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[Aoi]

Potionomics... Recettear, except instead of a dungeon crawl for resources, there's a deckbuilding game to negotiate the selling price of your merch. It's surprisingly entertaining, with highly exuberant (if somewhat repetitive) characters and quirky dialogue. Be prepared for a lot of short loading screens if you're not on an SSD.

For the uninitiated, you're it's a shopkeeper management game where you have to balance your time against opening the shop, brewing potions, going to town for supplies and schmoozing, all against the backdrop of the clock ticking down on having your shop (and soul) foreclosed on, if you don't make enough money in time.

...Which was, of course, left to you by your uncle. I swear, the only reason why people end up in farming or shopkeeping is because some relative died and left them a ruinous property that they're obligated to take care of.

Note that it is very possible to let yourself fall behind, resulting in what'd probably be an unwinnable state.

[Kagus]

(navel) battleships

Now I'm just imagining a bunch of bellies floating around and launching lint at each other from their navel cannons.


But yeah, it's really rather impressive thinking about how much the gaming industry as a whole has been influenced and changed by random user content in SC and WC3...

...and how sad it is that the kinds of frameworks that allowed for those ideas to blossom and flourish no longer exist, and are unlikely to appear again in the future.

[Folly]

But yeah, it's really rather impressive thinking about how much the gaming industry as a whole has been influenced and changed by random user content in SC and WC3...
...and how sad it is that the kinds of frameworks that allowed for those ideas to blossom and flourish no longer exist, and are unlikely to appear again in the future.

On that note, I got a bit excited recently seeing Sackboy getting a Windows release. Then I watched the trailer, and realized something was wrong when 95% of it was bragging about how shiny their new graphics are, with zero mention of content creation which Little Big Planet was known for. Digging a bit deeper confirmed that indeed, Sackboy does not have any content creation mode; it's just a stale platforming game now.

smh

[MCreeper]

Persona 5 Royal was recently ported to PC. And according to negative reviews, it runs just as well as Persona 4 - worse than it would on emulator. 

[Il Palazzo]

BTW, I don't get the appeal of those Persona games. Yahtzee keeps gushing over them every time he gets a chance. But to me it looks like extremely cringe animu cliche fest.

[nenjin]

The games have a pretty lengthy pedigree. ATLUS has been making the same kind of game across two different titles for many years now.

Persona 4 was the last Persona game I played, and it felt like the last one that had any restraint. Persona 5 and beyond went full into style (since the gameplay hasn't changed much.) So big soundtracks, high energy, overdesigned anime characters, very animoo storylines....

Persona 4 wasn't bad though.

And then there's Shin Megami Tensei, which has a decidedly less obnoxious take on the the whole thing. I much prefer the older Shin Megami Tensei games personally.

But Persona is basically a mashup up of "Highschooler daily life management" "Relationship building" and "Demon collecting and turn-based RPG fights." It's not that I don't get the appeal. I put plenty of hours into Persona 4. But the stylings of the later games made them a hard pass for me.

[scriver]

BTW, I don't get the appeal of those Persona games. Yahtzee keeps gushing over them every time he gets a chance. But to me it looks like extremely cringe animu cliche fest.

Isn't that basically how Yahtzee usually says that he used to feel about them, but then he tried.. number four, I think, and for some reason it really resonated with him?

[Folly]

Persona games have a very forward aesthetic style which can make a strong initial impression. But then the combat is extremely basic, the progression tedious, and the pacing bogged down by constant social checklists that have to be completed.

So yeah, I basically feel like most of the people giving Persona glowing reviews only spent a few hours getting that initial impression, and never bothered to see what lies beyond.

[Chiefwaffles]

Or maybe they just like the game? Persona isn't for me personally, but some people like it.

[Robsoie]

Yesterday night I spent a long time in Fallout 3, travelled through some rather dangerous locations in order to complete a serie of missions that were part of a long quest chain, was so happy to finally reach the last part of it after so many neard-eath situation (always buy lots of stimpacks, always). 

Tonight decided to give a try to the last part of that quest chain, only to notice i ... didn't saved at all ...

Spoiler: because one is not enough (click to show/hide)

[Robsoie]

So apparently there will be a "The Witcher 1 Remake" in the UE5 engine.
https://www.thewitcher.com/en/news/46225/the-witcher-remake-is-in-development
I wonder if they will overhaul the gameplay completely, as the "click when the sword shine to continue automatic combo" combat system of Witcher 1 really was the game lowest point.

[scriver]

I'm more interested in what they'll do with the cringeworthy booty collection cards

[nenjin]

Are Collectible Tiddy Cards "of a time" now? Just seems like the sex scenes are as cringy if not more cringy these days than the cards.

[Kagus]

The confusing-as-fuck dialogue and legitimately broken quest flags registering your choices incorrectly are also, y'know... Points.

[scriver]

Are Collectible Tiddy Cards "of a time" now? Just seems like the sex scenes are as cringy if not more cringy these days than the cards.

I don't remember any sex scenes?