I love that Kojima somehow got money to make it. It’s gorgeous and the gameplay systems are surprisingly fun, but the writing would’ve gotten anyone else laughed out of the state of California if they’d tried to pitch it as a tv series or film. Poop grenades? Die Hardman! Mads Mikkelsen in a weird pseudo Vietnam flashback screaming for his baby in a jar. Conan O’Brien! I mean…David Lynch wishes he could write something so weird.
Here’s 37 seconds of Mads saying “BB” that I particularly enjoy:
This is my biggest worry with the game. I don’t want better or more combat. One of the best things about DS1 is how lethal violence is discouraged.
That said, I had serious concerns about Kojima taking Metal Gear 3 into the past and the result was my favorite Metal Gear, so I’m gonna trust the process.
ASTRO BOT on the PS5 is fantastic!
Alien: Isolation on sale
(screenshot doesnt show that its only $7.49)
So who of the Factorio Players is expanding into SpaceAge?
I’m on Satisfactory right now.
Recently I played Metaphor: Refantasio, or “medieval Persona” and liked it. There were a few late and optional bosses that I hated, but the story is decent and the characters are pretty good.
That said, shortly into my New Game + run, “Horizon Zero Dawn : Remastered” dropped and I got into that, you know, just for a casual visit to the old game.
And then the first trophy popped; none of my PS4 trophies carried over, and that started the inevitable slog towards the platinum trophy again. It’s weird how important that is to me. To be clear, it was a very fun slog. The game is great. Last night I beat it on Ultra Hard for the final trophy (again).
Now I’m headed back to the Forbidden West. Just for fun though—all my trophies are intact there.
I am STILL working my way through Elden Ring.
I am surprised that I have managed to find 147 hours to pump into that game. I haven’t had an experience like this in years and is absolutely my favourite game ever.
I am up in the Mountaintops of the Giants so I believe I am getting close to finishing my first play through 
I am looking at the Black Friday deals and trying to decide my next game 
God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West or Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut
All three of these are fantastic choices. Whatever you pick, you won’t be disappointed.
I mean, those are all the wrong answer; you’re forgetting about the Shadow Realm in Elden Ring. Haha.
I would rank the new Indiana Jones game above Crystal Skull but below Temple of Doom. It’s that good…basically a miniseries! There were set pieces that were so good that I wished it was a show so there could be offline-rendered sims instead of realtime ones. Also, you get to hit a bunch of Nazis over the head with guitars, hammers, and the like, so…win/win?
It’s on Gamepass if you have a PC or Xbox. It comes out early next year on ps5.
e: you can set it to “cinematic” mode, and it throws the whole thing into anamorphic, bokeh, flares and all. I have a beefy GPU and was able to enable raytracing, so when skulking through torchlit ruins it would occasionally do this, which was a hoot:
I purchased this but then realised my Gaming PC doesnt have the onions to play the game. Gutted. I await a PS5 version.
Ali Express just sent me an email with those gameboy-like emulators, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot since.
Please let me know how well it runs Playstation 1 games and if it can redraw the polygons at a higher res like some emulators. Einhander looks amazing in HD, for example.
Literally the only console I could get behind.
I have gone mental with metal gear solid 1 and castlevania sotn. I haven’t tested a lot, but it plays whatever I throw at it. FYI it’s the miyou mini plus with onion os. The res for all the emulators is the native experience including ps1. Only integer scaling when possible.
Check out the Retro Game Corps YouTube channel.
Russ has advice and guides for everything:
-Ted
That channel has now parylized me for choice. i didn’t know some of these fucking things run PS2 games. I can finally replay Suikoden 5! (and 3, and 1 and 2, but if I’m honest, probably not 4, and while we’re on the topic in this parenthetical, I tried Eiyuden Chronicle, the spiritual successor, but it’s really janky in a way that games can’t really excusably be anymore, so I never got into it far enough for the plot to get good, which I would assume it does at some point based on how much I like Suikoden. Maybe I’ll get back into it at some point, but I’m on Cyberpunk 2077 presently and it appears to be a rather large game.)
