Hello everyone. Hope you all had a relaxing weekend. I have been playing more Balatro and Nightreign, but I spent this morning readying another playthrough of New Vegas that I will be undertaking soon. Have a good week everyone!

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    Started Persona 5 Royal. It’s a JRPG alright. Fucked up (and not to mention shit writing) to have the first arc be about a teacher SAing students, and then to have the second arc require you to force one of those students to seduce someone against her will (and then when that seduction target joins you he never apologizes for being so pushy). The game also really suffers from a lack of MC involvement in dialogue. Like eg I don’t even think you were told you couldn’t tell anyone about the Velvet Room but I guess that’s just not an option.

    I find it increasingly funny when it snaps back to Sae in the interrogation room asking “ah so you phantom thieves were really good at eating burgers, you must have had the help of an american!” or whatever every time you get a new confidant.

    E: it’s also very funny that the politician guy was involved in three scandals that ruined his career, and calling a constituent an idiot is portrayed as an equal offense to embezzling millions of yen.

  • ryepunk [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    Silksong. It’s everything I wanted from a hollow knight followup. Including getting fucking killed by terrible pogo skills rather than anything else lol. Great boss fights, amazing exploration, and awesome cute little bugs that make me want to help them and cry when I lose them.

  • darkmode [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    I finally finished Outer Wilds and I wondered what the echo of the eye was because i missed how to do it during the game and even though I loved most of it i think heart breakingly that i cant be arsed to go back and do the echoes of the eye part. I did the whole base game without looking anything up

    i complain a lot and spoiler below. im going to cushion this by saying if you haven’t, go play the game blind. I know people were raving when it came out but it should still be talked about way more than it is all these years later. it’s a great game and deserves more praise.

    spoiler

    except right at the end i was getting fatigued and looked up exactly how to get into the ash twin project because i spent over an hour at the correct spot (the teleporter that gets covered by the sand column) without guessing that i had to hide in the cubby briefly before walking onto it while it was getting sanded. I think it’s an incredible game but i feel like a lot of people just end up looking up some of the puzzles despite all the hints.

    I really like the concept of the game but i struggle with some of the execution. Every time I was at the end of a puzzle and got knee capped by the time loop i was so annoyed. Some of the puzzles can be solved by dumb luck but im really hung up on getting into the ash twin. most every other puzzle if you found all the pieces you knew exactly what to do and its this final one and the echoes of the eye stuff where it really wasn’t obvious. I don’t know if that’s good or bad but i think this sort of game without the time loop would be my favorite. if i just had unlimited time to bash my face against puzzles id be happier than being under that kind of pressure in a single player game. The writing is intelligent and funny, the movement is great too. Love the planets, love the art style. but i’m really torn about the time loop cap of 22 mins

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      that specific issue with that specific puzzle is a common complaint, I think the devs have said they would have handled it differently if they were to do it again

      maybe someday you come back to search for the echo, they really managed to pull off the same feat twice

    • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      most every other puzzle if you found all the pieces you knew exactly what to do and its this final one and the echoes of the eye stuff where it really wasn’t obvious.

      Honestly I’m not sure how they could give you any more hints about this puzzle without just locking you in a room with essentially a copy of this puzzle and no other way out. The problem is you need to be in a place, and the physics of the Twins prevents you from easily being in that place. So you’ve gotta just figure out that the trick is to get to that place at the right moment before the physics can move you away. It’s a reasonable puzzle imo.

      Echoes of the Eye is a really weird DLC that was grafted ungracefully into the game and I honestly wish it was completely separate. You’re lucky you didn’t stumble into it because I’ve seen a new player do that and it’s so confusing when you don’t realize that nothing there has anything to do with anything else in the universe.

      • darkmode [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago
        spoiler

        I think they “achieved” this with the quantum rock on ember twin. If you couldn’t figure out what to do with the easier to get to caves i believe the hardest to reach cave (at the bottom of the dried lake) spells out the puzzle even more explicitly than the other hints if i recall correctly. I resisted looking up that one and finally on a particular loop i managed to find the side cave at the bottom of that lake which is technically a stressful timed movement puzzle whereas someone who is better at contextualizing hints would be able to figure out how to teleport with the rock based on the easy caves. Maybe they could’ve hidden the ash twin teleporter differently or stuffed another hint somewhere?

    • coderade [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Such a great game, one of my all time faves. You should definitely go back and try to find the echoes of the eye. Not exactly the same as the rest of the game, but still super fun! It’s got fun new mechanics to work with.

      hint to find echoes

      Look around more on timber hearth for some hints

      beyond above hint

      If you’ve already found the strange satellite photo, try hanging out at the satellite for a whole loop

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    Got into a kick of playing some GBA games, taking a break from fighting games, currently working through CV HOD, almost done with it. The game is pretty cool, I can see why it’s gets a bad rep because if you don’t know the optimal route to follow you can get lost easy. I love some Igavania but I’ve beat SOTN so many times now I wanted to try something I haven’t yet.

  • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    Silksong! I’m about 20 hours in, and am loving it. I do think for most people it’s pretty obvious the early game is overtuned, and a lot of environmental hazards deal 2 damage that probably shouldn’t, but I’d be lying if I said those were truly bothering me. I’m having a blast, it’s the best game I’ve played in years so far, slowly exploring everywhere and getting everything I can.

      • Aradino [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        At first i hated them but perishables aren’t too bad really. Your early jonkers are just there to get you through the first two antes with as few hands as possible(for the extra dollar per hand) while you get up to $25(the highest interest without vouchers) so you can start rolling for economy jokers and deck fixing and such. They retain their value when disabled so you can still get pirate or abstract value on them, or you can sell them(especially if you get an early gift card. They then function as an econ joker after being disabled since they count toward temperance.)

        I think the biggest difficulty spike is the -1 discard. It makes big hands less fun, makes getting through early rounds in one hand harder since that’s when you need those big hands, which slows down your economy which slows down your growth which makes winning in one hand harder etc and so forth.