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Sign me up for two then, please!

Boy I could go into what makes Yooka-Laylee worse than Banjo all day! Hell, I made a way-too-long Youtube comment about it in reply to a video defending the game 6 years ago, that fucking inexplicably enough just got a reply today. Obviously it's replying to a specific video but you can see there's a lot more than just "no soul." Video in question: Obviously I neither expect you to fully read some random ass comment I wrote from over half a decade ago or watch the video, just there for posterity. Noticing I wasn't very clear in a few parts, whoops! Well I ain't going back and editing shit! But yeah, obviously if critics are seeing something wrong, well... smoke, fire, all that. But I feel like it shouldn't be too hard. Like Jason Schreier I feel wrapped up his thoughts pretty succinctly: Obviously lacking in some minutiae since it's a Tweet, but his broader points are easy to understand and relate to, I think. Honestly, it made me want to play through the original series more, to see if I agree or disagree. For example: Will I agree that there's a strong emotional core to the original games? Will I agree that they don't evolve into tropey anime nonsense, which I feel like 99% of JRPGs do? It'll be fun to find out!

Alright, let's get everyone vaccinated globally against a certain type of virus, and then a few years later just fucking bombard the atmosphere with 20,000 strains of that virus to kill off the morons.

Did it go into more detail than "no soul"? I feel like that's shorthand for "I shouldn't be reviewing games." In casual conversation, sure, but "no soul" is such a vague, overarching generalization it really doesn't mean anything.

Harsh? I mean, some definitely were, but it's sitting at a 78, which is... honestly where most RPGs I play sit, if not lower. I'm actually running through the Suikoden games first. I had played and beaten Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising before this and based on how people talked about it, I expected it to be a grindy dumpster fire, but I found it to be a fairly short, overall pleasant little "make the numbers go up" action game with RPG elements. There was definitely a lot of back and forth fetch quest stuff, but almost all of it would let you collect the required items or whatever before even getting the quest, so I'd just go to town and have like 20 quests to turn in and have enough to upgrade the town, get new shops, spells, etc. Was a nice mellow game in my opinion. Got about 30 minutes into this, and just suddenly told myself "I should really play the Suikoden series first," so I've got 1-5 loaded up on my Steam Deck. I'll go through them as long as I'm entertained. I have Tierkris on my DS< which I did actually play upon release and enjoyed it. Dunno if there's any others, but looking forward to playing through all of them, been on a real RPG binge the last couple of years, clearing up huge amounts of my backlog and classics I never got to try before. Honestly, this is a spiritual sequel Kickstarter to a series that's been dead for almost 2 decades, I'm not expecting it to be incredible, I don't even know if I like Suikoden as a series yet! But I do find all of this interesting, and will be happy to play through it as part of the bigger overall narrative behind the series.

I've been doing this for a while. If the side of their garage has any tall bushes, you can just hide behind one and wait for them to go to work, then kind of rotate around it as they pull out and slip in before the garage door closes.

Real "anything I'm not playing doesn't exist" vibes.

The only good thing any Borderland fan has ever done. Bravo!

I can't wait! Seems like what I wanted out of Stray, which in the end wasn't about being a cat at all.

Wonder how my stats would look to this data. Brand new AAA single player game one week, 25 year old JRPG the next, then a 24 year old online RPG followed by it's 3-12 year old sequel (depending on how you look at it) followed by a hardcore survival horror RPG maker game, a fairly new procgen indie detective game, a 7 year old imsim, and 350 separate hentai games.

Probably just thought he was getting a little morning head, those women can be toothy AM I RIGHT FELLAS

And they think it's worth $50! I wouldn't take it if they paid ME $50! Someone might see it in my library!

Me after beating Starfield

I deleted the line where I said that anyone who likes this game should probably be on a terrorist watch list, which in hindsight was a mistake. They should definitely be on that list.

Not to any great extent, no. And if they're anything like this I'd rather take up stamp collecting than ever play another game this bad.

I tried the demo for this and it was probably the worst gaming experience I've ever had. A completely and utterly incomprehensible "narrative," literal clipart for world map stuff, voice acting so abysmal it'd make Chaos Wars jealous, combat that's super zoomed in so you can never actually read what's going on, even when attacking enemies. Just a total clusterfuck of garbage on every level, with a godawful mobile UI to boot. What a huge piece of shit. Every single one of these fucking Youtube videos has 10 times the polish and total budget of the game itself. The fucking thumbnails have more effort than the entirety of the plot.

Haven't had a chance to really get into it yet. Currently playing this crazy indie horror-ish game, Withering Rooms, which is bizarre and fun as hell.

The small team was probably exploring new career ideas as they were laid off.

I think part of the issue is that people aren't actually trained (or not trained effectively) in how to be productive while working remotely. Learning some best practices for setting up a proper work space in your home (Or Starbucks or whatever, I dunno where you fuckin hippies work) can help a lot, as well as minimizing family distractions. You're always gonna have some people in unstable situations at their homes for whatever reason, but I don't think the solution is a big expensive office building to force everyone to be miserable so the few weirdos who "like" going into an office are happy. Perhaps a better solution would be a company laptop and getting your ass to a quiet place like a library or the park or working in your parked car like a creepy weirdo.

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I don't think Grubb gives a shit about early access to FUT 2025. Also, anyone who does this kind of reporting just gets their copies of games (which is pretty much the only "retaliation" any publisher can realistically enact) from someone else in the industry.

It's a rumor about an unreleased video game, not a fucking war secret.

Uh... Youtube?? I don't think I've ever used or even been made aware of Dicsord being used for guides or tutorials. "General information" is basically on any platform though.

Noah Caldwell-Gervais remains the GOAT.