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second one still looks great, they hired the intrusion 2 guy a couple years ago, I fully expect it to be genuinely great in all the ways the first one wasn’t quite
I was going to say something about that section having just done it the other day. It was like okay this is cool game is kind of easy tho and then bam skill check are you a bad enough dude to continue playing this video game?
It took me 20 minutes or so but I was. I was a bad enough dude. I’m going to try and finish it in time for the sequel.
I had such a deep adverse reaction to everything Ori was attempting at the beginning of the demo
I will not be Pixar sad, thanks
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ori is reskinned fancy pants adventure you cant fool me
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yeah the trans stuff was really annoying to me
Dead Cells is way different than I was expecting it to be. It’s got a much higher tempo than I was expecting. I might keep plugging away, although I’m not sure if the roguelike structure is going to wear me out in an action game.
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I like it a lot, the mobility and weapon choices are great, and I never feel like the game fucks me over with a terrible build. I can always get something good. Big difference compared to other roguelikes.
That said I have yet to beat the final boss cuz I’m bad at it. Have all the utility/progression stuff unlocked at least.
With hair like that how could you doubt it
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Beaten SMTIV, Neutral ending. Good way of burning through train trips, definitely a JRPG of old-school tendencies. I guess I should slot either Animal Crossing or a Harvest Moon back into my 3DS because I’m likely not to NG+ it for all endings.
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Finally gave Darksiders II - Dethinitive Edition a try. Other than a weird lockup and some weird shadow issues on character models, it seems like a decent, fairly forgettable Legend of Diablo May Cry game.
Or I guess Soul Reaver with less interesting characters, though maybe that’ll change as it goes.
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Darksiders 2 is such a weird game. I fucking loved actually playing it (I recall it feeling really good to play, and the loot grind is actually pretty great), but I can’t tell you a single thing about it other than, uh, there’s an ice cave? An arena battle on a pirate ship? Also some hard as hell optional bosses that are pretty easy to stumble into.
The main thing I remember it for is that I got to what is apparently the penultimate action sequence of the game and my copy hardlocked my 360 and corrupted my save. So I never finished it.
I think…Tuesday (?) MK11 is adding that twisted clown we all love, so I guess I’ll do the thing I do and boot up the game, play the shortest tower on the lowest difficulty to see his ending, see both of his fatalities and call it a day.
There’s a screenshot of Joker with a bowler hat and some sort of steampunk goggle-monocle so it’s clear they’re making him as obnoxious as possible.
I guess they’ll add Spawn in a month or two. At least they got Keith David to voice him.
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sometimes I think about that woman who asked me to make specific giant darksiders scythes that would have weighed 100 pounds each for her fiance, because he wanted to dress as a darksiders for their wedding, and wanted Real Live Murdersteel for his costume
did anyone ever take her up on it?
did she/he ever finally listen to someone who–like me–bothered enumerating the practical impossibilities of getting exactly what they wanted in physical space where real objects are unfortunately forced to exist? carve up some foam and call it good?
I’m afraid to dig this internet for answers.
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I’ve been playing the Fist of the North Star game by the Yakuza folks which is a horribly paced JRPG which means, yes, it’s a Yakuza game, but eventually I switched from dubs to subs and replaced Kenshiro’s model with Kazuma Kiryu and the game became much, much more entertaining. 50% of that is cuz I finally reached the point where the game opened up and I wasn’t sitting through overlong fatality animations and tutorial text and could just drive around a wasteland listening to Monkey Ball music while occasionally playing bartender. But without Kiryu…would I keep going? That model combined with that voice actor makes everything so much better. The perfect straight man. Also the movement in this game feels like shit and it’s way easier to tolerate when the player model doesn’t look like he’s trying to hold in a massive fart.
I’ve done a fair number of side quests so far and they’ve all been real shitty by the numbers bullshit. Stuff even lazier than all those “Hello, Sonny. Can you tell me how e-mails work?” quests in Yakuza 2. But having a 35 year old mohawked roid monkey go I CAN’T BELIEVE I LOAF AROUND THE HOUSE ALL DAY PLAYING FAMICON WHILE MY POPS GOES OUT AND EARNS A LEGIT LIVING IN THIS BEYOND THUNDERDOME WORLD is very comedic. I cannot tell if they’re “taking the piss” here. I highly doubt it but hey, I’m not Japanese, maybe I’m missing some nuance. But I doubt it, and I think I admire this shit more if it’s just someone phoning it in than trying to skewer the old folks for mocking millennials via a 5 minute long sub quest in a licensed JRPG.
Anyway this game is bad but comforting and after going through like 4 of these bad subquests I sat down and went “What if I took one of these quests…but made it good?” And spent 10 minutes re-writing one before deciding to take a nap. Glad I took that nap. Glad I wrote like 300 words of dumb shit prior to that. Glad I played this game. Can’t wait to play through Yakuza 3-5 and mostly hate them but also love them and find big time inspiration for my game, which is 100% genius.
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I picked up Ring Fit Adventure and the first day has kicked my ass. I usually just go on an exercise bike or run but all this squatting and lunges is new to me and has wiped me out.
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The best part of this game was the SHIT BALLS sticker it came with. It is still an enjoyable game otherwise, but that is the best part.
Edit: to illustrate
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LONG TORSO KIRYU RULES!! also doing rhythm games to cure sickness and the perfect ice cube game
i never finished it because i dont care about fist of the north star as much as i care about all of kiryus personal drama but LONG TORSO KIRYU is a super good addition
the thing that bugged me the most was the finishing moves for combat were 10x more repetitive than yakuza
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I downloaded a patch to fix the Steam version of Dungeon Siege and add the expansion among other things and it’s basically the personal fix I made using my retail copy years ago but better which made me feel like a big genius. I played 2 hours of YESTERHAVEN which is some map that came on a PC Gamer demo disk in 2002 that I never quite got around to playing as a kid and yeah Dungeon Siege still fucking rules. The party automation is still the best shit in the world, your guys basically handle everything on their own when a fight starts and you mostly just worry about health and mana. Nothing feels better than sending 8 people into a room and watching them clean house while you occasionally press some hotkeys and gaze lovingly at the party’s packmule.
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Been playing a lot of Falcom’s Legend of Heroes: Trails In the Sky (what a terrible name) and its REALLY hang outy, very 90s, very OVA anime. The music is all really nice and catchy, the places are nice. For the first 5 hours or so (so far) Ive been in and around a small town where everyone knows each other. Everyone has decently written little personalities.
Its fucking cozy.
It has an aggresive fast forward button you can use almost anywhere. It runs at full refresh on my 85hz crt so its liquid smooth, never skips a beat on my 10 year old PC.
The battle system is great. Enemies appear in world and can mostly be avoided. Battles are on a grid where you are never a turn or 2 away from hand-to-hand combat and you have range options. Its has something like a limit break and battle attack/damage accumulated points you can spend on various things similar to Lufia. I’ve died from a few scrub monsters for not being careful but Ive eaked out big battles by using all available options. The encounter rate is just nice too.
Im really love’n it and Its 10 bux on steam.
The only down side is the stupid stupid name; if you turn it into an initialism its LOH:TITS
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