I feel bad. I realized you left a comment about KOTOR 2 and didn't notice it. It honestly got really weird during the last 10% of the game. It felt like the story went nonsensical in a lot of places like with the Jedi Masters suddenly turning against you, I wasn't really following the connection between the player and final boss, and then it talked about the Force like being some almighty God that didn't really convey anything understandable to the player. The game was great up to that point (except for the random game-breaking bugs on one planet), but the last 10% of it was done extremely bad, enough where I gave the game 4/5 stars when I was done with it.

It is quite surreal to think it either was, or one one of his last performances. I'd call it a worthy last hurrah, though; he was nothing short of brilliant. I loved every second of that game! Just saw both endings, and currently still processing everything, haha. System Redux is definitely something I'm considering in the future... I played the original for now. I know the stealth mechanics were a common criticism, but they personally didn't bother me all that much. Obviously, they could use some polish, but I can take that part of the game or leave it. I still consider it one of the best games from last gen I've played.

I'm pleased to see how much you've enjoyed Postal 4.

So Pyscho, I thought Dark Deity was a swell Fire Emblem ripoff. While the load times weren't great and there were occasional glitches, the guys here clearly understood what made Fire Emblem great, and added their own idears that were pretty good, like the weapon types and upgrades. All in all, a satisfying game. Is it better or worse than Wargroove? I don't know, I didn't play that one much.

Curiously, one of the Kickstarter backer credits name had the name "Fucklepuff" in it. That's interesting. The game doesn't even have an M rating.

I did really like the demo, though I haven't gotten around to picking it up yet.

I saw it in your progress note, and couldn't resist; our Swedish friend used to pay us in chocolate when we'd all share a hotel room, and that one always stood out to me. That and because it sounds like Kix with an over-the-top Scottish accent, I'd always say, "Ked tehsted; mahtharr appreuved" or however you'd transliterate that. Can't say I've ever seen it at Ikea or anywhere like that, though; they usually only have Daim, Dumle, and some basic flavors of Marabou. Marabou is apparently like Kit Kat in that there are millions of flavors: plain, Daim, hazelnut, peanut, almond, digestive biscuit, peanut butter and jelly, SALTED BLACK LICORICE, like wut.

KOTOR 2 is getting really fun now. Yesterday I constructed my first lightsaber, though the planet I landed on first really likes to put an incident at your feet every 20 steps or so. But I'm not complaining, KOTOR is all about choices and I'm loving it.

Did the new version redraw maps or something? I swore in the Switch trailer it said something like that. Maybe those later maps were adjusted as well?

Blood absolutely qualifies; I remember that being the ultimate Shooter back when it came out. "Awww, wook at Doom wif its widdw handgun. THIS ONE SHOOTS GOODAMN FIRE," because that was how you marketed something in the '90s. Never managed to finish it for the same reason I never finished hardly any of the older ones, except the Doom games: I always get so lost that I can't find my way out of one stage or another, and it's curtains for me. Blood, Duke 3D, Heretic, Hexen... well, with Hexen I have a little more of an excuse, I guess. I actually couldn't even finish the very first stage in Shadow Warrior; I don't know what's wrong with me.

For me, I'm thinking Unreal and then MDK (both freebies), then Heretic/Hexen/2, then Mulaka, and I haven't really thought much beyond that. Once I've finally gotten in some legit finishes, I might sprinkle in the odd Game Boy titles I've been accumulating right after Gato Roboto and/or Minit.

Addendum: Oh yeah, and KEX is the tits! [Link]

It's been a fuckin' bloodbath, Girlie. I'm starting to suspect that I got into the WRPG thing a bit too late in my gaming life to be able to get into a lot of the older ones; I did really like Fallout and Planescape: Torment, but of course I did; they're some of the best damn WRPGs ever made. A lot of the time, it's the combat: I understand the basic rules and how it works, but my brain can't strategize for shit, so I wind up not making it very far. Some of them weren't the biggest shock, but it's not often that Point-and-Click Adventures get dropped. Gabriel Knight was kind of an arrogant douche, and while that didn't kill it by itself, I got to the swamp and my game was bugged, so I couldn't finish it, and I just didn't have the motivation to try very hard to fix it. Black Mirror was one that Ross made me want to try, but the protagonist was just SO insufferably fucking White; I couldn't take it, so I finished that Game Dungeon episode, and was much happier with that. The one that REALLY came as a shock was Pyre, though; I've been a huge fan of Supergiant's past 2 titles, but this one just didn't really grab me at any point. I think I was pretty close to the end, but there was this sudden bullshit spike, and I'd decided that I'd had quite enough of Eldritch Rugby. It was kind of a tease, too; you wade through tons of dialogue for just a little taste of gameplay, and then the gameplay is just alright. There's this wild, colorful world that I couldn't help but wish to have been exploring. I feel like an uncultured basic bitch having settled on Ys, of all things, but such as it goes, I guess.

Tangledeep was a big surprise. I was pretty sure I'd like it, but when games claim to be inspired by whateverwhatever, it's usually "Herpaderp pixle gerferks!" and especially with a Roguelike; how many of them are there on the SNES? A Fushigi na Dungeon or two? Maybe a Deep Dungeon port? But no, the music was ripped right out of an early Hal game with plaintive melodies evocative of Yasunori Mitsuda, if you'll allow me to composer-nerd out a bit. The class system was great, too!

I'd love to get into Nightmare Reaper, because from what I've seen from Civvie, I love it thematically. Unfortunately, I'm not all that good at Shooters, especially the oldschool ones, so I'm not sure I could handle it. Those Mario-style minigames, I'd probably be good at, though.

I didn't know that it got updated, even on Switch. That's great.

So, your expertise is PC gaming? That's pretty cool. I don't know much outside of the oldies like Lode Runner, Pharoah's Tomb, Jill of the Jungle, Xargon, etc. At least Doom and Quake are on Switch.

Like a couple of cats circling each other. Not in the sense that we're about to fuck each other up, but I'm still not quite sure to make of it all. It has an established character, but it also has decisions that may or may not run counter to his personality, and often do; it keeps telling me that he has no interest in politics, but I can't seem to stay out of it, no matter what I choose. I haven't really gotten invested in any of the characters, either, so I often wind up more interested in the aforementioned politics, which are usually split evenly between racism bad and a Medieval prick-waving contest, and while I agree that racism bad, it's only ever presented overtly. Certainly overt racism is bad, but every time a story presents racism as an analog to those stupid-looking goose-steppers in white hoods, it reinforces the notion that that's all racism is, and that causes the problem that more subtle, systemic racism is seen as something that's not a big deal. I don't even hurl this criticism at The Witcher; Bioshock Infinite tried to do the same thing, until Ken Levine realized that he's not as good a writer as he thinks he is and pulled some alternate-reality fuckery to blow your mind so hard that you don't realize that he dodged having to write a proper conclusion and/or counterpoint, and fuck him, because he actually had me for a good 15 minutes!

People like to bitch about the combat system in the first game, but I found that to be serviceable, unless you were fighting a group of strong enemies. The second game's combat was better, for sure, but for some reason, I had trouble getting it to actually draw my sword when I'd tell it. I do also find it odd that 2 and 3 seem to play better with a gamepad, when CD Projeckt Red is a company that specializes in PC games, but that's not really a complaint; I just play with a gamepad, and it's fine; no more camera seizures while I'm fighting. I do wish they'd have done more with alchemy, because I did really like the research from the first game, and mixing shit is fun - that's why I bake and occasionally put my apothecary skills to good use - but with all potions being toxic, I almost never use it.