No worries, I just finished it and came back your comment to read more thoroughly. Yes I think it could have used a little slimming down, I actually did come to really like Abby’s part but it felt so disconnected that I almost feel it should have been done concurrent, or an RE2 style campaign select with Santa Barbra…

Ah i see I wasn’t the only one that got the surprise spoiler attack via baby.

I mean, I really don’t like to throw the “did you even play the game” accusation around, but I’m having a really hard kind of wondering if I’ve been playing a very different story than some people. Like the major point that its just all violence and hate, the game doesn’t say anything, or the characters don’t reflect…

Yakuza is such and up and down experience for me. Started with 4, loved it, kinda hated 5, loved Zero, Kiwami was...okay, but i respect that it being the first meant some issues. Bounced off Kiwami 2 a couple of times, might go back if i hit a new release drought sometime.

I’ve been cheesing the checkpoints myself, but i’m trying to wean myself off it, just kinda letting it happen, and sometimes it all works out

Bottles/Bricks were the unassuming GOAT of all weapons in the first. bottle is safety, bottle is life.

Fuck. The. Dogs.

Plugging away at TLoU2 slowly but surely. Kinda figured I’d have beaten it by now but between the suns refusal to let me see anything remotely dark on my TV, and the fact that Survivor difficulty is a real bitch (i’m spending upwards to an hour on any given encounter) its taking a minute. I’m on the first night of the…

Well Texas just enacted a mandatory mask in public order despite apparently calling one local judge doing the same earlier a “tyrannical power grab” so apparently they’re finally realizing they can’t just misrepresent data to blow the entire thing off a no big deal

I do wish more mainstream devs realize they can (there’s plenty of games celebrating creation from smaller devs and indies) focus on a creative game versus destructive. That doesn’t have to default to fucking somethign up. Even if you game is all about destruction, you actually can use a few moments to pause that and…

Its a beautiful game. also a literally dark one, and the sun’s constant vendetta against my existance means i can’t play it in the afternoon because I can’t see shit with all the light flooding in.

running a launch-ish (i don’t know if any quiet revisions happend around a year or so after release) PS4 and actually this doesn’t seem to be an issue for me. Might be because i got it set behind my monitor, next to my pc (with a 2070 whose default fan curve is apparently fucked but the evga precision aggressive one…

I honestly haven’t played it a ton, but I’m told if you manage a survival rate of 40-50% you’re pretty damn good (or lucky) so its definitely not for someone who might get frustrated at getting shit on by experienced and geared people. I’ve had a lot of fun watching youtube videos explaining everything so I might be a…

Off the next two days and excited to get some more TLoU2 in. For better or worse I really want the game to have its say because that online...”discourse” sure is something. Apparently Laura Bailey had to shut down a rumor that she had actual sex with Neil Druckmann for one scene? like god damn people. I’m sure there…

I am too and boy i wish i had 5 bullets...or didn’t flub a rifle shot on a slowly moving guy who didn’t know i was there. I think i just facepalmed myself for about 5 minutes.

I started on Survivor and I agree...start on Hard because my ass is getting fucking WRECKED.

I like it, as Ari states, its very dynamic and lacks a lot of game-yness that stealth games use, no vision cones, defined alert states, or light meters that arbitrarly denote whether or not you’re safe (you can hide in grass but that only helps to a point). The best part to me is that it doesn’t have a fail state,…

Hell, as the owner of five cats I’m just excited to be able to make a cat do what I want for once.

You know...seeing them side by side, despite the ps5 being more, i guess i’d say loud, in its design, I feel like I could have an easier time fitting/hiding it in my set up. but my set up is also haphazardly fitting everything on to a desk that wasn’t made for so much shit to be put on, so I am not a good standard to…

Yeah thats...a look. I mean, as I’ve said before, it doesn’t matter all that much, I prefer sony’s game selection and MS seems happy to give me PC access to their exclusives I do want so...yeah i guess I better just learn to like it, because its the only console i’m getting.