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I heard that when Trump gets reinstated as president, the play money from Trump: The Game will be legal tender.

Depends what they consider a 'stage'.

"Okay, we've designed the characters, designed their outfits, designed their other outfits, added extra belts and zippers to all their outfits, designed a world, added crossover promos and written a story, a backstory, and sidestories... now the last step is to make the game"

But the issue with BW wasn't a lack of polish, it was fundamentally bad design at a very basic level.

If he said he'd pitched a concept, done a load of design work, and been fired while they were still experimenting with gameplay, I'd sympathise. But he must have signed off on some terrible mechanics choices.

Still Alive is a great song, but I prefer Still Alive.

Grand Kirby posted...

Sounds to me like a lot of games are going to start having some reaaaaally long tutorials...

Or make 90% of the game 'DLC' that's included free with every copy (but not the trial)

We really need a sequel to Sonic Spinball along the lines of Yoku's Island Express. Maybe more level-based than Metroidvania-y, but a few worlds each with a bunch of linked tables with simples 'puzzles' and platforming elements... perfect for the hedgehog to roll around in.

Curse you for reminding me of this abomination.

"A Novel"

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out, book. I got half way through the Dictionary before realising it didn't have a plot, so I really appreciate it when novels identify themselves up front.

Verity

There's a 'book' like that in the Parasitology series by Mira Grant. It's a very creepy children's book about a pair of kids who go looking for the monster who used to live under their bed, and is a poem from the point of view of the monster, who takes a very parental tone as it instructs the children to abandon everything and come to live with it.

It was also adapted from a filk song the author did about Silent Hill. My signature of many years is a line from it.

There's enough quotes throughout the series to make a good poem, but I'd definitely love to see Don't Go Out Alone as a book in its own right.

Not a book, but the website H2G2 is supposed to be a kind of light-hearted Wikipedia, and is run by a foundation that was set up by Douglas Adams.

It's one of those situations where the plot makes less sense if you know part of what's going on, because it seems to contradict what you think you already know. Until it turns out that the conflicting part is just lies, of course.

As for the day/night thing- Yes, Earth is tidally locked now. The official explanation is in the book Grimoire NieR, and like everything else in the setting, it's all Caim's fault.

To celebrate this anniversary, I just bought almost the entire series for a third time.

To wit- I bought the PS4 version of 1.5+2.5, despite owning all four games in both original and PS3 forms. Mainly because I never actually finished Chain of Memories (and want to play Birth by Sleep again, because Aqua is the best).

Nothing's ever going to top that time that whatever generic rubbish everyone else was going on about got thoroughly upstaged by Jump Up Superstar.

Sony: We've got more pixels
Microsoft: We've got more polygons
Nintendo: We've got a super catchy song!

Sad that bundling Rhapsody with La Pucelle implies that there's no chance of them localising the sequels and doing a Marl Kingdom Collection.

But given how unlikely Rhapsody and La Pucelle getting a rerelease was anyway, I'm very happy to see this.

I'm hoping some sort of Unchained X/Union X revival, either a fullblown remake (inevitably called re:Union), or releasing an offline playable version alongside the offline version of Dark Road they're supposed to be releasing.

Jinkies.

The first video is the in-game version, which is censored to remove the 'ss' sound. The second is taken from the OST which is uncensored.

The lyrics are "Kickin' ass fast"

Does it count if I have no desire to ever actually play the game, but love (re)reading an LP of it? Because if so, Drakengard.

NieR Reincarnation.
Gorgeous art, gorgeous music, intriguing story... and like most 'free' games, a core gameplay mechanic that is somehow both incredibly simplistic and needlessly overcomplicated, requiring next to no skill or strategy beyond "grind for the dozens of different materials and currencies necessary to upgrade everything to the required level".

I bought a physical steelbook copy years ago. And I've still never played it. It's just that a) SO2 is one of my favourite JRPGs of all time and I desperately hope that the series will get good again, and b) the steelbook is pretty.

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

I desperately want games that are basically "XCOM reskinned", so (while I do like the world, characters and design of XCOM), they're secondary to how much I love the gameplay.

