GirlVersusGame

@PuppetMaster It is but there's a lot they pulled from the vaults for their two Japanese released volumes. Much like Fromsoft's Design Works volumes, I'm sort of obsessed with art-books, I don't think much of those Resi Archives made it to the West. Here's what I mean.

The first approved design of Ada.

Storyboards, most of the games had their scenes storyboarded.

Original creature drafts and concepts.

Then there's stuff like Resident Evil 1.5

It looks like a living art-book in all the right ways, it's a shame more developers can't or won't do that. There's a wealth of art-books and concept drawings from Konami, I think I've seen some of those Mega Man pieces from their Official Complete Works books they put out a couple of years ago. It's strange they didn't focus that much on Resident Evil, maybe it was too violent or gruesome for public display. I especially like the guestbook message at the end. That's very excited hand writing and very humble too. It's nice to see videogames being taken as a serious art-form.

Wow they really quoted Leonardo da Vinci at the beginning of the game, that alone speaks volumes.

Games I'd like to see but in an alternative time-line: Burnout remastered collection (with every original music track) Mercenaries 3, The Saboteur 2, Rockstar's Agent, a new Wipeout, The Getaway 3, Snowrunner 2, Gotham by Gaslight (cancelled Batman game) This is why I have no expectations but I watch either way.

This will (hopefully) be the weekend I finally finish Infinite Wealth, after Nurmagomedov versus Davis (MMA fight) then it's back to some virtual fighting of my own. I thought two hundred hours for a game was a lot but apparently it's not for that franchise. It never ends, happy gaming weekend folks.

I'd play this just because I did play a Mod of those engines in Train Sim PC and all of the voices were ripped from the show, it wasn't bad. The genuine thing will be so much better. I look forward to seeing Thunderbirds make the jump to Flight Simulator (not really but there is a Mod on PC)

I love some colour but there is such thing as too much. It feels like they oversaturated everything to suit the attention span of a child. Which is fine if that's who it's aimed at but the franchise for me will always be the first two games. The whole idea of a hunter is to slowly and methodically stalk their prey, then wait for the perfect window to strike. I don't like the pace of what I saw. It turns an intelligent design (dinos) into cannon fodder.

I can sort of see the connection to the earliest sketches of Alloy but the colour and speed is too much for me. I like slow and steady, I'm sure there's a demographic for that sort of thing.

I remember that game, I'll definitely pick it up on PS5. I never thought I'd see it make the jump to console. At this rate I'll have no reason for PC, other than Kenshi and Dwarf Fortress.

I'm starting to think I'm not the demographic for GTA anymore, I can't conjure up the hype at all and I try each time I see it mentioned. I'm cautiously optimistic at best. I don't want to support another game that ends up being a vehicle for one big online game. It feels like we were cheated out of another Ballad of Gay Tony or Lost and the Damned for whatever GTA Online is now. FOMO hasn't hit yet, I'll give it some more time.

@Oram77 And yet that beard was the most realistic thing about the whole movie, it has some of the saddest CGI to ever befall a licensed movie. It's been about three weeks and I still find it hard to watch a movie. The experience went from confusion to disappointment right onto frustration and finally topped off with anger. They absolutely butchered the name of Silent Hill. At this rate Scream 7 will be better.

That three minute clip is better than the entirety of the new Silent Hill movie. The acting too.

I never thought I'd play a climbing simulator but the pace and art-style from the demo made me do it. There was a little anxiety at the start but it levels off as you get to grips with the mechanics and the rock-faces. It's definitely not the kind of game to rush and I'm learning as I go.

Fun read and great vibrant pictures, I'm really looking forward to Tokyo Xtreme Racer it was my first racing game and had my favorite soundtrack. Now all we need is a new Burnout.

@FinneasGH That sounds like my early experiences at launch when I was always missing one percent of the map then had to drive around and kept running out of fuel right before I found it. The old PC Spintyres ran a lot like that before it became Mudrunner, I still return to it from time to time so I can appreciate how good we have it now. Spintyres was great but very janky and unforgiving. It's a shame it was pulled from Steam, it really showed where the series came from.

@ZeroE How's Season 17 going? I like the look of the new Voron G-5352 (Ural) I was hoping they'd add the Ural-532362 with the REM-KL, I had to Mod it in. I haven't checked Mods on console in so long, Mod.io were so strict on branding.

Below Zero was a great addition to Subnautica. I've wanted to try another Metroidvania and Ultros looks unique enough to guarantee a play, very Lovecraftian.

I'm being schooled by Infinite Wealth this weekend. I need to Ace my SEGA proficiency tests in the pursuit of platinum and the less said about the dating mini-game the better. Happy gaming folks.

'We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.' - Ultros Devs.

