brsrklf

@brsrklf@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 214 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, big wrestler tiger not to your liking apparently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 212 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, randomly happens in the festival plaza after the main plot. Honestly not that interesting despite the premise, there’s barely any plot to be found, just the most basic excuse to have you fight a couple battles with past villains and it’s over very quickly. They’d advertised so much around Rainbow Rocket that I was a bit disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 212 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree on the story point.

  Worst part IMO is that original SuMo had the most interesting antagonist the series ever had, and Ultra decided fuck that, let’s rewrite that character in the most boring way possible and drop a random threat out of nowhere instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roll7’s OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome delisted, remaining titles now at risk along with the future of ‘Kerbal 2’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, at that point? I don’t care about getting them legally. And I am certainly not throwing money to the grey market either.

  I am all for supporting people for their work, but since Take Two fired the studio last year, I can be sure my money will never impact anybody who actually worked on these games. Worse, it might be slightly beneficial to those who let them go.

  I know most of the time when someone looks for a reason to pirate it sounds like an excuse, but really, in a case like that I’d give zero fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roll7’s OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome delisted, remaining titles now at risk along with the future of ‘Kerbal 2’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, I missed that. I like the original Olliolli, world was in the back of my mind as “might get that one day” (too many freaking games).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls creator Ted Peterson is “glad that people are wanting to break away from” watered-down RPGs as he works on an epic Daggerfall successor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s honestly what I am worrying it would be, and what I meant by a huge part of the game being “impersonal”.

  Daggerfall has parts that are fascinating, even long after its time.

  Its custom class creator is rather fun. Its magic effect system too… despite some of the most intriguing effects not even working at all. Seriously. You can craft those spells, they just don’t do anything.

  Its dungeons are intimidating in scale, and the 3D automap is both a feat and almost no help at all.

  There are freaking linguistic skills. They are mostly useless, because they just add a slight chance a monster won’t attack you, but since you don’t know when it works you’ll murder them anyway.

  And then there’s the undistinguishable random quests and the grind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sims & The Sims 2 Legacy Collections - Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection from the time they ended up giving it to everyone who’d claim it for a few days.

  They haven’t removed it from the app… yet. Not taking any chances, I’m re-downloading it on my current PC right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls creator Ted Peterson is “glad that people are wanting to break away from” watered-down RPGs as he works on an epic Daggerfall successor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since most of Elder Scrolls nostalgia today is around Morrowind, it’s always interesting (and a bit funny) to find people (involved or not) who think the series started to derail with Morrowind.

  I get it, Daggerfall and Morrowind are very different games with a different scale and focus. Daggerfall is also… quite overwhelming, and rather impersonal for 99% of its gameplay. I really don’t know what a “modern” Daggerfall would look like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Auto Sort Is Broken, a game where you play an RPG store owner that organizes NPC players' inventories while listening to their adventure stories, released on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At one point every time I did a new run of Backpack hero I could find some new absurdly broken item combo. It’s fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 182 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Asking the real questions here

  Bowtie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 Bullfrog Lionhead, 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.