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New game from Moon Studios (who did Ori) is imminent, looks awesome. No Rest for the Wicked.

Yeah that game looks extremely up my alley. It's technically early access, so IDK if I'm going to grab it now or wait (I'm probably gonna wait).

I beat SOTN finally! I almost gave up until I found a rare weapon drop that made the rest of the game trivial. It was a fun time! My hunger for old Metroidvanias persists, so now I'm hip-deep in Aria of Sorrow, which I'm not enjoying quite as much; mainly cuz it feels *way* too hard.

Been many years, but I remember Aria of Sorrow being a top tier Castlevania game.

is that the first gba one? that was the best one iirc

I believe so. I used to have a combo cart with it and Harmony of Dissonance that I would play on my OG DS during train rides...20 years ago :⁠'⁠(

I never completed either of the og ones and never played the SNES one or Symphony, so playing Aria of Sorrow & Harmony of Dissonance on GBA felt like finally getting Castlevania.

I would rent C2 multiple times as a kid and it felt very mysterious and deep, proto-Dark Souls vibes, has there ever been a good remake/reissue?

Man I'm at the end of ffx and just hit a major "go out and grind" roadblock. Brutal.

Picked up Lisa in the most recent humble bundle. Lotta fun earthbound/undertale like rpg, but sad. high recommend

When I see clips of games or series I've never played, like Final Fantasy or Yakuza or Metal Gear Solid, I have no idea what the f is going on.

I'm like that with clips of mobile gacha games, it's a foreign country to me

you've never played a ff yakuza or mgs!!!!!

You can't be playing far cry 3 (or anything by ubisoft) when y!ou haven't touched any of those series No more western-developed video games this year, only Japanese. They really own the sphere.

had to buy another copy of balatro for my dog since she’s not getting walked anymore

xpost Ha! I'm not a fan of anime or anime designs, and I have an aversion to giant swords. But I do own Yakuza 0, maybe I will play that in 2024.

What's funny is I *have* played some of these characters in Super Smash Bros. but I had no idea who they were.

Me either! But you're not getting any of that in any of those series (okay maybe a touch in FF, but there's so much variation there, there's a FF game for anyone).

I'd recommend MGS, it's the most western-gaming adjacent of the bunch, but yakuza 0 is a great trip.

xp lol

|||||||| if you like balatro, high recommend Luck be a Landlord. Deckbuilder in the casino except its pokies instead of poker. It's such a beautiful little time drain, great great great game

yeah, of those series only ff ever has anything to do with anime, but my instinct tells me that jic’s instinct to avoid them will turn out to have been correct

too each their own (except mgs, that's for everyone)

oh i love them, i'm basing that on his video game opinions that i've read

Hold up MGS is all about mechs, which is an enormous genre within anime (of course anime as a term beyond "animated stuff from Japan" is reductive and useless).

Also I've decided I really don't like most Japanese media, with FF7 Remake being the straw that broke my back, because everything about it missed me on basically every level.

I wouldn't say MGS is about mechs. It'd be like saying Far Cry 3 is about tigers. They're a small backdrop, far down on the list of things I think of when I think of MGS

I think MGS2 is in the top 5 best videogames ever

you've never played a ff yakuza or mgs!!!!!

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also this is me

hope you guys are holding up okay

MGS is basically mecha as chekov’s gun

and in the meantime you’ll get multi-generational spycraft machinations that change the politics of the world and create extra-governmental mercenary corps and work with weirdos with names like Revolver Ocelot and field voice calls from people who may or may not be real

There was a Dunkey video about the Metal Gear series that had iirc ... the President of the US in a mech or something? Anyway, seemed pretty silly, I assume/hope intentionally. They're remaking some Metal Gear game, right? I'll play that, unless it turns out to be terrible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLiLRVeaZA

(Apparently this is accurate!!)

Entirely accurate.

But seriously, the mgs story shines despite its million twists and turns. It has serious things to say about the control of media and its relation to politics, the military-industrial process etc. etc. It marries its game play with its stories and ideas with cohesion. It's fun, it's silly, it has more philosophical depth than you'll find in any other AAA video game (someone prove me wrong). Just brilliant stuff

2 being the highlight of it all imo, but 1 and 3 following on its coattails

You have to cut through a lot of OTT schlock to get at anything meaty IMO, which hasn't aged well for me, but I've also soured a lot on Kojima since MGS4.

Of course, but thats part of the charm. Yeah I haven't liked anything post mgs4 too

Mgs1-4 is just an incredible run of games tho

MGS4 was a huge shark jump for me, I can't remember if I even enjoyed the gameplay because I thought the story was overwrought stupidity even by Kojima standards. Skipped 5 as a result, and gave up on Death Standing after a couple hours because I had no more patience (also, it's a boring game).

I have "Death Stranding," and I'll get to it eventually, but I am afraid, because so far everything I know of Kojima makes hims games seem like they've been mistranslated into nonsense at every step except that he did it on purpose.

Lol Josh

MGS V was pretty cool imo. I still need to go back and play 3 and 4. I was at a dark point in my life and missed out.

Might wait to see if the 3 remake/remaster is any good

Oh, I also played one of the PSP games a fair bit but that was iirc in collaboration with Kojima and not directly produced by him

MGS4 was not good, only one of the bunch I’d throw in the garbage. Pretty sure the amount of time in cutscenes in that one finally surpassed the amount of actual gameplay. And the gameplay is entirely forgettable and was showing its age even at the time.

A corrective was made with MGS5, which pares down Kojima’s ‘Film Director’ fantasies and has the most robust and engaging gameplay mechanics by a mile. Officially pulls it into the next generation. Unfortunately it was unfinished and runs out of steam partway through. What coulda been.

MGS1 thru 3 are all-time classics, but also might not be as mind blowing to someone coming at them in 2024. Y’all might be forgetting how clunky that shit played.

2 is a forever favorite. Got a PS2 and that for Christmas when I was in high school and what a fever dream it was to sink into over Xmas break. After 9/11 lol.

Just started Venba, the Tamil cooking narrative game. Oh man this game is so sweet, I love it love it love it

The most realistic onion chopping simulator I've ever played.

don't know how much longevity it's got but mark me down as another idiot hooked on Balatro atm
can't quite place what the soundtrack reminds me of either, but it's pretty great

Alright already I'll buy the game! Sheesh guys!

feels like it would go crazy on ipad

iOS version is coming, I’ve read

i should not have bought this game

it's 1am, i have to be at work in 6hrs, and I have an exam I have an exam I need to cram for on next weekend

Accountability: I will not touch this game until after this exam next Saturday. Balatro will steal my life if I'm not careful

lol whenever a new roguelike, online multiplayer or deck builder shows up I breathe a sigh of relief that it will not be added to my backlog.

it has also destroyed my life over the last few week. my partner calls it "the solitaire game"

i think i'll be done with it...once i complete a run with all of the decks