there’s a lot of random cool storytelling in there!
i love the little fort in dungeon despise that has four guys with scrolls saying they’re planning on assaulting the castle and are actually prepared to do so (that is a heck of a fight for when it shows up)
The big moveset is one of the coolest parts of the game! While very little of the advanced jumping stuff is actually needed, if you get really good at it the game rewards you by bypassing large parts of levels. It’s a cool way to encourage learning the game mechanics inside and out.
That said, pretty much any time to try to do crazy aerial shit your going to be putting yourself at risk. So it doesn’t break the game by taking out all challenge just because you know triple jumping is possible.
DK 94 is so good.
I beat Nier Automata all over again and am now grinding for the secret boss.
i couldn’t get the weapons from emil’s shop outside the base ;_;
dang that was a quick u7 playthrough
since there was no way the girls were ever going to have even passable strength so i just opted to crank combat stat up as high as it could go (26~27 across the board at the end) and equip everyone with magic bows. in u7, and pt2 for tha tmatter, magic bows give an accuracy bonus, and then using magic arrows (easily acquired via enchant spell) gives another accuracy bonus, in addition to doing something like 16 damage on a clean hit.
so endgame loadout was everyone in full magic armor + swamp boots, 3 magic bow ladies and one avatar with magebane, mostly to make liches and spellcasters not nearly as annoyingly lethal as they normally are.
i have never seen the final battle evaporate so quickly without using Mass Death, they just shredded everyone.
one of the enemies in the final fight paniced, ran into a corner and said “i give up!”, right before jaana ran up and cold shot him in the face with an arrow point blank.
Finally have a tate setup together so I decided to play Blue Revolver on it to try it out. Going from a 13-inch laptop turned on its side to a 24-inch monitor in portrait is quite a jump.
I should probably buy more games with a tate mode.
I am currently playing Virtue’s Last Reward, the sequel to 999. While it is impossible that this game can make me laugh as much as that one did, here’s to hoping it can at least approach that level of ridiculousness.
VLR is way more ridiculous than the first, in a really unconvincing and boring way
I played that Space Hulk update and as much as I want to love that game, it’s a bad L4D clone and Vermintide 2 is right there being a good L4D clone so 
Environments are fantastic, tho
For lack of an actual D&D game to join, I downloaded the PS4 port of Dragon’s Crown.
And it will make you want to play zero time dilemma which is a clunking thud of a payoff.
I beat the secret boss and now I feel like garbage. 
im 60 hrs deep into nier automata and still not done route b… its just too fun to slow down with the sidequests! i luv the hacking and seeing a new outlook on things but i miss combining weapons and finding joy thru expression that way. hard mode is wayyy more enjoyable btw. just save some g for a bazillion cheap heals early on until you get the chips to allow for health recovery, of which there are several. deadly heal and offensive heal are such a blast!! they encourage risks to win back hp. in fact, i might remove auto heal cos its pretty op after a couple fusions.
i also played shadowrun hong kong for several hours. i meant to only test it briefly but wow is it ever absorbing.
i wish my phone werent in such a sorry state, i miss dq v!!! :’(
Oh hey I got into PS3 emulation for that. It’s pretty nice, I need to play it more. What are your impressions so far?
I can’t believe Krion Conquest is real.
I will believe @bustedastromech ran a real long con on his elaborate and complete mega man rom hack he put in his giant emu pack.
I don’t know why but I notice un-filtered environment textures in modern games every once in a while. In engines I’ve worked in it’s just a flag on that material but I don’t know if it’s a mistake or a decision to preserve contrast in noisy surfaces like concrete (trying to achieve an effect similar to the old Unreal engine detail textures, or the high-frequency specular layer we often get but which may be inappropriate for a low-reflective material like concrete).
I can’t quite get my head around the ways that Japan was a land of IP knockoffs like Hong Kong/mainland China just a few decades ago, and that it seems to have lived alongside world-class movie and game production for decades.
m-motorsport manager…
I wonder if that’s a good case study in the actual effects of IP protections on the entertainment industry. Like, we know that fashion benefits from only having trademark protection, what if Disney’s just plain wrong about the ills of Mickey Mouse in the public domain?
(I mean, it is my belief that they are, but Japan as a land of marginal unlicensed entertainment products could be factual fodder for it.)
