I’ve been playing a bunch of games through Game Pass all week.
New Super Lucy’s Tale - quite a fun platformer
Scorn - interesting game
Amnesia The Bunker - interesting survival horror game but the controls are kind of weird. Have to press and hold X button then the right trigger to reload.
Vampire Survivors - been hooked on that past two days
I've been playing NEO: The World Ends With You. The game hasn't really grabbed me yet. However, it it's probably too soon for me to really make any kind of judgment. The had to play halfway through the original before the game plan made sense, so I'm going to assume that may be the case again.
Also I'm still watching House, and that's a darn good program.
Ugh. Eurogamer finally found a way to circumvent whatever add blocker windows uses. Up till now I've always enjoyed a sleek add-free experience, dispite never having installed any add blocker software myself. Now the whole thing is slathered in Pikmin 4 adverts on pc and the mobile experience is even worse, where they're continuesly looping their own video content on the top of the screen for me to 'enjoy'.
Still playing TotK. I've been on vacation for the last 3 weeks (went sailing, but the weather was pretty bad) so I've managed to put in a lot of hours. I've completed the water temple 2 days ago. It was pretty enjoyable, but I'm not too fond of the 'hit 4 switches to unlock boss fight' template. I can see how the design of the game and gameplay would make incorporating actual old school temples difficult, but I enjoyed the Fire Temple's design much more. The fact that you had a believable structure with seperate rooms was much more enjoyable.
Yeah that's a giant punch in the gut to a lot of our childhoods I think.
I've got a funny story to share about him. He had a comedy special called "the Pee-wee Herman Show." For anyone who might not be aware, the Pee-wee character was originally a parody of children's TV shows that he did with a comedy troop he was a part of. It never got filthy, but the comedy was largely for adults. However, based on the character itself, he got a ton of attention and actually became a children's TV show character.
So pretty much everything he did from that point on was for kids. But that comedy special still existed on the shelves of video stores. Anyway, a friend's mom picked it up on VHS for us to watch right as he was becoming famous not really knowing anything about it. We must have watched it three times in a row, just howling with laughter. Again, it wasn't filthy, but it was probably dirty for a couple 8-year-olds and that made us love it all the more.
Because of that special, I was never really a big fan of the Saturday morning show because it always felt like it was for younger kids, older kids like myself who had a refined sense of humor.
Anyway, I will miss the guy. Going to have a drink for him tonight
I loved that comedy special and rented it several times. It was certainly racy, especially with the "hynotized" girl. Paul Reubens always made the movie he was in a little better. Anyone remember him from Meatballs 2? "This is for you and this is for the horse you rode in on." https://youtu.be/EzRfmwkELlE
I played build a new super PC and don't blow it up! I bought all the parts for a new PC and built it myself... it works, I think lol. I have an AMD 78003dx, best gaming CPU right now. Two 16GB of RAM. Kept my 2080 nvidia card, I'll upgrade that later. Super fast SSD. Big case with four fans, got air cooling on the CPU with big heat sink I had to glue on. It was a nightmare of cords and wires and where do things go in the motherboard. Getting it on the case was a mess too. Turning it on is terrifying but it turned on!
But yesterday after downloading steam, epic and oculus store fronts and trying some regular tv games I decided on getting my quest linked up to try VR. Everything was great before then, I did all my updates, BIOS tweaks, so on. Something happened when trying to get oculus and steam VR working cause when I started up HL alyx I got the BSOD and it shut down. Then every time I turned it on I could be in windows less and less before I got BSOD, eventually I couldn't even get into windows. Recover programs would BSOD before they finish. So I nuked the thing and started a fresh install of windows again. The error messages were for driver errors, something get messed up and it became totally unstable. So far so good with the fresh install.
I am taking it much slower, testing one program at a time. I think it's the oculus program, it's a mess. If I can get the quest to run without needed it I will do that.
Reubens isn't as well known in Europe, but having spent a few years of my childhood in Canada, I did get to enjoy his work. Had no clue how old he was, but 70 something isn't a bad age to go at. RIP
Still playing TotK. I've been on vacation for the last 3 weeks (went sailing, but the weather was pretty bad) so I've managed to put in a lot of hours. I've completed the water temple 2 days ago. It was pretty enjoyable, but I'm not too fond of the 'hit 4 switches to unlock boss fight' template. I can see how the design of the game and gameplay would make incorporating actual old school temples difficult, but I enjoyed the Fire Temple's design much more. The fact that you had a believable structure with seperate rooms was much more enjoyable.
