Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
I'm not sure I'm going to have the hand coordination to keep up with Rusted Moss in its late game, but dag nabbit, it's an indie metroidvania from 2023 that isn't trying rebottle the Hollow Knight lightning!
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“I Just Think They're Neat.” Like What You are Playing
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Juggling games at the moment and enjoying doing so for once - Star Ocean 2 R for the nostalgia and finally figuring out a game that seemed entirely mysterious to me as a kid, Etrian Odyssey Nexus because the remakes on Switch just made me want to play one on two screens again, and more Theatrhythm Final Bar Line - almost done with the Quest Mode in the easiest difficulty now, then onto the DLC!
Maaaaaan Alan Wake 2 was something special. There’s just such a sense of creative joy to it where you kind of feel everyone was having a lot of fun making it. I hope that was true for the devs as well. I don’t know if there’s crunch culture at Remedy.
I still like Control more, but wow, what a great time. Can’t wait for New Game Plus and the extended ending!
I still like Control more, but wow, what a great time. Can’t wait for New Game Plus and the extended ending!
Control is such a great game.
I know I'm many, many years behind the curve, but I recently started playing Breath of the Wild. I described it to my friend like Skyrim but with a sense of wonder and awe. Is Elder Scrolls my yardstick for every open-world RPG? Yikes.
I know I'm many, many years behind the curve, but I recently started playing Breath of the Wild. I described it to my friend like Skyrim but with a sense of wonder and awe. Is Elder Scrolls my yardstick for every open-world RPG? Yikes.
I'm always down for a new dungeon crawler and this one's been sitting unplayed in my library for ages (presumably since some Steam sale) and I always sort of glance at it when it's time to play a new game but have never pulled the trigger. You are literally the only other human being I've ever seen talk about it, so I'd love an elevator pitch for what's grabbed you about it!
Control is so great.
I don't want you to rush into it. But after BOTW, you absolutely have to play TOTK.
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madhair60
Video games
It's probably because of the paedo stuff in it, which I believe was either entirely or mostly removed
I think it does a great job of using modern dungeon crawling with an interesting set of combat and other systems that have a lot to dig into. Just strong mechanics all around, giving me that tense should-I-return-to-base feeling without normally being too brutal. This is on the middle difficulty anyway. One of the notable mechanics is the Shigabane system that lets you become less impacted by events that kill you, which seems simple, but becomes a lot of fun and makes you handle some situations in some really odd ways to get the most out of it.
The story gets really bonkers and it definitely delves into some really dark topics, so that could be a turn off for a lot of people. I'm not exactly sure which stuff madhair60 is talking about, so not certain it's been removed, but the actual story/flashbacks does involve someone's experiences with that, so be aware. It also might be possible that they removed content of that nature since the basic scenario does have potential to lead that way... but it doesn't in the english version anyway.
She's mechanically the best character in my experience. I've gotten infinites on accident because of her.
I haven't unlocked the final character, but the game has no prevention against infinite combos, and they're relatively easy to enable with her.
That's what I've heard!
I actually bought BotW several years ago, lost it in a move, and got salty and didn't want to buy it again. But then when Tears came out, and everyone loved it so much, I relented, but I'm only just now getting around to playing it.
Currently replaying Fire Emblem: Engage on Maddening and it's a lot funnier than I'd expect it to be. Even if the story is campy, the graphics and map design is immaculate. I especially love how you can explore the map after you complete it, scouring for extra loot and stuff. And the Somniel! Imagine something like that in real life.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Engage was extremely fun and I loved it. I did find the DLC storyline much more difficult than the main quest, I wish they had something between Normal and Hard for that.
9 Years of Shadows is a metroidvania's metroidvania, complete with some bosses that are straight up "if we had an opportunity to helm this franchise, this is how we'd do it". I thoroughly recommend it, though with the caveat that some of those previously mentioned bosses are aggravatingly challenging. Give me a mode where some of those monsters have about half their current HP count, and this would be GOTY.
