Some of the locales are nice but the ice cliffs area is soooo fucking ugly and boring compared to the one from Iceborne six years ago and while the oil basin area has a fun conceit it is way too ugly for how badly it runs

Just finished the sniper guarding segment in Metal Gear Solid 2 (I am currently playing through the series for the first time)

I feel like it has been years since I’ve had to lock in so hard for a game to the point I kind of staggered away feeling physically exhausted afterwards.

I did enjoy it but at the same time what the fuck were the devs thinking not having inverse y directional controls for the swimming sections. I don’t think I have ever played another game that used that and I kept smashing Raiden’s pretty little head on every solid surface just trying to get him from point A to point B because the controls feel SO wrong.

isn’t it just an edited version of his Hyrule warriors model tho

like this may be a blender kitbash ship of theseus situation but to me that seems to be recognizably his hyrule warriors model

AFAIK, the new level up system just hands you a bunch of points you can distribute to your attributes freely. The old leveling system was one of the very few things I would mod away every time I played so I’m happy with the change.

In a move that has baffled everyone, it’s the original 2000’s gamebryo engine handling game logic while all 3D visuals have been remade from scratch with UE5 as a graphics wrapper.

They also changed some base combat mechanics to be less floaty, added hit reactions and FX, and added sprinting.

It is a strange Frankenstein’s monster that can load mods made for the original Oblivion game and runs pretty shite

hmm… lateral move imo

much better gun handling and other gameplay mechanics but the voiced protag was a mistake and like half of the new asset systems they implemented were extremely hostile to modders (we don’t talk about precombines)

Modded Skyrim pure conjuration mage playthrough

I mean they did put the froggy chair in New Horizons for easy social media advertising. That is something they very much did do, albeit in a post launch patch

A monster codex in the in-game, in-universe glossary of terms in FF16 spoils the identity of the True Big Bad a full story arc before the character is actually introduced.

‘In-universe’ as in the glossary is supposed to be something filled out by the protags themselves based on knowledge they would know through story events or research.

It’s even funnier when the game has been patched multiple times and the entry hasn’t been altered or pushed back to unlock after that point of story progression.

Must have been an overlooked localization fluke or something.

Stardew Valley’s music fucking slaps idk why a concert would be surprising

tbh when this happened to my old 360 wireless i just bought a bunch of replacement parts and silicone wraps and decked my controller out in the gawdiest rainbow colors imaginable. The total cost was probably 1/3 of a new name brand controller too

unlike switch joycons, 360 controllers can easily be taken apart and put back together like its nothing too

It’s really annoying how when men get this specific plotline the focus is usually about them getting in touch with the humanity and emotions they’ve closed themselves off of, or have been actively denied from them

but when women get this plotline, it’s a solid 50/50 chance the focus is on them getting in touch with motherhood and sexual intimacy (with a weirdly common focus on their uterus)

it’d be like if a grown child soldier man was weeping because he’s never been allowed to do big cums in people. like what the hell

I need the specs for playing Minecraft 😤

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World had an absolutely infuriating story which was too bad since it had one of the most fun pet collection mechanics in any rpg game I’ve ever played.

Also obligatory Bioshock 2 good, Bioshock Infinite bad

why are they calling it pathologic 3 when it’s just another part of the original pathologic being remade 😭

ice-pick lodge works in mysterious ways I suppose

It also makes you re-download another 100 gbs every time the game updates

Yeah I did that sidequest recently. Unfortunately it is yet another ‘fetch 10 bear asses’ fetch quest. These make up 55% of the side content (40% is ‘go here, talk to this person’).

Playing Final Fantasy 16 following its PC release.

It’s a fucking mess. For some ungodly reason the dash is mapped to pushing down the control stick. There is no option to change it from a hold to a toggle. That’s not even getting into the entire rest of the game.

Skins are fine just have them be locked behind achievements, leveling up and fun in game challenges if you’re feeling daring.

That’s how Monster Hunter does it, there’s even stuff like rare color shifting rainbow dye you can unlock by beating endgame challenges

Actually the vast majority of those games suck because they don’t let you play as a dragon. Because of woke

Spyro the Dragon stay winning tho :spyro-sunglasses: (which is not an emoji for some reason smdh)