I am sure anyone who played Tears of the Kingdom did that at some point, but there are those koroks little guys you’re supposed to guide to their destination, generally by designing machines to carry them there.
Of course instead you just strap them to the most absurd rocket powered contraptions and play Korok Space Program.
I like CrossCode, but I am going to bat for Phoenotopia Awakening, one of the best game almost nobody has heard about. Slightly different perspective but similarly massive game full of secrets, puzzles, fun characters and a consistent world where even the tiniest bit of banter can lead you to discover something on the other side of the map.
It was not a huge problem for me, but I play lots of metroidvania, and I am used to memorizing stuff for later. And for stuff that I know will be hard to remember, occasionally, I might take notes or screenshots of hints.
Though most of the time, there are more than one hint for a single quest. The game does a very good job at updating every related NPC dialogue when something has changed.
But if you want to find everything, yeah you have to talk to absolutely everyone. TWICE. Almost everyone has two lines of dialogue at any moment.
Shin Megami Tensei games have you rename their protagonist (and often the 3 other central characters too), but most of them don’t have a canonical name. Also most of the time those people are supposed to be Japanese. Every time I am starting a game like that I struggle to choose a name that doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb for them.
If there is a default name, I usually use it. Exceptions are the kind of RPG where the character is a blank slate, whose identity doesn’t matter at all and whose appearance is custom (like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Xenoblade X for example). And stuff like Pokémon, obviously. When your avatar is going to meet other players, doesn’t look good if everyone has the same name.
I started Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U) without even knowing the main character had a canon name (it’s… Cross. Like the X is supposed to be pronounced in the games’s title). But even if know it now I still rename them. They are custom, there is multiplayer, and story-wise they’re the blandest of characters anyway, so…
It doesn’t actually appear anywhere in game but Oblivion’s main character has an internal name in the editor. “Bendu Olo”. Very Geoge Lucas kind of name.
A bit of warning : I’ve seen indie developers mention that having a single common word for their game title was a mistake. It makes it hard to search for. A combination of words or a simple phrase is better in that regard.
Searching only for “Architect game” right now already yields a bunch of things, like a Korean MMO, actual house architect simulators, and you know, the very popular Prison Architect.
They litterally did 4 years of re-releasing the exact same FIFA on Switch with only a roster update, just slapping a “legacy edition” on them for good measure. If it’s the same game, by comparison, making it a DLC of the previous edition is slightly more honest.
Annual sports game editions are just a wet dream a marketing genius had back in the 90s. A shame that it must still work on a significant part of their audience.
That cycle was artificially squeezed into one year though.
If we’re staying in the area of games that don’t rely on story or lots of new manually crafted environments, a game like, say, SimCity could have had a minor update and be released slightly better every year. That didn’t happen, it got 3 games in ten years despite being quite popular.
Yeah, the fact it’s only mobile games surprised me a bit, especially since they don’t seem to mention it anywhere until you see the only platform filters are iOS and Android.
There are several games I have a small interest in but from companies I don’t trust much, so a review of the potential manipulation tactics in those might have been useful to me.
I don’t play mobile games though. This is unfortunately not at all exclusive to mobile.
Edit : just saw the notice about other platforms coming. Makes sense.
So maybe some of you have seen the recent ROM hack come out, by the developer of Pokémon Emerald Seaglass, called Pokémon Lazarus. This one has a far larger scale to everything, it’s quite clear that it is a massive undertaking for a sole dev, and most of the community is loving it....
I discovered that game long after it was abandoned, and I love it. My dream is a version of this with a slightly modernized UI (especially since it was made for low-res 4:3 screen ratios), maybe more movie genres and mod integration for user content like planet coaster.
Oh yeah, these terrible execs from other companies who veto female protagonists on principle, insist on implementing the same list of a thousand terrible features in all games regardless of genre, and harass their employees while being protected by HR and the CEO.
Wait, no, those are not the bad ones. You know the bad ones because they’ve worked for toothpaste companies.
There is a spot in Space Quest 6 where you can skip a puzzle and go to the solution immediately… If you already know what to look for. I tried that once, since it was not my first run and I remembered the last step.
At first the narrator wonders how you did that, then he assumes you’ve been using a walkthrough. He shames you and punishes you by slowly draining your score counter… Before reverting it and telling you not to do it again.
