ive been using my 3ds in 3d mode and now select button looks 3d
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Oh yeah I had forgotten, but I died to that too I want to say like 10 minutes after my prayer death on the next character. Then I looked up online how Iām supposed to avoid that and the answer was like gaining permanent immunity to poison. And researching that a bit further, it seemed as though the point of Nethack is to follow a checklist to become immune to every single deadly thing and then just bulldoze through the endgame with your invincible character. I didnāt keep playing.
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Gato Roboto is very lean and briskly paced. The cat runs at a nice clip, routes through the areas tend toward linearity with the critical path rarely being obscured, and nothing on the map feels larger than it needs to be.
The monochrome graphics and (to a lesser extent) generally unmelodic music might draw people to compare this to Return of Samus, but itās pretty clear that the Metroid game this mews hews most closely towards is Fusion ā discrete areas stemming from a hub, linear, more action focused, nice boss battles, recurring antagonist, etc. A few points in its design also point (oddly) to Other M as an influence, but the things it cribs from that (mainly health management) are done rather sparingly and smartly.
My first playthrough was 3:10 on the in-game timer with ~90%. My second playthrough was about 1:46 and 100%. Itās very short (I like that).
Thereās a very pointless āpost-gameā thing if you reload your save file upon completion. I love it.
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I havenāt played it but looking at trailers for it has also reminded me of the first Gameboy Super Mario Land.
Because all of the hype here I looked up Outer Wilds and it looks like a game I wonāt like. Kinda glad because Iāve got enough to play. I mean I can see how it could be impactful and engrossing.
I think if it werenāt so handcrafted Iād be into it. Right now I donāt want to follow bread crumbs and feel exactly what someone planned for me to feel.
I started playing the witcher 2 bc I already have it on steam for some reason
I remember people talking about how good the writing was in this game but it sure feels like it was written by garth marenghi if he had Studied the Blade
not saying Iām not into that tho
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for 2011 it felt like a minor revelation for how confident and moderately weird it was and it didnāt hurt that it was probably the best looking game Iād ever played on my 9800GT but that is still an extremely apt description, itās just the best possible version of that
the one thing that puts people off when they start playing it is that crowd control is incredibly important and getting hit in the back ever will get you killed but the animations, while nice and clumsily fluid as far as directed movement is concerned, donāt really reinforce this at all so if youāre not watching the damage log youāll be like āwtfā
80% of your magic should be thought of as defensive and situational (and necessary) and 80% of your offence should come from your sword. itās real good when it clicks!
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Iām beginning to get the hang of it. I really want to play it with a gamepad but it isnāt recognizing any of my gamepads!
is it better with a gamepad? the keyboard controls are so convoluted I feel like it might be worse??
itās amazing how high budget and glossy and well put together parts of this game are and how completely sloppy and amateurish other parts are. I feel as if itās already aged very poorly but in a way that grants it this kind of scrappy charm
the tutorial section was great because:
it used its own cute little custom scenario
it explained the mechanics extremely poorly using a barrage of confusingly worded pop up windows that come up at baffling times
I died really quickly when it tried to test me and then it recommended I play on easy. I chose hard instead and itās been fine.
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itās better on keyboard lol
it has an amazing optional boss fight in the last chapter that makes the ridiculous controls really shine and gives you a goofy super weapon so look forward to 30 hours from now
also, protip, maxing aard early is very helpful even just for understanding the way it wants you to play crowd control
i started playing dishonored
i donāt really have any thoughts about it. it sure is a video game
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Divinity: Original Sin II (PS4): I couldnāt make it past the character creator.
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it is a fairly good video games as far as video games go but it doesnāt do anything particularly mind blowing. I still love it bc the level design is great and the navigational gimmicks are fun and the world is decently crafted. itās excellent escapism tho.
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I would play death of the outsider if youāre only gonna play one fwiw
theyāre all only good at the end of the day but that one is the tightest by far
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i have been talking about it in discord a lot
things i like: level design is strong, lots of options, fun to move around, blinking onto stuff, climbing, sneaking, all good
things i dislike: the world-building doesnāt really work for me, overall. nothing feels like a real place, the anachronisms chafe rather than inspire, and my immersion is frequently broken by the hamfisted environmental storytelling and how in-your-face they get. it feels extremely 2012 video game.
in other words, way too much of this:
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yeah the worst part was how 2 didnāt really improve that much
doto did though
Itās been a good few years for FPS gaidens
this is the best way to describe the issues Iāve had with the writing in Witcher games overall. The dude who wrote all the novels and short stories these games are based on is totally a Garth Marenghi type. I think I can actually get into the games now if I just imagine Geralt is Witcher Rick Dagless
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thankfully the games have never been quite as goofy as the books
if itās too much for you then fine, itās definitely like standard wish fulfillment male fantasy tropes but at least these media were made in the 2010s and not the 80s
(and weāve already discussed several times how the first one is a lot worse in this respect than the other two and how maybe cdpr isnāt the best choice for cyberpunk 2027 if people want to see something thatās a little less male fantasy done well)
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the best thing I can say is that itās a case of male characters being written as sexist and the women characters are generally written as annoyed by it all, so there is some self awareness at least. but thereās never really any narrative challenging of this dynamic and itās already getting really grating. at least itās so loafy and stupid that itās funny most of the time but that doesnāt really excuse it.
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