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Simoun 09/16/21 1:32:43 PM #461:	I forgot that I beat Psychonauts 2 (PC) a day before Avernum 1. Its a good game that made some minor qol improvements however. It was essentially more of the same down to the scavenger hunt that happens early game and even the flow which was by lategame you were whisked away to a completely separate area to just keep playing a set of levels with no chance of moving back until the finale. I just wanna say that this sequel's way of improving that problem by making the game an open world exploration game when everything is over, is like a patchwork solution. Obviously when I'm done with something like Psychonauts, I'm not gonna keep playing for long. There's nothing at stake anymore. Just give me my damn backtrack mechanic, game! The plot was fine and it managed to resolve some unanswered questions but a couple of plotlines were dropped and some things just didn't make sense if you think about it hard enough. My main gripe though is the brainworlds. Raz was basically playing psychoanalyst and fixing people's problems and so the worlds were more realistic for the lack of a better term. I like the hint of consent that came with each one though, but for me Psychonauts was always about the wackiness of each brainworld instead of literally fixing people's problems. I feel like the actions you do trivialize actual mental help irl. Idk. I want my napoleon boardgameworld is all. I want my velvet matadorworld. I don't care about mucking around an Overcooked parody fighting puking hand puppets or sailing around wind waker jr while listening to an abusive drunk's problems. And today I beat Terminator: Resistance (PC) an example of a true 30 USD game that makes no attempts to be a 60 USD game like most. For an FPS made in 2019, its pretty decent. It tries to incorporate some mechanics we've seen before, mainly Fallout stuff but its hit and miss. Instead it shines in the little details of game design and my god you actually fight terminators in this game (and you struggle so much very early on). You also get to meet John Connor and save the damn timeline without any sort of sequel hook. Its a C+ kind of game that you rarely see now when a game either has to perform really well or suck forever. It feels like it came out in 2010 and has no business existing today but its here and it's alright. --- It's not so cliche anymore when it's happening to you. <cite>Simoun posted [p:958114296] in Post Each ... [t:79211816]...</cite> <quote>I forgot that I beat Psychonauts 2 (PC) a day before Avernum 1. Its a good game that made some minor qol improvements however. It was essentially more of the same down to the scavenger hunt that happens early game and even the flow which was by lategame you were whisked away to a completely separate area to just keep playing a set of levels with no chance of moving back until the finale. I just wanna say that this sequel's way of improving that problem by making the game an open world exploration game when everything is over, is like a patchwork solution. Obviously when I'm done with something like Psychonauts, I'm not gonna keep playing for long. There's nothing at stake anymore. Just give me my damn backtrack mechanic, game! The plot was fine and it managed to resolve some unanswered questions but a couple of plotlines were dropped and some things just didn't make sense if you think about it hard enough. My main gripe though is the brainworlds. Raz was basically playing psychoanalyst and fixing people's problems and so the worlds were more realistic for the lack of a better term. I like the hint of consent that came with each one though, but for me Psychonauts was always about the wackiness of each brainworld instead of literally fixing people's problems. I feel like the actions you do trivialize actual mental help irl. Idk. I want my napoleon boardgameworld is all. I want my velvet matadorworld. I don't care about mucking around an Overcooked parody fighting puking hand puppets or sailing around wind waker jr while listening to an abusive drunk's problems. And today I beat Terminator: Resistance (PC) an example of a true 30 USD game that makes no attempts to be a 60 USD game like most. For an FPS made in 2019, its pretty decent. It tries to incorporate some mechanics we've seen before, mainly Fallout stuff but its hit and miss. Instead it shines in the little details of game design and my god you actually fight terminators in this game (and you struggle so much very early on). You also get to meet John Connor and save the damn timeline without any sort of sequel hook. Its a C+ kind of game that you rarely see now when a game either has to perform really well or suck forever. It feels like it came out in 2010 and has no business existing today but its here and it's alright. --- It's not so cliche anymore when it's happening to you.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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