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Oh, yeah, sounds like they’ve done a lot of fixing on the Switch version https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/08/cult-of-the-lamb-version-1-0-3-live-for-switch-here-are-the-full-patch-notes

Since we all seem to have thought the wrong thing about the game I googled it for more info. Maybe it isn’t a rogue lite because there are only 5 characters. But it has a bunch of rogue lite trappings with permadeath, item hoarding, crafting, RNG, time limits. I might give it another go too because I think it could be interesting. But it seemed very harsh right out of the gate so maybe it’s a game where I just need to accept the outcomes and bullshit until I learn it better. But last night the first hour was very severely off-putting I think maybe I like rogue lites where death is failure but it’s part of the progression. So I can play really well and be successful until I hit death and reset. Maybe I don’t like rogue lites like Inscription or Weird West where it feels like every button press and choice is failing. But I might go back to it still.

Oh, yeah, that’s right. If a mod wants to move it that’s cool

I tried 2 games today and really didn’t like either. First was Dying Light which, maybe I’ll go back too, I didn’t out and out hate it. Which is a surprise because it’s combining first person melee with first person parkour. That should be recipe for disaster but after 2 hours I just think it’s kind of boring. Both the melee and parkour is bad, though not as bad as I expected, but where it really lost me was when I found a time trial/race challenge. First damage sustained in the race is real damage and doesn’t reset when resetting the race, also you can reset the race but can’t quit the race, you just have to wait 2 minutes until you fail. Wait 2 minutes. Are you fucking crazy? I’m not sure what you would call this kind of oversight but stuff like this is my fucking #1 annoying things in games. I know these are small things but small things are critical. You have to get entering, resetting, exiting and abandoning challenges right. After 2 hours I was only at a 5/10 anyway but bad menus and how this works broke me. Next was Weird West which fucking hell. This I hate. I thought it was going to be some kind of isometric, story focused, tactics RPG thing. Instead it’s a twin stick rogue lite that doesn’t let you shoot, seems to revolve around random encounters, looting and time limits. Like one side quest had a 5 day time limit and when you travel the map time passes. Oh my god no. It’s a shame because it has a unique style and good controls. But before I realised it was a rogue lite I spent all my bullets and couldn’t find any ammo or new gun for an hour. I then tried to steal something by accident and 5 dudes all started shooting at me and I turned it off before seeing what happens next. Very disappointing. Completely wrong about what type of game it is, had a boring hour trying to not engage with anything because can’t defend myself then tried to do one thing and got fucked up for it. I think this game could be good but it’s a terrible start and not new player friendly. I’ve not got the patience for these systems today. Should have just played Guilty Gear instead.

Oh yeah. We’ll see. I played a tiny bit of Baiken in training a while ago and don’t really like her moves. If I learn another character at this point it will be either Ram or Bridget But Millia is so much fun to play it’s hard to not

Instead of playing GG all day I ended up watching this Millia S2 guide by LK for almost 2 hours I didn’t learn too much. Firstly because LK is bad at explaining things. He does stuff and goes “see?” It’s like no. Please use your words. Secondly most of the stuff he covered I already sort of know. Even if I don’t do it, I know it. However I finally saw how to do option select and that’s to hold back and press P+K at the same time. I will need to watch it again to review it but at least I know what the buttons are now.

