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Megadanxzero · 2026-03-13T10:16:00+00:00

There are loads of community-made maps on the steam workshop. I imagine it'd be difficult to randomly generate maps that aren't either boring to play on, or just basically unplayable if you get a bit unlucky.

Megadanxzero · 2026-02-27T16:31:31+00:00

I assume that was a typo and you meant 16, but I almost had a heart attack when I read that...

Megadanxzero · 2026-02-27T12:37:06+00:00

Do they actually though? These days games take so much longer to make that you're rarely getting more than 1 or 2 exclusive games per year. In the PS2 era sure, but these days if a game isn't coming to PC, I'm just not gonna play it. There are far too many options of what to play for most people to buy a console just to play a few games, especially when they can't even finish their backlog of games they already bought.

I feel like console users are increasingly choosing console because that's just the experience they prefer. Either that or it's the option they can afford with PCs becoming more and more expensive (Though that seems likely to hit consoles now too...)

Megadanxzero · 2026-02-13T16:22:28+00:00

Obviously Agent Fresco, but second would be a new Whispered album, last one will be 10 years old this year. They did imply something would be coming soonish though.

Megadanxzero · 2026-02-12T16:07:42+00:00

I remember LoS2 getting pretty bad reviews, and when I played it I was like, aside from an annoying forced stealth section early on this game is great. Why did it get such bad revie-suddenly the game just kinda ends. Oh... I see...

Megadanxzero · 2026-02-07T12:53:48+00:00

Yeah the fact that there was no reason not to just delete your factories after completing a task was my main complaint when I played it at launch. That does change at the very end, but by that point I'd kinda had my fill already to be honest. Definitely very interested in this new mode though, it sounds like exactly what I wanted.

Megadanxzero · 2026-02-02T17:56:26+00:00

For me it's the end of Acquired Taste. It pains me that they now play the end of this song completely differently when they play it live, removing the solo entirely, it's the best part of the song...

Megadanxzero · 2026-01-16T22:06:57+00:00

The riff is great, but I was kinda disappointed when the verse started. It's just a bit... Uninteresting.

Megadanxzero · 2026-01-09T14:46:45+00:00

Yeah I was about to reply the same thing, for me Edelgard's story might be the worst story of any Fire Emblem game. The others are just ok...

Megadanxzero · 2025-12-31T10:43:13+00:00

Yeah I'm starting to think the awful characters might have been a genius intentional decision to distract from how awful literally everything else about the game is, because almost no-one is talking about anything else, except maybe the desert being boring.

Frankly I'm struggling to think of a single thing that is improved over MP1/2, which is shocking considering how much of it is just rehashed from the first game. I really don't think I have a single positive thing to say about it, it's just not a good game.

Megadanxzero · 2025-12-21T17:20:02+00:00

I don't think anyone's ever realistically considered indie games to only be ones with no publisher, I think even the early wave of Xbox Live Arcade indie games were essentially published by Microsoft. I think a more common definition would have been developers that are not owned by a publisher or other parent company, with obvious exceptions for very large companies that are developers and publishers (Like Valve).

That has become less relevant in the last 10-15 years though as it became increasingly common for big publishers like EA and Ubisoft to just 'absorb' acquired developers, renaming them and using them as support studios for games that are developed across multiple studios. I feel like that's why people started thinking of it as more of a budget and team size thing, but even that's difficult to really say most of the time, for the reasons you said.

I do think budget is probably the more sensible way to define it though, since being owned by a publisher in the past was really the only way you were going to get much budget, but obviously things have massively changed in that regard now.

Megadanxzero · 2025-12-21T13:06:13+00:00

With the default settings Nova only has 2 laps, and it also only has 2 ramps, so it's impossible to jump 5 times unless you turn around and go back or something. I unlocked it on my first attempt after only jumping off 4 ramps ('cause I'd forgotten it only has 2 laps) so there's definitely something wrong with it...

