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I started Signalis and immediately freaked out at a jump scare lol.

the briefcase management of Resident Evil 4.

haha this was the absolute main thing that attracted me to it.

I played a bit of Signalis with my nephew, seemed pretty cool.

Playing shin Megami Tensei fan translation on the ps1, and I see this poster briefly as it pans up a building...

https://i.imgur.com/Niv9153.jpg

I squinted and I was like... I must be crazy. It can't be....

Then I googled the Japanese movie poster, and yes, sure enough:

https://i.imgur.com/lqekqdg.jpg

(cross posting myself from the insert credit forum, because I've maybe slightly been cheating on ilx with another forum. Imagine 2 forums in 2023)

Humble has a rogue like deck builder bundle which I just purchased and my God, my Saturday disappeared in the blink of an eye. I got off my phone from a friend at 9pm, booted up a slot machine deck builder, and 30 minutes later it was 1:30am. Perfect steam deck material

xp the Cage!!

reminds me of how silent hill had a school that was clearly based on the kindergarten cop school.

Playing a lot of indies at the moment in honour of the new steam deck: Celeste = top stuff. Spiritfarer is beautiful. Dicey Dungeons is a nice mechanical puzzle (could be harder, though i think that comes later). Tainted grail, A Hat in Time, FTL and Salt and Sanctuary are next on the list. Picked up a capcom humble bundle with every mega man game on. Seems a bit daunting but think I’ll give it a go from the start.

Ridiculous how much this steam deck has increased my gaming. It has gone from excessive to ludicrous.

Also, the aforementioned slot machine deck builder game is called “luck be a landlord” and everyone should buy it and play it. It’s not the same game as vampire survivors, but it gives you the exact same feeling. The overall enjoyment and pull to keep playing is crazy.

I have an itchy trigger purchase finger for "ZED ZONE". Has anyone played it? It just looks so darn nice.

But I've been well back into 7D2D lately with a friend, it's a looters paradise, we've managed to get to day 20 and just progressed into the steel industry, I love the thought of dread I have for every seventh day - just knowing all my beautiful shit is going to get trashed yet again.

Glad to hear Spiritfarer is good, I picked it up on sale because I saw it recommended as a solid co-op game.

Im so desperate for a game to play but apparently if you don't like sports, killing zombies, murdering large groups of people or chasing dragons around you're shit out of luck. Whatever happened to the great snowboader games (I'm thinking pro snowboader from PSONE?)

I also want to play the first 3 tomb raiders again. I guess I'm getting old.

ssx 3 was the last snowboarder game everyone liked, dunno what happened in the 2 decades since

Started playing INFERNAX the other day and so far I'm impressed. It's a retro-pastiche of Castlevania with a little bit of Souls DNA in there. I've played games like it already (Salt and Sanctuary, Tails of Iron), but this one seems to deliver just enough new twists and turns to make it pretty fun and compelling. Recommended

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Yeah, that one was good. the only snowboarding I can find is winter Olympics stuff but when you go to download it there's no snowboarding. Just skiing, skating, and those bike things.

Despite snowboarding being on the cover.

Pumped that Trackmania is on PS5 now. I really love that game.

Humanity is pretty fun so far. Kind of a throwback to PS2-era 3D puzzle games. You're a cute dog guiding a sea of humans. Apparently this really pops in VR.

Hotline Miami was giving me a lot of trouble until I realized you have the ability to peek around the level. It's a wonder I even made it as far as I did, since I was essentially playing partially blind; I had almost given up.

Eh, "Hotline Miami" kind of sucked, even the music, which everyone praised but which I found super-annoying. I finished it yesterday and thought, is that it? I assume they were going for some sort of message or statement in the narrative, as such, but said narrative is pretty disjointed (by design) and the game pretty simplistic (again, by design).

About to start "Stray," which I understand to be also simplistic (by design) but which looks more appealing all the same.

Signalis: I think I've reached the first difficulty spike, and I'm just barely keeping it together as far as the scares go (I am a coward). The puzzles are quite chewy though! And vibes are through the roof.

Stray is great xp

You really get drawn into the world as the story progresses

Mad how SF6, Diablo 4,FF16 and...AEW Fight Forever are all out in June given how dead summer usually is for game releases

agreed. and Zelda just came out too!

hi-fi rush owns so far, likely goty for me

I just paid for PlayStation Premium so now I've got Netflix syndrome of tons of games I want to play but not being able to decide on them.

