My experience with Animal Crossing started on the DS with Wild World, as I’m sure it did with many others. The game drew me in with its colorful villagers, daily routine, and slice-of-life feel. Years later I got back into the series with New Leaf on the 3DS, putting hundreds of hours into it. The progression system felt just right, and the level of customization for my villager was a real treat. However, when I finally got a hold of New Horizons on my switch, I couldn’t help but feel let down. Rather than a town that felt like it moved on when I didn’t play, I felt like I was in total control. Villagers would have to beg me to let them move out, rather than just leaving on their own. Everything felt a bit too… Doll-house in its design?
syncthing has been killing me off and on for years it seems. not only that, but if you run into a device that can’t use syncthing, (rooted LG WebOS, or hacked switch) you’re out of luck!
I finally have gotten around to playing SOMA. I got it in 2017 and always put off playing it for other games. So far, it’s been keeping me engaged for the most part, but some parts have also been bothering me, which is leaving me with mixed feelings that I haven’t completely sorted out.
This year I cleaned out my family’s old PS2 and got really into playing tons of games from the era I missed! The PS1/PS2 lineup is truly spectacular & has so many heavy hitters from big names & super unknown developers. Here are some of my favorites.
I wanted to try out Dune for the first time and it just didn’t power on. I am not ok. I took a look inside and cleaned it, but there’s no obvious loose connections. Today is a sad day for me
I think I played whichever one was on my Amiga waaaay back in the day, and whichever one was on PS3 for a bit. I was also a big fan of some of the Might and Magic games, which I feel were something of a bridge between the old dungeon crawlers and something like Morrowind.
Hey, so for some time now i had this problem… I have been buying games from both gog and steam… No drm option is good on gog but there are some festures missing from what steam has, for example being able to buy games from trading cards… What should i do? Focuse on buying games from gog and if there isnt a game then buy it on steam? Or maybe just buy games on steam?
I played 1-4 back in the day, but my memory of the details is pretty fuzzy. Something something Umbrella releases a new virus like iPhones every few years, something something, somehow Wesker returned.
I don’t think I’ve ever played a game that has infuriated so much me with little things as much as this one. There are just SO FUCKING MANY little things that feel wrong that it really fucks up the experience.
I don’t feel comfortable using a mouse and I have no interest in working on my mouse skills. I play all of my games with either a controller or a keyboard, and I’m looking for 3rd-person shooters I can play with a controller.
I’ve been a member of a discord community for over 6 years now. On any given night you’ll find people playing anything from Battlefield 6, Arc Raiders, Overwatch 2, etc. It’s a very active community with weekly events and we even have a sim racing group finishing up another season in iRacing. If it sounds interesting, they have a website for applications Over 30 Clan
My review covers ONLY the base game. I haven’t touched the DLC please don’t provide spoilers but let me know if I should play it and better yet if I would enjoy it based on my complaints here. No Spoilers though
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Sorry if this is not a great magazine to post this. I’m looking for a nice cozy game (for a non-gamer!) to play for about an hour or so a day instead of doomscrolling.
I like the idea of a game where I can make slow progress, though I don’t tend to like the traditional RPG style. But something like a slow moving simulator or whatever could be great (for example, I really enjoy MiniMetro on mobile). Thoughts?
Assuming the equipment was also saved so you could still play the games, and every game in existence you don’t mention gets permanently destroyed, and no new games are ever to be made.
I finally got around to play it like a year ago, I guess my disappointment stands from the fact that It wasn’t the RPG I was hoping for, an RPG where where my choices actually matter. And Yeah I get it’s a Bethesda game and those things are warranted but I knew it wasn’t going to be an open game from the first piece of dialogue.
I finished the main Crown of the Magister campaign and wanted to check out some of the custom ones while I ponder whether to create a new party for Palace of Ice or not.
They just released the sequel, (sadly not up to its predecessor from what I gathered), and it’s Halloween, so what better time to talk about this special vampire game?
Just to make one thing clear from the start: this game is many things, but it is certainly not a Metroidvania in the tradition of the Castlevania series. The only nod in that direction is that in most levels there are some small hidden areas with collectables that you can only reach with later abilities. But that means you need to replay an otherwise fully linear level just to reach that small thing in the middle. That is a pretty bad design choice.
OneShot is similar to Undertale, in that the story is the most important part, while gameplay is just to give the player something to do, here even more so then in Undertale. In OneShot the player is however acknowledged from the first moment as somebody different from the protagonist. That would be Niko (who is most definitely not a cat!) but is referred by most in the game world as the messiah, because they carry the sun of this world and is supposed to bring light back to their world.
Ever wondered who premiered the “hiding in shadows”, “taking down enemies silently from behind"and " making noses to distract enemies”, that is so prevalent nowadays in many F/TPS?
