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- Comment on Ghost of Yotei | Review Thread (89/100 OpenCritic) 2 days ago:
Well dang, that is shitty to hear. I had hoped to play this one. At least I found out now before giving them any money.
- Comment on The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini 1 week ago:
You can go explore and get a whole lot of stuff, but a lot of it seems totally useless?
Oh yeah I totally feel this. I’ll complete a quest or some fiddly pogo area only to see the reward and go “huh?”
Still liking the game a lot, to be fair.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 4.4 million sales - IGN 1 week ago:
Easily my game of the year.
- Comment on Day 423 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, will be fun to see you work through these. The remake series is polarizing to be sure, but I quite like them despite their flaws. The combat system in particular to me feels like such a fun blend of action and ATB-gauge style inputs.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Man… this looks rough. I’m not sure what to even think. I really want to be excited for Prime 4 but none of the trailers have done it for me. Now we have this weird bike that looks awful.
I’m happy to be wrong and will wait and see how things turn out but the faith is being tested.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Silksong coming out actually motivated me to do what I’d been putting off, which was getting platinum in Expedition 33. The Simon fight was tough but fun and satisfying, then picked up any lingering journals, music disks, and Monoco skills.
Amusingly my final trophy was the mime you can encounter during the prologue, which I had completely missed on my first time through. So I fired up NG+ mode, knocked that out for my plat trophy, and decided to watch the Gommage cutscene one more time. It still hit me just as emotionally the second time around. This game really was beautiful and it’s going to stick with me for a long time.
With that out of the way I’m now a few hours into Silksong and enjoying it so far. The bosses I’ve encountered have been tough but not “throw the controller and rage quit” tough. But I’m sure that is coming soon, haha.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This is my answer as well!
- Comment on Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
That sounds about right. I feel like it played more like an expansion than an outright new game. I do remember banging my head against some of those tougher levels now.
- Comment on Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Good point about the music, it really was quite memorable!
- Comment on Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
I replayed Galaxy sometime around 2020 and had a lot of fun doing so. I remember liking this one quite a lot. It was also fun to let my kid who was around 5 at the time hold a remote to help collect stars.
I’m… reasonably sure I played Galaxy 2 as well but my memory of that iteration is completely blank.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
It’s worth it! I am still chipping away at Expedition 33 as well. I’m in the endgame portion now but just don’t have a lot of time to game at the moment. I’d like to eventually do NG+ and 100% everything.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 1 month ago:
Stanley walked through the red. door.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 1 month ago:
Was going to comment this as well! I enjoyed the story quite a bit too. Despite nothing really “happening” per se I remember the ending feeling emotional regardless.
- Comment on Day 386 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Even with the warp ability it feels like you still have to do a fair amount of sailing because the warp locations are fairly spread out. I can see double speed helping considerably, though.
Thinking on in some more and I guess another problem with the sailing for me is how often I had to stop and play the wind requiem. It really makes navigation a chore. I could see a mod that lets you change the wind direction much more quickly would help tremendously (maybe there is one, I have not looked).
- Comment on Day 386 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
I’ve started this game twice. Once recently and once back when it came out. Still have not managed to finish. I always lose interest about half way.
When I think about why that is, I think it’s what you pointed out - the sailing gets monotonous fast.
Which is too bad cause I do think the game is otherwise very charming and fun.
- Comment on Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted – Pre-Order Trailer 1 month ago:
I loved pvz back in the day, before it got junked up by EA. I have no idea what the state of the game is anymore. Curious if this would be worth playing for a bit of nostalgia.
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 1 month ago:
It really was incredible. Especially back then when I hadn’t had much exposure yet to that style of music. The fact that it was CD quality instead of midi really helped.
I vividly remember discovering how you could just put the game disk in a regular CD player and it’d work. Kinda blew my mind lol.
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 2 months ago:
Adding this to my wish list!
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 2 months ago:
Man I friggin loved Descent II. Game was so fun and immersive. I watched that opening cinematic over and over. The soundtrack was fantastic as well.
I later went and played Descent 1 as well but 2 was the one I played the most.
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 2 months ago:
There is indeed! My kid played it on the switch and loved it. Well, right up to the point where they couldn’t proceed due to a level being completely broken. They ended up having to finish the last few stages on my PC instead.
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 2 months ago:
Wow! I somehow never knew this bug existed. I guess it’s been a long time since I played this one. 😅
Now, how about fixing game-breaking bugs on the Switch version of Portal 2?
- Comment on Day 369 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Man, I should revisit this one sometime.
- Comment on Day 365 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (One Year Anniversary!) 2 months ago:
Congrats on making it a year! And Halo 3 is a great game for the occasion too.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 months ago:
Agreed, this shit sucks. The credit card companies hold far too much power over what is considered viable commerce.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 2 months ago:
My thoughts exactly. Some of these ads are just plain weird in a way that they would never dare today.
- Comment on Day 348 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Man I thought the well was so dang creepy when I originally played it.
- Comment on Day 347 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I played so much SoT back around 2019/2020! Was such a blast just hanging out on the seas.
I agree with your comment about the water, it really is beautiful.
I know folks have mentioned disliking the pvp aspect and believe me I get it - I was never particularly good at it especially in close encounters. But I will say some of the most genuinely exciting memories I have are of those times when we had a boatload of loot with some pirates hot on our tail and managed to get away with it.
The crew I played with eventually moved on to other things but I still miss it now and then.
- Comment on Hades II - The Unseen Update Trailer 3 months ago:
Hype!! The new music is fire. 🔥
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 3 months ago:
Guess that’s me too. I loved Fallout 3 and wasn’t really aware of a lot of hate for it.
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 3 months ago:
The original Portal game does a good job of this. The first several puzzles are essentially tutorials that still manage to feel fun and interesting.