I still need to play Custom Robo Wars, but it seems at least as good as it was in GB3. There are a lot of nice presets you start with (and more that you unlock) to color it like established suits, or you can go wild doing it on your own. You can also scuff 'em up real good and make them look absolutely filthy.
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thank you, i would never have discovered this on my own, even though they’re this game’s version of humanity sprites
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I played a little bit of Shadow of the Ninja Reborn. It’s really good and gives you so many tools to play with. Levels prod you to try stuff. It’s gorgeous to look at. Hoping I can withstand a full run.
Surprised at how much I like the gear. It’s fun figuring out what works and what is deliberately junk. The first level spider boss basically tells you to crack open the crates and start experimenting.
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i don’t know how it is in custom robo, but gundam breaker 3 has pretty great colouring options. you can colour each part individually, and you also get to pick from a bunch of different kinds of paint: matte, mettalic, pearlescent, etc.
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i can’t remember which it is, but one of the ds castlevaniae has an enemy that only takes 1 damage no matter what your stats are. but there’s a joke weapon that’s a teddy bear filled with iron sand that only deals 1 damage. but the teddy bear deals that one damage a whole bunch of times every time you swing it.
so it’s a joke weapon that’s good for fighting exactly one enemy that appears once in the whole game
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damn, today is the day? we’re here on the day…it seems. wow.
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I played through this a few years back and it is a very uneven game that is hard to recommend due to so much of it being half-baked and a bunch of the late game feeling like padding. There’s gonna be some good left in it but I also think you haven’t seen the game at its worst yet.
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today is the day and it’s a good day
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Outlaws looks unbelievably good with max ray tracing and whatnot
first game I’ve seen use 20G of vram and it shows
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For this first time in Ages I booted up my PS4, thinking I might indulge in some Gaming before the family woke up. Well first I had to do a hard reset of the controller because it wouldn’t connect to the system, even via a cable. And then a system update. And then another system update, and for some reason it’s taking 4-8 hours to download a 500mb file. So right now I ain’t playin’ shit!
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Don’t play a lot of visual novels but when I heard someone made a queer romance set in the world of AFL (Australian Football) I decided I had to give Sudden Death a shot. It’s 45min and made by two Australians associated with Domino Club collective, Benny Barassi and Geelong Catgirl.
Having grown up with the sport & milieu, I’m sad to report I don’t think they’ve quite nailed it. The vernacular is all over the shop: definitely some pleasures of recognition “you fucking dog” (i.e. “you asshole”) “chippies” (i.e. “fries”) but a bunch of weird Americanisms (“I was like a newborn deer”), and way too verbose. Needs less overblown nerdy metaphors (“a match is like improvised theatre”), more understatement and larrikin wit; I don’t think there’s much of an understanding of how footballers here tend to understand themselves.
There are some cute moments though, and I liked the gameday screen’s faux-simulation appearance.
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How this looks
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I can barely get this fuckin’ thing to connect to the Internet. I had to connect it to my phone’s hotspot like a WiFi repeater. I tried downloading two small games (about 4 gigs each) and it was saying 99+ hours each so I gave up
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Honestly the only thing worthwhile about my PS5 is I can play PS4 games on it without having to wait around for weird reasons
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yeah what is with the controller on this thing
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the base PS4’s wifi is extremely old and not great (it’s 2.4ghz n, pre-ac even), it’s been the only hardware I use on a powerline adapter for pretty much a decade (even now that I use my PS4 as a glorified last gen streaming stick)
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I think maybe I’m going to have to hook it up to my laptop and try a bridged connection or something like that
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playing more new games lately than I have in a while so here’s a summary:
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wukong: I wound up refunding this because the level design was so mystifyingly naturalistic and the combat was relatively weightless – kind of the opposite of what souls games do well. I could see myself revisiting it at some point but idk.
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tactical Breach Wizards: really, really good. I’m about 3/4 of the way through and I haven’t stopped enjoying the combat or the writing; it strikes a perfect balance between challenge and maximalism, and between characterization and plot stakes.
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thank goodness you’re here: I’m not the biggest adventure game fan but this one keeps me smiling and keeps me making progress, and I admire its commitment to making British village look so repulsive. an easy recommendation all told.
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star wars outlaws: this is getting conspicuously mediocre reviews, but speaking as someone who doesn’t really like the mechanics of or for that matter play very many open world games, I’m enjoying it purely for the presentation much more than I did the first 2 hours of starfield, cyberpunk, or the last uncharted (all of which it resembles). it looks fantastic and is frictionless in most of the right ways.
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saw a post on cohost like “outlaws doesn’t have enough #content to satisfy gamers and it doesn’t innovate enough to impress jaded critics but it’s REALLY well-crafted for what it is”
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