Also my favorite genre of replies: “well this random game that you totally love has this shit gameplay mechanic so you can’t say it’s shit!”

I found the mother of all ragebaiters in game discussion

HOLY FUCKING SHIT HE LOOKS FUCKING INSANE HOLY HELL I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I SAID

Really liked the deko boss with the goons in Star successor, really heavy on target prioritization that isn’t so black and white.

the new onimusha demo had an encounter with a dozen enemies but instead of doing anything interesting with it, the ticket system meant that enemies went one at a time with no threat of overlapping attacks, making more like 6 1v1s instead of a 1v6 this is capcom at their absolute worst...

"Boy, I miss your mother" "I know she loved you a lot father" "She could perform an air combo when I could no longer do so"

Ngl, not sure how to feel about the faye game.

store.steampowered.com/app/1375400/... They're practically giving it away for free, pick it up if you haven't yet the game is sick. Also like a thesis on the use of slopes in action platformers

Trying to get the True Last Boss 1CC in Night Striker Gear and I’m fighting for my damn life 😭

Got to the colossus boss in sin and punishment Star successor and ngl, something about the game isn’t clicking as hard as 1 did. It has to do with the coloring(everything looks very similar to me) and something mechanically I can’t put my finger on. I think it could do with the length-

Look at this little asshole 🥲

I can finally show the kinds of evil little bastards I've been cooking up

Man I really want to make a video analyzing the modern dialogue in god of war and where it started, but I hate my voice so much and the editing will be hard… but I feel like it would be worth it.

I forget most people havent caught on that "Yellow paint" is a shallow critique meant to soak attention away from real issues Its a way to appear like a critic without having to touch uncomfortable things like challenge integrity, that might get people angry Safe Critique

Liking Star successors meme and how it’s more about commitment compared to sin and punishment 1

When it comes to enemy prioritization I feel like some people put too much emphasis on it while ignoring how it can make encounters very chronological with how you approach if it is done to a absurd degree IE: archvilles in doom eternal

It's tragic that almost no shooter game developer realized it is funnier to put the conspicuously placed explosive barrels next to the player instead of the enemy, even though this was done in the Ancient Texts of the genre

I don’t know what it is called, but what is it called in game design the sweet area between being given meaningful choices to complete a challenge with, but also being required to beat it in a certain way?

It's not too late. Yall can play Magenta Horizon on the hardest difficulty when there's a time left.

Had the most clean stage 4 ever as Guy, then Rolento just says… no.

Been thinking, if a genre has such strong fundamentals already, how do I know when playing the game I should praise the game itself or the genre?

the most generational LARPers in videogames?

pragmata is a 7 for me but it's important we have someone like mark be so strict & rigorous. this inclination to be extremely soft on linear gen 7 style singleplayer stuff just because it's kinda rare now is IMO misplaced when the design is still very much corroded www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZLQ...

Holy fucking shit hard mode ain’t no joke 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Is that…. Testament?!??!? @testamentenjoyment.net

This was my 2nd time(right away btw) beating the game since I accidentally deleted my data by pressing “save data” which actually erases your data. Was fun. Played 16 minutes of hard and it’s definitely noticeably more difficult. Good game. Will play more of hard later. Does the game reward doing a-

dbz hyper dimension is actually really good what the hell

Aight sin and punishment is finally clicking I think but mostly because I lost credits like 3 times but when I had to restart from over the latest time, game seemed to have gotten harder somehow or atleast add more projectiles.

Ngl I think the poor fps that my compute is pushing out with sin and punishment is effecting my time with the game in a negative way since it makes stuff too slow. Gonna see if I can fix it

Sin and punishment is definitely getting much better after that boss chase, feeling way more like a competition for space to find good angles to shoot enemies but also deflect missiles, since you can get hit during them. Still, doesn’t feel like it has fully clicked and the fps is very mixed

Aight ngl I was at first thinking son and punishment was overrated as shit BUT! It turned out I was playing on easy lol

Didn’t expect sin and punishment to be Evangelion inspired lol

Time one button for an instant opening? ❌ Learning your hitboxes in a 3D Space and having your weapon collide with an enemy's without said weapon touching your body, and potentially being in disadvantage as a result anyway? ✅

the early 2000s being a massive era for 3d games and the GBA being effectively a portable SNES that just barely can achieve 3d resulted in a hurricane of games where devs pull off black magic in order to get their polygons to run at 10fps

Super Sonic

>get sin and punishment to finally run >I don’t have a fucking game cube controller adapter

im tired of video games discourse. nobody talk about video games ever again

>got dolphin emulator >I can’t play sin and punishment since it’s n64 and my dumbass didn’t account for that

Manifested by that one person that ships tintin with rei ayanami

Tyr is the best boss in the gow series it isn’t even close.

99% of beat em ups 2D and 3D do not need a jump, they don't have enough air combat or high/low dynamics to justify it

Some gaming conversations online confuse me because some of yall be acting like if you explain something hard enough it can “undo” the fun that someone had with a game The person already had a good time. It’s too late 😂

there's a few FPS series where people always wish for a game where you play as the bad guy faction and my response for years has been "do you really want to spend 8 hours looking at the [good guy faction]?" camouflage space pajama mfers

I always prefer it when vg protagonists are significantly less cool than the enemies cuz it adds to that david and goliath vibe. If theyre machines, being some kinda generic mass produced looking units makes it all the cooler to take down advanced war machines

Dying to fodder right after the hardest boss fight:

Finally I made Bluesky actually look like my twitter format

a working definition of depth in games: depth is the game layer's ability to resist a player's simplification and compression of the game state. it exists as a tension between a solved state (a puzzle) and pure noise (gambling).

Okay this game is cool