Lethal Company

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Undead Horde

https://store.steampowered.com/app/790850/Undead_Horde/

Indie game about necromancer - it's like the Overlord minions crossed with Diablo 2 necromancer

Lethal company is one of those games where you shouldn't expect to get more than a night or two out of it with friends. To me that's a fine proposal since $20 is impulse buy territory anyways.

Did some nostalgia impulse buying

Been a decent time

Kingdom Hearts 1 on Proud. Just made it to Hollow Bastion, which is where shit gets real and you can pretend you're playing a serious game instead of just hanging out with Winnie the Pooh and Ariel (which is what the game's actually about).

Setting aside the later games' terrible writing, the original dynamic between Sora and Riku authentically captures what feels like as a child to be a friends with a boy a couple years older than you. Sora gets teased hard, and (from a child's perspective) borderline humiliated. The player gets to feel this themselves wrestling the stiff controls through the sparring and racing mini games while Riku talks shit. The game lets you lose over and over, you never have to win, and it keeps score. "Aw, man, now the score is 0-4..."

Despite the one-sided rivalry, Riku also represents maturity and greater knowledge, and you can see why Sora would hang out with him.

Then this dynamic gets stretched into the surreal as they get caught up in a world-hopping JRPG plot fighting over a macguffin called "the Keyblade." We see that Riku does value Sora's friendship, and feels hurt when Sora no longer needs him. And even as Sora watches his older friend turn to "the darkness" (smoking weed and ditching him to hang out with girls), Sora does still care about Riku, and ultimately builds to the power to save him, transcending the childlike rivalry. It's not exactly realistic, but it accurately captures some of the feelings of childhood that most adults have forgotten. This kind of charm is what KH1 really excels at.

This dynamic basically disappears after KH1 and you're left with an uncomplicated "we're friends because we're friends and we love each other and our hearts are connected" slop that governs the rest of the series.

Still no /h/kappa mention anywhere even though we put BY FAR the most effort into our stuff on this site (at least as far as g*mers are concerned), AND have a tourney coming up next Saturday

Been playing mostly Slice & Dice (roguelike dice game that goes hard af) and Tekken 8

Been wanting to pick up Lee Chaolan; I was maining Dragunov, who is good, but neither excellent nor marvelous enough. (really I just want to actually play the game and not be carried)

its still jost balatro

Playing:

• Catherine (3 Hours): Somehow I have the feeling that this is one of those games where you actually have to know what happens when in order to guarantee optimal gameplay. It's just a shame that Atlus manages to do this with every game and you always think you're about to miss something. A shame really because the puzzle(s) are fun.

• WoTR (45 Hours): Unironically fantastic.

• Alien Breed Impact (1 Hour): Slop shooter so I can watch youtube videos (I won't)

Tons of balatro. Been kinda addicted to number going up. Highly recommend, my favourite roguelite since Issac.

Also just finished Control, I really enjoyed it even though it has flaws. If you like SCPshit and brutalism like I do it's a good game. Also finally let me flex real time ray tracing, played pretty well 4k 60fps min on a 4090.

Just started the Talos Principal 2. Fun puzzles & very kino.

It's also a pretty well-done approach to expanding the story and growing a concrete narrative from the "found documents" storytelling of the first 1.5 games without retconning the whole thing.

If you liked Portal 1 & 2, the first Talos Principle game is essentially Portal 2 (FPS physics-based puzzle game with narrative window dressing), except it's about whether machines are capable of achieving sentience rather than endlessly testing in order to satisfy a rogue AI. TTP1 also has a good bit of hidden content and at least 3 different endings.

FTL baby

Still playing balatro tbqh with you fam. 100 hours in since release only one gold stake deck win so far

I played Guilty Gear XX with @KongEnjoyer and some Vintage Story with other dramafriends. Aside from that a little CS2 and trying out Terra Firma Rescue.

A friend gifted me Helldivers 2. Now I can officially say I do not understand the hype. Much rather play something like The Finals

Halo MCC is in kind of a sad state which sucks. Took me like 15min to find a match the other night

Practicing on iRacing for Sonoma. Some of the tracks on this game look like early 2000s graphics, but the really annoying thing is the tires are like ice before you warm them up which is absolutely infuriating on a track where the first turn is a blind uphill to the right. Half the time it's a spin and restart

And finally my WoW sub is coming up, I cancelled it but I kinda want to actually play SoD. OSRS is fun but it's a point and click game so it's hard to get really into it

I fished out my 360 so I'm gonna play tons of games that aren't backwards compatible like Blazblue and Gundam Dynasty Warriors and Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution

A bit of Helldivers 2, a lot of Balatro and some DD2 here and there.

Just beat Megaman Legends. It was pretty cool but very rough around the edges. The controls were awful and the "puzzles" were mostly "find the slightly different wall texture". Atmosphere and appealing visuals can do a lot of legwork.

Beat Pokemon Black 2 in Japanese lol

I tried to install my copy of The Crew on Steam to see what would happen, and yeah, it now brings up an "Insert Activation Code" screen, but there is no code. It also says "You no longer have access to this game" in the Ubishit launcher. Pissed. Gonna pirate their games in the future now.

Otherwise just played a lot of pinball this week, no vidya. The yearly pinball convention was nearby (Pintastic) which is always a lot of fun, drinking and playing all through the night from Thursday night to Sunday morning. The crowd there is always amusing, like 75% middle aged drunk Facebook boomers (me on the left), with the remaining 25% split between normies/families and various flavors of blue hairs and attack helicopters.

I don't know anymore

Apparently I'm a week late but No Man's Sky, after years of word of mouth about how it is good now.

The same kind of disappointment as Spore, though not quite as disappointing. Someone tell me if the current main storyline was patched in at some point, because trapped in a degenerate collapsing simulation reads almost like an apology for the shallowness.

Rise of the Ronin, doing oxtail blade aerial ninja shit now

I played tunic bc it looked cute but it was hard and based but it felt over too soon even to get the good ending but 100%ing seems too neurodivergent to try

I'm in the mid point of hollow knight I think. I need more games like this

I still can't win 8 antes in balatro. Even trying to emulate what some videos do doesn't seem to help. It feels like you need to gimmick it from the outset then rebuild the deck until it's all identical cards or some shit but this doesn't sound like the right way to do it. Seriously how do you win?

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I've been playing the StarCraft 2 campaigns. I'm on Legacy of the Void right now.

Perhaps the best rts campaigns ever, but man the Protoss are such dorks. Space rednecks are way better, but I think I had the most fun with just endless zergling waves in HotS

I keep thinking about playing imperator Rome. Apparently it doesn't suck any more. I abandoned my only campaign when it came out playing as Syracuse.

god dam crashes, the website is slow, the crashes are appearing more frequently, the amount of problems is increasing... we need an app.. even if it has problems I don't care the website is super slow and I can barely stand waiting...

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