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Male, 33 years old. (I'm even more dead than before.)
Likes (other than writing and roleplaying): I'm into all genres of music. I love to cook. I love the outdoors, and walking through the park near my house. (Yes, really.) I read a lot of thriller/mystery novels. And I usually watch seasonal anime. (Or cooking shows. Because Western Media provides even fewer things that are worth watching.)
But as for my many other neglected hobbies, I've played basically every sport. (Soccer and Bowling being my favorite of the bunch.) And I'm trying to play more video games. (Going through my never-ending Steam library.) Plus, I've dabbled in making electronic & metal music, and I used to play a number of instruments. (Guitar, French Horn, etc.)
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the game in which i secretly attempt to get everyone to listen to more music
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4 mos ago
Forum: Spam Forum
I love me some new music & analyzing songs.
1. Don't get me wrong. I usually like Aesop Rock. But this track doesn't have a strong enough beat to back him up. (I'd rather listen to anything from his prior two albums.) It just doesn't stick with me lyrically either. 4.5/10
2. This one's probably one of my favorite tracks from NF's first album. He just does emotional gut punches well. (My pointless nitpick is that he enunciates "Wake Up" like Wake Kahhhup & it always sounded a little funny to me.) 7/10 (Only because he's improved with time.)
3. I enjoy this album a lot. But this one feels like an interlude track. Listening to this one on its own would be a bad choice. For either of their discographies. 3.5/10
4. It started as a 'fun enough' listen. But the beat turns into a dying phone and it feels 'experimental' in an obnoxious way. So I ended up not liking it by the end. 3/10
5. My bias towards metal might be showing. But 7.5/10 Solid track. Good atmosphere. No complaints. (Maybe aside from not understanding the lyrics/lacking a hook that makes me want to sing/scream it anyway.)
Here's a few from mine. Because Spotify sounds better than Youtube. (Feel free to be mean to Taylor Swift.)
1. Quiet Little Voices - We Were Promised Jetpacks
2. Skeletons - Brothers Osborne
3. Come What May - Imminence
4. The Ballad of Love and Hate - The Avett Brothers
5. Exile - Taylor Swift, Bon Iver
1. Don't get me wrong. I usually like Aesop Rock. But this track doesn't have a strong enough beat to back him up. (I'd rather listen to anything from his prior two albums.) It just doesn't stick with me lyrically either. 4.5/10
2. This one's probably one of my favorite tracks from NF's first album. He just does emotional gut punches well. (My pointless nitpick is that he enunciates "Wake Up" like Wake Kahhhup & it always sounded a little funny to me.) 7/10 (Only because he's improved with time.)
3. I enjoy this album a lot. But this one feels like an interlude track. Listening to this one on its own would be a bad choice. For either of their discographies. 3.5/10
4. It started as a 'fun enough' listen. But the beat turns into a dying phone and it feels 'experimental' in an obnoxious way. So I ended up not liking it by the end. 3/10
5. My bias towards metal might be showing. But 7.5/10 Solid track. Good atmosphere. No complaints. (Maybe aside from not understanding the lyrics/lacking a hook that makes me want to sing/scream it anyway.)
Here's a few from mine. Because Spotify sounds better than Youtube. (Feel free to be mean to Taylor Swift.)
1. Quiet Little Voices - We Were Promised Jetpacks
2. Skeletons - Brothers Osborne
3. Come What May - Imminence
4. The Ballad of Love and Hate - The Avett Brothers
5. Exile - Taylor Swift, Bon Iver
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Video Game Discussion: Part IV (The Gaming Industry in Decay Arc)
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4 mos ago
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
I saw that Gamespot dropped a hands-on preview of Highguard today.
I'm sure the game has an audience. I'm just not sure who that audience is.
The answer for that, seems to be no one.
But good news, Bungie's Marathon and Guerrilla's Horizon will have their multi-million dollar tryouts next.
