What do you think it is about it that makes you nauseous? I notice that I get sick when I’m playing first person games with a low field of view and opening it up really helps, as does a higher refresh rate monitor. Have you tried either of those?

I agree EA sucks, but is it reasonable to expect a company to maintain and pay for servers for a 15 year old game on 360 and PS3? Because that’s how old Bad Company is.

Yeah those online games should have absolutely had a way to host servers, but that’s in part on the devs but how many people does this actually affect? I get it, it’s the principle of things and games being a service and no dedicated servers are is an issue, but I’m personally not upset at all about this. It’s been a decade since I played any of those Battlefields on a console.

I care about none of those games, I just wanna know if Nina Fucking Struthers is alright.

Alien: Isolation is one of two games to actually give me nightmares, the other one being Amnesia: The Dark Descent, particularly the sewer bit.

Such an amazing game.

May the rats eat your eyes, good sir.

Replayed a chunk of it last year and it’s still super atmospheric and very spooky. Very fun.

lol I don’t have time for you.

It’s a complex, modern game, I’m assuming there are bugs on release that will get patched in the future.

edit: very funny that this is controversial. It literally just got a hotfix to patch a bunch of bugs and glitches. There will be more and I can wait a bit for them to get ironed out.

This might be one of those games I’ll save for winter when I’m snowed in or just don’t wanna go outside. Looks intimidating and probably the best for the kinks to be ironed out in the meantime.

Neat.

Beat Squidward’s Legacy (excellent) and still had an itch for more open world game, so decided to buy Red Dead Redemption 2 on sale. Beat it on PS4 a few years ago and it’s just not hitting the same way Hogwarts Legacy did or like it did back in the day.

Slow start, combat is straight up boring compared to Hogwarts, there is no difficulty mode adjustment other than turning off auto-aim which the game was clearly built around, extremely limited way to approach missions (oops you stepped off the designated trail, gotta retry again), audio mixing is fucked between gameplay and cut-scene dialog, already had a couple crashes including one that a lot of other people reported years ago that can only be bypassed by skipping a cutscene. Also that horse traversal is so slow in comparison. It’s still alright and the story and presentation is fun, I had much more fun with it 4 or so years ago. Maybe it will be more fun once it opens up a bit, but I’m already a few hours in.

Thank you.

There are a lot of other established great podcasts in this space. Why should people listen to yours and what makes yours unique?

They’re so damn long though. I feel like I’ve been playing Yakuza 0 for the last 3 years and it never ends.

Surprisingly good game, I enjoyed it quite a bit a few months ago.

Dumb as a brick story, nothing about anything actually makes sense when you think about it for more than 2 seconds, but it’s fun as hell, hordes are legitimately terrifying at times and it looks great and runs like a dream.

It came loaded up with a bunch of games, so I’m still going through all of them and don’t remember the names.

It does have breakout and snake though. Hopefully I’ll stumble on a Tetris.

30+ upvotes and no responses. I can’t say I’m surprised. This thing has a small community outside of the Arduboy forums.

Either way, I got some time to fart around with some random games and it’s *really *fun. I love the Game and Watch physical type feel and the “anybody can make a thing” attitude and I’ve been mesmerized by some of these games longer than I thought I would have. Not every game is fascinating, but every one was made by an amateur on a constrained platform and the whole platform feels like a long form Wario Ware game where every game varies from 30 seconds to several minutes. It’s genuinely sweet, I love discovering new games on this thing.

I love the idea of people developing games for a very limited, black and white console and this thing doesn’t cost $200 like the Playdate. That’s almost an entirely different one of these, but they’re in the same realm and you shouldn’t discount it.

It obviously won’t emulate your Game Boy games, but it comes stock with a bunch of little 2 minute games that a passionate and loving community that loves retro games and maybe hates Christmas made.

I just want one good one. This number means nothing.

Had an itch for an open world game and ended up buying Hogwarts Legacy on sale on PC.

Pretty good, well made, decently well polished, great voice acting, has quite a bit of fun stuff if you were ever a HP fan as a kid, combat’s fun, story’s decent enough, but it really isn’t an RPG, it’s more of an open world action game and the quest pacing is odd. Also doesn’t run well on my aged 7700k/gtx 1080 rig, but I have a new one that I’m putting together by the end of the week, so I put a pause on the game for now.

Just feels like I’m overpowered for everything even on Hard past the first couple hours and the main quest level requirement is always like 10 levels below my level. Also the in game “gps/showing a path where to go on the map” feature straight up sucks in this one.

The dialog system is a bit of a dud, so don’t expect any flexibility in playing a deceptive Slytherin bad guy with ambiguous morals or passing charisma checks, it’s all very 2 dimensional., But even with all these flaws, it’s a solid one of these and it’s fun to fly around Hogwarts on a broom and find what will eventually be Hagrid’s hut.

I’m probably halfway in with 20ish hours in and so far it’s like a 7/10.

That’s unfortunate, but locked framerate is a deal breaker for me, so pass. Thanks for the rec.

No, I won’t ever buy a Meta/Facebook product.

I was at one point really excited about VR (2016/2017) and actually built this rig I have right now in big part for it, but ended up returning an Oculus Rift after my very disappointing experience with it. And other than HL: Alyx, Beat Saber and a couple other titles, there don’t really seem to be many really captivating titles that justify the cost and space requirements for a proper VR setup. I’m open to maybe getting a VR headset in the future if something compelling comes along, but a Quest ain’t it. Thanks for the recommendation though, I hear HL: Alyx is fantastic.

