i should probably beat it, too
also I think Xi Jinping Thought is probably going to bankrupt this studio so if youāre interested at all Iād get the game
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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 doesnāt already support that.
Main gripes for me was I wasnāt 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 itās ability to scare, until I got to that point and realised itās probably for the best they didnāt do more of that.
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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 didnāt think it really earned its gruesomeness
maybe if youāre more interested in the spiritual angle youād feel differently, idk, itās really my only complaint
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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
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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 Iām 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 donāt 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 impressiveā¦ 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 Iām 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.
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I acutallyā¦ donāt know which one youāre referring to here
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I played el shaddai on mushrooms and it was awesome
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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).
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Dang thatās disappointing. Every now and then Iām reminded that the mechanical and monster design in FF13 is super rad and Iād go back to those games if the gundams had more of a presence. Theyāre so awesome I donāt know why they donāt just have the characters riding them all the time.
Howās 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.
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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 heroās 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 donāt 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.
Itās 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 donāt 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 donāt remember Jihl fighting at all, she was more of a desk jockey, and Cidā¦ Like Iāll be honest, I forgot he existed until I just combed through the character list trying to remember the Pope guyās name just now.
Snow DOES sorta play a sort of misguided antagonist at certain points in the sequels, soā¦ I mean thereās kiiiiinda some justification for it?
The short version is that FF13 itself is pretty weak on villains. The FF13 oversagaās strongest villain would probably be Caius from 13-2, so Iām not sure why they wouldnāt have just picked him if theyāre 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 Iām in is in legal fights with the only other competitor and wonāt let them in the building.
So instead Iām playing this great game called being a depressed piece of shit in bed
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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 thereās just so many routers and devices around. I feel you
SteamWorld Heist doesnāt get enough credit for lowkey being, as far as I can tell, a completely new type of game. Side-scrolling ricochet-based strategy RPG isā¦a real fuckin thing.
And it does it extremely well!
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I wanted to like it because the core design seemed extremely appealing to me but it ramped up way too slow
I got like 20 minutes in twice and it just wasnāt enough
if they make a sequel that presupposes you get what itās doing Iām in
I think that, early on, it doesnāt account for how amazing I am at making bizarre ricochet shots.
But! Upping the difficulty definitely changes things a lot. And once you start being able to run 3 and 4 party raids, that makes a big difference.
Still, it doesnāt reach the depths of XCOM or something like that. But I like it like that. XCOM is overwhelming.
finna buy that DLC for a replay