Model 3 Emulation can get bent since it hardcrashes my computer every time.
the ādance expertā challenge in songpop 2 considers total knowledge of avicii and david guettaās discography to be expertise. which is a really funny way to make pretentious techno people (and me) mad
the meta in songpop is actually really interesting because no one listens to ā2018 Country Hits,ā if you choose that shit youāre admitting to your opponent that they know more music than you and you would rather play a guessing game with them
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At the persistent insistence of a friend of mine, I have started playing Suikoden.
Wish I could save anywhere.
I wanted to write up some thread evaluating Slay The Spire and its roguelike strengths (constant build decisions, decent degree of consistency despite cards, emphasis on fitting against enemy probability space + patterns) versus weaknesses (ascension is burnout zone past distinct points, super-boss / ātrue endingā encounters randomly shuts the player out regardless of deck strength). This would be in the context of me releasing a beta character card pool mod for it as the Steam Workshop now supports, a complicated and trans-as-hell touhou lich.
Of course, I did this while I was busy with academia starting up again and gender paperwork demanding attention, so Iām quite drained. Iām also honestly a bit terrified of the pressure of visibility- over a week Iām in the top ten of most popular and subscribed-to with 6k subscribers, I had a pile of hotfixes to ship, I have to go get and process an offered Chinese localization, and thereās some fuzzy spaces of design highlighted by having far more people play it. Thereās so much more to do and I have to force myself to set it down for a while, and itās just all so much altogether.
ā¦also, itās nice to recieve praise and numbers, but I kinda wish I had anybody besides the other dev / gf to chat design and flavour with. Might have a big streamer interested over upcoming weeks and a handful of people bringing up individual balance notes, but that seems to be about it. The official Spire channel for modding is a clique of in-joking boring memesters who donāt care about refined individual design (ā¦also, so many bloody mods either invoke stall / replay tedium, screw around with healing and self-damage in a game designed around attrition, or dilute other pools and basic currencies). Chat elsewhere seems unenthusiastic about mods too, though Iād readily praise a handful of other mods. Always, such a struggle, to catch conversation in a bottle.
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Very cool; excited to try this!
I love Slay the Spire and Iām excited to try out your mod! What other mods would you recommend?
EDIT: I see that you made some recs in the post you linked, thanks!
Committing atrocities again.
Did you know?:
āTetris Effectā is actually a colloquialism for ādespair and bemusement at the lack of lock delayā
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i have Hollow Knight. im head over heels for it. i love it antenna to thorax. It is so bold and beautiful aesthetically and itās right in the pocket for me (a game about cute bugs?? Get right outta here!!)
i like the sort of Zelda 2-esque up/down slash element to the combat. it took awhile for it to click with me. the moss knights and then Hornet are a real difficulty spike, but in a good way, because i had to engage a bit more actively with the up to that point relatively simple combat. Then finally beating Hornet and getting the Mothwing Cloak (air/ground dashes) felt like an impactful, game-changing reward. Im surprised at the so far slow pace of doling out upgrades but i think i kinda dig it. You could potentially rush for them after all, itās just youāre given an unusually large amount of room to explore before needing to get a powerup.
The characters are all immensely charming and well-written too. i want plushes of the protagonist and Hornet. And those little grub babies! And all of them tbh
edit: also shoutout to the cute little buglish voice samples that play when you talk to the NPCs. i keep muttering ā(sigh) baka nadaā like the cartographerās wife
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I played this! I donāt know that I can meaningfully give much feedback as Iām still pretty new to Slay the Spire myself; Iāve only unlocked ascensions with the latter two default characters. Still, the Administrix definitely clicked with me in terms of mechanics, because after a greedy first start was cut short, my second attempt cleared pretty easily. Having two Convergences going makes it trivial to maximize duality uptime, and I felt untouchable despite stuffing my deck with all sorts of nonsense. The class does still feel pretty authentic to the kind of mechanics that Slay the Spire has used so far. I like it a lot!
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hmm i might have to give this another go now
I tried playing Bloodborne for the first time for a couple hours, and then remembered that I never wanted to play a game like this again after I finished Dark Souls and played something less tedious instead.
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if you found dark souls tedious, itās probably a wise choice to skip bloodborne. itās a lot more difficult. not to mention having to farm blood vials if you suck at the game.
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i posted about watching my partner play this in its own thread, but every time the wife said ābaka nadaā i repeated it like two or three times
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PSVRās resolution, at least on a base PS4, is definitely low as hell compared to PC (thereās no way theyāre even rendering at a base 1080p before upscaling to the headset framebuffer), but it also doesnāt matter at all? itās both more noticeable and more irrelevant than I wouldāve thought
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on the other hand this has also reaffirmed for me that my lenovo headset is still absolutely fine and a stonking good value; I was reading a bunch of reviews to the effect that the colours and focal point &c. all cut corners compared to other PC headsets but they definitely arenāt worse than PSVR
also another sign that PS5 doesnāt really have to do any better than Pascal (which also has that hardware feature that lets the GPU only have to render one eye and transform it rather than two) to ship something thatās noticeably improved and also functionally good enough (I think the Lenovo renders natively at 1440x1440x2p90 versus what looks like 720p90 or so coming off of the PS4)
No one should ever release a new console again
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supercomputers only
Hot Take:
Floigan Bros: Episode One fucking sucks. The water pipe was made by someone that hates video games and wants them to die. It is worse than anything Takeshi Nationalist did.
The writing and animation are both good, actually.
There is a hug button.
There are multiple lines that I am sure youtube gamers would cackle over because I cackled over their innuedo. So I guess I had a good thirty minutes before it pulled this water pipe shit. Which I screamed multiple times outloud and definitely reached never play again.
Edit July 30th 2001? So it was also one of the last Dreamcast games? Honk.
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I made several attempts at getting past Bloodborneās character creation screen over the course of the last few hours- all unsuccessful, Iām ashamed to report.
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hey select buffon
so iāve been playing some baldurās gate 2 lately. usually I donāt really play video games, and then I get a powerful urge to play one specific title. that title was BG2 a few weeks ago. iāve never played it before. itās real cool, but I donāt know anything about DnD spells or what have you, so I generally have no idea what Iām doing. I keep swapping people in and out of my party because everytime someone wants to play I gotta check 'em out. people are always doing things in this game. I like that. but it means I will never save imoen and all my experience is going to be divided between like 12 people so I will always suck.
when you pull things back the game seems pretty generic. you know, open-ish world, talk to all the people, do all the quests, fix all the problems, buy the swords. but it never really feels like that, at least not yet. if you ever wanna play skyrim or some shit you should probably play baldurās gate 2 instead. though I guess most people my age who have heard of BG2 have already played it.
Iāll probably be poking around in this thing off and on for another 6 months, provided I can end up being sufficiently competent in figuring out whether I should use spell of Protect Against These 6 Specific Things or spell of Make Enemy Slightly Less Likely To Instantly Kill You But For Fuckās Sake Donāt Use It On A Vampire What Are You An Idiot
also between this and starcraft itās pretty obvious that path finding in video games as a concept wasnāt invented until at least 2001
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