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- Comment on Day 182 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 days ago:
Mario Kart Wii is very cool, it has some of the best tracks and very fun physics. And I know it’s been a bit of joke online, but the wheel style motion controls were actually fine too.
Though I understand why they toned down the tricks and nerfed bikes in 7 and 8. They were fun, but a bit much.
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 1 week ago:
Asking the real questions here
Bowtie.
- Comment on Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions? 1 week ago:
I’ve played several Shiren games (1 on DS, 3 on Wii, 5 and 6 on Switch) and I recommend Shiren 6 (Mystery Dungeons of Serpentcoil Island).
5 kinda went too far from its roguelike roots and feels too grindy, with too many ways to escape safely, especially easy ways to undo your death indefinitely.
6 is a lot more fun to me and makes good runs and crazy builds more special again.
For a very good introduction to the series, if you can play it, the port of Shiren 1 on DS is very good and already has a lot of what makes those games great. There is also a rom hack translation for the original on Super Famicom (that one only existed in Japanese), but I’ve not played that one much.
- Comment on Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War 1 week ago:
Not sure which game you’re thinking about, there are lots of shitty Christian shovelware from that era, but Konami’s Noah’s Ark has nothing to do with it. And very few to do with the biblical story really.
I had that game on the NES (and I’m not in a Christian or religious family at all).
It’s a real game, the arcade-y kind that tries to kill you all the time. It’s quite hard.
- Comment on The Lost Art of Fancy PC Game Installers 1 week ago:
Can’t watch now so not sure what’s in the video, but Lands of Lore 2 was quite fancy.
Had a parchment scroll-like UI with animated burning transitions, did creepy chants at you to test stereo sound.
Funny thing, it tested your CD-ROM drive speed too (it used to matter). Of course on a modern PC, you’d have the whole game on your (much faster) hard drive and simulate an optical drive with DOSBox or something. The installer runs its test and literally says : “Wow, your drive is fast!”
- Comment on LoZ Minish Cap Similar Games 1 week ago:
I’d say LoZ: Echoes of Wisdom tried to be like this, unfortunately it’s a bit bland. Might be worth checking if you haven’t yet though.
For something I enjoyed more, CrossCode is a fun top-down action RPG, but it’s more of a sci-fi/fantasy thing and a bit more on the action side. It does have extensive dungeons with lots of puzzles though (often relying on switches, timing, movable blocks and clever ways to use your ball-shooting weapon).
- Comment on Ancient Chinese RPG The Bustling World is, in fact, all of the genres, from city builder to life sim 2 weeks ago:
That does sound ambitious. I hope they don’t end up biting off more than they can chew and never releasing anything, because this looks promising.
- Comment on What a random person on the internet thought of Zoombinis. 2 weeks ago:
We had the original. The logical puzzles are quite clever. My sisters and I got a bit obsessed with it and completed it together.
Yes, you can complete it, by bringing ALL the possible combinations to the village. That’s 625, and you can save 16 on each trip, if you don’t lose any on the way.
There’s a short congratulations video if you save them all. I was honestly surprised they made one, given the commitment it required.
- Comment on Rule the talking movie industry in tycoon game Hollywood Animal 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure why there hasn’t been a business simulator where you could live up the glamorous, extremely vicious, exploitative, and horrible life of a movie studio owner in Old Hollywood.
The Movies, 2005.
Technically not just old Hollywood, it goes through the 20th century with technological advances and world events that change movie trends.
Since it’s a business management game from
BullfrogLionhead, it did have some grit to it.I welcome new takes on this though, the movies didn’t age well in some aspects (aspect ratio most notably, ah ah ). I know of Blockbuster Inc that tried to remake that already but the reviews are not great. I’ll try this one.
- Comment on Switch game recommendations 3 weeks ago:
Not single-player, but snipperclips is good, relaxed puzzle fun.
Goals are visual and easy to understand, each player controls a shape and they can cut each other to try and fit a predefined “hole” together. There are some physics puzzles based on cutting your shape in clever ways too.
Mistakes have no consequence and often lead to funny interactions. You can’t really lose, you just reset your shape and try again.
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 🟥⚔️🟦 Beat Saber [CW: Flashing lights, VR perspective] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I know. “I’ll try spinning, that’s a good trick” was a silly Star Wars reference too.
That’s an episode one line from kid Anakin that’s been meme’d to hell too :)
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 🟥⚔️🟦 Beat Saber [CW: Flashing lights, VR perspective] 3 weeks ago:
It’s an older replay but it still checks out
So you tried spinning, and that was a good trick?
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 🟥⚔️🟦 Beat Saber [CW: Flashing lights, VR perspective] 3 weeks ago:
One of the first VR games I played was No Man’s Sky, on base PS4. Very low res and frame rate, teleport movement possible on foot but obviously not while flying spaceships. And I may have tried spinning a bit (that’s a good trick).
Got very sick, very fast.
Nowadays I’m mostly fine playing continuous movement, even relatively fast-paced one. Tunnel effect helps, when it’s available.
