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- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th 1 week ago:
For all the shit it gets, I still love that game. It might be more heavy on the action than the RPG, but it still feels like Fallout, which is more than enough for me.
Plus it has some of the more interesting vaults, IMO.
Companions are also great. Nick Valentine in particular is a treasure to be savoured.
Oh, and there are like two sidequests I absolutely fucking love and don’t want to spoil, but just keep an eye out for a ship lodged in a building when you’re exploring around the city areas near the Eastern coast.
- Comment on Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better? 1 week ago:
Cassette Beasts was a real treat. I’ll be finding it very difficult to go back to other monster taming games after playing that.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th 1 week ago:
Yeah, I enjoyed the whole background narrative with the Survivalist, and there’s some great loot as well, but I think maybe I was a bit burned out and having a bad day because I just couldn’t really get into it.
Thinking back, it seems like my only real issue with it was just navigating the map. Maybe I was just tripped up by the sudden change in landscape and didn’t adjust well to it.
Could also be that I just finished OWB and the immediate change in tone and pace gave me a bit of narrative whiplash. Lol, probably should have done some more stuff in between instead of rushing it.
Anyway, a nice break should do me well. Then I can come back with fresher eyes and appreciate the little things without feeling too overwhelmed.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th 1 week ago:
Still on New Vegas, but going to take a bit of a break.
Last time I played (over a decade ago, at this point), I only did the Dead Money DLC. So, over the last couple of days, I’ve been doing some of the other DLC and ignoring much of the main quest.
Old World Blues was super fun (and reminded me of Outer Worlds a lot; I wonder if they took inspiration for OW from their earlier work here), but it kind of took a fair amount of energy out of me.
I probably should have taken a break there, but decided to try Honest Hearts. I really didn’t enjoy it, but at least it wasn’t too long.
After that, I realised I’m burning way out here, so I’m going to get back to the game in a few days.
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 2 weeks ago:
Wii U gamepad was a lot more comfortable for me. I’d play Windwaker or Mario Maker or 3D World or Splatoon for hours and never feel all cramped up with half-numb palms. I play Ace Attorney for an hour and it just hurts.
Plus the charging port location makes it annoying to play while charging. It makes sense for the dock, but it ruins it in handheld mode.
I’d love to just get a Steam Deck and be done with it, but Valve won’t be shipping here anytime soon and the cost of importing it along with our shitty forex rates end up with the base model hitting PS5 cost territory for me (which is also more expensive here than in most Western nations).
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 28th 2 weeks ago:
Fallout: New Vegas, because it’s been like a decade and I want to play again, especially after watching the series.
Took a while for me to get back into it (and figure out the right mods and settings for me), and I’m still feeling a little bit of that overwhelming “fuck, there’s maybe too much shit to do”, but I’ll just chill with it for now.
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 3 weeks ago:
It’s the same with “hack and slash”. Originally also referred to games like Diablo, but now we all use it to refer to stuff like DMC, pre-2018 God of War, Bayonetta, etc.
- Comment on Open world games, need recommendations 5 weeks ago:
Skyrim and the mainline Elder Scrolls games (Oblivion, Morrowind) can run fine on most setups these days. Skyrim: Special Edition was released in 2016, which is almost a decade ago now.
Problem with them is sometimes mods are required for performance because they can be optimised terribly. There are actually some good mods which make the games play a lot better on older hardware, actually, but it’s been a while and I don’t remember them.
Still, you’re going to want to play mostly un-modded because too many mods will tank an older system. I personally think vanilla Skyrim can be pretty fun, so it’s not a big deal, IMO.
The combat is a huge con, though. Bethesda hasn’t ever really been “good” at melee combat, and have only started to improve their gunplay starting with Fallout 4.
That said, since I’ve brought up FO4, Fallout 3 and New Vegas should run fine pretty much anything. Although, when I say “fine”, I mainly mean “work”, because optimisation is still terrible and bugfix patches might be needed.
- Comment on A very late "Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 31st" 5 weeks ago:
Finished The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles last week.
This may be heresy, but I think I enjoyed these two more than both of the other trilogies.
Maybe it’s the setting or characters or unique mechanics, I don’t know, but I fucking loved every minute of it.
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 1 month ago:
Nice, that looks incredibly helpful. Thanks for the rec!
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 1 month ago:
Works fine on Android as well (which is weird considering how bad Apple software can be on non-Apple devices). Just need to create an Apple ID and you’re set.
Testing out the trial right now and it’s pretty great so far.
UI is way better than Spotify as well (IMO), plus lossless for the same price as current Spotify Premium. (And it also has a max cache size limit option, so even playing a shit ton of lossless isn’t going to eat up more space than what you select.)
Getting my fucking Spotify library and playlists I’ve built over the years on here is going to be a long nightmare, though.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th 1 month ago:
Great Ace Attorney Chronicles.
