I just read a piece about how Play Online was a better internet that time forgot and God bless whomever wrote it but let me tell you:
That is a load of hooey, this application sucked shit, in no way am I endorsing anyone ever having to use Play Online or any app like it, death to apps and especially to that music.
I actually don’t like that music at all!!
The chocobo cursor is cute though.
we knew it was terrible and stupid but now that we don’t have websites and only 3 web designs still exist in the world we miss personality in graphic design even if it hurt us
after literally years of getting the run around from the 'net, i finally got my ps3 modded. i only have two legally ambiguous games on here right now, since it turns out i own most of the must-play titles on the system already.
those two games are aquanauts holiday and ridge racer 7. they are both very good.
MAD MAX (2015)
This game was not well reviewed (“The Mad Max video game is, in its very design, anti-fun” - The Verge headline), but some people love the shit out of it. I think there was some open world fatigue in late 2015. I am also not bothered by repetitive collection tasks if they’re fun enough. My favorite bits:
Leasts:
Game made me care about car engines and the final boss stage has unlimited exploding javelins. 7 out of 7.
the vehicular combat in this game is great. they should honestly have ditched the entire rest of the game and just made it about that
I’ve been replaying Mad Max recently as well. Driving around smashing into other cars and fighting convoys never gets old. The first time I played it I 100%ed the game and got Max’s original car and jacket as a reward. It was cool but there was no option to reset the world so I had nothing to do. At least let me reset the convoys and enemy camps. I don’t need to go clear all the little scrap collecting locations just give me some dudes to fight while cruising around.
That’s probably my only real complaint. That there’s no way to reset the world state after you finally get the Road Warrior car and jacket. Unless they patched one in since then. Doesn’t look like they have though.
I’m near the end of DQ11, and getting massive dumps of skill points every time I level up. The characters are really versatile in this one, while still having defined roles. Lots of party set ups for what is ultimately a very simple game.
Been playing this indie grand strategy game called Shadows Behind The Throne 2 and I’m really enjoying it.
The basic premise is you are the dark force that influences people to do evil things, and as such your goal is to either kill everyone or corrupt most of them into nihilistic assholes. However, you have no direct control over anything except your most fervent followers.
All the grand strategy? Happening in the background. The empires all do their own thing, and are subject to a system very similar to Crusader Kings (likes, dislikes, suspicions, etc) for the ruling nobles. And you can’t directly control those nobles at all.
You CAN, however, influence them. You could enthrall one of their agents or merchants, and whisper lies in their ear. You could hypnotize them with a vampire. You could drive them insane with a wandering madman. You could corrupt their liege and watch as the corruption trickles down.
I’ve been playing on the Streamlined difficulty, which is complicated but relatively straightforward. But the standard difficulty introduces a whole new layer: politics.
It wouldn’t be CK if you couldn’t do politics. And BOY HOWDY is that all over this game. Agents are characters just like the nobles, and have suspicions/likes/dislikes/etc just like nobles, and get to vote in their respective countries as citizens (as long as they haven’t been exiled). Votes range from stuff like “change my economy from one type to another” to “execute someone for conspiring with dark powers” and can be applied to any character. Lots of opportunity for subterfuge.
Three main issues so far:
Really enjoying it despite these things. It’s totally impenetrable but in a fun, intriguing, puzzle sort of way. I ended up nearly annihilating the world (before the savegame glitch) by using a seeker to drive the biggest rulers mad while a necromancer gathered bodies from the subsequent civil wars to raise armies of zombies.
God yes!
Game Rules.
I was going to finally try Hotline Miami via Steam but upon launch the game wanted me to install an updated .NET framework or whatever computer garbage, and so I said sure no problem PC games always wanna do this shit. And then it was like “okay now restart your computer” and like
I hate restarting my computer. I’ve got all my shit open and positioned just so. I feel too lazy to deal with all these two-factor authentications all over again.
So fuck it for now, gonna play something else lol
wtf the last three times i played rez i beat the game in one sitting no problem but here i am playing rez infinite, dying to the second boss instantly, learning thst you start all the way from the beginning of the level when you die at the boss fight, never wanting to play rez again
give me gamer tips i always make it to the boss at level 2 and just get instantly obliterated by 40 yellow missles
Boss difficulty depends on how many enemies you destroy before reaching them. Some variants are pretty tough.
YEAH I THINK IM GENERALLY BETTER AT THE GAME but its making this boss wreck me i just, dont know what to do AT ALL. like you know when you get your ass kicked mysteriously and you dont even know where to begin with strategy? thats me. i did the level four times last night and because i have todo the WHOLE LEVEL OVER again i dont want to like, wing it and die instantly on a boss i don’t understand again
wah
This was exactly my experience picking it up again.
It seems kind of silly but the boss will be easier if you intentionally do not shoot down as many enemies.
but wourme i wanna be a pro gamer
I don’t. But I am making myself play Sekiro anyway.
Tormentor x Punisher is an okay score attack game. It attempts comedic vulgarity but just doesn’t have the nuance to actually be funny.
N++ is the kind of game I can only play if there’s some kind of carrot inspiring me to improve my performance (story, sights to see, etc.). It’s too visually bland to make me care enough to Get Gud
Cryptark is a neat little roguelike thing where you need to infiltrate derelict space vessels and knock out security layers until you’re able to destroy an AI Core in each. The campaign mode has you constantly tracking your budget from vessel to vessel, and there are cash bonuses for meeting objectives.
There’s also a rogue mode where you dispense with the light management part and just conquer vessels, with limited opportunities for repair/ammo replenishment.
My chief complaints about this game are a limited FOV (from a sidescrolling perspective) and enemies that like to shoot at you from offscreen. Also they seem to just casually float through doors whereas you have to manually open them so this leads to getting smacked while you wait. Finally and most frustratingly, if you don’t knock out drone creation modules, random drones get created anywhere within the vessel, even sometimes right on top of you and that feels unfair rather than merely difficult. I might dip back into this one a few more times before I shelve it.
well damnit! we gotta beat it! do we go with wourmes strategy of doing shitty during the level or do we become power gamers
