Oh man. They put a nameplate in especially for QT3! I had no idea @tomchick!
Whatever game that is, burn it with fire!
It’s interesting that Chick Lover seems to be the least dirty of those titles. Everything else sounds like some weird sexual innuendo. I don’t even want to know what a hard-liner donder is.
-Tom
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A Hard Liner Donder is the famous Chick Parabola on a graph (the hard liner is where the curves starts and ends…the donder has to do with dondering the whole thing (yes it should have been Hard Line Ponder I think they confused the p with the letter d)
This is the Japanese drumming game Taiko no Tatsujin on Gamepass.
My drum is a bee covered in cats because I’m a big Keith Moon fan.
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I have my Taiko no Tatsujin controller still somewhere!
Anyways, is anyone else able to install Generation Zero and Into the Pit on PC GamePass or do I need parental supervision?
Being a total stats nerd even as a pre-teen. I created my own league and players for Hardball where I wrote it all down in a notebook, tracking stats for players that didn’t exist in the game because the game only had two teams.
My All Stars lineup of Guy Jose, Moose Lorenzen and Monte Bautista was tough to crack.
Just installed and ran Generation Zero, no restrictions or popup windows.
Better ask your mommy for permission to play these. Or look for parental controls settings, or something like that.
I have gotten that permissions error before. It turned out I had to update the Xbox/Gamepass app via the Microsoft Store, and then it worked.
Yes, Microsoft’s software sucks more than ever. But the service is so great that I keep coming back.
Another Xbox app update without a fix for that bleeping Cloud Gaming/remote play bug, grrr.
(the one that gives you a black screen forever if your Windows user account name has an “exotic” character AKA one with a diacritical/accent of some kind, because everyone knows Xcloud users are only called Bob/Jim/Jane/Sue or whatever and live in Anytown, USA)
So I played Telling Lies over the weekend, and I guess I’d say my overall impression of the game is favorable. But I do agree that it’s not as strong as Her Story - it’s not really all that drastically different, I guess I just have to give Her Story points for being first. I’d probably feel differently had I played Telling Lies first.
But there were things that really worked for me in Telling Lies. It definitely took me a fair amount of digging around before I understood what I was doing, though having completed the game I’m not really sure why I was doing it, what the purpose was. But that didn’t really interfere with the central story of David and his various misadventures. The difference with this game is that frequently you’re watching recorded conversations, and frequently only half of it because you are only watching one speaker at a time. This can obviously be confusing because you’re missing the context provided by the other speaker, but can lead to some interesting discoveries when you do turn up the other half of the conversation, or get led to some unexpected events through searches. I won’t spoil things, but there were definitely a few ‘holy crap’ moments I found, more unexpected for often being buried in otherwise fairly tedious discussions. And the game can get kind of tedious, sometimes you’ll watch 10 minutes of video of a dad watching his daughter sleep, or something like that. They aren’t all winners.
And, like Her Story, the whole thing is really kind of a bummer. I don’t think that’s necessarily a spoiler just given the name of the game, but it can get old watching people continuously make bad decisions for what they think are the right reasons. You might have to be in the right frame of mind for this game. But I would recommend it.
I enjoyed The Medium a lot as well.
Fired up Outer Wilds yesterday-- is there any way to modify the FoV? Because at least the console version that I was streaming was ridiculously narrow and making me queasy.
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I’m squeamish and don’t usually play horror games. What sort of horror are we talking about here?
Mostly atmospheric/psychological. It’s not really gory or jump-scares. There’s a lot of atmosphere to it and the setting is really fun.
JRPG Edge of Eternity is out on Game Pass.
Seems like just average reviews though, so I’ll pass unless someone here really loves it.
Not me! I’m allergic to JRPGs that don’t have the words “dragon” and “quest” in them. I wouldn’t mind hearing some impressions though.
The problem with last Dragon Quest and I problem I have with a lot of games is that I got a quarter of the way through took a break and forgot what I was doing. I wish I would stop doing that. :(
