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I finished Talos Principle 2. Not going to lie, the deep philosophical story totally went over my head, I just speedran from puzzle to puzzle. I managed to solve all but 2, and felt kinda smart and proud of myself! I got the DLC and was instantly humbled by the first puzzle. Will Sony let me return a game on account of being retarded? 🤔
 
I'm in a big Dead by Daylight slump at the moment. Really need to get back to other games. Perhaps Nioh 3 will be the game to coax me out.
 
I've been working through Cairn which just got released, a rock climbing survival game where you submit Mt. Kami, the world's only unconquered mountain, once inhabited by a subhuman race of people called the Troglydytes. It's pretty damn good, the climbing mechanics are solid, though definetly designed and more intuitive with an xbox controller. Survival and item management are fair and varied enough to add depth. Lots of different routes for climbing which helps make exploration feel difficult and rewarding, the Troglodyte mystery and the remains of previous expeditions all peppered throughout. It's challenging while still being cozy.

It was developed and published by those French queers, The Game Bakers who made Furi and Haven, so buying or pirating is up to you. Lame and Gay score is low however. You do play as a stoic black woman but the backstory is vague enough ans the plot is mainly about obsession, regret, glory. It ultimately has you choose whether to finish the summit and die or go back down to your friends family and get bleached by the younger himbo rock climber you've run into several times
 
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Minecraft: running around and building things.
Tekken 8: still learning the game and how to play Azucena and grinding ranked.
SF6: started learning Viper, went into ranked and lost every single match. I love fighting games.
 
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is on sale for ~$5 at the moment, so I finally bought a legal copy.

Ancestors is notorious for being as obtuse as a game can possibly be, but once you DO understand how the game works it's also insultingly easy to win.

In fact, because of how the game's progression works and because it's so easy, I've never been able to see probably the last 25% of the "upgrades" you can get. I've never so much as seen the 3rd biome, the African Plains, where you're supposed to end the game.

This is because I play efficiently, cranking out kids to get genetic mutations as fast as possible and lock in as many Neuronal Upgrades as possible in every generation. Playing well makes you evolve "faster than history", which will end your game prematurely, because the game MUST end the equivalent of 2,000,000 years before modern man evolves.

If I ever want to see my monkeys moving in packs, walking permanently upright, fighting with weapons, and able to digest meat and eggs, I'm going to have to do an anti-optimal playthrough where I evolve as inefficiently as possible, and throw all my monkeys off cliffs like Dragon's Dogma pawns so that their deaths negatively affect my evolution speed
 
I'm now playing the Avatar game that came out right before the movie in 2009. I heard they actually have a full human and Na'vi campaign. So obviously I'm going Total Alien Death for the first run. I might post a video review here when done.

So far the writing has that annoying habit of someone who has heard military terms but doesn't know how or when to apply them. Like everyone refers to distances as mikes and it bothers me.
 
WonderWino said:
There is your mistake, moving at top speed when you're being hunted. Cut engines to their slowest speed, rig for silent running and turn off anything else that might cause a noise. It takes some practice to learn to slip away
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I reread this post of yours.
Would the correct play have been, since I was in 10m water, to have bottomed myself? I was thinking "they're ass-dicking me with ASDIC constnatly, they'll never leave," but I was thinking of sonar as a "reveal the image of what's downt here" thing (like radar or sonar imaging) and not a "listening for sounds" thing (what it actually is).
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I reread this post of yours.
Would the correct play have been, since I was in 10m water, to have bottomed myself? I was thinking "they're ass-dicking me with ASDIC constnatly, they'll never leave," but I was thinking of sonar as a "reveal the image of what's downt here" thing (like radar or sonar imaging) and not a "listening for sounds" thing (what it actually is).
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Yeah its what I would have done. if you stay on the bottom and shut everything off they won't be able to tell the difference between the sub and the sea floor and should give up eventually
 
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Started playing "The 3rd Birthday" for PSP.

I've never played the Parasite Eve games but I have a soft spot for PSP shooters and the protagonist looks cute.
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I've heard some shit about 3rd Birthday that's made me never really look into it, but PE2 is hands down one of my good-ass games of all time.

Both PE1+2 do some very weird shit for the genres they're ostensibly part of. PE1 has some interesting spins on ATB RPGs and PE2 is more than just the Resident Evil 3 reskin people assume it is at first glance.
 
Finished "Hi-Fi Rush" game was ok, not bad by any means but it's not as good as people hype it up to be. It felt very rushed about halfway through and at end they have random character become a lesbian out of nowhere which was bizarre.

Finished a game called "Crisol: Theater of Idols" another game that was just ok. The ending sucked ass though.

Currently replaying Metroid Dread, and playing Mewgenics and Fire Emblem Path of Radiance.

Metroid Dread is a favorite of mine.

Really loving Mewgenics so far, some issues I have with it are some of the enemies can hit ridiculously hard out of nowhere and some of the classes need some big tweaks to not feel completely useless.

And really liking Path of Radiance so far, the art style is ugly as sin and the game would benefit from a way to speed up combat animations though.
 
Lurkerish Kandor said:
Both PE1+2 do some very weird shit for the genres they're ostensibly part of. PE1 has some interesting spins on ATB RPGs and PE2 is more than just the Resident Evil 3 reskin people assume it is at first glance.
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I remember playing PE1 with a cousin when I was a kid and the transformation scenes are still some fucked up shit. I have the original on disc, but is it worth getting the second one to play?

Also I've been playing the original Wolfenstein reboot from 2009. The gameplay isn't terrible, but the collect-a-thon to unlock better attachments and upgrades gets a little tedious when some of these levels feel super linear. Some things genuinely make you feel smart for finding them and others can be found with super basic exploration. However when you play with everything unlocked it's pretty funny running around liquifying people like it's Destroy All Humans!
 
Mike and Eichs said:
is it worth getting the second one to play
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1000% get a rom and play it. The story isn't anything revolutionary, but it's okay and the gameplay has some real interesting choices, and it has a lot of Replay modes if you do like it. Just don't expect a cut-and-dry ResiEvil clone, and don't expect any similarities to PE1 in story or gameplay.

One unique thing I'm particularly a fan of is the Critical Hit system, where there's like 4 different kinds (Random crit, 'backstab', dmg type, and 'counters') which can easily stack and all get their own colored crit flash:
I OHKO'd No.9 in his Dryfield bossfight one time because I walked in with Riot Slugs loaded, cast a buff on myself, and then managed to shoot him in the back while ""countering"" his attack animation,  and it was a random crit. Didn't even see a damage number pop up, just a rainbow of flashes as it hard-cut to the following cutscene.

If you're asking if I think you should hunt down an actual physical disk? Fuck no, I would never tell anyone to do that instead of hitting up a romsite.
 
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Dug out the old Xbox One and got sucked into RDR2. I must say, this game is a master piece. Rockstar really done a fine job with the script. Best writing I've seen in a really long time.

I just finished the main story line and the ending hit me in the feels pretty hard. I'm not the type that cries during movies, but this game almost had me.
 
im playing poppy playtime 5. idc if its gay, my kid loves this game, but hes scared to play it himself, and also i think kissy missy is cute
i think im nearing the end though, but not sure.
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