Yup until the 25th

Silksong news, probably??

Oh wait, autopilot.

Let me start by saying I have a few thousand hours in Hollow Knight and I do for the most part enjoy the Git Gud type of games.

There are entire genres of games that I can’t enjoy because they’re too open/chill and if they had a hard mode I would probably really like them. This is the same problem the other way.

Maybe wait and some modders might make the QoL parts you want available, maybe never play it, maybe watch a streamer do it. But not every game has to be fun for everyone.

I noticed, and did a lot of refreshing to eventually get it (over 2 hours after launch) but mostly it’s just funny and so so cool that a few Australian guys can make a game and it takes down every store. Straight badass.

I like GOG. It is a bit painful for a game I will sink 1000+ hours into (I hope, anyway) with randomizers and Archipelago runs, switching between modded/unmodded versions on the steam deck, for instance.

For Hollow Knight and Silksong, I can just save and launch the suite of non DRM files outside of Steam (and I do anyway), so I don’t see what GOG had over Steam for Silksong (other than the store not dying).

That said, any game with DRM I buy from GOG instead

Same, right back to it but now there’s a ghost item in my cart. Maybe this is worse than having it

I got it into my cart!

I can’t open my cart, but it’s in there

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkbylysplI

This is a great watch on the internet degeneracy of Silkposting

The movement looks great! I cannot wait

Good question, and it’s actually a 7 (I just didn’t pay enough attention). It’s like a ~1 year from now plan probably

Super cool! I have a 5 and my partner is hoping to get a 6.

How’s it feel? I went from a pixel to the 5, and she’s going from a pixel 8 to the FP6. I’d say my biggest complaint is that the 5 is large and heavy.

Man i loved the first Kirby’s Air Ride. Between that and Metroid Prime 4 I’m so tempted to buy a switch 2 this ~fall

Ah, finally, a name for my favorite type of game. With a LONG list of suggestions to play. I love the potential of ‘i could beat this in a short amount of time if I had a clue wtf I was doing’

As much crap as Nintendo gets here (plenty of it well deserved), the way they treat their employees seems to be quite good. And in the face of whatever the fuck is going on in most tech companies, it’s nice to see

Hemorrhage money to kill or buy smaller studios, then jack the price and tank the quality. Shove some AI in it for good measure.

You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy about it

Live, or citizen? I kept hearing citizen not resident

I have done a bunch of runs each update and I do kinda wish I did what you did.

You’re gonna be blown away by how much more there is already!

Yeah I don’t see those are negative honestly. The send missions inflated the numbers and I don’t love that you can get locked out of stuff easily but it’s totally fine

I loved FFTA and have replayed it multiple times. I’ve played FFTA2 some as well, which was definitely not as good.

I thought A was much better than the original. I didn’t even know it was “not good”

There’s a LOT of toggles for difficulty/accessibility in there in case you get stuck and don’t wanna grind, just fyi

I think Outer Wilds is the most unique and fantastic way to tell a story I’ve ever experienced. Truly open in a way I’ve not seen before or since.

With the banger of a soundtrack too, I just can’t bring myself to rate other games higher than it; even if I enjoy them more, Outer Wilds is probably the best game I’ve ever played.

Slay the Spire probably makes the list as it’s inspired countless tweaks on its incredibly balanced deck building experience

Whew what a whirlwind I’ve had leading up to this while intending to play on deck

I’m glad you asked!

I didn’t really like the aesthetic at first so I was on the fence.

It’s 3D, and most things take up more space with plenty of them taking some height as well. This makes the builds a bit more complex in a fun way. Also, the scaling is wild. You need a LOT more shapes, so you can duplicate or make more efficient things, ship them by train eventually, really makes it feel like a different game by the end than it does in the start.

They have a huge content update coming June 2 as well

Frostpunk 2 is a really interesting one to me.

I LOVED the first game. Soundtrack on in the background sometimes, liked the board game (just manual meh balance FP1), got all the achievements, really enjoyed it.

The second IS a good distinction from it, it’s not just rinse and repeat the same game. Great story, epic music, different scale and problems. It’s just like… They took the second tier of ideas they had for FP1 and implemented them. It actually probably would have been a good game if it didn’t have those footsteps to follow in.

Surprisingly, a few recent sequels have been amazing. Shapez2 is an unbelievable follow up to the OG. Hades II is the same imo. Massive, beautiful, fun distinction in gameplay, but still great ideas and balanced and such.

Monster Train 2 is great in demo, Kingdoms 2 crowns is a bit less recent but is such a great follow up to what’s effectively an arcade game in the first. It’s not all downhill or anything

Also silksong wen

I have a lot more problem with the quality these days then the innovation level

Absolutely agree.

Pokemon, on the other hand …

My friends and I loved your demo and can’t wait to play the whole release

I love FFT ad FFTA but come on, give us a new one sometime. We’ve had like 10 remakes and ports of FFT

Any advice for those of us wanting the same?

I mean the DS was pretty radical at the time.

I feel like Nintendo does a huge innovation, then an iteration or two(or a bunch of little changes), then back to a big change. Wii/WiiU, GB/GBA, DS/3DS, switch/2

Wow, that’s very fast imo. Good for you!

Great randomizer out there for it. And it’s Archipelago compatible so you can mix it in with other randomizers alone or with friends, in case you want more!

They also introduced Watcher late. No guarantee the 4 characters here are the only characters

Yup. So I’m looking at a fairphone instead lol

Ugh. I know the last ROG phone was 2, but you’re right. Even worse.

It’d be high on my list if it wasn’t for the 2 major versions of support. So little lifespan!

I loved the game. We put the soundtrack on all the time still. Great art form from Lucas Pope

I was hoping that’d be a Dan video. He has another one about how it’s Rude to Suck at Warcraft, which I found enlightening on how things have changed in WoW

Hey, I’m one of those wishlisters!

I’m excited to see it. Your inspiration games are great (anything that says similar to Outer Wilds is going on the wishlist, basically), and I’m looking forward to your narrative. I haven’t played the demo yet and was going to go in blind.

Cheers man, hope it is okay for your work life balance soon enough.

Surely playing as Adeptus Custodes who guard the throne all day would be more boring.

But I feel ya, I would’ve loved some different characters.

So I’m ~5 hours into the story so far. I was super worried it’d be a bad followup to the first game, which I loved.

It’s pretty different, without getting into any spoilers, but I’m really enjoying it at this point. It’s well done, the atmosphere and decisions are on point, and the micro management seems lesser.

A few UI complaints, I found a tiny bug, but all in all it seems like a good and long single player immersive story city builder. Exactly what I want from the series.

I’d give it a preliminary 8.5/10 because I’m biased and love the first one.