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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: September 15, 2025, 10:15:11 pm »

Delving into a couple demos I have...

Eclipsium - Had to stop with this one, it's got maybe the most aggressive pixelation filter I've ever experienced in a game, it creates really blurry visuals at a distance and it's so intense.  I'm not super sure what sorta game it is, maybe puzzle, but the short bit I did in the demo, it was mostly a walking sim.  It's kinda creepy, walking through a cave, forced to stare at some giant woman just glaring, supposed to some sort of mindscrew game I guess, but I'm gonna pass on this entirely due to the pixel filter.

Ferocious - It's a dinosaur survival shooter, kinda King Kong Skull Island-esque with giant bugs in it, very low level survival crafting system, lots of awful animations and and UI stuff, though it is a demo.  Didn't get very far, nearly killed myself falling through a log that looked like I could go on it and figured that was enough, so never saw the dinos.  Melee combat was awful, where you can build a spear, but instead of using as it a spear that you poke with to keep yourself out of range of creature attacks, you do a swipe for some reason and just take a bunch of damage instead lol It sorta felt like a barebones version of Green Hell with dinosaurs and guns.  Maybe it can be something down the road, demo just wasn't anything, feels like it needs a complete overhaul by that point.

Cleared Hot - Finally found one that was fun lol This is a throwback to the old Desert Strike and Jungle Strike chopper games from the 90's, I use to love those games, and this has that spirit.  They do it in a much more modern way, involving a lot more physics based fun, so movement is really smooth, your winch you use to use for grabbing ammo and fuel is now made for not only grabbing ammo, but picking up most objects to throw them, so find a barrel? Throw it at guys to explode them.  Soldiers annoying you? Grab them and throw them, they even introduce some newer gameplay elements dodging jet strafe attacks.  This has great potential, I'll probably pick it up as it's supposed to release this year sometime.

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

« on: September 15, 2025, 02:52:33 am »

Murderdrones - Finally got around to this, been meaning to watch it since The Amazing Digital Circus came out, as that got me into Glitch and I had heard good things about this show.  Never realized it was a horror show primarily, and a really good one throughout, though with lots of comedy too.  Horror Comedy can be a favorite of mine.

I'll be honest, depending on how well the last 3 episodes of TADC go, Murderdrones has potential to be a favorite of the two.  I love TADC, but the horror and action going on in Murderdrones and how it feels like the mystery and story is explored more through the episodes compared to TADC, it's just more engaging pacing wise.  They are different shows, TADC is a lot more purposefully character focused, compared to Murderdrones where the characters are fun and have their moments, but it's not as much about the characters, they are there to push the horror, comedy, and action primarily.

Highly recommend though.  It's also interesting watching this after watching TADC and seeing similar concepts, ideas, even the concept of the "Glitch" plays into the studios namesake real well lol Would love to see what they would do if they came back to it with a second season as it's left open for something, but also ends satisfyingly enough.

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

« on: September 14, 2025, 11:22:41 pm »

Last Breath - Always a got a thing for an underwater movie, so this one is a diving incident with a pipeline repair crew, true story situation, bad weather leading to a diver getting left on the sea bottom and then it's about trying to save him as he runs out of air.  Decent enough story.  Nothing super stand out, but being that it's a true story situation that doesn't have anything big and flashy going on, it does what it needs to with a couple recognizable actors and solid performances.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Direct - 09/12/2025 Discussion, Predictions, Hopes, Hype, Fears Thread

« on: September 12, 2025, 06:16:09 pm »

I missed the pricing on those, that's crazy.  I thought the Super Mario Galaxy ones were bad because they were 40 bucks even if they are larger, but this is just a relatively normal sized amiibo that can switch characters.  Glad I don't collect amiibo's other than Zelda ones.  I've managed to get two of the TOTK ones because they are having a sale on Amazon and get down to a less crazy 20 bucks lol

Hate that the pricing for the Mario Galaxy bundle is 70 dollars.  These are two fairly bare bone Wii ports, why is this not a 40 dollar bundle at best? I mean, I know this is Nintendo, but things are so ridiculous and terrible with all their pricing for everything with Switch 2.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Direct - 09/12/2025 Discussion, Predictions, Hopes, Hype, Fears Thread

« on: September 12, 2025, 04:56:34 pm »

I still need to play the other Prime games. I've had an interest in them for literal decades now, but just haven't sat down and actually played one yet.

