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on android:

Picked up Blasphemous and Resident Evil 7 on PSN sale yesterday... hopefully I can find time to play them!

For 90s gamers, they're reissuing Another World + Flashback on one disc/cart:

https://gematsu.com/2019/09/another-world-and-flashback-collection-announced-for-ps4-xbox-one-and-switch

Team Fortress 2

Finally the veil is lifting on the weirdness surrounding what Death Stranding is about:

For those who want to see actual gameplay, here's almost 50 minutes from the Tokyo Game Show:

Finished the main story of Control over the weekend...
 

Great game! I really dug the SCP containment inspired story, and there were many Lynchian/Twin Peaks inspired moments, X-files as well. The story was presented in a really cool way too, with the documents and live-action cutscenes really adding to the lore that slowly kinda unfolds and expands as you progress. The gameplay was fun as well, using the telekenetic powers in combat is a blast.

There was the issue of framerate drops on initial release, but they released an optimization patch and the the remaining  issues seem to mostly be with people playing on base level consoles (which are now like 7 years old so...). I'm playing on a PS Pro, and I haven't had any issues, runs smooth, looks great other than when coming out of the map/menu which is an issue they've said they're working on and it really isn't gamebreaking.

Overall, fun game,  cool presenation and aesthetics, gonna enjoy going through the endgame and doing some of the remaining sidequests.

If we can't have a HL3, then at least we can have a

^ nice! 

For anyone that misses games like Dragon Age Origins -- Greedfall is worth your time (as long as you can get past the often lollably awful lip synching). I'm about 7 hours in, it's great so far. Leaps and bounds above Spiders' other games. Not for everybody, but particularly if you liked Gothic, or Elex, you'll be right at home. 

The Twitch deal for a free year of Switch Online expires 9/27 for anyone with an Amazon Prime acct:

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44120/~/twitch-prime-–-how-to-claim-the-nintendo-switch-online-membership-offer

  On 9/12/2019 at 10:45 PM, Joyrex said:

Finally the veil is lifting on the weirdness surrounding what Death Stranding is about:

For those who want to see actual gameplay, here's almost 50 minutes from the Tokyo Game Show:

 

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I recommend watching it with Youtube's autogenerated subtitles for that extra touch...

lol

Out of curiosity, anyone playing Borderlands 3? Because I hear it's plagued with technical issues right now. The latest apparently is game saves being deleted on PC because of the Epic Games Store's janky cloud save system.

So yeah. That's why Epic exclusivity is a bad move, Randy. One of several reasons.

Blasphemous is great - got to play a bunch this past weekend, and it's a really well-designed game, and the religious iconography is very interesting.

Sega made this tower of goodness for their Sega mini. It doesn't do anything but looks cool 

  On 9/16/2019 at 6:21 PM, ambergonk said:

Out of curiosity, anyone playing Borderlands 3? Because I hear it's plagued with technical issues right now. The latest apparently is game saves being deleted on PC because of the Epic Games Store's janky cloud save system.

So yeah. That's why Epic exclusivity is a bad move, Randy. One of several reasons.

i am, on ps4 though. having a great time with no issues at all. shitty reviews on ps4 metacritic seemed, at least a couple of days ago, completely due to couch coop player issues that made tons of people rate it 0.

Daemon X Machina is really cool and has a great cel shaded look for anyone into mechs or Gundam.

  On 9/17/2019 at 8:37 PM, yekker said:

Sega made this tower of goodness for their Sega mini. It doesn't do anything but looks cool 

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i actually don't mind the genesis mini + sega cd addon, but the rest starts to look silly. i'm still debating whether them for me, the appeal of the minis is having something that's simple and convenient to use to play retro games. the addons just make it clunky and add nothing besides aesthetic. 

GOG GALAXY 2.0

Combines multiple game libraries / platforms into 1! 

A global game launcher. And it's really really good. 

Awesome!

GOG is how I obtained Blood: Fresh Supply back in May. That and Steam are my go-to launchers on PC.

Anyone playing link's awakening? Any good?

  On 9/21/2019 at 9:17 PM, yekker said:

Anyone playing link's awakening? Any good?

I've read the frame rate is bad and needs a patch.  They might have rushed it to meet the Switch Lite release date.

The wife and I have had a few food laughs playing untitled goose game. It’s fun being a total arsehole

  On 9/22/2019 at 2:57 PM, Rubin Farr said:

I've read the frame rate is bad and needs a patch.  They might have rushed it to meet the Switch Lite release date.

True, but it is a goddamn amazing remake - the visuals and music alone are worth the price (not to mention it's a damn good Zelda game to boot).

  On 9/21/2019 at 11:26 AM, Nebraska said:

i actually don't mind the genesis mini + sega cd addon, but the rest starts to look silly. i'm still debating whether them for me, the appeal of the minis is having something that's simple and convenient to use to play retro games. the addons just make it clunky and add nothing besides aesthetic. 

That's exactly it - why dick around with a Pi and all that comes with it (yeah, sure you get games you don't on these systems unless you mod them), when you can just plug in and play - like the good old days!

I just finished my first playthrough of Prey. At first, the thing that annoyed me about this game was the whole thing of "You have to go and do A. Oh but now you need to do B so you can then do A. And now you also have to go and do C before you can do B, before you can do A".

But I persevered with it, and I'm glad I did. Not only is the game storyline interesting, but I'm also fascinated by how this came to be out of the ashes of Prey 2 (which, by the looks of what it was originally meant to be, also didn't have anything to do with the original Prey from 2006).

  On 9/24/2019 at 2:44 PM, oscillik said:

I just finished my first playthrough of Prey. At first, the thing that annoyed me about this game was the whole thing of "You have to go and do A. Oh but now you need to do B so you can then do A. And now you also have to go and do C before you can do B, before you can do A".

But I persevered with it, and I'm glad I did. Not only is the game storyline interesting, but I'm also fascinated by how this came to be out of the ashes of Prey 2 (which, by the looks of what it was originally meant to be, also didn't have anything to do with the original Prey from 2006).

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Prey 2017 is still a decent game overall, although I haven't played the original 2006 one. The Mooncrash DLC is pretty good too, if you haven't already played it.

I just grabbed Brigador: Up-Armored Edition on a Steam sale for 40% off. The isometric UFO: Enemy Unknown style layout looks appealing, plus all the positive ratings were enough to convince me.