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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024?
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 12:53:04 +0200
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024?
> 
Almost the same as every other month. I'm slowly becoming that single
game player.

- Splatoon 3
Been a wild month with this month, as Grand Festival, the farewell event
happened from the 13th to the 15th of September. First there was Big Run
(Special PvE), where the tide got so high that the salmonids invaded the
Grand Festival arena while it was being built. One of the rare occasions
where we were give a full Grizzco weapons rotation (imagine that
somebody hacked the weapons in a game to cheat). Even with those
illegally modified weapons, we had to sweat against the Triumvirate, a
situation where three kaiju sized Salmonids attack all the same time and
beating them is so hard that you are rewarded for the time that you
survived.

Then came Side Order, the DLC, which I managed to beat one day before
Grand Festival. A roguelite where success is half improving at it, half
buying upgrades after each run. By the time I finally was able to defeat
the final boss, my adrenaline was at peak levels.

Grand Festival was the final part. The game stops being updated after 2
years, but the final event is a Burning Man style massive festival.
Everything was new and built for the occasion, and I have several
gigabytes of video and screenshots. A reminder that this is the game
Fortnite stole the in-game concerts from, and the Epic game is a bad
joked compared with what we saw. No one expected it, and you had to be
there to understand it. By the time the main scenario got updated for
the final performance on the final night, no one was expecting that.

And that was the end. After the Festival, the playerbase is at its
lowest. Can't play online games if I am back in class.

- The Binding of Isaac Rebirth: Repentance
I have reached 100 hours of playtime, and it's starting to become an
obsession. The story is not what we thought it was in the beginning, and
stuff keeps changing with each run. I just got the Polaroid item,
unlocking what may be the final chapter of the game.


And now comes... the small stuff. I have awful memory for these ones.
- Earthbound Beginnings / Mother
The rpg that was never published despite being 100% translated and we
had to wait 25 years to play it officially (or just 10 if you played the
leaked rom the early 2000s). Ahead of its time, broke many of the
conventions set by Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, but at the same time
it's also a nightmare of no difficulty balancing, negative QoL features
and one of the worst encounter rates ever.

- The usual retro classics
A bit of everything, depending on the mood. Pokémon Emerald, Aladdin
(Snes), and Random Master System / Game gear stuff.