In Hollow Knight there’s an accidental one at a pretty climactic moment. Hornet shouts something to get you ready for the big fight. It’s in her usual gibberish language, but lots of people hear it as “GIT GUD!”
It’s obvious that demo was 99% fake and the eventual end product would have been way more scripted and simple than what he hyped it to be (I mean, it’s Molyneux). But he’s also been backstabbed by Microsoft on that one.
The Kinect prototype he was working with was not the Kinect that was eventually released. At one point Microsoft cut corners and removed the internal processor that was suposed to make Kinect work, leaving the console to deal with all the extra computation. It was barely possible to make a simple Kinect game not run like shit, making something relatively smart and responsive would have been a pipe dream.
Dead Cells had one for me, in the boss fight against the Giant. Spoiler.
SpoilerThe giant is a very melancholic, dignified old servant who’s feeling betrayed and disappointed in the player (long story, happens before the game, you don’t remember it and you’re only just piecing together what happened). When he dies, he starts slowly sinking in lava with a very sad expression, with a speech about how “You were an example to us all”, lamenting about what happened, etc… And just before being completely immerged, with just his hand still reaching out of lava… “You…” “…are an ass!” And he flips you off. Perfect delivery.
As usual the worst part is the title (by design, of course. Gotta farm those clicks).
“there are too many but keep dreaming if you want big sacks of money” is not the guy’s quote. The frankenquote is ambiguous on purpose, it could sound either like sarcasm or like a semi-cautious encouragement.
In the article, he sounds way more negative toward live services than that. There’s no “but”, he just says it’s an “illusion” and it “mostly doesn’t happen”.
Quest is cheap and good hardware, but its software layer is dystopian hell. Obviously, I mean, it’s meta.
I love the cheap access to decent PC and embedded VR on my quest 3, I absolutely hate this OS and its constant corporate spam. I know, this is kinda why its so cheap. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Don’t worry, guys. I’m sure their investment partner, the president’s totally squeaky-clean son-in-law Jared Kushner, will make sure nothing bad comes of this deal. It’s not like he’s ever used the power of his connections to fatten his wallet, right?
Probably not. Even the thing that was shown several years ago, and that hasn’t been mentioned again since, wasn’t a sequel. It was a completely different style of game, and a prequel with different characters.
The first game ended on a sequel hook, and left a lot unresolved. People who asked for a sequel mostly wanted to know what happens next. They weren’t asking for a procedural multiplayer open world with different characters in another time frame.
BGE ends like the Empire Strikes Back. It’s a bittersweet ending in which main characters have evolved, but the conflict is not resolved at all… and there’s even a good guy still in deep shit. Obviously it needs the sequel to wrap everything up.
BGE2’s announcement is like we got nothing after Empire Strikes Back for a decade, so no Return of the Jedi, and George Lucas came back to tell us “we’re doing the prequel trilogy now, no plan on ever concluding the old storyline”.
It’s true. Reviewers rave about a game, I pick it up and play it, and they’re raving about a new one before I’ve finished that last one. I’ve got a list of 20+ games that came out this year that I still haven’t gotten around to. I might get through 5 of them before the new year. And you know, if wouldn’t hurt my...
The question here was if RuneScape gold is a product or if it is legal tender. If it was legal tender then you don’t pay VAT on it, similar to when if you trade one currency to another VAT is not applied.
Even if they went that way (good luck with that), doesn’t that mean farming gold regularly and for profit should still be registered as a professional activity? Or at least the result of it declared as revenue?
Who asked for this? Beyond Microsoft executives who want to justify their paycheck, I mean.
Though really there might be good entertainment value for a few streamers out there. Use it on a niche game or a fairly complex one and laugh at the inevitable hallucinated bullshit as the assistant pretends to know about it.
Edit : just read it was on a “list of supported games”. Booo. Cowards.
I’ve played the first two Discworld point and click games. Let me tell you, I might have believed you if you told me that was a true hint for the first one.
Even knowing the books it got its inspiration from won’t help you with some of its “puzzles”.
This is is totally free right now, but claiming it is in a morally grey area. It’s also not as simple as adding it to your library, I’ll explain how in a sec, though. Anyway, since I figured since it is being shared everywhere, I might as well share it here also....