I think my 2 favourite open world games recently are BotW and Elden Ring. BotW definitely and Elden Ring maybe, I still need to finish it. But they do what I love most in games and that’s exploring and being surprised. My favourite thing to do in just about any game is explore. I love poking around, searching, finding secrets, seeing amazing scenery. Which these games do amazingly well. They create curiosity and constantly reward with the unexpected which is something I think every adventure game should do, but only the best really do. Hard to talk about open world games and not talk about R*. But most of my favourite R* games are the ones people don’t like. GTA3, GTA4 and RDR2. I know people moan about how slow RDR2 is and I completely understand. But I absolutely love it. It’s a world to marinate in. The first third of GTA4 is the most realistic gangster game ever and I wish GTA would return to that, but I think after the success of GTA5 we’ll never see a GTA that isn’t over the top, loud and stupid, and squarely aimed at teenagers ever again. Spider-Man PS4 is the best Spider-Man game but that series has had great open world games ever since Spider-Man 2, which was such a crazy game at the time. Me and my friend played Spider-Man 2 all the way through in one night before we even created a save file. That traversal is just so inherently fun. I think it might be one of the best game mechanics full stop. That concept suits video games so well. (Now do it in VR) Lastly even though everyone moans about Ubisoft games (me included) in the beginning they were really awesome. AC2, Brotherhood and Farcry 3 were such satisfying, meaty games. The worlds were engrossing, the progression was compelling, and they felt fresh and new at the time. But then they just kept making them and poisoned the well. It’s not that they’re not fun anymore, but it’s almost like becoming desensitised to the formula. In the beginning they were exciting, though. Can’t wait until November when we can add Sonic Frontiers to the list of classic open world games 😑

I haven’t really seen anything about the Steam Deck that appeals to me until this That’s pretty fucking cool. Look at Pokemon XY. Looking super sharp. You can use it the same way for Wii U games as well according to the responses. Tv/monitor as one screen and the deck for the second screen.

I got it for cheap about a month ago but haven’t got round to it yet

Nooooo I was playing really well! I actually managed to win a set against a level 1000 Ky and, I”m not blaming it solely on this, but the fucking doorbell went and super distracted me. I didn’t even get up to answer it. It was the £1000 for the TV I was like I don’t care I have to play this but it was on my mind and I was like ahh fuck I mean, constantly, against every Ky ever, thinking I can jump the arc move was getting to me as well as the fact that you can’t attack straight away after Millia’s command dash which I think is bullshit by the way. It’s slow enough already. But it’s my fault for keep trying it over and over. But it all started from the doorbell it threw me off. I only know one person and they never come round. Why did it have to be at this moment. Also this Bridget player has been bullying me all day I’m putting her on the list. I don’t think Bridget is top tier. But I’m fucking struggling to deal with her pressure, particularly in the corner. She’s got great pressure, great stagger and a command grab that can seem to come out on any hit. I think she might have Millia’s problem where her high/low is not very strong. But she makes up for it with oppression. The reach on this bitch, too. Holy fucker. And the jumping attacks. I don’t think Bridget is top tier, but I definitely think she has the making to be strong A-tier material. I might have to learn how to play her a little bit. I think that’s the only way I’ll get an idea how to really deal with it. I said I wasn’t going to waste my extra Saturday and play Guilty Gear all day. 5 hours later…😭 Also how does everyone and their dog know you can beat Millia’s quadruple overhead with a throw. I didn’t know that shit. I’m starting to try learn some different kinds of pressure but either me or the tech has some huge holes in it. Not sure which yet. Oh, extra thought. I finally realised why Ky is so hard for me. He’s a character I can’t jump out of the corner against very easily. One of Millia’s blessings is her mobility so if I can find a gap, jumping out against most characters not too bad. But Ky doesn’t allow for it at all, on top of it’s just not a good idea to jump against him in general. He’s like Anji in that respect. I think this is why I struggle with these characters because I do love to jump

I’m not sure what points or exactly how characters learn hero classes in this game, but the fact it now takes an age for them to learn one hero class where as about 20 hours ago they were cranking through them like no tomorrow makes me think it’s somehow tied to XP or CP. Which means there’s a really annoying progression imbalance when ending up over levelled. Even if lower level enemies give insignificant XP then fair enough (despite the fact at training camp I have about 35,000xp banked so I could level higher. But don’t want to make this hero level imbalance any worse) But the fact that being over levelled impacts the rate at which characters learn new classes from heroes is really annoying. Character level and character class levels slow down - fine. But the fact that learning new classes is also taking half a dozen hours is ridiculous.

