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Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (Steam)

I loved Turok 2 on N64 as a kid but never beat it. First time playing this one and... it kinda sucks! Definitely the worst FPS I've played in my recent FPS spree.

I do appreciate that you start out fighting dinosaurs and dudes with guns but by the end of the game you're just straight up fighting dinosaurs with guns.

republican politician rolls best joint ever, asked to attend the kickback tonight despite their beliefs about racial minorities

Kenri has beaten Hyper Light Drifter

wow that final boss sure can stun-kill you from full HP can't he

I loved this game's aesthetic but I really wish the combat was better. The dodge-dash in particular just feels wrong and even after beating the game I don't really understand the mechanics of it. A game like e.g. Hades plays extremely similarly but is just smoother and better.

Still, it was a fun, if short, experience. I don't think I'm going to be doing 100% though!

Raised the west and north pillars in HLD. It seems like I probably could have done west first and that I just overlooked a hidden area.

Also found a stupid fucking soccer minigame that sucks.

wallmasterz posted...

Please do not pee in our pool
We do not swim in your toilet

When a Board 8er takes a bath they're basically swimming in their toilet

KCF0107 posted...

I found the mechanics of moving on with a scene to be tedious at best. I really did not like it when they wanted me to move the screen around and try to guess just what the hell they wanted me to do exactly since it changes and is seldom intuitive.

I can definitely agree with all this. I liked the game but I only really tolerated these kinds of issues because I liked everything else.

There are a few cute little touches like the eraser cursor getting smaller the more you use it but overall I think it just padded the game out unnecessarily.

So I managed to get EGS working on my Steam Deck and it was a remarkably painless experience, and HLD works without any fiddling required so that's a bonus.

I already like this protagonist and I'm glad that the game is heavily foreshadowing that absolutely nothing bad will ultimately happen to them =)

I took the west path first and got a few upgrade points and a couple chunks of the west path's diamond, before hitting a seeming dead end. Then I wandered around for a long time not knowing how to progress before realizing, hey, maybe this game is more linear than I assumed. Sure enough the south and east paths seem to dead end immediately, so I took the north path and what do you know, there's a lot of stuff I can do there. I think I have 3 chunks of the north path's diamond now and that's where I called it for the night.

FoolFantastic posted...

Do you know how many people drown each year in shower pee build up?

Better to piss in the sink than to sink in the piss, I always say.

Seanchan posted...

For people who need to stick it in your face that they are the absolute worst: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ultra-right-conservative-beer-expected-1m-sales-bud-light-boycotts-movement

eagerly awaiting the response from the right-wing "companies shouldn't make political stands!!" crowd

Quake (Steam) and all its expansions

So, first time playing this and I know it's the darling of the OT3 boomer shooter trio (Wolf3D/Doom/Quake) but honestly my first impression was not super positive. My love for Wolf3D is definitely partly nostalgia but I finished Quake with the distinct impression that I liked Wolf3D more.

But... then I played the expansions.

Scourge of Armagon and Dissolution of Eternity are just good as hell extra campaigns that add new weapons, new enemies, and some much more interesting maps. It ruins the game balance slightly because it gives you a rocket launcher that shoots like 5 rockets at once which 1-2 hits basically everything but that's fun! It's fun to just be able to kill stuff without it being a huge slog.

Then I played Dimension of the Past, which is probably the worst expansion. It's still good but it dials back all the additions from Armagon and Eternity, and it's extremely stingy with ammo so you really have to play conservatively.

Then I finished it off with Dimension of the Machine, which unfortunately still doesn't bring back the enemy/weapon variety but does keep things fresh by introducing a hub world with 5 mini-episodes you can tackle in any order. Each episode is two fairly lengthy missions long and they take place in really cool, unique locales and have some of the most hectic firefights in the series. Really good expansion to end things off with.

So overall I loved this game and you can tell because I basically marathoned all 20-some hours of it in less than a week lmao

Fuck yeah, Killer7!

I might do UnMetal too. I kinda hate stealth games as a general rule but I got it in a bundle, so maybe it's worth a shot.

Kind of a generic answer but I've found therapy to very helpful for basically any issue that I can't get over, but would like to.

I'm a Sonic Spinball apologist but it is, at the very least, not a good pinball game. It barely even plays or feels like pinball.

the soundtrack fuckin slaps though

Nominate: Great Ace Attorney 1, Tomb Raider 2013
Support: Great Ace Attorney 2

...just wait, both of them will get drawn and I'll have to rush through both in a month

Jakyl25 posted...

Ron DeSantis after Trump demolishes him

He was even working on his resting Tucker face today in Japan

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/2/AAAOt_AAEadE.jpg

Bouta shoot water in this mfers mouth to blow up a balloon and win a minion plush at the state fair

The Gift of Gab with Tulsi Gabbard

it just writes itself

I haven't started HLD but I'm still gonna try to finish it this month. Won't be before the drawing though, obviously.

Nominate:
Killer7
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner

Metroid Prime Pinball is sooo good

paperwarior posted...

I'd expect those characters to have something to prove.

All women have something to prove.

