@“captain”#p128524 This may be an admin thing. I cannot seem to move individual posts. However, I have accidentally “split” the thread up to sdate's post and cannot seem to revert it (or understand what that means) so uh… let me know if I broke the thread.
@“antillese”#p128607 You did not break the thread as far as I can tell! Looks like everything‘s still here. I remember Syzygy being able to migrate specific posts/strings to different, existing threads but maybe that’s not the case. @exodus is this something you know about?
Played a bit of Ys VIII (THE LACRIMOSA OF DANA) again yesterday. My old save picks up >!right after Dana joins the party!<. But I‘m finding it pretty difficult. Maybe it’s just that it‘s been months since I’ve played, but I'm really struggling with regular enemies near the story path. Should I start over or am I just missing something?
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@“ColdyBags”#p128631 Played a bit of Ys VIII (THE LACRIMOSA OF DANA) again yesterday. My old save picks up right after Dana joins the party.
Ooh, I'm trying to remember is that before or after you reach the top of the big mountain and go into that swamp area? I remember the swamp being the hardest part of the game. The nice thing about the open world is that you can go anywhere you've been and grind, so rather than starting a totally new game (since you're probably about halfway through), I might just go back and do sidequests or try to 100% the map.
Spent most of my play time the past couple going through Anodyne which I had been meaning to play for quite a while. I like it a lot, it’s doing a great Link’s Awakening impression while adding some meaningful intrigue and cool writing bits. It’s the basic Zelda formula of explore, find dungeon, best boss, get trinket, unlock more parts of the world. The gamefeel is…fine. I don’t think the movement feels particularly good with the jump especially being one of the worst I’ve used in a 2D game. It just feels terrible and it does this thing where landing on the edge of platforms isn’t seem as valid so you just fall, it’s extremely frustrating. The hit boxes on enemies also feel inconsistent sometimes. It’s just not all the way there.
The other big part of the game is the collectible: cards. The cards are trading cards featuring characters from the game. You collect them and then can unlock gates that let you progress. I’ve been exploring pretty thoroughly I thought, really combing each dungeon and the open world areas. I have 29 and just got to where the endgame begins and…I need 36 of these cards to progress. Totally killed my momentum to go finish the game. I really don’t want to go back and find the 7 other cards and I’m sad they made this decision to gate progress going into the end because I genuinely was enjoying it. Oh well!
Anodyne 2 on the other hand, which I have been playing for the last hour, is sick as hell
@“sabertoothalex”#p128720 very intriguing! Would you recommend this to fans of non-zelda-zeldas even with these gripes considered?
@“kyleprocrastinations”#p128730 yeah I definitely think it’s still worth checking out! I was pretty obsessed with it for a couple days despite the stuff I didn’t like.
@“sabertoothalex”#p128743 dope, I'm wishlisting it. That sequel looks wild, too.
@“sabertoothalex”#p128727 I LOVED the look of Anodyne 2 so much I bought it. But the story felt like ridiculous random nonsense and the gameplay was… peculiar. There was just nothing solid to grab me. Does it get better? Or is it just not for me?
Finished Yakuza 0 last night before it leaves PSN and it’s so good. I need a dedicated Yakuza karaoke mobile game asap. I’ve been intending to slow play the Yakuza games, played Kiwami 1 last summer and 0 this summer, but there is so many and they are so. damn. good. I might have to play a new one every few months.
Starting up Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis tonight because I enjoyed Dial of Destiny and haven’t played an adventure game in awhile. It’s a shame we won’t get the Indiana Jones: Fleabag 4th wall breaking Disney series that we need but don’t deserve. Also starting up DOOM on Switch, only played the first level a year ago but it’s a classic and I could use some mindless badass demon shooting action.
@“Andy B”#p128786 i‘d say if you got through the first “real” area (cenote city) and didn’t click with the game by then, it may not be for you. i loooooove anodyne 2, and i think it's worth sticking with - the story becomes clearer and the game does some stuff that blew my mind wide open later on - but it also worked for me pretty much immediately.
I‘ve been playing the Mega Man Battle Network Collection. I started with 4 since I’ve already played the first three a bunch. Man, 4 is rough, though. This is the entry where the “annual franchise” problems are on full display. It‘s a big downgrade in scope, structure, and quality control. The script is littered with typos, but you get some funny stuff out of that:
They at least made a couple neat changes to the battle system, but nothing good enough to make it all worthwhile. Oh well! Once I rolled the credits on 4, I went straight into 3 to remind myself why I love this series. Mmbn3 I believe is more fun the better you know it, and I know it well.
