mysticpickle
@mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Dune II written in HTML5 / JavaScript 5 days ago:
This is amazing!
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 6 days ago:
Whole community with that mindset btw!
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The only game I couldn’t wait for in the last 15 years was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. That shit broke down my walls in more ways than one 🥲
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 1 week ago:
Blueberries from Peru, one of the largest exporters, are generally are mostly bland mush in my experience. I remember hearing in a podcast someone saying they mostly grew a particular variety that was well suited for the climate but didn’t taste as good as other varieties that thrive more in North America.
- Comment on me, being surprised at how good radishes are 1 week ago:
It was from a salad bar so it’s very likely the case
- Comment on me, being surprised at how good radishes are 1 week ago:
I ate a beet once and found it absolutely disgusting. They look really similar to radishes so i just assumed radishes tasted the same for the longest time until I had a real Mexican taco with radish. Now I fucken love radishes!
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve came to depend less on the visual cues which are often deceptive and more on the audio ones or counting in my head for dodges/parries. Also invest heavily (basically all your points) into defense/vitality which makes Dodge/Parry misses much more forgiving. Eventually, even if you do a smattering of side quests you’ll get powerful enough to basically ignore the timing mechanics altogether.
Also set it on story mode + auto QTEs. I did that on my first playthrough and had absolutely no regrets. The mechanics of the game are definitely secondary to the experience of the story.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 weeks ago:
You taking about krafton screwing the creators?
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Review and Retrospective- Is It Worth It In 2025? 3 weeks ago:
Agree 100%. Played updated X-Com 1 and 2 once through and thought they were fine but just that everything was too clean and on rails. I didn’t think those games provided any particularly memorable experiences for me.
I’m still playing the 90s version to this day because I remember this one dude who was the lone survivor out of his 12 man squad during an early terror mission that went south really fast. He quickly emptied his initial ammo loadout, had to run through enemy fire to scavenge weapons from his fallen comrades scattered across the map, and changed weapon types at least twice because there were no more rifle clips to be had anywhere on the map. He surprisingly finished that mission and carried on to the end of the game as a living God of war.
I still remember that shit to this day and keep playing with the hope that such an epic story will unfold again.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
The only game I’ve ever pre-ordered was FF3/6 but that was because you needed a physical cartridge in limited supply to play it back then.
Preordering a game you can download digitally is the height of stupidity unless you specifically want to give an interest free loan to a creator you really want to support
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses a GOTY award over use of gen AI 1 month ago:
Meh. Gotta throw a bone to the other games this year I guess
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
I mean they got to give the other games a chance at winning something this year 😁
- Comment on A story-rich open-world FPS with Max Payne and Cyberpunk 2077 vibes? All right, you have my attention, No Law 2 months ago:
Published by Krafton, the same fucknuts that screwed the Subnautica 2 creators out of their $250 million dollar bonus to plot into some lame AI venture 🤮
pcgamer.com/…/the-subnautica-2-lawsuit-is-getting… Hope this game turns into a Concord level disaster.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 2 months ago:
Good list for everything I can of in there
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 2 months ago:
I thought Blue Prince was one of the most innovative games of the year for sure and the story of it while subtle was very engaging.
It would have been nice to see it recognized somewhere! The Dev will just have to make do with the adoration of the legions of fans it has gathered for making an objectively awesome game :o
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- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 2 months ago:
Watching Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sweep every category it’s in. That game is absolute cinema
- Comment on Does this belong here? 2 months ago:
rabbits eat their own poop which is an animal byproduct. Not vegan enough.
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- Comment on The proof! 2 months ago:
How does one manage a Tois? Sounds like it’d be a messy endeavor
- Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 2 months ago:
Didn’t bother going further as soon as I saw “Interactive list” 😮💨
- Comment on Its all over 2 months ago:
European or African?
- Comment on Its all over 2 months ago:
Swallow what? 😳
- Comment on Your childhood smells 2 months ago:
That orange marker gave me shivers. The dark blue one made me retch
- Comment on If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving 2 months ago:
Epigenetics :o
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 2 months ago:
No, it’s pretty one-sided. They even have communications exchanges between Krafton’s CEO and their global ops head how to avoid paying out the bonus before firing them.
“Krafton terminated the Founders and seized control of Unknown Worlds in order to avoid the earnout,” reads the group’s latest filing. “Smoking gun documents show that Krafton was looking for ways to ‘cancel the earn-out’ and that its secret ‘Project X’ was designed to either make a ‘Deal’ on the earnout or execute a “Take over.” When the Founders would not agree to Krafton’s demands related to the earnout, Krafton decided a ‘take over’ would be the ‘easier’ route.”
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 months ago:
I think Blue prince would have made more sense than another installment of Donkey Kong 🤷♂️
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 months ago:
Donkey Kong inclusion was definitely Nintendo fan tax 🤭
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 months ago:
Your can turn off the QTEs for optimizing attacks which I definitely did. Dodging/parrying I can’t be avoided but if you turn the difficulty to story mode it’s generally pretty trivial.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 months ago:
The gameplay itself is just “okay”. Turn based JRPG combat with some QTE not much different from Super Mario RPG on the SNES.
I think the attention it has received is based on how well they type together the quality of storytelling, dialogue, art direction, music, and the universal theme that resonates with everyone:
It’s an interactive cinematic experience that has me in emotional shambles multiple times throughout the playthrough.
If you’re dead inside like me and desperate to feel anything, it’ll do it for you :>
