Warning suicide mention:
I messed up a suicide attempt really badly and it caused me to have retrograde amnesia for a long time.
So i made a deal with myself and the past version i no longer knew to never attempt it again as they didnt deserve to cease to exist for the pain they were going through.
Now if i am feeling truly that level of depressed i reach out to at least 3 people that care about me. It reminds me that i have them and they usually help me through.
I personally never believed it existed. And maybe I’m jaded by the consistency but games that are great but dont already have a franchise dont come back. Someone just buys the name and puts it on their barely similar game it feels.
The marketing comes first the game comes later. I don’t play marketing.
Man that “article” is just AI reading a thread poorly.
The rest of that series is like that too.
You have so many great recommendations so i am gonna add more.
Gulf Club Nostalgia/Wasteland: when depression hits hard why not hit it harder with a tale of nostalgia for a world we have not yet lost.
Simple golf game but the radio station is… A lot.
To the Moon: the whole series is just what if all we could give those dying the happiness of a lie implanted in their memories and what can we provide for those still living who dont get it so easy?
Among the Sleep: just a 2 year old kid and your mom has gone missing and the world is so scary in the dark.
I have noticed that enemies hover just out of reach of your upwards slash more.
Its all stuff like that. Its meant to catch you for trying to play it one way. But it punishes you hard for it.
I will say you can almost always skip lots of the return through jumping and floating.
For savage beastfly you literally dont have to do any of the flower bounces, or fight if you have the float ability and dash.
I think it’s just that bad metroidvanias are the standard and there arent as many of the good ones as you would think. So the joy of a good one gets pretty hyped. Im not sure its overrated since its a good game and rated at about what that entails just over hyped and concentrated on.
Do you hate it, or just didnt enjoy it?
I actually think that BL1 still had the absolute best special weapons. They always felt like a treat to discover and had a joy with the mechanics that you wanted to try them out even if you only got it cause a blind man was hanged.
I just miss the fun set design of the first 2 games. Its more linear paths than you would expect but they had a lot of verticality and a usually fun loop.
When i played BL3 i realized they just made big empty spaces and told you it was fun to constantly drive back and forth between the minor sidequests that felt like they tried to hard to make “quirky” that fricking city map was just so boring.
You know i was looking back at the GameCube. $199 brand new and a solid $100 cheaper than any other console new at the time. Played the games locally efficiently at a lower resolution than everyone else scrunging for the best 1080i they could get that didnt work well. Games were easy to develop for it and were awesome and the thick line and simple shapes make them hold up pretty well today.
I just dont care about Nintendo going all in on the super powered hardware route. Its not like we got cool new features to take advantage of it and we have 2 games were one is just battle royal mario kart so that its at least got something to do when you are bored. I dont hear people being happy with it but saying they dont regret buying one to have it which means they had the money in the first place.
Nintendo is best when its everybody’s game device. This has felt like chasing the gaming hype and i guess we will see where it goes.
The Grow Home/Up games were adorable and people love those kinds of simple but fun movement baaed games. I’d love to see that expanded on.
I wouldn’t be mad at more cold fear either.
$5 aint bad for a time waster and great if its a good one…
There is just so many roguelikes asking for my attention these days and i still need to play the walking castles one.
House party is hilariously awful characters in a pretty alright game. Like quite a few on the list are somewhere in the realm of B movie, in on the joke, trashy fun.
That’s really not. A calculator that only gave the right output 30% of the time would be worthless.
Yeah, that’s my go to for first aid. I actually Cary around saline solution though in my first aid kit for sterility and you just spray it on as needed to wash debris and particulates. People are already in enough pain don’t need to burst cell walls that survived as well.
Then it’s a out bandaging and replacing and cleaning the area as needed. I’m a big fan of the newer hydrocolloid bandages, even though you don’t heal faster it’s far more consistent and the whole surface being sticky and absorbing means it can hold more fluid and cover odd size wounds.
Oh yeah.
Me mold.
Lemon jello.
Just before it sets.
Cave Diver looks like it could have the atmosphere and gameplay of something really fun if they can figure out the locomotion just a little bit better.
I like the idea of filling up a cave with your previous corpses that help remind you of dead ends and mistakes.