I'm back on my Stardew Valley shit, but I also played the trivia game on the Shrek DVD at like 2:30 am this morning.
but I also played the trivia game on the Shrek DVD at like 2:30 am thia morning.
Everyone but you is a casual
I'm back on my ps2 arc playing .hack infection and watching the anime at the same time. It's a cool game! I think it properly simulates what it's like to play an mmo but offline. I love having to check the bbs in game to get clues and progress the story.
I tried to come back to it after rewatching .hack//sign and the OVAs that came out around the same time. It was cool, but the gameplay just didn't engage me like it did back in the day.
Parrying literally everything in Clair Obscur. Parried my way through a late game area and gained 20 levels. Parried 1.3 million HP off a seabound giant that shoots lasers over the course of 20 minutes. Parried a massive face so many times it just fell over and died halfway though it's HP bar. This is the first game I've played where I actually love the parrying.
Dwarf Fortress. Outfitting my military in Masterwork steel is quite the annoying and rewarding process.
Finished Deltarune, it was kino.
Me when Toby Fox references a meme: cringe
Me when he makes an entire boss themed around YTPs: clapping like a seal
Really though it was good. Chapter 3 was eh on its own but Chapter 4 was excellent. The two of them releasing at once makes it feel like one big chapter, and viewing it through that lens, I liked it a lot.
Surely now I won't get distracted playing Umineko 
Chapter 3 was eh on its own
OK but hear me out, chapter 3 has Tenna doing crusty CGI dances
I was also a bit eh in Chapter 3, it's not what I expected or wanted after chapter 2, but having given it some time I'm glad it exists. It's a very self-contained story mostly about Kris's family falling apart, and it sets up a lot for Ralsei and Susie in chapter 4. Also the mini games are fun, the guitar hero kicks ass. Tenna was a bit underwhelming, I like his backstory and motivations but he felt very much like a rerun of spamton. The whole "mad entertainer has a very visible breakdown while trying to present as in control" was very similar, and him and Spamton share lots of little lines (big shot, cungadero etc). Maybe if I hadn't just spent the past three years obsessing over Spamton it would feel a bit fresher.
But as a third chapter in a seven part story I think it works. We get lots of silly stuff and character setup, then the stakes spike at the end.
I have zero criticisms of chapter 4 though, that was everything I wanted and more. The map, the music, and my god the characters. Kris was already my favorite but they get even more fascinating in chapter 4. They're such a little gremlin and also clearly hate being controlled by the player and have their own goals.
spoilers!
Also Gerson? Hello? Immediately became my second favourite, I love him so much. The SECOND I saw him and heard his music I knew I loved him. Incredible, what a guy. Ralsei also jumped in my ratings after being sidelined in chapter 2. Him having zero self worth and being completely self-sacrificing for Susie and Kris, at the price of his own identity and happiness, is so tragic. I love that little goat. And Susie was amazing too, the way she becomes kinder to herself and learns to believe in herself, and dares to try healing even though it will be hard. In chapter 4 Ralsei keeps mentioning how kind she is, and it's incredible to me how much I believe her character progression, from outcasted tough bully to kind renegade.
Aaah I love Deltarune so much
Tenna was a bit underwhelming, I like his backstory and motivations but he felt very much like a rerun of spamton. The whole "mad entertainer has a very visible breakdown while trying to present as in control" was very similar, and him and Spamton share lots of little lines (big shot, cungadero etc). Maybe if I hadn't just spent the past three years obsessing over Spamton it would feel a bit fresher.
They're similar because they're kinda supposed to be, it seems.
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Yeah chapter 3 is fine with the context that chapter 4 comes right after. 4 still has jokes but it might have come off a little too serious on its own.
I was half expecting Gerson to suddenly become evil or something but nah he's just cool like that. Susie stocks skyrocketing even higher.
All challenges complete. Jokerless was fun since I had to really focus on my deck. It made the game feel significantly different.
Now I just have to beat every deck on gold stake, and do so with each joker held. That'll suck since there are consumable ones and I just have to hold them and waste a slot to get the gold stickers
Anaglyph deck done to gold stake. That was fun sometimes. The winning play was to save tags and barely scrape by until ante 3 or 4 then hope for a double your money tag. It worked well.
That's ghost, abandoned, checkered, and now anaglyph done.
