Radical Dog

I recently redownloaded Driver Parallel Lines some 14 years after I bought it. PC is doing so much better than consoles on keeping things backwards compatible - imagine a PS5 casually letting you play PS2 or PS3 era games at no extra cost!

Back in the day, if you wanted a drop shadow you added it in photoshop… And saved as jpg

Nah, I replayed it and it is still great. (And I don’t replay many games!) Like rereading a good book.

It’s a puzzle game of working out how to complete your to-do list, so that the next area unlocks. Beyond its meme status, I do think it’s a very smartly designed puzzler, with lots of experimentation and observation.

A lot of people are posting games that are short and linear. But to match your energy, games that cannot be replayed unless you forget what you learn;

• Case of the Golden Idol is a mystery/deduction game, a la Obra Dinn.

• Toki Tori 2 is a puzzle metroidvania, where you can do your full moveset from the start - tweet and stomp. Right from the first screen, big chunks of the map can be shortcut through once you put your later learnings into practice.

Epic funded that and allowed them to take the risk. In that case they’re the good guys, so I don’t see the point in being a hardliner about their store. Use Playnite if you are adamant about having all your games in one launcher!

Seems like one to be wary of reviews for. At each publication, the person who enjoyed part 1 will be excitedly picking up this job, while anyone who disliked part 1 will be passing. I guess the main benefit is it matches the audience; if you didn’t like part 1, reviews won’t convince you this is worth it.

On balance, I like that they’re deviating from the original. I dislike that the main deviation is padding it into 3 games.

I’m enjoying it so far :)

Someone spent a while telling me Nier Automata was great, and it took a couple years before I got independently interested. My punishment is the same fate, of telling others it’s great, and no-one trying it.

Same with Return of the Obra Dinn, which has a niche art style but a captivating set of mysteries.

If I’m taking one thing from this thread, it’s that I’m most likely to click on something called “Desiny Potato”.

But it was a frozen banana street food, not a literal supermarket banana. Feels like we might be within a decade of street food snacks costing $10!

Windows’ relentless backwards compatibility is underrated, but it’s so damn nice I can still play games from 2005 effortlessly. Android has been a shitshow in comparison, as even when mobile gaming wasn’t so shit (Doodle Jump, Angry Birds etc), the whole era has been almost wiped from existence.

I wonder if it could scoop up images when listed as a series, before moving it to your Movies folder. Would need the setting turned on to keep images in the content folder. The textual metadata would need adding manually either way, but could be a shortcut.

I wish I gave a shit about any of their games so I could boycott properly.

Kind of nice to see NFTs breaking through the floor at the trough of disillusionment, never to return.

Lanterns are a plague on farmers unfortunately. We’ve picked out quite a few from hedges over the years, it’s just littering with extra steps.

I totally get it. I love the extras like directors’ commentaries, and streaming feels like it has lost so much. But I don’t want the hassle/space of dvds, I just want to buy complete digital versions that have all the extra bits. And until they will sell me it…

Mutts is so good, my favourite traditional comic for sure.

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Playnite can do game time from Epic and Steam, plus its own accounting for any .exe you can launch through it.