mohab
@mohab@piefed.social
- Comment on GOG summer sale is live 11 hours ago:
Daaaamn, DMC on GOG? Let's go Capcom!!! Love seeing more action games on there.
i already own Bayonetta and The Wonderful 101 on Steam, but I wouldn't mind double dipping if Platinum/SEGA follow suit.
- Comment on What are your favorite metroidvanias? 1 day ago:
Hmm… metroidvanias never really stick the landing for me, but I had fun playing through SotN back in the day, and I'll shout out a couple of modern ones with fun combat: F.I.S.T: Forged in Shadow Torch and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.
I never posted anything from my PoP gameplay, but this is a clip showcasing on-the-fly weapon switching in F.I.S.T: https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/9ba87a0a-ae01-4931-8d74-58e38dddb621
- Comment on Capcom spent 2 years trying to get permission to use Toshiro Mifune's likeness in Onimusha: Way of the Sword 1 day ago:
Fun fact: I never ever even heard the name Toshiro Mifune.
I just can't… why do people wear ignorance as a badge of honor nowadays?
- Comment on MindsEye || Review Thread 1 day ago:
I watched the highlights of dunkey's stream the other day and laughed out loud a number of times, TBF.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 15th 2 days ago:
I think Juzou and Genichiro is where I stopped. Game's offense is so boring I realized I'll have much more fun if I replay Ninja Gaiden 2 again, so I went and did that instead.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 2 days ago:
I've never paid more than $20 for a game.
And I wouldn't play Borderlands 4 for free, TBH. If they pay me my hourly rate, I may consider it depending on contract length. Other than that, fuck off, Gearbox.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 3 days ago:
Hmm… sure, but ima die on the hell Mad Max should be a linear game with sole focus on vehicular/melee combat. I don't really think it needs to be an open world game.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 3 days ago:
Assault Spy comes to mind.
And Mad Max maybe?
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 4 days ago:
Running on water in NG2 is super fucking cool.
In The Wonderful 101, you can dive under water when you carry a hammer (heavy weapon), otherwise you swim on the surface.
- Comment on Devil May Cry isn't that great of a series 4 days ago:
playing as V it felt like the winning strategy was just buttonmashing
How are we still making these criticisms in 2025 😔
This is why discussing action games in mainstream spheres sucks balls because half of the criticisms are as lazy as this. Y'all should do better. - Comment on Devil May Cry isn't that great of a series 5 days ago:
Agreed, but extend that to cover action games in general. One playthrough is not enough to understand why everyone else is praising them.
- Comment on Devil May Cry isn't that great of a series 5 days ago:
OK, so I'm gonna say this about action games: if you approach them like you do every other game—one playthrough and you move on—most are gonna disappoint you. DMC5 in particular is possibly the worst culprit; however, if you're willing to commit to exploring their depth and play on the highest difficulties, holy shit some of the best gaming you'll ever experience.
This is why I cannot take casual reviews of action games seriously because any action game fan knows the first playthrough is the tutorial, while for most people it's the whole game.
I can't really fault people for wanting to move on after one playthrough, but when they say stuff like "I played DMC… and it's not that good" I just wanna say: yeah, no shit, because you didn't stick around to explore why everyone else is praising it—you played the tutorial and moved on.
We could argue whether this is bad game design, but the truth is not only does it work, I don't believe there's any way for a game like DMC or Bayonetta to feed all of its combat depth to players in one playthrough. Hell, it's not enough for the muscle memory to kick in to get even close to mastering everything, so I cannot really blame devs that much.
- Comment on Invincible VS | Official Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
Well, damn. Go Kirkman!
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 1 week ago:
Hmm… for me, it's less about memory and more about helping myself see a pattern of what I like and what I don't, which eventually helps me make better purchasing decisions.
Like, when I look at a list of my favorite games, I can conclusively tell you: I like challenging, replayable games with real-time action, synergy among their mechanics, and mechanical variety.