But yeah I do see your point.

The idea is to indoctrinate hatred of LGBT people in the mean time. That is what "they'll be confused!" really means -- that the parents need more time to instill hatred.

Those kids are often also taught not to go to college (especially if they're women) and to fear cities/other counrties so unfortunately some of them never do escape the bubble and become "confused when they grow older".

These are two very different qualities in a name. I agree with Sarah and Jane for boring, but unimposing is more like e.g. Sunshine, Princess, basically anything that works better as a pet name than a birth name or is embarrassing/childish.

The easiest might be to just roll an additional game if something shorter than a couple hours gets rolled. But I'm cool with anything, personally.

Two factors I think. 1. Card-based stuff in video games in general was extremely pass for a while there, like maybe after 2006-ish but possibly even earlier. I feel like people have come around on them again within the last ~6 years, but: 2. Mini-games feel a lot less common in general these days (probably because people have realized that no one really liked most of them, so they were wastes of time to develop). These days if you have a really fun game idea you might as well just make a full game of it, not cram a half-baked version into a different game.

I remember emulating Pulseman probably a decade and a half ago and finding it pretty disappointing.

Kid Chameleon is fun though. Having save states means it'll actually be beatable, even!

GF spam was basically the only ""strategy"" I could figure out when I first played the game, and this was in like 2020 so it's not like I was a dumb kid. (Maybe dumb but not kid.) I mean I didn't use GFs exclusively but they were probably 60-80% of what I did.

Kenri has beaten Doom Eternal

Pretty good game, though tentatively I think I liked Doom 2016 more. 2016 felt simpler and faster (and had my favorite gun of both games, the Gauss Cannon). Eternal definitely had more mechanics but I'm not sure that's something I prefer or not. It made finding secrets much, much more tolerable though, so it definitely had that over 2016. The plot of Eternal also kinda sucks unfortunately, though if you just want to see Doomguy kill stuff then it's fine. Ultimately I enjoyed both and I think I'm glad I played 2016 first, as I probably wouldn't have liked Eternal if I had jumped into it straight away.

Seanchan posted...

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but Land is in California and World is in Florida. So this is more like giving DeSantis the finger from across the room, rather than directly in his face.

They're doing it in California, where it will make them money, instead of Florida, where it would cause a controversy. I don't think DeSantis really factors in otherwise.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1647922770754273280?s=46&t=v9nzYLLBIiNYrqldFs9NWQ

Someone please tell me what hes talking about lol

Rudy Giuliani Eric Adams
Being the mayor of New York and also dumb as fuck

It's a very very different kind of game but Vision Soft Reset is another time loop Metroidvania. Basically, everytime you save it creates a separate timeline and a quick travel point, and you have to jump back and forth through different timelines to figure out a way to save the planet. All major upgrades are considered knowledge (mechanically they're still unlocks though), so they stay with you, but health upgrades are physical items so you'll only have them in timelines where you collected them.

It doesn't have the emotional pull of Outer Wilds, though, or nearly as cool of a setting. It's much closer to Super Metroid in those areas. Fun game though.

I liked the wandering around but I do agree with your spoiler, that was definitely the weakest part of the ending in my mind.

Lol, I almost mentioned that you didn't like it but figured I shouldn't speak for you. It's definitely not for everyone!

KamikazePotato posted...

Legitimate question: is there any game that replicates the Eureka moments of Outer Wilds while still having an actual world attached to it?

The one I keep coming back to here is Paradise Killer but it's very, very... very different. You need a high tolerance for anime bullshit to even get your foot in the door, for one thing, whereas I feel like Outer Wilds' setting has more mass appeal. But it IS essentially a "wander around, follow rumors, and solve the mystery" game in the same way Outer Wilds is and it had a few really good eureka moments in terms of the story/mystery (less so for gameplay/puzzles).

I have more of a phobia response to spiders but I've worked on it a lot and I wouldn't say I really fear them, it's not like most of them can do anything to me.

Snakes I don't have a phobia of but I'd definitely give them more of a respectful distance than spiders. If I need to get a snake out of my house I'm getting a broom, for a spider I'd probably just use my hands.

So snakes I guess...?

I played this for the first time a couple years back and thought the cast was pretty likable (unfortunately most of them aren't very interesting beyond that). If anything I don't think I'd have found Squall nearly as believable when I was a teenager myself.

(I agree Quistis is the best though. God I wish the game remembered she existed after the first couple hours.)

"You can't just shoot a hole into the center of Mars."
OBJECTIVE: Shoot a hole in Mars

Liking Doom Eternal more now. Level 3 was an incredible slog but the last couple since then have been pretty good. I dropped almost all my early upgrades into max ammo so I don't have to engage with the chainsaw -> ammo loop as much, and getting more powerful weapons helped too.

Peace___Frog posted...

https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1647305113336270849

But it's ok, folks, it's not like this is a reason to expel him or anything. Just your average moral upstanding republican

ngl I don't really care if people want to date their second cousins and I feel like the focus on it muddles the message here

any boss fight that can be described as "lengthy" is getting finished as soon as possible, fuck the EXP

I'm definitely skeptical of the idea that random charity can effectively mitigate societal ills, and doubly so when it's charity from a rich Youtube celebrity. That said, any super popular YTer that's improving people's lives is one that isn't actively making people's lives worse. I'll take ten, thanks.

