More death stranding, I hijacked a truck and it ran out of power outside of the recharge zone at the end so I couldn’t stow it. I unlocked the bikes though and drove one on a road, but promptly lost it trying to ford a river because I didn’t scan it.
“Be kind to the MULEs, remember they used to be like you, a porter” yeah right buddy they can fuck off
RHETORIC [Easy: Failure] Fuck. Shit. I wasn’t trying to say anything critical. I just like the NPCs in this game so far. I expected more of them to be treated like jokes instead of real people. Just based on hearsay and assumptions about the game i guess idk
ESPIRIT DE CORPS [Legendary: Success] it’s alright. Everyone at selectbutton.net understands the subtle art of talking shit about video games you haven’t finished. Or played.
Now this is posting.
Im glad SOMEONE recognizes the power of marvel land
i love that everyone who’s ever played disco elysium starts thinking like this. apparently. maybe i should play it
btw this is also what Giuliani’s Labyrinth is about
You ABSOLUTELY should play it but the actually maybe worse thing is that i kinda already kinda thought like this ;_;
though i gotta say. having played the Final Cut version first. i wish my internal anxieties argued w/ me in an incredible smooth low baritone
I started playing Crow Country its very nice looking and got me genuinely spooked a couple times. Its very cute at the same time. Its survival horror but you can always run back to your car for more bullets. It has tank controls on the d pad and free run on the stick which lets me tank when I have to shoot and then panic run with the stick. Its retro referential but it lacks old game meanness. Its weird the game takes place near atlanta ga, where I grew up. Its good, I got sucked in for nearly 3 hours first play.
It’s really a beautiful game, I agree. Unfortunately, in my case, I lacked the motivation to proceed with the puzzles and the adventure…
I played Harry as a confused racist because he’s a cop and that’s what he would be. I love how the game gives you literal psychic damage everytime you say something racist once you’ve internalised race science. It’s never not funny to have Harry succumb to the urge to say something moronic only to get slapped down immediately.
stupid google moon phase game
Gauntlet IV (Sega Genesis)
so i had this game on my Everdrive - i never played it, or any Gauntlet port growing up, because it always seemed like getting an arcade-perfect port of Gauntlet back then wouldn’t have been possible. and also, if i’m getting one to two games a year, it wasn’t going to be a Gauntlet game.
but wow, was i wrong. Gauntlet IV isn’t perfect, but it does, in fact, rule. i fired it up because it had been sitting on the SD card for over a year and i decided i needed to at least check it out - wowza.
after playing for an hour a few weeks ago, i took a break. then, serendipitously, someone on Bluesky posted about the soundtrack, which also rules. the soundtrack was so good, that that’s the main reason i thought this game is good - “why is the soundtrack so good? this doesn’t make sense,” i thought. “it’s just an arcade port.”
so what did i learn from that post on Bluesky? that Hitoshi fucking Sakimoto was one of the composers, and was the composer of my favorite song on the soundtrack. it all made sense, suddenly.
not only that - the game was developed by M motherfucking 2
are you kidding me? really?
goddamn.
so yeah, at the end of the day, Gauntlet is still kind of a boring single-player game imo, but i’m amazed this game exists.
hey what if I told you it was M2’s first game
Been playing Rampart. It’s goofy as heck. Multiplayer is the best way. Sad that on MAME there’s no real decent way to do multiple track balls.
It’s a very Atari of the 90s game. Build a base using a random selection of wall pieces, fortify it with cannons, shoot the cannons at approaching boats, repair the walls and repeat. It’s really solid and got ported to most everything with the MegaDrive probably having the best version imho.
Three-player Rampart was always great in the arcade.
It was also fun on SNES, but unfortunately limited to two.
I looked on HG101 because I did not remember there being a Gauntlet IV, and apparently it started as a homebrew port of the original Gauntlet for the SHARP x68000, and when Atari contracted the future M2 to port their x68000 version they delivered a whole new game as extra modes to the original arcade mode as an extra, and THAT became Gauntlet IV. Wild stuff.
Sadly I’ve had issues with uneven track ball response playing 3 player Rampart Arcade. 3 player mode gives you some interesting gang-up / alliance / back-stab options. Still really fun with controller.
The NES and Sega Genesis Ramparts are both excellent ports however. Snes Rampart has a wild mode 7 mode with kaiju bosses. I recommend emulating it with the high rez mode 7 available in modern emulators.
I played a ton of NES rampart in college. You can be so fuckn mean with the shot placement.
Wow M2 was really M2 from the jump!
I had this game and I never knew that!!!
