video games
EA Star Wars Battlefront 2: it was 5 bucks, I sat down and played through the campaign in a single crazed sitting
the shooty bits were alright, the dogfighting bits were horrendous (a lot of which had to do with how twitchy the steering was on mouse) , the story was god awful, especially the parts where 1. this is canon and 2. it was to be continuedā¦ in DLC
which I guess I have to play now
good thing I like the multiplayer
Recore: it was okay but Iām docking it a point for making me go back and collect shit to do the last level, which it earned back because the last level was a fun platforming gauntlet
which it lost again with the āhey weāre getting a sequel, rightā ending
FF Adventure/SD1: I sat down and spent like, 7 hours of my Thursday plowing though this game, not because I want to get to Secret and Trials but because I was enjoying myself and also the script seemed pretty solid for a translation from 1991, some grammatical wackiness aside
Super Luckyās Tale: oh my god I have never played a game that so badly wanted to be 3D World so much that it hurts
itās perfectly okay but never gets hard enough in the main game and also by the time you hit the level on a train, youāre just like āI could be playing 3D World instead of Lucky Palmerās fursonaā
what goddamn nonsense awaits me in this wild world of 3 months of Gamepass for a dollar
another note on dead rising:
playing one and two back-to-back and realizing allover again how bizarre it is that the japanese developed game is a more nuanced and accurate pastiche of american culture than the canadian one.
Iāve fallen into the easy compulsion loop of a Ubisoft game (the aforementioned Far Cry Primal). You can pet all the animal companions, even the sabertooth tiger.
iām about halfway through elliot quest. i feel itās a pretty good game so far.
i really appreciate how willing this game is to not explain itself. sure, thereās a plot and some dialogue and the vague sketching of some sort of world, but itās rather understated compared to a lot of its peers in the modern metroidvania landscape (even though this is a zelda 2-like, mind you). also, i really like how none of the upgrades you get have proper names, and only one of them has come with an explanation for how to use it. there are almost no place names either, which is great.
my favorite upgrade so far has been the first magic spell you get (the tornado one). by my count it has two different traversal uses and three different combat uses, none of which are spelled out for you.
the game really likes dangling things in front of you that you donāt yet have the tools to reach, and showing you blocked off paths or exits to much later areas. the game provides you with a very broad list of accessible/explorable places, and does very little to signpost the way forward. itās been decently hard for me to mentally keep track of all the places and dead ends and blocked off paths and so forth to revisit when i get an upgrade. iām quite sure some hacks critics would say āthis grinds the gameās pacing/flow/whatever to a haltā, but i find that it helps create the impression of this being a vast world to explore.
the comparisons to the aura of mystery and off-kiltered-ness and moodiness of early/mid-period NES action-adventure titles seems, for once, to be incredibly apt.
the base combat could perhaps be a bit more robust, but itās simple enough that it makes the game easy to chill with.
thanks to whoever recommended this (@toups?). hoping that the second half of it holds up just as well.
imo itās fantastic all the way through, that shitās practically top ten for me
I stand corrected, I tried to pet the badger and it bit me.
yesssss this makes me so happy
itās not like itās an amazing game in terms of having groundbreaking design concepts or super tight combat or anything, but itās one of the few retro-styled games that very accurately captures the sense of wonder and mystery of the 8 bit games that inspired it, and it does so unforced and elegantly
everyone play it pls thanks
#FarCry
A post was merged into an existing topic: pictures that make you reconsider things 2: ~the reassessment~
Badgers donāt fuck around
Crackdown 3:
- this is not a good Crackdown game
- this is an okay game
- oh my god game will you shut the fuck up for five minutes
just stop
stop goddamn talking all the fucking time
stop fucking telling me that Iām Godās gift to the Agency
stop telling me Iām about to die
stop fucking telling me about the goddamn plot I donāt care about
stop trying to be funny because you sure as fuck arenāt achieving it
let the goddamn game be itself for five minutes
Iām begging you, SHUT THE FUCK UP
you know, when you max out agility and get double air dashes and triple jumps, it kinda plays a like a jank open world Gun Valkyrie
the division 2 is a pretty brainless shooter and I am okay with that at the moment
You will be soooooooo~~~ disappointed! Iām already sad for you and you havenāt even played it yet. You know you must play it anyway though, right
Critical Velocity - PS2
I had much higher hopes for this as R4 has gotten me craving a new to me Ridge Racer experience. I probably would have loved it back in 2004, but it hasnāt aged well.
Strikers 1945 - PS1
More bullet hellish than I remember? Way more fun than I remember!
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified - PC
A pretty interesting take on the XCOM formula that feels pretty broken. On the 3rd (of 4) difficulty setting I can totally screw up the tactics and still manage to survive. Why does the character have to be a tormented Dad? I will probably complete this over time.
Neo Scavenger - PC
I walk around the wasteland in a medical gown with a boot on one foot and a flip-flop on the other foot that keeps falling off. I punch an aggressive feral dog and wait for him to die of a traumatic brain injury. A guy named āBad Muthaā accepts my surrender and takes all my items. I freeze to death in the cold night.
The most dangerous thing I have learned from playing that new Borderlands 2 DLC is that I am actually incredibly invested in the Borderlands characters and lore.
crackdown 3 definitely needs the feature new bubsy does where you can TURN DOWN THE COMMENTARY
this was my exact problem with it lol
I started playing Yakuza Kiwami today, and after a few hours of punching and kicking and throwing and being framed for murder and saving oddly many many people from packs of street toughs in exchange for their finest solid metal plates, I turned a corner, picked up a glistening shimmering butterfly off the ground, and then
Why
because you need sexy insect lady rock paper scissors