@“Andy B”#p115298 Yup! I was truly surprised at the time and felt genuinely disappointed because by the time I bought it the online play was disabled on the PS3, because not only the graphics are really good to see, but there are some really nice scenarios from time to time and the combat is better than what you would expect. It is an underrated game that, while not being the best of the JRPGs, is truly enjoyable from beginning to end, and if you like the usual tropes you're in for a treat.
Been playing a smattering of stuff lately but the biggest joy I’ve been having with games right now is actually hardware related: the Switch Lite has really reinvigorated my desire to play games on that console!
I have an OLED model but it has never felt right. Beautiful screen but it’s big, heavy, and uncomfortable as hell to hold. Nightmare ergonomics for me. Even with a grip it still just doesn’t feel very good.
I decided to add my account to my partner’s Lite to try some stuff on it and was immediately kinda floored by how much I like playing games on there. The screen definitely isn’t as good but I mostly forgot about that after playing it for a bit and just really started enjoying the form factor. It feels intimate in the way handheld stuff always does for me, a big reason why handhelds have always been my preferred way of playing games. Suddenly I can play the stack of visual novels I’ve had sitting around in actual comfort. Smaller games like Friends of Ringo Ishikawa feel at home on the lil thing. I’m really surprised by how big a difference it’s making!
I saw Squadrons was on sale, so I picked it up to play in VR. It‘s everything I’ve ever wanted in a Star Wars game and I don‘t see any Star Wars title topping it, unless they make a sequel.
I often find myself just cruising around during missions because it’s so incredibly immersive. If you own a VR headset and like space or sci-fi, I encourage you to pick it up. You can skip most of the Star Wars stuff if you aren‘t interested, and the nice thing is that it’s mostly focused on the “normal people” so you don‘t really have to deal with the space wizards and the skywalker family drama, which isn’t really my bag.
@“KingTubb”#p115378
I don't have a headset but I enjoyed _Squadrons_ quite a bit on its own merits and I hear it's a top-tier VR experience. Do you have the PS4/5 headset? I understand that _Wipeout_ is also incredible in VR.
Wipeout is amazing in VR. If/when I get a PS5 headset that will be one of the first games I try after REZ.
@“antillese”#p115405 I‘m playing it on Steam with an Oculus Rift. When the headset is situated correctly, it’s gorgeous, and the graininess of the rift kind of sparks my nostalgia. I'm not sure what the resolution of the PS5 headset is, but I have a feeling that this would look amazing with lots of pixels and the film grain removed
Fired up Death Stranding for the first time. About ninety minutes in, I had an out-of-body reaction to two lines. I watched all of The Young Pope after hearing Tim Rogers describe on a previous episode of the Insert Credit Show “They picked a pope they didn't know…” and this sequence was similarly me sitting on my couch screaming.
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I don’t know where else to put this so I’m going to complain 20 years too late that 4-3 of Super Mario Advance (did you know Mario Advance was originally a game called Doki Doki Majo Shinpan?) is dumb. The fire boss is no big deal, but that tower is a huge PITA. My bad for not taking Luigi or Peach and skipping it.
i played pineapple on pizza today, i got all achievements in about 20 min but it was a fun, whimsical, and comedic time. it‘s free.99 so there’s no excuse not to give it a shot.
>!it also confirms that people who like pineapple on pizza endorse the extinction of island communities!<
@“deepspacefine”#p115520 I can imagine this exact conversation going down in the oval office after Biden finally kicks the bucket in the midst of his 2024 campaign against Trump, days before the election.
@“saddleblasters”#p115532 the line between these two screenshots is hunter biden asking to borrow someone else's laptop and then googling “how to deepfake dad”
beat breath of the wild for the first time yesterday and had a great time with it. in many ways, it reminded me of the first time that i played shadow of the colossus in terms of the way you explore and what not (never had any issues with the weapon system). i wanna say that i did around eighty of the shrines and had the master sword, so the final boss was pretty easy to take down lol.
bring on _tears of the kingdom_!
Playing a video game that includes the following “feature”:
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Thanks @yeso for ruining my life once again.
@“JoJoestar”#p115803 don‘t burn yourself out on F&H 1! It’s interesting, but Fear & Hunger 2: Termina is much, much better!
@“yeso”#p115805 Don‘t worry, I’m somehow enjoying it lol. Even when the game throws something completely unfair and unforeseeable, the outcome tends to be interesting or entertaining. Really taps into that part of my brain that makes me amused when I get trolled by a giant ball trap in a souls game.
@“JoJoestar”#p115807 I think you‘ll really enjoy 2 then. It’s much more of an adventure game rather than a dungeon crawl, but one of the interesting things about it is how it retains and elaborates the turn-based RPG stuff, but makes that framework more like the way the player interfaces with the game‘s esoterics. So rather than a “numbers go up” progression, it’s like the interface for doing weird occult stuff and narrative
Barely crossed the finish line in Elden Ring yesterday to start Zelda. Took about 170 hours. Did every area and beat every boss solo. Not the hardest From game but definitely the largest. Biggest complaint is too many items that aren't needed once you hit the 40 hour mark, but beyond that, it's definitely an all-timer.
@“yeso”#p115808 Yeah I‘m already enjoying that sense of “unraveling” in the first game. The slow but steady discovery of whole systems and dynamics that don’t get explained anywhere and that you stumble upon via experimentation. To the point where even the genre itself shifts a bit when you start realizing you have more success engaging with it as an immersive sim/adventure game rather than a jRPG, with all the context-sensitive and situational use of items and such. Glad to know the second game doubles down on that though.
Diablo IV doing more of that Slavic exoticism we see more and more now a days
@“JoJoestar”#p115810 @yeso Never heard of F&H so thanks for the discussion. Will play.