Thalfon

@Thalfon@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sorta remember Earth: 2025 and Utopia being a bit like that. You’d generate turns over time and login once or twice a day to spend the turns. Not sure if that’s exactly what you meant by BBS though, and the only ones I know offhand I think were all late 90s starts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confession⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If anything it’s more of a language thing that stuck when translated. Japanese uses their word for confession (kokuhaku) both for confessing to a crime and professing one’s love/attraction. The latter is also often how people are asked out (think “I really like you, do you want to go for dinner” – the “I really like you” bit is the “confession”).

  It could’ve been localised as asking out instead, but the more literal translation was used often enough to become normalized. So now we see “he confessed to her” instead of “he asked her out” in translations a lot when the former is a fairly typical Japanese way of saying the latter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A redemption arc this late would’ve had to have been quietly making a great game, no big announcements in advance until it was done or nearly so and playable, and then letting it speak for itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crypt of the Necrodancer.

  Really fun roguelike game where you and enemies have to move to the beat of that floor’s song. I think part of the reason I still play it a lot is that it’s amenable to very short sessions. I’ve played enough that runs go fast and I either clear or die within 10 minutes.

  Over 1200 hours now almost a decade after release, and a huge chunk of that is probably sessions of under 30 mins in length.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-reckoning, do you remember the original one?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only played the original one. I had a fair amount of fun with it for what it was. It can feel a bit empty and wide, but the gameplay was quite fun, even if the combat is kinda painfully easy most of the time. You can build basically however you want and become pretty OP.

  Is the remake worth looking at for those who played the original? I was kinda ignoring it because I’d played through it once already. Wasn’t super sold on a second go-through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humble Choice for November has Persona 4 Golden, Warhammer Darktide, Cassette Beasts and more⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m personally skipping because I already have what I’d want from this one, but I will say P4G is my favorite of the Persona series, and one of the few long JRPGs I’ve actually finished in the last several years. (P5R is also great, but 4’s more grounded story and characters, relatively speaking, give it the edge for me.)

  And Cassette Beasts is a truly great Pokemon-like that has so much going for it. If you feel out of love with the Pokemon franchise, or if you still enjoy it but would want more, this is a really fun game with its own take on a lot of the mechanics. Lots of depth combined with customizable difficulty.