Not sure I want that after the reviews, which is a shame because a good fantasy city builder is something I’d pay for. But I wouldn’t want to invest time in an unfinished game that’s turning to a mobile idle thing model.
But I am a bit curious about how they are doing this. I don’t think Steam allows different pricing from the wishlist, do they?
Did they just hide the free base game purchase leaving only paid options on the store page? It’s looking like that, technically you can’t buy “Leviathan’s fantasy” alone from the store, only paid bundles (with the new version? and weirdly, this makes Leviathan’s fantasy cost money inside that bundle making it more expensive? so confusing).
Seems to me he and Gearbox have been in lots of shit for a while now (the infamous USB drive, serious plagiarism accusations when Borderlands did an artistic 180 during development, Alien : Colonial Marines released broken as hell after funneling its funding to make BL2, Duke Nukem Forever…)
And every time Pitchford’s (mostly unnecesary) public answer has been terrible.
Kazeta is a new OS by the creator of ChimeraOS. You might have seen some news on it in the last few days, or at least some posts on social media. Its not trying to be the next big gaming platform, it’s more like a little love letter to the old style of gaming. Instead of all those menus, online accounts, and updates, it takes...
Switch still have them. Of course now some publishers on Switch 2 are shitting on the very concept of cartridges by making empty carts that are just keys to download the game.
Something I’ve picked up on with my gaming preference is stories that don’t simply focus on one “mood” for the game, but alter it to fit the situation. Players get a relaxed time exploring or diving into combat, and the world is inviting and colorful, but when the story builds, it puts brutal tests of character in front...
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 became my favourite entry in the series because of how it still has light, silly moments, improbable vistas and absurd world building, but when it tries for dark, it hits hard (and to be honest it’s generally a good deal darker than the other games even from the beginning).
Previous episodes had their emotional moments, but nothing comes close to one particular scene in 3.
Today’s game is No Man’s Sky. With the new corvette update i had to play it. Games with fully functional ship building functions are what i live for and i’m happy to have it here. The game lets me get up while flying and walk around and even open the back door. I ended up opening it up and just watching the view....
Today’s game is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Usually i’d emulate it, but i got a chance to play it again on Native hardware and got to join friends for multiplayer tonight. I’d never gotten to do Multiplayer to be honest, the most i got was playing on a single system with siblings and that was my experience. Getting to...
Oh fuck, Hard DK has found his way to you too then :)
Streamer Alpharad got a “Hard DK” bit running since they got their ass handed over to them by a crazy Mario Party CPU DK that was just gambling like mad and winning everything.
They trained an incredibly good amiibo CPU DK in Smash they called Hard DK in reference to this.
My problem with Smash is I just can’t commit to one character and I’m just kind of bad at all of them. If anything, the most decent I get might be with the Links and Belmonts. I guess projectile jank is kind of my thing.
“Another fighting game character”, take your pick. Just with non-nintendo IPs at this point it could be Ryu, Ken, Terry Bogard or Kazuya Mishima.
And then you can throw Solid Snake, Pac-Man, Sonic, Mega Man, Simon Belmont, fucking Minecraft Steve and a Mii disguised as Sans from Undertale into the mix.
Amiibos are a bit expensive. There are a few DK amiibos, they should all work with Smash because amiibos have a character identifier that’s recognized between games and amiibo series.
The ones from smash bros and super mario series should be around the “normal” price (for me it’s about 13-15 euros). Maybe you can find a second hand one for cheaper.
There’s a new one with DK and Pauline for Bananza, like other new amiibos it costs a bit more (around 18€ for me). It unlocks a costume in Bananza as an extra.
There’s also an old Skylander DK figure that doubles as an amiibo if I remember correctly. It’s kinda ugly and cheap-looking, and probably not easy to find, but who knows.
Today’s game is Super Mario Galaxy. This is the attempt. I’m going to beat it this time… probably. I said the same things every other time. But I have the thing I’m playing it on all to myself in the evenings, so literally, I have no excuse....
2 botches things that worked very well before. Especially the camera that did a good job of always being in the right place in 1, but in 2 you suddenly have crazy angles and blind spots that play against you. This can’t even be explained by more complex level design, so who knows what happened.
Also they got rid of the hub for a small, disturbing looking ship and a very generic map, and they killed any trace of story. Those were two things that really set Galaxy 1 apart IMO.
