Just happened to see this in my , weekly-ish look at the site?
I'm basically 1.5 feet out the door myself, been edging that way for years as I grew more impatient waiting for the community aspect I cared about to get engineering focus. But it never did and I understand why and don't begrudge them doing what they felt they had to. While I'll always believe this didn't have to happen, I recognize that it did and they still maintained the community when they didn't have to. I'm grateful for that. Giant Bomb was an incredibly beautiful thing in its glory once upon a time and maybe it will be again in a different way.
But the staff exodus in May was basically the final straw for me. Not because I was angry, just that I couldn't kid myself anymore. It was kind of a relief in a way, to finally know no cavalry was ever going to come.
I actually think the current plan of contractors and whatnot could be really smart as a business move, it's just one that doesn't interest me personally at all. I never came here for the personalities, though I quickly grew to like them. I looked a bit at Nextlander, but the magic isn't there for me either. Which makes sense, Nextlander is basically 100% personality focused as you would expect. I wish all current and former GB people well and hope they all find big success.
I'm mainly still infrequently here to just figure out how to backup my lists locally somehow, which I've been procrastinating on doing for months. Once I do that, I'll probably log out for good. For now I' m migrating my list making habits over to backloggd. It's about as good of a substitute as I've found, but it's not the same. Nothing is and probably nothing ever will be. I've been looking for years, GB is/was one of a kind in many ways.
Anyway I hope you are finding joy and ways to connect with people in other ways outside of games since games are losing their luster for you, whether that's through writing/literature (which I know you are into) or your family or what inspires you. I still am pretty into games but I'm definitely choosier about what I play. Granted social media is a super toxic net negative, but withdrawing from everything totally and replacing them with nothing isn't really a viable option in life.
You've always been one of my favorite people to converse with on here, feel free to hit me up on Steam or Discord if you ever want to say hello/chat.
I really really liked Gladius, I think its progression /customability were better than PoR's. But PoR had better story/look and actually appreciated the stakes/hard choices PoR forced you into by its very linear design.
man I'd love for it to be ported to PC. I miss that game and I never finished it because I got myself in the mental trap I often do with long games I like too much (where I go ultra crazy completionist and burn myself out)
I don't know if I should feel good or bad that I've played nearly everything on this list and my own hypothetical version of this list is likely very similar.
There needs to be some kind of term to describe a game that you really want to play, maybe more than anything else that's coming out, but not at the price for which it's being offered
Boy, I know this feeling. It's a weird one isn't?
for me it's not so much that I want to play something very badly but am unwilling to pay full price but the other side of that coin in which I'm perfectly happy to full price for some other things that I don't want to play as badly
As a fellow veteran gamer who has to monitor what he does, If the picture is accurate about how you hold it...Your grip looks way too high
I think if you slide your grip lower on the handles , your finger tips will be in a slightly better position for the triggers and you won't lose access to the face buttons. Your thumb in particular looks too horizontal to me, I tend to keep mine at about a 45 degree angle, mimicking the angle from the Square to the X button. Tip of my thumb on or just past the Square, flexing the knuckle to hit "X". I think you'll want the tip of the handle to resting in your palm if you can
Don't have a PS5, but what I describe is roughly how I hold a XSX controller (which I use on PC), little easier to do there as their handles are longer. I think there's enough real estate on the DS to do it there too tho
The thing does look too small in your hands tho, maybe worth considering getting a 3rd party pad if time off plus grip change don't work. Not ideal, but it's better than getting a RSI.
tho the kinds of "exclusives" I really liked most about PS4 later ended up coming to PC for the most part. I have strong hesitancy about even considering a PS5 at all as a result. I nearly didn't get
Really the only 1st party Sony stuff I played and loved was Uncharted: Lost Legacy and the Gravity Rush games.
But yeah, I can see your list is very competitive. I honestly don't know how I'd rank mine, other than PSTV (the "vita) I own being at the bottom and I honestly enjoy that device.
In my experience there's a definitely a balance to a good Rogue-lite. Any single run to win the game shouldn't take more than 45 minutes imo and if it does, then there needs to be shortcuts. You should also be always feeling like you are getting stuff to make you stronger, so even if you aren't getting better you essentially chip away at the difficulty until you knock it down to where you can clear it
Honestly I think the best way to play these things is during commutes by Mass transit. That's not my life, so these don't often fit into the way I play.
as for proper "Rogue"-likes, naw I'll pass on those. Life's too short and there are too many other games
Thinking it through, as much as it pains me to admit it Majormitch I think you're right about the Vita
It's not so much it's bad, it's just about literally everything else has a deeper library
I like the PS4 a lot more than you seem to, but I wonder how much of that is driven by the one I own being a Pro. Even so I do have light buyer's remorse with it, because so much of that library that drove me to buy it ended up PC a year or two later when I had given up hope of that ever happening.
y'know funnily enough, emotionally I feel very tied to the SNES, but when I look at its library compared to other things I consider lesser I wonder if nostalgia is coloring my perceptions unfairly in its favor.
If there ever was a list where I wish I could receive it's this one. Gonna love seeing how it fills out
Genuinely stunned (in a good way) by some of these Sparky and I've known you for a good while now!
(biggest surprises include Shatter, Willy Beamish and the Les Manley games, the placement of Tales from the Borderlands [figured it'd be here but not that high] and most importantly the exclusion of Final Fantasy 6 and Dragon Quest 5)
fun stuff bud
btw Suikoden II is on PSN for $9.99, playable on PS3 and Vita if you're hankering to go back to it. Only Suikoden V is held hostage by original hardware these days.
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