Thinking of buying a Steam Deck because, thanks to playing DARK FORCES REMASTERED on the Switch, my desire to replay the original DEUS EX is becoming an all-consuming obsession.
i tried, SUICIDE SQUAD: KTJL, really, but jesusfuckingchrist
First game I've abandoned in a long time: had its moments of fun, but was too bombastic, too crazed, too everything I never wanted in a game from the ARKHAM world. Didn't kill any of the Justice League nevermind make it to the controversy around Batman's death and Conroy's "final "performance (which I guess it isn't but is or something, IDK) but didn't care: not a single one of the TFX, save Harley – as whom I played only to seek some semblance of gameplay continuity between SQUAD and the ARKHAM games – spoke to me. The rest of the characters (King Shark as a Drax rip-off?) and the tone felt like a bad GTA rip-off version of something far better, as though the writers tried to create the HARLEY QUINN animated series version of the ARKHAM world but weren't up to the task (was nice to see ARKHAM’s Penguin, though). Maybe I'll revisit if they add more DLC that has something resembling a story, but hell, GOTHAM KNIGHTS was a better game. Massive disappointment from one of the era-defining studios of the last decade.
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And we're back to the weekly list: Squarespace changed up their iPad editor and made it impossible to add links, so it's simpler to do it this way and put it together once a week on the Mac.
As if the beauty of her work as a whole wasn’t amazing enough, her attention to the smallest detail never ceases to amaze :: Star Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter on Fashioning Afrofuturism | artnet
The black and white photos of Macdonald's work are incredible; like PDR, I can only imagine how amazing the color was in reality :: The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905) | The Public Domain Review
🤯🤯 :: Immersive Bamboo Installations by Asim Waqif Whirl and Heave in Monumental Motion | Colossal
The Armored-Knight "Robot" Designed by Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1495) | Open Culture
Better late than never, I suppose :: Keurig Just Killed The Coffee-Pod With Their New Biodegradable Compressed Coffee Pucks | Yanko Design
At last, an AI with impeccable gaming taste :: Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play 'Goat Simulator 3' | WIRED
Someone has to have the adaptation option on this story, right? :: The Ghost-Busting 'Girl Detective' Who Awed Houdini | Atlas Obscura
Very cool :: Teen Titans Live-Action Movie in the Works at DC Studios | The Hollywood Reporter
And, finally, re-linking / linking within to the teaser for MOUSE, an upcoming game from Fumi Games that takes the CUPHEAD / Tex Avery aesthetic and turns it into an FPS.
MOUSE (teaser)
No clue when this will come out, but please make it soon, Fumi: I have an urgent need to play this.
a few notes at +/- 50% of ALAN WAKE 2
A stunningly-realized horror world; the forests, especially, are terrifying – and beautiful.
Saga is such a great character and such a fantastic addition to the series that it makes Wake seem like even more of a raging asshole and his portions of the game a bit more of a chore. Yeah yeah, your story rewrites reality, blah blah blah. Fucking writers.
I'm really going to miss James McCaffery’s voice in Remedy games.
I was skeptical about the shared Remedy-verse, but I love how it works here. I have the Ultimate Edition of CONTROL that I want to replay soon so I'll pick up on more connections.
Think I'm finally understanding how Wake's Plot Board works - though I find it far less intuitive than Saga's profiling: "I have to be in the place to write..." Fucking writers.
That musical sequence really was something – and maddening. I love my flare gun but I hate reloading it. Or reloading anything, really... 🎶 "It couldn't be clearer... / ... something something, light / true and right..."🎶
Mem: you can reload while running but not while dodging.
Coffee World!
I miss Barry.
Have to play at night because of the location of the TV. Can't see a thing during the day. Appropriate, I suppose.
Fucking writers.