All this got me thinking: What’s the interest level for a Mega Man series thread? I'd gladly start it if people want to chat about all the various spinoffs and stuff.
So I‘ve been playing Devil Survivor 2: Overclocked on and off for the past couple of months now. If you gauge the general online opinion it seems that everyone prefers Devil Survivor 1. I played Devil Survivor 1 maybe a year or two ago. It was cool I wasn’t completely in love with it but I appreciate what it was doing.
Having put some hours into Overclocked 2 I know understand this attitude. Holy cow tonally it is apples and oranges between DS 1 and 2. I know memory is a funny thing, but if I recall DS1 despite its fantastic setting it's still a relatively 'grounded' game. You follow a bunch of characters that are going through a lockdown - pacing wise it sort of sticks with the core group struggling and figuring what's going on and what they're going to do to survive. I think it's actually well paced before it gets right into the fantastical SMT elements.
DS 2 is just.... I think someone forgot the 'Survivor' part of the game. Stuff happens, you struggle for a bit, but then you're immediately caught up in some quasi-military group and the protagonist is the the best-there-ever-was-who-is actually-super-cool-and-gets-all-the-girls-and-doesn't-get-bullied-at-school. I mean it does the whole female protagonist comparing breast size, or the female characters falling on the protagonist and getting awkward. While playing I just had to stop and think what actually happened to this game?
Anyway apart from that it's a neat game. Just a bit disappointing in some elements. Sorry for ranting lol.
@“kyleprocrastinations”#p128845 I had mmhp.net bookmarked all through middle school and was a regular poster on the Bob & George forums. Go for it
Streets of Rage 2 is cool and all but playing games like this by yourself feels like the wrong way to play them. Same with Street Fighter II.
Started up Dragon Quest I last night on a random impulse and, man, what a weird game! Feels less like a game and more like a trap where you just grind for hours until you can beat the next set of monsters before grinding for several more hours. Still also making my way through Dragon Quest 5 and Chrono Trigger with my son (human). It‘s always quite slow playing with a child because we give him arbitrary time limits on staring at screens.
Also playing Zelda: Oracle of Ages, which I never got to play when I was a kid. It’s pretty all right. Has a nice look and feel.
I just played some Reel Fishing: Master‘s Challenge on a plane and WOW, it’s reel (lmao) cozy.
I played the one on switch and really dug it‘s simplicity, but this one blows it out of the water (lmao).
The switch one was about a group of friends going on a fishing trip and then being tasked with cleaning up the lake, somehow by fishing.
This one is just about a dude connecting with his late father, it’s so sweet.
Love a simple, but less simple than Animal Crossing fishing system.
Also, there's some real sick jazz tracks that play when you hook a fish.
just beat chapter 3 of mother 3 (>!first one where you control the monkey!<) and like i know there‘s a darkness lurking behind the first two games but this one seems like it’s just gonna keep pulling the mask off more and more. absolutely no clue where things are gonna go in this but like, seems like the main villain is… capitalism? lol
also i love the thing that things do like this where things that happen simultaneously play out in different scenes
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@“mtvcribs”#p129141 Reel Fishing: Master’s Challenge
have you played _Reel Fishing III_? it's also got a super chill ambiance. You visit your buddy's lodge and hang out with his dog in between going fishing. Great game
Been playing lots of Terra Invicta. Finding it compelling based on the novel premise and structure. You control one of a handful of clandestine organizations responding to first contact with an alien species that arrived in the solar system. It starts with politicking to control different countries in order to marshal their resources in competition with the rival orgs, some of seek to appease the aliens, some exploiting the situation, etc., but then a whole solar system colonization and pseudo-hard sf space combat game spins off of that. A ton of good ideas and cool details that feels alternately like a paradox GS game in terms of global politics, Alpha Centauri wrt the tech tree and social engineering, and then you have the combat which is like a simplified Children of the Dying Earth. It is however very, very long and real slow burn with long stretches of clicking to the next turn. I'm pretty impressed though! This is the first legit game by the folks who made the Long War XCOM mod.