Sly Reflex Posted September 8, 2022 Author Share Posted September 8, 2022 Portia is a weird game, like I just fucked nearly all the social stuff off because I'm not that bothered about it. I guess it's one of those games like Animal Crossing where different people play in various ways. Some like designing shit. some like collecting furniture. Whatever, all those things are present here, but for me it's just about getting jobs and fucking them off through the platform and getting them installed ASAP. It's getting to the point now where I try and keep stockpiles of thing I think I might need so I can shunt projects out the door pronto. It's kind of satisfying in a way when a job comes in and you just assemble it no problems, aside form as few specific parts that tend to be present in each build. Would I recommend it? I am 40 hours deep and I'm not even half way through it yet. It does have a story so it's not as meandering as some of the other games I've mentioned or games of this ilk that would be categorised alongside it. It really depends on your tolerance for social 'em ups that are side loaded with busywork. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted September 25, 2022 Author Share Posted September 25, 2022 That's Portia finished. What an utterly bizarre game. Pacing all over. Variable voice acting ability mixed in with audio quality that is all over too. Difficulty spikes and troughs all over. Lots of waiting about with nothing better to do. Uninvolving relationship stuff. It's a real miss mash of stuff all squeezed into one game. Still sort of enjoyed it on some level, but it's nowhere near the level of something Like Stardew or Keftlings. Some quite poor design decisions in it as well, for instance I couldn't carry on fighting the last boss because I ran out of stamina points, so I just had to watch the local constabulary kick the fuck out of it while I stood next to them taking selfies. Some utterly incidental hilarious cutscenes in it though. Nobody here will play the game, but if you have a spare few minutes there's probably a super cut of all the cutscenes in the game for your perusal. As for what's next, I don't know. Some games have been drawn out, but I don't think I'll play whatever wins until next year. So from now until the end of the year, it's probably going to be smaller games for an in n out adventure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted November 3, 2022 Author Share Posted November 3, 2022 And that's it for this year. I close out the streaming year by holding a wrestling event with created characters from the stream community. Drop by and watch a bit of lunacy. Won't be talking to chat though, everything is strictly role played in kayfabe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 I might well watch if only to work out how to play Fire Pro. I've got a couple of them and never got to grips with how it all worked,I'd just constantly lose grapples Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted November 3, 2022 Author Share Posted November 3, 2022 I don't play it, it plays itself. Used for simming matches. Although if you want help, try entering the input to pull the move off as the feet slam or whatever. So you lock up, the guys stamp their feet and that's when the command goes in to execute the throw. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 Well, the 2 months of Fire Pro is over (thank fuck) and I just did my first stream of this year on Cultist Simulator. I didn't like it so we're moving on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 @Sly ReflexI was watching you play a bit of Cultist the other night, it wasn't what I was expecting, at least what I saw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 No, I thought it was going to be sort of like Prison Architect. It was a card game where the cards have to be drawn in some sort of order where you are told a story, a bit like a choose your own adventure book, but it's all against the clock and you're constantly stave off death. Probably right up a few peoples streets, but not mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 Odd game this. A bit hit and miss. Looks fucking fantastic though, what a beautiful and interesting game to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 The more I play this the worse I think it is. It's one of those games that's trading on the way it looks and sounds over the actual mechanics that operate it. There's been a very defined manifesto when it came to putting out this game and it looks like the game design itself was left to the small text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 I wondered if it was built for multiplayer. There's certain bits I found to be a proper chore to get through that maybe a 2nd player would have helped with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 I mention this in the steam review I'm yet to post. It still kind of sucks, it should be doable in solo without the need for help, but it feels needlessly dickish at points. When it's all flowing it feels great though, I feel that it wouldn't need much tuning to be a great game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted January 26, 2023 Author Share Posted January 26, 2023 That's that over. Sort of glad about it, it was a bit torrential towards the end. Voting is now in place for the next games. There's a good chance it'll be a bastard hard one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted January 28, 2023 Author Share Posted January 28, 2023 It's great. I'm enjoying it a lot. Will probably throw up some more impressions once I've played more and gotten a better feel for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted February 12, 2023 Author Share Posted February 12, 2023 Guacamelee 2 is great. If you've not played it, you should. Games that were drawn and are currently being voted on. Noita Borderlands Dungeonland Children of Morta Remothered: Broken Porcelain Control Dead in Bermuda Mobius Front 83 Project Wingman MGSV Nice mix of old and new vs big hitters vs unknowns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 I've just googled Project Wingman and it's really pretty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 I'll be surprised if it wins. It'll most likely be eliminated. I might play it off stream if that happens, it looks like it might be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiofloyd Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Three games tied on 4 votes, including the one I originally voted for (Noita), so I threw in a vote for MGSV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Control is so fucking good, but Phantom Pain is a better streaming game cause of the weird things you can do in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Be nice to see Si play a AAA so have voted Control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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