I never heard of it until now but it's giving off serious Devil May Cry and Nightmare Creatures vibes, also some mid 2000s Emo/NuMetal. I'd play it, I've only played one Final Fantasy game so far, I'd be happy with that being the second one.

I tried to play it multiple times and each time kept getting drawn back to No Man's Sky, it's not a bad game it just didn't hook me like so many other Bethesda games. I think the biggest let down was that a game about space exploration didn't exactly focus all that much on wandering. If they do reward exploration? I missed that part. I kept finding the same copy pasted outposts/locations and all of the rewards seemed to only come from quests. That's an area they can improve on. Maybe work on some of those loading screens too, there were so many.

@Czar_Khastik Or the one with the backwards watering can spout. I'd play either.

@Link41x I played From Russia with Love on PS2, it's definitely better than some of the others like The World is Not Enough, Tomorrow Never Dies (so wooden) and 007 Racing (which really was a thing) Nightfire made up for all three.

@Muttt I just finished CatQuest 3, it goes faster than the first two but it was great. There are a couple of missable sidequests that are hidden behind lost items, it's worth doing them for the rewards, even if you have to use a guide to find the items to start the quests.

@Onearmbandit It would be rude not to, I'm grinding XP and Yen while I listen. I was going to go with Cold but then I'd want watch to watch Queen of The Damned again and Lunatic always sounds like 'take my cellphone' I can't unhear it.

Enjoying my first Yakuza game, I can't say I know what's happening but I like it and the game-play loop is very enjoyable. I found a book that goes deep into the series lore/etc too so I'm finding out about the other games outside of this one. - happy gaming folks

@Onearmbandit I see your Cult of Static, good choice.

@exile93 I see why you like this game, I just need to get better at blocking. It's great so far.

I've been wanting to say day one buy for so long, this definitely is one of them. Hopefully physical too, there's a lot they can do with a special edition. One of the last ones came with a really nice custom deck of cards. There are so many Fable books too for anyone who wants to dip into the lore and world before the game releases. Some of the novels came with DLC codes too, I haven't seen any other franchise do that. Blood Ties is one of the best in the series.

@DTfearTheBEARD I was stuck on that game on Steam, a lot of people were. There was a certain point where things would just one shot you, prepare to grind. It's worth reading about the augments first too, I tried to wing it, bad idea. It's got a great soundtrack by Pawel Blaszczak too, same guy as the original Witcher and Dying Light. He's up there with Jesper Kyd. I might play through it again on console before it leaves.

@exile93 Thanks I'll give it a try, I've been enjoying turn based in Pathfinder, Persona 5 and in Unicorn Overlord. It's definitely been a different way to play. The series has been showing up for years and I never knew when to jump in. I've been looking for something bigger to break into after a string of small Indies.

@PuppetMaster I'll look into that one too, that dolphin though.

@StitchJones It's the same Mogwai as 'auto rock' from their 2006 album, small world. I've been listening to them for years and didn't realize they were the same band.

I really need to play one of the games in the series, just the dolphin thumbnail is enough to justify it.

@StitchJones Thanks for reminding me to look up the soundtrack, I meant to do it after playing the games and never did.

It makes me want a new Wipeout game. All I can see when I look at those are ship decals.

@Dan12836666 Word of warning that game crashes a lot on PS5 and on the Pro. It crashed every time I fast travelled, entered a cut-scene, or visited the village. The 'kind of' fix I found was to disable the sync on my saves. It was conflicting with Uplay, once I did that it didn't crash as much. It's a good game, they just need to fix that save issue or sync issue. It's worth looking into it before you do play it. I had to fight the end boss six times in a row until it finally allowed me to continue. I ended up watching the cutscenes on Youtube, it was that broken.

@ilyn I was trained to use a cinema projector a couple of years ago, the guy owned a chain of theaters and had a projector in his home. I still don't know if he was winding me up but he told me that back in the old days the bulb was so strong that if it blew it could take out half of the room. I thought of that every time I laced up up a projector, it was 35mm film and comes on multiple reels then you splice it and run it off platters. The sound is separate and has to be synced by a computer system. That type of bulb would have to run a massive machine so maybe he was serious. I did it because I wanted to learn to lace a projector, it's easier with small hands. It took him maybe thirty minutes to lace one, I got it down to twenty minutes but after what he said about the bulb I said thank you and wanted to get away from that machine.

Some of those bulbs go from 10K lumens to 60K, we had an industrial sized blonde explode on a film set once. Grips call lights after women. That thing was running off it's own generator not the studios grid and when it went the BOOM was massive, they had to clear the set. I can't imagine what a machine like a boiler would be like, lights were enough. It sounds like an interesting job, I can't imagine you did it without some kind of Hurt Locker level of protection.

