I am suspecting the price to knock me back a little and I also suspect I will still consider it far longer than my wallet will be happy about

That is pretty obvious, what’s really wild about this blog post and proof that we need off social media was that AI generated Gavin Newsom post with Ted Cruz and Hulk Hogan.

The Olive Garden app, cause when you are on it, you are family.

But no, I disagree that we’d have all come together and just solved everything with a different “central” app. Though I guess a government version of Twitter where everyone gets a login and every company has to have a support arm for making announcements and allowing the government to make them too would be helpful like it was and still sometimes is.

Cave Diver looks like it could have the atmosphere and gameplay of something really fun if they can figure out the locomotion just a little bit better.
I like the idea of filling up a cave with your previous corpses that help remind you of dead ends and mistakes.

Boredom with it. As i think was actually to easy with the mechanics, not properly fleshed out especially the burning one since the refuel is basically always there and the viscera and joy of blasting apart zombies wasnt as fun, it didnt feel as weighty and controlled as dead space.

It makes we want to rather get my face torn of in Dead Space than Cronos

I personally never believed it existed. And maybe I’m jaded by the consistency but games that are great but dont already have a franchise dont come back. Someone just buys the name and puts it on their barely similar game it feels.

The marketing comes first the game comes later. I don’t play marketing.

Man that “article” is just AI reading a thread poorly.

You know what? The future is probably not PC handhelds then. Android is having its own sideloading issues but the real difference between an android based handheld and the premium PC ones is the ability to play AAA games and stuff with anti cheat but i personally… Dont really care to play those games these days. They suck.

We now have steam for android emulators and Valve is working on their own.
Have you seen what $200 will get you in that space? The Anbernic RG556 has an AMOLED screen and then all the functional usefulness of an android 13 phone. With hall effect sticks and triggers attached.

If we want small lighter devices we need small lighter games and to push studios to make them if they want to sell to us.

So i dont see Sonic Racing mentioned much.

Its one of the other things i use to relax after Silk Song and i find it really interesting. Its not a clone of mario kart in that each car legit feels like it drives differently. And you have to play smart but can also play wildly because of the insane items and shortcuts.

I think it reminds me of Gran Turismo but with mario kart items. And Sonic music. I dont know if i just wanted something different and i am giving it more credit.

I have been procrastinating and exploring every nook and cranny of that world. Its amazing how much it feels real and lived in. Like they have the whole thing figured out down to why some screws are more rusted than others.

I am so reluctant to start act 3 cause i already struggled with the first funeral. Its gonna break me i just know it.

Any game like vampire survivors.
Passive bullet hells.

Literally people say its the thing they play when they dont have the energy for something else the way that people use fast food to replace cooking.
Easy to spin up and there are so many knockoffs that are “fine” but barely different.

It’s easy and pretty much automatic but filled with dopamine giving stimuli even if it wears off really fast. It makes it about as addictive as fast food too.

Telltale games were just like that. Its episodes in that each section has an arc and usually a cliffhanger of an ending.

Its part marketing and part way to keep everyone interested and feeling like they get the story at the same time. Its meant to feel like TV where you had control of the story to some degree but it continues forward no matter what.

The rest of that series is like that too.

You have so many great recommendations so i am gonna add more.

Gulf Club Nostalgia/Wasteland: when depression hits hard why not hit it harder with a tale of nostalgia for a world we have not yet lost.
Simple golf game but the radio station is… A lot.

To the Moon: the whole series is just what if all we could give those dying the happiness of a lie implanted in their memories and what can we provide for those still living who dont get it so easy?

Among the Sleep: just a 2 year old kid and your mom has gone missing and the world is so scary in the dark.

Another lazy developed game that relies on the end user having extremely overpriced and over designed hardware to do the heavy lifting to make it run. If it doesnt work blame the users for not optimizing their hardware as you can see in their steam review responses.

Also lazy RNG guns are not fun or balanced. Wild that a blue can be better than an orange gun just cause RNG rolled better.
And enemies that dont stand out cause they 4k textured cell shaded enemies in natural colors?

And lets not even get into the fact that they stole all the parts of this game from other big games. (Where have i seen a villian putting a brain implant into our main character, and then the ship crashing for us to figure out how to get it out while stumbling on a small outpost in struggle?) stuff I’d probably forgive if it ran and didnt look like it was trying to be everything and nothing.

I have noticed that enemies hover just out of reach of your upwards slash more.

Its all stuff like that. Its meant to catch you for trying to play it one way. But it punishes you hard for it.
I will say you can almost always skip lots of the return through jumping and floating.
For savage beastfly you literally dont have to do any of the flower bounces, or fight if you have the float ability and dash.

Pacific drive, is it like a roguelike and a collectathon game rolled into one?

I keep trying to figure out if its for me and it seems not quite a horror game and not quite linear or open world. It seems sorta like a game that never ends with little upgrades until you run out and i might be wrong.

Man i thought i would be excited for Cronos but the more i have seen of it the less i want it. The game looks lazy in so many ways. Lazy burning mechanics, gunplay seems lackluster and not as good as older games. And bloopers writing is best when someone else did it.

People will tell you that we have higher graphical needs but its just mostly lighting which is not even that good and done for laziness as well as set lighting has more intent behind it than just computer decided ray tracing.

There are so many games we can play 1080p 60fps. If it doesnt work on reasonable real world hardware we should just be refunding and moving on.

I think it’s just that bad metroidvanias are the standard and there arent as many of the good ones as you would think. So the joy of a good one gets pretty hyped. Im not sure its overrated since its a good game and rated at about what that entails just over hyped and concentrated on.

Do you hate it, or just didnt enjoy it?