Owlboy looks gorgeous and has some neat characters and a decent story, but the game play feels like an afterthought. I just finished it last night, and I did enjoy it for the most part, but long, tedious level design and sloppy, very samey game play throughout (minus a few gimmicky bits here and there like a stealth section and one where they take away your ability to fly, ugh) make it a tough one to recommend to anyone looking for something with tight, fun controls and addictive game play. It also is barely a Metroidvania. You get very few abilities and they're mostly for combat and not that useful for getting to new areas. Almost all progress is gated by the story and not by what abilities you have. There's also an incredibly frustrating minigame you have to complete if you want all the items (and the last one you get is very useful.)
Lightning. As the main character across two, 60-hour games, and featuring heavily in a third, she has an obscene lack of character development. At the same time, everyone in the games acts like she's the best thing since sliced bread, yet she does precisely nothing to earn all this adulation. She's spectacularly dull. But then, nearly everyone in the entire trilogy is an insufferable douchebag, so...
Saw it last weekend. Easily the best of the Thor movies. It was weird seeing parallels between it and What We Do in the Shadows since I had no idea it was the same director. I don't pay that much attention to the Marvel zeitgeist.
The wonderful thing about video games these days is that you can get just about any generation of game if you look. Devs are making new games in the style of everything from ZX Spectrum and Atari 2600 to the latest polygon monster requiring a decent PC. One of my favorite games this year looks and plays like an NES game. No need to pine for the good old days when they never ended.
$60 is a stupid holdover from when the media used to store games might have been worth that much. I don't think any modern game is worth it regardless of development cost. Which is why I play ~1 year old and older PC games that I pick up for dirt cheap.
A question while we're talking about this, do South Koreans still love Starcraft as much as they've done for almost 20 years or have they moved on to another game?
Also fuck spam.
Starcraft has largely fallen out of favor. These days the PC kids all play Overwatch. Though mobile gaming has basically taken over the gaming market in Korea. More people play Clash Royale here than probably anything else anymore.
I don't even get this korean spam. Usually the spam here has a bunch of links to some bullshit about "free movies" and whatnot. But most of these are just polls and text, no links.
They're for horse betting sites. The name of the site is in the text of the post. Written like "Google dot com" in Korean. Koreans like their online gambling, but there are some weird gambling laws around here (I've been in Korea for 13 years now.) It's just an indiscriminate bot that doesn't seem to understand that it's not going to get any takers here.
That screenshot hurts my eyes. People who use the white color scheme are doing it wrong.
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