What video games are you currently playing?

[tp4tissue]

Ok, the main problem with dragon age Veilguard.

Creators must have written out the dialogue for a much younger audience, so they can understand what's going on. That made the conversations very flat and verbose. It's extremely unnatural to an older reader.  If you took the same plot, and made it normal speech, it's fine, no better or worse than any other vidya.

Older people are not the audience, and given that no one ever needs to grow up anymore, well, they turn to drinking haterade.

[tp4tissue]

Omg, the characters look super cool. That shark jetpack.

[tp4tissue]

Doom eternal, too much or too little platforming? Thoughts.

[Tym]

Doom eternal, too much or too little platforming? Thoughts.

You ever played the Yakuza games? Think they'd be right up your street.

[tp4tissue]

Doom eternal, too much or too little platforming? Thoughts.

You ever played the Yakuza games? Think they'd be right up your street.

On the to play list.

[noisyturtle]

Doom eternal, too much or too little platforming? Thoughts.

You ever played the Yakuza games? Think they'd be right up your street.

On the to play list.

Infinite Wealth is a very good game. After the first 2 hours of setting up the story(yeah, it takes that long for every Yakuza game) the game basically turns into like 75 different mini games that are all quite fun and easy to get sidetracked with for a week.

I think Yakuza games get better and better as they lean more into ridiculousness and absurdity. 

[tp4tissue]

Doom Eternal is so much harder than the first game.

It totally kicks your ass in the early stages as doom guy is very squishy without all his upgrades and faster damage.

[tp4tissue]

Damn it, why doom eternal so difficult, it's kicking Tp4 so hard. The required Focus and Intensity, a younger person's game.

[noisyturtle]

I never cared for the ammo loop in Eternal, and how monsters are gun-coded for specific weapon weaknesses. I don't like being forced to use weapons I don't enjoy. That, and the stupid platforming/grapple sections.

[tp4tissue]

Marauders killing Tp4 for the 50th time. Head in hand, this is, omgggg....

[tp4tissue]

Yea, the platforming isn't "that" fun, but it's better than just walking from arena to arena. Gives you time to stop and look at the artwork.

[tp4tissue]

Finally at the Urdak level, This is their story heaven.

The sheer decadence of it, bought and paid for through tortured-soul energy.  Sounds familiar? Capitali..sm?

They also clearly color graded the game for 300 nits or so in SDR, that's odd because you'd have a heck of a time with shadow detail on most IPS monitors, and If you're using OLED, well then you'd use HDR.

So really this is the wrong color grade. They should target 120nits, but 120nits is clearly way too dark for this game, it looks crushed and un-colorful.

[tp4tissue]

Sigh. Finally onto Ancient God 1. Sigh.. no excuses now, have all the weapons and upgrades.  They still killzn' Tp4...

Thought about lowering difficulty from ultra-vilolence to easier mode, but IDK.. Kinda defeatist.

The weapon system is such that they took what the speed runners were doing from Doom 2016, and made that a game mechanic. This is not easy to master, especially with so many combo variations due to the monster weakness element.

[TomahawkLabs]

I spun up RDR2 to finally finish it. I feel like I am getting close. I bought the game on launch and after losing my save progress it was hard to want to restart. I want to see how it ends.

[phinix]

I spun up RDR2 to finally finish it. I feel like I am getting close. I bought the game on launch and after losing my save progress it was hard to want to restart. I want to see how it ends.

Oh I hate when it happens, nowadays with Steam recording saves its not that common, but back in the days, in 90s, 00s, I sometimes lost saves and was pissed as hell to start games over...

[tp4tissue]

Tried dat ace combat again, sigh. Nope still can't get into it, you can't see the thing you're shooting. And 90% of the game is in the looptiloop.

[ArchDill]

slither.io

[tp4tissue]

slither.io

Kekekekekkekee..sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss, it's really good but the team bot circle banking thing is basically unbeatable.

[noisyturtle]

Had a blast playing through the Sonic Galactic demo last night. What a wonderful game made with love. The stages and colors are amazing, the music is incredible, the movement is spot-on. Lovely game.

IDK how 2D Sonic ever existed without the dropdash mechanic, and dropdashing up walls and propelling off just feels good. The stages are a classic mix of high speed set pieces and platforming puzzles, but tend to keep the high speed through most of every stage in the demo, or at least incentivizes you to keep moving. Like I mentioned, the color pallet is so good, and all the stages look detailed and eye-popping. Really gives a taste of what a 2D Sonic would have looked like on the 32bit Saturn hardware. The music is crazy good, even the tutorial level had me tapping my toes. Additionally we get 2 'new' characters, one of which is a groundhog who's special ability I had more fun with than I have with some full AAA recent games. I'd play an entire game with levels designed just around his special ability.

I'd highly recommend the 30 mins or so it takes to play through the Sonic Galactic Demo v2 if you're a Sonic fan, or just like an old school 2D fast platformer that is well made. It's a free fan game: https://sonicgalactic.github.io/download.html

[tp4tissue]

The moment a video games asks Tp4, hey Tp, go collect these 4 items to advance the story. Tp4 be like, you can keep your story. /uninstall