I play Monster Hunter on PC sometimes and it’s a game I love but holy shit do I hate half the people I run into on there, I think it’s really fucked up how often I’m subjected to people doing fucking ERP while playing video games nowadays, I don’t even care if it’s a joke most of the time, it really doesn’t seem that way, I am blaming kotaku for this shit, I shouldn’t even know what a “healslut” is, at least when I did sex things for comedy reasons while playing a video game it was all in private, in a virtual brothel, while practicing safer s*x, wish I could just block everyone, wish they’d all shut the hell up!!
My name is Lunchtime there by the way, I haven’t customized my auto-messages, I’m done with that shit, I’m keeping it clean FOREVER.
Continuing my Anodyne 2 journey. I think I’m starting to see it gradually come together. Everybody’s got problems and everybody’s different. Despite the desolate world, the game is cultivating emotional sensitivity to the people around you. There’s always time to deal with everything which contributes to low stress vibes which is reassuring given how the world has opened up now. The personal problems of each person you meet are generally quite grounded, like difficulty processing their own emotions or just frustration at their own practice not quite living up to the work of someone they admire. Although there is COMBAT of a kind, the framing makes it feel like tidying up of a mental state more than killing a sentient opposing force.
There’s so many surrealist encounters where someone is bound to say something personally resonant before too long. The closest analogue in my head is probably Undertale but it feels less outright jokey, more blips of humour nestled amidst genuine life stuff. As someone who legit can’t cry, this hit hard for me:
Ahhh that’s what this reminded me of!! I’ve been trying to figure out the reference here and all i could pull was “burai fighter” but that has 8 direction shooting, and is also a shmup.
I am also excited for this guy’s output. I bought the two pack on Switch on a whim and then bought the three pack on Steam like a week later. I think Straimium immortaly is a little too hard for me but the aesthetic is great
When I was playing World on Steam, I kept running into people with neo-nazi or trump themed user names, so all the horny themed people ended up being a bit of a respite
I think I made a wrong turn at Albuquerque! I am deep into a dungeon/area in Tunic and I’m so outclassed by the enemies I have to think maybe I’m not “supposed” to have gone in this direction. But I sure as hell did it! A bit of stealth, a lot of hoofing it when the heat was coming down, and a few teeth-gritting battles against frogmen with hooks on their tongues and I am wayyy into enemy territory here. I applaud the game for even letting me get myself into this tight of a spot. There might be nothing for it but to try to sneak my way back out.
Edit: One thing I don’t like – when you die you lose a little bit of money and you have to go back and find your dead body/spirit to get it back and if you die again it’s lost. It’s not the whole amount so it isn’t totally unkind, but you know what? A pox on Dark Souls for popularizing this shit.
Early game spoiler here, but, have you found out how to level up? Just to be sure. Other than that, I do remember that dungeon as being tricky enemy-wise, but there’s ways to backstab, separate or avoid a lot of the stronger enemies. Divide and conquer is very much the approach here. Also don’t hesitate to use all that stuff like bombs in your inventory against stronger foes, you’ll get extras.
I was in the healsluts discord while I was playing the first season of overwatch because I by default chose imp mercy and decided to LEAN INTO IT. I made a bunch of chilean friends that only liked hanging out there cuz women were more easygoing, not because they wanted to dom them, which I thought was hilarious
I think all the time about how I was just trying to chop wood in ffxiv and this ddlg couple kept doing their UWU DADDY YOUR WOOD IS SO HUGE rp in my damn dialogue window and it was the only time I wished for open pvp
I’m still playing gemstone I’m just incredibly self conscious of how much I like it lately for some reason and feel embarrassed talking about it. at least no one cybers in front of me. I do work at the love hotel with the locked rooms that people DO responsibly cyber in, but I just hand over the keys
Got my DS4 working wirelessly on my PS3, for VF5FS costume making. (The left analog on my DS3 flips out so I can’t use that for anything really.) I’m only three years late on this! What a time to be alive.
also EVONY is back but instead of come play mlord the pitch is YOU KNOW HOW ALL THOSE MOBILE GAME ADS DONT LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THE GAME??? WELL OURS DOES (note: it doesn’t)
these are so much harder to screenshot than you’d think, everything is on screen for such a short period of time I have to watch the ad more than once so I can anticipate what to capture
I am not sure what magic trick Paradise Killer did to never make me mad at it. Here’s a skeleton You Want To Fuck talking about a fake whiskey and how the Japanese truly understand hospitality. How am I not mad at that?
I know exactly what street in Nakano they took the bar exterior photo of. How am I not mad at that.
The trial was as dissappointing as every one said but between the trial and the credits I can declare this The Dark Souls of trial games.
Been having a lot of pretty good times with this Game Pass.
Thumbs Up: Forgotten City, Umurangi Generations, Paradise Killer, Blinx The Time Sweeper, Sable, TMNT Shredder’s Revenge
Thumbs Up (because I hated it so much): Artful Escape
Okay, the dominoes are falling in Tunic. Killed a couple of big bosses, and I really, really appreciate that the game rewards you for trying shit out. Basically, I said, “This maneuver works on little guys, does it work on bossman here?” And the game said, “Yeah but watch your ass!” I was able to do it and it allowed me to juuuust scrape by on my second try on a particular boss.
And then another boss has a weak point, and also a really weak point. And if you get near the latter the boss skedaddles away from you. Very rewarding to manage to get in there when we both had a sliver of health left and finish the battle that way. It’s passé to talk about immersion these days I guess, but I really felt drawn in during this fight because my foe acted like it had a sense of self-preservation.
Hell I’m even warming up to the instruction manual gimmick a bit. I still have no idea what a bunch of the items do but I’m getting by without them, it seems. I should probably just try them out but what if they’re really good and I waste one? Heaven forbid.
I’m really having a hell of a good time with this game. Here’s the thing: It’s just a Zelda, really. You go around finding McGuffins, because reasons, and your progress is gated in some places by the need for items. There’s very few of them, though, it’s mostly just all about keeping your eyes peeled and interpreting vague clues. Vague but not entirely inscrutable, so even a dullard like me can get things pretty quick. The ability to form a mental map also helps. The game mostly shuts the fuck up and leaves you to it. That’s a breath of fresh air.
Oh, side note, this game has one of my favorite mechanics which is friendly-fire among the baddies. I eat that up with a spoon.
