Yes. Yes, now you are beginning to understand.
I immediately went back on my bullshit.
I am almost at the end.
i think iām about halfway through full throttle?
this game is rad. I very much appreciate the lack of āclevernessā in the puzzles. Itās an adventure game which leans on what adventure games succeed on, the parts that make adventure games worth playing - atmosphere and world-building as opposed to mind-twisting and obtuse puzzinā
maybe it sounds like i appreciate this game being āeasyā but itās not so much that
Itās also really thematically cogent and iāll have more to write on that once i finish
thx @Father.Torque
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I started up the Talos Principle add-on Road to Gehenna and it is the kind of add-on that assumes you mastered the base game as rather than slowly build up or anything it tosses you right into the fire with what would have been late-game level puzzles immediately. I got all the stars in the base game (I had to look up where a couple were hidden) but based on what Iāve seen so far I donāt think thatāll happen in this one.
Still the puzzles have been pretty alright. Iām still not sold on the ones where you have to record yourself doing something as a kind of single player co-op puzzles.
karnov in a nutshell with @HOBO
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I think Iām in trouble.
I think all I wanna do is play fighting games.
Iāve been here before. Someone please stage an intervention.
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wanna play xrd tomorrow night senpai
Iām supposed to go for drinks with some art dads but Iām not sure when exactly that is happening so I am down to fight any time before or after!!
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Finished SMT4 and I liked it. The end is very much so a slog but I am forgiving of it because I love everything SMT. I started playing SMT4 Apocalypse and the game play improvements are really nice. The music for the first town is excellent.
Also been playing a lot of Paragon. I donāt know why but I got the itch to try a MOBA and I liked the over the shoulder perspective of Paragon. Surprising to myself I am actually enjoying it a lot.
Since the 3 endings are all very different final acts need to know which way it fell.
Oh nooo I forgot to mention Iām ps4 
itās snowing and i have today off. I also got Pokemon ultra sun but like the og sun, im not really super into it right now.
There is one single Extremely Annoying puzzle where you know exactly what you have to do but it becomes a kind of pixel hunt without a pixel hunt, but other than that the puzzle design is impeccable.
Itās not really easy so much as the puzzles actually make sense both in the context of their world and our own. Which makes them easier to figure out. Because they arenāt nonsense.
Yeah that wall is very bad. Maybe it gets easier with the press-to-view-interactive-spots feature, but Iām pretty sure it doesnāt
my favorite puzzles in Full Throttle are the one where you kick a door down and the one where you siphon gas
the puzzles get shittier as the plot hits its climax but thats a Schaefer problem in general
Controversial take: i like the motorcycle fight section. Itās better when you realize itās basically rock-paper-scissors/insult sword fighting but on motorcycles, and with actual fighting
I also like the motorcycle fights, but mostly because you get a good look at all the biker gang designs. Also because
BOW DOW
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Nooooo. I think the only multi PS4 game I have left is Everybodyās Golf.
Everyone can feel free to add me on Steam! Or fight meā¦on Fightcade. I love to fight!!
Iām going to play Full Throttle today. I bought it when it came out (in 1995) but never finished it cuz I hit a bug and as a 27 year old kid I didnāt know about patches (I assume it was patched eventually) and couldnāt call tech support.
Iāll fix that today.
I ended up Neutral in this game. The fact you have to clear every single quest in the game to proceed to the final battles was a pain in the ass. Liked the ending though and there was some great stuff all the way through out the game. I like how the game really focused on all the negatives of each perspective routes and also had an element of no matter what ya do itās gonna be all for naught.
For instance, when the reactor is showing you the different possible worlds. In the Law world, not only is everything completely wrecked, but Akira at the end wants to befriend the Demons and rebel against godās plans even though he appears to be devout.
In the Chaos world, Akira again at the end wants to establish some form of order to protect the weak.
The entire first portion of the game with the Ashura Kai is dedicated to showing the faults of the ingenuity of man and how it can be completely devoid of morality. Pretty darn cool all in all.
SMT4 Apocalypse unfortunately doesnāt have all this stuff that like about SMT games but as ya do. The mechanics are cleaned up to perfection. The demon negotiating is great. I ran into a Hairy Jack, (The Dog Demon) and it came up where I could throw a stick out in the distance to make him go fetch. The demon promptly ran away. A few battles later, I try to talk to another Hairy Jack, and it said that he brought the stick back and immediately joined my squad.
There are a bunch of cool shit like that in the negotiations and I think it is rad.
I could not care less about most of the narrative beats in it though. Itās like a cross between SMT and Persona. meh
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Shit this used to be A Thing with me and my buddies, I need to put it back into my lexicon.
Chalk me up also for liking the motorcycle fights. Liking the motorcycle fights is a key distinguishing factor between Boring Polygon Taste and Good SB Taste