of course that’s a thing

we must go deeper, surely you can launch minecraft in minecraft? :P

I kinda wish the game would detect modding, or the easymode at minimum, and hold the achievements. I don’t particularly care one way or the other, but some soulslike-folks probably will get their panties in a twist for dilluting the global achievement-stats… maybe? But oh well.

The exploration aspect is pretty cool, there’s hidden tomb-dungeons etc everywhere. Other games where I’ve felt exploration was fun were Skyrim, Cyberpunk and (similarly to you) Subnautica.

Been chipping away with Elden Ring, but I do use seamless coop for the off chance my friends want to join, and some easymode mod because I am so unbelievably bad at these games.

Having fun, but it’s funny when every time I think I could do with less easymode, some enemy absolutely curbstomps me. Maybe one day I can manage without:P

I do like how there’s very little waypoint-guidance, but some todo-list for things I have agreed to would be nice. But that’s the style, I guess.

you think you’re getting off the call if it isn’t?

so human of it!

huh. I do kinda like this kind of story/telltalesque games and I can’t say I had ever even heard about this one. Though admittedly I’m only a “surface-level trekkie”.

Either way, kinda bummer to see it go.

also, probably not a thing vast majority of gamers have the ability to set-up or maintain.

kinda wild a file-link ever went straight to executing it after download - which on it’s own could be dangerous as well.

I guess the “the s in IOT stands for security” also applies to notepad: “the s in vibecoding stands for security”

heh, ofc. Apparently something to do with file:// and such uri handling, apparently executing local files? Yikes.

notepad has formatting now? o_O

does it produce markdown or something?

An absolute banger of a management/“sim” game. My all time favorites.

Worth noting that while ottd (the free one) does the same thing, you can use the original assets (graphics, sounds, music) with it. The og soundtrack is absolutely masterpiece of latin influenced midi jazz.

All good and fair when it comes to a bit of banter :)

Besides, the game sets unrealistic expectations as the characters actually talk.

are you sure they’re not just… Finnish?

heh, kinda fair, tbh. But then again, so am I, and it still feels like watching aliens :D

Started playing Rauniot - a post-apocalyptic isometric point&click adventure game set in Lapland. Only few hours in and the vibes are great, although the voice acting and dialogue feels … I dunno, it’s not “bad”, but it feels a bit “off”, like it’s written by “semi-edgy artsyfartsy” type, and the dialogue is performed by aliens who only got the tldr version of how to act human.

Visually the game looks quite a bit like Fallout 1 and 2, just with higher colordepth and resolution. Sound (apart from dialogue) is pretty ambient. So all good in my books. And I gotta respect the absolutely slamming metal tune the main character is blasting in their car during the intro sequence. Hell. Yea. \,,/

Puzzles have been mostly “find a tool to do x”, some items (eg. a rope in the first screen of the game) do blend into the background, so hovering over everything on the screen is a must. Interactables are highlighted in yellow outline, which on some cases can be really soft and it blends to the apocalyptic colorpalette of sepia/brown/gray surprisingly well, but at least all interactable things have a soundeffect when hovered with a mouse.

Gotta play more, I do want to see where it goes with the story and puzzles later on.

doing everything in one playthrough is not the same as softlocking the game. Exclude one path, sure. Softlock? Bullshit.

No doubt about it. Still feels bad to step on those landmines. :P

Admittedly, I haven’t played MM further than the first few minutes, I like old adventure games (esp. LucasArts ones), but just haven’t bothered with this one.

I suspect the garage puzzle probably has some hint, like “it’s too heavy/I’m not strong enough” when attempting to open it, so the player atleast can figure out that strength training is a thing. Still a bit of a stretch, as it’s cartoon logic to actually become stronger after one workout - but… it is a cartoony comedy game.

The envelope thing sounds like one of those “needs a crystal ball” -things that many of the games of the era unfortunately had. I don’t think people even at the time appreciated the “dead man walking” -design. Must be fun for the softlock to become apparent hours or days later. It’s just a dick move design-wise.

I honestly can’t remember where the episode ended, as it has been several years since I played it. Sorry :/

It does have the bratty schoolgirls being bratty, but it isn’t the entire episode.

Telltales Batman is on my TODO list, gotta get on that. IMO the first TT Borderlands was fairly fun, haven’t touched the second season.

It’s been several years since I played LiS, so the details of the game are a bit hazy. I recall it feeling bit lame on the beginning, but it did ramp up quite a bit towards the end. The beginning was (mostly) some school drama, like some girls acting like absolute brats and dealing with that.

The first episode is free on steam, btw. If you’re on the fence, try it out before purchase.