What game are you playing?

[Roguey]

So it's a nostalgic attachment for you. I bet if you replayed the game now, you'd feel differently. My earliest childhood gaming memory was playing games like Spyro 2, Mario World, and Donkey Kong Country. I replayed Spyro 2 and disliked it compared to the original, while Mario World and DKC are merely 'okay' these days. Your views and tastes are ever-changing.

I played through it again as a young adult and still had fun (I used cheats of course). Konami's games were fine overall, a bit too difficult for my preferences of course.

[KnightoftheWind]

Your views and tastes are ever-changing.

everything I liked when I was 12 was actually really cool

What did you play when you were 12, Fortnite?

[rusty_shackleford]

Your views and tastes are ever-changing.

everything I liked when I was 12 was actually really cool

What did you play when you were 12, Fortnite?

We didn't have computers when I was 12.

[DecadeRiptide]

Vermintide II

[KnightoftheWind]

So it's a nostalgic attachment for you. I bet if you replayed the game now, you'd feel differently. My earliest childhood gaming memory was playing games like Spyro 2, Mario World, and Donkey Kong Country. I replayed Spyro 2 and disliked it compared to the original, while Mario World and DKC are merely 'okay' these days. Your views and tastes are ever-changing.

I played through it again as a young adult and still had fun (I used cheats of course). Konami's games were fine overall, a bit too difficult for my preferences of course.

So the game is fun if you don't actually play it?. If you have to use CHEATS to beat something, you might as well haven't played it at all.

Edit: Definitely not liking Rocket Knight at all, even when I persevere the game just never seems to get good. My final score is a 4/10. Glad I decided to play it for myself to realize it's not a very good game, and certainly doesn't belong on any "Top" Sega Genesis games lists. These YouTubers really know jack ****, it seems.

Edit 2: Moved onto the "Bonk" series by Hudson Soft, for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. The first game, Bonk's Adventure, is a very dull affair. Slow movement speed, bland and simplistic levels, and below average graphics. Decided to end my playthrough of that after the third boss. Final score is a 4/10. Now starting the sequel, Bonk's Revenge, and it's an immediate improvement. Levels are far better, as are the graphics.

[Oyster Sauce]

Spellforce wasn't very good. Moving on

[W1llus]

I'm almost through Silksong and honestly, I'm tempted to write up a full review. It's definitely not a 10/10 or a 9/10. I'm sure that's mostly what it's scoring because game reviewers will be too afraid to score it any lower, but it genuinely has a lot of issues that stem from trying to make the game harder and more complex than Hollow Knight. A lot of what made Hollow Knight work was its simplicity, and I think the idea of why keeping things simple can be a good thing is lost on a lot of developers.

[Tweed]

everything I liked when I was 12 was actually really cool

What did you play when you were 12, Fortnite?

We didn't have computers when I was 12.

Univac 1 was still the hot thing when Rusto was a kid.

[Tweed]

I'm almost through Silksong and honestly, I'm tempted to write up a full review. It's definitely not a 10/10 or a 9/10. I'm sure that's mostly what it's scoring because game reviewers will be too afraid to score it any lower, but it genuinely has a lot of issues that stem from trying to make the game harder and more complex than Hollow Knight. A lot of what made Hollow Knight work was its simplicity, and I think the idea of why keeping things simple can be a good thing is lost on a lot of developers.

It's unpleasant to play and suffers from difficulty creep.

[Tinky Winky]

What did you play when you were 12, Fortnite?

We didn't have computers when I was 12.

Univac 1 was still the hot thing when Rusto was a kid.

Is Roosty really this old? I always thought he was a millennial since he loves stereotypical millennial games like DAO and WoW, something that a 'codex gen Xer would hate.

[ThulsaDoomer]

Occasionally to relax I play some Falconeer Chronicles: Bulwark and have been doing so recently. Also been playing through Spellforce 3, which is fairly enjoyable minus Isgrimm's dead (deserved) homosexual bf. He just earned himself a spot off the active party list and replaced by Uram. Anyway, I don't normally do the whole screen archer stuff but these free form cities in Bulwark are very addicting to create. Despite its simplistic mechanics, it has a real unique atmosphere.

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[KnightoftheWind]

Wanted to shoutout "Fight 'N Rage", perhaps the greatest retro-style beat em' up ever made. Surpassing games like Streets of Rage, TMNT, Golden Axe, etc in every way. The gameplay solves nearly every issue I have with these sorts of games, primarily the sluggish feel of combat and the repetitive nature of the genre. It's like if Streets of Rage had a shot of espresso, it's just relentless from beginning to end and it's a hell of a lot of fun. The combat is very fast-paced and incredibly satisfying, It makes me wish more indies would strive to improve classic titles, rather than just copy them and their faults verbatim. This is an easy 8/10 from me.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/fightn_rage

[Tadeusz]

Tried the recently released "No, I'm not a human". Devs nailed the atmosphere of despair and paranoia. The requirements to survive get higher as the game progresses and I already got one of the bad endings.
@Valter I think you were waiting for the game. Have you tried it?

[Valter]

Tried the recently released "No, I'm not a human". Devs nailed the atmosphere of despair and paranoia. The requirements to survive get higher as the game progresses and I already got one of the bad endings.
@Valter I think you were waiting for the game. Have you tried it?

