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Modern Video Games / Re: Report: PS6 2029 | Switch 2 price increase soon?

« on: May 08, 2026, 12:54:26 pm »

I was considering getting one this summer as there was enough games now to justify a buy for myself, but now there's a timeline to get it to avoid the 50 dollar higher price tag.  Real unfortunate to see the price hikes happen, but that's the way of this crappy world right now.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: May 07, 2026, 03:48:05 pm »

Was going to wait for an actual content update to Abiotic Factor before returning, but the new Cosmic Companions update added pets, some new items, and a Voices of the Void collab, and that was enough to draw me back in.  Justifying the return by choosing to build my bases in places that aren't the most obvious for a base, like the Security Room in Offices or that nice luxury home later in the game that are clear places for bases.  And gonna try and do more with different weapon types such as blunt and heavy weapons when I'm capable. It's a perfect game to just hop in, play for abit, make a little progress, craft some stuff, and then hop off.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo announces physical games will cost more

« on: May 07, 2026, 03:38:00 pm »

Star Fox became another game I want too for when I grab the Switch 2, probably got half a dozen games right now I think for when I do and it's not at the highest price tag either.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!

« on: April 30, 2026, 03:44:34 am »

Frogun Encore (PC 2024) - BEAT - Gotta love some simple low poly platformers.  The first game didn't really nail it for me, kinda slow, ended up dragging abit and didn't beat it, but I saw that they changed things up with the sequel, abit faster paced, a few tweaks here and there, and ended up being some decent fun, no real complaints with this one other than the camera gets a tad wonky in places.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: April 29, 2026, 07:06:31 pm »

Retro Rewind which got better with the real mods for movies. Just fun managing a vhs rental game store in the 90s

I wanted to use the mods for Retro Rewind, but the only one at the time that seemed the most notable had no work put into making the real movie art work with the space on the cases, so it would look really bad or the New Release standees looked super terrible, which made things so awful to look at.  I'm likely to replay it once they add all their roadmap stuff planned like video game rentals, and then see if there's an improved movie mod for the game by then.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!

« on: April 28, 2026, 01:29:07 am »

15 - Kumasma (PC 2026) - BEAT - I don't play a lot of these little indie horror type games, though "horror" is maybe stretching things here lol I mostly stumbled across this because I saw a tiktok with some cute art, and what I got is a very short little freebie game.  It's more of a short story, 30 minutes long, very mature themes, that I'm...not sure what was trying to be said with it.  I did get some cute art, it's abit surreal, not like ENA: Dream BBQ level, but something vaguely like that.  Very little actual game here, just wandering to a couple spots and reading.  It's free, it's fine.  Apparently this dev just pumps out these little vaguely horror short story games, either making them free or anywhere from a dollar to 5 dollars.  They've released like 30 of these little games since 2023 lol

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Off Topic / Re: What TV/Netflix show are you currently watching? (Megathread)

« on: April 23, 2026, 05:38:22 am »

Invincible Season 4 - I hate that this show keeps on being so enjoyable with its story and characters while having very underwhelming animation.  The quality animation came out so briefly and they've taken so many shortcuts.  Like this show should be so big, but the art is so stiff, so not what it could be.  And it's not even just comparing to high quality anime we get on the regular, but there's western animation that is far above this.  Castlevania was doing crazy stuff and I've seen people bring up stuff from television years ago like the 90's/00's Batman/Superman/Justice League show that had better art and more impactful animation, but a massively high budget show like Invincible in 2026, with it's 8 episodes (Long episodes or not) just can't do it? And the show has degraded in quality, I remember Season 1 being better, but it's like they streamlined things since then and it's just lead to lesser quality, which is just very frustrating.

I still really like this show, I'm looking forward to the couple seasons left, I'm glad it's around, I just wish the animation and art could match up to the rest of the shows quality.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: April 23, 2026, 01:51:11 am »

Put a good bit of time into Windrose, which is a decent crafting experience, middling survival/crafting/pirating experience right now, but lots of room to grow and expand, but I am feeling the burn out after like 30 hours.  It's so resource intense grind heavy right now, but with combat being kinda lacking, group fights being obnoxious as a solo, and now at an area where upgrades are coming slow from how much I need to grind, I think it's time to drop it here.  It's very much the same feeling I had with Valheim where I played enough, I can see where the good stuff will be, and hopefully it'll be that great game down the line when it hits 1.0 in like 2 or 3 years.

