I watched a playthrough of Gris on YouTube, blissfully free from commentary or voice-over.
It’s beautiful, and I think I lost absolutely nothing by not having the controller in my own hands (except maybe a half an hour of my time because the person who recorded their run was frustratingly dense in figuring out the game’s simple puzzles).
i kept picking away at privateer and now i have a fully stocked Tarsus with max upgrades (tachyons and IR missiles yesss) and managed to find the plot. now im running drugs for pirates to miners and outrunning cops, hell yeah.
only for the pirates to fuckin waste me on the way back to their base. and i didn’t save when i landed at Hector.
Man I really enjoyed the end of Dragon Quest Builders 2 and have much stuff I want to build.
I’m climbing through ascensions in Slay the Spire with Silent. I just beat the secret boss on ascension level 10
Ascensions are a neat mechanic: Each time you finish the game (no need to get the extra ending) you can play again with a minor challenge on top of it. Then if you finish you can play with another minor challenge that adds up to the last one, etc etc, all the way up to ascension level 20 where you’re severely crippled by a bunch of random things (stronger enemies, less potions, starts the run damaged and cursed, etc) Neat way to balance roguelike difficulty
I am doing great with Silent but can barely do anything with Ironclad and Defect. Supposedly all the characters are balanced? I don’t get it. Silent is a goddess
I hadn’t noticed it when it came out and I played halfway through it today, it’s pretty alright.
IMO Hero Core is practically a masterpiece, but nobody realizes this except me, and also none of Remar’s other games hit the spot in quite the same way for me
It’s truly the hallmark of a Good Game that I’m never actually mad when I fail. I’m tearing this game up though, might step away briefly so that I can savor it a little more. I’d look and see what the record times are and see if I can compete but I have a feeling I’d just get depressed.
can the starter ship fully upgraded in privateer stand up to three Stilettos and two Broadswords because i keep getting ripped to shreds
As I recall, when you are no longer fighting basic pirates, you need to upgrade your ship. The most efficent upgrade path is direct from starter ship to most expensive ship you can buy.
fuck. yeah, im fighting straight up Confed ships now in this missions (delivering drugs) and i don’t have the money for a centurion. hm.
i might be able to get a Orion or a Galaxy but i was told they suck so im trying to skip straight to the Centurion
ive completely abandoned etrian odyssey nexus for final fantasy xiv! when i travel this week ill be able to play more gameboy games but OOF what a bad year to finally get into a graphical MMO. theres so many good games
im gonna have to like, pomodoro technique games or something
i wanna play everything coming out rn, but more importantly i need to catch up on xiv expansions. oh well!
I said and then I plowed through to the ending anyway. I’ll check out the hard mode but idk this game felt pretty perfectly balanced on the regular mode.
I started playing this today, I had a squadwipe on the third mission because I forgot to add the fourth teammember before loading the mission, after clicking all the buttons in the UI to see what they do.
The art is fine, the UI is clunky as hell (taking cover or using medkits slides out a [DO IT] button), there’s not enough ‘juice’ and too many ongoing weapon damage effects, and the
act
ing
is killing me. The main character sounds like a off-brand David Spade, the ex-corp ronin has a chipper Londoner accent and thankfully dies unexpectedly at the end of the second mission with all my fucking pistol ammo because either 1. the director realised his terrible mistake; 2. the actor wanted to be paid
The extremely limited ammunition actually helps make this feel very post-apocalyptic. One mission had a raider with a rifle and we had no effective counter so ran away into cover and waited for him to creep into grenade range, since pistol shots were so low-damage, inaccurate, and limited. That idea didn’t work.
The in-game help is literally youtube video tutorials from a streamer the devs embedded into the game.
i like to try xbox game pass games just cuz well hey it’s free even though i don’t finish or play a lot of most of them (sorry crackdown 3) so i tried a few today
astroneer is really fun, i played the early access version and i still love all the BRIGHT COLORS and the tether system cuz i like following the thread out of a big cave system labyrinth and it solves my problem with minecraft, which was that i could never fucking find my way home without making a huge hell tower visible from miles around. its a really chill exploration game which i always appreciate even if i dont always make it to the finish (if the game can be finished at all)
ive spent the last 30 minutes in state of decay 2 looking at the randomly generated traits it gives the characters in the 4 possible start options. congratulations on having a key part of your personality be “Played tetherball” like we all also went to school once dude. the nicknames people can have are great too, like i saw a girl who gets rashes who everyone calls “calamine” which seems like an appropriately realistic name some asshole would give you in the apocalypse. i havent actually played the game yet but everything seems in order here to me
ultros is an ultra horny receptionist and dragon fucking is canon in the world of final fantasy xiv!
i defeated a dungeon with a lion man named Designated Bottom
THIS GAME IS A LOT DIFFERENT THAN I WAS EXPECTING
but holy shit there are literally ONE HUNDRED QUESTS to do between realm reborn and heavensward, which was 119 quests long
its kind of a fucking lot
playing the first anodyne on switch. I was already loving it and then I found a minus world that was implemented in such a natural way that I wasn’t sure if it was even an intentional part of the game. it works so much like going out of bounds in old nes games and the game never acknowledges its existence, nor does it serve any kind of designed purpose that I can tell.
I just thought that was neat. made me feel 7 years old again.
yesterday, the brand new Discord Go Live feature seemingly went wide and I took this opportunity to try to fucking use its rudimentary application detection to use my already-hacked-together solution of using a capture card meant for professional workloads to play game in Windows and, after a few hours, I fucking gave up on the idea of getting a full screen picture and sound and just fucking streamed an AmarecTV window. it was a fun and productive few hours.
I then streamed the Code Vein demo. the character creator is good.
I pulled from my PS1 pile and played Robbit Mon Dieu. You have 30 days to do 30 missions and then the final level. You can follow little cute plotlines and collect cards of 3D objects for…something. I think Jumping Flash 2 is better? This feels like a response to Mario 64 especially after our cast. Giving objectives, stories, things to do in the world. Trying to fill it with a cute story for 8 year olds. The best part is Robbit is very cute just expressionless blinking.
I don’t know why I own the digital version of Legacy of Kain Blood Omens but I played it for 45 minutes and early PS1 fans really took what they could get. You have to make quite a few leaps to enjoy this. Leaps like Zelda is for babies. I thought about trying to find a save point and then just turned it off.
I should bring up Panzer Bandit in conversation more.
Panzer Bandit is a good game and has a robot that runs around with a gun in a beat em up and also he smokes a cigar
I also appreciate that the game is seemingly unfinished in a number of ways, like how there’s no proper game over screen or death animation
I really like that the little girl who rides the mech yells “SLOW DOWN.” every time you dash and she has a move where she makes the mech disappear and it’s just her jumping around whacking enemies with her magical girl rod but there’s literally no movelist on the english internet so I don’t know if she’s supposed to be able to cast magic or use extra homing attacks in this mode or what, so it’s just a thing I do by accident and the killing stops for 20 seconds until I get more meter to summon the mech again and go back to spinning my arms into fuckers
Fill-in Cafe are good people.