Truly
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Ehh, level design in Dozer eventually makes me want to… doze off…. but the whole core loop of entry → 2nd gear → 3rd gear is rock solid.
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Pinway is just Geoguessr but it uses landmarks instead of random intersections, so at least your first guess tends to be a little less straight up pulled out of your ass
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Games i played at the meetup:
Rakugaki Showtime
This was my Kusoge game against @daphaknee - I lost even after they died!! Their CPU wrecked me because I don’t understand this game at all. Looks neat but is really bizarre.
Front Mission Gun Hazard
Someone brought a translated copy of this on a cartridge and had it in the SNES, so I played a few minutes of it. I played through most of this as a kid and remember it kicking ass — it was fun to go through a couple levels. Not much of a party game though so I pretty quickly dropped it.
Vampire Savior: Fucked Edition
@Infernarl’s Mister had Vampire Savior on there and it ran all fucked up. All of the background/UI was glitched out, as were about 1/3 of the characters. And yet, it is a deeply compelling fighting game even when I can’t see fucking anything. Really fun, thanks @aislesgrises for picking this one.
Hyaku no Sekai no Monogatari: The Tales on a Watery Wilderness
I loaded this up on the Mister as well to see if it was gonna be a fun time to play with some folks there. It’s an RPG board game on the NES that got translated 17 years ago and nobody has played but me. I played 10 rounds with CPUs — they partied up and beat the shit out of me, and I remembered why I don’t play this with more than 1 CPU.
Anyway, I think it would be a fun time and the standard 45 turns would probably only take about 1.5-2 hours, but I never got around to it! That’s okay, I’ll play it with folks some time before I die.
Blade Master
I also played this with @aislesgrises , it’s a beatemup by Irem. It’s really boring but nice to look at. Nothing really to report.
I think that’s it??? I played Pokemon Fool’s Gold on a plane but I wanna dig some more into it before I write about it.
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Next year we should def hook someone’s stacked mister up to a prominently placed tv and make more of an effort to get people to hang around and do retro game deep dives. Actually someone tries to do this every year and it never really takes off. I guess I’m just telling myself to make more of an effort to find and sit and play these
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Loop Hero has some good bones but not enough meat. The core system, which is basically a progress quest/clicker type of efficiency optimization system, is fine for what it is and the way you place tiles to create the pacing of your route is neat. Placing a combination of tiles together that unbeknownst to you causes a special effect is always a nice surprise and keeps that air of mystery about the game. You never know what kinds of tiles and monsters and special effects it has up its sleeve.
But for an auto-game, it requires too much micro-management via tile placement and none of it feels individually meaningful enough versus the constant attention it needs. After a few loops around the track of chapter 1 and 2 it feels like you’ve seen a lot of what’s available without buying upgrades in the settlement/meta-progression system, but you need to grind materials to unlock those upgrades that just becomes a chore due to the time-vs-effort ratio. If the fast-forward button worked even faster I’d probably be able to tolerate it more.
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Hey the Saturn deepdives of the first two years gave us so much treasure. Like the Steep Slope Sliders sound menu
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Ayrton Senna’s two sons tried to trap him in linking books
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lol i just realized all the chapter titles in severed steel are from half life, which makes a lot of sense considering it has the spiritual energy of a hl1 mod
they added a new system in the latest patch where you can ragdoll enemies with thrown guns and your feet now without killing them so you have to make sure you finish people off and it’s basically better than actually sittign down and watching john wick because you play a lady with an arm cannon that destroys voxels while doing max payne dives that make you invincible and the levels are like 5 minutes long at the most. there is now a devil may cry stunts ranking system in the firefight mode and i basically never need to play another fps game again
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Hand to Dog it’s the only shooter I have ever played that has come anything like close to having the same sense of agility and freedom of movement I get out of Warframe.
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Let us never forget the hair gel penguin and the reactions of the most unlikely of posters.
Next year though, be ready for the thinking man’s game experience, live!
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i played a BUNCH of Rakugaki Showtime today lol once i understood it’s only kind of a 3D arena fighting game more like Super Dodgeball without a line/volleyball without a net i feel like i got it instantly, i love it so much, im bringing it to any gaming-adjacent party and/or meetup from now on
i wouldnt trade being thrown into it sans explanations for the world and i’d kinda want to replicate that experience for anyone i show it to, cuz all the scribbly lines going everywhere & your character having an array of moves that arent immediately useful (and you have no idea how to execute) were so inscrutable it ruled. but then you learn what that shit means and it’s Smash Bros before there was Smash Bros + this weird Power Stone dodgevolleyball thing, it’s so beautiful
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I’m in my year of learning to love Final Fantasy, so I’ve started my second ever attempt to play Final Fantasy VI. Last time, a few years back, I only got to the train fight and kind of dropped off after that.
I’m currently playing the 2022 Pixel Remaster on PC with… Let’s see, SEVEN different fan-made mods installed. Let’s just say that Square made some baffling decisions with this one. But once you fix the glaring issues, you can mold it into a truly excellent remaster that offers a serious improvement over the original. In particular, I really love the orchestrated music. It’s super thoughtfully arranged and does carry forward the whole prog rock / jazz fusion style of the game’s original music.
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The only game I played all weekend was Blade Strangers with @aislesgrises for about 5 minutes. Lovely sparring partner, don’t have much to say about the game though, sure seemed to have some big hooters if you’re into that I guess.
Also Reverthion, don’t think I made it a full minute in that before falling off a cliff twice and eliminating myself.
Will try to play 0 games next year, think I enjoy a nice sit way more than video games maybe…gosh, wish I was sitting nicer right now.
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thanks for remembering the name Riverthion i was just trying to look it up lol
i didnt play many games either mostly watched!
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my hot fpga take is that people are genuinely nostalgic for when emulators ran like shit and had inscrutable glitches and it was a coin toss whether any given game would run remotely right without an added hour of fiddling and the mister offers a return to that experience
it most reminds me of running emulators on a hardmodded xbox in the early 00s
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digital catholicism, exclusive transformational rewards only gained through sufficient suffering and mysticism
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Ninja baseball bat man on a glitchy xbox mame build had my favorite videogame music ever, I hope the mister version is as good
The real music is pretty normal, nothing like what I heard
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bless me father for i have sinned, it has been 49 hours since i downloaded that rom
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