Finally playing Hades (yeah I'm behind). It's very good, the writing is pretty amazing. Not sure if I have it in me to grind all the way though.

I do want to play Elden Ring but the Souls games have not clicked for me yet. See above re: grinding.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:43 am

biscuitdough wrote: Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:35 am I’d like to solicit suggestions for 2D games like Axiom Verge and Cave Story. Genesis-level control complexity: no parry, no dodge, little to no “death as a learning tool”, with good music and convincing retro graphics - not the pseudo-retro approach of Blasphemous or Hyper Light Drifter.

Bloodstained isn’t an option. No “commit to jump” please.

You need Fez.

Looks cool. Added to the list. Thanks!

Super Auto Pets is a really fun game that finally released on iphone recently. It's kind of like autochess but it's actually fun. I've just been playing that and a lot of team fortress 2, but that one has been in constant rotation since 2017.

An acquaintance from playing shows is a twitch streamer. She reviewed Elden Ring with the comment that one of the enemies, I guess a grapple-oriented one, was added so that hardcore From fans could have the experience of being hugged by a woman.

ducks

The hug woman sneakily gives the player a hidden debuff, which is close to parody Fromsoft.

sparky wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 9:05 am The hug woman sneakily gives the player a hidden debuff, which is close to parody Fromsoft.

How are you getting on with it all? I just finished the underground component of limgrave and want to keep exploring the overworld. Godrick is down but I’m not yet game to go into the new areas. 50 hours in and it’s dwarfed anything else I was playing previously. More of the same indeed. But also more of the same of one of the best games I’ve ever played, so….

A friend talked me into getting Hollow Knight. It’s awesome but also so fucking difficult.

Haydon wrote:

sparky wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 9:05 am The hug woman sneakily gives the player a hidden debuff, which is close to parody Fromsoft.

How are you getting on with it all? I just finished the underground component of limgrave and want to keep exploring the overworld. Godrick is down but I’m not yet game to go into the new areas. 50 hours in and it’s dwarfed anything else I was playing previously. More of the same indeed. But also more of the same of one of the best games I’ve ever played, so….

The game's brilliant, though I don't have much time to play it. 20-odd hours in, I've just reached Godrick, and feel overwhelmed when I open the map screen. At some point early on in the playthrough I somehow opened up some checkpoints quite far north of the opening area, and I'm baffled as to how I got there. The game frequently surprises and is upfront in its tilt towards the sublime. Beyond every false peak, I've found yet another giddy, terrifying sight, and the painterly art direction is perfect for it.

I need to stop watching videos with titles like "How To Get Overpowered In Your First Hour", and other spoilers. The game's full of stuff, ambushes frequent and strange, and the menu and stats are a giddy mountain of information. The combat's familiar, but another incremental improvement, and I see the shiny, fizzing magic stuff seems a lot more powerful than in its predecessors. The BOTW comparisons are apt, but it's its own thing.

Elden Ring is really doing it for me. The balance is great, it's continually difficult but being able to run away and find something else to explore means that I never feel trapped or cheated like I did in Bloodborne.

Before that, played through Yakuza 0 to like 90% completion. Fantastic game and the action-movie-vibes climactic showdown was a great way to close it out. I'm playing Yakuza Kiwami 2 now but the story isn't as compelling and the fighting feels thinner.

Ace K wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 6:51 pm Elden Ring is really doing it for me. The balance is great, it's continually difficult but being able to run away and find something else to explore means that I never feel trapped or cheated like I did in Bloodborne.

Before that, played through Yakuza 0 to like 90% completion. Fantastic game and the action-movie-vibes climactic showdown was a great way to close it out. I'm playing Yakuza Kiwami 2 now but the story isn't as compelling and the fighting feels thinner.

Id persist with the yakuza series regardless of how flat some of the notes through some of the games are. Nothing else comes close to the absurdity as you’re probably keenly aware. My wife and I played 0 through 7 and the judgments independent of one another and we talk about and reference it maybe more than any other thing in pop culture. It’s just a fantastic absurd thing that exists. Fun as shit for the most part too.

Elden Ring all the way for me. Can’t wait to get back to DS1 and see how it feels after all this spoilage. Something that strikes me about Elden ring is just how much HASNT changed. I’ll be walking through some parts and smile knowing that holy shit, this is still just dark souls. And I love it. The side stories are hecticly depressing. Boc in particular. At least how it panned out for me. 130 hours in and just beginning the mountain of the giants. Probably will turn around and explore old areas again in the hopes of finding new ones. Brilliant.