grind is a war crime
3000 hours and I still dont own a single top tier jet. Every time I get close some guy posts the abrams manual on the forum and gaijin nerfs my russian tank into the dirt. uninstalled. reinstalled. uninstalled again. they know what they did
shoot the legs
the second you stop wasting ammo on center mass this game clicks. stomping every corpse for loot like a goblin. the silence in the tram sections got me worse than any of the jumpscares tbh
wololo
my brother and I used to share one keyboard and fight about who got to be the franks. anyway the AI still cheats and I still lose to it on hard. cant believe a game from 99 still eats my evenings
the gambit system is the goat
vaan is a nothing protagonist and i don't even care. the gambit system rules. i love programming my little party to handle trash mobs while i daydream about which hunt to do next. basch deserved to be the main character but we live in a fallen world
the company is pleased
my friend got grabbed by a thumper while singing the spongebob theme into proximity chat and i think that's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me. quota was 130. we made 14. company store sold us a fish. not scary when you're with people, kinda terrifying when you're the last one alive on the ship listening to footsteps on the cameras
kiana my beloved
the combat in part 1 still holds up better than half the action games i played this year. story is a complete mess if you didnt watch the cutscene compilations on youtube tho. like good luck figuring out who otto is from in-game context alone. part 2 doing its own thing now and i havent caught up. one day
the tank designer alone
Free, open source, and the unit designer is still better than what most modern RTS games ship with. Mix and match chassis, propulsion, weapon, and you've got your own ugly little army. Campaign is rough around the edges and the voice acting is from another era but I keep coming back every couple years. Multiplayer lobby is mostly bots pretending to be people but if you find a real match it rules
prop hunt at 2am
i bought this in like 2012 and it's still installed. dont even know why anymore. last night i joined a prop hunt server and was a traffic cone for 8 minutes before someone shot the wrong barrel. that's the whole game. ttt servers are still full of 12 year olds calling each other slurs which is comforting in a way, like the sun rising
island abandoned spring 2020
the first month was magic and then I never opened it again. something about being told to wait real time for the shop to upgrade really killed it for me once the lockdown haze wore off. tom nook owns my soul and he barely uses it
the crimson heads were a mistake (complimentary)
replaying this every october is just what i do now. the crimson head change rewires how you move through the mansion in a way the original never could. you stop hoarding kerosene like a freak and start planning routes. jill run, lisa trevor still gives me the ick
the age system is doing too much
three games and i still don't know how I feel about the age transitions. you build up your civ, get attached to your guys, then the screen goes black and suddenly im playing the Normans? cool i guess. some of the leader/civ pairings are funny in a bad way. crises are interesting on paper but in practice it's just a debuff window where you wait for the next age to start. UI is rough too, took me an hour to find where they hid trade routes. if you can wait a year or two this will probably be the civ to play. right now it feels like they shipped the skeleton
the radio static still gets me
harry holding a pipe like he's never held a pipe before is the whole appeal. you can tell he's scared. the fog is doing budget-saving work and somehow that makes it worse than any modern horror game with proper draw distance. school section had me pausing the game to do dishes between rooms first time i replayed it as an adult i forgot how unhelpful the map is. love that actually. you scribble on it and then you're still lost





