I think after playing kinda heavier, involved, games lately as I am just about to finish Death Stranding 2, I think I need to focus on like smaller scale or linea things for abit, so along with replaying Metro 2033 here soon due to the new game announcement, I picked up Frogun Encore also, a cute low poly 3d platformer throwback game, I think that'll be good to get into for abit.  I think that's gonna be the plan for abit.  Dark linear shooters and fun platformers lol

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Classic Video Games / Re: Croc is coming back apparently.

« on: April 21, 2026, 01:55:24 am »

Never thought I'd see Buck Bumble get a chance to come back lol

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!

« on: April 15, 2026, 04:57:05 am »

14 - Windrose (PC EA 2026) - ENDLESS - I always tell myself to not buy the Early Access games, because one of two things happen, where it's either a game that shouldn't have been released in the state it was in and Early Access feels more like "please give us money" and then the game drags on in development hell forever, or it's a really good game with a solid core, where I'll put a huge chunk of time in, hit the limit of its content and then feel abit burnt out and won't play the game again till it hits 1.0.  This is the latter lol

I had never heard anything about this game until I saw some clips show up on TikTok, then I saw a buddy had it, and then I realized what it is.  Basically it's survival/crafting pirate era game, with Assassin's Creed Black Flag-esque ship combat (From what I've been told, haven't reached owning my ship yet).  What is here is a basic, but seemingly very decent survival game, fight, scavenge, and explore for supplies, build a base where you put your storage and crafting benches, and then eventually you'll get a big boat to sail the high seas with (You get a little boat for island hopping until then). 

Everything about the game so far seems quite decent, with my only negatives being the combat.  It's very...basic older hack and slash, you tap strikes for a combo, simple dodge, simple block and perfect parry, but it's surprisingly hard, because all enemies do high damage and blocks are limited with a three count block if you don't perfect parry, which will stun you on the next hit.  You can stun enemies too, but it's not a guarantee and it's not the easiest to judge parry timing.  It's something I hope they plan to overhaul, get something abit more satisfying if possible.

I still apparently have a long way to go for what content is available, but just calling it "endless" now, since I assume there's not an ending yet.  I'm just happy to have a new pirates game that I think I'll enjoy for the first time since AC: Black Flag.  Sea of Thieves was neat, but that was a multiplayer game.  Skull and Bones was a flop.  And Sea of Remnants, while looking incredibly cool, it's not released yet, it's unfortunately a turn based RPG, and it's F2P, so it's questionable how that one will turn out.  I think this has the potential to be a solid time and it seems to be very playable right now, which I really appreciate.  Sorta feels like the release of Valheim where it had all the ground work and some decent enough content to play for awhile, and now it's just about waiting for them to finish.

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Off Topic / Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

« on: April 11, 2026, 11:11:49 pm »

K-Pop Demon Hunters - Don't know why I took this long to watch it, I think I thought it had abit more Korean going on it or something and also wanted to pay more attention to the animation, which is quite good, but since I tend to do hobby or game stuff while watching shows/movies, I kinda just put it off. 

The movie is a ton of fun with some catchy songs to it.  Decent humor, animation, it's a good time.  I don't know if this was just me, but I did feel like the pacing was alittle...quick, I guess.  It also felt like there were possibly some story threads that were kinda left untouched, as I felt perhaps there was going to be more with the demons that they weren't just straight evil, the other demon boy band members are non-existent as characters outside of two scenes, and then there's no conclusion to the drama with Rumi's adoptive mother, which I guess could be left to the sequel happening, as they never expected this to be the success it was initially and therefore things got cut or just deemed not as necessary to delve into.

Good watch, might even re-watch it sometime.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!

« on: April 10, 2026, 05:42:44 pm »

13 - Retro Rewind: Video Store Simulator (PC 2026) - BEAT - Over the past couple years, these "simulator" games have become more of a thing, and not like Powerwash Simulator, but usually it's about you running a store, or a business, and you do tasks, earn money, expand your business, etc...Generally I'm not super into them, they often feel abit low effort, usually very asset flip heavy, they might have a gimmick that's mildly entertaining (The TCG card one seemed okay), and I don't know if I would say this game doesn't feel slightly similar (I think it's content is original, but not 100%), but the nostalgia of running a video store is nice enough to draw me in.