@SteveJaye Thanks Jaye. I think there's propaganda on both sides. Except on one side it's softer and it slowly works it's way into peoples minds and days by making them fear the ultimate scenario then stresses them out. Back home my entire Christmas was turned into battle plan, it was loud and nonstop every day and every where I went. I called it real life V for Vendetta for a reason, billboards all over Moscow. Propaganda and giving into fear is so dangerous. I had to leave early, people have lost their minds.

It's lead me to believe that conflict on such a scale is mental illness, almost like we've learned to wipe out life on an industrial scale before we've gotten past the illness of wanting to do it in the first place. Enjoy your Megadeth, I am.

@MrPeanutbutterz This echos almost word for word what I keep hearing from that other side of the fence but it's been a constant for over a year now, and yet I wake up every day and the world is still here. I tend to just agree with Ministry 'fear is big business' and I have no time for it. I focus more on Megadeth 'peace sells and who's buying?'. Propaganda has made me cynical. Either way you get Metal, so you get what I'm saying. It's a universal language.

I never thought I'd be Youtubing videos of boilers exploding but if it was anything like that then I can't imagine the shock people got or the damage it did. The steam one I saw blew a ten meter hole in a wall.

@MrPeanutbutterz You are only as old as you feel. Which is either a good thing, or a bad thing.

Happy with the selection, I'll probably try Art of the Rally after MrPeanutbutterz's recommendation. I'm not sure what Exit 8 even is but I might try that too. Darkest dungeon 2 also looks interesting, so a good month.

I'm not sure what I just watched but I like what I saw. It reminds me a cross between Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (my first Medtroidvania, loved it) and Odin Sphere. It helps when you can see beyond the horniness and view the game for what it is, I'd play it.

@BentIeyma This. But they should have at least gotten the difficulty right, and enchanting. Adept meant the game was ridiculously easy and Expert meant I had to put thirty arrows into one wolf. It didn't level off until around level forty, I'm not sure people played that long. Everything else was manageable and most of those bugs people reported were something I never encountered. Except the forest lighting up like a rave, I really thought it would be worse. People were reporting issues with saves too, I never encountered that.

Enchanting was the big one, I found some obscure fix by doing something with the text size in the U.I. My build was broken without it. I probably put about four hundred hours into it before returning to Indies. It's the only shadow drop I've ever bought and it was running all day and all night, it was an addiction.

There goes my chance to complete my Arab Hajwala drift collection. I did buy some jank on there, because I knew it from Steam but the majority of shovelware made navigating the store a mess. I almost bought a rip-off of MegaBonk and others on multiple occasions. I definitely made less purchases on there last year, simply because I didn't know what I was looking at. I can't get to a console now but I'll be glad if that Banban thing is gone from my homepage.

That thing would not leave my latest games. Every time I checked the store I was met with that face.

Edit: never mind it's still there. As soon as I booted up, I saw it.

I'm still waiting for someone to add the white ashes.

I feel like a new copy of GTAV is purchased every time a child comes into the world, someone has to be buying it.

@Leetware1 I wish there were more parents like you. I do work for an organization that prevents exactly what you just said and if every parent were like you it would be so much easier. There would be far less children who need to be put back together. And I say children, not people, they aren't developed enough to understand why a grown adult would want to talk to them in the first place. They instead see the reward system, which so many modern games offer now.

@nessisonett They should and some organizations do send out packs and information, most schools won't do it. The material is too taboo for them and they feel (going from an actual response) that it's not their responsibility, it's the parents. That's for America, we haven't sent any to schools in England, it's a complicated situation. Some schools think it introduces an element that they aren't comfortable discussing.

I think had they been through it themselves they'd change their tune. I think it rests mostly with the parents, every parents I've talked to who was on that receiving end were absent in some way and turned to a console as a babysitter, mine too. That's the attitude, and when it does happen they button up and rarely share, which buries the issue even deeper. Gaming is a great hobby, but it's an entry point like you said and the main one we saw throughout last year. You already know which game.

@Korgon Different groups and organizations have been approaching all three with reasons and examples to prioritize child safety. It's on-going. When something does happen, it's too late. There's a push to be more proactive, it's necessary. Parents need to be educated too, siblings, and schools. It's a start.

Fishbowl and Moonlighter 2 are definitely going on my list. The first one had a really good rewarding game-loop. I'm onboard if they can improve on it in any way.

I was curious if this would make the jump to PS5, I could see it being popular with younger players, if they can pull it off technically. I'm holding out for Megabonk. I've seen a couple of knock-offs, hopefully the official version comes to console. I started it on PC then stopped, I prefer to rack up my hours on a console, it would be right at home on PS5.