In the meantime, I'm not super hyped about any particular release that's coming out. Not that the hype machine certainly hasn't tried.
From Crimson Desert. (With every X post acting as if the Black Desert devs - who literally can't make a working MMO tutorial - somehow made the second coming of Christ in video game form.) Suda51's new game; Romeo Is A Dead Man. (Which for better or worse sounds exactly like a Suda51 game.) Mewgenics, a game that's selling like hotcakes right now. (Even if it is another Rogue-lite that I probably wouldn't like.) And REANIMAL releases tomorrow. (Because the devs that abandoned Little Nightmares, really wanted to make a very similar game under a new IP?)
Plus, I found another disappointment. Toodee & Topdee got really frustrating to play halfway through. (And the last part of the last boss glitched out on me several times, before it let me finish the game.) And I could not be bothered to collect the 110 thingamajigs to reach the secret final levels. (Only 3% of players on Playstation bothered.)
But I did only spend five bucks on it. So eh. Swing and a miss.
Edit: A day didn't even go by yet. And I saw another fucking multiplayer hero shooter announcement being made by Imagine Dragons. How is this real life?
Edit 2: Sony's return policy can suck my dick. And For The King 2 is absolutely fucking broken & it really pisses me off that I can't get it refunded when I'd have my money back on Steam already.
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Video Game Discussion: Part IV (The Gaming Industry in Decay Arc)
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4 mos ago
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
I posted this on Steam for MIO: Memories In Orbit.
Likely my biggest personal disappointment since Worldless. Youtubers couldn't stop praising it. I expected to like it a lot. It has genuine potential. Only for me to end the game with a sigh.
My PS5 subscription gave me another Metroidvania to try, Ultros. But its gimmick is apparently being a rougelite, and that sounds like the worst possible gimmick ever crafted. So if that bores me fast enough, I have Toodee and Topdee, (A platforming/puzzle game with the gimmick to change perspectives.) and Chronoquartz (A time-loop puzzle game) to play next. (And the puzzle games that I've played this year haven't failed me yet. Though that was also true for games with robots/AI in them.)
Got the true ending. (Tried Sol & Vin 30-40+ times. Moved on to beat the final boss in six. Wonder if the devs played or were inspired by Grime.)
The game is very pretty.
The soundtrack is gorgeous & I will likely listen to it on Spotify/outside of the game.
The map is perfectly serviceable and occasionally rewarded you for paying attention like any good map should. (Though Youtubers advertising the gimmick as if it was particularly unique is bizarre. When it’s really not. But being able to view the map from anywhere is simply better design anyway.)
For a typical souls/Metroidvania story, I actually (probably) understood what was going on. And that’s impressive when the story is also not intrusive/cutscene heavy. (Not sure who *wanted* that to be the end credits scene. But at least it does have closure.)
And then they say those who can’t say anything nice shouldn’t say it all…
I really wish I enjoyed the gameplay part more.
Likely my biggest personal disappointment since Worldless. Youtubers couldn't stop praising it. I expected to like it a lot. It has genuine potential. Only for me to end the game with a sigh.
My PS5 subscription gave me another Metroidvania to try, Ultros. But its gimmick is apparently being a rougelite, and that sounds like the worst possible gimmick ever crafted. So if that bores me fast enough, I have Toodee and Topdee, (A platforming/puzzle game with the gimmick to change perspectives.) and Chronoquartz (A time-loop puzzle game) to play next. (And the puzzle games that I've played this year haven't failed me yet. Though that was also true for games with robots/AI in them.)
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Video Game Discussion: Part IV (The Gaming Industry in Decay Arc)
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5 mos ago
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Because @Dark Cloud has bothered me out of my retirement. Here's a list of games that I've been playing and their scores that might not be entirely accurate.
I started the new year getting miserably ill & having a toothache for almost a full week. (Before I could be charged big bucks to get it fixed.)
