@Gaagaagiins#17592 which ending did you get?
Capcom Arcade Stadium is a pile of roms but itās everything I want from a pile of roms. Lots of graphical options, variable speed, rewinds, save states, a million graphical options, online leaderboards, goofy weekly challenges, and a damn good selection. Outside of things with licensing issues (Marvel, AvP, Jojo) the only games Iām really missing are Vampire Savior and Mars Matrix, and it seems like it's built with future DLC in mind. Progear is worth the price alone imo
@Syzygy#17773 oh I fully expect to have to pay for these games again in a year or so. But playing on the versions with regular leaderboard contributions/the portability of the switch is worth it for me at least.
just saw the other thread and now know what you mean by āthe good oneā and of course you are correct
I finished 13 Sentinels. I'm not sure I would lavish it with all of the praise that it seemed to be getting near the end of last year, however I did enjoy it. There were nice surprises in the small story details; the main over-arching plot was interesting if not groundbreaking, but there were a few times where the game was continually throwing figurative curveballs in the details. Each time I thought I had it 100% worked out, something else crazy would happen instead.
Back to Yakuza 7 for me, now.
Iāve been playing the meme of the week, valheim, with a couple buddies. That fresh, janky sheen I found charming is starting to fade. I want to stick it out long enough to build a boat and be dumb on it, but Iām over resource gathering.
I'll probably be hanging out at the bottom of the capcom arcade leaderboards this weekend.
Today I decided my next video game purchase will be the Deadly Premonition Switch port instead of Dragon Quest XI.
Someone please explain to me why this was my decision (and I'm sticking to it.)
@SuperEffective#17934 For what its worth I started both of these semi-recently and, while I am not very far in either, I stuck with Deadly Premonition longer. Some of the design and gameplay seems like its actively trying to antagonize me, but it sure has heartā¦I just can't be mad at Swery.
I grabbed deadly premonition a few months back because my brother in law had played it in college and loves it. He came over and we chilled on the couch playing together.
holy crap I hated it! Not really - I appreciate very much itās incredible _weirdness_. Iām a sucker for your Twin Peaks like surrealism (or whatever ism that is). But GOD it physically hurts to play. Have fun with the cars, man!
@CidNight#17945
oh man, have you played that Days Gone? I'm willing to stick with a game that has suspect controls as long as there's something redeeming or interesting about it, which I know Deadly Prem does have... That Days Gone motorcycle, though? It felt like the main character slathered margarine all over his darn tires, and I immediately turned it off after my first 3 minutes on that godforsaken hog. Luckily, I played it for free during my PSNow trial period.
@CidNight#17945 Once I got something of a handle on the car physics I found it to be an oddly calming experience in a melancholy sort of way. I would find myself switching on the headlights/wipers and using turn signals in a rough approximation of real life. The long car rides actually reminded me of driving around in upstate NY (though I spent a great deal less time swerving onto sidewalks IRL, I promise).
@SuperEffective#17947 I have not but I heard similar criticisms of it and thatās part of why I stayed away. Deadly Premonition is amazing at convincing you its many, many, many flaws are on purpose. I am suspicious of whether thatās true - but in the end it doesnāt matter. The game has a ton of heart and an absolute depth of weirdness and thatās why, despite sucking, it still rules.
my wife and i have been playing D of all things. i played it over a weekend in about 1998, and she had never played it before.
i can appreciate the fact it can be completed in a single sitting a lot more now than i could back then. i can't say the same about the very slow walking, which i remember thinking the first time was atmospheric and suspenseful, but which now is just annoying. there's also a puzzle that requires getting the timing right **after** you've figured out what to do, which i think is bad form, and a qte that's broken imho -- you have to wait a moment after the prompt to press the button.
i've been trying to focus on finishing Dragon Quest 11, but i think we'll have to do Lunacy next.
@SuperEffective#17934 i canāt say anything about the switch ports specifically as i played each of them on other consoles, but theyāre so different that you should probably try both eventually?
i thoroughly enjoyed living in that deadly premonition headspace. each character has their own schedule and personal tendencies that you naturally pick up on as you hang out and play detective. i don't wanna reveal too much of the fun, but i suppose it helps to appreciate mundane, every day activities in video game form. the game is admittedly a clunky mess at best when it comes to the technical "user experience" though.
on the other end, the dragon quest series is so professional and so ingrained in itself that you might already know what you'd be getting into. i couldn't get past the general style and dialogue affectations in (other dragon quests, including) dragon quest 11. i really like the idea of playing something in an episodic tv format like the series always gets acknowledged for, but dang, is it a boring tv show.
As I said earlier, I most recently finished āG Stringā, which takes place in a drowning world. So I'm following it up with some heavy Blue Sub No. 6 vibes by playing Aquanox: Deep Decent.
I have a strong personal connection to the ocean due to my birthplace and a few choices I've made in my life. I even got to tour a nuclear submarine once (they call the reactor the "hot rock", which I found amusing). So I'm digging the underwater vibes. Their rendition of a post-apocalyptic sea floor is a lot more colorful than Soma's.
has anyone played the french revolution game lol. thinking about checking it out
https://store.steampowered.com/app/736850/We_The_Revolution/
No but I might have to give it a try
Did pick suzerain up a while back and will get to it probably next week. On a similar wavelength maybe
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1207650/Suzerain/
@yeso#18065 double feature
@yeso#18065
https://store.steampowered.com/app/251110/INFRA/
This game has your name all over it. Finnish first person adventure about a structural analyst that finds some inconsistencies on a routine inspection and ends up entangled in a strange conspiracy.
(completely unrelated to what you were talking about)