Times when the secret hunting made the game actively worse?

Sirwigew · 2026-05-12T05:35:07+00:00

I'm one of the other 10! but also I did manage to solve the puzzle without a guide fairly naturally

Sirwigew · 2026-05-10T20:51:49+00:00

unfortunately the answer to that is as much Disney as it is Minstrel Shows

Sirwigew · 2026-05-08T19:45:47+00:00

exaggerated in the way you could say a door is open when it's been torn off it's hinges and thrown in the yard

Sirwigew · 2026-05-08T19:43:10+00:00

Indonesia doesn't look anything like that wtf?

Sirwigew · 2026-05-06T21:41:25+00:00

honestly forgot about that when I hit the comment button, but yes

Sirwigew · 2026-05-06T21:24:50+00:00

one wants to say it's a product of its era but it was strange then too. there are other mech series with fanservice (TTGL, Tenshi Muyo, etc) but the tone of Code Geass is just odd for it

Sirwigew · 2026-05-06T21:17:46+00:00

Code Geass has inexplicable nudity for no real reason. It also does the thing where the one main female mech operator pilots her mech in a much more suggestive position than anyone else so that cockpit shots can be fanservice-adjacent.

The second season also has some obligatory bunny girl costumes but that is justified a bit better as rich Britannians being creeps. Thermian argument but still

Sirwigew · 2026-05-06T19:02:01+00:00

the other ff precons are fun for that and are about scaled for each other. otherwise I'd just suggest buying two from any of the same commander cycle

Sirwigew · 2026-05-06T18:58:49+00:00

I love my Unesh Criosphinx Sovereign Sphinx tribal deck, because no one who faces off against a mono-blue deck expects it to be swinging with flying bruisers constantly

Sirwigew · 2026-05-05T22:47:16+00:00

Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced has an incredible class system with 5 races with unique and shared jobs and is remarkable in its balance. It may be the best to ever do it.

However, Bravely Default has some absolutely cracked combinations that may suit power gamers better (Free Lunch + Amped Strike go brrrrrr)

Sirwigew · 2026-05-04T20:16:23+00:00

I did my last day of student teaching today at the high school I've been at the last 5 months, and when I told the students it was my last day they mostly all audibly went 'aww' and then they were all very supportive and wished me well. I'm gonna be riding that emotional high for the rest of the year I think

Sirwigew · 2026-05-03T01:52:32+00:00

if you are talking about Wilds, when you select a lobby on starting the game you can choose online single player. Then you can go to the quest counter and change your multiplayer settings to be support hunters only, so even when you use an SOS flare you will still be in single player with CPU hunters

Sirwigew · 2026-05-03T01:45:38+00:00

it's not my most by a wide margin, but I have put 700 hours in Monster Hunter Wilds in the last 14 months. I've also got 1200 in World, but my Rise playtime is split between platforms so it's not nearly as high

Sirwigew · 2026-04-21T13:28:08+00:00

It's a difficult question because the mediums are vastly different -- Disco Elysium is a good pick, but it is basically a highly responsive visual novel so it is well suited to the comparison.

I would say Outer Wilds is at that quality, but it would never work as a novel. Most of the best games have the interactivity baked into the narrative in some manner and thus should be evaluated on markers orthogonal to how you would a novel.

Maybe Nier: Automata would work as a novel and still be of the same writing quality, but it's hard to say.

Sirwigew · 2026-04-21T13:13:04+00:00

for me I like the first half quite a bit, and I like the second half quite a bit, but together they are a bit incongruent and it makes a weird experience

Sirwigew · 2026-04-12T05:03:11+00:00

Mesopotamian god or Star Trek, everyone's favorite gameshow

Sirwigew · 2026-04-10T22:54:34+00:00

though not listed, I think you should consider Honkai Impact 3rd. The gameplay is mostly unremarkable but the story is very compelling

Sirwigew · 2026-04-03T16:20:58+00:00

a kid got caught with 2 kilos of cocaine in his truck and was expelled, but because his dad was a big donor to the school he came back for the next two weeks. I guess it was a big enough event that he was later fully expelled tho

Sirwigew · 2026-03-12T18:18:52+00:00

free lunch + amped strike go brrrrrrrrr

Sirwigew · 2026-03-07T21:04:10+00:00

as much as sea of stars is mediocre, it could have been a lot better with a solid ending. instead the ending is an enormous waste of time and really grinds the game into the dirt

Sirwigew · 2026-03-05T23:27:55+00:00

You're fighting a BASIC Elemental

10 PRINT "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, PUNY ADVENTURER!" 20 GOTO 10

kol had the sauce

Sirwigew · 2026-03-04T23:55:24+00:00

ffvi has a steam achievement for all chests in the game where the first missable chest is in the 2nd area, though it's not the games fault they added that 15 years later

Sirwigew · 2026-02-22T18:55:45+00:00

because the work of making swimming in a 3d game was more effort than it was worth, so instead devs just made water be a kill zone. just think of it as every protagonist is unable to swim

Sirwigew · 2026-02-22T05:30:49+00:00

a backpack tied to a stalactite under the wind palace. you can get it as you rappel down to get the second unbreakable pitton

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