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7-Dec-03 9:25am
#1

Guru

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1-Feb-23 8:41pm
#121

Kommie


Sounds like it's as bad as the original Axiom Verge.

1-Feb-23 8:56pm
#122

kevolones


Kommie wrote:
Sounds like it's as bad as the original Axiom Verge.
I guess! Never got more than an hour or 2 into that one.

1-Feb-23 10:22pm
#123

TalonJedi87


Axiom Verge 1 sucked for me. I also didn’t get passed the first couple of hours. The level design and weapons were just lame.

1-Feb-23 10:57pm
#124

Orlandu


Axiom Verge just felt awful to play. Never understood the appeal of it.

I just got to Act 2 in Inscryption. Very strange game, but I'm enjoying it so far.

1-Feb-23 11:01pm
#125

Bleed_DukeBlue


I enjoyed Inscryption. It only gets weirder too :)

Orlandu wrote:
Axiom Verge just felt awful to play. Never understood the appeal of it. I just got to Act 2 in Inscryption. Very strange game, but I'm enjoying it so far.

1-Feb-23 11:25pm
#126

Orlandu


The two things I've heard about the game are:

1. It's weird.
2. Go in blind.

Even with that warning it still caught me off guard a bit.

2-Feb-23 8:51am
#127

Scott


It's weird, people seem to either love or hate Axiom Verge. There's not much in between. I really loved it overall, but it did have too much backtracking, and there were a couple times when I had absolutely no idea where to go next and just had to re-explore the entire world to find the passage I had missed. I don't care for that kind of stuff, but the rest of the game was good enough that I was able to overlook it. I still need to play Axiom Verge 2.

2-Feb-23 9:28am
#128

sa330206


I always assumed Axion Verge was some highly regarded game. Seems like it came out for just about every system, even the Wii U and vita. Does it have an easy mode (dont judge me)?

2-Feb-23 9:48am
#129

Scott


@sa330206 I'd say it is highly regarded overall, metacritic scores are mostly in the high 80s (but do vary widely by platform for some reason). There's not an easy mode, just normal and hard. The difficulty mostly comes from keeping track of the huge world and figuring out where to go next. The combat isn't too bad, but I do think it's more challenging than most Metroid games.

2-Feb-23 10:57am
#130

BJB


Inscryption is friggen awesome. I wanted to go for the platinum, but there's too much RNG for me in the challenge stages. Even then though, I still go back and play it sometimes for fun

3-Feb-23 10:50pm
#131

sa330206


Finished up Mafia Definitive Edition. While I was a bit annoyed with the linear path, it did force me to actually finish the story and move on without getting distracted by side stuff. Gameplay was fairly dated but it's a remake from 2002. Story was really good. Overall I'd give it a solid 7, I'd recommend checking it out .

3-Feb-23 11:20pm
#132

Orlandu


I always wanted to check out the Mafia series. Glad to hear the original holds up decently well.

3-Feb-23 11:43pm
#133

TalonJedi87


Mafia 1 remastered is pretty damn good. Mafia 2 on the other hand is a whole different kind of animal.

4-Feb-23 7:39pm
#134

AssassinFiver


Currently playing Pocket Card Jockey for the 3DS. It's pretty fun, but I just wish there was more to do. There's only so many races to win and so many horses to unlock. IMO the race selection difficulty should scale a little better with your horses, and you should unlock more races as your horses level up. No idea if they improved any of this in the more recent apple arcade game, I don't do apple ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

4-Feb-23 11:04pm
#135

Orlandu


Pocket Card Jockey was a really interesting concept. I got some bad hands and ended up putting it down for Pokemon Picross, but I'd like to revisit some day.

I beat Inscryption. I think I ended up liking the first chapter the best. I get thematically why each chapter was wildly different, but the third felt a tad too long. Still glad I played it. Weird game, but the stuff outside of the game is way weirder. For those of you who have beaten the game (seriously, don't click these links if you haven't played it):

https://www.gamespot...
https://docs.google....

5-Feb-23 6:57am
#136

DCGX


AssassinFiver wrote:
Currently playing Pocket Card Jockey for the 3DS. It's pretty fun, but I just wish there was more to do. There's only so many races to win and so many horses to unlock. IMO the race selection difficulty should scale a little better with your horses, and you should unlock more races as your horses level up. No idea if they improved any of this in the more recent apple arcade game, I don't do apple ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I bought and played a good amount of this last fall, and generally agree. Once I had my fill of the main gameplay, I put it down. I'll play from time to time (I like solitaire games), but the forced fails early on for tutorial's sake really annoyed me.