I played Prime years ago and liked it, it was actually the only Metroid game I played and beat until a couple years back where I played most of Super Metroid, and then beat Fusion and Zero Mission.  I was planning to get through the Metroid Prime 1 remaster, I have it, but was kinda putting it off, and then my Switch went kaput so I have to wait till I get a Switch 2 to play it now lol MP4 always looked fine, I'm an FPS gamer, so it appeals to me more than classic Metroid gameplay, but I just never got into the series actively.  Didn't help they were on consoles I either didn't own (Gamecube) or didn't like (Wii) lol

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Direct - 09/12/2025 Discussion, Predictions, Hopes, Hype, Fears Thread

« on: September 12, 2025, 01:07:14 pm »

Not much for me at this event, that's for sure.  Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 as a bundle is nice to have at the minimum, no motion controls being great to have as an option.  Remaking the Virtual Boy is insane lol

Okay, I watched some of the Metroid Prime 4 trailer and I'm more on board with the game now lol I saw some people not liking the shift to full open world, but I'm actually onboard with that, roaming around on a cool scifi back and then shifting back into first person when you hop off to explore.  That's interested me more than anything else I saw for the game.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: September 12, 2025, 05:58:23 am »

Started playing a little Dune Awakening since it's got a free weekend.  Had abit of interest in it back when it first came out, but wasn't gonna jump into it right away, especially since I felt they needed to update the game (Some of its endgame content was PVP focused, which was an odd choice for a game that could be played mostly PVE until that point), and I know they were planning to, but I won't get that far over the few days of content.  It's alright so far, just starting out, not sure if I'll actually continue on to much, I did just get done with a survival/crafting game and kinda need to play something less serious like that I feel.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Direct - 09/12/2025 Discussion, Predictions, Hopes, Hype, Fears Thread

« on: September 11, 2025, 04:03:17 pm »

With the 40th Anniversary of Mario this weekend, I'm curious what they'll do for that?  Super Mario Wonder was only 2 years ago, so I don't think we see a brand new sidescroller so soon, the Super Mario Odyssey team made the new Donkey Kong, so probably no huge new 3D Mario, I can't think of a big collection they'd do other than maybe making a proper 3D Mario collection that has more improvements, includes Galaxy 2, and isn't freaking limited in its release, but that's mostly re-releasing a previous anniversary's bundle.

Maybe a remake? Super Mario World getting an Octopath Traveler style remake would be pretty fun, keeping the pixel art intact while adding some visual flair, or Super Mario 64 getting a big overhaul would be cool too.  I'm just sorta throwing out random ideas as there's a lot they can do for it, though it's also Nintendo, and they'll often make decisions I don't like, such as their art style choice for the Link's Awakening remake lol

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Direct - 09/12/2025 Discussion, Predictions, Hopes, Hype, Fears Thread

« on: September 10, 2025, 09:54:58 pm »

I'm still hoping for a Wind Waker HD/Twilight Princess HD port, so that would be great to see.

I've been waiting on these and the 3D remakes of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask to be ported to Switch for years. It's crazy Nintendo hasn't done this. Any of them would print money seeing how they're already completed and would just need to be ported.

I'd be all over the 3DS remakes getting cleaned up and ported over too, like they really should've put Twilight Princess and Wind Waker HD out on Switch, and then done the 3DS remakes for Switch 2.  I don't even know what they are waiting for, TW/WW are done, they probably don't even need to do much to have brought them to Switch and they were porting over everything else anyways lol

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Direct - 09/12/2025 Discussion, Predictions, Hopes, Hype, Fears Thread

« on: September 10, 2025, 06:41:17 pm »

I also don't have a Switch 2 and probably won't get one till early next year, but for reveals, I can't think of much I'd be interested in other than something new that is Zelda, but we probably won't see anything else till after the new Hyrule Warriors game releases.  I'm still hoping for a Wind Waker HD/Twilight Princess HD port, so that would be great to see.

For dream announcement...Either Rare Replay coming to Switch 2, or just a Banjo-Kazooie Collection announcement that has Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie HD, Nuts & Bolts, and the two GBA games, that would be nice, I just easily want to play Kazooie/Tooie HD without having to haul out my Xbox 360 from the closet lol

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General / Re: What are your least favorite boss fights?

