Just played a bunch of Wolfenstein Reboot: The First One: No Not That One, The Other One.
It’s neat, but man, the levels are just too long, and there’s almost no downtime, you’re always either shooting Nazis or moving towards more Nazis to shoot. Was kinda hoping for a little more narrative tbh
I just beat BotW. I’m glad I bothered to pick it back up and see the ending. I should probably do that with the other X amount of games I’ve never touched in years
yes, i really love the aesthetics. they’re super strange and beautifully psychedelic; not really anything else out there that quite looks the same way.
also (mostly) agree with the characters. Hope and Vanille are just barely tolerable, but this, again, has more to do with the script than the characters themselves. the same can be said, to varying degrees, for the rest of the cast, but overall, i think they’re good attempts at actual human beings.
also, i think it’s interesting to play this again after XV, because it’s clear that the whole “your party members actually speak to you as you wander the world” thing started here and i totally forgot about that. it isn’t as fully realized as it is in XV, but it’s cool to see it here.
i should probably beat it, too
also I think Xi Jinping Thought is probably going to bankrupt this studio so if you’re interested at all I’d get the game
Yeah looks like they have gone into full damage control, and a whole lot of extra accusations are coming up.
I played through this last night, and it just barely runs on my laptop at low settings. Had to use headphones because the fan was overpowering the audio. The shadows were pretty crazy looking at super low rez.
Definitely worth the time to play I think, seems like the perfect game for VR, if it doesn’t already support that.
Main gripes for me was I wasn’t really sold on some of the later parts, particularly The spirit realm(?) and the one bit where you can die. The thought crossed my mind that a horror game without threat of death loses it’s ability to scare, until I got to that point and realised it’s probably for the best they didn’t do more of that.
yeah I understand why they included the seance/meditation scene but I thought it was way less effective than everything involving the family in the preceding hour+, and I didn’t think it really earned its gruesomeness
maybe if you’re more interested in the spiritual angle you’d feel differently, idk, it’s really my only complaint
I think if that part was maybe a third as long it would have been more effective. I did like the picture book, it reminded me of those books that had a cassette tape with a chime telling you when to turn the page
Playing DQ11 and all I can think is how I wish I had gotten it on PC so I could somehow replace the soundtrack. Everything else about it has been fantastic. This game reminds me of taking long hikes like no other, especially when I decide to slow it down.
My other complaint besides the music is how much better it is to use attacks that hit multiple targets so I’m just casting bang over and over if I want to do the best thing. Might be time to turn the auto battle options back on.
Still gnawing away at Tokyo Extreme Racer Drift 2. I don’t know that it will ever be done. Still learning things every time I play it. Finally hit the limits of my FC RX7 with no suspension tuning. After about 400hp its just too much for the stock springs. Which is impressive… The real secret with that car has been running grip-y rear tires and crappy fronts and just really focusing on not loading up in the corners.
Driving on looser suspension all around has given me a better sense of control in all my cars across all the racing games I play. Its all about trying to drive like you are balancing on a ball in tight corners. And on wider stuff visualizing momentum as a weight I am trying to shove as far ahead of me as I can.
I could really use a new racing game but I find racing in narrow mountain passes is basically all I’m interested in now. Its too thrilling.
Maybe Ill pick up a DIRT again but I hate how slow the menus are and how annoying the voices are.
I acutally… don’t know which one you’re referring to here
I played el shaddai on mushrooms and it was awesome
The 2009 Raven game introduces Deathshead and is technically the first of the reboot series before The New Order (also establishes how the TNO timeline starts).
Dang that’s disappointing. Every now and then I’m reminded that the mechanical and monster design in FF13 is super rad and I’d go back to those games if the gundams had more of a presence. They’re so awesome I don’t know why they don’t just have the characters riding them all the time.
How’s the villain in FF13? Dissidia NT just added Snow from FF13-2 as the villain rep for 13, which seemed a weird pick to pair with Lighting as the hero.
The New Order. It was my understanding going in that it was like the 2nd or 3rd attempt at rebooting the series at the time, though looking it up now, it seems a bit less straightforward than that
This is only true for the early game, and it depends on how you build and equip your characters. I focused my hero’s skills in the greatsword tree, prioritizing GS attack power and strength. He does more single target damage than any of my other characters.
Spellcasters in general don’t get as much scaling with their offensive spells as much as the physical characters do. An Erik with full deposits in the knives and dual-wielding categories does incredibly high damage per turn.
The villain in FF13 is the most forgettable character in series history. I actually had to go look up who it was.
It’s very much a FF9 Necron sort of situation, with the final boss basically coming out of nowhere and having no plot relevance until minutes before the 12th hour. The closest 13 comes to a Kuja in this analogy would probably be Barthandelus, who is like, basically the pope? But he means so little as a character that plot synopses of the game don’t even mention him.
Honestly, 13-2 Snow makes just as much sense as a visitor villain as anyone. I mean, maybe they could have gone with Jihl Nabaat or Cid Raines, but I don’t remember Jihl fighting at all, she was more of a desk jockey, and Cid… Like I’ll be honest, I forgot he existed until I just combed through the character list trying to remember the Pope guy’s name just now.
Snow DOES sorta play a sort of misguided antagonist at certain points in the sequels, so… I mean there’s kiiiiinda some justification for it?
The short version is that FF13 itself is pretty weak on villains. The FF13 oversaga’s strongest villain would probably be Caius from 13-2, so I’m not sure why they wouldn’t have just picked him if they’re gonna make it be someone from 13-2 anyway, but.
My ISP fucking sucks. Every time I sit down in front of the PlayStation to play something, my Internet inevitably goes down 5-10 minutes later. I tried playing Apex Legends earlier and got all blinged out with some high-tier loot and immediately as soon as I spotted another player, my modem rebooted out of the blue. It always turns out like this. I want to leave my shitty ISP, but the company that manages the building I’m in is in legal fights with the only other competitor and won’t let them in the building.
So instead I’m playing this great game called being a depressed piece of shit in bed
He was in RTCW too, though playing second fiddle to the occult bunch. IIRC you find some of his papers where he complains about that state of affairs.
just spent 50 bucks on a powerline adapter because the WiFi here has been bugging me for years, probably because there’s just so many routers and devices around. I feel you
SteamWorld Heist doesn’t get enough credit for lowkey being, as far as I can tell, a completely new type of game. Side-scrolling ricochet-based strategy RPG is…a real fuckin thing.
And it does it extremely well!
