NelDel

@NelDel@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes absolutely! Inspired Dark Souls, future zelda games, & basically every indie game to come out afterwards.

  I started The Last Guardian, still need to go back & finish it. I liked a lot of what it was bringing to the table, but the pacing dragged a bit in the middle imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That fight is so incredible, I could gush about it all day. The ambience, the visuals, the environmental storytelling, just amazing.

  Spoiler for 16th colossus

  The only colossus to feel so direct in its attacks towards you, you can feel its anger at watching its fellow colossi die. Especially since when you reach the top you realize the 16th faces out from the bottom of the map, so it saw every colossus be slain one after another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the ps2 era of games! Here are some suggestions:

  • ICO: Minimalist game about a cursed boy & a girl with mysterious powers trying to escape a castle together. An absolute classic.
  • Shadow of the Colossus: Another Team ICO game, this one you’ve probably heard of. You play as a young man who sets out for the Forbidden Lands, finding and slaying 16 colossi to resurrect his deceased love.
  • Silent Hill 2: One of the greatest survival horror games ever made. Introspective, tackles mature themes, and deeply chilling. A game I truly feel is haunted.
  • Persona 4: High schoolers solving a murder mystery in a rural Japanese town. I prefer the vanilla ps2 version to the revised Golden edition, it graphically preserves the fog & spookier ambience - with better pacing from less bloat.

  For some more obscure games:

  • The Adventures of Cookie & Cream: A brutal co-op/singleplayer puzzle game developed by Fromsoft. Has a fun art style & interesting levels.
  • Tak 3 - the Great Juju Challenge: Works best in co-op but still a blast in single-player. 3D platformer with varied levels & a fantastic voice cast (Patrick Warburton as Lok is the highlight).
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Spoiler] Day 421 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (The Last of Us Part II)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of that silliness is intentional, at least in my interpretation of the game. The internal thesis of the game seems to be examining how far they can push the player-to-protagonist relationship until it breaks. Similar to the first game, where it was intended for players to have complicated feelings about having to control Joel in the hospital at the end doing something they may not have wanted to do but was 100% in character for Joel.

  Part 2 feels like that idea stretched across the entire game, especially for Ellie. There’s a pretty powerful metaphor for addiction in the form of addiction to violence/revenge, and I feel like going to Santa Barbara shows Ellie reaching her rock bottom. The player doesn’t want this (especially after playing as Abby), Dina doesn’t want this, hell part of Ellie doesn’t even want this. It’s just the main thing she knows how to solve her problems - through violence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had you all wrong, you’re not greedy… you’re batshit insane!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Electrical engineers hate OrCAD, seriously. I keep a spare file on all of my work computers collecting when I see someone on line saying OrCAD sucks. Brings me comfort when the program crashes for the 5th time that day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, feels like a form of gish galloping

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dan Erickson, creator of ‘Severance’: ‘I thought Apple would discourage us from critiquing the capitalist structure, but that never happened’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pathologic 2!

  It’s a rich world & narrative that throws you in the midst of an incredibly stressful seemingly impossible scenario and asks you to try your best. I love how the intense survival mechanics caused me to compromise my morals, starting the game trying not to kill anyone and then playing day 8 seeking out people to kill & steal stuff from. The mind map is also one of the most genius “quest logs” I’ve ever seen, giving you a feel for your characters emotions and providing hints on what to do next. The fact that anyone can die of disease & end quest lines makes it that much more important that you do your best to save them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when I suck at a boss fight it feels like I learn something new every time, such a good gameplay loop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The spells in Morrowind are so creative & fun too! Levitate & recall were my favorites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 199 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely love the final climax & boss of lost legacy. It’s so fucking fun