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fine here's the backlog list. if you think anything here is bad and not worth playing then let me know and i may or may not believe you

JRPGs and other anime nerd shit:
Astral Chain
Paper Mario the Origami King
Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity
Devil May Cry 5
Trails of Cold Steel 3&4
Final Fantasy 7 (in progress)
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 9
Final Fantasy X & X-2
Xanadu Next
Ys The Oath in Fehlgana
Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin
Xenoblade Chronicles 1
Tokyo Mirage Sessions
Fire Emblem Three Houses
The World Ends With You
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
AI: The Somnium Files
Yakuza Kiwami 1 & 2
Yakuza 7
Atelier Ryza
Atelier Dusk trilogy
Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion

serious games for serious gamers:
Ghost of Tsushima
Hitman 1&2
Control
Death Stranding
Resident Evil 4
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Tony Hawk 1&2 Remastered
Luigi's Mansion 3 (in progress)

indie games i own but never made a proper attempt at:
Cave Story
Into the Breach
Manifold Garden
Aquaria
Firewatch
Hyper Light Drifter
Snake Pass
Stephen's Sausage Roll
In Other Waters
Virgo Versus the Zodiac
River City Girls

wishlisted indie games let me know if you have opinions on these:
Bug Fables
Umurangi Generation
Pyre
Wandersong
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
Inmost
Unavowed

holy christ

ciderpress don't play TWEWY on anything except DS, all other versions ruin it afaict

the backlog must forever be infinite
love Fire Emblem Three Houses, just put 150 hours into it and will come back to it later next year for the other two routes

Momodora, it looks gorgeous but I found the gameplay shallow and flawed. Lot's of people seem to like it though, I'm possibly too demanding when it comes to 2d platformers.

i like how half of the games in the backlog are hundreds of hours long! now THAT is a backlog

oh right i forgot to check my 3ds so also add ace attorney 6 and radiant historia

yeah good luck wedging Death Stranding within that lot

oh for sure i'll probably never get to at least a third of these before my interest in them wanes, there's no mandate here

only one out of that pile i've played is Control. it's great!

First couple of hours in Death Stranding are incredibly boring, I know it gets more engaging in the third chapter but damn Kojima is really making it hard to stay motivated.

Cosign the Fire Emblem rec, I'd say that the localization/VA sucks but seeing that you have a dedicated list of JRPG games you have a certain tolerance for that kind of stuff.

it got me thinking about The Expanse, and how fun a mission-based space game would be, set in that universe.

The Expanse was originally conceived of as a TTRPG!

someone just published this article for ciderpress:

https://kotaku.com/how-to-chip-away-at-a-massive-games-backlog-1845794480

Pyre: Great story and characters... the gameplay didn't really grab me but it is certainly unique.

Stephen's Sausage Roll: Masterpiece, but good luck beating even the first level. Very hard.

really impressed by fight'n rage btw - particularly given it was made by one guy. surprisingly deep combat system, lots of little game reference easter eggs, great soundtrack and lots of replayability with branching paths, multiple endings, unlockables, and extra modes. maybe a little repetitive in places but that's not uncommon for beat-em-ups

oh in the case of sausage roll i tried it already and the first level broke me pretty quickly but i'd like to give it another shot. definitely the most humbling puzzle game i've ever encountered

quite fancy paradise killer next. anyone played that

i liked pyre a lot, too. i agree that the game/sport you play gets a little stale, by the end. but it's also a pretty short game, and it doesn't overstay its welcome by much

oh yeah paradise killer looked really good to me too, gonna toss that on the wishlist pile

I've only put a couple hours into Paradise Killer so far so I can't say too much about the gameplay yet as I've mostly just wandered around, but the soundtrack and atmosphere are very good if satanic vaporwave seems like your thing.

Squadrons is fun so far btw but I've only played the prologue and one mission. Will do online and more at the weekend.

Not sure I have the patience to get good enough to compete in multiplayer, but Squadrons did a solid job of approximating the splat-splat-pow satisfaction of Star Wars space combat. Appreciated that they carried over the fundamentals of the og X-Wing/TIE Fighter games. Pretty lightweight though and it knows it at 40 bucks out of the gate. Would be undeniably rad with a VR headset.

KM, did you grab mortal shell yet?

i have not, sorry! my terrible secret is that i had purchased subnautica and was downloading it already when i saw your thing about mortal shell....and it's really good so i have been playing a bunch of subnautica.

but maybe i will go buy mortal shell now! i do want to support the free market, it's true

3.8GB? that's gonna take my ps4 54 minutes to download.

should i read a little "5 tips i wish i would have known before starting mortal shell" kind of article? or do you think it's better just to hop in? resume: i have successfully played and not come close to defeating any dark souls game. i specialize in getting 2/5 of the way through and quitting

d'loaded in 30! now that's the fastest internet in the world. here we go.

lol, playing the lute with 0 familiarity basically sounds like me playing guitar irl earlier today

"practice makes perfect!"

this game is kind of buggy, in a fun way :)

yes it is! and no, don't do any internet. it's a good game to learn as you go.

this is a good game for the souls dilettante in that it only has a "hub world" and three "dungeons" and then the final boss. it's gonna take you awhile to find your sea legs but you don't have to devote months to this. Only a few weeks at most.

Subnautica is fun on PS, eh?

again, i hit a frustration wall early and it took about twenty to thirty deaths for me to figure out how to safely get around without getting regularly instakilled. i look forward to hearing how you adjust!

you DO have to try out all the items before you find out what they do and it's best to do that near a respawn point so that you can fall back if they fuck you up.

ciderpress don't play TWEWY on anything except DS, all other versions ruin it afaict

― is right unfortunately (silby), Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:03 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Oh good this is a hot tip... I keep seeing it discounted for switch but have a rom of it for DS, so I'll stick with that?

have heard wildly varying opinions on how important the original 2-screen mechanics are to enjoyment of the game

i haven't played the ports but it's really hard for me to imagine NOT playing it in that crazy ass way on the DS. the fight system felt designed to crush your brain by forcing you to flicker up and down between both screens endlessly

I mean the second screen mechanic is totally disposable and none of the grindy elements really play into it ON THE OTHER HAND it’s part of the game’s EMOTIONAL METAPHORS for being an ALIENATED TEEN or whatever and why not experience it as originally intended

xp also along with Elite Beat Agents among the games that did the most damage to my touchscreen

first time using tarspore: fuck!
second time using tarspore: yes!

#mortalshell

you're in mortals hell

Dont worry about (or attack) the giant frog.
Do watch out for beartraps.

i have noticed the bear traps several hundred times already, it turns out

i am reminded of the birds, in any NES game

all respect to that, because i fucking hate those birds in ninja gaiden, and i fucking love those birds

Any luck finding the save lady yet?

yep! i also managed to find the name of the shell (through she save lady) and add a couple upgrades. no luck in any of the directions yet. or rather, moderate success in several of the directions, but kept dying. it's fun, though! like dark souls, it's fair (most of the time)

You may want o start with the miniboss behind the castle past the swamp. The game is well organized, so take the path of least resistance.

the one that's behind all the beartraps (fuck!) ?

it did seem to be right in my face, i should probably take that on

back on my slay the spire bullshit

played 80 hours of breath of the wild over the fast 3-4 weeks and wow was everyone not kidding about how incredible it is