When I used it last year, the answer was no.
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Looking for games to fall asleep to! Apologies if thereâs a thread for wind down games already. Taking 4 classes rn and donât have a whole lotta brain space at the end of the day, but Iâve been blasting through a buncha picross in bed. Itâs a perfect chill out game bc I donât have to think too hard but itâs challenging enough to not feel like Iâm just eating a bunch of candy if that makes sense
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Buy an $800 microphone and record the record playerâs speakers
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Shining Force hits that cozy-challenge balance and as a bonus is adorable.
Alternate, bad answer: Any game is a falling-asleep game with aÌžÌÌŻmÌ·ÍÍbÌ”ÌÍ Ìłi̶ÌÍÌŠeÌŽÍÍÌŠÌn̶ÌÌÍÍ.
e: lol niiice word filter
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Are there any other games that animate RPG attacks like Shining Force or Golden Sun? It seems as though that kind of dynamic animation went from SF â GS â previously 2D but now 3D fighting games
whatâs the deal with options in pc games, some of them go up to âhighâ and some of them go up to âultraâ. how can you know which unless you cycle through every single one. designers canât even make an options screen that doesnât encourage deranged compulsions
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I generally think of ultra as ânot worth enabling unless you really want to make a point, or you specifically have enough vram or something with no other performance implicationsâ since itâs like, 90% stuff that would be optimized away on any other platform
I really wish more reviews etc would benchmark on high for this reason but thatâll never happen
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perhaps unsurprisingly i really like emulating old GB and GBA RPGs on my phone as sleepy games. Dragon Quest Monsters will do that for me.
Or: The incredibly bizarre world of pokemon ROM hacks. I like Crystal Clear a lot, since it fundamentally changes the game by making it open world but leaves most of the important stuff untouched.
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Donât you have a 4090?
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yes but that was because I disliked the other available product categories
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Nobodyâs been able to find language that separates âthis is an aspirational setting and therefore you shouldnât enable itâ from âthis is an aspirational setting and therefore you should enable it because youâve invested self-worth into your computerâs prowessâ
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Just call the setting Futureproof and move on
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Visual novels, especially VA-11 Hall-A which is all about hanging out and passively listening in a chill ambience
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I thought this post was about ânightmareâ difficulty levels before I scrolled up
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Not sure if youâre also thinking of Fire Emblem style animations, but I watched this video recently about Farland Story 2 for PC-98, which has similar battle animations where they do a little run up before taking a swing:
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One of my favorite tropes (if you can call it that) is when a playable or minor character in one game becomes the main antagonist in the sequel. Bold move
I can think of a few ones : (spoilers for JRPGs)
- a Suikoden
- Chrono cross
- a Valkyrie game
- a Shadow Hearts (best one)
- Donkey Kong Jr
Any other examples? Fairly sure itâs too rare and unusual for its own galaxy oddity thread
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I believe theyâre doing this for the new dragon age if it ever ships
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iirc they do the opposite in golden sun 2
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i think mother 3 should probably count even though most of the set up for that happens in mother 2. it still feels relevant.
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I always thought the optional boss in Mario RPG was an actual character in one of the Final Fantasy games, but having played all FF games of that era, I guess thatâs not actually the case??
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