heliumlamb

Real Hardcore Video Game's Will Be Saved, With Real Licensed Hardcore Video Game Secrets (forty-eight Glup Shitto funko pops)

elden ring is derivative mid. sure, go ahead, take the dodgerollemup armored core-meets-king's field/shadow tower, a style that works best as a focused set of dungeon drudges (be it interconnected a-la king's field 2/4 & dark souls or a set of discrete areas a-la shadow tower and demon's souls [and the Goth Version of demon's souls]), and turn it into a big elder-scrolls-esque map with plenty of copy-paste dungeons and pallete swap enemies to Hit The I-Frame Button to. it was disheartening to see that they pretty much hadn't done anything but an i-frame timing dungeon drudge with Epic Video Game Boss Battles™ for close to a decade at that point. when they were putting out an armored core game just about every year from 1997-2008 they were releasing all sorts of other games, some relatively conventional, many far more experimental than anything they've done since after demon's souls. if the first 6th gen armored core game had not ended up still feeling like an armored core game (even though it unfortunately has a small amount of soulsbrain, couldve used half the amount of Video Game Boss Battles™ and 3x the amount of enemy ACs, hope it gets rectified with AC 6.5), i would've been convinced that from software completely lost their way, getting way too lost in that dodgeroll sauce. well, at least they're getting blank checks from the Mobile Suit PacMan company, would love to see a return to the creative spirit they had during the 6th console gen. if you want a better example of derivative mid by from software that starts with the letter E and ends in "Ring", they've had you covered since the launch of the playstation 2, regardless of what region you're in. the unhelpful Get Good brained garbage has been a permanent scar with long-lasting consequences, and its effects are far more widespread beyond video games by from software with a release date later than the fifth of feburary, two thousand and nine. but it must be said that from software is not a new company and has been developing games with a remarkably unwavering design philosophy since the early 90's. i can never not recommend evergrace or metal wolf chaos, the latter of which got ported to recent consoles and windows with the text translated. the king's field (especially 2 and 4) and shadow tower series contain some of the best usage of the first person perspective in all of interactive media, they're still uncompromising with vague exposition (it took me around 6 hours to find a save point in king's field 2 at firs), but they play closer to system shock than 3d zelda. the king's field and shadow tower games in comparison to their spiritual successors are a more relaxing experience after the first few hours, but always tense through the atmosphere alone. as far as their recent games go, all but demon's souls didn't really click with me at first until i laid the contextual groundwork of the games on a mechanical/structural level (armored core build variance+king's field/shadow tower world design+3d zelda combat), while trying to erase as much of the past 10 years of "haha git gud mad cause bad" from the subconscious. the pc port should've just been released as "Dark Souls: With Artorias Of The Abyss Edition" worldwide imo

the people who hate d*rk s*uls II (not scholar) haven't played a from software game released before feburary 5 2009 and it shows

no side airbags

stupid, dipshit, doofus, fool, dumb, unstable, atrocious, Poor Player

daggerfall with guns

re: metroid fps bit - a good chunk of iguana entertainment's team went on to make a literal metroid fps.

it's the Butyric acid they (hershey's, probably others following suit) put in there because people started to get used to the souring milk they used to make it with, complaining once they started using fresh milk. it's a uhhhh, distinct, recognizable taste. i find 74-78% to be the best range but really anything past 70% cocoa is good ass chocolate. then again, i really like black coffee and unsweetened green tea.

will only consider it if i will be able to play KF3-420-Ganja-Farm-Rerereweeded at some point before the heat death of gaia

BEEN SAYING THIS!!!!

Todd Rogers

i have been using them for just as long, if not longer. it is very hard to believe that you haven't been advertised to via the internet on a computer's web browser, even with 100% blockrate on a script that makes zero exceptions. the advertisement comes in many forms that aren't banner or video midroll ads. there are many sneaky at best, downright insidious at worst, forms of advertisement on the information superhighway that cannot be blocked out with a script so easily. you might catch it partway through an article's body text when they seem to incessantly sing the praises of a material product without even the slightest criticism, nor disclosure of payment from the providing party. or maybe the IP of some "anonymous" post telling people to die for an oil company lines up with an office that preys on people to get them to do just that. you've probably seen, at the bare minimum, a handful of advertisements in those ten years, without realizing that they were advertisements.