GameClub

The game itself isn't very fun or interesting at all imo, but I do love this artwork. It's a simple puzzle game where you draw a path from your character to the girl, while avoiding letting the bully reach her. The title translates to something like "Love is a Strategy Game"

Sixteen years old, and still my favorite Let's Play of all time. Heck, I consider it more akin to a walking tour than a Let's Play.

Skyrim is my favorite game of all time. I've played through it many times on many different characters. Sometimes I speedrun, sometimes I do all factions, sometimes I get lost roleplaying and I never beat it.

Spoilers kind of, but when you beat the game you get some cool rewards. New spells, new shouts, new summons. And a new song plays in taverns and the people of the world react with new dialogue. You also get new quests. But I've only experienced these things for short periods. Because as soon as I beat the game I lose all drive to play it.

In the back of my mind, as I'm doing those side quests and factions, and decorating my house, and goofing off underneath Riften, its all building up to the finale. Even if I never reach that end point something inside me needs it to be there for me to keep playing. I've had playthroughs where I try to save everything fun until after the main quest and I still can't get myself to do it. I just stop playing.

I wish there was new game plus where I could keep those end game spells and summons, but still have the main quest to do over. I've looked into mods and what I want doesnt fully exist but this mod at least saves your skills and gold.

I've talked to a lot of people about Skyrim and similar games and no one has ever felt the same way so maybe I'm just odd. I'd be curious to hear if anyone else goes through this.

Pixelfed link with 10 pics

LParchive thread where the images are from

I stumbled across this game and its art while watching a gamesack vid about pcengine-CD games. I love how many potraits they made and how expressive they are. And honestly I've just discovered I really love 16bit character art.

Lots of half rendered people and missing floors. Excited for the xbox version but part of me will miss scenes like this

I like the game a lot, and I think the roster is actually pretty good. But as someone who plays a lot of fighting games this has got to be one of the worst select screens I've seen. The CSS exists for the player to be able to quickly find the fighter they want to pick, fighters who usually have a distinct color palette to be visually interesting. But this screen makes everyone the same shades of blue and it all blends together. Again I love the game, great mechanics music and roster, but if it was possible I would pick a black and white list of names over this.

I don't know how to see the total for all instances but at least for Sopuli we have hit 100 which I didn't really think would happen!!

If you are visiting the community please make a post! It can be literally anything even a little related to gaming! Even a showerthought or a screenshot or a cool fact or anything! Your posts are welcome even if you feel like they are too small or uninteresting or shitposty I promise you I want to see them!

I've recently stumbled upon a new genre that seems like its starting to take off - games where the main mechanic is taking pictures. I wanted to talk about the ones I've found and see if there are any that I missed

Toem

This one is really cool because you explore the world from a top down 2d perspective but switch to 3d when taking pictures. That mechanic plus the black and white coloring gives the game a really unique mood that I found to be super relaxing. The quests are also the right amount of difficult, encouraging you to explore without being frustrating

Eastshade

This one is a much larger 3D open world game. Instead of taking pictures with a camera you are creating paintings, but the mechanics are basically the same. The world is populated with animal NPCs and a ton of side quests to explore. It almost feels like an Elder Scrolls games at time, but doing something peaceful like painting instead of hitting people with a sword changes the entire vibe. I love it and revisit it all the time.

Pupperazi

Not much to say here because I did not get very far. You take pictures of dogs to fulfill certain missions. It just didn't grab me, and I put it down after a couple of hours.

Pokemon Snap

Felt like this needed a mention, both the original and the remake. Not my type of game and not what I am looking for in this genre. This is an on rails experience and there isnt much exploration

So there are 4 games, two I liked and two I did not. I think the big difference is the first two are basically regular games, you just use your camera/brush in place of the usual weapon. While the other two are more of a safari experience. Hopefully we see more of these "shooters" in the future!

Young Scrolls creates tracks using voice clips mostly from Elder Scrolls games. If you have never heard their music I would recommend Dagothwave, The Fine or Balmora Blue off of this album.

I've always been impressed with how creative the lyrics can be when working with such a limited amount of material. These are not just novelties, there are many legitimately good tracks here. TES fans will probably enjoy them more though.

Thought this was a really cool run! I love KH1 but I can't imagine beating it without upgrading the keyblade/armor.

Since the GBA lacked dedicated sound hardware, I think this is very impressive, even despite the bitcrushed vocals 💀

Pixelfed link with 4 higher quality images

When I first started Soul Calibur VI I was on the fence about it and didn't want to get too invested. So when I got to the character creator I just made a giant red skeleton and hit complete.

But then I ended up putting a ton of time into the game, completing all the side content I could find and reading everything available in game. I grew attached to my skele and started to accessorize him and give him a personality. Now whenever I look at old captures I feel a lot of attachment to a custom character I made in less than 5 minutes.

So I've been playing the first SaGa game, following the announcement of the new SaGa: Emerald Beyond that will release in 2024. I've never played a SaGa game before, but I love how rough around the edges and unconventional it is. You really have to use your imagination a bit sometimes and not interpret everything literally. The whole game kind of feels like a bizarre fever dream. This "cactus" included.

I've actually played the fix, and while its still not an amazing game, its pretty decent for the 2600.

Really cool series of articles going over some Japanese games you have probably never heard of. As a retro pixel art fan this feels like a gold mine.

I spend a lot of time on youtube, often having it on in the background while I do other things. I thought it would be fun to share some of the creators I love, as finding good content on youtube can be difficult. I'll probably do another of these soon. If you have a favorite not listed here share them in the comments!

Ross Scott's Game Dungeon

My personal favorite. Ross digs into all sorts of pc games, and has a very unique style of reviewing. It is hard for me to put in to words without over simplifying, but if you said someone who is losing his mind willfully subjecting himself to games that will make him lose his mind I would say you have the gist of it. He also has a strong belief in game preservation, and has made videos with passionate arguements for it.

I would reccomend his coverage of Killing Time or Eternam

thorhighheels

Thor brings an eclectic mix of videos, usually chasing after a certain style, or feeling. He is a musician as well, and often goes into what the sound design can bring to a game or series. Most of his content is video essays, but he does a great job of keeping things interesting, and not taking longer than necessary to make his point. I'd reccomend this video where he goes over "mysterious" fighting games.

SNES Drunk

When playing retro games it can be hard to know what is worth your time. SNES Drunk has made enough high-quality and entertaining reviews to fill this 10 hour video of SNES game reviews. No specific reccomendation, just pick any of his 5ish minute videos to check out.

Classic Gaming Quarterly

CGQ goes over old media and promotional material for retro consoles. Check out this video where he goes through an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly.

Pikasprey Yellow

The reverse-Houdini of Pokemon. Using a long series of steps he finds ways to mess up his playthrough so much that it could take 100s of hours to escape, and then he tries to escape. This video sums it up pretty well.