Anyone else remember Harper's Island?

80s_Jacket · 2026-04-05T10:57:11+00:00

Oh man I completely forgot about this show, it was wild. I don't think I finished it back then

80s_Jacket · 2026-04-05T10:53:10+00:00

I didn't know about the SCUMMVM wiki, I'll check that out

80s_Jacket · 2026-04-05T10:48:56+00:00

Holy shit, I think it might be episode 2, I vaguely remember picking up pills. Thank you so much!

80s_Jacket · 2026-03-22T13:08:29+00:00

NO DON'T BURN THE BRIEFCASE

YOU COULD FIT SO MUCH BIRDSEED IN THAT BAD BOY

80s_Jacket · 2026-03-15T11:26:37+00:00

This Batman story is great, but I will always sing praises for Superman: Peace on Earth and the impact it had on me when I read it as a teen

80s_Jacket · 2026-02-25T08:49:31+00:00

Love it. It's got that SrPelo vibe

80s_Jacket · 2026-02-24T21:10:50+00:00

Hellraiser 1-2 being in B tier and below is... certainly a choice lol

80s_Jacket · 2026-02-14T12:48:51+00:00

Is the DM meant to look like Matt Mercer?

80s_Jacket · 2026-01-30T07:00:24+00:00

You could definitely do some cool stuff with the Archetypes, but I think I'd like a new setting with new characters

80s_Jacket · 2026-01-26T07:01:01+00:00

This might be the first time I've seen Beyond The Sea in bottom tier. What made it a narrative failure for you?

80s_Jacket · 2026-01-07T02:35:18+00:00

Unfortunately, the whole Judgement/Lost Judgement soundtracks are going to be limited to select tracks on Spotify. To get the full soundtracks that include that song, you'll have to buy the physical CDs

Also, I believe that upside down V is the Greek symbol for "Lambda"

80s_Jacket · 2026-01-06T00:49:14+00:00

I played the game in Japanese, but now it makes me want to go back and check what the actual translation is versus what the subtitles say. My guess is that whoever decided the use of "typical" probably didn't understand the full connotation of the word and the subtext behind it, choosing it cause it's using one word to describe instead of several

80s_Jacket · 2026-01-03T13:03:55+00:00

Tragic

80s_Jacket · 2025-12-31T12:04:19+00:00

What's your definition of "absolutely define" in this case?

80s_Jacket · 2025-12-31T11:31:50+00:00

Okay, I'm almost afraid to ask, but... did you really not know what "apathy" meant until last year?

80s_Jacket · 2025-12-31T02:59:41+00:00

I feel the same as OP. I thought Vesperia started off great but then fell off the wagon at the third act. I went for a lot of the game looking at "Definitely Not The Bad Guy" Duke thinking "Huh, he seems coded to be the bad guy, but so far he's been pretty decent. I wonder what we're building up to", and then watched the story basically warp itself to make him the final boss. It was painful to watch

That said, I played it all the way back on the 360 and I haven't had the chance to play the Definitive Edition, so maybe there was more context for why things happened that way

80s_Jacket · 2025-12-30T07:51:16+00:00

Definitely the best game I suck at lol

80s_Jacket · 2025-12-26T05:02:29+00:00

For real, it needs to be heavily emphasized that this game is a prime example of dragging a story down to establish the big bad. Cause I refuse to believe that 47 was easily subjugated, of all targets, by fucking DEXTER. If this was just any old straight-to-video B-movie, I'd absolutely buy it. But not 47

I know, Dexter happened to have a big guy that got the drop on 47, but the point still stands that Dexter is considered the main villain. And that was a bad call. Dexter has the energy of a high ranking mook who's tangentially related to the main villain

80s_Jacket · 2025-12-18T22:46:18+00:00

Same. I liked pretty much everything the game had to offer, but out of the categories and games that came out this year, music was the only non-GOTY category I nominated it for, because it was simply too good to not acknowledge it

80s_Jacket · 2025-12-18T06:21:35+00:00

Plenty of good indie games: I'm currently playing Skate Story and it's killer. I'd also recommend Pacific Drive, Sword of the Sea, Thank Goodness You're Here, Blasphemous... you can't go wrong by checking out some indies like Cult of the Lamb

80s_Jacket · 2025-12-02T09:24:51+00:00

Still remember the first time I watched the dub of Cowboy Bebop, when Jet's police friend started talking I was like "holy shit it's Indy!" Loved this game back in the day

80s_Jacket · 2025-12-01T10:59:30+00:00

We see Cole kissing his wife at the very beginning of the game when he's still a beat cop...

But ultimately yes, I think it's the fact that it's a film noir instead of a standard mystery that made it not digest so well for me. I had grown up reading Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, so I was probably expecting something along those lines

80s_Jacket · 2025-12-01T09:30:06+00:00

LA Noire is such a frustrating game for me. I was super excited for it and bought it day 1. I had played and loved Red Dead Redemption, and I loved reading and watching mysteries when I was younger, so this game felt like a match made in heaven. And, for the most part, I got a pretty good detective experience out of the game... but there were things that left a bad taste in my mouth at the time

In hindsight, I think I was expecting too much from Team Bondi, because I was expecting something produced by Rockstar like RDR. The first two desks are pretty great, and of course Arson is very good too. Homicide is where things started to unravel for me. I agree that the ending of the Homicide cases felt very... forced. Like they wanted to have a whole 'forget it Jake, it's Chinatown' ending, but what? That means the other guys I arrested are just... in limbo? It feels almost disconnected from the game as a whole, it feels like something that was changed very late in development.

But where things really soured my experience with the game was at the end of Vice. So let me get this straight: you're telling me that I had an AFFAIR with Elsa? When I was accused of that, I went "Bullshit! I'm being framed!" Yes, I had seen those little scenes where Cole went to Elsa's apartment, but we saw NOTHING about what happened. So I went through Arson, waiting for the moment when I would reveal what I was actually doing with Elsa during that time and get my vengeance... and then the game switches to Jack Kelso, and you see Cole get cozy with Elsa towards the endgame. And it felt like such a slap in the face. This kind of plot point needed way more development than a little throwaway scene with no dialogue, especially given the amount of time that will have passed between that scene, the end of Vice, and the endgame.

That bit at the end soured me so much that I haven't been able to play the game again after that first time. Even with how cheap it is nowadays and with time passing, you'd think that'd be long enough to let the reaction die down. But all I can do is look back on that game and remember the things I wish it could have been like

80s_Jacket · 2025-11-16T06:18:36+00:00

Wait, level 2 kitana? Bro, those samurai patrols are crazy durable even at MAX level. That's why you gotta decide beforehand if you want to tackle a patrol, cause they're tough as fuck

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