I love Clair Obscur: Expedition 33! Really shows how far devs with a vision can take things when unshackled from their corporate overlords.

The music is absolutely stunning and there’s even a 10 minute mini documentary on how they put together the sound track that’s pretty fascinating to watch!

https://youtu.be/urizETxs3_8

I’m trying it on expert

Sounds like a skill issue bro.

I mean, Super Mario RPG did it first. But yeah it’s a winning formula :>

Hmmm I should really give heroic launcher a try. Might actually get me to play all those epic freebies that have been sitting in my account :o

Ew no. Rather see dev work on Lemmy stop than support tankies 🤢

Dear God those text parser adventures. I remember playing Hugo’s House of Horrors and trying for the longest time to remove some screws from a grate.

Okay screws np.

UNSCREW SCREWS

I don’t know how to do that.

REMOVE SCREWS

I don’t know how to do that.

Reeeee… Turns out it only responded specifically to UNDO SCREWS

Okay you sold me!

Always a great read! Thank you so much for doing these!!

If you like rpgs and management I’d suggest Battle Brothers, a mercenary company management game. You basically travel the countryside fighting brigands and taking jobs from various cities all while building up your company with new recruits and equipment. It’s got a bit of a learning curve but once you get the basics down it’s oddly enthralling.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/365360/Battle_Brothers/

Always look forward to reading these. I don’t bother with YouTube feeds for gaming news anymore!

Amazing work as always! Gaming journalism as it should be.

Nintendo really doubling down in the heel turn recently 🤢

Snagged thanks for the heads up man!

I’ve got an unid’ed +3 tri to trade if they ever bring it back up :>

The music was was an absolute banger too

https://youtu.be/APNQghAQlzM

Very detailed and informative post as always! This is how video game journalism should be done.

You’ve convinced me to give Death Standing another go. I bounced off of it 30 minutes in after the 20th minute of cut scenes but there seems to be more juice to it further in so I’ll power through another hour or two and see if I can’t find the hooks!

Love these! Reading the bit about Sierra gave me big nostalgia vibes.

Just a FYI, the turds at Longdue making “Hopetown” are suing Argo Tuulik one of the lead writers for the OG Disco Elysium in some lame effort to snuff out any competition from Argo’s own project.

Luckily the community has really rallied behind him so things are looking up. Still I wouldn’t give Longdue/Riaz Moola/Hopetown (ugh what kind of hack came up with that name?) any more positive press because they sure as hell don’t deserve it :o

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco-elysium-writer-survive-the-winter

Star Control 2 - it’s a mix of RPG storytelling with zany aliens mixed with Asteroids style PvP arcade gameplay. Like Ham and Cantaloupe, you think the combination wouldn’t work but it just somehow does. The writing and lore of the whole universe is just super rich and really immerses you into the whole universe.

Is this really considered news? Hearing about this guy or his has-been actress wife is only slightly less interesting than hearing about the next geriatric Paul Logan is planning to beat up.