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At this point I've heard of this game more because of people shitting on its batshit ending than because of its own marketing and it's honestly making me more interested to play it than I was before lol.

Just looked it up on wikipedia. On hiatus since 2015.

It finally got here! I knew it was out of stock when I placed the order but after so long I honestly expected the order to just get cancelled. Also on the right you can see something else I got a few weeks back. Between these and my Junji Ito, my manga collection is off to a pretty strong start! I think I have to start collecting those fancy Berserk volumes now... ?

Kinda how I felt after playing a few games through PSNow a little while back. It does in a pinch when you really wanna play something that isn't on PC but I would never want for it to be my primary way to play games. God of War and Uncharted 4 in particular I'm really eager to replay on PC because the low resolution + heavy compression made it hard to fully get into them. Like, I could tell that they were gorgeous-looking game but I couldn't really see it.

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It's been a while but I wanted to follow up on this. Turns out it's not really a bug although I'm still not clear if that's really how it's intended to work. But apparently you're supposed to use disk clean-up to free the space back up lmao. Even if this had been communicated clearly (it wasn't), locking down a game's files in a folder the user can't even access sure seems like a good idea if it causes this kind of nonsensical side-effect. ? So yeah, if it ends up happening to you don't panic, I guess.

Oh right, as in Series X/S. I get what you meant now. That's not a confusing name for a console at all!! But no, I meant the Steam release from earlier this year. It's a new port because it's not a UWP and it was enough of a port job that they hired an external studio to work on it. Tbh I wasn't even thinking about it being on the Win10 store prior to that. Which is weird because I actually played a little bit of it on Gamepass. ?

??????????? I'm not sure what you're saying here. I said they ported FH4 to PC. Which... they have? As for the Halo 5 mp thing, that was years ago and their PC strategy was different back then. It's entirely possible they didn't bother simply because they knew it would sell like shit as a Win10 store exclusive. I guess it's still possible they'll just skip it entirely but I think them porting the entire MCC (and even adding Reach to it) makes it significantly more likely that it'll happen. It's literally the only mainline Halo game that's not available on PC.

They only just finished porting the MCC less than a year ago. I'm sure they'll get around to it. I mean, they ported Forza Horizon 4 even though FH5 is coming this year. It doesn't look likely to be before Infinite's launch, though.

Yeah, this is shockingly enough basically the best possible outcome. They both lost lmao. Can't help but laugh at this absolutely garbage take from Kotaku, though. Like, no, this isn't a big win for Epic. Sweeney isn't happy at all with the outcome. His tweet is even in the article. Not that Kotaku was great before but I'm starting to understand why Stephen Totilo bailed like two seconds after Jason Schreier left. They really went off the deep after. It feels like at least once a month I hear about them because of some stupendously moronic article they posted.

Damn, thought they would surely know by now. Maybe they won't be continuing and they're just not sure how to break the news? Personally, to me it depends on how Miura's creative process worked. If he was the kind to have a general idea in his head and mostly just discover the details as he went along then it's probably best if it ends here. But if he was the kind to have a meticulous plan with notebooks full of notes then it would be pretty great if his team were to keep it going. Especially if what I heard is true and that he had been training assistants to better replicate his art style.

Was there any kind of note or indication as to whether it'll be the final chapter altogether?

Eliza I was looking for something on the shorter side of things to play while I waited for FFIV and I tried this one on a whim after bouncing off of a few other games I tried. I'm not sure why I slept on it for so long. I mean, I do. I love Zachtronics but a visual novel isn't really what I wanted from them. But, as it turned out, the style of their games is a really good fit for the genre. The low-key art and ambient soundtrack just really suits itself to relaxing and getting into a story. There are some UI elements that come into play that feel super Zachtronicsy and made me think of the histograms you see after you finish a puzzle in their other games. There's even the now obligatory solitaire mini-game and this one is ridiculously hard. Early on it occurred to me that its difficulty was ironically appropriate given the themes of the story and I got to wondering if maybe that was deliberate. I figured I was just overthinking it but in the last chapter someone actually mentions the game and makes a similar analogy lol. I don't know if this is something I'd necessarily recommend to everyone. It's a small story about people and mental health, not exactly mind-blowing stuff. And if you had told me what it was about ahead of time, I probably wouldn't have been super interested. But it ended up really resonating with me, for some reason. It reminded me a lot of VA-11 Hall-A, another game I ended up really loving. There's a few different endings based on which character you choose to join and normally I'd feel compelled to go back and do them all but for once I'm actually satisfied with the ending I got. There's another one I probably would've been happy with but two of the choices simply did not appeal to me at all and I did not care for their associated characters either. So yeah, if Zachtronics ever makes another VN it'll probably be a day one purchase like their puzzle games from now on.

