homicidalrobot

Who in the world is Marshall and what are their laws

It was a year long period that was extended for two more years and change, 2020-2023.

Fair warning: the rest of this post has mild player character capability spoilers and a judgemental tone. No mention of puzzles or solutions, just observations about how people are playing the game and some talk about my own experience with it.

Like Outer Wilds, this game involves a lot of reading and connecting the dots on one's own. Unlike Outer Wilds, a lot of the puzzling happens outside the game entirely, providing you no in-game method of remembering things or solving some puzzles. Very early on, the game tells you to keep a notepad for it, and it quickly becomes more than a suggestion. In my hubris, I didn't take any notes until a fair way into the game, and had to basically repeat some of my earlier forays to get information I had thought to be extraneous.

Anyway I'm approaching 120 hours spent and having a blast with it still. I feel like I'm approaching or in the late game, as some of the things I need to do involve having already solved and re-used info from previous puzzles, sometimes more than once.

Yep, was down for barely one week.

You must sleep through March.

Honestly provides basically no benefits that existing token systems don't already handle. Games have been tracking completely unique items as commodities in a large market for a long time - the only benefit new to NFT was decentralization, which basically nobody peddling them understands anyway.

I'm a lot deeper into the game now and this comment doesn't make sense. There's a LOT of permanent changes to run structure, player ability, and individual rooms in the post-game. Aside from that, it's just game design candy where the primary form of progression is player knowledge. Absolutely deserves a spot on my list.

1000% worth it. You're a concern troll and you post non-stop nonsense. You literally are too inept at reading comprehension and critical thinking to understand that without the weights or promotion criterion, the "open source" algorithm isn't showing what's promoted. Those are the driving force behind algorithmic promotion with what we've been shown and they're not public.

Have you played the mainline souls titles? The NG+ system in Nioh 2 leads out into new unique maps (The abyss) rather than being the same game with revamped enemy placement and health nine times lol.

I see Outer Wilds here but not Nioh 2, so I'm posting about Nioh 2.

Soulsian adventure with ninja gaiden blood, extremely high amount of endgame content, wild depth of character building, lots of avenues to increase your character's power with many "correct answers" to the question of "how should I make my dude stronger". Dropped a while before the most recent push for graphical fidelity with AI upscaling/antialiasing so it actually runs well on a large majority of steam hardware surveys machines.

It's hard early on, but provides the player with tons of options when it comes to progressing through stages and bosses, flexible movesets for each class of weapon and access to potent tools like Gun and turning into an enemy that killed you a dozen times the first time you saw it briefly. The endgame goes beyond replaying through the game into dungeons made of fragments of the stages and some more unique maps (The Abyss). There's a hefty amount of individual bosses to learn, and incentive to do some of the more fun fights in the game multiple times - a lot of which do not require a run back through a stage to get to them. The game does itself a service by breaking up gameplay into chunks with a world map you launch missions from, some of which are just a singular straight up boss fight.

Depends on the genre tbh. The GOAT contenders are Outer Wilds, Transistor, Nioh 2, and Boundless.

I have a really long list of honorable mentions but those rise to the top today. If Blue Prince turns out to be as content rich as I think it is, it'll likely make this list too, but I'm not done with it.