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- January 25th, 2024, 8:48 am
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 622: Elden Ring
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3296
Re: 622: Elden Ring
Elden Ring was a huge part of the first few months of 2023 for me. I have a weird relationship with the FromSoft games in that the quite minimalistic and interpretive approach to world-building and narrative is absolutely up my street but I often run into a bit of a wall when it comes to the difficu...
- January 25th, 2024, 8:47 am
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 633: Tekken series
- Replies: 3
- Views: 19627
Re: 633: Tekken series
I don't have a great deal to say about the Tekken series, beyond them being something of a mainstay of my childhood gaming life. Tekken 2 was one of the first PlayStation games I played courtesy of the demo disk, and the future entries into the series were always at friends' houses. My overriding me...
- January 25th, 2024, 8:46 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6441
Re: 609: NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...
On another (non-gaming) forum that I post on, I tend to get tagged whenever anyone mentions that they're starting that game or considering getting it. Playing that game was as much a revelation for me in my mid-twenties as playing Final Fantasy VII was as a kid - so I was over the moon when this rem...
- September 11th, 2023, 11:41 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Norco
- Replies: 6
- Views: 37327
Re: 596: Norco
It’s fair to say that Norco is like catnip for me. I loved the original wave of point-and-click adventures growing up – not just for their storytelling, but for how everything (from character to puzzle design) furnished those games with a unique tone of absurdity and surrealism that it’s hard to fin...
- April 30th, 2023, 9:52 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Life Is Strange 2
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2161
Re: 575: Life is Strange 2
Weirdly, my experience with 'Life is Strange 2' is kind of the inverse of my experience with the original. I can acknowledge that the first game in the series was incredibly flawed and borderline inept in areas, and yet my experience of playing it is still one of my most cherished gaming memories. I...
- March 28th, 2022, 7:59 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3161
Re: 549: Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Having loved Persona 5 (my first and, to date, only other exposure to this massive series), I was excited to be able to play another game within the sprawling Shin Megami Tensei universe on the PS4. My overall impression of Shin Megami III is that it's a 7 out of 10 game... but in that really intere...
- March 15th, 2022, 7:28 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Kentucky Route Zero
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5984
Re: 512: Kentucky Route Zero
I’m kind of surprised at all the comparisons to Lynch here. Though David Lynch is certainly an influence, I think what I always liked about KRZ is that it *isn’t* trying to be Lynchian. Where I find so many openly Lynch-influenced games to be kind of insultingly surface-level (‘Virginia’ was this, f...
- February 13th, 2022, 10:35 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Maniac Mansion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3693
Re: 534: Maniac Mansion
LucasArts adventure games were the first games I really loved as a child and, when I idly clicked “Use computer” on 'The Day of the Tentacle', my six-or-so-year-old-self thought he'd uncovered a secret that nobody in the world had ever seen. Obviously this wasn't true. But 'Maniac Mansion' has retai...
- February 11th, 2022, 10:36 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Resident Evil Village
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6154
Re: 538: Resident Evil Village
I'll be honest, I think Resi 8 is possibly my favourite experience with a Resident Evil game. Having come to the series quite late, I've really come to enjoy what they seem to be doing with the series at the moment. As someone who played the games wildly out of sequence, I have no real interest in t...
- January 26th, 2022, 9:01 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Kentucky Route Zero
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5984
Re: 512: Kentucky Route Zero
I'm obviously really glad that people can enjoy Kentucky Route Zero as a full experience, but there's something bittersweet about the fact that no-one will be able to experience it like I did over the slow episodic release period. It sounds pretentious to say but it suited the feel of the game so we...
- March 24th, 2021, 9:43 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Dishonored 2
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3561
Re: 463 - Dishonored 2
Somehow it hadn't occurred to me, when I started replaying the Dishonored series this year, how hauntingly resonant these games about political upheaval in the wake of a pandemic are in 2021. There are many ways in which I love how Dishonored 2 expands on the first game – we explore more of this bea...
- February 16th, 2021, 9:17 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Final Fantasy VII Remake / Intergrade
- Replies: 25
- Views: 20438
Re: 463 - Final Fantasy VII Remake
For various reasons, I mostly fell off of the Final Fantasy series after FFX (and more recently, didn't really enjoy the remastered version of XII) – so I felt kind of cautious going into this. Being a nerdy child of the '90s, FFVII holds a weirdly high place in my heart and I wasn't confident that ...
- February 11th, 2021, 8:27 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Pokémon
- Replies: 26
- Views: 15200
Re: Our next podcast recording (13.2.21): 456 - Pokémon gens 1 and 2
As it doubtless was for several other children of the 1990s, these games were a huge part of my childhood. I can still vividly remember, on the day I got Blue, sitting cross-legged and engrossed in the wide open world conjured up by the monochrome graphics and tinny chip tunes. “World” definitely fe...
- April 6th, 2019, 7:42 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Persona 5
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6987
Re: 368: Persona 5
I'm currently playing this, and I think there's a chance I could have it finished just in time for this podcast. Anyway, I've been interested in the 'Persona' series for a while (as a particularly fan of Final Fantasies VI through VIII, it's interesting to have a JRPG series set in a similarly real-...
- March 2nd, 2019, 11:31 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Final Fantasy IX
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14653
Re: Our next Final Fantasy podcast recording (13.4.19) - 365: Final Fantasy IX
This was the first Final Fantasy game I got at the time of release, having been obsessed with VII and VIII. I think I originally - being an early adolescent, at the time - missed the relative lack of grit from those games and found parts of it a bit childish (despite, of course, being a child). As I...
- March 2nd, 2019, 11:21 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Game suggestions for the podcast
- Replies: 2130
- Views: 1535426
Re: Game suggestions for the podcast
I think almost every game I would've suggested is on this year's list! One big suggestion I'd offer is Anodyne - I feel it's very underrated, especially considering how it relates to that warped nostalgia present in something like Undertale and Petscop (it's not a game, but a C&R chat about Pets...
- January 25th, 2019, 10:20 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: NieR:Automata
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15891
Re: 356: NieR: Automata
For starters: anyone who's on the fence due to having to replay the game multiple times - it really feels more like changing discs in an old Final Fantasy game than it does starting the game four times (each "playthrough" is very different and progresses the story in its own way). I someti...
- January 18th, 2019, 10:07 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Virginia
- Replies: 28
- Views: 23078
Re: Virginia
I decided to replay this last night in advance of the podcast. With lower expectations, I was enjoying it a lot more than I had the first time: the atmospheric aspects I remembered fondly really stood out this time round, and I can echo the above sentiments about the score (I'm listening to it now, ...
- January 7th, 2019, 8:09 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Final Fantasy VIII
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24811
Re: Our next Final Fantasy podcast recording (16.2.19) - Issue 357: Final Fantasy VIII
NORG This is my last post in this thread, I promise (but not entirely sincerely): this reminds me of the fact that FF8 is responsible for two of my favourite old uni house share memories. 1. Noting that one of the regulars from quizzers was the spitting image of Garden Master NORG, and making my ho...
- January 7th, 2019, 8:01 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Volume Eight
- Replies: 168
- Views: 91764
Re: Volume Eight
I said to myself "if Nier: Automata's on there, I think I'll donate to the Patreon." May have to put my money where my mouth is! (also I've been curious about Persona 5 for ages; I find the series interesting, but have never played a single one of those games, so here's a nice nudge for me...