Almost completed the prologue for Banquet for Fools. Really fascinated by the Vagrant Story-adjacent combat system and the aesthetic, as well as the weird, dreamy logic of the intro - then I got stuck in a bit of geometry with no way out of it and it just killed the momentum. Ugh.
Shodan: l-l-l-Look at this hacker, I want to crush them like a bug
Durandal: look at my cyborg, I can make them go in a circle for hours. I can give them shotgun shells and they go apeshit
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What always struck me about your content, Souls or not, was that you very obviously were *invested* in what you were covering or examining. That's carried over into when you're playing something live; it's just easy to watch and invest in it alongside.
drive by compliment: your stream content has been great and the same love for your work that's evident in your videos is evident in your live work
thanks for doing it!
Have you tried Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon? It's the first game in years that scratched **SPECIFICALLY** the Skyrim itch for me, and it's a genuinely neat take on Arthurian legend. There's some real technical issues and you can definitely tell it's indie in a couple places, but overall it's great.
A 5-by-4 collage titled “About Me: Video Games,” showing twenty game box arts, each representing a personal category. Top row: Super Mario RPG labeled “Favorite Game,” Final Fantasy Tactics labeled “Best Story,” Vagrant Story labeled “Favorite Art Style,” Dark Souls labeled “Biggest Personal Impact,” and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth labeled “Best Combat.” Second row: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 labeled “Overhated,” Red Faction labeled “Underrated,” Marvel Rivals labeled “Overrated,” Bloodborne labeled “Needs a Remake,” and Roboquest labeled “Criminally Overlooked.” Third row: Tales of Vesperia labeled “Favorite Protagonist,” Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver labeled “Favorite Antagonist,” Undertale labeled “Best Soundtrack,” Halo 3 labeled “Best Multiplayer,” and Resident Evil Village labeled “Not Usually My Thing, But…”. Bottom row: Balatro labeled “Turn My Brain Off,” Monster Hunter Wilds labeled “Best With Friends,” Breath of Fire III labeled “Best Retro Game,” Brave Fencer Musashi labeled “Nostalgic Childhood Game,” and Phantom Dust labeled “Game Everyone Should Play.”
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Every time I play FFT I discover new and exciting things. For example, if the guest character meant to help you with the extremely difficult battles in a 4-battle gauntlet has his sword stolen midway through the first fight, you are now stewarding a useless, sullen bastard who likes to punch.
(editor's note: this is a godawful way to play the game the first time through and you should not do it unless a) you're having a genuinely impossible time and you'd be better served there by lowering the difficulty or b) you're a gremlin of a person freed from all known moral compunctions.)
once you have accessed end-game classes well before the game ever expects you to have done so, and you have thoroughly shattered the expected curve of the economy and enemy rosters, THEN you may enjoy final fantasy tactics. you're welcome.
step 4: leave one enemy standing, turn them into a frog, let them run into one corner of the map
step 5: World's Worst ADHD Medication Advertisement In The Other Corner of The Map
step 6: have several classes that don't appear until endgame before the first major battle of chapter 1
step 1: have everyone in squire long enough to learn "focus," which lets you gain JP every turn with no worries about success rate, and the animation is super fast
step 2: have a black mage learn "frog"
step 3: give everyone the secondary job command for squires so they can all focus
so, in order to really EXPERIENCE final fantasy tactics, you have to set up an involved, repetitive engine of grinding before you can reap the appropriate rewards by getting to, per the layman's parlance, The Good Stuff.
there are many methods to do so, but the fastest of which is laid out below.
healing yourself while at full HP? no job points. whacking your teammate with a rock? job points!
truly the american work ethic - sometimes referred to less politely as "crab bucket behavior" - is alive and well.
however, in order to access such lofty goals, you have to gain a currency called "job points" (which, i note again, you *also* have none on hand...)
notably, you only gain job points on turns in which you have *completed an action that has had an effect.*
these classes range from the lowly squire and earnest chemist all the way up to reality warping mathematicians (which experts will say is the most broken class) to earth shattering martial artists who hit the damage limit as hard as they hit their enemies (which is actually the most broken class.)
starting a game of final fantasy tactics is not for the weak of heart. while the game doesn't tell you this, it involves much more than hitting "new game."
you see, final fantasy tactics' characters are defined by their classes (of which, i note, you have none.)
I'm safe. I appreciate the kindness. I apologize for needing it so frequently.
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I apologize for yet again running for help, but the problem with being on a ledge is that there's no breathing room. Every emergency is an emergency.
Hey, all. I have exactly three days to raise $563 to keep my electricity on. Help is needed.
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I apologize for yet again running for help, but the problem with being on a ledge is that there's no breathing room. Every emergency is an emergency.
Every time I see someone complain that Ramza in #FinalFantasyTactics is "just a Squire," I die a little. Mind you, folks are entitled to their views on the game, and certainly it is a little strange that the protagonist doesn't get all the cool powers some other special characters do.
If I told you I was going to publish an extremely short little rulebook for a game called LAIRBUSTERS: A RULES-LITE ROGUELIKE, would you be interested
I really wish there were more stories where we were foot soldiers or grunts or basically just Some Dude rather than Very Special People (e.g. chosen ones, spectacularly pretty people, special bloodlines, etc.) I'm so much more invested in a character that's thoroughly *of* the world they're in.
VIDEO GAMES
Trying to get some food in the house to make it 'til Monday when I get paid.
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I was stiffed on some work by a small-time contractor I cannot name due to an NDA and that left me in a bind. I apologize for asking.
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Under the Island is FINALLY OUT!
After more than 7 years of development, the journey comes to life today ♥️.
Huge thank you to everyone who supported the game along the way!
Enjoy the Launch Trailer
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I'm going to be terrible at this game but I would give my right arm for some kind of proper single player title in this universe. This is so **very specifically** my jam it hurts. Oh my **god.**
...holy shit Deadlock.
