I gifted my boyfriend a steam deck but he only has like 20 games. The Orange Box, Portal 2, New Vegas, Metal Gear Rising, Dead Rising, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, Kane and Lynch 2, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Pathologic, and Star Wars: KOTOR.
What games should I buy for him all at once before he yells at me to stop spending money on games?
If the list of games here is any indication of present taste, Iād recommend The Forgotten City and G String.
Play DivOS2 coop together
Disco Elysium
pentiment
Whatās the best game in the Trails RPG series?
I think a lot of people will say the first game is the best. Lowest stakes, world is well developed, hasnāt yet devolved into most of its shonen trappings yet. I think the two Crossbell games are my personal favorite though, really enjoy that setting. IMO you canāt go wrong with starting with Trails in the Sky and moving onto 2nd if you really liked it and going from there. Definitely do not start with Trails of Cold Steel. Not that it absolutely requires playing the ones before it, but the 3d loses a lot of the old Ys engine charm and itās bloated/paced extremely poorly. 4 games (100 hours each no less) that couldāve been 2.
I still enjoyed every single one of them and am eagerly awaiting Reverie (although Iād much rather be looking forward to the one AFTER that which is in a new country), but Iām a lost cause. To me, theyāre comfort food, but if Iād started with the 3d games Iād probably be just bored to tears.
Iām trying to look up which games are the crossbell ones but the first thing I found was this extremely long in-universe article which didnāt answer the question at all
Oh gamers, never change
crossbell is these two (also on switch):
Azure (the second one) actually officially comes out next week. i played a bad machine translation of it years ago and still consider them my fav so go figure
just to note in case you didnāt know: the whole series is one continuous timeline taking place in the same world but across different countries, old characters making cameos etc. the āarcsā themselves are self-contained enough but it definitely rewards starting from the absolute first game, which probably doesnāt do the series any favors for attracting new fans. you could feasibly start with trails of cold steel 1 (please donāt) but if you started with say, trails of cold steel 3, youād be lost.
Yeah I donāt mind that sort of thing, I skipped Book 3 of Earthsea when I started to get a little bored with it, and enjoyed reconstructing what happened in it from the allusions to it in books 4-6
For what itās worth Iāve always heard the Crossbell games were generally considered the best, long before localizations of those were in view. I guess itās all been downhill since 2011!
Yeah no confidence in Falcom to make something not bloated until proven otherwise.
Open-ended question here: thereās this Twitch channel, twitch.tv/touhou_replay_showcase, which is just pro Touhou players (pro = has 1CCād Lunatic difficulty in several of the games) watching viewer-submitted 1CC replays from normal/easy-level players (plus other stuff like serious scoring runs) and commenting on them/giving advice. Is there, like, any sort of non-Touhou equivalent to this, where people watch/rate other peopleās 1CCs of arcade-like games? Iām thinking not just shmups, but beat-em-ups, puzzle games and so on. (I imagine this channel is only practical at all because Touhou games have an easy-to-use replay recording system since the first Windows title, but I can always hope.)
this is ultra cool but hyper-nicheā¦ you can barely even find people on western streaming platforms playing arcade games, let alone 1CCāing them, let alone having the expertise to provide commentary on other playersā runs(!)
the closest analogue iāve encountered is in speedrunning communities where newer players will sometimes ask veterans/higher-level players to analyze their runs and so forth. thereās a series of videos by wave race 64 speedrunner shibbypod in which he does course tutorials by way of analyzing a bunch of community runs from lower-ranked players
STGWeekly?
since the dlc is delisted, does the base game of jump force offer a good enough set of character creation stuff to be worthwhile?
Been having a terrible time learning the name of this rhythm game:
Pretty certain it has a ps1 port.
Thatās Paca Paca Passion
The only āaudit my gameā video genre Iām familiar with is with grand strategy games, which is about as far from arcade as you can get
Is āluck of the Irishā supposed to be sarcastic? Iām just saying because the Irish? Historically unlucky people.