Yeah I tried the demo and got a bad ending. It was a really cool experience that, as you mentioned, does a good job at making you distrustful of everything. At first I was distrustful of the government's directions then what they were saying came true and I was distrustful of everyone around me, then some of what they said was a lie and I want OUT LET ME OUT LET ME OUT AAAAAAAAAAAAA

Is the full release out now? That's excellent news friend

[Valter]

NO little Timmy, I will NOT let you in you ******* alien piece of ****. I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE

[Tweed]

Been playing Don't Starve because it's a spoopy game good for creppy time.

[DecadeRiptide]

Vermintide II. It's really good.

[Fox1]

The MGS3 remake and I'm already bored with it. I still don't understand why people love this game the most out of the series... ******* redditors. I played the OG back in 04 and enjoyed it for it's gameplay but it was always my least favorite (until 4 PW and V, gameplay was much improved in those though) The gameplay is good but the story is lame and poorly written. Kojima is a hack and produces incoherent **** without his original team to reign him in. MGS1 and 2 were way better and more interesting games than any of the other entries plot wise.

[Oyster Sauce]

The MGS3 remake and I'm already bored with it. I still don't understand why people love this game the most out of the series... ******* redditors. I played the OG back in 04 and enjoyed it for it's gameplay but it was always my least favorite (until 4 PW and V, gameplay was much improved in those though) The gameplay is good but the story is lame and poorly written. Kojima is a hack and produces incoherent **** without his original team to reign him in. MGS1 and 2 were way better and more interesting games than any of the other entries plot wise.

DUDE MGS2 PREDICTED PEOPLE LYING

[Jordy]

Decided to try Kerbal Space Program today. I've only had 3 hours sleep in the last 48 hours and the training pretty much fried my brain.

[methoxetamine]

We made it @Val the Moofia Boss. We ******* made it.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Started Trails in the Sky remake on nightmare difficulty.

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The intro cutscene animation is very good, not just for Falcom but for anime JRPGs as a whole. It isn't just the facial expression but also the overall blocking/movement of the characters throughout the scene. Though ofcourse that wears off after the opening scene and it switches to more stock body movement animations, but the facial animations still remain good.




It is also neat that they brought back the anime >< comedy faces.








It is interesting that we are back to housing interiors being in a separate instance, rather than seamlessly barging into houses and running back out of them without a loading screen like in Daybreak.

There is an interesting visual ghosting effect happening when a character is positioned in front of a body of water.




On my 3080 Ti the game runs smooth as silk at 4k 60 FPS max settings just so long as you move the SSAO down from high to medium.

People's weapons don't disappear when sheathed anymore.
The area around dad's house looks very artificial with it being this rectangle of rock walls. Should have made it look more naturalistic.

Estelle's Japanese voice is very sweet.


Combat and difficulty is about what I predicted. Modern Trails battle system and QoLs.

It is very disrespectful for Estelle to call her dad "a bum". He drank once, and it was just a glass.




Oh boy I spent an hour stuck on the boss fight against the three flying cats. I had to grind an extra level and then do a lot of attempts until I finally got it. I really miss having to protect guest/civilian NPCs. They made the scenario more interesting than simply "burn down the enemy and don't wipe". Wish that they had never gone away from the series.






It irks me that JRPG protagonists almost always refuse.

[GhostShiroyama]

Just bought Donkey Kong Bananza can't wait to play. Also been playing Bravely Default HD and Holdfast.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Trails in the Sky remake

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>Be apart of Bracer guild whose job is to protect humanity from maneating monsters
>Get request to exterminate monsters raiding a farm
>Catch and fight the crop munchers, narrowly avoid being killed
>They look uwu cute so you let them go rather than exterminating the pests
>The dad who requested the monster extermination moralizes about how we all share the land and should let the pests live

This quest was in the original but now it feels dumb with the cinematic, realistic presentation.

[mercerxiv]

DCS

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[Nemesis]

DCS

Digital Combat Simulator

[methoxetamine]

Trails in the Sky remake

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>Be apart of Bracer guild whose job is to protect humanity from maneating monsters
>Get request to exterminate monsters raiding a farm
>Catch and fight the crop munchers, narrowly avoid being killed
>They look uwu cute so you let them go rather than exterminating the pests
>The dad who requested the monster extermination moralizes about how we all share the land and should let the pests live

This quest was in the original but now it feels dumb with the cinematic, realistic presentation.

What do you think so far?

[methoxetamine]

Your views and tastes are ever-changing.

everything I liked when I was 12 was actually really cool

Same, vanilla WoW WAS badass

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Trails in the Sky remake

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>Be apart of Bracer guild whose job is to protect humanity from maneating monsters
>Get request to exterminate monsters raiding a farm
>Catch and fight the crop munchers, narrowly avoid being killed
>They look uwu cute so you let them go rather than exterminating the pests
>The dad who requested the monster extermination moralizes about how we all share the land and should let the pests live

This quest was in the original but now it feels dumb with the cinematic, realistic presentation.

What do you think so far?

I have played the original Sky games twice, and right now this is a faithful remake that is the same beat for beat, just with 3D graphics, better combat, a higher fidelity but the same soundtrack, and cute JP Estelle voice acting. The cutscene quality at the beginning of the game has worn off, and I have never found the townsfolk NPCs in the Trails games worth talking to until CS. The original plot doesn't become engaging to me until the men in black kidnap the professor in Zeiss in the second half of the game, and so far this remake isn't making the first half's story more entertaining. So I am pretty much just focused on going around collecting all of the chests and doing all of the sidequests and skipping through most dialogues, at least until I meet Aizen and Olivier since I want to see how they are voiced and if they get more interesting cutscenes.

[Jordy]

X COM 2 is pretty fun. I especially liked it when one of my guys got promoted and then immediately died when the truck he was hiding behind exploded.