Coelacanth
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- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 8th 2 days ago:
Glad to hear you’re liking Chrono Ark! I think it’s an absolute banger and a must play for roguelike deckbuilder fans. I still need to finish it up by getting to 100% and getting the true ending.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 8th 2 days ago:
Rise of the Ronin has really hooked me. I don’t know what it is about it or if it is just that I was craving some open world slop, but it’s hitting all the right spots in my brain currently. I think the Team Ninja special sauce in the combat helps keep me interested - there is quite a lot of depth and opportunity to optimise and style on your enemies and it also feels very rewarding doing so. Getting into a fast flow where you’re constantly swapping styles and weapons to use martial art techniques while weaving in parries gets really frenetic and fun.
Overall for my tastes it feels like a better version of Ghost or Tsushima. Now don’t get me wrong: I’m not arguing objectivity here. Tsushima looks better, has better presentation and is way better optimised. I’m just having more fun with Ronin than I did with Ghost.
It also helps to have some more charm and levity among the characters and writing instead of every single thing being delivered in a dour and serious monotone like in GoT.
- Comment on Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file 5 days ago:
Matrix still misses a ton of features to be a direct 1:1 Discord replacement. On top of that Fluxer has a familiar UI (it’s essentially just a Discord clone) and is simpler in onboarding (Matrix is still techy).
- Comment on Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file 5 days ago:
Federation and easy self hosting will be killer for sure. There is already a Discord migration bot and a Discord-Fluxer bridge bot I think. Future is looking hopeful.
- Comment on Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file 5 days ago:
Can’t wait until Fluxer is ready for full migration from Discord.
- Comment on Five of the most interesting upcoming indie games 1 week ago:
More buzz for Titanium Court huh? I am staying unspoiled so I can enjoy it later if it turns out as good as people say, but man I’ve heard so much talk about it lately.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease 1 week ago:
Oh I am intimately familiar with Viva New Vegas and the general modding scene, I’ve spent probably several hundred hours over the years modding New Vegas. Hence my apprehension.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease 1 week ago:
One the one hand F:NV is a broken mess that could seriously use a once-over… but one the other I shudder at the thought of all the mods this might break.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 1st 1 week ago:
I think the BP parallels came from the combination of the art style, it being set in a vast mansion and a “daily energy” mechanic. I can definitely see it from the outside even though it seems like they play nothing alike.
I’m trying to keep myself unspoiled on Titanium Court as it’s getting such buzz about its writing and world building, but definitely curious. I liked the reveal trailer video though.
- Comment on Day 593 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Definitely jump right in at Chaos Theory. One of the best stealth games ever, and actually maybe just games ever full stop. One of my favourite games at least, for sure. You may need to do some fixes if playing on PC, but it’s worth it - especially restoring EAX.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 1st 1 week ago:
How is Seance of Blake Manor? I heard some people facetiously call it the first Blue Prince-like. But despite that I’ve heard nothing but good things.
Also heard some mumbles raving about how good Titanium Court is, so definitely keeping an eye on it.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 1st 1 week ago:
Rise of the Ronin
Open world slop brainrot hit me just right (been over a year since my last game in the genre) and I’ve been thoroughly absorbed. After some stressful months I guess I really needed the free dopamine of collecting cats and clearing out the map.
That being said, the combat in this game is actually fantastic and just as good as people have been saying. I’m only at the very start of it and haven’t even begun to master the intricacies, but I love that there is a dojo you can train in and I will probably spend some time there practicing stance- and weapon switching. While the movelist seems restrictive at first, it expands quite significantly once you unlock the skills that let you seamlessly flow between stances and weapons and I need to sit down and memorize all the moves I actually have available in my loadout. Add to that stuff like jump-parrying to vault over the enemy, using the grappling rope or shurikens or the handgun…
It’s only been a couple of fights so far where I managed to get into some kind of flow, but those felt absolutely phenomenal. Great, satisfying parry in this game, too.
- Comment on Day 593 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Now that you’ve played this you gotta play Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory soon so you can compare the stealth giants in close succession.
- Comment on Day 591 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Both DLCs are worth playing in my opinion. I think the first two Night Springs episodes are pretty weak, but the third one is great (at least if you’ve played the Remedy back catalogue - including Quantum Break) and the Lake House is just stellar.
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 1 week ago:
HGSS is peak Pokémon.
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 1 week ago:
Let’s see what kind of unbelievable powecreep they come up with to upstage Urshifu and the horses.
- Comment on Day 591 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Lake House DLC was amazing, both a super tight horror chapter and a nicely written thinly veiled commentary on AI art.
- Comment on From Suburbs to Cosmic Horror: The Legacy of EarthBound 2 weeks ago:
Great writeup from my favourite video game journalist. Maybe one day I’ll actually play EarthBound, I kind of missed the boat on it back in the day.
- Comment on Games with friends 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t played myself because I don’t have friends to play with but maybe something like PEAK or Abiotic Factor?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 22nd 2 weeks ago:
Damn you, I am a Team Ninja fan and had already heard good things about the combat, but had put off RoR because of the mixed reception it got. Now you’re making me rethink myself. In fact, I just installed the game (though curtesy it Fitgirl for now until I know how I feel about it). It’s been a while since I played some open world slop, I might be in the mood for that…
I am never getting through my backlog am I?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 22nd 2 weeks ago:
How difficult is the platforming, and how much do the assist modes help with that? I was very curious about MIO because it looks so damn gorgeous, but I suck at and hate precision platforming.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 22nd 2 weeks ago:
Oh really? That’s interesting, the combat is the only thing I’ve heard praises about that game (which makes sense as it’s a Team Ninja game).
Are you playing on PC? What’s the state of the port these days? I remember when it launched it was struggling with performance issues.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 22nd 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, especially with age I find myself less interested in those 150+ hour games. One of the reasons I haven’t considered dipping into the Persona series.
For me, I haven’t played that much this week so I’m still on the same games as last week. Chrono Ark continues to be excellent, and a wholehearted recommend if you’re into roguelike deckbuilders. Ninja Gaiden 4 is the best new action game in ages, and Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is even more fun than before with some mods - most recently the Modified Moveset Mod.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 2 weeks ago:
I was moreso talking about the future of gaming monetisation.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 2 weeks ago:
Paying for a game you don’t own, only to have to rent the gameplay inside the thing you don’t even own to begin with. Presumably all content also being locked on company servers meaning it will get EOL’d and inaccessible at some point in the future.
Immaculate.
- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire - A Deep Dive Documentary 2 weeks ago:
I am so excited for this, I really hope it delivers.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If you want another roguelike deckbuilder addiction to substitute (or tide you over until StS 2 drops) I can’t recommend Chrono Ark enough.
- Comment on Day 582 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Totally agree with you about the Alan/Saga stories: Saga’s side is a very competent survival horror with great gameplay, but Alan’s side is just so brilliant - especially the reality re-writing with scenes and light shifts.
Also surprised this was the first time you watched the short film!
- Comment on I'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead 3 weeks ago:
I think this is prime for a Netflix animated show. Would definitely watch that.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 3 weeks ago:
Huh, had no idea that game existed but that does look pretty different from what we usually see.