one-armed dwarf

I'm taking a break from the game for a bit but yeah, definitely. Capcom found their Ezio is what I think. I don't know how much they adapt of the 'true' Musashi's story arc, which has been mythologised in movies and manga like Vagabond over the years and if Way of the Sword leaves anything for a future sequel. I suspect it doesn't.

There's a rumour that GP is dropping day 1 titles next year https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-leak-how-gamepass-will-work-next-year.1633327/ Currently a bit 'Press X to Doubt' going on cause stuff like Persona has already been announced a day 1 title

IGN undergoing layoffs https://kotaku.com/sources-ign-layoffs-hit-multiple-departments-and-long-time-hosts-2000734361 I wonder what people will use to find out if a new release is worth 80 euro once once all these sites are gutted, and all that's left is SEO farms, AI slop and sponsored influencers Better start paying skillups's patreon I guess

Looks like they did get it working, yeah https://www.theverge.com/games/994454/valve-half-life-alyx-standalone-arm-port That's a big deal cause it's wireless and low latency, which is a first for Alyx. I wonder how it looks and performs framerate wise. Anyway, I wish they'd make a Half Life: Barney or something. Like, launching a headset this expensive and still having Alyx being the killer app is disappointing. Alyx is cool but it needs some iteration on that concept. I liked it but it's just not as good as HL1 and maybe not 2 either. Half Life: Kleiner, Half Life: Lamar. Anything edit, though, a lot of the reviews on this are fairly negative. Like it's priced as a high end headset was a few years ago, but is really more of an entry level one full of compromises. Doesn't really sound very good

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) - This is a great film, fairly lean runtime. Low key, gritty neo-noir about burned out gangsters fucking each other over, no honour among thieves, that sort of thing. Miserable but in the best kind of way. Robert Mitchum is in it as a world-weary guy who's going to jail for a few years for getting pinched in a smuggling job and he's just had it. Not going to describe more than that but it moves quite fast.

Final Fantasy VIII is the In Utero of Final Fantasy. A bit weird and abrasive at first but then you kinda realise it might be better than Nevermind (FFVII)

Mistwalker's slightly better JRPG is also out, Kaim has big decomp energy apparently It seems a bit rough currently. Still in the Ninja Gaiden 2 waiting room ⏱️

A while back I tried to do something similar but just with the films, but Incredible Hulk defeated me. Heil Honey I'm Home sounds like someone watched The Producers and thought wow, that's a really smart idea.

Have we all been saving hard for the Stream Frame? https://store.steampowered.com/sub/1629486/?curator_clanid=4777282 It's billionty euros. Well, 1.28K for the 1TB model. Power supply not included, but you get Half Life Alyx for free if for some reason you were interested in VR and didn't already have that game. So much for being cheaper than the Index 1050 euro for the 256GB version https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steamframe?snr=1_4_4__118 I wonder if it can play Alyx natively.

Forum playthrough of Realm Reborn, let's fucking goooo

Statement addressing PC issues and path to improvement edit, post vanished for some reason. Here's the image The nitty gritty: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3787240/view/686390624621954014 They address some stuff about the input reader, as well as assists The bit in the blog about addressing character balance has a picture of Magik on it, lol. They say it's too early to address balance changes, which is fair enough. But the issues with assists, neutral flow and game feel have to be addressed, cause I think even when you fix the technical issues this is the part of the game that's really fatiguing people on all platforms. The game is in a weird spot of matches being really incoherent, but also really samey, on top of inputs feeling bad.

A short video to squeeze into the lunchbreak The auto subtitles are funny, "this is my dog 🐕!"

How about a Wolverine mode

Putting Musashi to the side for a bit, loaded this up again to do round 3 against Guillotina (the enemy in the thumbnail above). This is the first of these fights to really challenge. Basically, you kill this cat over and over throughout the game and it becomes undead, then a rotten corpse that spawns maggots. The maggot can become a big maggot that evolves and mutates other maggots, so the sheer numbers of units becomes a real challenge. I'm out of practice so I need an AOE strategy, or a way to make the enemy minions work to my advantage as there are builds that get buffed by increasing units on the board. All my mature cats are dead now though, so I have to create a new squad from the kitties that I currently have. If I beat Act 2 I should have a few that can do it. btw, this must be out now on Switch 2. No idea how that port is edit, did a run last night and died to the bunker boss, this guy He does these psychic attacks to you but only when his smelly ass is being washed by the lackeys. Unfortunately, covering the floor in glass didn't help. My tinker got the madness debuff and thought everyone was an enemy, so I had to put the rest of my party on the other side of the room to keep them safe. I think I will do some of the sidequests for the scientist guy, cause I've lost all my kitties who had high level skills/traits that could be passed down and I'm really inconsistent at the bunker. I think what I need is just some simple, straightforward high damage attacks to kill the lackeys quick, and one kitty with a bleed DOT to take the main guy out over time

I thought of saying my 4090, but a lot of my most played games can run on a steam deck. So it's hard to say.