I breezed through the water temple like it was 2 shrines combined. The unlock 4 things is the template this game. I liked the desert temple the best as it most closely resembled a normal Dungeon.
Which is why I'm digging skyward sword and being in an actual Dungeon.
Controls took some getting used to but now I'm fine with button controls and motion controls. Just wish there was a way to select button controls for flying stuff. And motion just for combat and aiming.
Gyro drift is real in this game, have to reset it so often.
I paid $330 for my 1080p OLED Pixel 6a on sale last year. That's about the most I'd be comfortable paying for a phone. Of course, 5 years ago I swore I'd never play more than $200 for a phone, lol .
Personally I would feel dirty spending over €200 for a phone.
I feel like convience is what I look for the most. Not sure I'd ever want to buy a old style home console, in the same way I never want a desktop PC after using tablets and laptops for so long.
Some of these phone go way over the top, 8k video recording? 3 OLED panels.
I paid $330 for my 1080p OLED Pixel 6a on sale last year. That's about the most I'd be comfortable paying for a phone. Of course, 5 years ago I swore I'd never play more than $200 for a phone, lol .
After forty hours into Pikmin 4, I'm pretty close to finishing up. I think its my favorite Pikmin game.
Can you give some -spoiler free- impressions? what makes it so good? I'm a bit weary about the explicitly human environments. I always liked pikmin best when it was ambigeous about where all of this was taking place.
I will try to keep this vague but will admit that it is difficult to do so. I agree with you on the environments. I don't really care for one area in particular because of that. At least the look of it.
I think the main thing that separates this one from the previous three is that there is more variety here than just collecting items, though there a lot of that in here as well.You will be on the search for castaways, quite a lot of them. Many provide you with side missions , nothing fancy, just extra goals that you will want to complete. You are also leveling yourself and your doggy companion by purchasing new equipment and learning new tricks in order to survive. The QoL improvements are great. I really like how you have to earn things like the ability to bring more Pikmin on your journey. Things that we took for granted are now things we have to earn to progress. There are new modes like night missions and Dandori challenges, plus a super cool throwback to the original Pikmin game.
Theres a lot to do and many people may prefer the simpler games but I'm all for the changes.
I’ve been playing a bunch of games through Game Pass all week.
New Super Lucy’s Tale - quite a fun platformer
Scorn - interesting game
Amnesia The Bunker - interesting survival horror game but the controls are kind of weird. Have to press and hold X button then the right trigger to reload.
Vampire Survivors - been hooked on that past two days
Also I'm still watching House, and that's a darn good program.
After forty hours into Pikmin 4, I'm pretty close to finishing up. I think its my favorite Pikmin game.
Ugh. Eurogamer finally found a way to circumvent whatever add blocker windows uses. Up till now I've always enjoyed a sleek add-free experience, dispite never having installed any add blocker software myself. Now the whole thing is slathered in Pikmin 4 adverts on pc and the mobile experience is even worse, where they're continuesly looping their own video content on the top of the screen for me to 'enjoy'.
Still playing TotK. I've been on vacation for the last 3 weeks (went sailing, but the weather was pretty bad) so I've managed to put in a lot of hours. I've completed the water temple 2 days ago. It was pretty enjoyable, but I'm not too fond of the 'hit 4 switches to unlock boss fight' template. I can see how the design of the game and gameplay would make incorporating actual old school temples difficult, but I enjoyed the Fire Temple's design much more. The fact that you had a believable structure with seperate rooms was much more enjoyable.
RIP, Paul Reubens.
I've got a funny story to share about him. He had a comedy special called "the Pee-wee Herman Show." For anyone who might not be aware, the Pee-wee character was originally a parody of children's TV shows that he did with a comedy troop he was a part of. It never got filthy, but the comedy was largely for adults. However, based on the character itself, he got a ton of attention and actually became a children's TV show character.