For me, this knowledge would not have been attainable if I didn't sit down and put together a list of what I like/what I don't like.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 1 week ago:
I use Gamebrary because it's FOSS, so I suppose you could in theory clone the repo and self-host it, but IDK how self-hosting ready it is.
- Comment on Scott Pilgrim EX - Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
Just hand this IP to the Hi-Fi Rush devs already…
- Comment on Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver - Official Teaser Trailer 1 week ago:
There already is a Steam page and the description says co-op action RPG.
I mean, perspective matters, I suppose: you could use isometric/top down and 3rd person to make a distinction between PoE and HZD, but then again I don't play either, or ARPGs in general, so that's as nuanced of a take as I could have on this.
- Comment on Onimusha: Way of the Sword 2nd trailer 1 week ago:
Well, I'll be damned… this is looking more and more like a proper action game. Ima give it a shot on release.
- Comment on Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver - Official Teaser Trailer 1 week ago:
God damn, I wish it was a fighter, but I'll take an ARPG. Will give it a shot when it comes out 👐
- Comment on Romeo is a Dead Man - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games 2 weeks ago:
I'm glad Suda51 is still making new IPs, but I'm kinda over his gameplay? It needs to evolve somehow… like, melee here looks a lot like Killer Is Dead, which was serviceable, but not great.
Of course, everything else is captivating, as it always is, but I'll need more from the gameplay to get invested in this.
- Comment on MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls | Announce Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Tag fighters aren't my thing and ASW are headed in the opposite direction of what I want from a fighting game, but I'm happy for them! They came a long way and more or less stuck to their guns, which's admirable.
I'm happy to go down with Plus R, P4AU, and Under Night though.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
Well, none because favorites are super subjective, but I'll shout out my favorites because no one else did:
- The Wonderful 101
- Bayonetta
- Ninja Gaiden II
- God Hand
- Viewtiful Joe
- Catherine
- Gravity Rush
- Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R
- Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes
- Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
- Crimzon Clover: World EXplosion
- Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
The only game I kinda like on this list is Okami.
- Comment on Your Attention Span Is Ruining Gaming 2 weeks ago:
"Look at older games where the whole game is active gameplay and you have to be focused the whole time to win."
I can't 😂 We're talking about games where you game during the whole game as relics of an age bygone now?!
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 3 weeks ago:
I am dual booting Artix and Win 11, and solely gamed on Linux for 2 years before getting into a bunch of games that don't run there, which eventually pushed me to dual boot Win 11.
I'd rather not touch Windows at all though and just hate it any time I have to use it for any reason other than gaming. The flip side is I hated gaming on Linux when I had to use it to play incompatible games.
I'll most likely just wait until my favorite games run on there and move for good. Maybe go for a Steam Deck then too. But RN attempting to go back to gaming on Linux feels like a potential time/money sink for non optimal results, which doesn't make sense when I already have a working setup.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 3 weeks ago:
Shows one platinum, one gold, and one silver on my end? Catherine is notorious for being difficult to run on Linux, even the comments on ProtonDB say so… IDK if I can consider that very little tinkering.
Plus, that doesn't include docked performance… I need stable 60FPS docked for fighting games.
Like, I see your point that it's almost there, but going full tilt into gaming on Linux RN still feels like a risky investment for both my time and money when my $400 Windows laptop runs everything OOTB.
One day though.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 3 weeks ago:
You joke, but half of my Steam library is incompatible with Steam Deck. Like, I fucking hate Windows, but I'm stuck there for gaming.
- Comment on New Image of Elijah Wood in 'The Toxic Avenger' 3 weeks ago:
OK, I like how him and Daniel Radcliffe pick cool projects. Yeah, sometimes they back fire, but that's just the nature of taking risk in art.
This is a remake I'm not opposed to, unlike whatever the fuck Disney is doing.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 4 weeks ago:
This games sucks anyway. If it's blocked in your country, go play Bayonetta.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 5 weeks ago:
I've never spent more than $20 on a game 😂 like ever 😂 CEOs be crazy.