General Video Game Thread

dvoraen

RISE FROM THE ASHES SO THAT I MAY POST.

It’s rare that a trailer presentation will get me instantly interested in something, but Sandfall Interactive did it with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. They are even releasing tracks from the score (on YouTube and Spotify) before release, as they give out information. And, um, I really like everything I’m seeing so far. But I’d rather the content speak for itself.

It’s a turn-based RPG inspired by a number of titles.

Reveal Trailer - Why you should care.
First Look Gameplay - 6m gameplay trailer with a couple (edited?) cutscenes
Cast Reveal Trailer - Was not expecting one of those names.

BGM Tracks Living Rent Free in my Head
(These all link to YouTube.)

GF

Silent Hill 2.1 doesn’t suck. Not great, but it doesn’t suck. It’s fine. It’s probably even better than okay. That’s more than I expected going in.

Roz

@dvoraen I’m really looking forward to this one.

dvoraen

I finished Final Fantasy XVI last night (without DLC) after waiting for the PC port to drop. I have feelings.

ten

for @Babs because I am always and actively procrastinating on my librarian –

I have started playing Syberia.

wow cat

hellfrog

@GF I think it is great, actually. Really only have 2 complaints: a couple of locations had about 1 too many explorable areas/wings to complete puzzles. Just a BIT too long. The other is that getting the icon to actually grab the interactables is finicky as fuck, and it can be real annoying.

I might have preferred the way some things were performed in the original - but only a couple. I got to see someone unfamiliar with the original play this for the first time, and everything landed. All in all, a really pleasant surprise.

GF

@hellfrog To each her own!

Sammich

Marvel Rivals is pretty dang fun.

MisterBoring

@Sammich I wish I could get more teams in Rivals that would actually push the objective. It’s really sad to see a Hulk or Wolverine standing off the objective, punching the air, then after the match, they’ve got 0 time on objective and complain that the rest of the team sucked.

BloodAngel

Mouthwashing…just wow. PLAY IT. Best horror game in a long time, depressing heavy, dark. Just…fuck.

Jennkryst

There are weird space alien flower bug things in my Space Trucker simulator, and I’m a little annoyed that space legs were so bad when they first dropped that I quit space trucking for a while. Tangentially related, the space alien flower bug things aren’t cute enough for me to try to join ~~never mind the game devs won’t let people join them~~.

Anyway, Sol and/or Earth about to get wrecked, time to speed run building that 1:1 scale Space Trucker MU or something.

MisterBoring

@BloodAngel Seconded. Really also anything published by Critical Reflex. Mouthwashing, Lunacid, Arctic Eggs…

They have a lot of awesome stuff.

BloodAngel

@MisterBoring Artic eggs was so good!

Don’t forget we moved!

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General Video Game Thread