I'm back on my monster train addiction. The second one came out and it's the only thing I want to play
Oooh what's monster train? I love monsters., is it about monsters? Pls say yes even if it isn't
I love how the game just unashamedly invites you to bust it wide open and do truly heinous combos. Great character designs and music too. What's your favorite clans so far?
I've been enjoying them all but I seem to have the most luck with underlegion and banished. And getting to
is proving a lot of fun as wellspoiler
combine the new clans with the old clans
My friend group is doing a crossplay BG3 campaign. 2 on ps5 (married couple), another xbox, another on pc, and I’m on a mac. It’s beautiful. All games should be this easy to play crossplay
How does multiplayer bg3 even work? It sounds interesting but I've always been scared into thinking it's a massive commitment?
You start a lobby, crossplay or not, you can create your own character or use existing characters. Each player interacts with the world, start conversations, flirt with npcs, etc. when you are in a fight, each players gets their own turn, and any npcs they control.
I think fighting is the slowest part. The game should let you take your turn, then calculate all the outcomes.
Still chugging along in FF7 Rebirth. I'm at the point where I can leave Cosmo Canyon, but I don't think I personally can until I finish these quests and side-content lol
1,300 cycles into my current Oxygen Not Included playthrough. Finally got my liquid hydrogen/LOX rockets fueled up, I actually had reservoirs of fuel ready to go for like 200 cycles, but I had to set up clay production at a large enough scale just so I could produce enough ceramic for all the piping. Now I'm sending out missions to set up off-world builds to collect resources I'm low/empty on, like tungsten on the Marshy Asteroid.
I did fuck up Gizmo's morale, and he started blasting everything with lightning on an emergency return trip from the tungsten project, to the point where I had to lock him in the bathroom until they land so he doesn't kill himself and Ulti, the pilot.
I've been playing a lot of picross. 15 x 15 puzzles are trivial now, but 20 x 20 can be a slog. Waiting for the qualitative jump in my playing soon.
Nothing right now but I should either get back to yakuza 4 or a bit of disco Elysium for the vibes. I've beaten both both revisiting them is nice from time to time especially as I go over any substories or story threads I missed before.
I'm trying to snipe with iron sights in Enlisted. Killing Nazis is fun.
Cavalry girls is honestly such a good game. At its most basic level, the mech combat is fun to control and satisfying. Lots of mechanics, but they do a really good job of introducing them over the course of the campaign, so it's not too overwhelming and they come in to heighten the core loop as it gets more routine. The mech customization is pretty in-depth and I feel like there's pretty good opportunity to try out a variety of builds and team compositions. The management layer isn't spectacular, but it serves to break up gameplay pretty well and there's a hint of something more to the relatively simple story.
The translation is not good, but excluding a few confusing item descriptions it's not hard to tell what's being communicated. There are maybe a few too many things to do in the management layer and I've found that there are some things I've been able to just ignore.
The character designs and intermittent comic sequences are fucking hilariously boobed up. To the point where it's more comedic than erotic to me - though I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be a parody. Generally the tone of the game is fairly light and slightly humorous despite dealing with rather grim subject matter - although anything particularly awful is generally alluded to rather than confronted directly - and this plus the massive hoonkstangos can be a little dissonant.
All in all I'd recommend it if you're looking for a twin-stick shooter with character building and light management aspects. It's pretty cheap and the game shows you what it's about basically immediately, so it's worth a tryout if it sounds fun.
Also always interesting to see games out of China and their particular conventions and styles.
Watched the trailer for this since it sounds kinda fun:
Excuse me, miss, could you move over a bit? I'm trying to look at the robot.
I've got two: ACNH & Skyrim. In Skyrim, I'm trying to get to level 100 without hitting the main storylines/quests. I love the ways you can play Skyrim.
definitely not burning even more hours I can't spare on dark souls 3
My friend got me into their Factorio server and I mostly just watch them build their incredible machine of train and conveyer, but when I play alone I get to feel my brain wrinkling in effort to try and build a nice efficient factory lol
I understand now what everyone said about it, in hindsight. It's terrific.
Besides that I got caught up in the Battlefront 2 hype wave and have been enjoying that well enough, especially for a game I got for cheap (free? I cannot really recall)
I've also been trying to get some friends to try the demo for the new game Jump Ship which is a pretty slick game that mixes so many influences I love in a specific way that appeals to me: a little bit of Sea of Thieves in the coop ship management, a dash of roguelike by making the 'jump route', all playing in a comfy Destiny clone FPS system. Glad people are trying to make the coop spaceship command sim I've always wanted but now I need friends to play it 
Is that star wars battlefront 2? Is that still around?
