Patient Gamers

Monster Hunter Dos is the JP-exclusive sequel to Capcom’s 2004 debut title Monster Hunter. The franchise had a niche set of fans, enough to keep it going, that is until 4 Ultimate and eventually Monster Hunter World propelled it into mainstream status. But as a veteran of the series who started with 3U, I wanted to take a look back on the PS2 iterations of Monster Hunter.

I used to play quite a few of them in the ps1/ps2 era, but sort of dropped out after Resident Evil 4.

Back in the NES days games that were localized for American audience heavily censored any overt Judaeo-Christian imagery or reference to death. Churches no longer featured crosses, the Death spell was renamed to “RUB”, and the Kill spell was renamed to “XXXX”.

CoQ’s main quest inevitably forces you to delve into Golgotha (ancient sewers or something like that) to retrieve a broken robot. Black slimes dwell there and they will likely afflict you with “stiff legs”. And then after some time your movement speed will start decreasing while your armor will increase.

Related to a post I made last year, but a little different because (1) you get to choose 10 now instead of 5, and (2) other games don’t get deleted, you just aren’t able to play them, so you don’t need to think about the good of humanity or anything, purely just selfish picks because it only impacts you.

I got the urge to play again, but the last update broke some of my mods. I’m just about done reinstalling all the visual and QOL mods I think I want on a fresh install, but can anyone recommend any that add quests, random events, or minor romances like the Rita and Bugbear ones?

Every time I use Steam’s discovery queue or any “what to play next” site, I get bombarded with stuff from the last 6 months. I get it - that’s what generates clicks and sales - but it’s genuinely unhelpful for how most of us here actually want to play.

EDIT: heck i assumed steam and gog would be the same price right now!!

I mean, I guess I shouldn’t say “surprisingly” because that’s sort of an insult to all the positive reviews it has. But still, I was hesitant based on the trailers making it look like it’s too repetitive and simple relative to FTL and Slay the Spire.

TLDR: my warrior fully upgraded their main weapon and now face a deficit of titanite chunks to upgrade other weapons, severely limiting my build in time when mages gain several new awesome spells as well as resources to upgrade their pyromancy flame and catalyst.

This is a story focused puzzle game where you are on a tropical island in 1934, investigating the disappearance of your husband and his expedition on this exact island.

Started Max Payne 3, holy cow the physics of shooting, and how windows break when shooting them just superb, makes me wish GTA V could havehad more of this, or.been on the 8th gen consoles, Cant wait to experience more of.it

No idea if there is now a name for this kind of “crawling through archives” puzzle game, but this was the first and only one that I played with this mechanic.

Fez is a nice 2D platformer where the unique mechanic is that the world is 3D in reality and you can shift the world in 90° angles, whereby you can then reach new platforms and places, because now the backwall is suddenly a 2 block high platform that you can jump on.

I recently finished LoS2, including the DLC, and while I highly enjoyed the design of Castlevania, the castle, I didn’t really enjoy the increased Metroidvania aspect in the gameplay. The reason for that is that it didn’t really led to “wow I want to explore that later” feeling, but only “great, another ability-gate, nice that I wasted my time exploring this side path”. And there is no world map so you can mark it for later. To accommodate for that, they included an item that shows you where the closest unfound secret is. Which solves the problem by removing all the fun from it and making it literally a chore.

I finally finished the System Shock Remake and I was surprised how much this game already got right in its original installment in sense of story progression and open world level design, but also how much they improved the general gameplay and graphics with the remake.

If you’ve been waiting to play one of these classics, now’s your chance! Just leave a comment with the name of the game you want (please check the comments first to see if someone else has already requested it), and I’ll send you a DM.