(Give or take the fact that one of the final optional bosses appears to be currently glitched to all heck. I'm assuming that will get better!)
(Give or take the fact that one of the final optional bosses appears to be currently glitched to all heck. I'm assuming that will get better!)
It seems like nobody is playing Starfield, but I spent a few hours with it on Sunday and enjoyed it. It definitely has flaws but it's fun to explore a big sci-fi universe.
I've been poking at a lot of things in the last few weeks. Nothing's getting its hooks in fully. This weekend alone I played some of:
FF XIII (time has been kind to this one; newer FFs make it seem more like older FFs by comparison)
FF XV (never finished on PC, but liked a lot; starting over and enjoying it again)
Alan Wake Remastered (third or fourth time I've tried to play this game, want to know the whole tale for AW2 and Control reasons)
Forspoken (been wanting to try this and finally combined a sale with a gift card to get it cheap)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (stalled out on this after missing the offramp for the Edelgard storyline and being annoyed at losing my heaviest hitters, finally getting back to it)
Plugging at Pixel Remasters as well, and still putting in a little Final Bar Line and Vampire Survivors most every day.
FF XIII (time has been kind to this one; newer FFs make it seem more like older FFs by comparison)
FF XV (never finished on PC, but liked a lot; starting over and enjoying it again)
Alan Wake Remastered (third or fourth time I've tried to play this game, want to know the whole tale for AW2 and Control reasons)
Forspoken (been wanting to try this and finally combined a sale with a gift card to get it cheap)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (stalled out on this after missing the offramp for the Edelgard storyline and being annoyed at losing my heaviest hitters, finally getting back to it)
Plugging at Pixel Remasters as well, and still putting in a little Final Bar Line and Vampire Survivors most every day.
Finished the Star Ocean 2 Remake. I found it to be a pretty good action RPG, a very brilliant realization of tri-Ace's ambitious yet flawed formula.
The Case of the Golden Idol is some darn good detectivin'. I played through the base game back before traveling for the week, and I'm looking forward to diving into the DLC soon.
R.R. Bigman
Coolest Guy
Super Mario RPG Remake is a very good game, since the the original is a very good game and very little has been changed in the hour or so I’ve played. It’s strange to me that a game originally meant to teach kids what an RPG is needs an easy mode, since way more people know how the genre works now than they did (checks notes) 27 years ago!?
Why did they change Mack’s name to Claymorton? I never figured out the joke behind Mack’s name, but Mack is supposed to be a knife, not a sword. Also, was he always a little red guy on knife shaped pogo stick? How many times am I going to be shocked at finding out what a character actually is, rather than what my mind had allowed me to believe?
Why did they change Mack’s name to Claymorton? I never figured out the joke behind Mack’s name, but Mack is supposed to be a knife, not a sword. Also, was he always a little red guy on knife shaped pogo stick? How many times am I going to be shocked at finding out what a character actually is, rather than what my mind had allowed me to believe?
Isn't that the joke? Like the song, "Mack the Knife"?
Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
Some of the original translation changes aged worse than others (Frogfucius for example), so I'm not surprised they just went with a more accurate naming translation this time.
SMDH at what we lost.
But if he was called that, I wouldn't inexplicably assign a New Zealand accent to him for some reason
But if he was called that, I wouldn't inexplicably assign a New Zealand accent to him for some reason
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
A Claymore is a type of sword, so maybe it's a joke on that?
I haven't played Super Mario RPG so just basing this on comments here, could be way off.
I haven't played Super Mario RPG so just basing this on comments here, could be way off.
also a pun that doesn't require knowledge of a nearly century-old song to get
Have you seen Johnny Jones yet?
So THAT'S why he says he's "Nello...Punchinello"!!! Very weird choice to keep that in after the whole "James Bomb" thing got rejected.