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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JUNE 2024
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:50:05 -0000 (UTC)
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H1M3M <wipnoah@gmail.com> wrote at 07:01 this Tuesday (GMT):
> Ant wrote:
>> I guess I'll start!
>> 
>> I finished Diablo 4's main campaign. I started playing EVE Online.
>> :P
>> 
>
> We have a duplicate thread... I do hope this won't turn  into a Hatfield
> vs McCoys war (why the heck to I always refer to american culture rather
> than my own, I will never know).
>
> All right, let me get the log. It's a bit bigger than usual:
>
> - Owlboy (PC):
> I had this game in my backlog for some time, and I refused to let it go.
> Unfortunately, I ended hateplaying it. Beautiful presentation and the
> kind of "hd" pixel art that makes you impulse purchase, but the gameplay
> and story are not up with the rest, to the point it ended reminding me
> of those 16 bit disney games.

Dang. The only "hd pixel art" game I can think of would be like Octopath
Traveller.

> - Chip'n Dale Rescue Rangers (NES, PS4 Disney Afternoon Collection):
> One of those games that I had been wanting to beat for some time.
> Biggest difficulty comes from the lack of an instruction booklet. I was
> struggling with the final stages until I downloaded a scan and fount
> there's a mechanic I did not know about.

Huh, why did you want to beat it?

> - Quake Remastered (PC, Base game)
> The freebie you would receive if you already owned Quake on Steam. It's
> KEX engine rather than ID tech, but it plays nicely and you don't need
> to have the CD inside to hear the music. I spend 2 days playing non stop
> untill In finished the 4 episodes of the original retail release.
> Scourge of Armaggon in July

Neat! I've never beaten Quake.

> - Kirby and The Forgotten Land (Switch)
> You know you got things right on the first time when the game is still
> 1.0, there never was a day one patch and you don't find a single bug in
> the entire playthrough. First Kirby with 3d movement that is not some
> weird arena fighting game. Better than expected, although the new
> controls and pseudo autoaim may show its shortcomings on the hardest
> challenge levels

Wait, really? Even Star Allies had a day one patch, I think..

> Other games that I played a bit, but dropped or postponed:
> - God of War Ragnarok (PS5)
> Something is weird with that game. After a few minutes I started getting
> extreme discomfort, my eyes start itching, headaches and I need to stop,
> feeling in a state of irritability for some time. It's like sensorial
> overload or something, like straining to see the 4K downscaled to a 40"
> 1080p. Has to be something with the detail level, because this has only
> happened to me with native PS5 games like Ragnarok and Stellar Blade.
> FFVII Rebirth is ok for me.

Maybe the game is cuurrrsseseedddd

> - Clannad:
> Not a lot to say. It's a japanese visual novel, and the point where the
> developer decided that porn was innecesary to sell it, so it's just a
> normal, all ages interactive book.

Interesting. I'm not one for visual novels (besides phoenix wright) so
yea

> -Classics:
> I got one of those fake Nintendo NES consoles, the horrible nes on a
> chip type that is missing the triangle sound channel. Sitll had a blast
> with it playing Blue Shadow (Shadow of the Ninja, but at that time there
> was a problem with the brits and the word "ninja"), Darkwing Duck,
> Adventure Island 3... I need to play a few of those in the Mesen core.


Why?
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