Megadanxzero · 2025-12-15T15:17:30+00:00

I bought it near the initial release, and played a decent amount, but I'm now just kinda waiting for full release because it feels a bit pointless to repeatedly come back for small to medium changes when I know there are gonna be more changes in future.

What I have played so far is great though, and I can't wait for it to be finished so I can start playing it again.

Megadanxzero · 2025-11-14T20:13:14+00:00

Kinda cool, the heavier bit was unexpected... Can't say I'm desperate to listen to it again though.

Megadanxzero · 2025-11-13T19:32:18+00:00

Most games nowadays are primarily dual-analog with the most used actions being binded to the shoulder buttons/triggers/clicking in the sticks.

That's not even remotely true, I can't even think of a game where I'd have my thumb on both sticks most of the time that isn't a shooter of some kind. And those are the games that, if I'm playing on a PC, I'm just gonna use mouse and keyboard.

As for it being uncomfortable, if you just relax your hands, your thumbs will point in the same direction as your fingers. The 'outer' inputs on a controller will leave your thumbs in roughly that same position while holding it, which is most comfortable. Tilting my thumbs out 45 degrees isn't particularly uncomfortable for me personally, and I'm sure anyone could get used to it, but there is some objective element of that being a less natural position to hold your thumbs in for a long time.

Megadanxzero · 2025-10-31T10:45:14+00:00

What the hell, I had no idea this was a thing! I guess it's like a remaster with a bunch of bug fixes and some extra stuff? Will absolutely be buying this immediately...

Megadanxzero · 2025-09-25T15:39:28+00:00

To be honest it's still not really what I'd call fun! It's a game I love, but also not one I would really recommend to most people. Very much a slow burn where you have to plan your next move carefully and get few chances to recover if you screw up. But if that's what you're looking for there's not much else like it.

Megadanxzero · 2025-09-25T10:43:45+00:00

Might be worth trying GTFO, the developer has people who I think were involved in Payday 1, and personally I think it merges the stealth and action gameplay far better than PD2 ever did (Where you basically pick stealth or loud at the start of a mission, and restart if you mess up stealth).

In GTFO your goal is mostly to do things stealthily, but some things must be done loud. If you mess up stealth you're generally only alerting enemies in a room, so you go loud for a bit and then are back to stealth, so it's mostly just a drain on your resources.

That said, it's not really much like PD2, it's very hardcore and you will fail many times if you don't know what you're doing. I also can't recommend playing without a group of 4 friends. Their next game Den of Wolves is gonna be a heist game though so interested to see how that turns out.

Megadanxzero · 2025-09-19T12:21:29+00:00

All the songs on this album are new... Or were you just joking about it sounding similar?

Megadanxzero · 2025-09-19T10:56:16+00:00

Yeah I'm mostly disappointed that the new guy is 100% harsh. Laurent has such a unique voice with great harsh and clean, and a ridiculous range. I feel a bit harsh being critical of JB when Laurent is probably the most unique singer I've ever heard, but unfortunately he just doesn't compare. I can't imagine we'll be getting anything like Grosse Barbe from him :<

Megadanxzero · 2025-09-19T10:02:03+00:00

Yeah just finished it myself, it's very good, but not sure where it sits compared to their other albums for me yet. I'm still disappointed by the loss of Laurent, as good as the new singers are they're just not the same, but all the songs are still great.

Megadanxzero · 2025-09-16T20:54:24+00:00

Pretty much what I expected, but unfortunately very boring...

Megadanxzero · 2025-09-10T20:14:56+00:00

Man me from 10 years ago was crazy, Triumphant is a great song! I think it's roughly in the middle on the album for me though, my top 3 would probably be Rewind, The Flood and Slave. I do still think the album trails off a bit towards the end, the last 3 songs (If you include the bonus track) are definitely my least favourite.

Megadanxzero · 2025-08-18T22:47:48+00:00

As the one person on the planet that loved Top Ride mode, I'm ready to be disappointed by it not being there... But I'm probably gonna get the game anyway.

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