PigLick on 12/8/2025 at 07:42
Finally picked up Kingdom Come 2, fuck this game is so dense with information. Runs really well even on my old machine, and looks great. Keep being killed by dogs.
heywood on 12/8/2025 at 15:37
Quote Posted by Thirith
Most henke quote of 2025 or of all time?
Also, you know that we now have to challenge you to make a shark game with good shark physics.
Tooth Fella?
JWSFSH?
LMAO!
Henke is the physics master and Yakoob is good at making games in which you ruin people's day for fun. I'll bet the two of you could make a fun shark game inspired by Jaws featuring morbid humor and shark jokes, along with physics challenges like jumping over shark nets or knocking wind surfers off their boards.
Jason Moyer on 12/8/2025 at 17:38
I'm theoretically replaying Jedi Knight II but mostly just fiddling with a pile of STG's. This is post-curation, and there's still a bunch I haven't picked up because they haven't been on sale, and there are even more on my favorites list that haven't been ported to PC yet. The funny thing is you could probably complete all of these combined in less time than a classic 40-50 hour RPG if you don't count the hundreds of hours it takes to get good enough.
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https://i.imgur.com/0KkGWrf.jpegThirith on 14/8/2025 at 07:02
I've started replaying Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and while I'm enjoying it, I'm definitely not used to Lucasarts' '90s point-and-click logic any more. It's okay for most of the puzzles, but every now and then the game expects me to repeat an action that didn't work the first (or even second) time because the third or fourth time something might change, and by now I'm much more used to puzzles either working or not, so I don't even think of repeating what I did. Lucasarts is definitely not a huge offender when it comes to moon logic, or at least the games generally provide more or less subtle clues as to how to progress, but there are certain conventions that I'm simply not used to any more.
PigLick on 14/8/2025 at 10:31
played a bunch if that horse girl gane - Umamamsune
Forget the derision, it is quite cool, fun even
Renault on 14/8/2025 at 13:50
I'll never understand the draw to games like that. Help explain it to me.
WingedKagouti on 14/8/2025 at 15:01
Quote Posted by Renault
I'll never understand the draw to games like that. Help explain it to me.
To put it bluntly, these games are engineered to provide an easy onboarding experience with just enough interesting bits to keep people playing. The horse girl game just happens to also have a reasonable amount of polish and quality from what I hear.
demagogue on 14/8/2025 at 20:29
To begin with, it's tapping into Japanese gaming culture.
So the first thing you'd have to know is Japanese are really, famously, into genres as a way of life... cameras, trains, whisky... and gaming & otaku anime cultures are two of those things par excellence. So as far as I can tell this is hitching two gaming genres to each other, those horse racing games that you always see in Japanese arcades and life sims, where you're training your ward, originally something like your princess daughter but now we're talking about your thoroughbred princess horse girl. And then on top of all of that it has the ubiquitous tropes of school life anime shows and troped characters & their rivalries and dynamics.
All of those genres already bring a lot of tropes with them. The simple way to put it is that a fan is going to play the game I think to signal their membership as fans in good standing, I guess not unlike the way we're going to get and play Arkane games to be fans in good standing around these parts.
Aja on 14/8/2025 at 20:51
If you want to get in my good standing, you'd better play Super Metroid.
demagogue on 14/8/2025 at 21:00
For me it's probably gonna be Hardwar. XD
Edit: Reading up on the game a little more. The reason it's so big is because it features real world horses as the characters, with two of the most prominent being Hara Urara (Glorious Spring) and Gold Ship, who were both insanely charismatic in their time... They're foils of each other.
(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryy2sGVAFqA) Gold Ship is the horse that never seems to be in very good shape, giving him a reputation for being lazy, but still breaking records for certain kinds of wins without seeming to try very hard.
(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnJ_YgAd4M0) Hara Urara is one of the most hard working race horses ever but never won a single race in her career, after 113 races (when most horses never go beyond 50), giving her the nickname Loser's Star, the icon for losers everywhere just as Japan was losing its economic mojo, and she got a devout following.
And that plays out in their characters in the game. Anyway, the popularity of the game is building off the popularity & charisma of the horses as characters.
Edit2: Oh, and the main character or face of the franchise is still another horse, (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKMM3BtS7e4) Special Week, which apparently is the most famous of the lot, or anyway the best as a main character. Well anyway you get the point. All of the girls represent real horses that all have fans and interesting stories that the game taps into. It reminds me of the crazy fandom of the prefecture mascots when that was happening around the same time, where people would become obsessive fans of one or another character.
