Wow where else on the internet can you find two posts from the same guy where the first one is a rant about how schiziophrenia is actually just someone being a spirit medium Literally and then a musing about hockey videogame
@Gaagaagiins#30891 Now that you mention it, and my memory isn‘t perfect on this point (and I’m not going to look it up), I believe that you could play with anywhere between 2 and 6 players on your team, and it would automatically match you up with other teams with the same amount of players. I think it might have been the case that you chose during the matchmaking whether to play with people-controlled or AI goalies. So, you could play a 3v3, where 2 players are people, 3 players are AI, and then the goalies are people. Playing as the goalie was pretty fun, actually. Hockey is fast-paced enough (especially in the NHL games) that it wasn‘t super likely that you’d have nothing to do.
The controls for goaltending were actually pretty interesting. You used the right analog stick, and would tried to match the direction to where the shot was going. For example, pressing down would make the goalie go on his knees and protect the "five-hole" (between the legs), pressing to the left would make you raise your left arm, etc. Pressing up would make you poke your stick out in front of you (it's called a poke check). It was automated a bit, so that if a shot came at you and you pressed nothing, as long as you were in front of the puck the goaltender would react in _some_ way, if maybe not the most optional. You could also press the right trigger to sit on your knees, and the left to lie down on your side. It was _really_ hard to do competently, and absolutely ridiculous to watch as well because you would just slide around the ice like a total buffoon.
You could also play as the goalie in the single-player 'Be a Pro' mode, but the only way to make it even moderately fun was to play on the worst possible team and turn the difficulty all the way up, otherwise it was just a lot of sitting around. And the AIs behave in such un-hockey-like ways, that even as someone with experience playing real-life goalie in real-life hockey, it was super hard to predict what they were about to do or anything. Yet, again, I played quite a bit of it because I was a very boring teenager.
@wickedcestus#30896 wow that actually sounds like it owns, is this no longer a thing in NHL games or do we just not know about how it is these days because we're too busy talking about obscure 7/10 JRPGs and such
@tokucowboy#30879 I love that you put Death Stranding at 8 because I put it at 7 specifically because to me it is a 7/10 game that in my heart is an 8/10
@Gaagaagiins#30897 i have no idea. i stopped playing once i stopped receiving the newest NHL game from my parents every Christmas, and also stopped owning current gen consoles. i imagine it‘s still around because why get rid of it? however i’ve heard that similar to FIFA, the games have taken quite a dip in quality over the years
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@Gaagaagiins#30862 and unequivocally a goose egg outta ten:
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While I wholeheartedly agree, I didn't put that at 0 because I wouldn't even give it the time of day and on my hypothetical reviews site it would be not-even-zero.
@tombo#30856 @exodus#30884 Yeah it‘s particularly telling somehow that it’s always PSG, a super glitzy team that‘s been plagued by very basic issues like lack of cohesion, overreliance on star players at the expense of tactics and the fact they almost always walk the Ligue 1, which gives them a bit of a mental block against good opposition. They’re a real team built like a FIFA team and they suck!
I weirdly prefer sports games to be either arcadey or much more of a sim than FIFA. The Football Manager games are wonderful and much closer to the actual sport. Has there been a good arcadey soccer game released recently? I'd play that!
@Gaagaagiins#30897 It was as of last year at least, my cousin played that obsessively with his friends!
@rejj#30911 Rating: KOS
re: arcade-y soccer, i just remembered this came out a few years ago, i follow the devs on twitter but i never gave it a go. it's cheap and thinking about this has gotten me in a football mood so i will try it out and report back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyAwOW-5ucM
content warning: it's Very British
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@tombo#30917 As a Scandinavian, Very British is the default mode of football for me so I definitely don't mind.
@tokucowboy#30879 I started playing Garou: Mark of the Wolves yesterday, what a beautiful game! Really looking forward to taking the time to slowly learn the game. I'm so glad the steam version has a decent netcode!
Regarding all this Brit-talk I have to say, curious that the forum comment system's spell-checker flags Americanized words like “realize,” “behavior,” “color” (and “Americanize,” for that matter) as incorrect. Veeeerrrry fiiiishy
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@exodus#30884 But armchair philosophizing probably doesn’t help.
Maybe not, but I'm drawn to doing it nonetheless! It's likely the symptom of something else, but no idea what
@Gaagaagiins#30890 Very interesting. That may on a grand scale be a healthier way of looking at it. And I guess too the reason these are considered disorders in the first place is we've unconsciously agreed that there is something which constitutes natural order in a person's behavior (as you said). I guess the question I would wonder about is whether, in a world without as many rigidly defined behavioral conventions, certain conditions would still be so problematic for a person that the person might still want to treat it. Like for example if a person's schizophrenic hallucinations happen to manifest most often at night and keep the person from sleeping, or a severe mood disorder. Maybe too free of context to speculate about.
@Gaagaagiins#30862
>1 - Persona 5
Yes, sir!
@tombo#30917 This looks pretty fun. The gameplay looks like Sensible Soccer but more zany? From reading that review, I expected it to not resemble football at all. I'm going to keep this on my wishlist for when I can have friends over again. Make sure to report back !
EDIT: oh oops just looked at the steam page and realized it's single-player only... oh well still looks fun
Had to sign up just to defend Blazing Lazers! C‘mon Brandon a 5/10?
In any case, I’m happy to be signed up now ~
@Gaagaagiins#30862 That was my idea precisely (the idea of saying this as a great game with a controversial story that was also terrible even at the time of their landing), and I think that when Jaffe said what he said he understood it as well, so yeah, now with all said yeah, better not even do that even as a joke (just in case).
PS: To point out, I don‘t think Birth of a Nation is that groundbreaking considering Griffith’s previous short works, though.
@nolimitsquesting#30921 Ah, I‘m excited for you – it’s like the ol “Tetris 10” of fighting games to me (even though I am not good at it, which is something I should investigate about myself considering how many Neo Geo games I play). It feels cumulative, ya know, like masters of a very specific craft built up to this perfectly balanced something that achieves exactly what it set out to do in its format, with a dang impeccable audiovisual presentation, too. You will have some fun for sure.
Maybe you could dock it a quarter of point because Terry doesn't have a hat (but even that has an adorable narrative backing)
ALSO, I love the turns this thread has taken, wow
@Hermon_Cone#30943 I felt weird doing that one but it‘s like… by this scale a 5 wasn’t bad, it was right in the middle. And blazing lazers, while I like it, is a very straight shooter, so under the gun it was the only thing I could think of as a “standard” type of game.
I still regret it though.
We reviewing Blazing Lazers here?
I like it. It's a solid Compile shooter:
It's pretty and when you get that III _lazer_ gun blazing you can have a real good time.
7/10.
In that brief period when people started to get and post videos of Paprium when you could still (pre/back) order it for a higher price then it originally was, before the site went down - I sure did wrestle a lot with whether or not to buy it.
It looks right up my alley, except for the hate stuff.
I think I would absolutely love it when there isn't any misogynistic, racist, or homophobic stuff on screen.
I don't think I'd want to support a game like that though.