I heard that was the best game that came out last year, so it’s probably a great place to start!
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I’m a dirty Monopoly cheater.
I would play one player Monopoly with a 1990s PC version of the game. I figured out there were cheats (+ and -) would add or subtract to the die roll) and used that incessantly.
But that’s a victimless cheating. When I was 16 and my brother was 7, I cheated in a game of Monopoly because I didn’t want to lose to a 7 year old. The cheating was subtle, like going an extra space once, but it may have won me the game. I never told anyone.
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I would volunteer to be the bank then steal from it.
I would play monopoly with the same group of people every time, and once we realized everyone was cheating in one form or another, we implemented a “lawsuit” system where one player can sue the other if they are suspected of cheating. One of us would play the judge and there would be a trial of sorts. It was obviously unfair but it made the game much more fun.
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I made a face at my computer but it’s actually good, you’re fine
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the game is appropriately named
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this face?: 
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Monopoly just encourages cheating so it’s all good.
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“Popola” is a very vulgar dominican slang and I’m embarrassed to say that it has affected my experience of playing Nier.
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Every once in awhile, like a couple times a year, for the past 10 years, I’ll mosey over to Tyler McVicker’s / Valve News Network youtube channel to peak inside what has become a decade long arc of someone’s increasing frustration.
It is mostly toothless speculation and clickbait overlaid on Team Fortress 2 gameplay footage — long videos dissecting what an unreleased Half Life 2 model or snippet of code could mean for HL3 / Source 2 / etc.
I don’t know why I keep coming back, but I do.
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I’ve lied to a friend about being excited about Wayforward games because I didn’t wanna kill his buzz. Wayforward misses with me more than they hit! But he’s excited to play Kunio games and I can’t extinguish that!
I haven’t finished Final Fantasy VII, and only got to finishing Midgar maybe two years ago, on the Switch version. I was stuck for years at the part where you have to jump and catch a swinging bar.
Would restart the game even, start a new save and then say “this’ll be it” but it never happened. Way back in 2000, my friend offered to have me copy his save from slightly later, but I refused. He didn’t know how Materia worked, so he had none collected and had nothing slotted, but he did buy 99 potions and brute forced his way through the game. I just couldn’t hang with that.
Twenty-plus years later, managed to do it on my Switch Lite. Totally dreaded coming up to that moment too. When I made the jump, I let out a shout and pumped my fist into the air – had to explain all this to my partner afterward.
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River City Girls was mostly fun and nice but pretty much every other Wayforward game I’ve played tossed up bricks.
I will say maybe I just am a mark for manga cutscenes.
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One time I played one of those Shantae games and it was alright, and then I played another one and it wasn’t as good. And that’s my WayForward story.
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I think WayForward has the critical reputation they do because of their ability to make really attractive-looking pixel art games. I’ve played a bunch of their original IP games, and haven’t had much of a fun time with any of them. But that Mummy Demastered one they did is pretty great, actually. Kind of a gentle Castlevania meets Contra.
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Oh yeah! Easy to forget they did that one. That was legit.
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I once professionally reviewed a game without playing a single second of it. No one caught on to it. I will never divulge what game it was.
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My older cousins and I used to make up absurd games we were playing to beg off my younger brother and a younger cousin, both of whom were technically too young to play the game but could have played it if we’d, you know, given them some pieces and indulged them a bit.
The masterstroke was the game I invented. We were playing the more adult game “Taxes of the IRS.”
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For a lot of years, whenever I would see the Aphex Twin symbol on t-shirts or tattoos or whatever:
I assumed it was the Half Life logo:
I didn’t question it until I met some new friends with matching Aphex Twin tattoos and they didn’t strike me as video game people.
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TIL Aphex Twin is a musician in addition to a kind of twin.
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