Hello everyone. Hope everyone has had a good week. I’ve had a busy week (3 job interviews) but still found time to play a lot of Binding of Isaac since a muscle injury has kept me out of the gym. Hope everyone has a good upcoming week.

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    Over the past week I have played and finished Disco Elysium for the first time. Masterpiece. I’ll never play anything like it again.

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    Marvel Rivals is, surprisingly, quite good. They’re leaning heavily on the comics style for the characters rather than another half-assed attempt at an MCU adaptation. The game is entirely FTP, with only cosmetics being something you have to buy as far as I can tell, and you start with all characters unlocked with no bullshit. If capeshit (or, perhaps more appropriately, the source material that was turned into capeshit) is of any interest and you can stomach multiplayer PVP, I’d recommend giving it a try.

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    Citizen Sleeper. Very engaging story so far. It does seem like everyone you meet immediately likes you and wants to be your friend, which is fine for most games. But in a RP heavy time management sim, I feel like you want to see those characters grow to trust you over time depending on who you choose to help, especially since you’re an illegal sentient being in a stolen synthetic body who literally just showed up on their space station.

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      I was doing the Netflix paralysis thing last night, going through game pass and adding stuff to “play later” rather than actually playing anything, and came across this. Haven’t heard of it but it looks cool.

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    I started Farcry 5, having never played a far cry game before. They combine a lot of shit into Eden’s Gate which I don’t really like. The political commentary is just an aesthetic skin on the world, it doesn’t really have any substance. Though, if you take it literally, you’re a fed doing a color revolution against a revolutionary regime while pretending you’re a smol bean resistance fighter. That kind of accidentally gives you some insight into how little the creators understand the right wing militia movement. It just comes off as if someone listened to some post-2016 podcasts and decided it would make a fresh setting.

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      Try Far Cry 3, the best one. The politics are still bad (it’s basically “quirked up white boy with a little bit of swag busts it down sexual style… is he goated with the sauce?” played completely unironically) but it works somehow and it’s fun as hell.

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      I love that game for the music alone. But yeah, I can’t defend it too hard. It’s pretty easy to accidentally rush through, making it way better than the standard Ubisoft grindfest every game after that turned into. The fishing minigame is also pretty fun.

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    I am yet again playing some shit I wouldn’t have bothered pirating but egs gave me for free so why not.

    I haven’t played a Lego game since Lego Island (1997) but I’ve heard the Lego (insert franchise here) games are good and they’re giving away 9 movies worth of Lego Star Wars so I decided to give it a try and first impression is holy shit this game is huge. I got a few of the glowing blue rpg elements upgrade token bricks and the game tells me there’s 1200 of the goddamn things? So far the plot is literally just the movie scene for scene but with constant Lego based slapstick. Luke finding his family murdered hits weird when he’s a little Lego guy.

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          Ahhh the new one

          yeah it’s huge but to be honest it doesn’t have as much of the ‘lego games’ identity about it as previous titles

          obviously I have a lot of nostalgia but for me Lego games peaked when they still had unvoiced characters - or at least they were voiced but only spoke in gesticulations and hmms and ahhs

          also the new one doesn’t have character creation which is bollocks

          I suppose it’s not really surprising that Disney Lego Games are more commercial - that era of Star Wars games in particular when video games were still a bit of a wild west were amazing. LucasFilm licensed Star Wars out to anyone that had a fun idea, and let them go nuts. Some of it was totally shit but it was all smaller studios, it was fresh and attempting to innovate.

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            Like I said, I haven’t played a Lego game since 1997, so those things flew right over my head. I have no expectations of a current century Lego game, I am in full blob-no-thoughts mode over here.

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    Deadlock. I’m playing the bodyguard of a djinn whose goal is to get a favor from The Patron to negotiate with the US government to have a piece of land of Wyoming for all djinns.

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    I’m gonna try out Marvel Rivals later today, I like me a hero shooter now and then

    Also not exactly playing but watching Northernlion play a ton of The Bazaar and it looks swag as hell. Hope it comes out of beta soon because you will not catch my ass paying $30 for early access

    On that note I downloaded Hearthstone for the first time in like 5 years because I remember hearing about some PvE content they had that was pretty fun, which I thought might scratch the Bazaar itch. But all these solo adventures released in 2019 are still $20??? So I played a couple normal hearthstone games and it was… fine

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    Im finally about to put some time into Caves of Qud. I picked it up years ago in early access but never got around to checking it out. I always heard great things about it, so Im planning to play for at least 2-3 hours (maybe more) to see how I feel about it.

    Live and drink.

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    Replayed No More Heroes before starting through the rest of the series. The 2000s must have been wild if having an apartment in californa, a pet, and still plenty of spending money counted as “being a failure.”

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      Yeah that’s a really money-brained take and Travis is a massive piece of shit loser for plenty of other reasons, it’s just got that vibe of “wait, The Simpsons were actually doing alright”

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    Surprised no one’s brought up Infinity Nikki, a lot of peeps here would love it (ignore the gacha, the free outfits are plentiful and cuuuuute)

    Game’s gorgeous even on lowest settings on my cheap non-gaming laptop, and I have NEVER seen another game put so much love and care toward fabric/hair textures and physics. Cute and relaxing way to spend time, though I’ve heard Nikki lore apparently gets unexpectedly dark, lol. I’ve been spending way more time playing since launch than I expected to.

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      Giving it a try on this recommendation, so far it’s comfy cute fun

      Edit: not only can you pet cute critters, it’s such a central gameplay mechanic that it’s bound to right click

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    I have returned to playing The Isle with the updates to the newest version of the game. I would still never recommend anyone play it, but it has nice atmosphere for me to enjoy which is helping me unwind a little.

    Also trying to get back into the headspace of thinking about developing my next game, now that things are potentially slowing down again… the egg sprites I made are calling to me…