This Ky must be a newbie Celestial because I did this shit like a fucking speed run I wish it was always like this I’m done for today. I absolutely can’t do the TK overhead today at all and some of the stuff I’ve been practicing still not happening in games. Hmm. PC is also way easier than PS as well because there’s more people. Most people still playing the PS version are either chumps like me who can’t get off floor 10 or level 1000+ celestial gods who can’t be beat. I’m ok with floor 10 forever. I can almost believe that.

I never said blocking is easy. I said blocking is easier than pressure. I also said the worst characters to block against are guard crush characters. For example. Look at that guy block me he had no trouble at all 🙁

I’ll get the replay in a bit. I have to ask what do you do against he’s flame gun on block? It doesn’t seem to matter I’m just stuck

Holy shit this is the greatest humiliation I’ve faced online. This guy just used me to practice he’s blocking skills and I still lost. How you lose to someone who won’t attack? Like this 🙁

Reports are updating and now it seems like it’s not happening. If it were happening, I don’t really know what to make of it. It would only matter to me if it meant EA games became exclusive to Luna. Then that would be seismic and interesting. But that’s if that would even happen, if this deal was even happening. So I dunno.

Have to hold final verdict until playing the game but as of now this looks ridiculous. The Sonic series gets a lot of mileage of nostalgia and recently been quite backwards facing and celebrating the classics. That’s what Sonic Generations was. Sonic Mania was half that, but then took that shit and outdid the classics. Even the most recent release is another compilation pack. So to see older stuff in there, especially the flashes of it that was shown in the trailer, it was like ok that’s sort of what they do. But just lifting whole levels from 2008, chopping them up and recycling? That’s not homage or celebration it’s just down right not giving a fuck. I mean have to play the game first to see if that’s what it actually is but damn Because they don’t want to make a Sonic game. For this game they’ve focused on a sort of dodgy FF13 vibe, focused on combat, levelling up RPG type stats. And all the actual Sonic stuff, running and jumping, is exactly the same as it was in 2008. Same animations, same tricks, and now we see pretty much the same levels. I get that they don’t want to make Green Hill Zone over and over or even the same game over and over. And who knows maybe November comes around and I’m eating shit and this the best game ever. But I see all the stuff they’re doing and the stuff they’re not doing and the only conclusion I come to is they don’t want to make a Sonic game.

That’s what pushed me to do it. I’ll never get so much for it anywhere else. Had to take it. But that’s it no more TV’s for a long time

Someone drew a Sonic game like it was Shredder’s Revenge I’m just not a fan of beat ‘em ups but I’d fucking play this over Sonic Frontiers

Yeah, the code worked so got £200 off. Sell my other one for a £1000 and I got a brand new C2 for £900. Not bad. Although genuinely had no plans to get a new TV at the start of the week. I only asked how to sell a TV on a whim. I mean my current TV is still perfectly good. I’ve also spent a lot of money what feels like every month this year and this month was supposed to be good one for savings and was going great! But here we are. New TV a week Saturday

Ho, ho, ho. How about this. Not only short sections, but short sections you’ve played before! There’s a few more videos like this on YT. Basically the not open world levels look like they’ve just reused levels from older games I noticed this from the trailers but I didn’t realise it was almost an exact duplicate. I thought it was just bits of stages, or there’s be a reason for it Bit maybe there will be no new levels in this game? They don’t want to make a Sonic game. Get this developer of this series

It looks like a really solid souls-like, and Gamepass makes it a really nice deal, but watching it…hmm. It doesn’t live up to the trailer. Looks kind of standard souls gameplay and vibe where as the trailer made it seem like it would have more of a unique twist

That does look really good actually. A bit cheap and janky but in a fun way.

It’s a shame Frontiers will probably be bad because there’s bits of artwork out there for the game which look awesome I want to play that game

Trying to get Curry’s to price match other shops because they do a 5 year guarantee on the C2. But they won’t do it because the model number of theirs end is 4LA and others that are cheaper end in 6LD. I don’t know what the difference is. It’s not obvious in the product descriptions. Give me my £200 off and 5 year guarantee 😭 Edit: Oh hang on I just tried a second time and the person gave me a discount code. Oooh let’s see if this works