Coelacanth

@Coelacanth@feddit.nu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the story actually get good? I tried it out around launch but when they introduced a knockoff Paimon I noped out. I was there for a dark post-apocalypse story, not Sunday morning cartoon. Not that there is anything wrong with it but just not for me. I felt a little mislead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Recently it’s been Chaos Zero Nightmare on my phone. Yeah, it’s a gacha. Yeah it has some absolutely ridiculous gooneriffic character designs that makes me roll my eyes. Yeah it’s poorly translated and the story is garbage.

  But you know what? The actual roguelike deckbuilder game mode is actually a ton of fun. The characters are well balanced enough that I’ve never felt like I was behind on power even with comparably “bad” pulls from the gacha. The game has been generous enough anyway that I have a lot of pulls saved up too. And the mutability and variety in the roguelike mode is just amazing. Tons of combos, tons of variations of every card and tons of opportunities to make niche builds work just because you happened to get one specific rare upgrade variation on one specific card while also stumbling upon one specific neutral card to add to your deck and stuff like that.

  And all for the price of free? I can’t complain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 23rd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t really played anything the past week, beyond playtesting changes I’m making to the TALKER mod for STALKER: Anomaly (the mod using AI to let you talk to NPCs). This little project has grown considerably and I have a lot of writing left to do before it’s fully ready I think. But early signs are positive. I also have some more prompt engineering to do. I’m getting much better and more interesting responses from NPCs now than with the base mod - which had extremely basic and barebones instructions for the LLM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Metroidvania?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is… kind of. Hence the half-cheat. First off it’s 3D, but the game is completely centered around the Oldest House, which is the headquarters of the fictional FBC. Like a Metroidvania you explore and backtrack back and forth through it and unlock new areas opening up from previous places. There is also one (although only one) proper ability gate that lets you explore previously unreachable parts of earlier areas once unlocked.

  Even if you don’t classify it as a true Metroidvania it’s definitely Metroidvania-inspired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Metroidvania?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, I played Blasphemous this summer and had a very mixed time with it. I really wanted to love it but it mostly pissed me off. Too much gameplay design specifically intended to waste your time and make you miserable. Which - I guess - is the point because the game is all about the virtue of suffering. I just didn’t find it particularly fun to play.

  Great world building, music and art though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Metroidvania?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I half-cheat and say Control?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even on Normal you can just build defensively and use Maelle with Egide to tank through like 99% of the game even without nailing a single parry or dodge. It’s only maybe the optional superboss that might give you trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it never had a chance to win it. It never had a chance to win the soundtrack award either, but a nomination is still something.

  I’m assuming Silksong snags the Indie Award but Best Debut Indie should be possible to win perhaps. It’s such a unique, interesting and inventive game and it deserves recognition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Blue Prince only being nominated for the two indie awards is an expected travesty. Merited a GOTY nomination imo and also a OST award nomination. Sad times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noah Caldwell-Gervais - "Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Perfect for when I shake my current STALKER addiction and get back to actually playing the AW2 DLCs. Bookmarked, thanks for sharing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This is a blatant, unapologetic act of vicious union busting" - Hundreds of Rockstar employees sign letter to management, demanding fired colleagues get reinstated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same story for almost every passion industry. I remember being surprised at first to learn how underpaid Formula 1 engineers are when some of them are literal rocket scientists, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red Dead Redemption Coming to Netflix, iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is an alternate universe out there where the N-gage was a smash hit, Nokia is reigning supreme in the handheld market and we’re all rocking gull-wing phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Of The Best Games Ever Turns 25, And You Still Can't Buy It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me in general I think FPS games have aged the worst. There is such a big part of the pleasure that comes from animations, gunplay, recoil implementation, enemy AI, ragdolls, hit effects… I have a much easier time playing something like Fallout 1&2 - which are even older but have mechanics that are more timeless.

  But yeah it was definitely a time in gaming where technological advancements felt like they were happening at an exponentially increasing pace. Comparing games from 2000 with just a few years later is like night and day. Splinter Cell came out only two years after NOLF and that’s a stealth game that’s aged spectacularly. And even Monolith’s own F.E.A.R. came out in 2005 and feels like one of the first truly modern shooters - one that still really holds up well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Of The Best Games Ever Turns 25, And You Still Can't Buy It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The writing, setting and concept were charming and the art direction is good which means despite being polygonally challenged I don’t mind the way it looks. Great soundtrack too. That being said I tried playing it earlier this year for the first time and it just struck me as one of those games that have aged like fine milk mechanically. It really really wants you to be a stealthy spy sneaking around and being non-lethal yet the stealth gameplay felt terrible, and going guns blazing wasn’t particularly fun either as gunplay in these old games is hard for me to enjoy having gotten used to modern FPSes. And it doesn’t help that the guns blazing approach forces you to listen to a constant soundtrack of blaring alarms, which frankly was hard for me to deal with.

