chloyster

chloyster, 4 miesiące temu

hollow knight silksong

• Hollow Knight
• Islets
• Ender lilies
• Ori and the will of the wisps (don’t love blind forest personally)
• Blasphemous 1 and 2
• Pretty much all the 2d metroids, especially Dread
• Guacamelee 1 and 2
• The messenger kinda
• Steamworld dig 2
• Animal Well

Oh and what I like about them. Exploration is 90% of a good metroidvania for me. Unlocking abilities and finding secrets in old locations is just my favorite gameplay loop. I don’t tend to love super linear metroidvanias a-la Metroid fusion, though it’s still a good game. But exploration usually can’t be all of it. Combat if it’s there should be decent at best, puzzles are always good. But really if exploration isn’t there just right I probably won’t love it. Also most of these I play on steam deck / PC. Except metroid

chloyster, 4 miesiące temu

I had a similar experience and didn’t think I would do ng+ but still pretty much immediately started it and did another playthrough lol

chloyster, 4 miesiące temu

Janet really is the best. And yeah she did such a good job here

chloyster, 4 miesiące temu

I need to. Loved her on Kinda Funny. Big loss for them when she left. Sorely lacking women voices on there

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

I mean yeah but really no. The political implications are too big to ignore here. Especially given the event being in LA with all the shit going on. Also like as a particularly targeted person in this fascist administration, it really doesn’t feel great for people to use fascist iconography to make a stupid joke!

Also like splitgate 2? Really? The game that during this announcement announced a battle royale mode? The most tired shooter mode since hero shooters? And the one that had $145 microtransactions on launch? This is the savior of fps gaming?

Nah

chloyster, 4 miesiące temu

And I am also free to think the joke is in bad taste and to refuse support for a game that makes jokes that make light of the shit situation I’m in :)

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

Unfortunately apart from a scraper / parser being written I don’t see a way to do it easily

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

I very much enjoy the threads! If for no other reason than having a space to discuss a game that recently came out

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

Well I can already predict this thread will be full of comments on the price so I’ll go ahead and give actual impressions on the game.

It’s really good! The free roam mode is maybe a bit more bare bones than I thought it would be but it’s still great fun driving around and doing challenges. Some of the challenges are legitimately difficult and some of the special ones have taken me ages to complete. The driving feels great, the new movement mechanics are really fun. Knockout tour is absolutely the star here and a great new mode. The AI is harder this time around which makes racing against them much more fun in my opinion.

Overall I’ve been having an amazing time. I do think $80 is steep. But that aside, the game is outstanding

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

Yeah for essentially $50 with the bundle it’s not bad

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

I may be misremembering but infinite ammo is like a setting you unlock for guns that you buy with points or something of the sort. I think they are toggle-able on and off.

Edit: I believe there is an option in special settings to turn infinite ammo off

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

Post nuke racoon city is such an awesome idea for a setting. So excited for this

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

All I gotta say is I am beyond hyped for Donkey Kong Bananza. It looks sooooo gooooodddddd

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

Yeah I’m lucky enough that I have a squad that’s all very into elden ring on the same system to play with. But if you don’t have that it sounds like a pretty miserable time. Really hope they add cross play and balance single player more

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

Yep it’s really whack. Sucks too because I have 2 distinct squads. A crew from college and a crew from high school. One on PlayStation and one on PC… Like I could buy it on both I suppose but that just sucks lol

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

Ive been going to pax West since 2011 and AAA absolutely had a huge presence there. It was the bulk of the show. Tabletop had a tiny section of the floor

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

The game key cards are only an option developers can use. Afaik no Nintendo published games are using them. Most games still have the game on the cartridge

chloyster, 5 miesięcy temu

I was just setting one of these up a week or so ago! Super excited to dive into it

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

Damn whoever gifted you Obra Dinn has really good taste! Great game! 🙂

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

Yeahhh I bounced off la mulana pretty hard. It’s good but I think it’s maybe a little too much for me

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s so good isn’t it? Figured out some big brain puzzles yesterday and was blown away. Absolutely loving it

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

I think I’m at day 21 or 22. Made it to the antechamber for the first time yesterday. Not sure hours played atm

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

I will say the antechamber is just the beginning of the end game stuff. There’s a lot more to go after making it inside

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

Yeah I kinda get that. I’ve had a couple of those walls. But I think if you purposely try to pick rooms that you’ve not had, even if it seems bad or not useful things might start to piece together more. A lot of things can be useful in ways you might not expect. I think I’ve maybe had 1 or 2 runs where I truly learned nothing. Every other run has had some sort of knowledge or permanent progress. Also some rooms only appear on certain edges of the house. I’ve found some of the important profession related ones that way.

But yeah it’s a game you gotta treat as much as a roguelite as you do a puzzle game. And it unfortunately isn’t for everyone

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

Yeah I agree there so far. I’ll have to see once I beat it and peel back some of the layers. But yeah while it is scratching that same discovery itch for me, outer wilds is an unmatched experience. I will say though, while the rng is definitely different, there is a similar feeling to starting a new loop in OW and starting a new day in BP

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

Just rolled credits! Really amazing. But there’s still sooooooooo much more

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

small hintYeah I’ve also never seen a tomb while drafting, but there is one other entrance that the map shows. Have you found the pump room?

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

another small fountain hintThe fountain isn’t where you think. And is much more accessible. Calling it a fountain is a bit much to be frank. If you were to drain it I think you would see what it’s referring to

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

spoilerOh damn I haven’t unlocked any of the safes yet. I need to work on that. Also for the boiler it doesn’t have to be immediately next to what you’re trying to power. They just need to be connected by rooms that also have vents going through them. The passageway and the security room for instance are 2 I know that have them. Look out for rooms that have vents going through the top to each door

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

Yeah it’s surprising how little you actually need to roll credits. Also no problem! Happy to help :)

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

Congrats! Yeah there’s sooooo much left to discover. Definitely try and make it back to room 46 again. There’s a lot in there to point you in new directions :)

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

Doing well! I got the clue written out that tells you how to solve the safes. Have opened 3 now I think. Also have two of the sanctum keys. I’ve been continually coat checking the gear wrench so I can someday make the boiler room common… But I’ve yet to find it again lol. I’m trying to hook up the pump room so I can drain the reservoir.

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

I think I only have 2 actually thinking about it. I have the boudoir safe and time release safe from the shelter. I think I know how to open the office safe though. Yes I want to fully drain the reservoir and getting the boiler again had been a pain. I also got the tomb for the first time yesterday and opened that entrance to the basement too. The sanctum things, yeah I know generally what is needed but the clues needed are eluding me. Though I think I found one at the top of the clock tower. The main thing in room 46 is a list of where all the sanctum keys are. There is another puzzle in there involving a map but I haven’t figured that out yet.

Also really want to get to classroom 8. I’ve only been able to make it to 5 so far

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

Oh my god that sucksssss. Yeah the first one does help with the sigils I think. Grade 4 does too. I also started getting a bunch of letters delivered to the mail room but they’re like basically just solutions to early puzzles I already figured out

chloyster, 6 miesięcy temu

Yeah I def think that would be a fine change. Though when you actually unlock the doors they stay open thankfully so that’s something