Rocksmith is what got me back into playing bass regularly again and gave me a way to actually perform when I was no longer in a band. Fired it up, loaded up twitch, and took requests all night. I even got a second cam rigged to the neck of my bass. 2014 was an instant buy and had CDLC so damn quick. I praised it up and down for years. By comparison, plus is performatively better, but it’s also subscription based trash. No CDLC, not getting my money. Didn’t even let you carry over already purchased songs, which they did between original Rocksmith and 2014.

Also there’s a mod set for 2014 now that includes a fix for the sample rate problem that ubisoft told us was impossible to do. It let’s you specify a sample rate so that you can use Bluetooth headphones or other devices that aren’t locked to 48khz, like Bluetooth headphones. Used to have to route it through voicemeeter and deal with a pretty significant delay.

Meanwhile, me walking into that same exact house or neighborhood that’s used in every indie game…

EA just doing what it’s always done… Got it.

That’s always been their practice, use up a team until they don’t think they’ll get anything more from them, then shutter them. You don’t go to work for EA for the job security. You work for them because you need a stepping stone…

…Or they bought your studio.

It’s on the roadmap, but not yet. It doesn’t look like the new content update will have it yet either.

Chrono Trigger had a similar effect on me, where Magus seemed like he just had to be the BBEG… Then you realize that was just the first drop on the rollercoaster.

I’ve liked Star Rupture so far, but am I playing it wrong? I was kinda expecting there to be regular attacks similar to Factorio. Instead, after 20 hours of play, I’ve seen only one and killed them all so fast it wasn’t even really a threat. I feel like the progression of conflict needs to be little more aggressive.

That’s especially coming from Creepy Jar. If you’ve never played Green Hell, which they’ve also got on sale under $3 right now, survival in it is absolutely brutal to start off. I was expecting that kind of difficulty curve.

This… Put games on your wishlist, set your wishlist to only show sales, and sort by price. Then only buy games from that list when they go on a significant sale. Plenty of decent games out there regularly go for $5-10 or less. With very few exceptions I refuse to pay more than $20-30 for a game and, even then, only if they’re like 50% off and not likely to come down.

Also… stop pre-ordering games. They’ll still be there when they do go on sale. You don’t need to play them as soon as they come out. Conquer that FOMO shit and develop some integrity.

As a big middle finger, they’ll make a minigame collection starring Bon and no other Legends characters.

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I don’t think I ever got so invested in figuring out a story than with Elden Ring. I thoroughly enjoyed following each character’s progression as they all head for the tree. I’m still bummed that I stalled out in the DLC because of the stupid commander Gaius fight. Game was cake up until his gatekeeping ass. Fuck that guy… Someday I’ll feel like trying again.

My best friend and I have been playing this for the past 3 days and it’s wild. All I was expecting was a game about camping in an RV. We’re now underground and having to navigate explosive gas…

I think of it as an RPG ruleset, like DnD. Most of FF games follow similar mechanics, class systems, sometimes there’s the same monsters, and sometimes there’s crystals that do stuff.

I agree though, FFX is really good.

Remember how like… 5-10 years ago, games just… Kinda worked?

Yeah, if I remember right, the issue is that the typo breaks the system that tells the xenos how to behave in combat. They should use vents and try and flank you, but instead they just charge right at you.

Still a ton of other issues with the game, but that was huge.

Gonna just remind everyone, or tell anyone who isn’t familiar… Gearbox’s Colonial Marines has a typo in an ini file that breaks the game’s AI. Gearbox was made aware of it after a modder found it in 2018. They acknowledged it by making a joke, then did nothing…

That one letter typo is still there after 13 years.

Daemon X Machina has a more fast paced mecha feeling. Very similar to the Armored Core games. Which makes a lot of sense, since Kenichiro Tsukuda and Shoji Kawamori are both behind it. Just got a sequel too! Shame it’s damn expensive.

You speak as though Atari is known for making sound business decisions…

Going to copy my post over from the original for anyone wondering why because the description does nothing to explain:

I watched a few minutes of it and finally got to it… If I got it right, the guy suing them wanted to make a mod with guns. Mojang said no and got it shut down. He’s suing because he believes a company shouldn’t have any say over how users might modify their games.

I don’t feel like the story telling was as good in Evermore. Secret of Mana grabbed me a lot more with it’s characters and it’s difficulty, and I always loved the plot despite some pretty obvious flaws. The music is still one of the best ever soundtracks too.

I think Evermore also got completely overshadowed by Chrono Trigger being released just 2 months before in the US.

I’m glad I’m not the only one! I still vividly remember being at a buddy’s house, there were like 4 or 5 of us taking turns playing Playstation, Marvel VS Capcom, and watching it on his other TV and all of us stopping to watch as they feed the guy in… That scene made me so queasy.

Thank God, the old one broke any time I switched to full screen and stuttered like I’m dialup.