Coelacanth
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- Comment on caddyserver.com has those vintage browser buttons at the bottom of the page 3 minutes ago:
God that brings me back to middle school computer classes and hacking together your own websites with basic HTML.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 12 hours ago:
If you want the SNES emulation flavour I am a big fan of the Woolsey Uncensored romhack. So much of the 90s Final Fantasy charm (in the west) came from Woolsey’s uniquely creative translations, and it’s a shame to miss out on it in my opinion.
If you prefer the Pixel Remaster version there is a mod to use the Woolsey Uncensored script instead for that one too. I haven’t tested that one personally but it could potentially be the best of both worlds if it works.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 15 hours ago:
The Talos Principle series are probably the biggest and best 3D first-person puzzle games out there, together with the Portal series.
I think Blue Prince needs to be added to this list going forward.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 15 hours ago:
I assume you’ve already played Final Fantasy VI?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 19 hours ago:
So my impatient gaming is over for the moment. I’m finally finished with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Well, I say finished but that is a bit of a lie. It still lives rent free in my head and I’m still watching people play it to relive those first playthrough moments. But I’m done playing for now. I was actually tempted to go straight back and do NG+ immediately after seeing the credits, and that is a very rare feeling for me. Last time I had that feeling was Alan Wake 2. Anyway, the game is great: play it, wishlist it, whatever - just don’t miss it. I think it will be a shoe-in for Game of the Year, and it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played.
As my repentance for being super impatient two months in a row with Blue Prince and Expedition 33 back-to-back, I’ve gone back to an old classic for my next game: F.E.A.R.. I never actually played it back in the day, I remember trying the demo but my PC at the time couldn’t handle it and it fell to the wayside later as I played other games. I’ve installed a couple of mods: upscaled textures (didn’t get the actual Rivarez Mod, just the textures) and the Echo Patch for stuff like HUD scaling and FPS fix. I’m also playing on DLDSR 1.78x and with RTX HDR.
With all that said, the game holds up incredibly well. The lighting and atmosphere is phenomenal, but what is really striking is the gunplay and enemy AI. This really doesn’t feel like a 20-year-old game. Even if you completely ignore the horror elements, the game is just an incredibly enjoyable shooter, with every engagement feeling thrilling as enemies flank you, hide, flee, sneak and flush you out with grenades. The bullet time is cinematic, but a little overpowered. Though you can just elect to not use it.
If you haven’t already, pick it up on GOG and play it. You can probably get it for like a dollar on sale and that’s an absolute steal. Now if only I could get EAX emulation working…
- Comment on Lemm.ee communities migration megathread 20 hours ago:
Bookmarked. Great initiative.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 day ago:
Don’t know how far into Clair Obscur you are, but I recommend sticking with it. I can’t really say anything else without spoilers but I found the story very good.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 day ago:
I haven’t played BNW yet (though I really should), but I’d be hesitant to suggest something that makes so many fundamental changes for someone’s first playthrough. The one I tend to recommend is Woolsey Uncensored
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 day ago:
I loved Blue Prince. It’s still putting up a good fight for my personal GOTY despite having just finished and loved Clair Obscur.
Play it, take notes, enjoy it. Games like it don’t come along often.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 1 day ago:
Okay I need to stop commenting before coffee.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 1 day ago:
No PC eh?
- Comment on The Witcher 4 - Cinematic Trailer | State of Unreal 2025 2 days ago:
Yes, she always goes through the portal. It’s what happens after that varies. She either becomes a Witcher (looks like that will be the canon ending considering Witcher 4), becomes a princess or she doesn’t come back. In the latter ending it’s implied (but left up for debate) that she dies. It’s also very heavily implied that Geralt dies in that one.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 - Cinematic Trailer | State of Unreal 2025 2 days ago:
Ciri enters the portal in all endings.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
The game is not for everyone. That’s okay. Rothko paintings are worth tens of millions of dollars and I completely do not get them at all.
I will give you that there are two soft locks early on that are a little too easy to stumble into and it is for sure the game’s biggest flaw.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Oooooh I like that question. I feel like it would have to be some kind of Call of Duty, right? Some absolutely mediocre slop that still has enough mechanical satisfaction and mind-numbing explosion-and-cliché-filled story to keep you somewhat entertained, yet still remaining completely forgettable.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 1 week ago:
RDR2 is probably the best-feeling in terms of NPC behaviour in the open world.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Surpasses 3.3 Million Copies in 33 Days 1 week ago:
The final version of the script was in french. I can try to find the interview if you want. Basically, the lead writer of the narrative has English as her first language, but the co-writer of the script is french (as is the studio at large). The script went back and forth between English and French multiple times during development, but the final script ended up being in French.
