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It’s a free opensource RTS game. It’s hard as hell though.
I’ve been playing Kid Icarus (NES) here and there, and really having a good time.
My past experience with it was with the 3D Classics release on 3DS. I guess I didn’t stick with it very long, but I remember thinking it was excessively difficult at the time.
This time around I’m just winging it. But this time I had more patience and managed to make it past 1-3. That level does have a lot going on. You’re early in the game, so barely any health. You’re platforming upwards, so the ground that was below you scrolls away for constant death traps. And you’re being pressured to move quickly, by enemies spawning in from below. You also can’t afford pretty much anything from the shops to help you. Makes a satisfying little challenge.
After that you get to a labyrinth, which is like a teeny tiny Metroidvania. Very different kind of pace and feel that makes for a fun change up. I’m on the second labyrinth now, and I think I’m gonna have to take paper notes next time to navigate.
The going seems much easier now in world 2’s platforming stages, since I have several powerups. Glad this game has infinite continues and gives passwords though.
Anyway, I want to be playing more of the new DK… but right now KI’s been kinda hitting the spot.
Death’s Door on switch. It’s a cute little soulslike where you play a crow who reaps souls. It has good gameplay and a nice style.
I enjoyed this one a lot, but I eventually got stuck on a yeti boss, and quit.
It felt like his next move was somewhat randomized, and you needed to react in much less than a second to the type of move he was doing. While a lot of bosses develop patterns you can get used to, I couldn’t form any rules in my mind that could account for my reflexes not improving.
Yeahh always felt like that boss was a major difficulty spike, next two bosses are even harder when in comparison the past bosses were cakewalks 🫤
I really enjoyed this one! I tried Tunic after this it, but could not get into it.
Octopath Traveler! Very fun and I love the art style so far
Disco Elysium, already played for 30 hours and I only got it a few days ago lol
Hardcore! Hardcore to the max!
“YEKOKATAA! THE PLACE TO BE!”
Random URF is back in league, so probably that. Maybe Rivals
Played the Heretic remake. Pretty fun to come back to that one after 30 years. 😂
I might try Hexen next, I hear they made it much better, but the original wasn’t great at all.
I‘ve picked Manifold Garden back up and man… this game is so utterly unique, I recommend anyone give it a shot next sale. Even if you‘re not into puzzle games, just seeing what it does visually will give you a unique experience, I reckon.
The vast, infinite spaces are nuts
This game is so wild I clipped out of bounds without realizing it. Bricked my save cuz I was wandering around just taking it in and all of my autosaves were just in different spots outside the game. So cool, but I can’t bring myself to start over again. 🫠
It happened to me towards the end as well, but thankfully reloading my savefile got me back on track. Your comment made me aware that just cause everything looks bizarre it‘s not necessarily intended and saved me from suffering the same fate lol
Currently playing through all the Zelda games with a friend in this curated order:
So far I recommend it, although I’m only 3 games in.I just finished Wind Waker and it was far worse than I remembered, and I didn’t remember it being very good in the first place. Probably a conversational opinion, but I think Wind Waker is the most lazy and forgettable Zelda game. Curious if anybody liked this one for more than just the music and artstyle.
I can’t wait to move on to the DS games which I really like, but I’m waiting for my buddy to play Wind Waker first.
What on Earth is this dogwater tier list?
"Post SS 2017 & 2013 is the dumbest name for a tier that doesn’t even need to exist. Put Breath of the Wild in “Neo Zelda” with TotK where it belongs, and put Link Between Worlds next the game it is direct sequel to, A Link to the Past.
Also, who’s the genius that said we don’t play Hyrule Warriors, and what is wrong with them? Of all of the spin-off games Zelda has ever had, or any Nintendo game series for that matter, Hyrule Warriors (the original or Definitive Edition) is nearly god tier. Especially on an amulator with near perfect performance. Even in comparison to some mainline games (such as the Wind Waker styled DS games) its a much more enjoyable experience simply for the controls.
With regards your comment on Wind Waker, I think the story writing was pretty good towards the end of the game. But the gameplay is padded by a lot of time sailing with little to do and the art style is very unappealing. I mean, the cel shading looks good even years later obviously, but the character proportions look ugly. BotW and TotK struck a much better balance with their cel shading because the proportions of characters are actually somewhat normal.
Wind Waker was a decently written story held back by a poor choice of art style. Eiji Aonuma admitted this. And I am glad he did. He recognized why it was unappealing, and for what has to be the first and only time ever in Nintendo’s history, listened to the audience that buy and play the game to make changes going forward. Without this admittance, it is doubtful that BotW or TotK would have had their current art style.
It’s not actually a tier list, I just used a tier maker website to put together this play order and put rough labels on them. BotW and TotK are far apart cause we didn’t want to play them back-to-back.
Also, who’s the genius that said we don’t play Hyrule Warriors, and what is wrong with them?
I humbly admit that I am the genius in question.
Doesn’t really look very fun or interesting, and it’s certainly not mainline. So to be honest, I didn’t even consider including it. Maybe I will try it at your recommendation.A Zelda game without real dungeons, inventory, puzzles… Not a Zelda game I want to play. I will admit to buying and playing it on the 3ds, but it was filler.
Cadence of Hyrule is fun as hell. Gotta fix that on the list.
the original half life. I decided to load games onto my deck smallest to largest. Playing ones that held my interest and kicking off others. It can only hold like 3 or 4 latest triple A type games so I figures I would just have like two on their and use the rest of the space to have a greater variety of games.
I’ve got a 3.5 TB hard drive that mostly holds video files and stuff, and there’s at least 1.5TB free at this point. When you’re playing games that predate solid state drives, that may as well be infinite space.
Gonna get Hole and finish Forgive me Father 2.
I beat Diablo 1 recently which I already written about in another thread. After that I decided to try Atlyss. Too early to give proper feedback, but I must say I enjoy it so far even though I find it a bit strange to have MMORPG gameplay loop in a singleplayer game. It does have lobby-based multiplayer though, and I haven’t tried that yet. Art direction in general is great, but models/textures are extremely lowpoly/lofi (with texture filtering on top of that, going for faithful PSX look I guess). Characters in particular look great, and there is a full-featured furry character creator.
Thread this one being a cross-post of. 😆
- Easy Red 2 - current beta is in excellent shape
- Fermi Paradox - returned to check he the game was going anywhere
- Brotato - needed a time waster that you can pick up and put down in seconds (Steam Deck)
Dread Delusion!
The game truly feels like Morrowind at times, like others have said.
I miss games with rich lore like this so much
There are a handful of games out there that have tried to do some aspects of an Elder Scrolls game without doing the other parts badly. Dread Delusion is very much an exploration game, and it excels at that.
I bought Octopath Traveller 1 when it was on sale a while back. I loved 2 but never got around to 1. With Octopath Traveller 0 on the way and being a prequel to 1 it high time to play 1. I’m enjoying it so far but I miss some of the additions 2 has.
Also playing Tony Hawk 3+4. It’s great but the soundtrack is not even close to as good as 1+2 is.
