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I basically liked what I played of FFXV, but the open world felt small and fake, and as such I think its most lasting contribution to the medium was the lovingly rendered food.
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the open world is like one of those medieval pictures of a tiger that the artist had clearly only ever had described to them, it doesnât really resemble any other contentful open world games, but it makes excellent set dressing as a stand in for an old final fantasy world map
a lot of the decisions in there are like that⌠donât make the mistake of trying to lawnmower it and it really hits the right beats
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I really liked the road trip with the boys element and Id love to see it replicated, stolen even.
If it had chill menu combat to complement the chill car ride aspect itâd be one of my favorite games.
All I wanna do is theory craft this game.
Liiiike what if you could do some menu management bullshit with transparent menus and the background is the first person perspective of a character laying cross-wise in the convertible looking out the side or with their boots up on the window sill and head in the lap of another character looking at the sky.
Like make crafting happen in a remote factory you can manage via your royal smart device while you cruise with the dudes. There should be an option to nap in the car to recover HP while someone drives.
If you are judging how good a game is based on how much you think about it FF15 is a 10/10 for me.
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Jumping Henry (Steam)
Itâs free, itâs pretty, you jump, itâs 35.6 GB
The challenge in this Unreal Engine game is the increasingly slapdash level designs testing your patience. ; D
WASD/arrows-plus-mouse control only. Was thinking maybe I could rig it to work with my DualSense via Steam Input but Steam decided for the first time ever not to recognize the DualSense at all, even afterwardsâuntil I ran DS4Windows, then closed itâwhich switches off the DualSenseâand then restarted the DualSense. âpâ
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i genuinely kind of love the bizarre product placement/designer clothes/âmodern stuffâ in FFXV.
i loled hard when the Florence and the Machine tracks came on and again when i found out who they paid to design the clothes. Itâs so good
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yes! itâs seriously remarkable how much better it is than the XIII games (each of which Iâve looked at and played about an hour of before dismissing) because they brought in all the Nomura shit and all the Sakaguchi shit (less of the Ito stuff I guess but thatâs less of a signature and more of a polish) in a way thatâs so much better reconciled here after just running into a wall for years
and bear in mind I am describing a game that nevertheless makes absolutely baffling choices from start to finish, like you will be mystified by which parts they seem to have to spent the most money on the whole time (which makes it even better)
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I didnât like all the convenience stores being identical
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âlet me get in my convertible and drive 25 minutes to the warring nation on the other side of the known worldâ is such RPG maker shit, I love it
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at least the diners werenât though
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I have a list of long RPGs to get through is XV really gonna be on it goddammit!
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speaking of rpgs and the letters x and v, rpg maker vx ace is currently 95% off
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if u go to the store page theres an option to get it for free.99 âwhile supplies lastâ whatever the fuck that means
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it shows up as free when i search for it, but 95% off on the store page. maybe because i already own it?
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honestly same LOL, my friend played through literally all of it and got all the achievements in a single day (the madwoman) and said the ability to warp to any room probably works moreso for this game than any other metroidvania and i very much agree but damn, now iâm afraid iâll be spoiled by this too, lmao
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Blundering around the fortress of Forest of the Lost Giants in Dark Souls 2 and itâs too dull. Got desperate enough to skim ahead in a video playthrough and jeepers, the lumpy grayness never ends in this one. Nuts to that, Iâm skipping ahead to Ds3. Miyazaki, save me! ^ _^
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I got sick late last week, so me and my partner were homebound when EA dropped Sims and Sims 2 on Steam. Iâm a mark for those games. They are a core part of my nostalgic gaming memories. And she has never played one of them before. So naturally we spent nine hours on Saturday playing with a couple different families in the original Sims.
And wow, what an impression we were left with. I couldnât appreciate it this way when I was a kid using cheat codes and, probably, having my sims die or get fired within days of starting their lives/jobs (same thing in this world), but what a funny game this is. This is no sandbox for playing out fantasies or being a dollhouse storyteller. The first sims is a SURVIVAL game. Time is everything, and everything takes away from the precious little time you have between sleeping, running to the bathroom, cooking food, and rushing off to work. The money you spend is put to use buying kitsch items that will help keep your meters up, giving you time. But the best things cost the most money. So you better get a promotion! You better practice your skills! You better not have a kid at a pivotal moment in your career, too! And you better keep that kid fed if you do. And all the while, donât forget to flush the toilet and clean up your dirty plates.
The satire is palpable. I turned off free will for those nine hours (canât remember why) and I was actioning all over my keyboard like a starcraft pro piloting my family of three all around the house. Forget all the fun expansion content you can go and do like vacations or wizard theme parks. You wonât get any rest on vacation and wonât have time to talk. And all the attractions in Halloween town cost a boat load of money, so really just forget about that. You may be middle class but the neoliberalism is just a missed night of sleep away and ready to see you wiped out.
Itâs really a genius and fun game, both played like this and with cheats. There is so much charm to the presentation and tone of the game. We instantly fell in love with it, me again and her for the first time. But I was so exhausted by the end of that night. Brutalized, maybe. And that is not at all a feeling I expected from the Sims.
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This has been exactly my experience every time I play the sims 1 without cheating. Itâs just horrible, miserable, and it takes like one week before your sim is threatening suicide on a regular basis due to working their shitty service job and being too poor to afford anything. Too real. I remember when livin large added the robo butler terminal and I could never figure out how exactly you would go about affording that without cheats
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Turns out Mcdonalds Treasure Land owns. I had fond memories of it but it is a completely nuts sensory experience. Thanks @boojiboy7
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