What Are Ya'll Playing?
Resident Evil is one series I've never been able to garner the gumption to get into. I played about 30 minutes of RE4 remake through GamePass and it's just not for me, I believe. I'm not a horror fan anyway, but was hoping the gameplay would draw me in. Maybe I'm just missing something.
You know, I should really explore more of what the gameboy color had to offer. The only games that ever saw playtime on my lovely teal GBC were Pokemon Gold, Yellow, and TCG. I still play TCG from time to time through a GBC emulator on my phone. That game was excellent. Its also the only Pokemon games I've ever enjoyed. After Gold, it was just too many damn pokemans to keep track of and I lost interest. 151 was plenty. 251 was more than enough. After that, it's too much for me.
The God of War series is on my list of "to play" games. I've played about 2 hours worth of the first modern GoW game, but nothing else. I'm going to start on the old ps2 games and work my way through.
I've been playing OG Hades for a few days through GamePass. I started it a long time ago but never got very far. I really dig the game and its music and writing, so I'm going to give it the ol' college try to at least make it out of the underworld once. Game is hard, yo!
I've been on a Balatro kick lately too! My nightly routine is to play Mad Skills MX 2 and do all my versus races against my friends, and then boot up Balatro till I fall asleep. Good stuff. I'm working through doing all the red stakes challenges right now. I'm on the Telescope? deck. I think that's the name of it.
It's unreal. Just the feel of the game is amazing. Modern gaming is great and all, but something about that 6th/7th generation just hits. It was like the perfect mix of player-focused design and modern tech. There's a lot of games with amazing potential nowadays, but they are ruined by silly design choices like always-online implementation or micro-transactions. The games from the 6th and 7th generations are just so feature-rich and laden with game modes and statistics tracking that it's disheartening to see how far we've regressed in those areas in modern games, seemingly all in pursuit of making the walls have 5% more fidelity than before.
I somehow doubt it. That would be a 1-way ticket to lawsuit-ville. I tried doing a reverse image search, but couldn't really find anything about where the pic is from. It's been posted in a bunch of places, so I'm sure that info is out there somewhere. I'm still putting my money in the mountain bike trail explanation. It looks like a lot of other roll-ins I've seen in videos of the Pacific Northwest and places like Summer-time ski resorts that cater to riders.
That has to be a joke. Looks like a mountain bike obstacle, something you'd ride down to start the trail or something.
The censorship has gone mad on Reddit. I was a user there before the whole Digg migration, and it's been such a wonderful ride. It had to end at some point, though.
I'm just at a point where it's genuinely impossible to have a conversation there without having your comments removed, the thread locked, or downvoted to oblivion for not joining in to whatever the masses are yapping about.
Less of a town square and more of a mob of idiots surrounded by bots.
Doesn't matter who it was or why. The left will be blamed.
I always said that nothing will change until someone prominent on the right gets shot. I was actually talking about their children in a school shooting in regards to tighter gun laws. Thousands of kids, a bunch of church-goers, and some Democratic lawmakers get shot and it's no big deal. But one prominent right-wing talking head gets shot and now it's real to them. This will be the impetus for major change, but not the change any of us wanted.
I hope I'm wrong, but I feel like things are about to get a whole lot worse than they were the last 8 months.
It's been my experience that dedicated places for fans of certain games or franchises to congregate always devolve into a never-ending cycle of "Everything is wrong and this game is terrible. I have 3000 hours in it.".
No one hates a game like the most dedicated fans do. For instance, I put a significant amount of time into the Forza franchise over the years. The Forza community (both the subreddit and the official Forza forums) might be one of the worst I've ever experienced. No one is ever happy with or about anything.
Basically, if you really like something, avoid the fan communities at all costs. You'll end up finding out about things that are supposedly "game ruining" that you never even knew or cared about and then you won't be able to un-see it.
Glad to hear that! I'll have to move it up the list so I can get to it. Thanks for the recommendation!