I wonder how this does. The metacritic might be 78 but a lot of the big review sites are 5s and 6s on it, think Huber gave it a 7 (which on the Huber scale, is disastrous). Some of the sites that gave it a larger score have names like 'GameSpew' but maybe a site like that is secretly really good at SEO and we just don't know On the other hand, I saw it plastered on the side of buses yesterday. Big advertising push, so I suspect it won't matter much for sales and Logan will just tank it with his healing factor

My next one is Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, so a good bit shorter and lighter I'm sure. I have not seen the film(s). Middlemarch will wait.

I found my old post where I talked about classic WoW servers Sounds like I had a really shit time with it

Much like Mr Micawber's pecuniary liabilities, I am glad to be finally rid of the nuisance that is David Copperfield. I started that ages ago, read about 400 pages, lost interest, crawled through another 100 pages over the course of several weeks and then the past week or so blitzed through to the 875 point, the end. I'm not a fast reader and I very quickly drift from book to book. Which is fine for non-fiction but it means I end up not finishing novels that often and I wanted to break that habit a bit. It's a coming-of-age/bildungsroman, like every fecking Dickens book, and full of these edifying life lessons about the way we grow through personal hardship, the importance of choosing the right life partner, not being a vindictive, cynical shitheel like Uriah Heep. It's one of those books you're supposed to read in adolescence, or when you're already old I think and looking back. On its villains, I did enjoy them, there's a whole rogue's gallery of Dickensian dickheads that you could write an entire novel about Heep, or the Murdstones, and Steerforth. But I do not give any fucks about Copperfield's friends, or perfectly passive victorian angel Anges. This is my third Dickens after Great Expectations and Christmas Carol and my least favorite. Too fucking long, next time I will read a short book. I am looking forward to watching the Dev Patel film adaptation though cause it looks funny. Tilda Swinton plays his aunt in it and kicks the shit out of donkeys

It's really polarizing but it's held in higher regard than XV and XIII at least I happen to think the combat is pretty decent tbh, though I would think that as it has one of the DMC5 combat people on it and feels a lot like Nero in Final Fantasy. But they don't give you enough abilities to make the most of its runtime, and half the abilities are so powerful that they just blow the fuck up out of whatever you're fighting. It needed to be a shorter game, but out of the 'polarising' Final Fantasies it's the one I'd most like to see them try a sequel with to fix some of its problems, and do more stuff with its characters. But it didn't sell very well and I don't think the XIV team want to split their resources like they did again, cause apparently FFXIV Dawntrail was a bit of a victim of that resource constraint. On XIV, I don't think I will ever play that game again, but it's hit the highest storytelling points in modern Final Fantasy, by which I kinda mean any game since and including XII. Shadowbringers really is that good, the best villain Final Fantasy has ever had.

They also announced a version of 'Classic +' called Forever. The idea being it's the vanilla/classic servers they already brought back, but with extra content. They're sort of trying to split the difference between the more friction heavy classic experience and the more complicated encounter designs of the newer 'Retail' WoW I think. Though I'm not at all familiar with either at this point, beyond leveling up to 20 something in Classic a few years back. I think the big barrier for controller support in WoW has always been APM. FFXIV has a global cooldown of 2.5s and 8 man teams, so you have a lot of time to target party members, mobs and 'weave' in off global cooldown abilities in that time. The game is adapted to controller from the offset and you can feel the hybrid approach in every part of its UI (it's a little bit clunky on both controller and KBM, but not to an unplayable degree). Teams are larger in WoW and the GCD is 1.5s I think, so trying to target more people more quickly is just way harder on controller. If you're a healer anyway So I wonder if they found a way to fix that, or if the high end raid experience will not be ideal on controller but fine for casual play. The thing is, everyone starts off casual at an MMO, so it would be disappointing for someone to find out that their control scheme was not well suited to more challenging stuff if they wanted to level up into an endgame raider

XVI up that high, the notions of this tier maker I'm fine with the rest, have not played XI. I think at one point XIV would be an S tier contender

My hitbox controller. It's such a fun thing to press buttons on, all clicky and tactile and fixes the problems I have with the awful squishy dpad on ds4/5. I even played all of Silksong on it, which was very novel and cool. Need to try it on a other 2d game

Capcom classics - 6 games for 20 euro https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/86420/Capcom_Classics_Pack/ RE trilogy, Dino Crisis and Breath of Fire 4 I have no idea if the Dino Crisis games are any good, that would decide whether or not I bother. I kinda want to play some old ass video games. The modern AAA stuff is burning me out again