So games that I got for Christmas and birthday gifts have been a nice counter to how my month started.
I have MIO: Memories In Orbit to play next. (Among a handful of others titles that should be a good time.)
I started the new year getting miserably ill & having a toothache for almost a full week. (Before I could be charged big bucks to get it fixed.)
So games that I got for Christmas and birthday gifts have been a nice counter to how my month started.
I have MIO: Memories In Orbit to play next. (Among a handful of others titles that should be a good time.)
Re:Zero's third season has been a mixed bag (of highs and lows) in my opinion. Something that disappoints me quite a bit. But it's impossible to deny that the pacing for some of these episodes are failing to make an impact.
The showrunners also clearly understand this too, and are cutting the third season short and delaying it into a fourth season.
So...can we get some good movies and shows for 2025 please? I'll settle for more anime that's worth watching.
The showrunners also clearly understand this too, and are cutting the third season short and delaying it into a fourth season.
So...can we get some good movies and shows for 2025 please? I'll settle for more anime that's worth watching.
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Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two
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1 yr ago
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Steam has once again put everything (on my wishlist) on sale. So I’m debating on grabbing a game or two that I don’t need.
But I’ve been playing through Baldur’s Gate 3, and I’m relieved to say that it’s as good as advertised. (Especially with mod support.) Strong characterization, plenty of solid set piece moments, and it’s good at rewarding you for exploration. And I’ve found this much easier to get into than Divinity Original Sin 2. So there’s very little to complain about, aside from how the “pseudo-RNG” dice are rigged to low roll constantly. So you’re practically encouraged to save scum at more important moments. (And maybe that encumbrance is a mechanic that only exists to be a nuisance in games.)
R.E.P.O (flavor of the month game) is entertaining, and I like its voice-to-text chat. But that laugh-cry emoji banner is one of those things (like doing a dumb face on a youtube thumbnail) that would’ve made me instantly ignore it otherwise. So I’m glad it was given to me. It definitely feels like a game where more players (a group of 6) would have an infinitely easier time to accomplish rounds (where the challenge is often having enough players in one place to lift heavier objects).
Other games that I’ve played recently, from best to worst.
Lorelai And The Laser Eyes: This game was almost nothing like I expected it to be. But it's about as good as a puzzle game can reasonably be. Has a solid atmosphere and soundtrack. Tons of variety and layers to its puzzles. And it was quite challenging, as many things required note taking/taking pictures on my phone. Though I found a lot of puzzles to be quite clever. (And I only had to brute force myself through one of them.) I do unfortunately think the game uses a certain maze too much & I think the finale (after the final puzzle) wears out its welcome. But this might be an easy recommendation to (hard) puzzle game fans.
Sanabi: An action platformer that has one of the better implementations of a grappling hook used as its main gimmick. The story (while entertaining and very stylish in places) is predictable, and frequently gets in the way of the enjoyable core gameplay. But its ending is sweet. So it’s an overall positive experience.
CATO: Buttered Cat: A decent puzzle game that takes a couple of worlds to become more challenging. The boss fights and rail sections are not particularly fun. But there’s enough customization options and charm in this to be worth playing.
Hollow Floor: A decent and fairly challenging metroidvania with a unique moveset. It’s content per dollar. (About 3 hours for 3 bucks.) Although, I do wish the collectable coins actually did something.
Plants vs Zombies: Battle For Neighborville: A far more enjoyable solo experience, and less appallingly/greedily monetized than its predecessor. But its hub world is worse and almost no one plays this version compared to the prior two games. So for the harder missions and objectives that seemingly require partners — you’re kind of screwed.
Ogu and the Secret Forest: Basically an easier version of Nobody Saves The World. I enjoyed it for a while. But it does get a little tedious in its exploration, and the combat is pretty lacking. (A good example of an average game.)