Only finished the first game and really enjoyed it. Eager to see where the second goes.
Localisation team’s done a fucking fantastic job as well. Didn’t expect to see that much rhyming slang in an Ace Attorney game, although looking back at the wackiness of the series and the ridiculous puns, I probably should have anticipated them going all out on that.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 17th 1 month ago:
Finished up Dual Destinies yesterday and I’m on to Spirit of Justice.
It feels… odd. Not bad, just odd. Really enjoyed DD, though. We’ll see how the rest of this goes.
- Comment on What are some good PSP games? 2 months ago:
Lol, I saw the same thing when I hopped onto F-Droid.
I think the better options there are probably RetroArch or Lemuroid, which seem to be better maintained and can both use PPSSPP as the backend (though I think you need to add the libretro core for the emulator in RetroArch).
Hopefully their versions of PPSSPP are more up to date, but I’m not certain.
- Comment on What are some good PSP games? 2 months ago:
I hope I don’t derail the thread, but I feel like this is an opportunity to ask about a couple of games myself:
How are the two PSP Valkyria Chronicles games and do they perform well on PPSSPP? (Preferably Android, but PC is fine as well.)
I really enjoyed the first on PC and bought IV ages ago, but I haven’t played it because I kind of want to play the others first (which were never ported to PC or any other console for whatever reason).
From what I understand, all the games are more or less self-contained, so I can play IV without missing much but I’d really like to give II and III a shot if I can.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 10th 2 months ago:
Started Apollo Justice a few days ago.
At first I was a bit wary, not playing as Phoenix and missing some of the characters I grew to love and all that, but Apollo’s grown on me. He’s just as much of an idiot as Phoenix was, but in a bit of a different way.
Loved Trucy since the moment she was introduced. And I’m glad to see Ema Skye again, as well.
I think taking a break from the baggage of the Feys and Dahlia is actually a breath of fresh air, even if it’s just for this one game.
Also, much prefer the “Perceive” mechanic to the “Psyche-locks”, though I know people have differing opinions.
- Comment on What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations? 3 months ago:
I expect Elder Scrolls VI to be similarly received. Although, it seems that after Starfield, people are definitely beginning to temper their expectations of the new TES game.
Also announced far too early and it’ll probably only start major development later this year once the Starfield DLC is out (at best), and that’ll last for about four years, but more likely somewhere around five, which means it’ll probably be released about five to six years from now, which is… At least 11 years after announcing it (2018) and a full 18+ years after Skyrim.
Someone could literally have been born after Skyrim and begun college by the time TES VI is released. It’s fucking wild.
- Comment on Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games 3 months ago:
But movie streaming is a HOT MESS right now. I looked up the X-Men movie franchise the other day for some reason. No joke, it’s split across 3 or 4 different streaming services!
Dunkey made a pretty hilarious video about this a few days ago.
- Comment on AGDQ 2024 starts in less than two hours 3 months ago:
Tell your friends I fucking loved their game and can never go back to Pokémon again because they’ve absolutely spoiled me.
Also, tell them 70% of my time ended up with me playing as Khufo and using Wonderful 7 far, far too much. Love that design (I didn’t even realise it wasn’t the default Allseer transformation until I looked online later).
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th 3 months ago:
I finished Cassette Beasts a couple of days ago and now I can never go back to Pokémon.
I honestly can’t sing its praises enough.
Don’t even know if I can play any other monster tamers now. Still, I might pick up Coromon and/or Nexomon: Extinction or something else at some point, but man, Cassette Beasts absolutely spoiled me.
Highly recommend to anyone who’d like some chill vibes (with some dark moments to make for good contrast) and no significant stress in terms of strategy. Like, yeah, it technically matters when it comes to type advantages, but sometimes it’s just fun to fuck around and see what fusions you can come up with, regardless of type.
Oh, and if you like games where you aren’t restricted to gender norms and can romance anyone of any gender, also a good option.
I feel like if you enjoyed the vibe of games like Stardew Valley or Spiritfarer or (going old school here) Chrono Trigger, you’ll probably enjoy this, even if the gameplay is entirely different.
Honestly, even if you enjoy Pokémon but might be sick of it for whatever reason, it’s a nice change of pace as well. It has enough in common to feel familiar, but sets itself apart in a bunch of ways which make it stand entirely on its own.
Music is also great, though you might get sick of one song that repeats. And repeats. And repeats.
- Comment on What difficult games/game challenges did you give up on? 3 months ago:
If Hades didn’t have God Mode (which actually works in a pretty interesting way and isn’t just invincibility or whatever), I would have given up incredibly quickly.
Once I enabled it, shit started to actually feel fun for me.
Now it’s one of my favourite ever games.
- Comment on Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | Teaser 8 months ago:
"Trailer. Starts. Now!