« on: September 09, 2025, 02:04:26 pm »

A lot of fights in the Elden Ring DLC had some of my most hated things in boss fights, alongside the terribly artificial difficulty they added to the experience to make it more miserable.  Moves that went on for far too long, very little recovery time, aggressively auto-targeting abilities, it made me dislike the DLC after really liking the main game lol 

FromSoft games just overall have some of the best and worst boss fights lol

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2025!!!

« on: September 08, 2025, 05:30:24 pm »

22 - Abiotic Factor (PC 2025) - BEAT - I love finding a game that I can get obsessed with, where I'll just be like "Okay, I'm gonna do just one more thing" and then it's 2 hours later lol This is a survival crafting game, which is a genre I'm big into, stuff like Subnautica, Grounded, Valheim, Green Hell, are the sorta games I can go deep on.  The cool thing for this one is that you are new scientist going to a secret underground complex, where all hell breaks loose.  Heavy Half-Life 1/Black Mesa feel, but also mixing other scifi vibes, such as SCP and others into it.  You would think being trapped in an underground tech complex would get dull after 50+ hours, but they do a lot to mix up the zones and there's things like portal worlds that add more variety.

There's a lot you can do, a lot of customization, base building, skills to build up, different enemies to fight, cool scifi things happening.  I won't go to into it, but I loved most of the game.  I do think the later game is...far less interesting than early game, because you start to get way more action heavy and while there is still new things to explore, new gear to build, there's such an emphasis on that action and there's a lot of bullet spongeyness to certain enemies and you'll often find yourself burning through your supplies quick and the ending fight isn't the best.  It's definitely kind of big dip, but it's still a really good game, absolutely recommend it to people that like these sorta games.

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

« on: September 02, 2025, 02:03:14 am »

Sisu - Went in thinking this was supposed to be like a WW2 John Wick, I feel that's how it was advertised, or something I saw, but it's a lot less John Wick and more Quentin Tarantino, just without the dialogue and character interactions.  I see the "John Wick" element, one man fighting brutally against a lot of men, a known boogeyman threat, but it's not like highly choreographed and slick grounded action, it's very over the top, a big western vibe, bordering on abit of hyper violence at times, abit "grindhouse" if you will.  Ends in kind of an absurd way that sorta feels like they didn't really have a good way for him to survive, he's just stupidly luckily, but overall it's fine.  It's kinda just a cheezy nazi killing action flick, nothing wrong with that.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: September 01, 2025, 12:16:26 am »

Amid the large amounts of Abiotic Factor I played some of the demo/network test for Sonic Crossworlds and it's okay.  It seems better than the Team Sonic Racing game that I thought looked kinda middling, but it also didn't bring back the vibes of Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed for me.  Didn't find anything outright bad, though I felt like the bumping players and losing rings constantly was kinda annoying, felt off, though I haven't played a kart racer in awhile.  Not really sure about the game, I might just wait on a sale for it as I was kinda hoping I'd be into it more, but who knows, maybe I'll just wait on a sale.

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

« on: August 28, 2025, 01:46:41 am »

Thunderbolts - Been waiting to see it after hearing it was actually pretty decent and I thought it was just alright.  I will say, where were the fight choreographers that did this movie when they made Brave New World? Those fights sucked in Brave New World and the fights here were actually fine lol I think the movie is okay, it's a tad oddly paced and goes in a direction I wasn't expecting, for better or worse.  I thought it was gonna be a darker movie based on the trailer due to Sentry's powers, but there's a moment where that changes and it kinda made the movie less interesting because of it.

The whole "New Avengers" is weird as you can just kinda see the jokes coming of them meeting up with whatever Sam's team will be, and the "We are the real avengers, no you aren't, we have the copyright", it's a lame joke that is brewing.

Also a character getting killed immediately is wild, like why even have the character there if you are gonna do that?  It's kind of an embarrassing addition to I guess just throw that character away and adding literally nothing to the plot?

It's not bad, but I'll probably never watch it again, like it's better than Brave New World, Quantumania, and Marvels for more recent movies, but I enjoyed Deadpool & Wolverine and Guardians 3 way more than this.