No Man Sky: 70 major updates later and…yeah this gameplay loop feels incredibly dull. With a bunch of pointless inconveniences that I question how it’s supposed to add anything to the game. (I can’t imagine how bad it felt to play at launch.) And I’ve given it more time and grace than I usually do for games like this.
The Thaumaturge (Demo): Surprisingly janky for those who claim its beginning is the strongest part of the game. With obvious graphical bugs in every cutscene. I appreciated the atmosphere and combat. But I’m not the least bit surprised that the combat is considered far too easy and becomes tedious later on.
The First Berserker Khazan (Demo): Unimpressed with the obnoxious first area and its sluggish combat. Platforming without a jump button leads to landable terrain that you cannot escape from. And Nioh’s garbage loot drop system is a bad mechanic to copy.
Frogsong: Boring game that almost plays itself. (NPC’s beat the bosses for you.) And the unlikable MC has a victim complex, that only becomes more ridiculous considering how many times people give her free items and services.
But I’ve been playing through Baldur’s Gate 3, and I’m relieved to say that it’s as good as advertised. (Especially with mod support.) Strong characterization, plenty of solid set piece moments, and it’s good at rewarding you for exploration. And I’ve found this much easier to get into than Divinity Original Sin 2. So there’s very little to complain about, aside from how the “pseudo-RNG” dice are rigged to low roll constantly. So you’re practically encouraged to save scum at more important moments. (And maybe that encumbrance is a mechanic that only exists to be a nuisance in games.)
R.E.P.O (flavor of the month game) is entertaining, and I like its voice-to-text chat. But that laugh-cry emoji banner is one of those things (like doing a dumb face on a youtube thumbnail) that would’ve made me instantly ignore it otherwise. So I’m glad it was given to me. It definitely feels like a game where more players (a group of 6) would have an infinitely easier time to accomplish rounds (where the challenge is often having enough players in one place to lift heavier objects).
Other games that I’ve played recently, from best to worst.
Lorelai And The Laser Eyes: This game was almost nothing like I expected it to be. But it's about as good as a puzzle game can reasonably be. Has a solid atmosphere and soundtrack. Tons of variety and layers to its puzzles. And it was quite challenging, as many things required note taking/taking pictures on my phone. Though I found a lot of puzzles to be quite clever. (And I only had to brute force myself through one of them.) I do unfortunately think the game uses a certain maze too much & I think the finale (after the final puzzle) wears out its welcome. But this might be an easy recommendation to (hard) puzzle game fans.
Sanabi: An action platformer that has one of the better implementations of a grappling hook used as its main gimmick. The story (while entertaining and very stylish in places) is predictable, and frequently gets in the way of the enjoyable core gameplay. But its ending is sweet. So it’s an overall positive experience.
CATO: Buttered Cat: A decent puzzle game that takes a couple of worlds to become more challenging. The boss fights and rail sections are not particularly fun. But there’s enough customization options and charm in this to be worth playing.
Hollow Floor: A decent and fairly challenging metroidvania with a unique moveset. It’s content per dollar. (About 3 hours for 3 bucks.) Although, I do wish the collectable coins actually did something.
Plants vs Zombies: Battle For Neighborville: A far more enjoyable solo experience, and less appallingly/greedily monetized than its predecessor. But its hub world is worse and almost no one plays this version compared to the prior two games. So for the harder missions and objectives that seemingly require partners — you’re kind of screwed.
Ogu and the Secret Forest: Basically an easier version of Nobody Saves The World. I enjoyed it for a while. But it does get a little tedious in its exploration, and the combat is pretty lacking. (A good example of an average game.)
No Man Sky: 70 major updates later and…yeah this gameplay loop feels incredibly dull. With a bunch of pointless inconveniences that I question how it’s supposed to add anything to the game. (I can’t imagine how bad it felt to play at launch.) And I’ve given it more time and grace than I usually do for games like this.