Back to Dark Souls it is

Started "Stray," it's really gorgeous.

With all the TOTK talk I picked up Breath of the Wild again. I quit the first time after exploring too freely and getting frustrated by the short stamina bar and short-term weapons. Didn't help that I started out going north and tried to take down a centaur guy. This time I stuck to places the game was pointing me towards and focused on the puzzle shrines, running away from most enemies. Once I got the stamina bar doubled, it became a lot of fun. I'm around 75% of the way through it now.

solo Q’d to masters for the first time. diamond 1 was painnnnnnnnnnnnn
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Stray was pretty, but not much of a “game”. Hold A/X and press forward. Didn’t feel worth finishing

JFC need a Signalis break now.

I liked what I played of Stray. They should probably add a "skip combat section" option though... that aspect was super undercooked.

a lot of games would be better without combat. just let me explore and search for some keys to unlock doors or whatever

embrace simply being an adventure game

Started Sekiro. It's fun. It's gruellingly hard and I'm still getting used to some of the mechanics but I lurrrrve sneaking around and getting the drop on enemies

ciderpress OTM here. We need Sable-likes, dammit! A game like that with TOTK's vehicle/device building would be sick as hell.

i should play sable is what you're saying huh

It's pretty cool. I did lose interest after around 10 hours, but I did seriously enjoy the time I spent in it. It really is like a combat-less BotW/TotK if that sounds like your jam.

the zelda games have very little mandatory combat anyway

yet they won't let you kill beedle smh

still chipping away at the megami tensei series. i think i'm nearing the end of one of the persona 1 paths. havent decided if i am gonna play it again for the other path or just go straight to P2, leaning to P2 because i've heard better things about it?

I'm publicly admitting to playing the demon game from the studio with terrible management (Diablo IV)

Finishing up Breath of the Wild -- I beat the game, now I want to get all the memories and do all the shrines. Maybe get the DLC too. Koroks I don't care about. Weakest part of the game was the combat -- my main strategy was to run away from everything, because I disliked the combat so much. I didn't laser-parry once until I beat the game and looked up some guides.

Also slowly working through Danganronpa V3 which I find to be a slog so far. Far too much wandering around trying to find the next cutscene trigger. I'm only on the second murder. It works great on Steam Deck despite the steam page saying it's unsupported.

Next big game is SF6.

Finished Stray, thought it was a sweet, creative, simple, visually stunning little adventure. Maybe next is ... A Plague Tale? At some point I want to start be Witcher or maybe even Skyrim (bought it on sale for $10!), but those seem like winter games. Maybe Plague, too ... hmm.

Just finished rachet and clank: riff apart. Was average, too much kiddie dribble for story I had to turn all sound of and podcast it. Combat was babies first shooter. I’m complaining but it’s me who is the joke finishing the whole game despite not liking it a few hours in. Nostalgia of playing the original at my local small town library and fond memories of getting in trouble for saying “up your arsenal” in grade 4. Playing lots of indies on the steam deck too, slay the spire getting the most love at the moment. Liking this bloodstained game too.

I picked up ps extra and feel obligated to play these big song triple A’s (ghosts, returnal, horizon, death stranding). I think I’ll have fun with returnal but will have to get over not playing with keyboard and mouse. I’ll try keep on open mind to ghosts/horizon but I’m not confident I’m going to like them, and here’s hoping Kojima was able to chanel some of his magic into death stranding. If anyone has any strong recommendations of which of those four to go for first I’d love to hear it

Just finished rachet and clank: riff apart. Was average, too much kiddie dribble for story I had to turn all sound of and podcast it. Combat was babies first shooter. I’m complaining but it’s me who is the joke finishing the whole game despite not liking it a few hours in. Nostalgia of playing the original at my local small town library and fond memories of getting in trouble for saying “up your arsenal” in grade 4. Playing lots of indies on the steam deck too, slay the spire getting the most love at the moment. Liking this bloodstained game too.

I picked up ps extra and feel obligated to play these big song triple A’s (ghosts, returnal, horizon, death stranding). I think I’ll have fun with returnal but will have to get over not playing with keyboard and mouse. I’ll try keep on open mind to ghosts/horizon but I’m not confident I’m going to like them, and here’s hoping Kojima was able to chanel some of his magic into death stranding. If anyone has any strong recommendations of which of those four to go for first I’d love to hear it