Essence_of_Meh
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world
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- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 10] 8 hours ago:
I’m on a bit of a break from manga outside some of the usual series (I’m still reading, just jumped on some books right now) but I’d like to say I’m really happy how the last few chapters of The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All went. It’s just a bunch of wins for everyone, including the audience.
Honestly, most of the series I follow at the moment seem to be doing pretty well lately (at least the one that release regularly anyway) so that’s nice. Now if only the rest of them had more reasonable schedules I’d be even happier (not that I don’t appreciate people scanlating for free as it is, I just can’t help with my cravings once I get hooked on a story).
A’ight, back to black hole I go.
- Comment on Is Croc coming this month? They said Q1 2024 but no new info. What are the chances it'll be delayed again? 20 hours ago:
As much as I love Croc, it’s not like this is a highly anticipated high budget release of a new title.
My guess is that they’ll keep the new date secret for as long as they can, until they’re completely sure they can make it (especially after they didn’t make it for the original one). It wouldn’t be the first time game like this gets released without much of a marketing drive or even with a stealth drop.
These slowly appearing previews seem to indicate we might be getting close but who knows. I’m honestly not good enough with dates to join you on the speculation train.
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
After not touching it almost since launch, I’ve decided to check out The Last Starship again. It’s kind of a mix of FTL, Factorio and its own ideas, made by Introversion Software ( folks behind Prison Architect, Darwinia and other titles).
It’s developed in early access, with regular and pretty enjoyable updates (just like PA) and is shaping up pretty nicely so far.I still need to spend some more time diving deeper into all the new stuff added since my last playthrough but it feels just as fun as on launch so far.
- Comment on First Gaming PC 1 week ago:
I know, I’m just failing to be cheeky.
- Comment on First Gaming PC 1 week ago:
Don’t diss i7-4790k, you’d be surprised how well it can run some modern titles!
- Comment on First Gaming PC 1 week ago:
It really depends on how fun do you find exploration and deduction to be. If you prefer games with more… curated direction, shall we say, then it might end up being more frustrating or boring rather than entertaining.
If you like to figure things out for yourself and take pleasure in exploring the world and themes of what you play then there’s a good chance OW will click with you.There’s a lot of interesting stuff in this game but it’s certainly not for everyone. You’ll need patience, curiosity and some out of the box thinking to get the most out of it.
- Comment on Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion 1 week ago:
Even if they do, I feel like both projects will have different enough approach to things to avoid making the other obsolete. Maybe… possibly.
I’ll certainly take the unofficial remake over the Bethesda one due to lower requirements and lack of Creation Club. That, and I’m just more interested in the fan interpretation of Cyrodiil to be honest.
- Comment on Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion 1 week ago:
That’s me with every Bethesda game I played. I don’t even treat them as games to beat, just worlds to run around in.
- Comment on [DISC] The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Chapter 116 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Just started playing Life is Strange 1 week ago:
I think I managed to overcome my dislike towards teen drama in media and started approaching it from a place of empathy, at least to some extent, which makes it way more tolerable. Same with characters making stupid decisions in emotional moments. That doesn’t mean I give a pass to every single piece of “stupid” or “illogical” writing but it helps treat what happens like a real event rather than “well they should do X like a perfect logical machine”.
My relationship with LiS games is a bit weird. I loved both the first game and Before the Storm but for whatever reason couldn’t muster any interest in any of the following titles. I don’t know why that is but none of them managed to grab my attention again. Maybe the first two came out at the right time, maybe they struck a familiar cord - either way they became a pretty important part of my life as well. Probably not as my favorite games ever (this honestly changes depending on a day and my mood/headspace) but important nonetheless.
- Comment on Just started playing Life is Strange 1 week ago:
Hope you have fun! It’s a pretty great game, as long as you can deal with teens being teens (I know some folks can’t stand it).
Please do post your thoughts afterwards, I’m curious how or if your opinion changes after completion.
- Comment on Mid games review: American McGee's Alice (2000) and Alice: Madness Returns (2011) PS3 1 week ago:
Yeah, I totally get it. Old (and only mid) games can be a real coin toss between fun and tedium. Quality of the game doesn’t affect my enjoyment too much but I understand that it can be an important factor for others (and even that can vary between games).
I can see your point about the story and I would really love to approach it from this perspective, for some reason I’m just unable to do so unfortunately. No idea why, I just can’t. I have a much easier time seeing a reason for a third game (rip) considering the ending of Madness Returns but we all know how that went.
- Comment on Mid games review: American McGee's Alice (2000) and Alice: Madness Returns (2011) PS3 1 week ago:
Eh, yes and no. There’s definitely a spectrum of how well a game stands the test of time. Some titles hold up better than others - whether graphically (mostly due to art style), gameplay wise (some stuff was janky or bad even on release) or in any other way.
Besides the more objective, technical aspects there’s also the fact that each person has different gaming experience and expectations to what they play. You can’t drop a blanket statement “old game on new platform will be bad, duh!” and be done with it.
- Comment on Mid games review: American McGee's Alice (2000) and Alice: Madness Returns (2011) PS3 1 week ago:
Thanks for the write up. I never really thought how these games played on consoles so it’s interesting to see this perspective.
While far from perfect, I really can’t help but like the first game. I agree it didn’t age well in some respects yet I still had quite a bit of fun replaying it not too long ago. Granted, I’m a weirdo who also likes Bungie’s “Oni” so I tend to have a decent amount of resilience towards games like these.
