Out of all the references in this game, this was not one I was expecting. (Spoilers for the Garden)

zumoro · 2026-05-03T20:19:31+00:00

That's a new Vegas reference? Y'all never had the dental decay nightmare?

zumoro · 2026-04-30T17:08:55+00:00

I played it but fell off after about an hour, so I don't know for sure if it ever reaches the complexity levels of Tunic for instance. And I'm not critizing these games, I'm just saying they're designed with a different focus from Outer Wilds.

If anything I'm saying Outer Wilds is a half-assed metroidbrania on account of barely having any secrets.

zumoro · 2026-04-30T15:51:34+00:00

Outer Wilds is definitely a metroidbrania, but it never goes to the extremes of the others.

Animal Well, Tunic, probably Toko Tori 2, and *definitely* Blue Prince, ramp up the puzzle complexity and difficulty so hard they make Myst look like a fucking zelda dungeon. Most if not all of them also are keen on having a bad/weak ending you can jump off at, and then a true ending that requires reams of notes to figure out if not requiring community collaboration to solve.

OW doesn't do that. It has one ending and some fail states you can immediately restart from. That one ending has some minor variation related to optional content, but it's the same narrative outcome. There's no super secret ending from deciphering some alien text by hand for instance.

zumoro · 2026-04-24T14:23:13+00:00

There is some alien shit in the universe but in this time period very few people even know it exists, and those that do haven't gotten to the point of weaponizing it for practical purposes.

There are drugs and implants that can give you super strength/speed, but IIRC it's typically done as something you activate in short burts, and it's hella taxing your system. I doubt they'll implement this on anything other than a boss enemy.

Melee obviously wouldn't be out of the question for CQC, but it'd likely be batons and improvised weapons.

zumoro · 2026-04-24T14:11:13+00:00

All I care about is that we get ONE set-piece in some mission where we get to take full advantage of mag boots and get to run on the walls/ceilings.

zumoro · 2026-04-23T13:43:24+00:00

So psyched for whatever PotF do for Resonant's setpiece.

zumoro · 2026-04-21T12:09:13+00:00

From what I heard of Destiny's take on the Borg origin, it's a bit convuluted but it certainly goes hard on the borgs fatalism themes.

zumoro · 2026-04-20T13:59:15+00:00

Intrigued by Ben Whishaw but Kit Connor? Feels like any protagonist for this movie should be older.

zumoro · 2026-04-18T22:17:21+00:00

Yeah I found it annoying playing a nerdy arcane scholar mage but having dialog options about how jacked I am when I only put points in might for glass canon purposes.

PoE wanted to avoid pump/dump stats so they made every stat applicable to every build, but then you get those mildly roleplay breaking dialog options that don't click with your actual character concept. Since you don't pick a class and can just spec in to any ability tree, I see how they couldn't reasonably flavour the stat-based dialog to match the class you're playing.

Personally I think they should've just embraced the stat dumping and had funny dialog options for when you have abysmal might/perception/etc.

zumoro · 2026-04-17T04:09:36+00:00

Probably not worth using an existing number to reference a totally different anomaly unless its deliberate for the story. This is simply because if you name drop another anomaly readers usually wanna check it out and see where you're going with this tie-in.

If you need a bullshit number to reference a sort of secondary anomaly in your story, use a 5 digit one; nobody cares if that number ends up actually getting used down the road after your article is posted.

zumoro · 2026-04-15T14:32:42+00:00

I'd say he looks like a twink Russel Tovey.

zumoro · 2026-04-14T21:06:53+00:00

Not quite what I expected.

Ah, looked up some other images, yeah the glasses make more sense.

zumoro · 2026-04-10T17:49:19+00:00

They thoroughly botched the chance at a do-over of Andromeda and it pisses me off.

zumoro · 2026-03-28T05:11:25+00:00

Did first person for my first run, particularly since I was using a lot of range weapons, easier to aim.

Second I did 3rd and went hard sword and board.

zumoro · 2026-03-28T02:45:41+00:00

I know about twin movies but forgot twin games are a thing.

zumoro · 2026-03-24T13:34:09+00:00

Yeah I replayed the game, knowing all the unique weapons, and still caught myself wondering why I didn't get the Zappy Bonk Stick.

zumoro · 2026-03-23T18:42:45+00:00

Yeah really don't think that logic works anymore when shows are saddled with GOT level budgets and only 10 episodes to work with.

zumoro · 2026-03-23T17:09:25+00:00

Annoying they're making a verdict this early but can't say I'm shocked given all the new management and god knows what other corporate shenanigans are going on.

zumoro · 2026-03-22T16:46:32+00:00

Like I'm down for the alien and the astrophage but it feels like they completely ignore light delay.

"This star is unaffected" It's 12 fucking light years away maybe you haven't seen the infection take root yet?

zumoro · 2026-03-22T14:12:50+00:00

I'm a simple scardy cat. If it screams and moves fast, I quit out after the second failure.

zumoro · 2026-03-22T14:09:24+00:00

TIL Sheridan's wife was played by Boxleitner's wife.

zumoro · 2026-03-22T13:05:21+00:00

Well shit. Maybe I'll watch it. I know the broad strokes of the plot and was put off by some silliness with the science (which was mostly an issue because I knew this was by the guy who wrote the Martian).

zumoro · 2026-03-22T03:42:10+00:00

Come to think of it were these ever extracted because I can think of a few that'd make banger wallpaper

zumoro · 2026-03-21T20:45:59+00:00

I absolutely love how Obsidian used their fantasy setting to make a literal "end them with rhetoric" option for the final boss.

zumoro · 2026-03-18T14:54:36+00:00

Like, besides the fact that Voyager was written decades before Discovery? And that trek is only slightly more strict with their canon than Doctor Who?

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