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Man, I always think every survival game looks so cool. But I guess what I really want is a sort of roguelitish "See how long you can make it before you die" kind of thing. But without fail, that scary animal/monster that scared the hell out of you when you started? In an hour you'll have a saddle on that bad boy and he'll be ploughing your field for crops.

The art in the games by the developer Zoink. Stick it to the Man, Zombie Vikings, and Flipping Death. I'd describe it as "What if Double Fine made a game, but it just looked fucking gross".

Just started playing Slay the Spire and it is surprising how amateurish it all looks for how popular it is. I started playing Griftlands around the same time, and it's hard not to be like well they seem to be pretty similar, but this one looks so much prettier.

I always think "I'll sub for a month, beat such-and-such game in that month, and will get my money's worth." The way I play games though, that just doesn't happen. I end up just buying the games I wanted to play on Game Pass a little later and am quite happy to know they are there when I want to play them.

After Spelunky came out, I almost exclusively sought out Roguelike/lites. An odd deviation for someone who before then only cared about games with a good story and characters. I don't have a lot of time, and that's kind of why these games are perfect. I can turn on my console, play a run in ten minutes, and even if I died horribly I feel like I had a nice little adventure and can do something else. Some of them hook me enough to give me that one-more-run compulsion, but I don't need that to be satisfied.

I always end up with every console, but looking at my collection, I have over 300 PS4 games, and 12 Xbox One games. I never bought into the half step consoles, so I preordered a PS5 based almost entirely on the fact that it will probably make some of the PS4 games I have look/run better. Cyberpunk comes out a week after the PS5 so I might not even get to playing a native PS5 game until next year.

I feel like almost all of them are too long for a run. But I compare every single game in the genre to Spelunky and I think that felt perfect.

How utterly exhausting these people's lives must be.

RE2 is a more polished game for sure, but RE7 in VR is probably one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.

It has seemed for a long time that there were two kinds of games: Games GiantBomb likes, and "Jason games", which they would give him one minute to talk about while they rolled their eyes. Now there's a third kind, "Jan games", which is games that everyone including Jason and even Jan roll thier eyes at (Kingdom Hearts anyone?).

I remember walking into a FuncoLand and seeing NFL 2K running on a Dreamcast sometime in 1999. I was fully convinced we had finally reached real-life graphics. A game had never wowed me like that before or since.