have no money! incinerate that junk for cash!

[HOBO]

@yarusenai

you and i both know there’s only one thing to post pics of!

Ah see…this isn’t true

Last year I tried playing Final Fantasy XI’s free trial. Did I ever post about it?? I swore I did but searching says no.

If you get the game off Square’s site it’s 5 fucking RARs.

Please listen to this music as you read this post, so you can get a brief taste of what it’s like to install Play Online.

- YouTube

Even if you extract all the RARs and follow these instructions…

…it may not install the actual game.

I did have Play Online, though! And that’s more fun than actually playing any other game.

I was going to stream installing and playing this but the app and game have like 6 logins and passwords between them, including ones for your personal Play Online mail account, and I didn’t want to share any of those secrets with the world. This is also why I can’t log in right now and take a screenshot of my profile, which was very funny and good, I’m sure.

If anyone else is able to look profiles up my name was "TigersMounter’, and shocking enough I didn’t choose one of the Ehrgeiz avatars.

Yes, there are 129 pages of avatars for Play Online and many of them are magical.

Is Dejected Animal Land a long abandoned flip phone mobage? If not do you think they made a PS2 prototype based on the concept. Maybe an Animal Crossing with a truly obnoxious, overly complicated crafting system and star charts that map the animals depressions? I bet the company spent at least two billion yen on development inspired by these drawings.

There’s a section for Wallpaper Downloads. It seems to be located in the lobby of Vanadiel Ltd’s corporate headquarters rather than a museum.

Please do not forget to set up the image as a wallpaper after downloading it. Remember, you need to download it first though.

Also remember that Square Enix is a forward thinking company, who’s always ahead of all the trends, and that is why there’s also a wallpaper gallery for your mobile.

But only if it’s a Nokia. It’s all the important Nokias though, if you’re in the market for a new mobile please consider one of these.

This is what Kimahri might look like on your phone. Will they add Razr support someday? Let’s make some noise, and make it happen.

Anyway yeah I thought I took more screenshots of this thing but I guess not. Oh well, someone else should try and explore the wonderful world of Play Online on my behalf.

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Also Gnosia is good, I am enjoying it quite a bit.

[bib]

god that chocobo cursor gets me good

[Felix]

got a bunch of my emulation ducks in a row for the first time in a while:

• realized that mvc2 works a lot better and more intuitively in fightcade’s naomi than it does in retroarch’s dreamcast

• figured out which crt shaders look best on my projector

• figured out a way of triggering the retroarch menu from the couch without it conflicting with launching steam big picture

• got saves automatically syncing between retroarch PC + crtPi + openemu Mac

etc.

feels good! I used to be super on top of this stuff and then I stopped for a while because it felt like I was obsessively gardening with old tools at a rate that couldn’t keep up with new developments, but I feel like the space / my life have slowed down again enough lately for me to settle back into prescriptiveness.

[BustedAstromech]

@Felix

• got saves automatically syncing between retroarch PC + crtPi + openemu Mac

how’d you end up doing this?

I did symlinks & a NAS folder; earlier I tried symlinks & cloud storage but that was more finicky.

I need to solve save syncing between the Vita’s virtual PSX memory cards and my emulation and I’m worried it’s too much effort to bother

[Felix]

yeah it’s a combination of a NAS folder and cloud storage using symlinks

always symlinks

[BustedAstromech]

there oughta be a context menu action to create a symlink

I typed into this box, before I paused, put that text in the Google, and realized there is:

https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

[Felix]

oh yeah, I use that, because otherwise I have to load the fuckin’ cmd shell to use windows’ mklink, it doesn’t work properly from bash

[teh_blend]

Had this casual spoiler come up when Googling DQ11, the moment didn’t quite hit when I played through it today

Ronnie :’/

[username]

I have played most of these!

Midnight Manor: I thought it was a neat mechanic to build a game around, except it didn’t build much of a game around it? After you do two or so rounds of collecting stuff the third (or fourth?) round is a bit different and I’m the type to be okay with playing something a half hour long just to see what ideas it has, and apparently it somehow has multiple endings depending on you doing different stuff, but I think peacing out after a quick peak is more than reasonable.

0°N 0°W is I believe the game you are thinking of.

Far From Noise: This is… not a bad philosophical art game by the standards of the genre, but I must warn that it is 90 or so minutes long and would have been much better off by trimming it down by at least a third. The game part is nonexistent enough that it could have likely gotten away as a text adventure, although the sights do add a bit of something. If you are in the mood for a game like this it is okay, but if you can’t get past the pretentiousness it just ain’t gonna work sadly.

Diaries of a Space Port Janitor: This is an absolutely lovely looking game I bounced off of. It is one of those games that tells you nothing and wants you to figure things out, except the city layout is impossible to keep straight and you are stuck with lots of busywork you have to do each day. Add in that you basically have to pick up a ton of random junk and guess which might be needed later and I got the feeling it was gonna take too much time. I recommend everyone giving it a shot for a half hour and then only sticking around if it really gets its hooks into you.

[wourme]

I’m still playing Sekiro, a little every night.

As I thought, I was able to beat Drunkard without much trouble the next time I tried. I then tried Lady Butterfly. After dying several times, I was able to beat her. Only to discover that she has a second phase. At that point, I could no longer seem to even get a hit in.

So I returned to the bull, thinking maybe it would be easier despite looking scarier. And it was. I beat it on my second try.

I like the dungeon, though I was too intimidated to explore very deep there.

[Broco]

Sekiro’s midgame (post-bull basically) is my favorite part! Ashina Castle is a top-quality castle even by From’s high standards

[bib]

yeah ashina area is an all-time great imo, just a complete ripper in like a million ways. peak from

[Tulpa]

I reached the midgame in maybe two sittings which may also go a way towards explaining why I thought the whole game was solid.

[Tony]

I should finish Sekiro. It’s probably my favourite game ever. I only have the last two bosses left to beat, but I don’t feel motivated towards a few days worth effort considering there is nothing after that.