are there any good books about the japanese torture porn industry/v-cinema/splatter/guro and how they relate to japan’s economic conditions over time, national psychology, gender hierarchies, etc.
yes i just saw audition
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What is the best D&D video game and why is it Dungeon Hack?
Is it possible to use the new bsnes HD mode 7 mod from within retroarch?
It’s probably Planescape. Or the Capcom brawlers.
That said, I found Neverwinter Nights II to be a deeply flawed game that was actually like the vibe of playing a D&D Game. Like every single character is a high concept smartass that has exactly one memorable trait. But you will remember their trait a long time.
There’s also that weird fucked up Eberron RTS Dragonshard.
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One thing I dislike about most D&D videogames is that they either A) make you play as a party, or B) are too action-based. I want to play an RPG, not an RTS or a fantasy-themed beat-em-up.
I want to care about what items I find. I want to have a use for utility magic. Too many dnd vidcons strip out the details. The details are what I want!
The reasons I like Dungeon Hack are
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you’re in charge of ONE character. If a game makes me create 4 characters, I put way less effort into thinking about their builds and play style than I do a single character.
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If you’re a wizard you can find scrolls and put them in your book! So cool!
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Armor Class plays a large roll, and hp totals are low. You don’t have 694/760hp, you have 13/21.
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Detect Magic and Identify are IMMENSELY useful because of how much every individual item matters
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It’s good
It’s probably the closest thing to a roguelike that I’ll ever actually enjoy
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yo anyone played xanadu next?
It’s really cool! I played the fantranslation years ago and it stuck with me. A fun dungeon crawler with some cute dark soulsy ways of unlocking shortcuts in the environment that lead back to your homebase. I think it’s like from 2004 and iirc had a damn Zune port.
Also, it’s Falcom so the music is great:
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yeah it sounds like a very sb game but i couldn’t find any mention of it before now, currently cheap on steam:
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I’ve debated about grabbing it multiple times just for how much I enjoy the PC falcom stuff, but never have.
Is there a way to force the Switch to render in 720p in docked mode so I can get better framerates? I mostly play mobile anyway but I’d be curious to play a lil Zelda on my monitor.
In Zelda’s case at least I think its recent patch actually made the docked framerate on par with the handheld mode so you’re covered there at least.
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I think the big Zelda news was that they drastically overclock the CPU now, during load screens. To speed up loading. But as soon as the loading is done, it goes back to normal clock speeds.
However, I’m sure there have otherwise been performance patches, in the past.
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Divinity Original Sin is on sale for like 8 bucks right now so I finally went ahead and bought it thanks to all the chatter I’ve been seeing about it here. My gf and I are gonna play it co-op sometime soon! Which controls are better, keyboard or controller?
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Is Dragon Quest Heroes 2 like… Any good at all? I got it and played for a while and then got really bored by the Musou combat. It just seemed so grindy in a really boring way. Am I just playing I wrong?
does anyone here play backgammon? ive been playing casually on and off for a couple years now. i suck but i rly like it. anyway https://backgammongalaxy.com/
seems to be the new kid in town that is like paying the biggest players to promote the game so i guess it is where everyone will migrate. i will use it on my laptop and i will continue to play my 6 daily games on backgammon ace on my phone i guess.
backgammon galaxy looks like the world’s neatest flash game which i guess is nice but i still like the animation in backgammon ace. It made it super easy to keep track of movement on the board.
anyway if anyone wants to play me in backgammon you can find me on both of the mentioned places. let’s play some games!
I’m curious about one day learning to appreciate musous that aren’t Drakengard, but I think if they don’t click with you, it’ll be hard to turn your mind around. Tim’s Kotaku review for Hyrule Warriors is about musous in general, and pretty good Tim writing, if you’re curious about that.
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are there any programs that aren’t steam that I can use to take screenshots with a controller button
Joy2key should do you
If it is an xbox controller/simulator win10 has that built in sometimes.
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