Well this is the only one I’ve tried, but yes, it’s probably fine (and not much else).
Carrion is a great development on the search action game: one where you don’t really have to search, it propels you around like the greased sucking biomass you are and if you can pick up the designers’ cues you always know where to go, even though the endless underground corridors aren’t particularly memorable and don’t have like, landmarks or whatever. I like this so much more than trying to keep some mental checklist, or god forbid an ingame map, of all the locks I’ve passed up because I didn’t have the right key yet.
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Also hooked up PS4 VR today. Was not prepared for how low resolution it is!
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I got Last of Us Part 2 for cheap so I started playing it today. It seems fine I guess, it’s basically just the first game with different levels.
My main takeaway so far is how the hell does Joel live like such a king in his massive post apocalypse mansion? He lives better than many people do in regular society
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really wish Shiren didn’t force me to do a tutorial for a game I’ve played in a genre I’m familiar with!
EDIT: I don’t think it was necessary! I just suckered myself into doing a tutorial!
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I played some Super Runabout: San Francisco Edition on 
Dreamcast, and my wife later piped up noting that several people who worked on that series later worked on Wreckless/Double S.T.E.A.L and suddenly the lineage was crystal clear, they’re absolutely the same series, holy shit
I think of those I’ve played Super Runabout and Double S.T.E.A.L: The Second Clash are the most playable. Super Runabout is shorter and less complex, but both are much less punishing than Wreckless.
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Okay but all these cutscenes in Like a Dragon are really wearing me out I would like to play for more than 7 uninterrupted minutes at a time please.
Also these Pachinko games are a 9 GIG download? Jesus Christ.
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This was me with Yakuza 0. Just not my kind of game, it’s like chewing silly putty for me
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The first couple chapters are pretty egregious but once you get to chapter 4 (I think?) it shuts up and lets you actually play
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It takes forever, but after the absurdly long intro the game eventually settles into a pretty enjoyable rhythm between gameplay and cutscenes.
But yeah, that opening is pretty much Kingdom Hearts level of movie.
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This is pretty much true of every Yakuza game, too. Maybe except for 4 & 5 when you start playing multiple characters who each have their own, albeit condensed, slow introduction period that comes right after playing through the former character’s exciting conclusion… God those games had problems with their pacing.
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yakuza 0 is especially slow to start i think, i adore that game but the first hour or two of conversations about The Empty Lot don’t do much for me
i actually had free time this evening and fancied playing a game, just no idea which
had a video of umurangi generation in a background tab after seeing a bunch of friends playing it and damn that game has some nice music
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The only other one I’ve played is 4 and I don’t remember it feeling like this much of a slog. I’ll get through it because I feel invested but I can’t believe I’d actually be stoked to go do a fetch quest
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Honk the J-demo is chapter 4 and I went “i know why”.
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Okay yes it gets a bit better after chapter 3
Found my other left joycon and was able to fix the drift. Played Ape Out and finished the harder album levels, I move around more like a cat than a gorilla.
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i was testing a newish soundpack for catacylsm so i decided to make a new character and show off some gameplay without any v/o commentary just to show what it can be like. i made a random character and took off towards the refugee shelters. theres some scavenging and vehicle travel as well as some interactions between hostile npcs while hiding in a broken down apc
if anyone does choose to watch this be warned theres a rly loud sound @ 18:25-18:30
when using the sound pack if you advance time while ignoring a sound nearby it will play every instance of the sound at once, it sucks!
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Trying Tomb Raider 2013
What’s with the 24fps default framerate cap. I regret to inform this game’s devs that despite this framerate, the experience is not even slightly “just like a movie”
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Voiceline from Lara’s memory of her dad when the game introduces the “survival vision” button that slathers the screen with highlights and waypoint indicators: “You won’t always have a fancy gadget to lead you around. If you learn to read the land and the stars, you’ll always find your way home”
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whats the name?