mysticpickle
@mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 8 hours ago:
Shit, you just sold me on another game. Gonna check out darkwood later this week!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
The only thing that sucks about ranged is having to rely on jars early on. Haaaate it when they run just a bit too close and you eat the splash damage 🤬
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Still playing Withering Rooms and still absolutely enchanted by it. @Coelacanth@feddit.nu 's review of it initially sold me on it so I’ll just paste it again here!:
I finished Withering Rooms a few days ago, having done both a full first playthrough and a quick run through NG+ to get the ending exclusive to NG+. Since then I’ve been in that odd spot where I’m kind of having trouble moving on to the next game. I just keep thinking about Withering Rooms.
This game was so amazingly good, it is seriously unbelievable it is the work of a solo dev. Especially since he also composed pretty much all the music - and the music is as phenomenal as the game. I don’t think I’ve been this impressed with a solo dev since Lucas Pope and Obra Dinn.If you vibe in any way with what you see on the Steam page, I heavily encourage you giving it a shot.
It is one of the most unique games I’ve ever played, which is funny because it simultaneously wears its inspirations on its sleeves. But the influences never end up leading to derivative end product, instead they are just the foundation for the very distinctive artistic vision of an auteur developer that is doubtlessly doing his own thing.And it’s not just about the story and world building and art direction and atmosphere, but the gameplay and build variety is also really good. All the gameplay systems are so well designed, the puzzles are intuitive and the game has so many thoughtful little touches you wouldn’t expect from the first game of a solo dev, especially on the QOL front.
The combat itself is a little clunky, but you do get used to it and there are several ways to build both melee and spellcasting, there is a ranged weapon build that leans more into consumables, you can sneak around and place traps, you can be a summoner… Probably more that I didn’t think of yet. And using all these different tools is a lot of fun.Having played this I am unbelievably excited for the sequel, which enters Early Access this year.
- Comment on Is giving only formula long term "healthy" for a baby? 2 months ago:
Imagine my shock when I found out companies were putting dihydrogen monoxide into all my beverages!
- Comment on Subnautica 2's early access release date was "self-servingly" leaked by Krafton, "further damaging the game", claim lawyers for reinstated Unknown Worlds CEO 2 months ago:
Krafton’s Lionel Hutzes have swiftly fired back in their own letter. “Papoutsis’s message was simply celebrating the UW employees’ efforts toward a past event: Krafton’s pre-Opinion determination that Subnautica 2 was ready for Early Access release,”
Lol the doofuses at Krafton actually hired a lawyer named Lionel Hutzes. No wonder they lost the case XD
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Stardock announce an expansion into indie game publishing 2 months ago:
Aren’t these guys the asshats that tried to take the rights to Star Control away from the original creators?
- Comment on Why tipping keeps rising and may not improve service 2 months ago:
Yeah fuck tipping. The very thought of having to deal with it keeps me from eating out at sit down restaurants more often than not.
Don’t get me started about tip screens when I’m picking up food to go.
- Comment on PUBG publisher Krafton creates new Chief AI Officer executive role as it continues its ‘AI First’ strategy 3 months ago:
These are the same assholes who screwed the subnautica devs out of their bonuses to fund AI slop. Watching themselves shot themselves in the foot in real time is oddly satisfying.
- Comment on 3.14ckle 3 months ago:
- Comment on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals 3 months ago:
Ah, the funeral director has arrived!
- Comment on Watch: Gout Gout stuns with a record-equalling time in the 100 metres 3 months ago:
Whomp :<
- Comment on Opinions are like buttholes. Everybody has one but you don't need to engage when someone shows you theirs 3 months ago:
Unless you swing that way ofc 🏳️🌈
- Comment on Watch: Gout Gout stuns with a record-equalling time in the 100 metres 3 months ago:
I would not have expected a guy named Gout Gout to be particularly fleet of foot but he we are!
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 3 months ago:
The death of lemmynsfw has made it a lot harder to quarantine gooner communities to one easy to block instance :<
- Comment on Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere 3 months ago:
Isn’t it mostly gas? How do you map that?
- Comment on Dune II written in HTML5 / JavaScript 3 months ago:
This is amazing!
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 months ago:
Whole community with that mindset btw!
!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
The only game I couldn’t wait for in the last 15 years was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. That shit broke down my walls in more ways than one 🥲
- Comment on Russia is using DNS and DPI to block YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp while pushing state-controlled MAX as alternative 3 months ago:
Ah shit they bought up HBO? 😭
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 3 months ago:
Blueberries from Peru, one of the largest exporters, are generally are mostly bland mush in my experience. I remember hearing in a podcast someone saying they mostly grew a particular variety that was well suited for the climate but didn’t taste as good as other varieties that thrive more in North America.
- Comment on me, being surprised at how good radishes are 3 months ago:
It was from a salad bar so it’s very likely the case
- Comment on me, being surprised at how good radishes are 3 months ago:
I ate a beet once and found it absolutely disgusting. They look really similar to radishes so i just assumed radishes tasted the same for the longest time until I had a real Mexican taco with radish. Now I fucken love radishes!
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 months ago:
I’ve came to depend less on the visual cues which are often deceptive and more on the audio ones or counting in my head for dodges/parries. Also invest heavily (basically all your points) into defense/vitality which makes Dodge/Parry misses much more forgiving. Eventually, even if you do a smattering of side quests you’ll get powerful enough to basically ignore the timing mechanics altogether.
Also set it on story mode + auto QTEs. I did that on my first playthrough and had absolutely no regrets. The mechanics of the game are definitely secondary to the experience of the story.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 months ago:
You taking about krafton screwing the creators?
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 months ago:
- Comment on XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Review and Retrospective- Is It Worth It In 2025? 3 months ago:
Agree 100%. Played updated X-Com 1 and 2 once through and thought they were fine but just that everything was too clean and on rails. I didn’t think those games provided any particularly memorable experiences for me.
I’m still playing the 90s version to this day because I remember this one dude who was the lone survivor out of his 12 man squad during an early terror mission that went south really fast. He quickly emptied his initial ammo loadout, had to run through enemy fire to scavenge weapons from his fallen comrades scattered across the map, and changed weapon types at least twice because there were no more rifle clips to be had anywhere on the map. He surprisingly finished that mission and carried on to the end of the game as a living God of war.
I still remember that shit to this day and keep playing with the hope that such an epic story will unfold again.
- Comment on Tyler Robinson and Luigi Mangione are a glaring example of how attractive people get treated against ones who are not attractive 4 months ago:
I think it has less to do with appearances than the popularity of issues/people they choose to pursue with their actions.
Luigi off’ed sometime pretty much universally reviled across political spectrums. Probably a good 80% of people could sympathize at least a little with what Luigi did. Every adult has probably had extensive personal experience dealing with the dysfunction of our healthcare system. Brian Thompson is just the personification of that.
Tyler did a perfect one-shot with the most hilarious timing on someone that was loathed by ~50% of the country and liked by the other ~50%.
The two issues in which have a fairly wide gap in universal appeal.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Maybe not checkers, but there’s jumping alright
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Wait, but parsecs are a unit of dis…ohhhh
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Welcome!
