im just playing rain world again. can’t focus on anything else, but burning through this.
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When I have a day like that I go replay a game I liked in the past instead of continuing to risk duds on something new
Speaking of, maybe I should give Assault Android Cactus another spin
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My backlog related hangups prevent me from replaying anything a lot of the time so I can only press on.
Remnant: From the Ashes – seems fine I guess, blends its influences together decently. But I’ve played all the influences and this remix isn’t doing much for me.
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Remnant is a bad game and should only be played coop
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MLG Pro Tip: soak your hands in water with a lil peppermint oil to soothe arthritis inflammation but also improve mouse grip 
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Banner Saga 1 last boss: what the fuck is this “protected” bullshit??
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I am playing Returnal as well and two things really struck me.
One, I did not realize just how committed this game was to the sci-fi horror aesthetic. Props to the music in particular, but everything about this game feels extremely oppressive and hostile at all times. It’s a classic Housemarque run and gun shooty game, but it also has a strong grasp of its identity as a horror game.
And two, relatedly, I did not realize just how committed this game was to its narrative. It’s non-traditional, but I’ve found myself actually curious as to what story the game is going to tell in the end. It’s told entirely through the protagonist talking to herself (in more ways than one) but the way it peppers in narrative progression every run is paced very well. It consistently adds in new narrative elements while giving you enough string to theorize, and this all happening across me mostly playing the first level over and over again. And again, the horror is strong here as well. Thankfully no jump scares yet, but the threat feels real.
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Curses ‘n’ Chaos is a fun little single-screen, wave-based brawler with one design choice I find absolutely exasperating. Walking over a powerup puts it into your possession, to then be used at your discretion. You can also hold an additional powerup in reserve by pressing a button to summon an owl who will swoop by and grab it out of the air. Press that button again and the owl comes by and drops the item onto the playing field and you have to retrieve it. So far so good.
But walking over an item while you already have one in your possession causes you to cough the current item up onto the playing field. So a common scenario goes like this:
I want to punch badguy 1 and throw a ninja star at badguy 2 that’s behind him. I punch badguy one who drops an apple on me while I’m a split-second from following up my punch with the ninja star. So I wind up dropping the ninja star (in fact, flinging it out of my reach so I have to chase it down again if I want to use it), consuming the apple regardless of whether or not I need to regain any health, and badguy 2 bops me in the face probably. Absolutely infuriating.
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I don’t think Remnant is bad game at all.
I guess i have to qualify that by saying i only played it because it was free and i would never normally play this type of game at all. I can’t say what its influences are beyond the Souls games, so i won’t know if other games do the same things better.
But I had fun playing it co-op and enough fun to keep playing on my own until i got the fairly easy Platinum trophy. I like that it has a dodge roll so i can have fun avoiding enemy attacks and counterattacking. The guns seem quite well differentiated and (at least to start with) the enemies react to being shot. I had fun trying out the various mods (special abilities) which you can attach to guns.
I think the worst thing about the game are probably the bosses, which in lots of cases have spawning minor enemies along with the boss creature. Too often the key to beating the boss was taking care of the minor enemies, and that’s not very satisfying. It’s more fun to learn how the boss attacks, and change tactics to deal with tricky parts.
Although i liked the random generation of levels, another problem it causes is that you can miss some weapons and mods. One of the easiest ways to deal with lots of the bosses is to summon your own minions, but you aren’t guaranteed to get the mods which do that. You can get them by playing a different mode, but you have to put up with random generation which i feel like people might hate.
Anyway I’m not saying it’s the best game ever, and probably it’s much improved by co-op but … i don’t think it’s a bad game at all.
What parts of it did other people dislike?
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Kind of crummy shooting attached to a kind of crummy Diablo 2 lootgame. Just sort of a B- example of the looter shooter, the king of which is (I suppose) Destiny/2. The thing that’s interesting about it is how little it explains its own structure to you, which when combined with the sort of future-mythical tone, gives it an air of genuine mystery. It becomes a lot less interesting when you figure out how everything actually works, which doesn’t take that long.
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I just played through all of Hohokum in a little under 5 hours this afternoon and I liked it way more than I anticipated. The puzzles are sometimes a hair too inscrutable, sometimes you’re going to just stumble onto a level’s win condition and have no idea what triggered it. But many of them (and the miscellaneous interactive objects) evoke some of that Vectorpark spirit which I always enjoy.
This was a nice palate cleanser after yesterday being full of games that left me feeling mentally restless.
I loved the art, even if a lot of the little humanoids you encounter sort of remind me of like, corporate art people (just imagine illustrations from ads). The environments are really great in a lot of cases, and there are a lot of really nice animation flourishes that are probably going to be visuals that stay in my head forever.
I lol’d slightly because the special thanks section of the credits reads like a Who’s-Who of indie games people.
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agree wholeheartedly, hohokum is much better than its aggressively twee appearance and 2014-sony-promo-campaign suggested
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Finished RE7. The last part drags a bit but overall in follows the RE tradition of really good first 2 sections and then quality drops down a bit. I will have more thoughts later but I enjoyed the game but am also glad I didn’t pay full price for game and DLC at this point.
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yeah, I wound up finishing RE7 without the VR goggles just because I found the last stretch a little too fatiguing with them, but I still really loved my time with it, one of the most underplayed AAAs from the last generation I think
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i feel like this game, maybe unintentionally, is a real progenitor of the current abundance of twee “wholesome” indie so i’ve always kind of disliked it for that, but otherwise i haven’t played it so don’t have an opinion (never owned a ps3 or ps4). i just wish i could call it “ho-hum” though because that would be a great own. been meaning to play Wilmot’s Warehouse at some point though.
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wilmot’s warehouse is also great (strongly recommend co-op over solo play to get the most out of it) – honestly a flawless track record imo even if their aesthetic can be overly on-trend
Respawn increased Titanfall 2’s population to half of Destiny 2’s with a free weekend but didn’t put the game on a discount the dorks
Honest to god this has quadrupled my time to stopping due to pain
Need some kind of… under desk hand sous vide
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i was hanging out messing around in different games for 20-30 minutes at a time and my ps2 and pvm both decided to shit themselves nearly simultaneously. going to stress eat some yogurt and head to bed feeling sour and defeated, i’ll try to figure it all out tomorrow.
(ps2 ribbon cable adhesive weakened and the elevated cable is now gouging my discs. fortunately it was only two games. pvm having weird issues where it will suddenly get super bright (like i cranked the brightness knob all the way up) and won’t go away until i power cycle.)
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I had this one locked and loaded but then I wound up having a good time lol
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Gotta recommend Lock, a game made in Dreams. Haven’t played it myself but I’m not touching Dreams. Saw a stream and it’s probably the best Witness-lite experience you could find, just a shame it’s currently trapped in Dreams.
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