Yeah, there was a big community event thing, as well as the May the 4th star wars marketing lead to a big resurgence in population since Andor also ended at around the same time. There hasn't really been a big Stars War game released besides that single player series that I found to be pretty boring, personally.
It's been an interesting phenomenon watching these franchises kinda sorta fail to capitalize on their own hype by not having simultaneous releases of a new game, thinking back a similar thing happened to Fallout when the TV show came out and everyone found themselves picking up Fallout 4 and 76 if only because they're the latest in the series even if they're ages old now in gamer years.
2006 or EA?
EA
Somebody show me how Hyrule Warrior Calamity runs on the switch 2 and I just might get it. Calamity coop runs like shit but that’s all my 4 year old wants to play right now (the zelda piggie punching game).
Found it: https://youtu.be/mK_RAUvA2ac
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I had to jump back into the thread because I can't sleep because I'm thinking about Deltarune. Chapter 3 and 4 puts it straight into my top 3 games of all time
I just started a new Breath of the Wild playthrough
Still on Deltarune. I've been at the end of chapter 3 for a couple of days because work has been preventing me from
putting in the time it takes to beat the second secret boss. The Roaring Knight makes Jevil and Spamton NEO look like child's play, he feels like he's from another game entirely.
After getting the secrets in Chapter 3 I gotta say Toby has mastered the art of making a video game creepypasta. There's a part where you have to kill the digital versions of Susie and Ralsei to advance that made me audibly gasp, and then the way that quest breaks its own internal fourth wall at the end is so cool. I remember the Five Nights at Freddys games having similar segments to this one, but those don't even hit 1% as hard as the Deltarune one does.
Loved Tenna as a villain, and loved the gameplay of this whole section, but it's a bit of a bummer that there's not as much to explore. I did almost all of the steps to find the secret egg just by exploring naturally and talking to everyone, the only one that surprised me was running away from the trash can enemy because that idea seemed to come completely out of left field, though I suppose it was more interesting than just having another secret area between two other areas.
I like to see Susie kinda stepping up more and more as a heroic type as the story goes on, and here on chapter 3 there's shades of revolution to it, where the prevailing ideology (sniff) is that darkners are just objects and they need to accept that, but she's pushing against that assumption and proposing the creation of a new and more just world. It's still unclear whether the game will treat her as being right to think this way or wrong because she's just trying to cling to a fantasy, but I hope it breaks the first way and the status quo of the dark/light worlds gets changed for the better by the end of the story.
The other stuff in the story is mostly just okay. Tenna being motivated by Kris and his family getting older and not watching him as much is exactly what I figured his motivation would be from the jump, so no surprises there. There's some more Dess stuff to find which continues to be sad in exactly the way that an old lost relative is.
The humor didn't hit as often for me in Chapter 3 as it did previously. I don't know if that's because I've changed in the past few years or if it's just because the chapter doesn't have as many jokes, but I did nearly fall out of my chair when both me and Susie set our names to ASS at the beginning of the game show. The !$%^ Squad is just on that wavelength I guess.
ESO released a controversial patch last week, they added multi-classing where you can replace 2 out of 3 skill lines, as long as each line is from a different class, it somewhat goes against their design philosophy until now but thats a larger debate, I’ve been levelling 2 new dps oriented skill lines on my main, not sure if I’ll use one or both (or other ones, though I don’t like the visual aesthetics of the newer class skills) but it’s nice to get a stat boost to be able to deal with dungeon bosses more easily, also nice to finally play around with some new skill combos because there’s no way I’d have ever made a character in every class, usually just play one
there's a 3D sort of like project zomboid game called Vein that's got a free version on Steam now and it's kinda fun but idfk what I should be doing
Still just Warframe, got the last parts I needed for Baruuk and Revenant Prime during the resurgence, even got the last (vaulted) Mesa Prime part due to blind luck. At this point, I still have to grind some relics for available prime stuff (Lavos and Protea, mainly, but also a handful of weapons), and then I can go into some of the real grinds. Finished Codas (sort of, I got all weapons above 40% and don't really care about rerolling to 60%), might start Sisters next because they're supposed to be faster than Liches.
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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