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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you on it, because my completionist tendencies saw me trekking between one too many copy-and-pasted side dungeons in the 50 hours I gave Elden Ring before I couldn’t take it any more and never came back to finish the game.

  It’s not like the moment-to-moment combat is any less fun than the games that came before it, but since the game lets me indulge in my worst tendency of finishing every optional thing before progressing things it just felt like a meaningless checklist slog.

  It’s definitely a “me” problem, but it’s just one reason why I tend to prefer a more focused experience than a sprawling open world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Were you blessed to experience this masterpiece? 😼⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was all over Ep.1&2 on the GameCube back then. So many fond memories of nights spent chilling online and grinding out whatever we were going for that night.

  My main was a HUcast who made it up to level 168 before memory card corruption took him, and I didn’t have it in me to play seriously again after that.

  Though the timing on this post is funny because I’ve just started Phantasy Star Zero like a week ago. It’s incredible having a game so faithful to the PSO-style gameplay with just enough updates to feel fresh. And a bit surreal to have that with an entire new cast of enemies to get used to.

  Makes me regret somehow not hearing about Zero back when it came out. I did drop a few hundred hours into both PSO2 and NGS each, but it just never was quite what I was craving - a new PSO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to give the other perspective, I think Hellblade II is a masterpiece so I hope you enjoy your time with the two games as well!

  I think part of the reason for people’s reactions like above are due to how it was scooped up by Microsoft and was thrust into the hype machine.

  I think more often than not, people who played the first one knew what they were getting into for the sequel, and they really are Character Games first and foremost. There’s a reason Senua’s actress won Best Performance for her role in both games.

  As an aside, I highly recommend watching the behind-the-scenes videos for the games if you take a liking to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downtime - Apologies and what went wrong⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone has already said it, but don’t even sweat it. I had a little time when I tried to check in on Lemmy and couldn’t, so I simply set it aside to try again later. Things hum along smoothly here so much more often than not, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a sizable portion of us have been in that same position ourselves of needing to straighten out a failed upgrade for some project or other. I know I certainly have

  Praise be to containers \o/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are modern Final Fantasy games bad?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can say that I enjoy the Final Fantasy series just for the fact that I respect they are always trying something different with each one. This has the end result of me not getting on with several of them, but critically, someone else does.

  I just find it kind of beautiful that a series is willing to experiment with itself to such a degree, and that at this point there really is at least one game in it for just about everyone.

  All it really means is that I have to accept that not every game has been made with me as the target.