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[Write-in Thread] Firelink Episode #52

🕑 Added 2025-01-28 21:53:10 +0000 UTC

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Pat the Vandal

I've been playing a ton Pacific Drive lately. It's so well made, it's almost hard to believe it's Ironwood's first game.

melchar

I was a teen in the 1970's, so the internet was nary a gleam in anyone's eyes. I did [& do] tabletop rpgs for fun & got into console gaming around 2000. Games I go back to for fun are old - like Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & a slew of PS2 games, like FFX, Shadowheart & SMT Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 [aka Avatar Tuners]. While I utterly love Baldur's Gate 3, why don't older games - like those I cited - get remade more often? When FFX WAS updated for computer play I bought it immediately. There has to be a market, so why isn't it exploited more? ^_^

MeowIndeed

I am in a gaming rut for 2+ years now. Have any of you experienced this feeling where learning new games feels mentally taxing & unfun, but old games feel boring & unfun? If yes, any tips on how to get out of ze rut?

Dour Dodger Esquire

What game/type of game do you usually play to relieve stress and anxiety, or to rebalance yourself after a really bad day?

Dean Pearson

Thanks for the feedback! Would not have thought to start with a 3d game with camera control.

Inverse Skies

I can only speak from experience but my little 3 year old loves Mario. Specifically bowsers fury that Marty also loves. Only issue is he loves it so much I can’t play anything else, even other Mario games! So I’m getting very good at bowsers fury, luckily it’s a good game. Curiously he responds better to 3d games rather than 2d. I think being able to move the camera etc comes more naturally as a first exposure than it did with us growing up on 16 bit 2D games.

TooManySpreadsheets

One of my favorite games ever is CrossCode (2018), the debut title of Radical Fish Games. I only discovered it by chance because a streamer mentioned it as his favorite game of that year, and I wish it was more well-known! Do y'all have low-profile favorites that you wish were talked about more among gaming folks?

HardRevenge

Does [it] need a sequel though? Just play the game again?

plz help

Do you guys have gaming backlogs? If so, how do you keep track of them (or do you keep track of them)? Is there anything you've been wanting to play for a long time but haven't? Curious how having games as a job impacts your approach to games on your own time (if it impacts at all)

Fas

Considering they’d only made one or two smaller mobile games, Stellar Blade came out really well as Shift Ups first crack at a console quality game

Filthy & Free Publishing

On topic: What game series/franchise do you think would not exist at all if they never got a second chance to realize their vision via a sequel? Street Fighter was pretty bad, for example, but then we got Street Fighter 2 and it was mostly uphill from there.

Dean Pearson

My wife and I have two little twins boys who are nowhere near ready for this (they're 5 months old), but when the time comes, I'm curious to hear what you guys think is the best first video game for a kid. Thanks! Love yer stuff!

LookItsAnEric

Bastion by Supergiant Games is not only one of their best titles but also laid the template for future games that they iterated on leading up to Hades which combined all their trademarks into a landmark title

Inverse Skies

A question specifically for Nick - I grew up in the 90s pre internet so had video game magazines as my main information source. Being younger and having more readily available internet access when you were growing up, did you miss this phase of video games or are there specific video game magazines you recall enjoying?

Andrew White-Winter

As you’ve gotten older, what genre of game, if any, have you found yourself gravitating towards that has surprised you? For myself, it would be JRPGs.