#GO BACK TO PLATINUM GAMES!!! : ((

[goldensunset]

‘the children yearn for the mines’ is a little too real to me bc when i was a kid and my older siblings were trying to get me into pokémon i really never cared to try playing. BUT. i was obsessed with the underground mining minigame in dppt. i used to beg my sister to let me take a turn playing and set it up for me bc i didn’t know how to so i could go mine for gems nonstop until i cleared that entire cave section of glittering wall spots which always made me so sad bc i was having such a great time. i didn’t even understand the significance of what i was doing but 7 year old me was high off of it

[moeblob]

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[oediex]

When I finished Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, I realised it was my 22nd platinum trophy. I had planned on finally earning the platinum trophy for Dragon Age: Inquisition this summer. But wouldn't it be nice, I thought, if it was the 25th?

In 2018, my friend sold me his PS4 after upgrading to a Pro himself. He knew I was interested in gaming and so I didn't have to think twice. He sold it to me for £80 and threw in Dragon Age: Inquisition for good measure. So I'd have something to play. My very first Playstation trophy was The Wrath of Heaven - by finishing the prologue of the game.

For a couple of years now, I've had only one trophy left to earn - beat the game on Nightmare difficulty. I've been postponing it, not for fear of failing at it, but for fear of the finality it seems to imply. I will, of course, still be able to play the game, but I won't be able to earn any trophies for it any more. A sad thought.

[cannibal-wings]

An early update drop! That's because this is a shorter chapter, that is more dialogue focused than the others. I still hope you all like it! They basically get to take a nap. Leon fucking needs one.

For those not in the know, You Pay the Cost is my Resident Evil 4 Remake fic where I roughly follow the plot of the game, but I slowly transform Leon into a Verdugo like bug monster. It's been updating roughly every two weeks (save for this update which was done in one week). If slow burn monster transformation is your thing, check it out.

[mlarayoukai]

Honestly gald it's going to be another year until a major pokemon release. I sure hope there isn't going to be anything announced within a few months from now

[cricketnationrise]

thanks for the tag y'all @welcometololaland and @kiwiana-writes

rules: give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words.

MOST HITS: Going Platinum - RWRB; the camboy!alex au (E)

SECOND MOST KUDOS: Burnin' Through the Sky - RWRB; my piece for @thebrownstone Anniversary Exchange, a speed-dating to basically married speedrun (E)

THIRD MOST COMMENTS/FIFTH MOST WORDS: Got Your Back Means I'll Get You Out - OMGCP; canon divergence after year 1 where Bitty comes out to his parents and it Doesn't Go Well. Shitty to the rescue. (T)

FOURTH MOST BOOKMARKS: a little heat goes a long way - RWRB; part 2 of the firstprince cockwarming 'their desk has seen a lot' series (E)

LEAST WORDS: (excluding drabbles because it would have been a bajillion-way tie otherwise) a logistical clusterfuck - OMGCP; this is a RWRB AU ficlet featuring Georgia Martin's powerpoint to Jack about dating a fellow Falconer, originally written on tumblr about a week after reading RWRB for the first time, it didn't get uploaded till over a year later, 218 words (T)

i'm tagging: @the-lincyclopedia @cha-melodius @appalamutte @parvuls @weneedtotalkaboutfic @parseisflat @zimms @dessertwaffles @princesseugenefitzherbert @ivecarvedawoodenheart @omg-whiskey and anyone else who wants to play!

[coolcattime]

Playing Until Dawn got the first time where I'm actually the one holding the controller because I wanna play the full game and get my personal favourite ending before the movie and the remaster/remake comes out:

On one hand despite my typical shaking hand problems, I literally got no moment whatsoever in the first Don't Move, so I think playing that weird meditation minigame from Wii Fit Plus years ago has actually given me some benefit.

On the other hand, it had been so long since I have used a PlayStation controller and am struggling so hard to remember which button is which. I am very worried for the quick time events as this game progresses.

[dandyshucks]

i am being attacked from every angle dear god get me out of here THERES AERIAL ATTACKS NOW TOO ????

[silverselfshippingchaos]

r.une is so awesome! he's the kindest guy ever and I always drop by the thieves guild whenever I'm not doing anything just to hear his pretty voice

[tally-ace]

Mission accomplished, boys. Time to head home

[designernishiki]

no but you're onto something with y6 being damage control i swear. they let him be too vulnerable in y5 and said uhoh the dude bro audience isn't gonna like this! put him in some ""manly"" situations stat!

its the price they made us pay to see Kiryu attain hot grandpa status and I seethe over it.

you are So right and it’s aggravating because y5 kiryu felt so… emotionally honest in comparison to a lot of other games? and easy to connect to because of it? he wasn’t sugarcoated or performative and it just felt like the raw core of who he is for the most part. ghhhgshh so much about the plot and energy of y6 is so… unnecessary and disappointing considering the note y5 left off on, it makes it feel like alot of the emotion in y5 was sorta for nothing (not just on kiryu’s part, but majima/saejima’s shit didn’t get much of a follow up, shinada just disappeared, etc). it just makes alot that built up to this point feel hollow and like as if the bonds that existed weren’t even there and I don’t like that at all hdhhcjdhf

but yeah all that aside, I think y5 is the most convincingly gay kiryu’s been in any game, I mean, to the point of it being legitimately alluded to by other characters who assume he’s gay based on his secretive lifestyle and lack of interest in women and so on. and I don’t doubt that it got noticed by the general public to some degree, especially when you can compare his behavior to other playable characters in the same game– and god forbid their angsty rugged manly protagonist be Actually Not Straight. so kiryu’s long-since-established personality got butchered here and there more and more just to try and make the audience believe he’s actually been some sort of charismatic ladies man all along, which is jarringly antithetical to the kiryu we’ve seen in previous game(s) and to their own narrative that he’s only ever loved one (1) woman (all this goes for kiwami 2 as well, which is even worse in some ways, which is unsurprising considering it came right after y6).

all in all it makes me uneasy about the upcoming games and not optimistic that he’ll be presented as the character i grew to love in most of y0-y5. but i guess there’s some comfort in knowing that there isn’t one interpretation of him that’s indisputable fact, considering he’s been written and developed by way more than just one person with one view of him over the years– and that most of the really out of character dialogue and stuff is in unessential skippable parts of the game(s) like the cabaret club and standalone substories.

[smashwolfen]

Ouuuugjthxjdntbzjs my collection growssssssss!!

Literally all im missing now from gens 1-5 is just Sapphire and White 2 (ofc the hardest one to get for me), and then I can move onto the easier to obtain 3DS mainline titles, THEN the few other versions of switch pokemon games im missing!!!

Mainline collection is nearly complete eue

Missing:

Sapphire (GBA)

White 2

Pokemon Y

Sun

Ultra Moon

Brilliant Diamond

Shield

Lets Go Eevee

Lets Go Pikachu

I can only imagine what this would all go for together nowadays, literal goldmine XD

[dennisboobs]

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[beevean]

Harmony of Dissonance has no right to be this damn addictive with how complicated it is

I'm learning to sequence break it like a Metroid game (and abuse the shit out of the quick save function) and guys. guys it's so fun I love my OP witchy boy Juste <3

[immamapletreekid]

playing pokemon black... started tearing up at skyarrow bridge

[bother-blame]

my first perfect rgg game!