The phrase “the last time I was here I was a waifu.” Felt so out of pocket in a way I can’t explain, like in that moment Alex brushed against some sort of cosmic Deja vu. The more I watch this series the more convinced I become that Alex is just a spirit trapped in some sort of badly-rendered digital hell samsara, slowly seeing the cracks in the dream.

I am delighted and exactly 0% surprised that Alex watches "Well There's Your Problem"

There is a House of Leaves level of unsettling psychological horror to an endless empty plane of floor tiles under a sunless yet bright midday sky.

It might be tough to film, but the game building inspector idea Alex had at 1:48:00 would make a great Crapshot!

Duke Nukem 3D absolutely had PvP. Back in high school we would tell our Design and Technology (Shop) teacher that we wanted to stay after school to work on a project, but we would just play Duke Nukem instead.

Oversight of the devs here allows us to slay the dragon and sequence break the stages of grief, bypassing acceptance entirely.

13:10 I can't believe Alex totally called which random genre Dangerous Lands would shift to for the sequel.

I would ABSOLUTELY buy a shirt with those stages on it

Alex and The Poison Truck is my new ska band name.

"Why is there a ramp in the canal system?" Ask the Combine.

A bunch of that last game is really familiar. Like those ancient ruin looking structures with rebar sticking out or them.

I get positively tickled whenever Alex takes a drink from his can of void

If I could pick one thing on KZfaq to have alot more views it would be this

Hey you want some stainless steel kid

a lot of... Choices were made for that second game, in every respect--even the fonts are a Choice

I love how he ignores the only useful "cutscene", doesn't read the journal, and has no idea what happened in Building 847.

Murdered: Soul Suspect was the game you were thinking of with a similar mechanic. I think. (It was also good, but weird) Oh, wait, it got mentioned in chat.

1:40:10 I think Dark Unreal is a not an impossible soulslike but a bad soulsroguelike (whatever name the legacy mechanic is called), so when you die you just continue where you left off. You can see the Grux still has only about 50% hp left from when you first tried to fight it, and when you respanwed this time it was all the way with the mob instead of coming right at you as in previous respawns. Seeing as there don't seem to be any real downsides to dying the game is actually not impossible, just a tremendous chore. EDIT: Well the final flurry of fighting seemed quite easy on the whole.

I remember playing murder: soul suspect mainly cause I encounter a bug that stopped me finishing the game

Dagerous Lands ll really feels like that waifu hack and slash game you played like a year or two ago

AI is a pretty broad term. The behavior of NPCs in games is called AI. Even if it's just turn towards player and shoot.

The facade castle is exceptionally good (⁠ﾉ≧⁠▽⁠≦)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

Alex gon' give it to ya Fuck waiting for you to get it on your own, Alex gon' deliver to ya Knock knock, open up the door, it's real With the non-stop, pop-pop of stainless steel

So, that guy in Building 847... did you ever make his gun quick or not?

🐭Gotta be honest: If I saw her name was Bessie, I’d just replace the rest of her dialogue with moos.

Well, I get to check off one more box on my KZfaqr I Watch Watches KZfaqr I Watch bingo card. I think Alex Watches Well There's Your Problem is right next to James Watches Mumbo Jumbo.

Wasn't it a thing that Halo made bodies react to being t-bagged in one of their games?

Plate carriers so big mfers looking like ninja turtles.

@18:30 But Graham, don't you want to support independent game creators? LRR needs to fund these small studios to ensure a future wealth of material for Watch+Play.

Except visual novels are good. (And dating sims and Japanese adventure games are not visual novels. Dating sims have simulation elements, hence the name)

How many Stages of Grief are you on? Like Five or Six My Dude You are like little child, watch this * Kills Six Billion Dragons *

Escape the City is the story of a man whose job consists of blacking out on the train to work, wakes up with a gun in his hands tasked with killing his coworkers in the shitty buildings district all day until he wakes up at home with a $100 bill in his pants pocket

As a diehard Remedy fan, Quantum Break is mid at best. However, they co-made the single player campaign for Crossfire X and that game is straight garbage. But they have an absolutely incredible track record.

My BIL insists that turn of the century classism, racism, and industrialization had zero impact on HP Lovecraft's and Tolkien's writings. To suggest that they were influenced by the world they grew up in is to somehow rob them of every single creative decision they ever made. LotR makes zero political statements... at all. How dare you sully it... /rolleyes

Say what you will about The Division 1, at least there was *some* thought put into "the bad guys". Yeah, you're mostly extra-judicially executing US citizens on US soil for the crime of scavenging. But the Rikers being pissed off prisoners who had been left to die looking to get revenge is kind of compelling. The Sanitation workers going scorched earth and trying to save what's left of the city by burning out the infection, that sorta tracks. The 'twist' of the end game enemies being first the Army that had been sent it to restore order and turning themselves into a Fascist fiefdom and then finding out most of the First Wave Division agents who had been sent in are either dead or decided the city can't be saved and all gone rogue. There's stuff to talk about and unpack in Div1. Div2 from my memory is just, "i dunno, people be craaaaaaaazy. Shoot em!"