i beat kain up and his mask broke off and I FORGOT HE WAS HOT
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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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Played a lot of Sunless Sea yesterday. I’m a fan of the story structure and the ship mechanics but I feel like the game is way too stingy on resources.
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the early game just pushes you really hard to stay in a small area. it works but it does make you basically blow your first one making that point
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My favorite thing about that series are all the little inconsequential NPC arcs you can witness if you talk to all the townspeople after every event, it makes the world feel very cozy and lived in!
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ohh yes, while this can be good for the setting and etc, this was also adressed on Sunless Skies.
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I actually quite disliked sunless skies because it made the navigation feel much more arbitrary! I liked the density of sunless sea’s world, but it is a rougher start no question
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I would concur with this.
I also played some Sunless Skies, and here were my thoughts there:
- Super bored by how long it takes to reach places and how I have to explicitly hold down my movement keys the whole time
- I don’t like the action combat nearly as much as the ship combat of Seas. It’s just as boring but I have to be more actively engaged in how boring it is so I feel more actively bored.
- The interface blows big chunks, the constant animations and presentation of it irks me in a bunch of ways
- Seriously, like, just parsing out a story using the Skies interface is a complete disaster, part of what I like so much about Seas is the stories interface makes intuitive sense to me and ensures I follow the through-thread of what’s happening. All the font, color, and interface choices around storylets in Skies seems to be designed to make me gloss over all of it and feel confused. Somehow combines the worst of mobile and PC game interfaces.
- LEVEL UP MECHANICS ohgodohgodohgodohgod
The art is definitely prettier, but it lost something in translation. That Fallen London feel, I guess.
Yeah.
I mean, I’ve been all over the map before. I usually get the Western Stigma right at the start (UN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE S), and I know the good early-game money-making methods (namely, Salt Lions + Salt’s Attention, a cool 550 + port reports profit until the questline ends) so I can get provisioned, but it still feels super stingy.
Like, just getting a nice ship with a good gun - necessary for the East unless you’re willing to run dark and drive your terror super high - is exorbitantly expensive. So much so that experienced players literally tell you to cheat lol.
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yeah I think people wanted the sequel to be better because they made it without the apparent sex pest but oh well
I still need to get the Zubmariner DLC and start a new run
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