yeah tooie's maps, as cool as they are, are way too big and convoluted and not "landmarked" well enough to make navigation easy. you get the hang of it eventually of course, and warp pads make things a lot easier, but generally speaking tooie's insistence on "bigger is better" does more harm than good

i love tooie, but kazooie is definitely the better game

Quote from: Nyerp on May 28, 2019, 04:21:10 PMrented and sped through shadow of the tomb raider. don't play it.

Really? That's a shame. I liked the other two new ones and was looking forward to eventually playing this one too.

Quote from: SloppyJimbo on May 28, 2019, 10:02:41 PM

Quote from: Nyerp on May 28, 2019, 04:21:10 PMrented and sped through shadow of the tomb raider. don't play it.

Really? That's a shame. I liked the other two new ones and was looking forward to eventually playing this one too.

Weird. From what I heard, this one is pretty much the same as the other two...
...maybe that's the problem

Quote from: Samus Aran on May 28, 2019, 08:53:14 PMyeah tooie's maps, as cool as they are, are way too big and convoluted and not "landmarked" well enough to make navigation easy. you get the hang of it eventually of course, and warp pads make things a lot easier, but generally speaking tooie's insistence on "bigger is better" does more harm than good

i love tooie, but kazooie is definitely the better game

yeah it's basically the same problem tooie had, just exacerbated, though i've only played through tooie like once and kazooie several times, so the latter is a lot more impressed on my brain.
also yea half life is fuckin' sick and yea the platforming in it sucks ass lol. i stoked that black mesa is almost finished so i can play it again with the platforming bits having been rethought. xen was just bad back in the day lol
the expansions are worth it i'd say, tho blue shift gets a little boring after a bit imo

Quote from: SloppyJimbo on May 28, 2019, 10:02:41 PM

Quote from: Nyerp on May 28, 2019, 04:21:10 PMrented and sped through shadow of the tomb raider. don't play it.

Really? That's a shame. I liked the other two new ones and was looking forward to eventually playing this one too.

i mean if you liked both of those then you should play it but it's the most barebones game in the trilogy for sure, especially in terms of combat

my experience with the series is playing tomb raider 2013 and feeling like it was good but there was tons of room for improvement, and then "rise of" came out and it was the exact same shit, and now this one's the exact same shit but with even less impact

Quote from: TooB on May 28, 2019, 11:10:30 PMWeird. From what I heard, this one is pretty much the same as the other two...
...maybe that's the problem

yeah

How the hell does it get more bare bones? Are you telling me they went backwards?

It looked like this one had more tombs/exploration stuff so I was excited.

it's like ive been slowly pushing gaming out of my life recently
there's nothing ive been interested aside from the few games i shift through every few months

Quote from: SloppyJimbo on May 29, 2019, 06:51:51 PMHow the hell does it get more bare bones? Are you telling me they went backwards?

It looked like this one had more tombs/exploration stuff so I was excited.

idk this time they decided to focus on having huge towns to explore with literal npc quest givers who send you on pointless runarounds. it's bizarre

there are still challenge tombs and stuff tho. but fighting actual enemies feels weirdly rare until the final act

Quote from: 6M69I69B9 on May 29, 2019, 07:25:41 PMit's like ive been slowly pushing gaming out of my life recently
there's nothing ive been interested aside from the few games i shift through every few months

me too but i still keep buying them lol

got my first tetris 99 win

only took 230+ games but i took some major hits in skill to get gud at spinning properly and t spins. surprisingly still not bored of this game lol

v proud of u m80

i beat katana zero

beat wild guns: reloaded

this game is hard but i made it way harder than it needs to be by kinda avoiding the core mechanic of shooting enemy bullets to charge up ur supergun. i didn't force myself to start making a point to charge it until i got to the final area, which proved to be extremely difficult otherwise

Quote from: Samus Aran on June 09, 2019, 01:05:12 AMbeat wild guns: reloaded

this game is hard but i made it way harder than it needs to be by not kinda avoiding the core mechanic of shooting enemy bullets to charge up ur supergun. i didn't force myself to start making a point to charge it until i got to the final area, which proved to be extremely difficult otherwise

And supposedly, reloaded is harder than the original SNES version, simply because it's widescreen, so theres more area to cover at once, and your screen nuke is no longer a full screen nuke.

I got Cuphead, Skyrim, Hollow Knight, and Overcooked 2 during the E3 sale

Debating if I should get the Phoenix Wright Collection but it will probably be cheaper in November when I finish everything else