The best and worst part about CrossCode is the lack of sequel.

For anyone else not familiar, here’s the first line of Relooted’s description:

Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game.

The forum is full of exactly what you’d expect.

I had never heard about temp tracks, but this makes so much sense. That’s a powerful homogenizing force.

But what does it say?

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

Uh oh. I’m starting it tonight.

Seriously! BoF 1-3 with modern graphics and controls would be great .

I see you too are familiar with Heart Forth Alicia.

I actually forgot about this clown. The Elon Musk of gaming.

HDR?

Especially if someone gets to assassinate Lord British again.

And Empress is gone, though they were pretty toxic so that’s no big loss for me.

It’s the Apple business model. No meaningful innovation, just minor tweaks.

No no, you don’t get it. Every single person in the world must love it for it to be the greatest game. Until that day, they’re just pretenders.

/s

Allegedly it’s supposed to release in October. The original release date was in 2020, so I suppose we’ll see!

Yeah, the Baby Yoda Show was its last dying gasp for me. I see the same pattern in most industries: something is profitable, so lean hard into it until the bubble bursts. It’s great for short-term profits but bad for long term and worse overall. I’m not particularly intelligent or educated in business but even I can see this is a terrible strategy.

It’s the new screen-mirrored laptop, taking the development of open-source software to the next level with real-time, in-room code transparency.

I don’t think anybody hates real-time combat. That feels like a strawman.

I do, but just because I have a disability that makes more button presses painful and turn-based tends to have fewer per hour. I also know others who dislike real-time because they’re bad at it. I agree with your sentiment completely, though. Liking real-time isn’t exclusive of also enjoying turn-based.

Not op, but I love tea; however, if the restaurants I frequent started replacing their drinks with a new lineup that ultimately all boiled down to variations on Darjeeling, I’d eventually find myself tired of it.

I still like FF12, although I’ve never beaten it. I had no idea people disliked it.

Good news: a Switch emulator already exists.

Same! While playing the intro, one of the guards just slid to the right as the emperor power walked through them. I had a good laugh.

CrossCode was SO good! It’s a great game and I’m always thrilled when I find others that played it.

Did you know its studio, Radical Fish, has another game coming?

Not OP, but I’m about 8 hours in and love it so far. It definitely has a few things I’d prefer it tweak, like a lack of HDR support on PC and no custom map markers, but they’re simply annoying, not deal breakers.

Metroidvanie? Metroidvanii?

I didn’t have to vet your profile at all to figure out you’re worth blocking. You did all the work for me.

I made a mistake: point three was dripping with sarcasm, so I followed with a line meant to highlight this, but I unthinkingly wrote it in the same highly sarcastic manner.

Do you actually just assume random people are racist for zero reason in your day to day life?

I have no idea what you’re trying to infer. Please tell me this isn’t a prelude to “all racism has some truth to it”.

Things that break immersion for some gamers:

1. Main character isn’t a white cishet male

2. NPCs that don’t reinforce the primacy of white cishet males

3. Acceptance of non-cis/het people in a story involving fantasy creatures that is otherwise totally believable, well-written, and, above all, where only this scene is clumsily delivered (and not the fact the supporting character’s hat appears to be a folded bird)

No sarcasm in the third point at all. (Edit: That’s more sarcasm where I’m indicating I’m being sarcastic in point three)

I agree 100%. I’d love a AAA game that uses the studio’s clout not for cutting edge graphics but a stellar, polished story and gameplay. The story doesn’t even need to be DEEP, just solid.

I would crowdfund the shit out of that.

This makes sense, you get physical copies! I haven’t purchased a physical copy in so long it didn’t even occur to me. Thanks for the explanation.

But why? Why do you pre-order? Does it gain you something that waiting until the launch date doesn’t provide?

Same, I was tired of having my ass handed to me then being tea bagged by preteens talking shit about my lack of skills and/or my mother. Excuse me for not playing FPSs eight hours every day after school like you, good Sir Acne.

I also had a good Sea of Stars cry. Totally worth playing. It sounds like DLC for it will drop in 2025 too.

Same, during a boss fight in Elden Ring. I died.

Ummm, yeah, me too… Discounts…🏴‍☠️🦜

I agree, but I have a problem I don’t know how to overcome. Maybe someone here has an idea.

I’m ADHD as fuck.

It’s the inattentive type and it cuts both ways. It’s not uncommon for me to turn on my phone and get distracted from what I had intended to do by notifications. On the flip side, if I don’t have notifications to let me know to check something, I may just forget the app exists entirely. If it’s something important, that’s not great.

Anyone have any ideas?

Playing this game anew would be an upside to early onset dementia for me.

Black sheep of the family

Their advice on pulling another thread is the way to go. Don’t even do something you think is related, just go do something new. You might find it’s related after all.