Started Doom Eternal and did the first two levels. Uh, I think so far I like every single thing about it less than Doom 2016. I feel incredibly underpowered even compared to the very beginning of Doom 2016, though presumably once I'm better at the combat (I keep forgetting to even use the flamethrower to get armor drops) that feeling will go away. Definitely can sympathize with KCF's ammo woes.

The plot so far is like. Some Halo bullshit. I can't be bothered to care about it yet, and it doesn't help that it has not yet bothered to connect with Doom 2016's cliffhanger ending.

I think there's a secret path through the outer space area to get back there after beating the game. But all you get out of it is some NPC dialogue.

LightningStrikes posted...

I have to say after the Bush era it is quite refreshing to see American liberals realise how far right the Republican party is, in a Thats what we were trying to tell you! way. But yeah this is not new.

I regret to inform you that the average American liberal has taken the last 7 years as proof that Bush was normal and not that bad, actually.

FakeAccount3000 posted...

Beaten Princess Remedy

That was a fun and silly brisk little game. Can't believe I married everyone, or at least darn near close. I was missing one heart at the end, wonder if it was in the jealous chest? Tempted to try it again and open that first. Later.

It's not. That chest contains power boost 6 of 5 so it doesn't affect your ability to get 100%.

Some places you might check for what you're missing:

• 2F of the crystal palace, the king is frozen in an ice cube and blends into the tileset.
• the destroyed town in one of the later areas has a wilting flower you can revive in one of the houses
• the whole outer space area has a couple easy to miss secrets with one battle behind them

Other than those it's probably just overlooking an NPC somewhere without it being particularly hidden.

Unrelated but I love how you can marry your mom, and she'll just be like "I think we need to have a serious talk about why you thought this was okay"

Anagram posted...

Thanks. Is Ultimania also the origin of the "FFVII and FFX take place on different planets and FFX people went to the FFVII planet through space" theory, or is that somewhere else?

I think that just comes from an NPC in FFX named Shinra, who wants to start an energy company? It might be confirmed elsewhere but that NPC was the start of it.

MacArrowny posted...

Who is "we"? The Hearthians not noticing the universe is ending feels perfectly reasonable. The Nomai knew it was ending - that's the main reason they wanted to find the Eye, so they could stop it from ending.

The former. *shrug* I don't think it makes sense.

Gonna stop talking about this now though cause I don't think I'm going to be convinced and it's venturing into "we might spoil something for KP on accident" territory.

I'm fine with that part of it!

foolm0r0n posted...

I don't see how. The key thing is that the time loop is powered by a supernova. So the Nomai did plan for the supernova and it fit perfectly in the timeline. It's just that they had to wait millions of years. For the player character it's a total coincidence they were born near the supernova time and saw the statue 22 minutes before, which adds to the overall theme of being totally unimportant but also the most important piece of the puzzle.

Don't read this KP (it's probably fine actually, I think you know it all already but just in case):

I just think "the whole universe is way older than we thought it was and we just missed that all of it is dying, coincidentally right now" is like. Nonsense. Thematically it's fine. As the solution to a big mystery you spent most of the game trying to figure out I thought it was extremely unsatisfying, especially considering that every other mystery in the game has an answer that I find very clever and fitting.

To be clear I'd have been fine with "this one specific star just happens to be dying right now". I don't think that twist scales up very well though.

I think I mostly agree with your thoughts. The way the mysteries tie together is really top notch. I wasn't a fan of the twist you mentioned previously though, to me it feels very random and unbelievable, especially when compared to how seamlessly everything else fits together. Not saying the Nomai should have been responsible but the actual reveal just feels unsatisfying.

I definitely agree that "restart and wait 10+ minutes" becomes a problem at certain points in the game. It really could've used a "start loop at X planet, Y minutes in" option, though I understand that they probably didn't want to break the immersion by allowing that.

KamikazePotato posted...

This Sun Station jump is...not easy

I had a ton of trouble with this too, even when looking up tips/videos on how to do it. Wish I could give advice but even when I finally got it it was really sloppy, basically just luck.

Some people swear it's super easy though.

tcaz2 posted...

Yeah the autopilot doesn't work sometimes lol

The very first time I played Outer Wilds, after doing the tutorial, I got in the ship, turned on autopilot, and it flew me directly into the sun.

Put the game down for a few months after that lmao

Hmm, this is tricky. I go for higher end stuff pretty often but even then it's only like, the $50-100 option instead of the $20-40 option. I usually do pretty well getting things on sale too.

I have a couple special editions of video games where I could have just gotten the digital version for like $6 but paid $100 instead, so maybe those.

What? I never said or even implied that it's junk. I'd gladly play Goldeneye multiplayer today if my friends were down. I still think that game is fun as hell.

But we'd probably complain about the insane slowdown whenever an explosion is on screen, just like my friends and I did back in the late 90s.