#i don't have a playstation

[lucy-the-demon]

Helloooo~

So I was drawing and I wanted to draw a different pose

Then I remembered a video of Elora from Spyro ( the remake version) and I said "fuck it..we ball"

that's why I made this..

" I saw a video similar to this..."

shut up nobody cares

Reference under the cut

[assumptionprime]

I adore your take on DS2 and wanted to know what ur thoughts were on Elden Ring and/or DS 3!

(also I have been loving ur comics!!!)

First off: Thank you! Glad you like my comics! <3

I mentioned it briefly in the DS2 post, and it's been said by others, but Dark Souls 3 is about ending Dark Souls. And it does that very well. The "time and space is falling apart and that's why the geography is like that" that people sometimes say about DS2 is literally, textually true in 3. The Dreg Heap is a pile of other, older Dark Souls areas collapsing in on each other. This world has been going on and on, repeating and prolonging the Age of Fire that should have ended long ago, and it's just breaking down. You can't keep the same thing going forever, that's true in the universe of the story, and of a franchise of dark fantasy action RPGs.

It's kind of funny and also impressive that Miyazaki and the team hit that point, saying if they keep doing this it's going to fall apart, on game three of the franchise. There's so many series out there that will pump out game after game of the same stuff, to the point they stop numbering them and give them subtitles to hide the fact that they're on game 23 of this thing, and FromSoft said "three's our limit for this one" and gave us the greatest hits final bow before moving on to new different takes on their subgenre of games.

Enter Elden Ring! The game that got me into FromSoft games. Every time people talked about Dark Souls it was always about how hard they were, and the whole "git gud" mentality, which made them seem like they would 100% be not my kind of thing. But I am an absolute sucker for a fantasy open world, so I dipped my toes into Elden Ring, and really enjoyed it! Being able to just go exploring and do something else whenever I got stuck was a huge plus, as are spirit ash summons. The game is hard, for sure, but there's also a lot of ways to ease that difficulty (not eliminate it, but ease it (also there's no excuse to not have a pause button, that's stupid, don't @ me))

As far as lore and storytelling, Elden Ring has a lot of cool stuff (that's my wife Ranni, my cool witch wife Ranni) but I don't know that I have so definite a "take" on its story. It goes back to the Dark Souls 1 and 3 well of "some important shit happened, go kill this list of bosses about it" but I appreciate that you have a lot more choice in regards to your ending. It's not "link the fire or don't" it's "you're creating a new age, what do you want that age to be like?" with a few compelling choices and some evil bastard ones for fun.

Assorted side thoughts:

FP is better than spell uses. More convenient, more flexible, lets you focus on Mind to allow yourself to cast more spells.

All of my first playthroughs were sword and board, both because of caution going in and because I like the "knight with a sword and shield" aesthetic.

Related to the last point, Guard Counters are a great addition in ER, and the "Sekiro style block" crystal tear for the Physick in the DLC should have been a talisman or something permanent, to just make that a play style people can use.

The Alva Armor rules, 10/10 best fit in Dark Souls

I really like Shadow of the Erdtree, but it is the absolute limit on the current version of Souls-game mechanics. Not everyone is Let Me Solo Her, and between both the extremely punishing difficulty and the becoming more repetitive nature of a lot of the boss design, they need to change up the combat to keep things going. Sekiro seems to be a step in that direction from what I hear?

No boss fight in any video game has ever made me feel as cool as Slave Knight Gael in the DS3 DLC. It just worked for me on pretty much every level. The story, the music, the visuals, the difficulty. I can beat him, and it's hard but not a kind of hard that makes me angry at the game. Dodging in and out of his attacks, getting my own hits in, it felt like a kick ass dance of fantasy combat. It's peak.

[fizztapp]

It feels like gaming studios have been reviving legacy franchises left and right, with SEGA's initiative last year bringing 5 franchises back from the dead, and now Bandai Namco bringing back Ninja Gaiden, doing something fresh with Pac-Man, Okami coming back, Virtua Fighter coming back.

Astro Bot won GOTY, and the Main Feature of that game was that it referenced the entire catalog of SONY franchises that have been left to rot.

This makes the perfect storm. I'm wondering, will SONY join in on this legacy revival trend? Bring back the old PS2 platformers? Make some smaller games to keep interest in their IPs alive?

I'm not sure, SONY seems to have had a streak of hubris as of late, especially with their recent spectacular failure in introducing new IPs, but maybe they will learn from that hubris instead of doubling down. But maybe they will learn the wrong lessons.

They are, after all, bringing back Marathon, but as unrecognizable multiplayer only live-service slop instead of the story rich single-player games the franchise is known for. It seems to be "Marathon" in name alone. Perhaps that's more on Bungie than Sony, but who knows. We can only wait to see if they course correct that game in time.

I hate that the best way to make money in this industry is to be absolutely drenched in nostalgia, but it's just as frustrating to see companies ignore their own history. To act like people wouldn't want to see these franchises again, while in the same breath announcing LAST OF US II for the 10th time is so disconnected from what I see people talking about online.

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizon forbidden west | talanah 16/?

[koka-mi]

They delayed magia exedra so they had more time to port it to consoles trust

[thornheartless]

Grins... I might have figured out how to play day one No Man's Sky on PlayStation

[oldsoulsoupbrain]

My Playstation Wrap-Up!

I got my first Playstartion (a ps4) in August of this year so this was very exciting for me! My three games are Horizon Zero Dawn, Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017), and Red Dead Redemption 2!

[deadpoolian]

Just some goofy boys 😌

[the-mirror-lied]

yooo not Bully getting rated for the PS5....what are you cooking Rockstar

we are so back (delusional)

[satorikomeijigaming]

Platinum #48: Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

Glad to have this one done. This really helped me remember that I am absolutely dogshit at 3D platformers. Despite that, I still have full intentions of doing Sly 2, 3, and 4.

This also marks trophy #4972. Zenless's platinum will add two more (getting very close to finishing that) and #4975-4998 will all be filler.

I've made good progress this morning on FF13, since now I can consistently kill an adamantoise in a minute and a half without a summon. I just t need to do that like 100 times or so and hope it drops a platinum ingot with every fight.

Anyways. I'm tempted to actually come out to my mom once I platinum FF13. Maybe. Probably not. But for the record I've thought about it. Too unexplainably scared to commit to it though.

[retro-plasma]

trying something new

[thegreatyin]

hey guys i just got a small loan of Many Dollars as christmas gift money are there any video games y'all would especially recommend

[murderisanaturalcause]

Pls someone try to convince me to not buy all dragon age games (again) in the 90% off steam sale going on rn

[ellraiser]

you may not like it but this is what peak gamedev performance looks like

[ettadunham]

why does horizon zero dawn, a game that came out 7 years ago and only got a PC port in 2020 has a remaster in 2024??? this is absurd.

[jurassic-cunt]

jurassic park videogame!???!!!!!!!