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Overcast said:
Just wait till you get to the boss after him.

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Goddamn, I finally got around to finishing out the DLC, fuck both the last bost of the main questline and that stupid fucking dragon. I eventually beat Manus after too many tries, but I've been stuck on Kalameet for a bit. Took a break from it because I was getting frustrated and dying faster, I'll go back to it in a few days and see how I do.

In the meantime I've gotten a few free games from buddies who got bundles that had stuff they already owned, so now I've got Control downloading to give a try.
 
I just finished Power Soukoban for SNES. It was translated and I always wanted to play it. Unlike the regular Soukoban games this one has you playing as a little Oni boy trying to save Japan from invading western monsters by plugging up holes with rocks. You have to deal with enemies that come out of the holes as you move the rocks around.

While there are a fair amount of puzzles I found the game over too soon. There are four areas: Dungeon, Mountain, Forest and Castle. The castle is massive though and there is a bit of backtracking to get some of the items. There's some difficulty imbalance across the four areas. Hella hard puzzles and ones that are really easy come and go without regards to the area even though there is some progression of difficulty going on. Maybe it's to encourage backtracking. You don't have to solve every puzzle to progress but you'll want to gather as many of the stage's projectiles as possible for the boss. . I left a few puzzles that boggled me and came back later.

All the NPCs are cute, cartoony youkai. The nekomata can heal you. Others give you tips.

I can see why this never made it out of Japan. It's very Japanese. But a big issue would have been the castle itself. They'd have to replace a whole tileset featuring crosses. Crosses everywhere. Nintendo of America no likey.
 
Craftopia, a sandbox crafting game that completely rips off Breath of Wild. It's on Xbox Game Pass, if anyone's curious.

Superliminal. Fun game, though I ruined some of for me by waiting JollyWangcore play it a while ago.
 
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Catgirls are Love said:
By "balancing issues", you mean that after a certain point in the game the best strategy is just "Throw Alicia at the enemy; she'll be fine".
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The game is great for doing just a single playthrough but actually mastering it and getting the best rank in all the missions is just terrible.

It's a good game, although I am still butt hurt about the game glitching out at the very end and making it impossible for me to finish.
 
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Think I'm gonna do X-Com2 Long War 2 with only outfit mods and voice pack mods.

Haven't played XCom2 in a couple years, might see if LW2 is any good and worth the effort. It was good in XCom1, but sometimes the mod devs start feeling like their vision of the game supersedes everything.
 
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Just finished Pillars of Eternity and I'm shocked. Bland writing, terrible pacing, a villain who was irrelevant for 2/3rds of the game, perfunctory companions with minimal characterization or motivation, and vague stakes that never seemed threatening.

There was a dialogue choice in the last half hour of the game asking the PC why he was doing what he was doing. Every choice was some purple prose variant on "Because I must."

So even the damn writers didn't seem to think the characters had any plausible reason to move the plot forward. It's as if Obsidian worked really hard to create a setting and the game itself was an afterthought.
 
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Gimmick Account said:
that was neat. And exactly my sort of shit so I don't know how it got past me, probably the awful title.
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There’s also forumwarz if you want a somewhat shitty, end-of-web-1.0 browser game about trolling forums. I haven’t played it in years and am amazed it’s still going.
 
Played through the original Max Payne for the first time after buying both it and its sequel for $15.

Pretty fun game. You die really fast, but it's pretty satisfying coming out from a firefight. Also has a nice gloomy atmosphere.
 
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Steep. It's visually fucking impressive with some tremendous physics, though Ubisoft does kinda cuck you into creating an account with them, since it's entirely online.
 
I've been playing some Forza Horizon 3, to grind up credit to buy some HE cars from the Auction House, while I wait (in caution) for Forza Horizon 5. I haven't decided if I want to get that game yet, because of some bullshit things like pronouns (in a racing game?!), and the fact that several car manufacturers haven't been revealed yet. Here are the cars that have been officially revealed for FH5 so far, and here's the list of some of the manufacturers that have not been revealed yet, although some cars from these brands have been in promotional videos so far:
  • Mazda
  • BMW
  • Bentley
  • MINI
  • Volvo
  • FIAT/Abarth
  • Alfa Romeo
  • Lancia
  • Bugatti
  • Kia (although there's only one car in the last game, the Kia Stinger, as the Korean brands have very little presence in these games)
Granted, the game is a month away from release, and some manufacturers have clauses on when they can be revealed for games, but if it's turns out that this game is lacking those brands, it's going to be The Sims 4 of racing games, in terms of the sheer number of missing brands. On the other hand, brands choosing not to license has been a problem with racing games in the past, such as Volkswagen not being in Forza Horizon 3 at all, Porsche having the EA-exclusivity deal until a few years ago, meaning that Porsche was introduced to the Gran Turismo franchise in GT Sport, and Toyota's recent policy to not license their passenger cars to non-Japanese racing games, in which Forza only got the Toyota license back in late 2019.
 
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Currently playing some of the smaller/shorter games in my collection while I'm waiting for the new HoI4 DLC to drop. Quite enjoying Door Kickers 2:Task Force North at the moment, it's a fun little strategy/tactics game about taking down terrorists in various scenarios. Only downside is it recently got a bunch of new content including the ability to play as CIA instead of Rangers and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make the glowniggers work successfully.
 
Metal Slug Anthology.

I know the original team weren't behind 4. It's interesting how 4 fails at everything, even the trademark difficulty. 1-3 were cheap, yeah. But they didn't trap me in a small room with dozens of mummies and force me to clear them all out while paralyzed. At least if you got killed in the original, you could still speed past.
 
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Got my old Gamecube, replaying the Metroid Prime series.

And TF2's Halloween event draws near!
 
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