I hit Level 20 which is the games current level cap for earning anything new, so it's where I'm counting it as complete, though I still have stuff to buy, more store expansions to get, but I'm good as is right now with it.  The gameplay loop is simple.  Get to the store, put away movies brought back overnight, restock snacks, then check out people and help with requests, and close.  You can get up to 2 employees, my main one just does movie returns so I can focus register.

I feel where the game falters is the gameplay loop is fairly basic, there's not a lot of friction or variety to events or things that could happen throughout other than if someone has a late charge fee or broke a tape, they can get upset about the fee and refuse to pay for their new rentals, pushing them off the counter, and that's mostly it.  I think it could definitely use more depth and the NPC's that seem to be original as far as I can tell, don't have any designs that feel very 90's, music playing is sorta synthy, but I wouldn't say are strong 90's, though the store itself is good enough.  The art is another thing that's not great, as to have lots of movie variety (Supposedly there's 14k "original" movies), all the art is kinda like cheap clip art feeling, that then can be re-used among the genres or in different ways.  It makes sense, but it looks bad.  New Release movies luckily get all original art and movie standees that look good at least and are usually parodies of Alien, Rambo, Star Wars, and a few others that I've seen so far.

It's not worth the 20 bucks with the content it has, but it's fine if you can get it on sale.  They are planning to add more to the game with free updates, including video game rentals as it sold a lot better than they expected it too, so that'll be a fun to have.

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Off Topic / Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

« on: April 08, 2026, 02:15:09 am »

Hidden Figures - With all the Artemis 2 stuff lately, I figured I'd watch something space related, and that lead to watching this movie.  Never seen it before and it was overall a decent watch.  Segregated era space race history.  I looked it up afterwards and they took a whole lot of liberties to the story.  I never mind them shrinking down larger groups of people into a single person, which is what Kevin Costners character is meant to be, they did the same thing in shows like Chernobyl.  A lot of what they added or embellished seems to have been done more for the sake of...shining a light on that of segregation more generally, though to me it feels more like creating story beats for the sake of drama than anything else, even if the intention was meant for more noble reasons.  Either way, it's a fine film.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: April 04, 2026, 03:26:36 am »

Still making my way through Death Stranding 2, I'm not far from the end of the game, though been going back, trying to 5 star stuff, complete roads, etc, but I'll probably look at finishing it up next week.

I was gonna try Resident Evil 2 (1998), because it was brought to Steam (I believe it was on GOG before) and it's 5 bucks, but wasn't feeling it.  There's no mouse support that I could tell, I thought it was maybe gonna have that, not that I expected the slightly tweaked modern controls RE1 Remake had, but you can only keybind keyboard.  I imagine I could play it with a standard controller, but I don't know, I wasn't feeling it, playing the game is already an uphill battle for the control style to begin with and it having a really weird keyboard control setup just annoyed me lol So I'm refunding it, and maybe gonna use that 5 bucks to buy RE5 and replay that for the first time in many years.

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General / Re: What are some of the worst games you've ever played?

« on: April 04, 2026, 03:20:42 am »

I feel like compartmentalizing the franchise helps me enjoy it more. Separating classic RE (0, 1, 2, 3, CV), from action era RE (4, 5, 6), from first person Ethan Winters era (7 and , and the whatever the hell RE9 is really allows me to appreciate the games for what they are. Still, there are certainly better games than others across the franchise.

I do generally view RE in that way, as someone who doesn't really like the old games because of the controls, loved RE4, was very mixed on the series afterward, and then have basically loved the games from RE7 on for the most part.  That doesn't really help 5 and 6, because RE4 was so great, RE5 was a step down, not just because of the forced co-op, and then RE6 was just nothing good to me whatsoever, because it is so co-op focused.  Like at least I get abit of the RE4 vibe with RE5, there's none of that in RE6.

I have thought of replaying RE5, maybe soon, I see it's 5 bucks on Steam, so who knows, I might be a smidge more lenient on it these days, even if I'll never like the co-op aspect, but RE6 is just forever a big nope for me as it doesn't do what I want as an RE game, and I don't want to play it as an action shooter, because it's almost entirely built around being a co-op shooter.