On the new side of things, there were Yoshi, with different powers, and more challenges (but they kind of feel repetitive, because you end up needing to do the same things with just an additional timer or enemy etc…). And the last stars were quite a bit harder than anything in Galaxy.
Yeah, completely. Pauline’s got her time in the limelight right now, between Odyssey and DK Bananza, but Rosalina was just relegated to “bonus Peach clone that can do a swirl attack” in 3D World, and that’s basically it.
Games you played inside video games. angielski
Share your own game rules you have made up that are not the way the game was originally meant to be played....
Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding (www.gamesindustry.biz) angielski
DAE name their characters by their official name? angielski
For example, when I play RPGs that allow you to rename characters (like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy), I usually keep the default name....
Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of ["Infrastruction" it is.] (x.com) angielski
EDIT5: yolo, Infrastruction it is....
EA Announces No F1 26 Next Year, F1 25 Will Get a Major Expansion Instead (www.ea.com) angielski
DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns (www.darkpattern.games) angielski
Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation angielski
So maybe some of you have seen the recent ROM hack come out, by the developer of Pokémon Emerald Seaglass, called Pokémon Lazarus. This one has a far larger scale to everything, it’s quite clear that it is a massive undertaking for a sole dev, and most of the community is loving it....
Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Lionhead's secret best game, and one of the greatest ever abandonware games - The Movies - turns 20 today [Eurogamer] (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? angielski
‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? angielski
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37932218...
Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
US senators voice concerns over ‘foreign influence and national security risks’ in Saudi-funded EA acquisition | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
Don’t worry, guys. I’m sure their investment partner, the president’s totally squeaky-clean son-in-law Jared Kushner, will make sure nothing bad comes of this deal. It’s not like he’s ever used the power of his connections to fatten his wallet, right?
Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) angielski
Mine is Joanna Dark (Perfect Dark N64)
Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game partly due to ‘political concerns’ | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
Link to the original scoop by Stephen Totillo’s Game File
The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games (www.bloomberg.com) angielski
It’s true. Reviewers rave about a game, I pick it up and play it, and they’re raving about a new one before I’ve finished that last one. I’ve got a list of 20+ games that came out this year that I still haven’t gotten around to. I might get through 5 of them before the new year. And you know, if wouldn’t hurt my...
EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs (www.bleepingcomputer.com) angielski
100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) angielski
This is is totally free right now, but claiming it is in a morally grey area. It’s also not as simple as adding it to your library, I’ll explain how in a sec, though. Anyway, since I figured since it is being shared everywhere, I might as well share it here also....
GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago angielski
'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash (www.ign.com) angielski
Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Shocking exactly 4 people on the planet, Squadron 42 might not make it's just-recently-confirmed-absolutely-rock-solid 2026 release date. 😂...
Konami’s AI project backfires, Yu-Gi-Oh! videos deleted over unauthorized use of popular actress’ voice (automaton-media.com) angielski
Massive Gaming Crossover: Among Us Teams Up with Popular RPG (gamersplan.com) angielski
Kazeta: the new Linux-based physical media OS (my article!) angielski
Kazeta is a new OS by the creator of ChimeraOS. You might have seen some news on it in the last few days, or at least some posts on social media. Its not trying to be the next big gaming platform, it’s more like a little love letter to the old style of gaming. Instead of all those menus, online accounts, and updates, it takes...
What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"? angielski
Something I’ve picked up on with my gaming preference is stories that don’t simply focus on one “mood” for the game, but alter it to fit the situation. Players get a relaxed time exploring or diving into combat, and the world is inviting and colorful, but when the story builds, it puts brutal tests of character in front...
Day 408 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is No Man’s Sky. With the new corvette update i had to play it. Games with fully functional ship building functions are what i live for and i’m happy to have it here. The game lets me get up while flying and walk around and even open the back door. I ended up opening it up and just watching the view....
Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Usually i’d emulate it, but i got a chance to play it again on Native hardware and got to join friends for multiplayer tonight. I’d never gotten to do Multiplayer to be honest, the most i got was playing on a single system with siblings and that was my experience. Getting to...
Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is Super Mario Galaxy. This is the attempt. I’m going to beat it this time… probably. I said the same things every other time. But I have the thing I’m playing it on all to myself in the evenings, so literally, I have no excuse....