Bioware at one point hinted that they were considering doing a 'Dragon Age Tactics' that would be like a fantasy XCOM, and, even though it looks like nothing came of it, such a game would make me very happy indeed. Mass Effect XCOM would make me ecstatic.

It's up there, but for me, it doesn't beat Aliens.

Bartzyx posted...

I will probably get it eventually. In no rush to do it now, though. Still havent gotten around to BL3 which I heard was not great.

Same here. I love the first two games, but it sounds like BL3 took a nosedive in terms of writing quality (apparently the villains are parodies of social media influencers or something? Even if I do get to eventually shoot them in the face, it still means putting up with them for a whole game and comparing them to Handsome Jack).

Leonhart4 posted...

I can give you recommendations on Hercule Poirot stories, too.

I'd be interested in some Poirot recommendations too.

I've got the complete boxset of the David Suchet TV series, so I've watched a few, but the only one I've read is Murder on the Orient Express.

I just picked up MoM, but haven't played re:Mind yet (because holy shit that's expensive for DLC, and I'm the sucker who bought KH3 on launch day for 50 only to see it plummet in price).

Apparently, the whole framing device of MoM ties into (or at least, is set after) re:Mind, so I was wondering if MoM spoils anything from re:Mind straight from the start, or if I could safely play up to a certain point while waiting for the next sale on re:Mind.

Any thoughts?

The first two seasons of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, about two weeks ago.

Pretty much everything from Falcom, as well as the Wild ARMs franchise. Good games in their own right, but elevated to something special by their spectacular soundtracks.

Sheep007 posted...

The Bungie Halo games have amazing music, and the 343 ones have the most bland sci-fi music ever

Oof, yeah. I remember playing Halo 4, and at one point thinking "This track is pretty cool"... before realising I was fighting the final boss and this was the first time I'd even noticed the BGM.

Excellent, there's a mod to change the title screen of Ion Fury back to Ion Maiden.

Half of them look like they have aggresively awful art styles (yes, Quake was a great game, but early 3D graphics sucked and were ugly even for the time, recreating that look and then adding a bunch of special effects just makes it ugly and confusing), but at that price it's probably worth it just for Ion Fury and Hedon Bloodrite.

Don't you need Origin anyway for EA games even if you have them on Steam, or is that just Ubisoft with Uplay?

Raka_Putra posted...

Man Miami is fun and it also gave my PS4 a nasty lag.

Miami was the first "I need a new PC" moment that led to me buying my current machine.

So... it gets released, nobody buys it because they're waiting for the patch, publisher writes it off as a failure and pulls resources, cancelling the patch.

"I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but that 'database' that says I've had an accident... it doesn't exist. Your bosses are lying to you. They're not good people."

I think Yoko Taro's storytelling style works best when it's interactive, TBH. There's usually a sense that the protagonist, while their goals and motives might be 'good' on the surface, aren't really helping the situation and are probably making things worse, and part of the appealing bleakness is that whatever's wrong with the world by the end is partially your fault. Take that away and it would be less compelling.

Of course, there are plenty of side-stories that could be adapted to anime. If they gave us an animated version of the YorHa stage play, I'd be thrilled to finally watch it in English.

Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire.

It's the urban legend of the phantom hitchhiker, except here the ghost is the protagonist. Her name is Rose Marshall, she was run off the road in 1952, and she's been hitching her way across America ever since, seeking out the soon-to-be victims of traffic accidents, saving the ones she can, and providing a friendly face for those she can't.

(TBH, I love everything by Seanan McGuire, and her 'evil alter ego' Mira Grant. The October Daye, InCryptid, Newsflesh and Parasitology series are all fantastic).

I'd recommend playing the missions first, but check out the Hitman "Three Ways To Play" videos on Outsidexbox's Youtube channel. The three hosts each play through the same level, with the videos cutting between them to highlight the different approaches (usually Silent Assassin from Andy, covering for mistakes from Jane, and violent chaos from Mike). Very entertaining.

What KCF said, except that Absolution is pretty bad.