Fucked if I’ll ever beat Nethack without wizard mode.
Death Stranding is another, though for a completely different reason. I know there’s some super cool fun shit somewhere in there; but getting through the first few hours of the game to get to that point is so boring I always end up putting it down before getting to anything worthwhile. And that’s with actually thinking the walking system is pretty kick ass.
<span style="color:#323232;">Forms FORM-29827281-12:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Test Assessment Report
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This was a triumph.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I'm making a note here:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">HUGE SUCCESS.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">It's hard to overstate
</span><span style="color:#323232;">my satisfaction.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Aperture Science
</span><span style="color:#323232;">We do what we must
</span><span style="color:#323232;">because we can.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">For the good of all of us.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Except the ones who are dead.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">But there's no sense crying
</span><span style="color:#323232;">over every mistake.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">You just keep on trying
</span><span style="color:#323232;">till you run out of cake.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And the Science gets done.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And you make a neat gun.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">For the people who are
</span><span style="color:#323232;">still alive.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Forms FORM-55551-5:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Personnel File Addendum:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Dear subject,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I'm not even angry.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I'm being so sincere right now.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Even though you broke my heart.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And killed me.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And tore me to pieces.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And threw every piece into a fire.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">As they burned it hurt because
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I was so happy for you!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Now these points of data
</span><span style="color:#323232;">make a beautiful line.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And we're out of beta.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">We're releasing on time.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">So I'm GLaD. I got burned.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Think of all the things we learned
</span><span style="color:#323232;">for the people who are
</span><span style="color:#323232;">still alive.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Forms FORM-55551-6:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Personnel File Addendum Addendum:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">One last thing:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Go ahead and leave me.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I think I prefer to stay inside.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Maybe you'll find someone else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">to help you.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Maybe Black Mesa...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">THAT WAS A JOKE. HA HA. FAT CHANCE.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Anyway, this cake is great.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">It's so delicious and moist.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Look at me still talking
</span><span style="color:#323232;">when there's Science to do.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">When I look out there,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I've experiments to run.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">There is research to be done.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">On the people who are
</span><span style="color:#323232;">still alive.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PS: And believe me I am
</span><span style="color:#323232;">still alive.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PPS: I'm doing Science and I'm
</span><span style="color:#323232;">still alive.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PPPS: I feel FANTASTIC and I'm
</span><span style="color:#323232;">still alive.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">FINAL THOUGHT:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">While you're dying I'll be
</span><span style="color:#323232;">still alive.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">FINAL THOUGHT PS:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And when you're dead I will be
</span><span style="color:#323232;">still alive.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">STILL ALIVE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Still alive.
</span>
Cobalt Core. I absolutely love this game and can’t wait to get off work to go play it. The soundtrack is absolutely amazing and I love deck builder games.
Edit: For 2024 you can look at my wishlist if you want here.
Holy fuck is there a lot of content in Cyberpunk 2077. I remember when the game came out people complained of it being as wide as an ocean and as deep as a puddle but those people can fuck right outta here. It’s chock full of interesting stories to learn about and tons of fun gameplay. Same goes for Phantom Liberty which takes countless hours to get through.
I get that cost does not directly correlate to play time when it comes to video games, but it’s hard for me not to gawk at how this game was sold for the same price point of the yearly reskin of <insert corporate slop here>.
No, the irony of how CyberPUNK was almost ruined by corporate interference is not lost on me, but it’s clear that the developers, artists, writers, programmers, and designers behind this game are true masters of the craft.
This year, I’m most looking forward to playing through it again after I’ve taken a good couple months off.
I enjoy Cyberpunk quite a lot too, but if you're going to criticize the depth of the game, it's not necessarily because the writing is subpar or anything. It would just be a reflection of how differently the game can play out with different builds. It's a little better now with the 2.0 update, but the designers still very explicitly allowed for a hacking option here, a strength option there, and so on. Compare that against something like Baldur's Gate 3 where you're free to break all sorts of rules by just casting flight or invisibility on your party and solving a problem in a way that you came up with that the designers didn't go out of their way to plan for. The latter is real depth. A deep RPG should probably feel like your experience was pretty different from others' experience.
That’s fair. I guess I read the criticism like they were saying the game lacked the depth of the Witcher 3 which I would say is far from true. They’re roughly the same imo
Alisa is a great horror game that uses pre-rendered backgrounds and plays very much like an old Resident Evil game. It even opens up with a pretty nice FMV intro.
One big difficulty of it is that there’s one finite currency used for buying upgrades, weapons, health, and ammo; and you’ll likely be strained if you avoid buying the latter.
Mindustry. I expected Mindustry to be a Factorio clone, but it’s uniquely fast-paced and messy. I find it difficult to tell the buildings apart, though, so I may have to hunt down a graphics mod.
Beyond All Reason. I really enjoyed Planetary Annihilation, so this seems like a natural pick. I’ve barely sunk my teeth into it, but I’m impressed so far.
I installed Gemcraft (the newest one) again after completing it ages ago. Having a blast 🙂 Sucks that FPS is limited to 30 though. I have since bought a 144hz monitor
Good to hear that the DLC is different and better, I too finished GoT this last year and by the end I was so worn out by the game that I had zero desire to keep going into the DLC.
While it has good parts for sure, I think GoT is massively overrated by many. I keep hearing people say it’s one of the best games they’ve ever played and I just can’t see it. It’s a solid open world collect-a-thon with a fairly satisfying combat system but it’s way too long for what it offers and wears out its welcome pretty fast, especially since the quest design is so bland and repetitive. Almost all side stories are just “talk to person, go somewhere and kill enemies, return”, and main stories overuse walk-and-talk way too much.
The story is pretty mediocre and the consistently dour and overly serious tone makes the game a true slog once the novelty wears off. Kenji alone is not enough to balance it out.
The bossfight duels are cool though and good fun, often with really cool settings and gorgeous visuals, like floating lanterns in shallow water. I wish there were more of them, and that they were repeatable at will.
Started a modded Minecraft server with friends. Center mod is the absolutely rad Create mod ecosystem focused on steam-punk-esque factory automation. I will let the mod trailer speak for itself: piped.video/watch?v=rR8W-f9YhYA
If anyone has questions about self-hosting MC in a docker environment, ask away.
It really sucks, that the next FF7R will probably only come to Steam in a year or two. I liked the Remake far more than I thought, but I'm not going to buy a PS5 for the sequel.
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