I thought the controls were pretty good with some practice. The level design is a touch on the lame side in places, but it's doing something different, and pretty well imo. I enjoyed it.

Circuits [Switch]
It’s a music puzzler, where you place components of a track on a circuit-style layout, in order to replicate a given audio clip. The gameplay isn’t engaging enough to make you want to hear the music, and the music isn’t good enough to put up with the gameplay.

Darksiders 3. For every step forward it would take 3 back. Dodge ruleset in a dark souls clone is vital, and it made some cardinal sins.

Final straw was a required ability just disappearing so I was stuck.

Glad it was gamepass.

Bright memory. weird indie fps done in unreal engine by a single dev. Impressive for what it is, and the single vision makes for some daring and disastrous design choices.

Glad I tried it, and glad I gave the dude some money, but again, also glad it was cheap.

I still don't really know what's going on with it tbh, was enjoying watching Tilly and Andy bop each other on the head with butterfly nets yesterday though.

I must've seen 100s of tweets and I don't know how much coverage of Animal Crossing recently. I've yet to read anything that makes it sound the least bit interesting. One of those where I'm just never going to see the appeal.

I think it's a game of daily drop in, do a few chores, buy some stuff, slowly improve your house and island. I think a lot of us, myself included, have been racing to "get stuff done", which is why things like the repetitive dialogue is even more of an issue. Short bursts, every day, is really enough. I'm just trying to unlock the terraforming, so I can iron out some of the issues with dodgy bridge placement etc.

I think there's a sweet spot regarding pace. Me and Unc are not playing enough to get the best out of it. Others are burning out.

It’s also nice to keep playing through the year and experience the seasons too.

Playing it to "win" is not the way to go. It's the ultimate in causal gaming. Switch it on, smash some rocks, pick some fruit, sell some stuff and spend a casual half hour calmly fishing then go do other stuff.
It's meant to be played a little every day with no real set goals other than sorting out your little house and making your island a nice place to be.

The thing is if you go gangbusters and rake in millions of bells on Turnips then you just run out of stuff to do faster.

Contrast the use of tools for example: some people will just craft lots of flimsy tools and let them break, because if you do it enough you get something for it. Other people will use the customise tool option to make it so their tools never break (cos customising resets the used status). My middle ground is: I buy flimsy tools and upgrade them. I am in no rush to get the special thing for breaking something a lot, and I have no issue with my tools breaking here and there.

Other people will obviously feel different, but I'd drive myself mad doing it the other way. AC has always been a very different beast to other games, but as Daily Grind Games have started to transpose onto all types of games, and things like WoW lead the way for Destiny, it's very easy to get into the mentality that everything in AC is a checkbox to be done right there and then, and if you don't then you've missed it sucker, and that's it you idiot! What do you mean you haven't already done all of the House Extensions by the end of April? But unlike those games, if you miss stuff in AC, it carries on. You don't lose, you don't stop being able to play or contribute, you can't "fall behind". If you miss a bug/fish competition, you can just do it next month. Prizes will probably be the same, and in the end they're just items to customise with. There's no incentive beyond it. 

The way everything has been incetivised in other days sort of bleeds into Animal Crossing, but it's not a 1:1 match up. Stuff like the Nook Terminal rewards brings to mind login bonuses for lots of games... but at the end of the day who cares if you haven't got 20,000 Nook Miles? I have 11 Dodo Tickets and i've never used them. Who cares if you're not out their farming 300,000 Bells worth of Tarantulas from them? If people want to do that, and have everything finished, then that's cool. But don't let that put you off playing it how you want to.

The last two posts are brilliant.

Outer Wilds. 
Quite polished Fallout in space but it's so Fallout, which in turn is so RPG. 
The same tasks you've done a million times before, the same mission creep after you talk to the first character in EVERY given quest. 
At one point I did actually have a hope it would be different when my character said "Dont tell me, you want me to do something for you first..." But, no, they did want me to do something for them first. 
It's only clever when you subvert the trope, just recognising it doesn't count.

Yeh, that one. But I also gave up on Outer Wilds.

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Tempy wrote:

The thing is if you go gangbusters and rake in millions of bells on Turnips then you just run out of stuff to do faster.

Contrast the use of tools for example: some people will just craft lots of flimsy tools and let them break, because if you do it enough you get something for it. Other people will use the customise tool option to make it so their tools never break (cos customising resets the used status). My middle ground is: I buy flimsy tools and upgrade them. I am in no rush to get the special thing for breaking something a lot, and I have no issue with my tools breaking here and there.

Other people will obviously feel different, but I'd drive myself mad doing it the other way. AC has always been a very different beast to other games, but as Daily Grind Games have started to transpose onto all types of games, and things like WoW lead the way for Destiny, it's very easy to get into the mentality that everything in AC is a checkbox to be done right there and then, and if you don't then you've missed it sucker, and that's it you idiot! What do you mean you haven't already done all of the House Extensions by the end of April? But unlike those games, if you miss stuff in AC, it carries on. You don't lose, you don't stop being able to play or contribute, you can't "fall behind". If you miss a bug/fish competition, you can just do it next month. Prizes will probably be the same, and in the end they're just items to customise with. There's no incentive beyond it. 

The way everything has been incetivised in other days sort of bleeds into Animal Crossing, but it's not a 1:1 match up. Stuff like the Nook Terminal rewards brings to mind login bonuses for lots of games... but at the end of the day who cares if you haven't got 20,000 Nook Miles? I have 11 Dodo Tickets and i've never used them. Who cares if you're not out their farming 300,000 Bells worth of Tarantulas from them? If people want to do that, and have everything finished, then that's cool. But don't let that put you off playing it how you want to.

Couldn’t agree more with this.

Playing most days on my commute and lunch - just doddering along. I’m way “behind” some people but I’m just chilling and taking my time.

Didn’t bother with the fishing tourney yesterday and there was no FOMO.

Just take your time and play as and when you want.