My DmC experience: it was free on ps+ and I played until the game introduced the concept of key locked enemies, at which point I noped out and noted to myself “that seems like a bad idea”
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They pulled that shit in the new God Of War and I was aghast. I would have thought DMC killed that for everyone
wait what
hyrule warriors good
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The five stages of Zelda Musou: oh, it’s just a warriors game, why are all of you talking about, jeez all this Zelda fanservice, oh my god Zelda buttrock and finally, game owns
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dunno whats wrong with yall, i played DMC1 for the first time 18 months ago and it’s still a top tier action game
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judging from the first area hollow knight is legit. i had full given up on metroidvanias too
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oh ive beenplaying legends since release, i love musou. i justdidnt know how to say it
Yeah, there’s a lot more subtlety to it (in environment design, audio design, etc) than I expected from the artwork which, at first glance, struck me as McMillen pastiche.
Played through Valley, surprised I haven’t heard of it much. Highly recommend it. Short (not a bad thing) and has some pacing issues, but overall it’s a fantastic experience. Like BioShock meets Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture meets Sonic.
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I’m playing a retranslation of breath of fire II only to learn that it’s actually dope as hell once the plot is coherent
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i played darkest dungeon for a bit
brought some dudes into a warrens dungeon, figured it’d be easy
first encounter everything focus fires my houndmaster on the first turn, with three crits in a row, sending him immediately to death’s door from full health, with a bleed DoT i can’t cleanse before it kills him on his turn
the rng would like to give you a grim reminder of your own mortality
rip cumin, you were a fine seasoning
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Ive been playing the Octopath Traveler demo. I skipped out on the Bravely Default games because they seemed over-written/designed despite the appealing aesthetic and strong music. Octopath so far has managed to be extremely efficient in its storytelling the way classic famicom RPGS were. It has just enough to get you hooked.
Of the starting characters I chose the stripper who was once a young princess before her father was savagely murdered by two men with tattoos on their arm. That’s really all we need to know to create a compelling scenario isn’t it? Can’t spoil the rest but it’s just as compelling and I’m surprisingly interested in possibly finishing this game one day. It hits all the pleasure zones I remember from the 16-bit days without being a shitty pastiche, which makes me happy.
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I’ve been playing Gauntlet 2 (arcade version) with my visiting nephew the past couple nights. After we passed level 100, I had to look up how long the game goes on. Apparently, it goes on forever but starts to repeat levels.
Too bad there isn’t a recent game patterned after Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance. I consider that the real successor to Gauntlet. I never cared for the modern Gauntlet titles. I thought Diablo 3 might fill this void, but that game quickly lost my interest for whatever reason.
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Anyone here played INFERNIUM? Seems very, very SBDN but has gone basically unnoticed.
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I’ve been thinking about it since you featured it on your blog, I just find open-ended first person games a bit draining to play unless I’m absolutely in the mood so I haven’t bitten yet
this seems good, I’ll pick it up sometime soon
Yeah those baulders gate games we’re special, weren’t they?
I think some folks play Vermintide 2 like BGDA? Otherwise, yeah, these games are fairly rare…
Darkwood is the first game I’ve ever asked to get a refund for because I just didn’t like it.
I was up for a tense horror kind of thing not a “figure out the piece of furniture to move so you can find the key to start the generator to move the plot forward” kind of thing.
I don’t have time for that shit anymore
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Oh no, really? Screenshots look so rad