The only problems are on badly designed games (like those with forced, unpredictable “cinematic” camera movement, don’t do that in VR for fuck’s sake).
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 🟥⚔️🟦 Beat Saber [CW: Flashing lights, VR perspective] 3 weeks ago:
I play a lot of rhythm games, and I do play a lot of Beat Saber specifically now. Ragnarock and Pistol Whip (well this one is rhythm-adjacent) are two other VR music games I enjoy.
But I’ve never had a worse case of sore arms than lback when I played Donkey Konga on the gamecube for the first time. I was hooked and played for hours. I didn’t notice anything while playing, but my arms were killing me for the whole night after that .
- Comment on favourite gameboy family games? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t have a NES anymore but I got that ROM on a hacked NES classic, and it works using the built-in emulator.
Donkey Kong was already in the NES classic, but of course it was the original NES version.
- Comment on favourite gameboy family games? 4 weeks ago:
Note on Donkey Kong game boy, it starts with the 4 arcade levels then adds about a hundred more levels taking advantage of new moves and turning into more of a platform/puzzle kind of game.
This is really the starting point of what became Mario Vs Donkey Kong (which is another good GBA game to recommend, actually).
- Comment on favourite gameboy family games? 4 weeks ago:
The original Donkey Kong is the arcade game. The NES port came later and was missing one of the four levels the arcade game had.
Strangely enough some licenced ports for the era’s computers were complete arcade ports unlike the in-house NES one.
On the Wii they released a “special edition” of NES Donkey Kong restoring the missing level.
- Comment on I didn't expect there would still be new games similar to Heroes of Might and Magic III nowadays 4 weeks ago:
Also the GoG version of classic HoMM3 is perfecty playable and has the complete edition with extensions.
Prefer this to the HD edition on Steam though, that one only contains base game and can’t be modded.
- Comment on TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, apparently SimCity itself was the result of Will Wright working on an helicopter shoot’m up and realising he had fun making maps for it.
That’s an interesting starting point for codifying a whole genre of games.
- Comment on Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page 4 weeks ago:
I don’t care a lot that people know I play Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress and Skyrim.
… please don’t share the mod lists though.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t played that Astrobot game (I don’t have a PS5) but I am not surprised with it being highly praised honestly.
Astrobot Rescue Mission was awesome, even forgetting about it being VR. It’s very fun and well designed, with new ideas all the way through, up there with Super Mario Galaxy to me. That team definitely knows their stuff.
- Comment on Okami sequel - Project Teaser Trailer 5 weeks ago:
One great thing about Okami is that because of its art style and direction, it ages quite well.
- Comment on itch.io was taken down by Funko because of some automated brand protection service 1 month ago:
Not that this is very relevant to that wreck of a DMCA takedown, but IMO, yeah, these toys are absolute shit. Their ugly “style” make most of them absolutely unrecognisable without the label on the box. And yet they exist for absolutely anything.
They’re worse LEGO minifigures, without the excuse of being tiny and part of a construction set.
- Comment on itch.io was taken down by Funko because of some automated brand protection service 1 month ago:
It’s definitely a huge failure on the registrar part, but I wouldn’t say “mainly”, because it makes it sound like it’s normal for a company to send random blanket claims in all directions just in case something sticks.
I’m sure it’s not what you meant, but there definitely needs to be some sort of penalty for bad actors (including massunsupervised automated claims).
- Comment on Side-view game recs? 1 month ago:
Child of Light? Side-scrolling RPG, with a young Austrian princess waking up in a fantasy world. Very artsy and oniric, emotional but more on the hopeful side.
- Comment on What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen? 1 month ago:
I thought that too for a while! I had played Lands of Lore first, and I just assumed MM worked the same way.
I liked Lands of Lore a lot, but it terrified me at times.
- Comment on What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen? 1 month ago:
I played that long ago (I had a MM1-5 collection on a CD-ROM).
I finished the Clouds of Xeen side without much trouble, I was even surprised when I realized I had found that game’s ending. But I never could do any progress on Darkside… Not sure what I was missing.
- Comment on What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen? 1 month ago:
Three very different games I actually took notes for :
La Mulana. In the “modern” version you have limited memory space to save some of the many texts you find, but you’ll need more than that to solve the puzzles anyway. Good luck trying to scribble the weird pixelated symbols in your notes, too.
I play Shin Megami Tensei games with notes to optimize fusions, when I have a particular demon in mind and I want them to inherit the right skills. Later games let you see fusion results, but only one step ahead.
And then there’s spacechem. I love Zachtronics games in general, and all the following ones tend to be progressive in difficulty and let you experiment from a good enough solution to better solutions. As the first, less refined one, spacechem is special. Before long it needs planning and calculations to even get something that works.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM 1 month ago:
Good, Ubisoft, please continue giving me reasons not to buy any of your games again. It’s been like 10 years now.
- Comment on The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem? 1 month ago:
It’s
spoiler just in case
Xenoblade Chronicles 3