Coelacanth

@Coelacanth@feddit.nu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Bethesda has announced its long-awaited list of updates and additions to Starfield, which fans have been anticipating as the game’s ‘version 2.0’ moment.

  Starfield has fans?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 15th⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I will definitely follow your playthrough and listen to your thoughts as you get deeper into it. Since Rise of the Ronin (that I’m playing currently) also is very parry-focused I’m getting closer to thinking I might be able to tackle Sekiro but… I’m still scared. Ronin still has a lot of safety nets like buffs, heals, allies, martial arts, guns etc to help you through fights if you’re struggling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 15th⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Cairn is like a… climbing simulator? From what I’ve seen. It looks neat.

  How are you finding Sekiro? I still haven’t tackled it, I’m too intimidated by both the parrying, the inability to “hide” (no over leveling, no magic, no cheese) and also… I suck at rhythm games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 15th⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Rise of the Ronin

  Still having fun with the game, but a small hint of “fuck me, this is a long game isn’t it?” is beginning to crop up. I am itching to explore some more fighting styles but there are still like a dozen of them I haven’t found and another dozen whose final moves I can’t access because they simply say “continue story” or “spar with ??? in the dojo to unlock”. Maybe I should have beelined the main quest more, but… that’s not really how you play an open world game is it?

  All the same, the combat is super awesome, Ryoma is a great character and I can’t wait to romance him. If you can pick it up on sale and have a good PC that can run it, you enjoy parrying (and don’t mind open world games) I would recommend it.

  Ninja Gaiden

  Finished chapter 6 of NG4. It was pretty tough even on Hard, and quite annoying at times. I don’t want to know what Master Ninja is like. The playthrough is going slowly since Ronin is taking most of my time, but I don’t want to completely lose track of it since I am really enjoying the game. I also snuck in some random chapter challenge gameplay of modded Ninja Gaiden 2 Black since there is just something special about NG2 and the moveset mod is so much fun. Still waiting for the release of the final version of the White mod, at which point I’ll probably do a full playthrough of it on Mentor difficulty (Master Ninja is… probably not in my skillset).

  Chrono Ark

  I started another run, but really haven’t played much as Ronin sidetracked me so much. I really need to get back to it. This is a great game and I really do want to see that true ending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project Shadowglass | Gameplay Reveal Trailer (FGS 2026)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think “Mixed” is where Steam reviews falter, at least for me. If a game is mostly negative it’s usually bad and if it’s very positive or overwhelmingly positive it’s usually good. But I’ve certainly had experiences with several games that are much better than “Mixed” reviews would indicate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 8th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  HGSS is peak Pokémon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.