Eventually. By buying an AMD CPU and GPU I guess I’m getting two free Starfields, so beating both copies will probably take me through the end of the year or at least through September.

It’s only been a year or so since my last run of Kingdom Come, but I could probably go for another one later this year. Such a fantastic game.

Is Elden Ring still locked to 60hz?

That’s one of the games I’ve been putting off. I bought it when it came out, but couldn’t run it well enough and got a refund. Will definitely rebuy it on the new rig.

Absolutely not interested in any of it, but I will admit it’s pretty if you’re into that sort of artstyle.

100% forgot about it, but I loved the first one. Thank you.

The newest Metro game and Death Stranding are on my list too, thank you.

Nice, RDR2, Control and Spooderman are specifically the titles I’ve been putting off until I built a new PC, thank you. Even though I beat RDR2 on PS4 a couple years back, I’m very down to revisit in 144hz.

I might give CP2077 another go too, beat that on release and it ran surprisingly well on a 1080 aside from all the goddamn bugs, but I’m curious to revisit it again with all the bells, whistles and patches. Forza 5 and God of War also ran spectacularly well on the older hardware as well, but I’m probably due for a replay of those too.

I’ll have to check out Returnal, I’ve heard mixed reviews but haven’t actually looked into it. Thank you.

I just farted around with it for about 15 minutes and the narrative seems interesting and the setting is genuinely fascinating, but it plays like an amateur mod from a decade ago.

The black and white with red color scheme is a detriment to immersiveness and everything about this feels like a “generic, stock Unreal Engine 3” game. Down to the having to modify the same exact settings as every other UE3 game to get it to run past 62fps. None of it feels good or polished and there are better sort of unique single player experiences like this out there. It’s not fun, it’s not particularly engaging and it doesn’t feel good. Obviously, it has come out years after this game, but The Forgotten City is a much, much better executed one of these.

I’m sure somebody would appreciate this, it seems to have a very favorable score on Steam, but it’s not for me.

Oh yeah, I vaguely remember this.

Is it any good? Honestly looks like a mod to another game.

GmanLives did a review of this 9 years ago I guess.

Sure, but that was ages ago.

I don’t know if it’s as simple as that, but I think long term support, community engagement and updates are maybe more of an indicator of longevity, but there’s definitely truth to what you’re saying.

A lot of it is also just plain luck and timing. Look at Rocket League, there was a whole another proto-Rocket League (Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars) that nobody really knew about on PS3 that had a very loyal cult following and look at how Rocket League blew up on the next iteration and how the devs keep updating and tweaking it still.

I don’t know, it’s all very complicated and I hope Battlebit keeps improving and the devs don’t go crazy and hopefully it’s not just a flavor of the month game like so many others before it.

Do sports games even do all that well on PC?

I kind of get not wanting to do a PC port considering how much more critical PC gamers are and how much more development and post launch support time and overall cost it adds considering every UFC/FIFA/NBA 2K/MADDEN sportsbro likely already has at least a last gen console almost exclusively for those games and like COD. No judgement there, I’m friends with some of these, but it sort of feels like they can still make bank only catering to consoles because that’s where the biggest share of their fans are.

Especially in less wealthy countries; there’s a reason why the last PS2 game to be released was Pro Evolution Soccer 2014, several years after every other genre, franchise and developer abandoned the platform. Maybe it’s just not worth the hassle and the money.

I’m always a little skeptical when there’s so much hype online around something and wasn’t sure if this was just a meme game at first, but it’s actually a very well done game.

Yeah it looks like Roblox and it has some quirks, but it’s damn impressive so far and a very fun game.

Against the Storm. Fantasy rogue like city builder/resource sim with a Warcraft 3 aesthetic. So good.

Who keeps asking for old games to be remade every couple of years?

Me and it’s been over a decade since RDR came out. I don’t have an Xbox anymore and would love to play one of my favorite games with upgraded graphics, maybe some updated gameplay and high framerates. Emulation is getting there, but it’s far from perfect.

Remasters/remakes and new IPs and games can exist at the same time and some of the best games this year have been remakes/remasters. Resident Evil 4 is incredible and the Metroid Prime remaster is fantastic as well. I also hear the Dead Space and System Shock remakes are great too. It’s fine, there are plenty of studios making all sorts of games and there’s something for everybody. It’s a huge industry.

3D Pinball Space Cadet Infinite 2023:

-Eye melting next generation 4k graphics and physics! Realistic shadows and ear melting 5.1 surround sound with EAX support (requires Sound Blaster card for audio)

-Requires internet connection on launch

-Slappin’ lit soundtrack by DJ Big Lil Cheesecake Fugg Face

-First three balls free, then requires a social media log in or 600 Microsoft Points per 7 balls

-$69.99 Limited Edition Unlocked Supreme version comes with unlimited balls, free security patches for 2 year life cycle of the game, unlocks objectives, missions and achievements.

-Ronald Reagan ball skins, Addams Family tables and tilt feature sold separately. Optional Mountain Dew background available.

-Plays at 25 frames per second, paddles T-pose randomly, servers constantly overloaded, on release. 7th generation i5 processors literally melt and catch on fire for an unknown reason, a dozen people die in house fires in the first 12 hours of the game coming out. Developers release a long form apology statement on Twitter.

-Patch to address the above requires Windows Defender to be completely uninstalled from the system in favor of McAffee Antivirus and VPN services. But an old, unsupported build of those for some reason.

-Seasons and competitive mode TBA.