BLAZINGWATERS' 2023 RANDOM AWARD EXTRAVAGANZA
Since I played quite a number of games this year, and I don't really see myself adding more due to priorities, I figured I'd do what I did last year and make a list about it. Unlike last time, though, it'll just be one, decently sized list of 10 different games making up 10 different categories that I made up!
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I was playing SCIV off and on for a bit during my Castlevania refixation, it feels like another massively replayable experience to me and I keep thinking about making an actual review for it that's at least better than my old "the multi-directional whipping fuckin' slaps y'all" comment.
@LordDarias I don't want to keep ragging on Abzu since I know it has its fans, but for some reason it's just kind of easy for me to do so. Guess that's just my disappointment getting the better of me tho.
@Vee I think my positives on SCIV mainly extends to how it does things in the second half, cause that's when the "classic" in Classicvania comes in and does its coolness. Plus, I dunno, the Mode 7 functions still have that "Wow!" factor to me. Be interested to see what your full thoughts on it are like!
@Vee I think my positives on SCIV mainly extends to how it does things in the second half, cause that's when the "classic" in Classicvania comes in and does its coolness. Plus, I dunno, the Mode 7 functions still have that "Wow!" factor to me. Be interested to see what your full thoughts on it are like!
definitely support playing BG1-2 first, and at least giving divine divinity a try. DD is pretty cool but I've never got it running on modern os without an audio bug that makes the most shrill sfx I've ever heard drill thru the speakers at random intervals, but I'd recommend that too if you can avoid the hellsound
the longer you wait to play a larian game the better it'll be, guaranteed
the longer you wait to play a larian game the better it'll be, guaranteed
@curse I did get it working a few times on a few different PCs and a laptop, but I do hope Larian does some sorta patch or w/e to make Divine and even Beyond Divinity more "immediately playable" on modern hardware. It's weird to think that that their most out-the-box titles pre-DOS1 are Divinity 2 and Dragon Commander, two titles you have to dig real deep into the RPG bubble to see discussions on.
Aw well, at least DD got me to experience the quirky lil beginning over and over. I dunno why, but I keep finding that bit charming: you just wake up suddenly after getting knocked out, and Joram's like "ay man glad to see you're awake, btw we have A Problem going on can you help us out please?" immediately after consciousness. It's charmingly straightforward ig to put it lmao.
Aw well, at least DD got me to experience the quirky lil beginning over and over. I dunno why, but I keep finding that bit charming: you just wake up suddenly after getting knocked out, and Joram's like "ay man glad to see you're awake, btw we have A Problem going on can you help us out please?" immediately after consciousness. It's charmingly straightforward ig to put it lmao.
yeah, it'd be nice if they were able to smooth things out a bit. funny that the games you need to explicitly search for or stumble into via some dusty retrospective are the ones that work best, but they're quite interesting games so it's a bit of a light blessing that at least they're so easy to jump into once you know they exist
always thought dd was very charming too. very quaint and earnest; matter of fact. beyond divinity's entire gimmick warded me off of having tried much of it, and I hear it's one of their buggiest games, but I do wonder if there's something more to it once you acclimate to its idiosyncrasies. eventually I'll have to buckle down and try to get both working so I can finally play through them properly but who knows when that'll ever happen
always thought dd was very charming too. very quaint and earnest; matter of fact. beyond divinity's entire gimmick warded me off of having tried much of it, and I hear it's one of their buggiest games, but I do wonder if there's something more to it once you acclimate to its idiosyncrasies. eventually I'll have to buckle down and try to get both working so I can finally play through them properly but who knows when that'll ever happen
LordDarias
6 months ago