Datz
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- Comment on Just released the trailer for my solo horror game where you can pet your cat to restore sanity! It's coming out 2, Feb 2026! Let me know your feedback on the trailer :) 3 weeks ago:
I’ll be too much of a pussy to play it because jumpscares (even if there only seemed to be 1?) but it does look cool, I don’t know many camera based horror games besides Outlast (which afaik is more action). The bronze statue getting caught in the same position feels overused in the trailer, but it’s the kind of horror my heart could still take at least - I imagine being too late plops a jumpscare though.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 4 weeks ago:
I need extra warmth bro, it’s actually cold in here.
I also wear underwear under my pyjamas.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 4 weeks ago:
Where socks?
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 5 weeks ago:
When an aspect of a game is ass (usually grinding, and I tend to be tolerant), even if I try to engage with it. Or if I’m about to drop the game anyway and cheats means seeing an ending. Last time I did was Megaman ZX, the game was already tedious and expects you to then also do a boss rush with limited ways to recover between fights, so I cheated infinite lives to get it over with.
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 month ago:
I was thinking that they might require a Steam account to order, the same way they stopped scalpers for Steam Deck, but there’d be ways around that.
It’d be hilarious if you needed something like “profile level 10” to order though.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
I recently replayed Dark Souls 1 and tried a Strength build to see how it goes.
Full Havel’s straight up lets you face tank Artorias, and you’re taking almost a 1/15th of his health with just a hit.
Armor was nerfed after that, but still, it was rather hilarious. Magic was nerfed too by the virtue of bosses getting more gap closers and ranged attacks - by Elden Ring, magic is far from the boring “stay back and just spam attack” idea, but on the contrary, the cheesiest tactics I used when needed were Greatshields or dual jump attacks for stunning bosses. It’s crazy to me how most people just grab a greatsword and only use that the whole game, then say the game’s shallow or too hard.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
Hollow Knight mostly had pretty barebones movement for a metroidvania. Great for combat, not fun for going from point A to B, and HK has seemingly more backtracking that other metroidvanias. Silksong actually has a sprint button that makes it all better.
Expedition 33 is still good, but a lot of people go as far as saying it’s the best JRPG last decade, which feels like a copout when half of it is not being a JRPG. It feels like the Persona 5 hype all over again (which was a full on JRPG, mind you, but it also had problems and I felt was just good)
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
To clarify, I meant gameplay, because you can (and a lot of people do) turn on easy mode just to ignore it and focus on everything else.
The easy mode could win battles for you automatically and most people would “enjoy” it all the same, but I hardly think anyone would love it.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
I (re)play Soulsborne for builds, and I think that’s necessary to appreciate ER. Trying out all the spells and different weapons is most of the fun, the rest being trying them out on bosses.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
Was it good though? I imagine you’d be AP starved until you get the Picto for AP on hit, and then it sounds like the opposite where you can spam costly skills.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
The worst part is, that decent game isn’t even in the same genre. E33 is too damn heavy on parrying. Imagine if all 2000-2015 Zelda games were garbage, and Breath of the Wild was the first good one. I’m sure some OoT fans wouldn’t be too thrilled, while a majority of gamers would be.
As a JRPG fan though, I concur, most JRPGs suck ass, and it’s often for the most obvious, easy to fix problems like slow combat speed, or throwaway random encounter design.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
It depends on person and skill, a lot of people manage to beat a majority of bosses 1st try.
Also, personally, I just like using magic which makes some parts easier.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
Expedition 33, but I’m sure other people think that about Silksong or Hundred Line.
I love the pictos system, it’s the best thing about it and I hope other JRPGs take it, almost every pickup you find is good. Resuable consumables are cool, and the first two hours or so is cinema (even on Steam Deck with crappy settings). The rest is just good to flawed by the middle of Act 2, especially parrying (I’m decent at it, but I’d rather either play an action game where it’s deeper, or a JRPG where it doesn’t intrude on strategy)
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It might not make up for the other shit they do, but at least Nintendo seems to treat its employees right
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 1 month ago:
Or don’t get it at all, never played them or felt like it!
(Bad news: I grew up with Nintendo instead)
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 months ago:
Crosscode has a ton of dialogue changed if you turn on NG+ modifiers, such as carrying over levels or using a “cheat code” for ludicrous damage, 1shotting almost everything.
One NPC quotes the “you cheated not the game, but yourself” copypasta.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 2 months ago:
It was a culture shock that you can smoke indoors there, especially since I hate smoking.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 months ago:
Secondhand PS5? I’m planning to get a used Switch 2 and some come for that price, and so seems the PS5.
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