The Thaumaturge (Demo): Surprisingly janky for those who claim its beginning is the strongest part of the game. With obvious graphical bugs in every cutscene. I appreciated the atmosphere and combat. But I’m not the least bit surprised that the combat is considered far too easy and becomes tedious later on.
The First Berserker Khazan (Demo): Unimpressed with the obnoxious first area and its sluggish combat. Platforming without a jump button leads to landable terrain that you cannot escape from. And Nioh’s garbage loot drop system is a bad mechanic to copy.
Frogsong: Boring game that almost plays itself. (NPC’s beat the bosses for you.) And the unlikable MC has a victim complex, that only becomes more ridiculous considering how many times people give her free items and services.
Flow was what "The Wild Robot" trailer was. It was a nice little time waster with no dialogue/real plot. It's like watching all the cutscenes in a video game. (And missing out on further context and a true conclusion that this movie doesn't really have.) Maybe due to the fact that it only had six months of production time.
But it does manage to have more cat tropes than Stray did. While also making them more anthropomorphic in their behavior. Though "a golden globe" award doesn't mean much when you have scenes like this winning one too.
"Best Musical of 2024"
I don't even like Wicked. But c'mon Hollywood.
But it does manage to have more cat tropes than Stray did. While also making them more anthropomorphic in their behavior. Though "a golden globe" award doesn't mean much when you have scenes like this winning one too.
"Best Musical of 2024"
I don't even like Wicked. But c'mon Hollywood.
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Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two
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1 yr ago
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Finished Playing
Last Epoch: It’s okay. But I don’t think it does anything particularly well. (Skill and class variety aside.) The campaign is uninteresting, the difficulty is impossibly easy, until it’s suddenly not. The loot is endless trash to be used for its RNG crafting system, and the end game (doing monoliths ad-infinitum) sucks. So I’d recommend playing Grim Dawn instead.
Paper Trail: It’s a well made puzzle game. With nice visuals, no bugs, actual challenge and optional collectables for those who want more of it. With ambient tracks that my gaming group described as "Bloodborne music". But the narrative falls flat for me & I didn’t find the puzzles very fun to solve. (Too much trial-and-error & not enough variety in the puzzles themselves.)
Mercury Abbey: Gorgeous pixel art and very little else to recommend. I hoped to play a detective game, and I fought a giant spider boss from Zelda instead. A bizarre highlight (compared to the serviceable puzzles, the near non-existent deduction, and bad elements like a forced stealth section) in a poorly paced plot. With a narrative full of boring characters, stilted dialogue, and plenty of typos.
Currently Playing
Sekiro: Alright. I haven’t played enough of this game to give it a definitive thumbs up or down yet. But anyone who claims this game is the most polished FromSoft game. ‘Because it fixes problems that other Souls games have.’ Is absolutely full of it.
Between the camera that frequently has trouble showing the player on screen, the enemy mob spam, the off screen teleportation and weapon tracking of enemies, enemy attacks that go through the terrain, being vulnerable during deathblow animations, how the ‘stealth’ makes all enemies spot you from a million miles away - through walls - and takes them all five minutes to stop being aggroed, the early merchant NPCs being pointlessly hidden away within tiny corners. And all the other “meant to be frustrating” elements feel a lot closer to Dark Souls 2 than I think most will admit.
But there is still some fun (in overcoming challenges) to be had. So I’m going to “Git Gud” and keep going. (Though Lies Of P was both challenging and immediately engaging.)
Edit: After writing this earlier in my playthrough, I’ve defeated several mini-bosses that were giving me trouble. By spamming the Axe prosthetic and hit-trading them to death. (And I think it’s more than a little egregious that I’ve already fought three early bosses that require you to dodge all their attacks.) The NPCs feel less interesting than other Souls games. And I got to say, this game really isn’t impressing me. As I’ve spent so much time grinding mobs, that I’ve only just started to feel those “moments of interconnectivity” in Sekiro’s world design/and I’ve noticed maybe one notable background track in twenty three different locations.
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