The House of Da Vinci IIRC I bought this right after beating The Room Three and then forgot about it entirely. I was looking for another similar puzzle game and the Steam algorithm recommended it to me. I figured I should probably go in with low expectations but this game is actually shockingly similar to The Room. You interact with the same kind of Rube Goldberg devices that keep opening up and revealing new puzzle sections. There's even a little eye piece tool that lets you see things that aren't visible to the naked eye. It has a more straightforward mystery vibe and Da Vinci aesthetic though, so it's nowhere near as stylish as The Room. It also turned out to not be quite as good. At first I was pleasantly surprised by how similar it was but after a while I started getting a little frustrated with it. I don't know if the puzzle design is just less intuitive or simply meant to be harder but I kept missing things. I always make it a point to avoid using the hints in The Room but in this I eventually got fed up and used them whenever I got stuck. There was even one time when even with the hints I couldn't figure out what the game wanted from me and ended up brute forcing my way through the puzzle. Overall, I'd call it "good, not great". I'll get the sequel eventually but probably not until I can get it for 5 bucks or so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Gamepass on PC? Man, you love living dangerously lol. I don't know if I'd wanna risk it with either of those games considering the shitty Xbox app's tendency to randomly decide to eat save files or hold onto drive space after you uninstall a game. I don't even want to imagine what it would feel like to lose a 300 hours save for no reason whatsoever or to uninstall the game only to realize you now have to format because you no longer have access to the like 250GBs of space games will probably take by the time either of those comes out.

I remember nothing about the first two but 3 and 4 definitely both talk about this null element cosmic horror thingie.

Well, you're reading notes about events that have already happened. I think lore is the correct term for that? lol

Damn, I need to quit putting this off or you'll get ahead of me lol. Really need to watch it before Part 6 starts, at least. Speaking of Part 6, I heard Netflix is going to be streaming it. Does that mean Crunchyroll lost the bid or will they both have it? I know the early seasons are on both but idk how it would work for the latest season.

IIRC, on mobile it was only The Room: Old Sins but they made it number 4 for the PC release. I think it's supposed to be a prequel? The series' lore is pretty interesting but I played the games so far apart that I really have no idea what the fuck is going on from one game to the next lol.

The Room 4: Old Sins Man, I love these games. Short and sweet, and while they are on the easy side of puzzle games they have such a fantastic style that I still enjoy the hell out of them. I feel like I waited a while for this one. According to Steam, The Room Three came out in 2018 but I rarely play them at launch so it was probably less than that. This might actually be the closest to launch I play one of them because this one only came out on PC like 6 months ago. I think this is also the first time I play the PC version without the next mobile installment having already come out. I really hope the series isn't over because there's only one more and it's a VR game so I'm not playing that anytime soon. And even if there's another mobile entry coming, the PC release is usually years later because they rebuild the entire thing from scratch so either way it's gonna be a while.

How the hell are you getting so many Platinums so quickly? Do you go for games with easy plats or have you just been on a cleaning up spree of games you had already played?

It does feel a bit pricy but the discount and free DLC for the Steam launch made it easier to swallow. And this being Tetris, I figure I'll be playing it essentially forever so the 34$ CAD price didn't seem too unreasonable to me all things considered. It has a bunch of cool extra modes that I haven't really looked at yet if that matters, although at this point I'm sure any version of Tetris has something similar. Other than that, if I had access to a VR headset I'd probably be even happier with it. And like I said, it's pretty much the coolest version of Tetris I've ever played. The tiny bit of buyer's remorse I felt went away completely as soon as I tried it. But yeah, I guess it depends on how much you love/want Tetris. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Grabbed this a few days ago. Total impulse purchase but I'm really glad I got it. I love me some Tetris and I've long wanted a good version of it on Steam. I could never quite grasp the Puyo Puyo half of Puyo Puyo Tetris so that one didn't fully click for me. Tetris Effect is just plain old Tetris, though, and not only that it might actually be my favorite version of it ever. There's just something about the ambient levels and soundtrack that immediately puts me into this zen state of mind. The first time I played it I immediately started feeling relaxed and I can't think of a single game that's ever had that effect on me.

A fantastic game but a terrible achievement list. Literally every single one is "get ending 1", "get ending 2", etc. At first I didn't mind because I spent years under this assumption that the real meat of Chrono Trigger was in all the New Game+ endings and that they expanded the story somehow. And they're not that tedious to get since all you need to do is go through NG+ and go fight Lavos at various, specific points in the story. Your clear save lets you pick things back up right where you left off so, if you're careful not to miss any windows, you only need to do 2 playthroughs to get all the endings. But turns out most of the endings are just little joke endings or alternate outcomes to certain events due to defeating Lavos before reaching them. Most of them are basically just glorified credits rolls. The only thing that changes is the little slideshow you get. The first ending you get from beating the game normally with Chrono is the most satisfying and complete one by far. The very last one I did that's tied to an optional dungeon at least was all new stuff but apparently that's a tease for Chrono Cross so it's kind of ambiguous and I didn't really get much out of it.

Well, I was seriously considering emulating the original Secret of Mana but Square-Enix just announced the Collection of Saga is coming to mobile and Steam soon. It's the wrong collection but hey, it's something. Enough for me to hold off a little just in case. They've been exclusive for Switch just long enough that it started looking like maybe Nintendo had full exclusivity for some reason, so hopefully the Mana one follows soon. Oh and they also announced Bravely Default 2 for Steam yesterday.