I’m so proud that I inspired such great life decisions.
you do this more than you might think — in the past two days i’ve purchased suanmeitang, lonely god, and densha de go 1 because of posts you’ve made on here 
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And I was inspired to try two of those three from other posters! You know selectbutton is a good place when Densha de Go and Lonely God are the sorts of things that “go viral.”
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recently came into possession of two Analogue products, the Super NT and the NT Mini Noir (mostly due to luck/a friend picking them up for me when they went on sale again) and played around a bunch with them tonight.
jailbroke both of them and have just been testing them out and optimizing them for my displays, but both feel real nice to play games on. loaded up Soul Blazer for the first time and immediately understand why it rules. i love how it wastes no time getting you into the core of the game and is just like “ok well you’re here, go save the world now.”
also happy that i can finally take some stuff from my mom’s place that she’s been holding on to since uh…i moved out after college
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i played a castlevania dawn of sorrow romhack that makes the game a sequel to harmony of dissoncance where you play as Juste with a lot of tweaks to enemies, souls, weapons and the rooms, and it even changes j=Julius mode to Sonia Belmont. I like it
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i beat a summer’s end yesterday and started hashihime of the old book town. the former was nice and had a sweet ending though i wasn’t expecting it to end where it did. the jump from yuri to a bl vn is a little striking because i can already tell that the latter is going to be problematic in the way the bl vns can be. the treatment of female characters is a little suspect and there’s one person in the cast who has a terrible personality. the mc hangs out with them anyway because they’re childhood friends but i keep hoping he’ll lose his temper and punch him in the face because i sure want to.
the visuals for both novels are good and i got sucked into hashihime pretty quickly despite some of my qualms with it so far. i’ve gone from reading about women who love each other and how that may make their lives more complicated in 1986 china to reading about a bookworm writer who hallucinates some of his creations. judging by the achievement list, hashime is probably at least 30hrs so i’m back to reading longer things.
remembering that i never finished heaven will be mine and umineko nonwithstanding i’m glad i can at least finish some things lately. i keep wondering why wlw stuff is always so short but at least i’m having luck with actually liking the content so far. i rec that everyone pick up a summer’s end and to read it at some point.
the writing is pretty okay and the love scenes are pretty tasteful ( and also completely optional! ) it’s not the standard fare ’ look at the gay couple fuck so you can fap ’ game and i wish there were more yuri things like it.
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RE7 - yo, fuck that boat house fight
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Ha! So there is bullshit in RE7 too? I must admit that I haven’t gotten back to it yet. I’m kinda apprehensive of getting scared too much?? That hasn’t happened since Silent Hill 3 I think. That game really hit all my scaredy cat buttons back in the day…
I’m making good progress on RE4 and I must say it feels good to make progress in that game. Every time I clear a good chunk of the castle and get to save my game I feel like a huge weight has dropped off my shoulders. Or like I took a satisfying dump, actually. That makes it sound a bit negative but it really isn’t. The game’s pretty fun at times! I bought my first rocket launcher and I’m itching to get to the next boss to use it.
I just downloaded FFXV. Mostly because @Rudie raved about it again and I want to give it a second chance. I bounced off after a few hours the first time around, yet I remember having a good time with it. With all this resident eviling I need a chill, no stress hangout game to come down in between survival horror sessions and I feel like it fits the bill perfectly. I would have gone for Judgement too but that’s not on PC… Yet.
Feeling pretty good about videogames right now. I’m having a lot of fun with what I picked out for myself. Videogames can still be fun, huh
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Yo, I’m working on a shoot em up in Unreal Engine 4 when I’m procrastinating on my main game and it’s coming along well. Don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing… I’m planning to show off what I got so far to everyone in the coop at the end of April. I didn’t know you like the genre so now I’m doubly looking forward to your feedback
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Definitely want to see it.
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I’ve been having a pretty good time with Kiwami 2 and 6 – playing both simultaneously which isn’t really advisable, after having bought both and not really been in the mood until recently, and only having previously played 0 and like half of 1 on the PS2.
Kiwami 2 didn’t make a great first impression but has since improved and it’s nice to see one of these games running flat out on PC, and 6 is very wistful and funny, great geographical escapism.
I enjoyed what I played of 5 but I don’t think I’ll ever finish it or 1, nor go back to 3&4
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Like a Dragon is great. I like it even more than 0. I’m pretty near the end of it, but I’ve got the same late-game fatigue I got with 0 so I’ve been holding off for a bit. These games are just about 10 hours too long, in my estimation. I’m definitely going to go back to it soon though. The plot has gone full soap-opera-bullshit, but I love that aspect of these games. Ichiban running for office was a very fun place for the story to go.
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I have enjoyed seeing kiryu handle all the kids and their problems and seamlessly shift to dealing with yakuza and their problems, and 3 is not as quite rough as I thought it might be from watching an lp of that musashi spin off. it seems like a shorter one anyway so far. The way things go in the story in these later games I’m often surprised by all the things they could of setup in 0 but didn’t, which it was probably better for. I’m looking forward to whenever majima’s buddy who carried like 6 guns in his mouth or whatever on his way to kill a bunch of people is supposed to show up again though
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The thing to do with yakuza games is just learning to stop doing side stuff when you get at all bored and never try to do everything.
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I don’t think I ever even played some of the mini games at all. Darts comes to mind.
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This is the right decision.
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The game is still spooky but i have more guns after the basement fight. Part of the bullshit of the boss fight is on me since I always forget that I am able to block.
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I’ve finally gotten into Planescape: Torment, the first time I tried playing it many years ago I couldn’t even get out of the Mortuary. I bought the enhanced edition for 6 dollars and all the quality of life improvements make it eminently more enjoyable. I then bought the ipad version because its cheap and you can transfer saves back and forth between the two versions, only to find out that playing it on ipad is a lot more comfortable than sitting in front a screen because of all the reading. I haven’t seen writing this good in a game pretty much anywhere else. The richly detailed world and character descriptions paint a vivid picture of a fascinating setting.
I still haven’t found Pharod yet but I’ve spent probably 3-5 hours just soaking up all of the different pieces of atmosphere, it’s rare I find a game where I want to speak to every single person I come across.
i think the combat totally sucks though fwiw
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Played Dragon Ball Fighterz but instead of going ham, I waited for openings, baited some meter, and generally played a pretty relaxed game. Won all my sets. Dropped one round lol
Still don’t know how to handle xfactor other than do things that eat up time? It’s rare that I take someone out while it’s still active
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