It’s an extremely good game, though it’s not for everyone. Out of all the souls games, it has the largest amount of story in a traditional sense of the word, but it is still very minimalistic compared to most games. It has enjoyable themes that you don’t have to dig out of the item descriptions of every pointy stick you find, unlike the rest of them.
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Mainline SMT games are much bleaker than Persona games, and you are probably not going to enjoy them as much unless you specifically like the bleakness, although V and the Vengeance story both do a lot to make the bleakness more palatable later on. You might want to check out Metaphor Refantazio instead, it is almost comically Persona-like at times, though even more thematically confused.
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto memes@hexbear.net•"just like we rehearsed, you got this Dedra" [spoilers: Andor S2]English14·2 months agoGoing to hyper jail because I was unable to resist doing a bit
spoilers about the deworming machine
I made Lae’zel get in the machine and then proceeded to fail like five saving throws in a row, and all of them were like “oh shit this time it’s really dangerous for real don’t fail this”, it was pretty funny.
spoilers about the big fight
I was told to go talk to the leader in the room with like 20 frogmen, which seemed like a bad idea so I just looted the place and walked away, all the Orpheus stuff still turned out fine later.
I wonder what they thought about the blowjob scene
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•Imagine, if you will, a non-gamer playing Disco Elysium with a friend for the first timeEnglish10·3 months agoIt has no timing-based elements, and the stories don’t diverge that much if you choose to do similar things.
I would consider just screen sharing and making the decisions together, though, mostly because the game loves to talk a lot and I would be constantly afraid of talking over it, and it’s not like the experience of controlling the walking is a high point of the game.
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•clair obscur is beautiful and fun, but what on earth is the point off all the empty corridors?English5·3 months agoAre you pressing the sprint button?
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto music@hexbear.net•King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Deadstick (New Song)English5·3 months agoMario Kart music (sorry, it’s good, I’m just mad when they make something that isn’t proggy enough to cater to my tastes specifically)
Both are great, Nocturne (original or remaster) is the more interesting and artful of the two, but it is also way less modern design-wise. If you don’t feel like being a little frustrated by the game, you should go with V instead.
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto Movies & TV@hexbear.net•Tonight's the night for Columbo!! "Death Lends a Hand" will be showing at 11PM CET/5PM EDT/5AM BJT (Beijing Time)English2·3 months agoThose times seem to be an hour apart (I could be wrong, I do not know how time zones work)
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•could people start adding the title of the game they're posting about to the body or smth?English10·4 months agoIf you don’t immediately recognize the game in the picture as Dog’s Life for the Playstation 2, you don’t deserve my posts
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netOPto Movies & TV@hexbear.net•Reviewing a random Simpsons episode, week 3: Season 16 episode 11 "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"English1·4 months agoI’ve found stremio pretty convenient, but it turns out no one is seeding the Simpsons episodes that are old and bad fast enough, so I had to pirate this one the traditional way
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netOPto Movies & TV@hexbear.net•Reviewing a random Simpsons episode, week 3: Season 16 episode 11 "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"English3·4 months agoMy hope is that some episodes are hidden gems when viewed outside the context of their seasons, but honestly, I might have given up if I rolled another season 30 snoozer. Luckily this one was borderline worth watching! I haven’t come across anything too edgy yet.
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•Locust City – An Elysium Story (Project X7)English10·4 months agoDisco Elysium’s solutions to pretty fundamental problems of dice-based storytelling are so specific to the characters and themes that I am very skeptical of any of these sequels not just feeling like cheap copies. A game starring Cuno and Cunoesse with the same systems as DE seems like such a shit idea that I’m not convinced this isn’t an april fools joke with ludicrous production values.
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto memes@hexbear.net•A brief history of Castro and the CIAEnglish13·4 months agoHe made two ardent communists, Raul and Che, his de facto second and third in command way before it was clear to the US that he was a communist, and while the guerrilla war was still dangerous enough that he could have died at any moment. This would be comically incompetent if he was some kind of liberal reformist.
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Hayao Miyazaki on the use of AI: "I am utterly disgusted"English1·4 months agoI wish people would stop using this particular video for an argument against AI in general, when what he is “utterly disgusted” about is the use of imagery of disability for horror, which is extremely common in horror that has nothing to do with AI at all. I’m sure he’s also against generative AI, but this just feels cynical.
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•"THEY'RE TURNING THE WHALES GAY"English1·5 months agoI always think “oh my gosh, this is incredible” when I see gay sex too
rhubarb [he/him]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•Thoughts on the Monster Hunter Wilds open betaEnglish5·5 months agoThey changed the charge blade and I keep accidentally putting the electricity juice straight into the shield instead of the axe, so the game is trash now
Hey boss I’m supposed to animate this pokemon move, disable, but it’s not really clear what it’s supposed to be. What should I do?
It’s genuinely a phenomenal 10/10 game, but I feel it was made specifically for a fandom to obsess over it, and I am glad for those people, I really am, but