R speaker: full range driver on top of ported passive sub
L speaker: full range driver on top of cube-shaped amplifier
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God of War Ragnarok released a āroguelikeā mode update, much like Last of Us 2 is getting one next month. I wonder if both of these came from an attempt to GAASify their games. The combat systems in both of these games are solid enough that itās nice thereās an action-focused mode if you are not at all interested in the hours and hours of walking and talking in those games.
But the beginning of this roguelike mode has you starting on a boat in a vast lake, but all you can do is hold forward as Kratos rows in a predetermine path and talks for several minutes.
I didnāt play long enough to really know how it works. It looks like you have your entire skill tree unlocked at the beginning but you get your special abilities (runic attacks) and random stat buffs through periodic chests. And youāll have some random debuffs for the run, like not being able to block with your shield.
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gonna check dis out
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Iām playing the 2018 Secret of Mana remake again. I miss stable frame rates and things getting whacked!
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oh yeah babbdi is chill, my housemate really likes this. i recommend checking out the speedruns once youāve had your fill.
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yeah Babbdi is somehow a little bit Ico a little bit 30 Flights of Loving, a whole lot of concrete. Exceptional atmosphere and exploration.
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Sonic Lost World sucksssss really makes me think how great Sonic Frontiers is.
Toree 2 is fantastic still. What a delightful little game.
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finally bothered setting up the N64 core on my Mister now that itās (mostly) stable-ish and tried out a bunch of stuff last night. the N64 is not my favorite console of all time, and my positive memories mostly revolve around playing it at friendsā homes with their siblings, while the one at my own home didnāt get played nearly as much as the Playstation. N64 generation always felt like it wasnāt really āfor me,ā despite getting one at launch and holding out some kind of hope that the 3rd-party game devs i liked would stick it out with Nintendo (they did not).
anyway, i downloaded and played a few games to test it out, but these are some iād never played before and spent the most time with:
Wonder Project J2 is not as creepy as it seemed to me as a kid, and is in fact, very cute. itās also possible iām just more immune to this kind of moe thing now, though. however the game crashed on the Shop screen as i was buying items at the start, so i donāt really have much of an opinion. i think this is just one of those things that isnāt working quite yet, because itās a hack. iāll try it again today and see if it still ends up crashing or if that was just a one-time thing. iād like to see what the game is really about, but maybe itās not time, yet.
Neon Genesis Evangelion 64 is what feels like the most successful version of the kind of game an Eva fan would have really wanted back in the 90s, but itās still not a great game, as far as i can tell. iāll play a little further - i do like how it captures the vibe of the show, as well as the title cards etc. it also looks really nice, honestly - i can see why the N64 would have been chosen over Saturn or PSX, as the graphics just seem more stylized and convincing on the N64.
Kirby 64 - i never played this one; iām not really sure why! it seems like itās one of the better Kirbyās for sure. maybe i was just, at the time it came out, not a huge fan of the 2.5D thing (although this one is very expressive and well done). i should have played this a long time ago, but playing it now is also pretty good, because i think i love Kirby more than ever
Hybrid Heaven - ok this game actually does kind of rule. i almost bought this at release, but was still in the habit of reading game reviews and let the mixed results influence my decision to not spend the money on that N64 cartridge. i donāt think i made the wrong decision, per se, but the game is more fun than i thought it was going to be. it has some real of-the-era āpuzzlesā like destroy a small block in another room to unlock a thing in a totally different room, etc. the cinematics are pretty well done and the framing is nice - the voice acting is uhā¦fine. the battle system seems like itās going for a more-streamlined variation of what we saw in Vagrant Story. there are different visual modes available via the RAM expansion, but for now iām playing on low resolution because itās 60ish fps. iām not sure if this one is going to keep me hooked throughout the whole game, but since Google tells me itās under 20 hours, maybe i willā¦
i think playing this stuff again reminds me that i can have a good time with an N64, but its library is so small and specifically geared towards a type of gaming that i donāt really enjoy that much.
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I tried one of those custom red dead 2 multiplayer servers and within 5 minutes some fella was harassing me for not using my mic, so I told him to fuck off, and then he got on my case and said he ought to let the admin know Iām āpretendingā to be a woman by āusing a voice changer,ā which is against the rules and bannable. In a just world I woulda been able to fan my revolver into his guts and then parade his corpse around on my horse but it didnāt seem like that kind of place. call me a transphobic slur without using one why donāt you pal
anyway i went back to playing the campaign and it is very cute how arthur and sadie (also iām obsessed with sadieās voice) are friends so thereās something positive. iām not struggling with the controls as badly as when it came out so??? itās also kinda funny to me how john marston just stomps around camp treating his wife like shit, but I love her because every time she beats me at dominos she says shit like DONāT GO GETTIN SAD BECAUSE A WOMAN BESTED YA ARTHUR I SEE HOW MISTY EYED YER GETTIN
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(revisiting) mother 3 is so good i know why i havenāt finished a jrpg in the intervening fifteen years
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My wife wanted to play Sea of Stars and okay sure I like chrono trigger
It immediately started off with (wow first time ever I miss the text color tags in phbb) the Fleshmancer which was promising but THEN repeatedly called something sewing when it absolutely 100% meant weaving and I donāt know why but I just cannot get over it!! I was kinda interested in sewing specifically as maybe a metaphor of their training/society as syncretic and about joining pieces to make a whole or something BUT NO there were multiple scenes with EXTREMELY CONSPICUOUS LOOMS 
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There are color tags here, I asked for the ā¦ plugin? ā¦ to be added, but then almost never used them because thereās lots of different themes and itās hard to know if you making something that people canāt see
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yes, please post impressions when able (feel free to tag me as well if you like)
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The ddr pads we drunkenly bought the other night came in. Holy shit I can barely do a 5 
song without getting winded! Canāt wait until I can do a whole set without taking a minute break in between songs. Itās still fun as fuck. When I get into a good streak it feels like iām so light on my feet that Iām practically floating
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Played like 5 hours of DQXI S today. Interesting so far. I havenāt played a RPG where your control over even your MC is so indirect. It hasnāt been challenging or very strategic yet, but still itās all pretty enjoyable. Iām excited to explore and I gotta admit that some automated grinding is nice. I just hope like there are tough fights or bosses eventually.
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ok sometimes i feel like im raising my hand to say this every single time someone mentions dqxi but since you specifically mentioned difficultyā¦ the game is really tuned so well if you check that āstronger monstersā box at the start!!
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Iāve been playing a lot of the Harmonix-developed Fortnite-exclusive Rock Band sequel Fortnite Festival. when you purchase a song to play in it you also get to use instrumental stems from the song in a mode called ājam stageā and make mashups with your friends.
it makes me think a lot about indie bands putting their stuff on rock band network. why did epic megagames sell bandcamp before publishing this gamemode. i love music and fortnite. there are new plastic guitar controllers in production because of fortnite. Fortnite fortnite fortnite. Rock band
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just hit me that itās like, five years since dqxi hit
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Whoa, this is a thing!?
I just saw something about the songs being super short because everyone has to cater to goddamn streamers though.
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