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No, they still suck. They look like they should be in a fashion show or on a catwalk or something. I guess there’s kind of a fine line between cool JRPG character and boy band member but they’re falling on the wrong side of it

Yup. I know I only played an hour but I disliked pretty much everything. Because it’s a 4 year old game it didn’t even look that impressive. Additionally whoever has been designing these characters since FFX needs to be fired also.

I’m trying to do the 2nd darkness dungeon and am getting really aggravated by the AI companion who somehow manages to fall off a ledge every single time. The dungeon has sections where it’s primarily fairly skinny walkways and somehow, even outside of fights, the AI disappears because it fell off an edge. The dungeon itself isn’t all that bad, really, except for what looks like the very final leg is just monsters upon monsters in the way and I could really do with the help. On my 2nd to last try I almost managed to take them all down by myself, on my last try I ran to my corpse and homeward bone’d outta there because I had 39 thousand souls on the line (To use DS terms).

They ok? I’ve only come across little ones so far. They explode into the little poison clouds when you kill them

I’m getting used to it but the eyes are the only thing I don’t love about the design

I thought you hate BotW @Maryokutai?

Oh, really? I had no idea about that. Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised because I kept thinking he was moving like a real player. But I thought maybe the AI was just really aggressive

What?

DF posted a video comparing the first 10 mins of the original game to the remake Got to say this has gone a long way to sell me on the game. Just what they do with the music and the mist around the edges of the screen gives the game a real sense of disorientation which is kind of perfect for the game. LA always felt tonally ‘off’, but where the GB version felt like someone came in your house and moved all your stuff around the remake seems to be more honing on an atmosphere of mystery. Also just seeing the GB game takes me back. LA is kind of brutal from a puzzle perspective so it was a game I started dozens of times but only finished once. I’m trying to remember how the trading game went. You give the bananas to the crocodile on the beach. He gives you an alarm clock? I can’t remember

Oof So I’ve got to Sindre’s View which is like the 3rd zone, I guess, and the game is starting to bear it’s fangs a little bit. With patience it’s still not too bad but I just climbed to the top of a mountain/dilapidated castle type thing and it turns out the game is a massive fan of having things jump out at you from around corners or from the ceiling and ambushing in tight spaces. Stuff like this, not necessarily difficult, but very threatening. Eventually I ended up making it to the top and got Achievement for it but really not sure why. The only reason I went up there in the first place was because of the AI companion who I’m starting to have mixed feelings about. On the one hand when he’s awesome he’s awesome. Playing a Souls-like game and having someone to tank damage, distract/Agro/kite bad guys kind of feels like a cop out, on the other hand I don’t care I’m all about that easy. But he also has a tendency to just run off and pick treasure up for himself, or run by a wall and nudge me to help him climb, or run straight into a group of bad guys and get himself killed and then the only way to get him back is to get to him and revive him. That’s when he becomes a pain and I wish I had a ‘stay’ command. But, took down a side cave, got to the top of the castle. Need to go back to the zone and clear up a few missions but also scour the place and look for secrets and items. The zone is in a perpetual sandstorm which even though not too bad for visibility is making it even harder to navigate the place and find stuff.

I don’t know how rare it is but I got the achievement for beating the record time in Titanfall 2 tutorial level and it’s got to be one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in a game.

Yay So I woke up this morning to my horse still running around in circles and then went and beat the game. Then I only had 3 achievements left to get 2 of which were tied to beating the game on apocalyptic difficulty. I decided to go for it despite dreading some of the sections and how hard they would be (The game does not ask for tonnes of skill but some enemies just do insane damage) but when I clicked on start on hard it asked me if I wanted to keep the Abyssal Armour (Unlockable armour that looks cool as shit, gives major defense buff and steals life from bad guys), a quick Google said you still unlock the achievement even if using the armour so I did and busted through the game in about 7-8 hours in one sitting. I’m now Darksidersed the fuck out but solid game, iffy block and lock on mechanics, junior level Zelda dungeon design and really bad boss fights. But I liked it a fair amount and an easy 1000 points. And rest

So I used a guide tonight to 100% the game. Turns our I missed a significant but random assortment of stuff. I think if I had finished the game where I was at I would of been around the 80% mark, which not bad but not amazing. Anyway, pulled up a YT guide and got it all done surprisingly quickly. Now just finishing up the grindy achievements. Currently got my controller stuffed into the side of the couch making this horse run a 100 miles.

1:19 - 1:48 I understand I ain't perfectI probably won't come aroundThis time, I might put you downLast time, I ain't give a fuck, I still feel the same now Oh, I feel so much like this right now ?

Not at all, just more the dust has settled the more I think EG was disappointing because it went so far out of its way to be the movie it ended up being anyway that the journey to the big battle ends up being unsatisfying. I watched a lot of interviews with the directors where they said they wanted to be disruptive. Which works for IW but the best bit about EG is when they just do the predictable thing. I think the whole movie would be better if it weren’t so try hard Also I only realised Spider-Man was out soon was because I heard yesterday it was a couple of weeks away

So the big Spider-Man reveal was that it is being written by JJ Abrams and his son https://www.cbr.com/spider-man-jj-abrams-son-marvel-comic/ Meh. I’ll keep an eye on it but there’s already nearly a dozen Spider related titles. The previews for this will have to be very good for me to pick up another one. Even if it’s just a mini series

AoT is gross

Apparently Spider-Man comes out soon and I honestly not sure I care. Not that I think it’ll be bad or anything but after Endgame being disappointing I think i’m just kind of done with the MCU until they reveal what the next ‘Endgame’ is. Like what is the tease for the next big thing, I can’t get excited about an MCU movie that doesn’t have large consequences at this point

Yeah, I got through it and have just left Eden I think that’s all of the abilities now so I will follow a guide for a 100% completion while I get the blade shards and probably finish the game over the weekend.

Shut up dickhead, smart people are talking

You are so stupid it is unbelievable

Marvel officially going to San Diego Comic Con this year. That’s quite exciting because this might be where they announce things we don’t officially know about yet get revealed.

Because AAA games back in the day are considered, produced, released or run anything like AAA games from whenever some glitch-free golden era of games exists in your mind only

I’ve reached the portal tower and I’m this close to just not playing it anymore. I did the Ashland’s two days ago and the spider dungeon yesterday, and with each play session I’ve cooled and cooled to the point I’m getting down right cold on this game. I’m not going to go deep on all my complaints because they’re racking up holy shit. The two things that got me really into this game was the simple but satisfying combat and the light exploration, but the problems with the game come sharply in to focus when the game tries to get challenging. Which isn’t me complaining that it’s hard, I think I’ve now died in regular combat once, but it just becomes tiresome because the challenge is always just wrestling with what the character and the design doesn’t have. This portal tower is hard, however. But not like ‘oh, my god I can’t do this’. Like, ‘Oh, my god I can’t be bothered to do this’. This game is, yeah, plummeting in ranking by the room right now

Watching the GB Quick Look and seeing there is a mode where you can play this without having to time button presses to beat made the game a lot more appealing for me. But then I guess also what’s the point since it is primarily a rhythm game?