So pretty much everything he did from that point on was for kids. But that comedy special still existed on the shelves of video stores. Anyway, a friend's mom picked it up on VHS for us to watch right as he was becoming famous not really knowing anything about it. We must have watched it three times in a row, just howling with laughter. Again, it wasn't filthy, but it was probably dirty for a couple 8-year-olds and that made us love it all the more.
Because of that special, I was never really a big fan of the Saturday morning show because it always felt like it was for younger kids, older kids like myself who had a refined sense of humor.
Anyway, I will miss the guy. Going to have a drink for him tonight
I loved that comedy special and rented it several times. It was certainly racy, especially with the "hynotized" girl. Paul Reubens always made the movie he was in a little better. Anyone remember him from Meatballs 2? "This is for you and this is for the horse you rode in on."
https://youtu.be/EzRfmwkELlE
I played build a new super PC and don't blow it up! I bought all the parts for a new PC and built it myself... it works, I think lol. I have an AMD 78003dx, best gaming CPU right now. Two 16GB of RAM. Kept my 2080 nvidia card, I'll upgrade that later. Super fast SSD. Big case with four fans, got air cooling on the CPU with big heat sink I had to glue on. It was a nightmare of cords and wires and where do things go in the motherboard. Getting it on the case was a mess too. Turning it on is terrifying but it turned on!
But yesterday after downloading steam, epic and oculus store fronts and trying some regular tv games I decided on getting my quest linked up to try VR. Everything was great before then, I did all my updates, BIOS tweaks, so on. Something happened when trying to get oculus and steam VR working cause when I started up HL alyx I got the BSOD and it shut down. Then every time I turned it on I could be in windows less and less before I got BSOD, eventually I couldn't even get into windows. Recover programs would BSOD before they finish. So I nuked the thing and started a fresh install of windows again. The error messages were for driver errors, something get messed up and it became totally unstable. So far so good with the fresh install.
I am taking it much slower, testing one program at a time. I think it's the oculus program, it's a mess. If I can get the quest to run without needed it I will do that.
I'd blow up the house doing that.
I breezed through the water temple like it was 2 shrines combined. The unlock 4 things is the template this game. I liked the desert temple the best as it most closely resembled a normal Dungeon.
Which is why I'm digging skyward sword and being in an actual Dungeon.
Controls took some getting used to but now I'm fine with button controls and motion controls. Just wish there was a way to select button controls for flying stuff. And motion just for combat and aiming.
Gyro drift is real in this game, have to reset it so often.
I just bought a used phone that still cost as much two Switch OLEDs combined.
At full price you could buy a PS5, Xbox Series X, switch and have money left to buy a tablet too.
I feel dirty. But I don't use tablets or laptops these days, so I wanted something bigger that will get used a lot.
This things got a 2k OLED screen.
How are these things more costly than an expensive laptop price??
Because shmucks like you will buy them nontheless
I guess a lot of it is due to miniturisation?
Personally I would feel dirty spending over €200 for a phone.
I feel like convience is what I look for the most. Not sure I'd ever want to buy a old style home console, in the same way I never want a desktop PC after using tablets and laptops for so long.Some of these phone go way over the top, 8k video recording? 3 OLED panels.
Then the battery is 5 hours. 🙁
hello there future me.Can you give some -spoiler free- impressions? what makes it so good? I'm a bit weary about the explicitly human environments. I always liked pikmin best when it was ambigeous about where all of this was taking place.
I will try to keep this vague but will admit that it is difficult to do so. I agree with you on the environments. I don't really care for one area in particular because of that. At least the look of it.
I think the main thing that separates this one from the previous three is that there is more variety here than just collecting items, though there a lot of that in here as well.You will be on the search for castaways, quite a lot of them. Many provide you with side missions , nothing fancy, just extra goals that you will want to complete. You are also leveling yourself and your doggy companion by purchasing new equipment and learning new tricks in order to survive. The QoL improvements are great. I really like how you have to earn things like the ability to bring more Pikmin on your journey. Things that we took for granted are now things we have to earn to progress. There are new modes like night missions and Dandori challenges, plus a super cool throwback to the original Pikmin game.
Theres a lot to do and many people may prefer the simpler games but I'm all for the changes.