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"Guardians ..." is pretty well done so far, almost to a fault, because I keep getting distracted by the banter.

if you haven’t gotten to the Adam Warlock bits, just wait!

ooh i noticed i missed some Trails talk but now i'm not gonna read cos i've only played 1 and 2 so far

xpost I'm super early, like the first mission (giving Rocket to Lady Hellbender?). One reason I'm still so early is that I keep getting distracted by the dialog. (Also, the look of the game, which is pretty striking.) I did notice that during the first group battle, essentially the tutorial, I would lose track of stuff because I was listening or reading the subtitles. Sometimes I would forget that I was supposed to be doing things!

might want to try chewing gum while playing to balance it all out

Might as well.

I will say all the reviews of this were otm, much better than one might have guessed. Also a game I can already totally see myself replaying, since there are so many little details.

I don't know anything about making games, but there are some strange things afoot with "Guardians." Aspects of it (like the visuals and the like) are top-notch, but other things are weirdly janky/buggy. There's stuttering between scenes, for example, and I've had a lot of unresponsive on-screen prompts just kind of stay up indefinitely. Similarly, some of the character animations are A+, like Rocket, but others, like Peter, he just kind of stares ahead, unblinking. And then there are the usual teleporting characters, or the occasional odd gameplay design/choices, like the way the huddles break up the action enough that it's ultimately more fun to ignore them. Nothing game breaking or anything, just little things that keep cropping up in an otherwise great game.

Just met Cosmo, btw. Funny.

Finally finished Inscryption, probably the best $10 I've ever spent on a game. We're going to try Disco Elysium next as a couples game, and if that doesn't click we'll probably just go back and play Kaycee's Mod (the non-story/challenge mode that's unlocked after you beat the main game).

I mostly enjoyed playing Inscryption but the spoopiness of the story felt kinda undercooked and tiresome

think i'm getting near the end of red dead redemption 2. once i finish it, my reward is getting to buy the new monkey island game

we'll probably just go back and play Kaycee's Mod

I was able to beat it on level 1 but doing level 2 and reaching and dying to the boss left me utterly exhausted.

Yeah the game is certainly better than the story, but I enjoyed the 'in game' story elements a lot than the, uh, real world parts.

yeah I agree with that also

i bought xenoblade 2 and 3 using those 2 for $100 switch vouchers. rip my spare time.

lol see you next year, those games are pretty long
finally got over the early game "hump" of Fire Emblem Engage, the bit where you have all the tutorials, story setup etc and can finally settle into the game proper. this is usually the point where I know a game is for me or not, if I've been bitten by the bug to complete it.

I started playing Pokémon Emerald bcz it’s the most recent game I can reasonably emulate on a television (I’m not trying to fuck w dual DS screens) and I have gotten sooooo hooked on it

Also took a break from it today to continue my Psychonauts replay and it’s every bit as good as I remember

fuck yeah pokemon EMERALD!:D

it's a lot of fun! Apparently it is called "generation 3", and I played gens 1 and 2 when they came out but haven't played anything since (apart from Snap for N64 a year or two ago). So little has changed btwn Silver/Gold/Crystal and Emerald that it's very nostalgic for me

i got distracted by wario land 3 on switch.

it's surprisingly great! one of the first "troll" game, in the mario maker sense. there are many places that tempt you with a huge coin, but getting it sets you back half a stage.

Not playing it YET, but maybe sometime later in the year when it gets discounted - Wanted: Dead sounds like a mess, but that kind of mess that fascinates me.
https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23598212/wanted-dead-review-steam-xbox-ps5

ok i'm gonna wishlist that, not sure i'll ever buy it

I saw the IGN video review, which almost seemed like a joke review. It takes a lot to get that site to give you a 4/10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmQxahHWlf4

having to master limited moves and things are limited gives me bushiso blade vibes

I could be down

I still remember having bought the original bushiso blade, dying two seconds after the start, and wondering if I got pranked

picked my trails to azure playthrough back up thanks to trails chat upthread and i'm now 10 hours in and have almost reached the inciting event of the story. trails!

big part of my problem is addiction to ng+. i should finish my first Persona 3 Portable playthru in the next couple of days, then i think i'm gonna do Cold Steel 1 and 2 as ng+, then finally have a first go at 3 & 4, until the next thing that distracts me from this plan

i will not be playing this because i'm not in VR world (yet? ever?), but apparently the gimmick is that it tracks your eyeballs and brings the enemies closer to you EVERY TIME YOU BLINK

https://kotaku.com/psvr2-horror-switchback-vr-eye-tracking-trailer-release-1850127438

i imagine the health and safety warning at the beginning of this game is very long and involves signing a waiver on any injuries sustained that might involve not blinking for long periods of time

damn, how did I misspell bushido blade?!

I'm still playing a little Marvel Snap here and there, ended up running through Borderlands 3 solo

i'm on marvel snap level um 1,347

1906 here

Finished "Guardians of the Galaxy," which was great, going well above and beyond what a game like this usually offers. Really well written, both dialogue and story, looked cool, fun and honestly affecting, too (at least to a softy like me). Only problems I had were, well, problems. Multiple times I had to restart the game after I killed every enemy on screen but the game didn't progress, and I ran into a good number of other glitches, too. Most of them were minor, which is why I'm surprised they were never ironed out. Still, minor is minor, and aside from those game-killer glitches, easy to overlook, given all the positives. Overall: B+.

five bags of popcorn

lmao

Well, actually (pushes up glasses), I would never eat popcorn while playing a game, because not only might it fall between the couch cushions, it could make my controller greasy and otherwise clog up the gears. Popcorn: B-.

Use chopsticks to eat popcorn IMO.

What show had people eating Cheetos with chopsticks? "She-Hulk"? Or was it something/someone else?

Yakuza like a dragon. It’s my new album listening game atm, functions very well in its roll. Love this Goku-ass main character

Yakuza like a dragon. It’s my new album listening game atm, functions very well in its roll. Love this Goku-ass main character

i am not one for judging and everybody shd do their own thing but imo listening to music over the top of a game's soundtrack is reprehensible barbarity

otm, at least for single-playthrough stuff like jrpgs or adventure games. for arcade-style games that you play over and over again, sure

yeah that's true, i play cribbage and yahtzee for something to do when i'm listening to music tbf

xxp

Lol I thought the same when Microsoft introduced that as a killer feature on the original Xbox. Though I did play Quake 2 and 3 with a Ministry CD popped in on occasion and it was good.

Thought I’d cop some flack. It’s game by game for me. Yakuza fits the bill (kinda mindless fun), the last of us two is the opposite. I know what I want out of my time. A beer, some jrpg nothingness, and a truck through Jason Molina’s discography atm. Perfect cocktail for my Sunday afternoon

Don’t really play arcade games so have to make do with what I have. Quality of music ties into it too. Dragon quest xi got the no music treatment for a few hours till the repitition started driving me crazy. FFVII obviously is a no outside music game. Yakuza music is just…. Eh, fine enough, but I’d rather listen to something else

I made a spreadsheet of every smt game that is playable in English (fan translations included) and I might fuck my life up with it soon

share list please

loads of the early games got fan translations in recent years, so that's going to be a long list!
I've long been intrigued by SMT If, someone else should play the fan translation and tell me if it's any good

Just found out that in Marvel Snap, you can't gain more than 1000 boosters per day... guess how