The other day my PS5 was creaking. It was in rest mode and every several seconds I could hear the creaking of plastic. I then turned it completely off and the creaking was still there, as if it were moving on it’s own.
Is my PS5 alive? Is this the emotion engine?
there’s either a ghost or an insect in the emotion machine
I never thought machines gaining sentience would start with a creak - more like a bang - but here we are.
It has begun. In Drem’s living room
Had another evening where I played 20 minutes of various games and came away dissatisfied with each. Luckily none were games I had much in the way of expectations for. Well, serves to whittle down the backlog!
Night Stalker for Intellivison.
Yea, it just bumped Lode Runner off the pedestal for being the more synergistic and emergently dynamic game, perhaps, ever made. I can’t believe how utterly reiterative it is with ONE-SINGLE-MAZE layout. And in reality, due to the recurring scenarios the game puts you through once the challenge ramps up, it’s not even a maze, but more like layers of a labyrinth.
And the music! Just a single metronomic synth-pulse in even beats. The perfect sound to escalate tension. Pure genius!
the realest opinion anyone’s ever posted in this forum
Odallus on sale for switch. The remixed hard mode is visible upon starting new game but it’s greyed out. The basic game is still better than a lot of things.
I did the same thing! Fine aim + up the sensitivities, especially on higher X scopes
I did just go back to Classic though and I think it’s actually helped me improve with that setting as well
dang if anything i felt like it ended kind of abruptly. about 12-15 hours seems perfect for this game
can be (and is) both imo
These games seem like too much of a hassle.
persona more like personally i would not find much interest in playing these
As a massive SMT and archaic RPG liker I’d say that Persona 2’s mechanics are a hell of a lot more of a drag than they look
ah cool, so i’m not alone in feeling persona 2 has a lot of tiresome stuff?
my own playthrough has become really slow cause i look at the dungeon i’m doing and go “no, not today please”
i still don’t want to abandon it i just feel so done collecting cards and dealing with encounters, and i think this is the first smt game that makes me feel like this
I am playing Sakuna Of Rice and Ruin as fortold.
It is cute and very pretty. The action bits are servicable but the grappling hook thing is fun. The farming stuff I feel like I am very early on (close to my first harvest). It is weird you gotta wait around while your stuff grows. I hate waiting around to harvest rice to grow more powerful (that rules).
But I had two complaints. You have dinner with everyone you know made of stuff you find in the action part. This also functions as a party chat. There are a lot of mouth sounds during the dinner.
One of the dinner conversations was about how dumb Vegetariainism is? Like why wouldn’t you eat meat it is delicious. The big dumb party member was only vegetarian because society told him to. Even the priests eat meat when no one is looking. Meat is great! So the dumb guy thanks the animals for becoming food and eats a bite then the rest of the cast rolls their eyes.
Feel like with the in-game existence of Gods sassying on Buddha and Christianity is going to be held in similar regard.
I find the game exceptionally charming otherwise and has a very nice manual but now worried the further party chats are going to hammer this not-necessarily mean-spirited but short-sighted “Why are people different from me” world view.
Another one of the cast is a devout ?Christian?-in-all-but-name foreigner. So she speaks in broken Japanese (the english subs do not carry this but how could they.) Again maybe weird to have a Christian in the face of an actual god of War and Harvest.
Hope the vegetarian thing is a one-off.
against my better instincts i bought hollow knight last night because i’ve seen too much effusive, ranklesome praise for it recently and my brain reached a breaking point
will my reservations be validated or will i be pleasantly surprised? tune in next week…
i spent several hours in tactical nexus on tower p trying to get the goal in your level up zone. i felt powerful and invincible, my defense so high i could just laugh at so many of these high level enemies. then i guess i reached the floor before the goal (that kinda vibe) and there was just a single non-optional enemy way beyond what i had, and i had spent any resource that could help me here hours ago.
this is tactical nexus and i hate it. i will play more some other day
The only thing I really dislike is the timesink of collecting tarot cards. You need to find a demon in a random battle that belongs to the tarot you want, then you need to strike its interest three times in a conversation, and then it will give you some cards. You should be able to skip having to interest a demon 3 times for cards if you’ve already had a contract formed with them.
I have access to the Casino now, so I can get TEC cards that I can put on a Persona before I summon it from the Velvet Room that will increase its TEC by 10 points, which will help make up for Persona and characters with low TEC, and also make Maya a walking atomic warhead.
Gonna get to this after I smash through the end of Yakuza but wasn’t expecting this level of theological conundrum and close-minded dietary opinions. I’m curious to see if the game will deal with famine at any stage (and what that means when a literal god of harvest is present) although I suspect it might be too cutesy for this.