5-Feb-23 11:47am
#137

AssassinFiver


DCGX wrote:
AssassinFiver wrote:> Currently playing Pocket Card Jockey for the 3DS. It's pretty fun, but I just wish> there was more to do. There's only so many races to win and so many horses to unlock.> IMO the race selection difficulty should scale a little better with your horses,> and you should unlock more races as your horses level up. No idea if they improved> any of this in the more recent apple arcade game, I don't do apple ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I bought and played a good amount of this last fall, and generally agree. Once I had my fill of the main gameplay, I put it down. I'll play from time to time (I like solitaire games), but the forced fails early on for tutorial's sake really annoyed me.Oh yeah. I plan on unlocking everything in the game (trophies, special horses, etc.) but after that I can't really see myself replaying it.

5-Feb-23 11:51am
#138

Kommie


I gave up on Infernax. Got to the first dungeon and to get to the boss after dying is way too far for me to deal with this crap after dying.

5-Feb-23 11:52am
#139

AssassinFiver


Orlandu wrote:
Pocket Card Jockey was a really interesting concept. I got some bad hands and ended up putting it down for Pokemon Picross, but I'd like to revisit some day. I beat Inscryption. I think I ended up liking the first chapter the best. I get thematically why each chapter was wildly different, but the third felt a tad too long. Still glad I played it. Weird game, but the stuff outside of the game is way weirder. For those of you who have beaten the game (seriously, don't click these links if you haven't played it): https://www.gamespot... https://docs.google....
Oh yeah I played some pokemon picross but if I remember correctly there was a lot of in-app purchases? Wasn't really my thing but I might revisit it now that you mention it.

Been meaning to play Inscryption! Watched a playthrough of it but they stopped after they reached the second chapter so I never saw how it ended. Have it on my steam wishlist now and plan on playing it once I've finished the unplayed games in my library. You say each chapter was wildly different: does it retain deck-building at least, or is it a different style of gameplay entirely?

5-Feb-23 12:07pm
#140

Orlandu


@AssassinFiver Pokemon Picross is one of the very few in-app purchase games that can be played completely offline. As a result of that it's possible to edit your save to max out your in game currency, which makes it way more fun to play. Alternately you can probably also just toggle a cheat for them. The cheat would for sure require custom firmware, but I can't remember if the save edit method does. Here's a tutorial to edit the save: https://gbatemp.net/...

As for Inscryption the downtime between card battles, visual style, and how you build/maintain your deck are the major changes between chapters. Each chapter also adds a few wrinkles to the card battling, but the core card combat remains for the entire game. Don't want to say too much for fear of spoiling. It's a reasonably quick game (maybe 10-15 hours depending on how successful you are), so definitely give it a shot if you're interested.

5-Feb-23 8:04pm
#141

Slickriven


Been playing 8 Doors on my PC. 7/10 I guess
It was on a list of good Metroidvanias to try and Amazon Games (Twitch) gave it away free a while back so I wanted to give it a go. You play as a girl who's town and dad apparently get killed in the opening clip and you head to purgatory to get him back. Game is pretty decent, with nods to Hollow Knight for sure, but others in the genre too. Color pallet is unique, mainly grey/black/white, but with some red.
Controls aren't too bad, but I think this originally came out on the Switch, so when using an X1 controller on my PC it shows that in the key-config/bind settings, but incorrectly flips A/B and X/Y, also a number of onscreen tutorials when you get new things will show a white/blank area for what button assignment will trigger the new feature - not horrible, but feels a little unfinished in that regard.
I'm cheating a little as I've got a complete map open in the background, but I'm trying not to use it a ton, more for backtracking or to verify if there are hidden things I missed. It's cheap, I get it, but I don't really want to wander around too much. Boss fights have been decent but slow. You really need to move close, get it a few hits and react to the next, generally, 1 of 4-6 attacks they'll do. Dodge it and get in a few more hits. After likely about 50%, they've all yelled and triggered phase 2, where so far they've really only more closely chained 2 attacks. Hardest one was this tree creature that would inhabit a 1 of 2 trees that are almost in the background, 1 on the far left and right of the screen, such that you could stand in the middle and not see him on either side. Well he could still hit you with some attacks and would flip btwn the 2, so you had to move too far too often, otherwise he wasn't bad. Didn't like how you could purchase an upgrade to see the health of the bosses, but you had to hit a sort of non-normal attack button and the displayed health would go away after about 5 seconds, sort of lame and not overly useful.
According to stats I'm at 40% after only 2 sessions playing I'd guess 3+ hrs. It's worth finishing, I figure.