Cyberpunk stories are often action filled and you as player are directly in the middle, deciding the fate of mega corporations and technological progress of humanity. But in this game? Here you prepare drinks and hear stories about the world outside the bar doors. What crazy stuff goes on, what happened to some celebrity and when the next riot is supposedly happening. It is a Deus Ex story, but you don’t play JC Denton, you play a barkeeper and try to make ends meet, so you don’t get evicted from your apartment at months end.
Aby game that you heard about and thought “meh it’s just another xyz style game. How good can it be?” But you gave it a go anyway and it turned out the game was really good.
Umurangi Generation plays In the near future, and you are a photographer earning money by selling pictures of interesting motives. In order to do that you are put into levels of various size which you explore in order to find the asked for motives. After reaching an earnings threshold you can advance the plot and leave for the next level. You obtain multiple lenses in order to fulfill requests or just take some artistically interesting shots.
This game is one I sadly never finished, because somehow it doesn’t like my PC and crashes a bit too often, losing the save game in the process (so warning there), but what I played fascinated me.
Lots of people have thrown the term ludonarrative dissonance at certain games, meaning that the story it tries to tell doesn’t fit to it’s gameplay. Often given example is the Tomb Raider reboot from 2013, which tells the story of a young Lara Croft, scared out of her mind in cutscenes because she is trapped on an island with a bunch of bad guys. Which you as player mow down by the dozen in order to reach the next check point without losing a single thought about them. That destroys the story the developers tried to tell and takes the player out of the immersion.
I noticed that pretty much all games I played in my life have been released after 1990. So now I’m asking those with earlier experience here:
Which games can you recommend from before that time?
The Last Remnant was originally released on the Xbox 360 in 2008 and half a year later they released it on PC, but in an upgraded version. I highly recommend playing the PC version, because it has some positive gameplay adjustments and also you can choose between English or Japanese voice acting.
I played the first Ni no Kuni game on PS3, not the DS version (the PS version has a bit more content and a little different story from what I understood). I originally got interested in it because Studio Ghibli was involved in the graphical & music design of the game and it is obvious: the artwork in general is very beautiful and has a lot of details, as is usual in Studio Ghiblis aesthetics. The creature designs are very varied, as is fitting for a monster collector game. The soundtrack is made by Joe Hisashi, which also is again on an expert level. The few cutscenes are also wonderfully animated. Especially the design of the titular White Witch and her zodiac council was great. I am a sucker for that moving space effect of her cloak.
In Snake Pass you play, who would have guessed, a snake. But the uniqueness lies especially in the control scheme, as you direct the head in 3D space and then contract and release the body in order to slither forward or climb up some scaffolding or reach over empty space since everybody knows: snakes can’t jump. And the snake is so goofy looking, you just have to love it! Here is a video showing it in action.
My first post about video game music here did really well (most commented post in community history), so I figured I might make it a series of sorts. If this post does well too I might make more video game music posts in the future.
Rime is a very melancholic game by the sadly now defunct Tequila Works. You play a child that is stranded alone on an island but soon gets support by a fox spirit. Together you must solve the puzzles of the island and reach and climb the only landmark of this place, the huge central tower. The puzzles are not overly complicated or hard, but there was enough variety in them to entertain me over the whole play time of roughly 7 hours without feeling bored or it being repetitive. The levels are each unique in setting, theme and atmosphere to each other, highlighting the developers craft. Each level is a big open world, where you need to explore in order to find new ways to progress.
My relationship with P&C adventures is... strained. I often like the stories they tell, but their moon logic is too often too strong for my poor brain & patience, so I start using a walk through. With this game it was the same, but it was better than many other offenders, as i only used it a few times, so I consider it one of the better designed P&C games.
The first Psychonauts is a true Tim Schafer game: unconventional and a bit absurd, but funny and entertaining nonetheless. And make no mistake, this game is old, as is obvious by the graphics and certain game designs. And while the art style is unique, is grotesqueness is also not for everybody, sure. But I first played it a few years ago and so can say: even without nostalgia googles, it is a fun collectathon in today's age, if you can forgive some old school jank.
The first Evoland was mostly just a one-joke game that was funny for half an hour. Not so it's successor, Evoland 2. That one is a full game in it's own right telling an overarching story and integrating it's greatest selling point, the constant change of gameplay mechanics, into that story.
Spoiler warning: if you have not played the game yet, do yourself a favour and stop reading this post, don't look up anything about the game, and give it a go. You will not regret it.
This game made me feel like the captain of a space ship. There was nothing like it at the time it was released, and even now I have not experienced any other game making me feel this way. I loved Fallout 3 too, but Mass Effect had something special. It was so well crafted, I listened to every dialogue of every NPC. The characters are so memorable with amazing voice acting. The Citadel is the best city in video games, felt really alive. Most sidequests add to the story instead of just padding the gameplay time.
The real-time chess of the different character classes in Bad North is truly incredible. I love how height makes a real advantage (or disadvantage if too close!) for archers' physics-driven arrows, all the details (despite being a minimalist game) like arrows getting stuck in targets' shields, your choices in what weapon specialties you can assign, the fluid and organic character movement and fighting, etc.
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