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Game Dev Story. You start in a tiny office, make fake video games, and eventually end up in a skyscraper, pumping out shovelware for a public that is simultaneously brain-dead and impossible to please. It’s far simpler than its successors, most of which got uglier and somehow worse despite doing more.

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As is tradition with Kairosoft, half the gameplay mechanics are either deliberately vague or completely meaningless, but sure, let’s call that a accidental satire of the 90s games industry. The game is short. It’s easy. If you want to, you can waste your time developing your own console or chasing secret employees that do slightly better fake work than the others. I reinstall it on every phone I get.
 
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Decided to get back into Genshin to celebrate Paimon's jackass ENG VA getting the boot and also because Infinity Nikki has gone down the crapper and I want my open-world animu.

Also played the Made In Abyss game for about 5 minutes before quitting due to the game feeling...Icky even when there was nothing objectionable happening and also because even the adult characters looked like hideous Downs-syndrome potato people.

I remember liking the original anime for the horror elements enough that I could look past the creepshow vibes but my initial curiousity for the game having character customization and exploring/dungeoneering elements evaporated very very quickly. Made In Abyss is far worse on all fronts than I remember.

Also playing Helldivers 2.
 
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga... I finished it but I had to push myself through it. I don't like the new open world hubs, I don't like the extra missions outside of the chapters, and I don't like how there all these side objectives you have to complete to get a trophy for platinum. It wasn't bad but I found myself constantly comparing it to the older Lego Games, like the original Lego Star Wars or Harry Potter ones, which I preferred.

It wasn't bad but I wish it was more like the old games.
 
Thanks to softmodding I can play my old ps2 again and I've played some stuff on there.
Sonic Mega Plus collection on PS2
Timesplitters 2 on PS2 (aiming at small things is horrible though)

I did initially try the mega man anniversary collection on PS2, but I had difficulties with it and switched to emulation on PC. I want to try to see if I can load PS1 games from ISO images on a softmodded PS2.
 
I've been replaying Payday 2 again, and as a humble consolefag I'm really disappointed that starbreeze never gave console players more updates. I always enjoy the game until I reach the end of the storyline stuff and realize I can't actually experience the rest of the story or the better perk decks they added. Then they went on to make Payday 3, and it's really not worth playing.
 
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Been playing the demo for Jump Ship. It's a lot of fun, especially with at least one friend. Gunplay feels solid and I'm genuinely optimistic for the release. Unless the devs crash out in a spectacular fashion, this is a day one buy.
 
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Peglin, it's like Peggle but as a rogue-like adventure game with turn based combat. The amount of pegs you hit determines the damage you deal and there's many different orbs/balls you can get that have different abilities and damage values. It's a good game for relaxing, easy to pick up. It copies Slay The Spires ascension system, i'm currently on level 16 with the Spinventor.

 
Super Mario 3D Land on the 3DS. It's a very weird game in that people forget it exists. So far, the game isn't difficult, even if you're trying to 100% it. Just using the tanuki power-up is all that's needed to fly through the levels.
 
Captain Chromosome said:
Been playing the demo for Jump Ship. It's a lot of fun, especially with at least one friend. Gunplay feels solid and I'm genuinely optimistic for the release. Unless the devs crash out in a spectacular fashion, this is a day one buy.
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This looks really neat. Thanks for the heads up. I'm a sucker for fps co op games and this looks like it's right up my alley.
 
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Might be slightly off-topic, but does anyone like to keep track of what games they play? Ever since 2024 i update both my steam profile and my backloggd account with games that im currently playing and have finished along with writing a review for them. It makes me feel a bit more engaged with it rather than just treating it like a disposable product that i'll instantly forget about.
Anyways, im playing Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space and Killzone 2, both of whom are alright so far. BT&S isn't really engaging to me as STW was, and i think it's because the established formula from the first season is becoming really obvious here. I'm on episode 4, which currently seems to be the most highest quality episode from what i've played, but i really wish that it didn't take until near the end of the series for it to become fun.
Killzone 2 is decent. The gunplay is definitely a few notches above the first game, but not being able to carry a second and third primary like in the first game is double gay. This is the type of game that takes a few steps forward and back simultaneously.
 
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Plumber's Crack said:
Might be slightly off-topic, but does anyone like to keep track of what games they play?
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Kind of. When I was a kid I started writing down which games I'd finished just because I liked to sometimes remember when I'd played certain ones, and it became annoying trying to keep it all in my head. Eventually I created a word document that's now over 20 years old with every game I completed in order, even if I replayed it (GTA San Andreas is on there 7 times. Same with Mario World). I kind of like the feeling of accomplishment that comes with it, helps me feel like I'm not wasting my life when I let myself have some downtime and fun.
 
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Played about 2 million hours of valheim. I've played through from scratch for each expansion atleast twice. Trying to find another game like it and ended up playing Return to Moria. God damn I hate it. Its so close to being good. Mining, dwarves, the crafting/building is good but it just takes way too long to get around the map.
Alot of survival crafting games reward you a bit for moving your base up the map but it feels almost required in this game and its so slow to move around the map especially with the enormous vertical distances involved. Maybe it gets easier with the map stones i've only just unlocked the first pair though.

edit: ok the map stones make it 100x easier. kill orctown boss asap and start making mapstones as early as possible
 
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Atomic Heart played the demo months ago and after getting new gpu i bought it (on sale) and so far it is good i only had pretty big stuttering issues but after downloading a mod from nexus it seems that it was fixed.
I also reinstalled Dying Light after it got the new update but man idk the grind is pain in the ass.
 
Recently bought a slim-PS3, jailbroke it and added CFW, fixed my old PS3 controller, and now I'm playing a bunch older games. Some games that I'm playing now are Battlefield: Bad Company, Dead to Rights: Retribution, and Uncharted
 
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