all-knight-party

About to name my next child Humanbeard

Good to hear. That was a rumor that spread around quite a bit when I was a teenager, the last time they were relevant for discussion, and I never checked it because it didn’t really matter to me if they did or not, I still liked the music. Next time they’re relevant for discussion I won’t spread it again

That and the whole “they recorded their parts slower and sped them up” thing, but they pull it off well enough live and as long as they’re not lying about it I don’t think it really matters

At first I was like “how the fick are you going to write the entire LoTR trilogy in 49 seconds with a keyboard, much less spaghetti-o’s?!”

I don’t think Lucas cares much what 1976 Lucas thought either. Nothing matters to him except what he thinks is cool right now

Damn, I think you need a higher res picture to really drive that home

Even if we did it’s going to be so far removed from the team that made the first one it wouldn’t feel the same anymore. I think the time for a sequel that feels like a true sequel is far gone

Even the best songs can be driven into the dirt from being overplayed. 30 seconds has made some pretty good music, though, there’s a reason that song got popular.

Oh, they still do that, now it’s just nefarious and hidden behind concepts like FOMO and season passes

Now that’s a joke worth $20 billion.

You’re correct, you normally are walking around up on top of and past the top of that waterfall. You’re allowed to go down there, but there’s nothing to find or see.

The performance has markedly improved for me after the first patch, I now only dip below 60 FPS in cities on an RTX 3060, could still be better, though, as that’s with most settings on low.

Agreed, I would still recommend it since I enjoyed it, beat it, and got part ways through an NG+ playthrough, and that’s a lot more than I get out of a lot of other games.

Agreed. I mean, The Silver Case and now Trace Memory are getting re releases so… Hotel Dusk seems like the perfect next choice

I’m reading the book about Satoru Iwata and in it he talks about Earthbound and says (hardcore paraphrasing) that Earthbound on the surface has a lot of regular RPG conventions, but through a combination of its non gameplay aspects it becomes something incredibly unique that even today has very few comparisons.

My hunch is that it was really tarnished by the idea that it was “an escort quest, except that’s the whole game”, and with the hate those sorts of quests get I think that really turned people off, undeservedly, as the game is going for more than that reductive summary.

I love that game, too. I’d hate to spoil it for anybody, but it is a great example of a story that works better as a video game that you play, with all the returning to older sections to get the correct path, all for the payoff of the ending.

Dishonored absolutely holds up, just replayed it a month or two ago. I do also believe it’s just a tighter, more well designed experience than Dishonored 2. It’s hard to properly explain without taking notes, but Dishonored 2 felt like “well, we have to make a sequel, what can we expand on and add on?” Where Dishonored 1 just felt like they knew exactly what they wanted to do and expertly executed every single thing just like they wanted.

Still a blast to play today, and the art style holds up.

Agreed, that was the first game in a long while that I’d played that at once felt extremely novel but also felt executed incredibly well.

I feel like nobody really thinks about why it is this way. While playing the game, I also realized gear is rarely an upgrade on what you already have, and I feel that it’s an incentive to take the base gear you find and use the upgrade and materials systems, and thus the outpost system or ship building systems, to take the weapons from mediocre to what you actually want them to be.

If the game just gave you awesome loot on the regular then you’d have absolutely no reason to engage with the upgrades