Games You Played Today IV: Quest of the Avatar

[CORRECTIONS VOICE] As Dusk Falls is published by Microsoft and Not Annapurna, we regret the error

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Yeah it’s a clear derivative of Stardew Valley, therefore marriage is in

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Hey is this actually any good I have it in my wishlist on Game Pass

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It’s goofy and ridiculous, much better and more memorable than most of the annapurna-core interactive movies.

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I’d blurb Road 96 if they let me

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Thank You For Supporting Interactive Drama

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stray update: i glitched out of the world and uploaded a video of it happening to my twitter then my account got locked immediately for 12 hours lmao

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I am glad the screenshook so it looked like everyone was moving in a way that definitely wasn’t annoying.

I mean better than a Japanese adventure game portraits but then the game would be 30 hours long.

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what the fuck

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Probably won’t be long before we have vtuber fumetti games

wait that’s how i’m gonna pitch mine

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Could it be an automatic flashing-light detection?

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nah, there wasn’t anything like that in the clip. just mostly a soft grey radial gradient and a cat meowing, so who knows. anyway it’s fine, 12 hours away from twitter does a body good lol

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Maybe it was an aggressive and poorly tuned copyright strike bot?

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I was just playing Retsuden 3. It isn’t Great but it is so much more frictive (frictional?) and enjoyable than these WWE games.

Anxiously await the AEW game, although the development seems fraught.

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lmao it’s not just me!!! How a Clip From Stray Got Me Banned From Twitter

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Hiding dozens of tiny butts inside every character model so that glitches from my game can never be shared on social media

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As I continue to check out all this random shit I got through Humble, I tried out Farmer’s Dynasty, which seems like a combination of Stardew Valley, Farming Simulator, and House Flipper.

It is a cheaply made thing from 2019 by an Austrian dev called Toplitz, which made Medieval Dynasty, a game I actually played like 15 hours of last year and enjoyed a little bit. They also made a game called Lumberjack’s Dynasty, which also came out in 2021. Quick turnaround!!

Medieval Dynasty looked just fine and was precisely as polished as I expected it to be, but in Farmer’s Dynasty everything looks like ass. I know there are a lot of games like this, and the poor quality level here is probably nothing special, but I rarely play these kinds of games and my jaw was dropping every few minutes at how boldly awkward this game is.

it’s absolutely one of those lower budget European games which would be more compelling if it weren’t trying to chase an American market this hard. Perplexingly it has full VO, and everyone has a different accent, and a lot of them are really bad American country accents. I would rather see a contemporary Austrian farming sim with like, Austrian cultural shit in it. Everything is named weird, they call all the cinderblocks “airbricks,” you cook “Italian Tomato Soup” on the stove, etc.

There appears to be a romance, marriage, and kids element to this game, like in Stardew Valley, but the people are so strange looking and devoid of personality that I imagine any player completing this part of the game is doing so merely to unlock the following mechanic:

I actually kind of enjoyed the House Flipper aspect of the game, where you go around clicking on shit to fix it or refurbish it and slowly the nice model of the thing fades in and replaces the shitty rusty “broken” model. It is meditative! I actually haven’t played house flipper but now I want to. I refurbished a huge percentage of my personal farm before I stopped playing.

However, I hated driving the vehicles so much that I gave up playing it before actually plowing or planting any fields. It seems extremely vehicle heavy, I guess to appease the farming sim fans it’s courting, and the vehicle handling is so comically bad, like absolutely bottom quality unchanged Unity character controller bad, that I uninstalled when I got a quest telling me to plow a field.

Anyway here’s the last few funniest screenshots I took of Farmer’s Dynasty. Bold!!! Bold!!!

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That was the point.
It’s a game embracing limitations.
They did more with so little, that’s what struck people. In a lot of ways it really became a stronger game for that, focusing on limited visual input and pallet and controls and the player having to use every scrap handed to them to pull through.

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Limbo: retvrn to mario

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