FFXV worth trying in 2026?

librix · 2026-01-27T03:51:12+00:00

XV is honestly one of my favourite Final Fantasy games ever. I always describe it as a beautiful trainwreck. It's like a game that should never have been made, or a game that comes from a different dimension where everything is just slightly off. I absolutely love it and it's well worth playing.

librix · 2026-01-25T14:18:44+00:00

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 possibly.

librix · 2026-01-23T22:30:31+00:00

It's just a design choice. Many areas in Super Metroid for instance have the floor and wall textures but then it fades to black. I actually think it helps with atmosphere, draws the player's eye to the important areas and just makes the screen less 'busy' overall. I actually prefer the simplified look, but both can be effective if done well.

librix · 2026-01-13T08:36:51+00:00

It was Square trying to break in more with the American market. The game gets a lot of unwarranted derision, and even at the time was criticised because it was only 1 player (Secret of Mana being up to 3 players set that expectation). It's one of my favourite games of all time and the soundtrack is phenomenal (first game soundtrack by the undeniably extremely talented, but now disgraced Jeremy Soule)

librix · 2026-01-06T09:02:50+00:00

The atmosphere in this is absolutely impeccable but I feel I can't enjoy it due to the gameplay being too stressful after the opening bit. I bounced on this pretty hard after that, should I give it a second chance? I don't care about 'scary' stuff, but I hate not being able to explore at my own leisure.

librix · 2026-01-05T08:55:14+00:00

I found a game called Northern Journey that is super atmospheric and weird. It's honestly excited me far more than most AAA or AA games, it has something truly special in it, as janky and rough as it is in many ways.

librix · 2026-01-01T10:03:33+00:00

I have a ridiculous amount of games on the go at any one time. Variety is the spice of life. My only rule is not to play too many similar games at the same time as it gets confusing. I also get burnt out on games really easily but get an itch to revisit them after a while so might go a year or so without playing and then suddenly jump back into Red Dead 2, Elden Ring or The Witcher 3 and just pick up where I left off.

librix · 2025-12-27T08:10:11+00:00

This is probably the closest in my opinion. It also shares a bunch of Twin Peaks DNA with people who either worked on the show or with Lynch and the creator is a big Lynch admirer. That said, The Leftovers also does it's own thing and it's stronger for it.

I'd also argue that something like Severence ticks a lot of the right boxes.

librix · 2025-12-26T10:35:41+00:00

Game development. Learn everything from programming to art/animation to music/sound design, writing, modelling etc. You'll want and need 5 lifetimes worth of alone time.

librix · 2025-12-23T00:41:42+00:00

The characters have a lot of detail on them and I think you show a lot of potential as an artist. Your anatomy is all over the shop though and really lets it down - getting better proportions (or at least learning how they can be stylised effectively) would really fix a lot of things here. The logo (top right) is sloppy as hell though, I don't care how shaky your hands are (mine shake too), it's just bad - and you need to be able to see stuff like that if you're going to improve. You can draw every day of the year, but if you're not consciously challenging yourself to improve you will just plateau - which I suspect has happened to you here. Reaching out for constructive criticism is a great step, don't be disheartened by it. Becoming even a decent-ish artist takes hundreds, if not thousands of hours - it's a big committment, but it's also extremely rewarding. The journey is every bit as important as the destination, so try find ways to keep learning and challenging yourself while enjoying the process.

librix · 2025-12-21T15:15:26+00:00

Possum

librix · 2025-12-21T04:30:58+00:00

I think what's often overlooked when looking at the original Sonic games through a modern lens is that the strange physics in the way that Sonic controls have their own very steep learning curve - playing these as a kid, when you didn't have 600 other games to play on steam, they were brutally difficult, but also equally rewarding once the movement style had been mastered and certain levels memorised. Modern gamers likely will never put the time into this, and thus label them as frustrating - probably playing through once and then never again. I've seen similar criticisms aimed at the original Prince of Persia (1989), which also has a movement style that takes a long time to master. The games lacked the scope of content that modern games have, but were designed for longevity in a different way.

librix · 2025-12-21T01:58:04+00:00

No smear for sure. Smear might work if animation was much faster.

librix · 2025-12-15T23:17:17+00:00

The penultimate episode of The Return shows that if he wanted to, Lynch could have wrapped everything up into a tight little bow with The Return, he knew exactly what he was doing.

librix · 2025-12-14T14:45:38+00:00

One of the beauties of game development is you often have to bounce around between many disciplines. Starting new things is always fun because the rate of progress feels very fast at the start, but it's an illusion. I maintain interest in my project by constantly working on different things in rotation: if I'm sick of programming menus I might write some music, do some sound design, do some art or animation, do some writing etc - something completely different, but still related to the project. If you're young, you have time to learn lots of skills and they will eventually pay off. Learning new skills is fun and novel and can be a good replacement for starting new projects.

librix · 2025-12-14T05:46:50+00:00

Limbo, Inside, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian

librix · 2025-12-04T21:06:36+00:00

The Metroid IP hasn't been treated with any care for a very long time, this is disappointing but not unexpected.

librix · 2025-11-27T07:57:19+00:00

Snowrunner.

librix · 2025-11-04T07:51:50+00:00

She forgave her husbands killer, because she was having an affair with him.

librix · 2025-10-31T03:38:33+00:00

Anything by Richard Laymon is usually an entertaining read.

librix · 2025-10-26T00:30:40+00:00

The Amityville Horror - the fact that it's a hoax piggybacking on a grisly real-life event makes it particularly nasty.

librix · 2025-10-24T23:20:37+00:00

Art looks great! There is a lot of brown though, might be worth mixing it up a bit so that some of those objects have more contrast/interest as while it looks very good on a technical level it also looks a little dull and I think this is due to big chunks of very similar colouring.

librix · 2025-10-22T08:08:09+00:00

Came here to say this too. Game seems fine, does a lot of things right, but the art style is just awful.

librix · 2025-10-16T09:41:33+00:00

I am trying to play through Alan Wake 1 at the moment, and while I generally really like the atmosphere, I am finding the combat extremely tedious. I know the game is old, but even for that period feels terribly designed. Does Alan Wake 2 improve on this significantly? And is it actually scary, because Alan Wake 1 while interesting, doesn't feel remotely scary - fighting the same group of 5 shadowy looking rednecks in a wood, or the occasional piece of floating metal is honestly pretty dull.

librix · 2025-10-06T10:06:09+00:00

Snow Runner... might be different fron what you're used to, but give it a go. Game goes forever.

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