I’m a bit torn on the sequel honestly. I do like it as a game (even if it’s a bit too long in my opinion) but I feel that as a sequel to the original plot it’s a bit… mean spirited (?) towards Alice. Maybe it’s just me, but her starting the second game in pretty much the same situation as she was in the original kinda takes out of the ending of the latter.
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- Comment on Avowed is the most fun I’ve have had since Skyrim! 1 week ago:
Guild exclusivity is actually what I had in mind. Sure, there’s nothing that significantly changes the main quest in TES games (and I think I misremembered how much blocking is there in previous titles) but that still counts for me personally. Self-imposed role play is fine in general (I do it all the time in games in fact) but I still think that lack of reasonable requirements for some (optional?) content makes the world feel more generic and player-focused than I’d like.
Thanks for the reminder though.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I still can’t focus and I’m still jumping between games but I do have some updates so might as well post about it.
The Sims 2 and Euro Truck Simulator 2 kept their place as my primary games, with the latter edging a little bit in terms of playtime. Not much changed here.
Speaking of TS2, I tried playing it on a Steam Deck. Game runs fine, sans some short freezes when browsing through large content lists (clothes, furniture etc.) which is about what I expected from the game.
The big problem for me is controls. I tried playing around with mapping and whatnot but I just couldn’t make it comfortable enough to play for longer periods of time. Because of this I’ll just treat it as a failed experiment and stick to playing on my desktop.As for new additions, I played through Umurangi Generation. It’s a small indie title about photography in a “shitty future”. It’s a really janky yet entertaining title, with some pretty emotional moments (at least for me). I’ve written a longer post with my thoughts about the game if anyone wants to know more.
The last one technically counts as it released on mobile last year even though I tried out the PC demo.
Wagotabi: A Japanese Journey - is an educational RPG about learning Japanese. It’s cute, fun to play and seems to have an interesting (and enjoyable) approach to learning. Only demo is available on PC at the moment but it I definitely liked what I played so far. It can be found on both Itch.io and Steam. - Comment on Avowed is the most fun I’ve have had since Skyrim! 1 week ago:
Change from Oblivion to Skyrim would definitely affect my question. I do think the former had more “my kind” of role playing so the initial thought would be more understandable for me.
Thanks for the answer. I get what you mean about playing as more defined main characters, it definitely has it’s benefits over more open-ended approach.
- Comment on [News] "The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All" Manga Listed With Anime 1 week ago:
On one hand I’m really happy about this possibility, on the other, I’m not sure how well it’ll go considering how big part of the story revolves around real, popular music. I’m sure they’ll be able to come up with decent replacements for whatever tracks they won’t be able to license but still…
I guess we’ll see how it turns out.
- Comment on Avowed is the most fun I’ve have had since Skyrim! 1 week ago:
This is a genuine question and not me trying to be snarky or anything: how’s that possible? Was there any meaningful role playing in Skyrim at all?
To me the system simplification of Skyrim went so far that the only real role you could play was the dragonborn - not your specific one but a generic dragonborn who could be anyone and everything at the same time. Maybe my definition of role playing is outdated as I feel it should include choices and consequences (like blocking or limiting access to some content) so I’d be grateful if you could expand on that.
Again, I’m not trying to suggest you’re wrong or anything, I’m just curious about your perspective (or something more about what you’ve read).
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 08] 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t mind if the change was more reasonable/gradual but her going from the initial design to a completely new person in what, 2-3 weeks? It just felt like a cop-out. Plus the fact that she only got her kiss after becoming a generic manga girl… Still, these aren’t major issues in the grand scheme of things.
I agree about the teacher though. - Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 08] 1 week ago:
Lets see… Asura’s Dish of the Day finished yesterday. I mentioned before I’m a bit disappointed with the time skip and that didn’t change, but the final chapter was decent enough. Too bad it had to go this way.
Second series I’d like to mention is Crimson Grimoire. It’s an edgy magical girl with servants series that was abandoned by its translators years ago and came back recently. I don’t even remember why I started reading it back in the day - it’s not particularly unique nor impressively written. I just needed something to fill my time with, I guess.
I’m still going back and forth whether I care enough to continue reading at this point as I don’t expect much but hey, it is something I read in the last few days so it deserves a mention.I don’t really have the time or energy to read anything new at the moment so other than that I’m sticking with the usual stuff: Mary-san, 12cm Promise, green rock yuri etc. I’ll just sustain myself reading through comments posted by all of you each week.
- Comment on Umurangi Generation - Capturing the Apocalypse 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. While it doesn’t really affect the game I decided to mention the grading system since it’s pretty much a part of the photography loop. As much as I would like to say otherwise, I still have a problem with not being able to completely disregard scoring systems in games. It’s especially weird since I don’t really care about them post the summary screen. I don’t go back to improve the score, brag about it or anything like that. I agree that the exploration approach is the best way to go about the game.
I was really surprised with how much the second part of the game made the whole thing work for me. Early on I thought it was fun and had some interesting lore but that was about it, something was still missing. Only after things really got going everything clicked into place and I started to fully appreciate everything before and after that point. I wasn’t spoiled but I did expect something like that to happen. What I didn’t expect was for the game to just go all in like it did.
That’s really the core of what I like about indie games - they can be janky, ugly and broken but when they work, they can make for some truly great experiences.
