I just watched my 3-year old beat the first level of Rayman Legends by herself for the first time. It was very fun watching her try a part, fail, then figure out what to do on the next try to succeed. She even figured out the tilting puzzles to rescue the hidden teensie. Proud dad moment right there
And her 6-year old sister is legitimately good at that game, often when we play together I'll screw up a part that she nails and then revives me. Being the only gamer in my house growing up, it's nice to finally have some coop partners
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Someone described Lu Bu as the horse guy from Sekiro on cocaine, so I'm a little afraid of that when I get to that point. I haven't been able to play too much so far unfortunately. I'm only through 2 main missions and a couple subs.
Someone described Lu Bu as the horse guy from Sekiro on cocaine, so I'm a little afraid of that when I get to that point. I haven't been able to play too much so far unfortunately. I'm only through 2 main missions and a couple subs.
It will definitely make you reconsider how you play the game and force you to adjust your strategy. It’s one of my quibbles with Team Ninja games, the difficulty goes from a 5 out of 10 to a 70 out of 10 instantly and can bottleneck you for a while. They like to do it with random bosses in their games.
Very fun though, I think I’m near the endgame now and have hit a handful of those cheap boss moments. I’d say this is easier than Nioh since once you get the parrying and combat flow down you chew through almost all enemies instantly.
It will definitely make you reconsider how you play the game and force you to adjust your strategy. It’s one of my quibbles with Team Ninja games, the difficulty goes from a 5 out of 10 to a 70 out of 10 instantly and can bottleneck you for a while. They like to do it with random bosses in their games.
Very fun though, I think I’m near the endgame now and have hit a handful of those cheap boss moments. I’d say this is easier than Nioh since once you get the parrying and combat flow down you chew through almost all enemies instantly.
Except Lu Bu. Do not pursue Lu Bu.
I learned that as a kid with the first Dynasty Warriors game
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I finally got my build complete for my all-in-one emulation mini-PC. I spent far too much time screwing around with Retroarch shaders and Launch Box themes, but I really like the final product
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Wo Long was alright but I’m kind of disappointed. It felt like a shorter and less polished Nioh 2 with a parry mechanic tacked on. Lots of bugs, lots of poor design and UI choices, awful battle and travel system that forces you back to a hub every time instead of the map, all ending with what’s a solid C+ game. Decent with a lot of good ideas crammed in but none truly executed well.
Been playing around with Hogwarts Legacy and it's.. ok. It starts out feeling very Hogwarts-y. Great atmosphere, things look cool, lots of details in places..
But once you get into it it really starts to fall off in terms of diversity. Stuff all just feels the same. Not that many different kinds of spells, or different kinds of ingredients, or kinds of potions, etc. Shallow maybe?
The combat is pretty cool, some complain that it's too simple but it's probably just right for me with the different protection types you have to break through. Of course you can cheese things pretty hard so you could say it's too easy. I mean just picking up a big thing with a spell and dropping it on someone while invisible is pretty big damage.
It is subject to similar open world repeatability issues common to those kinds of games.
Overall I'd say playwise it compares a lot to a LEGO game. A few major skills used in different ways to unlock puzzles, tons of collectables, go back to areas when you unlock something to get more collectables...
That said I loved the LEGO games and I'm still enjoying this, but I don't feel a lot of motivation to get better gear or work on better casting combinations.
EDIT: One big thing that I forgot to mention is that there's ZERO morality system in the game. The game actually encourages you to just break into people's homes to get collectables to upgrade your spells to break into more homes. Steal their money, open their chests. Cast all the unforgivable curses you like and no one cares.
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But certainty is an absurd one.
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Diablo IV open beta is March 24 - 27 (or March 17 - 20 for early access). Looking forward to it, I lost interest in D3 once I got into the paragon levels, but still was lots of fun.
__________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Hopefully it will be good, I haven't found a satisfying ARPG since Grim Dawn...love the complexity of the builds and items in that game, as well as the mods!
I finally got my build complete for my all-in-one emulation mini-PC. I spent far too much time screwing around with Retroarch shaders and Launch Box themes, but I really like the final product
Would you mind sharing this build? I've tried this on and off for years but I always break down with trying to manhandle Retroarch and all the complexity.
Favorite completed games of 2022:
1. Citizen Sleeper
2. Case of the Golden Idol
3. Marvel Snap
4. Powerwash Simulator
5. Vampire Survivors
6. Pentiment
7. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
8. Norco
9. Somerville
10. DORFROMANTIK
Started but never finished:
Elden Ring, Tunic, Nobody Saves the World, Return to Monkey Island, Warhammer 40k Darktide
I want to eventually try:
God of War Ragnorak, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Cult of the Lamb, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Pokemon Scarlett/violet, Horizon Forbidden West
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Would you mind sharing this build? I've tried this on and off for years but I always break down with trying to manhandle Retroarch and all the complexity.
Did you find some good overlays and CRT shaders?
Well for LaunchBox I couldn't find any BigBox themes I liked for everything so I combined a few
I use Retroarch for running everything except PS2, GameCube, and Dolphin. And for the overlays I use their new-ish feature called Mega Bezels. This explains how to set it up:
At that point it's just loading each system core you're using, setting the bezel preset you want, then saving it as a core preset, so any game you load using that core will automatically load the bezel as well
Favorite completed games of 2022:
1. Citizen Sleeper
2. Case of the Golden Idol
3. Marvel Snap
4. Powerwash Simulator
5. Vampire Survivors
6. Pentiment
7. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
8. Norco
9. Somerville
10. DORFROMANTIK
Started but never finished:
Elden Ring, Tunic, Nobody Saves the World, Return to Monkey Island, Warhammer 40k Darktide
I want to eventually try:
God of War Ragnorak, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Cult of the Lamb, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Pokemon Scarlett/violet, Horizon Forbidden West
Literally the only title on here that I have tried is Tunic. I loved the style and art, I loved the Zelda-y gameplay, but damn it was it hard to really stay invested since it was a bit of a trick to figure out where the hell you’re supposed to be going. Maybe that’s part of the appeal, that you keep exploring. I’ll have to pick it up again.
Finished Atomic Heart. It's not a great game at retail pricing but a pretty good game free on Gamepass. There are some issues with this game in regards to the protagonist dialogue being overly juvenile as they went for a BJ Blazkowicz kind of character but he's not as funny and it just doesn't work. That said the game is pretty fun and the graphics are extremely impressive for a small studio. If you can get by the bad dialogue, the story actually isn't bad especially near the end of the game. I wouldn't recommend buying this at anything other than the discount pile but if you like sci-fi FPS games and you have Gamepass it's worth a try.
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Currently house sitting, so brought my Switch aaaand my SNES mini.
Two weeks, so lets play through Super Mario RPG and FF6! And FFX. I hate FFX, but I still haven't beaten that stupid ####ing Chocobo Race in my life and it will not beat me!
Finished Atomic Heart. It's not a great game at retail pricing but a pretty good game free on Gamepass. There are some issues with this game in regards to the protagonist dialogue being overly juvenile as they went for a BJ Blazkowicz kind of character but he's not as funny and it just doesn't work. That said the game is pretty fun and the graphics are extremely impressive for a small studio. If you can get by the bad dialogue, the story actually isn't bad especially near the end of the game. I wouldn't recommend buying this at anything other than the discount pile but if you like sci-fi FPS games and you have Gamepass it's worth a try.
It's a shame that it ended up being rushed out because of the war, I think they could have had something good there.
I sadly think Stalker 2 is suffering the same fate. It does not look good, but it's not hard to see why when they've lost a few devs to fighting
