Posts by Lace Sabatons

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I'll probably buy this on my next paycheck.

Would love to hear your thoughts when you do.l

It would be nice! Like I say it's not a big time investment by any means, and it's fairly cheap, so it's not difficult to play if anyone feels so inclined.

Yeah, I'm just gonna get a RaspberryPi to play old games on my TV.

I find myself drawn more towards finite video games these days. Something I can play intensely for 3-6 days, beat, and put away feeling like I've had a complete experience.

The Hex is exactly that. I beat the game in 12 hours, and it's hard to imagine it taking much longer than that for anyone else. Better yet, it's a game with something interesting and insightful to say about games. It communicates with every tool at its disposal: gameplay, art choices, dialogue, all come together make a point about ego, the relationship between players and developers, and how we destroy the things we love.

While this is primarily a narrative game, it's not lacking for interesting gameplay, with an emphasis on "interesting" as opposed to "challenging." While it technically has platforming sections and fighting sections and whatnot, it's really more of a puzzle game. It drops the player into different games in completely different genres, usually with pretty sloppy controls, and the player needs to figure out how to exploit the game's failings to succeed. That is to say: the challenge is in figuring out what to do, rather than in executing it. There are a few exceptions to this, and they can be frustrating, but it really is only a few. Not worth avoiding the game over unless you have actual physical limitations that would prevent you from using a mouse around with moderate speed and precision.

It's from the folks who made Pony Island, by the by. In many ways it feels like a more fully realized version of Pony Island. It has the same underlying perspective, the same meta textual flare. The same trick of presenting you with a very tedious way of playing the game "properly," then offering you a "cheat" that is more quick and more fun.

The game is very recommended. I learned about it from Jim Sterling's game of the year list, and it well deserved its place there.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/510420/The_Hex/

I don't see any reason to be skeptical. I guess I'm not tech savvy enough to really grok what's happening here, but this sorta thing isn't unprecedented. Mario Land 2 has a similar sorta thing:

Honestly, I don't really play it, it's more my wife's thing.

She hasn't seem to have had any trouble. I think they patched that shit before Christmas.

I've never liked Smash brothers very much. In particular the recent entries have been getting more and more bloated, more and more melodramatic.

That said, the gameplay seems solid. My girlfriend is enjoying the heck out of it, and I've enjoyed the bits I've played.

Aside from a couple creaks and pains, I am in all ways better now than I was 10 years ago.

'40s don't seem quite so bad.

'50s scare the shit outta me =P

It is.

In fact, I don't think you really are here. I suspect you're a ghost.

Unless you get something new, then you have to search around for whatever you used to use. Which is kind of difficult for the wheels, honestly. They all look the same.

Haha, wow, Queen Legend is here. That's nuts.

Yeah, I don't have a phone. I just hear Hard Knock Life.

I honestly just feel overwhelmed by it. Sometimes I just want to play a kart race, why do I have to choose 300 things before I can race? Just let me race, Nintendo.

The game is solid as it is now, I can't argue with that. I usually feel kinda cheated by racing games, but with all the old DLC content included in the Delux game I am pretty satisfied.

None the less, when they said "more updates are coming for MK8," my hopes maybe got a little higher than they ought to have. IMHO all the vehicle + wheel + glider choices are my least favorite part of the game. The last thing I want is more of them.

I don't think any game has ever had a reward for 100$ completion which I found satisfying.

Dang, when I heard there were free updates coming I was hoping they'd be a little more interesting.

Not that I have any room to complain, it is a _free_ update, but IMHO all the various cart & skin choices are kinda overwhelming and pointless already without adding more.

Even the Lizard king gets it.

Congratulations, Kay!

In response to Devolver Digital's upcoming release of "Fork Parker's Crunch Out," I suspect Nintendo will be releasing a new run of SNES games all their own. Not a huge lineup or anything, just a reminder that they're the Kings of the Console.

Among these will be a new Zelda title, obviously. Probably something like "Link to the Future" or something.