Performance capture was done by the french actors, but speaking English (for motion/facial capture), so technically both languages are dubs, and neither has perfect lip synch.
Both casts are absolutely great. I prefer some voices in English and some in French. However, there are absolutely some parts of the script where it’s obvious it was written in French, with wordplay or double meanings that don’t translate to English.
Did that help?
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Hard to argue with most of those. I’d put Ocarina of Time over BotW, but that’s splitting hairs. Diablo 2 needs LoD included in my opinion.
God of War is an embarrassing blind spot in my gaming history. Is it actually that good?
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Disco Elysium is definitely closer to the visual novel spectrum of video games than it is to something like Tetris. But make no mistakes, its narrative and impact would be much lessened were it delivered in any other medium. It is absolutely a perfect example of how you use video games to make art.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
I love STALKER with all my heart, and if we’re talking atmosphere and vibes and even world building it is up there. But it does not really belong in the objective masterpiece category. Flawed masterpiece, maybe.
Also I think Call of Pripyat is the better STALKER game, but it might be controversial.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Good list. I desperately wanted to put Dark Souls on my list, as the first blind playthrough of it was a magical experience. But I don’t think it’s correct, no matter how much I love it. Flawed masterpiece is about right.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
BG3 has some very fun gameplay at times, such as the much-lauded variety with which you can deal with the Goblin Camp in Act 1. That’s where it shines.
The writing is not really comparable. BG3 is in the “fine for a video game” territory. Disco Elysium’s writing is art, both the narratives, the characters, the themes and even the prose itself.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
I know this is a hot take, but: BG3 is a good game. Clair Obscur is a work of art.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
We’ll see how much is recency bias and how well it will stand the test of time, but I really think Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will be on this list going forward. It’s definitely one of the best games I’ve ever played, and I’ve played a lot of games. It’s not perfect, but it’s close enough in all the parts that actually matter.
Otherwise there’s your usual suspects:
Disco Elysium Portal Half-Life 2 Bioshock 1 Final Fantasy VI Chrono Trigger Zelda: Ocarina of Time The Last of Us Baldur’s Gate 2
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a good game and a worthwhile experience but you can absolutely make quite a lot of very valid critiques about it.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Surpasses 3.3 Million Copies in 33 Days 1 week ago:
Last time a game was in the zeitgeist to this extent was BG3, and we all know how that went. Only thing going against E33 at this point is that the Game Awards are a long time off and recency bias/forgetting about it tends to have an impact.
I sincerely hope it does sweep the awards, not only is the game phenomenal but it would also send a very positive message to the industry.
Who knows though, people love Kojima and if Death Stranding 2 is slightly more approachable than the first it might put up a good fight.
- Comment on 'Trash' found deep inside a Mexican cave turns out to be 500-year-old artifacts from a little-known culture 1 week ago:
That’s an insane find, but merely reading about wading through water inside a cave with only a 15cm air pocket between the surface and the ceiling is giving me claustrophobia.
- Comment on Clair Obscur's Composer Talks Going From Unknown To Scoring 2025's Most Celebrated RPG 1 week ago:
I wish I hadn’t fumbled my french fluency over the past decade and a half as I still had to go back multiple times and re-listen and read the lyrics to understand them. And also the male singer on the OST sounds like he’s not a native french speaker so that makes it even harder to pick out.
But yeah, maybe it was for the best that I didn’t understand right away in the end!
- Comment on Clair Obscur's Composer Talks Going From Unknown To Scoring 2025's Most Celebrated RPG 1 week ago:
It somehow just keeps getting better too. Super strong leitmotif work as well, throughout the game. And like I mentioned, even if you don’t speak french try looking up translations for the lyrics (but after you finished the game). Some really beautiful passages, but steeped in foreshadowing and spoilers.
- Comment on Clair Obscur's Composer Talks Going From Unknown To Scoring 2025's Most Celebrated RPG 1 week ago:
I’m drunk on recency bias myself but I’m tempted to put him in Uematsu tier myself. I know that sounds outrageous but it’s actually that good. Even the lyrics are absolutely amazing. It will probably end up being my favourite OST of all time.
And there’s 8 fucking hours of it and not a single weak track!?