  I couldn’t make myself finish it despite really wanting to be able to say I’ve played it, but maybe I’ll give it another go some day. At least I don’t think it’s all that long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Of The Best Games Ever Turns 25, And You Still Can't Buy It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it was very original and different back in the day, but is it really one of the “best game ever”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 9th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. I guess of the Sigmas it’s the least offensive version. It’s a shame still though as NGB is the perfect version. But yeah I momentarily forgot about it being an Xbox exclusive.

  Great game though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 9th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the switch have Ninja Gaiden Black? 04 is good and all but Black is even better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 9th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My STALKER: Anomaly playthrough is progressing at the typically languid pace. As soon as I find a scoped shotgun for Hip’s quest I can start thinking about migrating my base of operations a bit north. For a Loner run this would be prime time to setup in Rostok, but Mercenaries aren’t on friendly terms with Duty so that’s out. I’ll have to make it to Dead City probably and that will be quite a trek. I probably have to wait until I find and repair a better suit. And also hope my companions don’t die on me as I need them to haul over all my collected shit in my stash.

  I’ve also been playing Chaos Zero Nightmare on my phone. Yes it’s a gacha game (don’t buy any currency to gamble) and yes the character designs are unfortunately a bit too gooneriffic, and yes the story is pretty bad and the translation is pure Google Translate level machine-translated slop. But you know what? The actual gameplay of the roguelike deckbuilder portion is actually very fun. Tons of customisation with an incredibly mutable deckbuilder that has tons of variations for every single card. Even the balance is surprisingly good, with such endless possibilities in combos and specific versions of specific cards that you can make pretty much any character shine with enough work on finding just the right decks and setups. Don’t know if it will stick, and I’ll keep an eye on balance going forward to see if they start making it more pay-to-win, but for now I’m having a surprisingly good time with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to finish it some day but I also kind of get sick of it quickly whenever I try to play it for extended periods and actually do main story missions.

  Fucking around in the open world and fishing and hunting and all that is great though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit suffers another potential blow as US takes "rare" step of re-examining previously granted Pokémon patent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank fuck, absolutely bizarre it was granted in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 475 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remedy made some GTA slop?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 475 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even better, Remedy themselves are! Rockstar are publishing it though as they own the rights to the IP. I’m super curious about how they’ll turn out, especially with James McCaffrey’s passing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting my final touches into my STALKER: Anomaly modlist and creating the last couple of compatibility patches. I think I’ll end up at 400 mods which is a nice round number. Hope I’ll get to start my playthrough this weekend.

  Will also try to get through another chapter of Alan Wake 2, I was on a replay of it when I got derailed but I do want to finish it and finally start the DLCs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOUSE: P.I. For Hire | Official Release Date Trailer [March 19, 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Had this on my watch list for a long time and every new video it keeps looking better. I’m still of two minds about the black-and-white - I get the idea and it works for the theme but I can’t decide if it’s worth it or if I miss the detail color would add. But at the same time maybe it would make it too bright and cheerful for the setting and story?

  Still looks super cool and I’m looking forward to playing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend a let's play of Dark Souls PTDE please⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mapocolops is one of the best Let’s Players out there. Always engages with the story and tries to pay attention, likes reading everything and getting immersed, very genuine while still managing to be very entertaining in an authentic way instead of contrived and faked. Also regularly plays retro games, which is very refreshing and sets him apart a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2 | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This year in particular has been absolutely insane. I’ve played more releases the same year they launched this year than any in recent memory and still feel like I’ve missed out.

• "I Told Him I Loved Him, Because I Do" - A Tribute To The Late Dead Or Alive Creator Tomonobu Itagakiwww.timeextension.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘A force of nature who took no prisoners’: a tribute to Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very short and sweet article. If anyone wants to read more there is a longer elaboration by the same author here: “I Told Him I Loved Him, Because I Do”. Worth a read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My AYN Thor⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great review, as always I love your content! You mentioned a higher price point but I don’t think you mentioned the actual price anywhere in the review. Or did I miss it? I guess it’s just a quick search away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend a let's play of Dark Souls PTDE please⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t watched it myself yet but I’ve heard a lot of good things about Mapocolops playthrough of it and I’ve watched plenty enough of his other Let’s Plays to vouch for him in general.