I find it difficult to reconcile how the writer of Speaker for the Dead is such a bigot. Dude took a hard swerve at some point.

It barely qualifies as a teaser, but I concede that.

It’s absolutely a cheap way to give you an easy win. If I get SVP but lose in overtime, it’s absolutely an insult to throw me into a bot match for ‘practice’

Yeah except it doesn’t work like that. If you get 2 losses in a row or even 2 losses separated by a win, it’ll dump you in the kiddie pool, doesn’t matter how much playtime you have. If I get SVP and it still puts me into a bot match, that’s bad design.

It seems to be a way to grant the player an easy win so you don’t tilt and quit. But the ruse was way too easy to see through.

Every studio does this though. “Media Blackout” is just everything up to the reveal trailer.

That would be an interesting challenge: to play a game suboptimally, intentionally rhythmic.

…you know this was a Japanese movie, right?

Not programming, but the plot of Shin Godzilla was about bureaucratic red tape holding back the actual solutions.

I mean this was the end of the movie anyway…

Turtle Island, it’s like world 4 or so. Hopefully it’s been updated, I haven’t tried again for probably 8 years

I’ve never been able to play though Goemon’s Great Adventure on emulation. It always hits a game-breaking crash :/

HZD actually has a fantastic story and a great setting. With some recent successful game movies, I can see this one actually being good. But does Sony have much of a track record here? Uncharted was bad.

In Love With A Ghost

German Error Message

Blank Banshee

Blue Turtle (a YouTube compilation channel with nice art)

Not sure about the Mac environment, but I had the black screen issue when screen mirroring through Chromecast. It’s fixed by disabling hardware acceleration in the browser.

Big shout out to Beyond All Reason. It’s an RTS game that’s free and open source that I’ve been playing with my friends for a few weeks now. Not even a fan of RTS games, but it’s a lot of fun to play co-op matches against AI.
https://www.beyondallreason.info/

On 18 August 2024, during a talk at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Macdonald confirmed DaCosta would be directing the sequel and said that principal photography was set to begin the following day. Macdonald also talked about potential plans for a third 28 Years Later film, saying “we hope there is going to be a third part” and “there is a trilogy.”

It’s a maybe for now

Rotwood is a good one. Co-op Roguelite beat-em-up from the Don’t Starve guys.

Lethal Company is just lots of fun, we’ve gotten too much time out of that dumb game. Maybe check out Content Warning if you like LC but want a change.

Outward is a fantastic old-school RPG for two people, has all the traits of a game from 2002

Palworld - haven’t hopped back into this one since its launch but have been meaning to. But this type of game is definitely not underrepresented on the market.

Escape Simulator is a nice stress-free co-op escape room game, lots of official content and also has Steam Workshop so there’s tons of great content.

PlateUp! if you’re not worried about getting into a fight over how awful your buddy is at making food

Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos is a Zelda-like RPG that’s a surprising amount of fun for how simple the game first looks.

Other bigname recs: Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Baldur’s Gate 3, Sea of Thieves, Deep Rock Galactic, Stardew Valley

In ZZZ there’s not much you need to do in the overworld by looking up, it’s 100% to see more angles of the character

We’re actually getting a ‘28 years’ trilogy

My friend group has been having a lot of fun with Beyond All Reason. Also free/open source RTS