I haven’t liked a single one of Bethesda’s Fallout games, and I think Oblivion and Skyrim are pretty good but not as good as the previous Elder Scrolls games (even Arena). And yet I am quite excited for Starfield, for some reason. Probably the space factions. Reminds me of a video game version of the TTRPG Stars…

This is a shame for me personally, as I didn’t get into Wordle until the last month or two, so I was going through the Wordle Archive slowly to see the ones I’d missed. Ah, well.

Hah! I got you now.

Isn’t that just how it goes when a big new game comes out?

I never would have even heard of this game if Jim Sterling hadn’t done a video on it. It seems really terrible.

I would love that to be so. Maybe that Dan Olson video that went viral scared a lot of people off, or maybe the crashing NFT market did that, hah.

Ah, this is good to know! Much appreciated. I’ve been trying to go back and play some of the classics that I missed in their own time and I like to play them as close to the original as I can, but that’s not always feasible so hearing from people with more knowledge than I is always helpful.

Technically I do have a DS (or rather, my partner has a 3DS he would let me use), but the tiny screen is heck on my eyes. Thanks for the input! I think I’ll go ahead and start it tonight to play over the weekend.

I prefer story to lore, if that makes sense, but I’m still looking forward to playing Triangle Strategy, especially after reading this article. I love a good pixely (pixelescent?) strategy JRPG. I can never get into the JRPGs with non-turn based mechanics, so I’m excited whenever one like this comes out.

Haha hey, that is a totally valid perspective!

If I’ve never played this game and always wanted to, is the Steam release an okay way to do it? When it launched with all those issues I wrote it off, but it seems better... I guess playing a subpar version is still probably better than never playing it.

I am absolutely garbage at these games (never beat FFT despite pouring dozens of hours into it) but I keep playing them. I fully expect to be crushed by Triangle Strategy but to enjoy it nonetheless.

I actually wish that for pixel based games like this they wouldn’t even do voice acting. That’s probably nostalgia for the old games like FFT but still, it’s easy to justify when the VA is generally weak. At least I can turn it to Japanese, a language I don’t understand, and then just read the game.

Personally, I think it sucks to sell two partially incomplete games instead of just a single, complete game.

I think it’s a shame they don’t abandon the scammy dual game release structure, but the green cat is undeniably adorable.

Yeah, my cat is an indoor cat, but we keep her well fed and safe and we play with her every day, and she has lots of toys for when we’re busy. She seems happy. I hate to think that we’re being cruel or that she feels deprived

The only thing that’s been keeping me from buying it is I get bored of action games pretty quickly sometimes, but the narrative elements and the good buzz it’s been getting since release definitely have me considering it.

“I hope you get bought out by Konami” is now going to be my go-to insult when I am really, really angry at something. Because damn.

I understand why you want to delete it, but also--nice job!

I’m a geography geek so Worldle has been a lot of fun for me, though quite hard (my ability to think in terms of spatial relations is not great, apparently). Just tried this Nerdle thing for the first time and it took me all 6, but I got it. Not sure I’ll be able to keep up with it every day, but it was pretty fun.