I agree that they do their jobs very well. I am not a very big fan of most of the games they have adapted, but I do associate them with quality. Aeon’s End is probably my favorite of theirs, followed by One Deck Dungeon. I’m just can’t get in to Sentinels, but the Handelabra treatment is excellent.
Does anyone have experience with the Fury of Dracula app? It is currently on sale and $4 seems a good deal for a game, but I don’t want to be burned by a bad app. I hate Nomad’s approach to multiplayer but their apps do function well, so m considering this.
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Only tried it 2P but that’s the only way it works currently? Runs like a re-elected dog on my crappy tablet but is otherwise sound.
EDIT: RE-ELECTED DOG? I’m leaving it because it obviously made sense to my drunk self but fucking Hell.
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The ordeal is finally over! I would have preferred the digital-only console (without a disk drive - also cheaper) but since rumors have it that for each digital console there are 9 with a drive out there, and it took me 6 months to get one (damn you scalpers! /fistshake) I can live with that.
Don’t know yet how I feel about the Ratchet & Clank in the bundle, it isn’t my kind of game but it is the sole reason I got a PS5 (this bundle is brand new so the scalper sniper bots weren’t programmed to hunt for it specifically.
And hey, the Uncharted 2 included in my PS3 slim bundle back then wasn’t my thing exactly either (due to ignorance of the franchise) and it went and established itself as one of my favorite games of all time, so hoping for at least a fun gaming experience at that.
A Demon Souls Remastered, Spider-Man MM, or Returnal bundle would have been more my cup of tea but that game came out earlier, so hope for a “newer” PS5 unit in my bundle which already has some minor revisions implemented for the early nitpicks about early PS5 models.
Now let’s hope for a safe delivery (no mishandling / no theft) this Monday.
Perfect timing now to prepare my PS4 Pro to be gifted away for a younger family member’s birthday next weekend.
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You better tip Willem Dafoe well. The Viet Cong don’t give up their next gen consoles without a fight.
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For some reason, this made me think of Christopher Walken sneaking a PS5 back to the states in his ass.
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Up, his ass.
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I’ve been playing Steamworld Quest and it is pretty good. It has card combat similar to Slay the Spire but is more of a traditional RPG than Roguelike dungeon run. The twist here is that each character has their own deck but in battle all cards are combined into one pool. It works, and makes hand management pretty important. As an RPG, the story thus far is basically pointless, but the gameplay is interesting enough to overlook that. Not a perfect game, but fun. I bought it on sale and am glad I didn’t pay the full $10, though.
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confirmative!
i’m having some solid fun playing it.
my advice is to play it on legend difficulty or you would waste some drama potential.
it’s a tough going then and some battles can be quite long, but i like a deep and slow advance.
thinking about that i bought Steamworld Heist on iPad again (in the anniversary sale too?).
i had played it on PS4 long ago but had made the mistake to play on normal.
so it was too easy and boring. just running around and shooting all enemies down.
no problems to solve, no tactics needed, no excitement,
now i’m on veteran and that’s much better.
and it’s a good fit for playing it on a tablet.
Has anyone here played Everspace?
I don’t know why, but I always assumed it was some generic shovelware space combat game (and it still may be at that) but I’ve just read that it is, in fact, a Roguelike space combat game with loot and progression. Is this the Dead Cells of space flight arcade games? Because that sounds mighty intriguing. I’m looking at it on my Switch.
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I played it and I liked it so far. Space navigation is a bit confusing but that is often the case for me, seeing how I fumble with No Man Sky and especially Elite dangerous navigation.
A huge backlog has prevented me from diving deeper into it but for the first 10 hours or so I had a really fun experience. I plan on getting back into it especially since Everquest 2 seems to shape up mightily fine as well.
Edit: played it on PS4pro so don’t know about performance on the switch….
I played a load of everspace on Xbox game pass. Iirc there was a bit of a learning curve, which isn’t unusual for space fighting games. I think I enjoyed the action, combat, exploring, and got sucked in by the plot.
I don’t remember the rogue like elements well enough to comment, sorry. I also can’t quite remember why I quit, something to do with something becoming repetitive, I’m not sure what
I think I bought it Day 1 on Steam and still suck at it. But I suck at any game that centers around flying in space in first- or third-person (both of which one can do in this game). It’s definitely a RL, and a difficult one at that, but that’s a plus in my book. If you like challenging RLs with meta progression, I think you’ll enjoy it.
Thank you all! I’m hunting this one down for sure!
This discussion had me jump in for a bit last night. This time I checked the 4 different controller schemes and immediately felt more confident after switching from Loadout A to Loadout C. If you play on controller check out the different options. It is quite ridiculous how the switching of two (essential) flying options change the game.
Makes me wonder why they start you out on Option A? Focus testing gone wrong or what?
Also playing the first couple of runs on easy helped out a lot to smooth down initial confusion, I can live with 25% less credits if that means I survive the first 90 sec of playtime 
Among all its bevy of E3 announcements, Nintendo revealed it is bringing Advance Wars 1 and 2 to the Switch as one game in December of this year. Which is great! I love that series.
Less great is the price: $59.99 For 2 games more than 10 years old with no enhancements or upgrades. This is not a premium title, it’s a port of two rather old games. Nintendo baffles me again.
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Uh, I didn’t see the trailers (I need to catch up on E3 on my time ( but going from your link the sceenshots seem to suggest that they souped-up the graphics (see the units vs units screenshots) which I am not sure about if I like that, yet…) but I believe that counts as enhancements…somewhat?
Edit: I still hope it gets advertised the hell out and a ton of people buy them…especially maybe new-generation Fire Emblem fans? Maybe that brings the series back from the dead proper and we get a NEW entry in it?
Games like Lost Frontier, Wargroove, and others ( a bucketful of games on mobile) proved (IMHO) that cutesy TBS Strategy is not dead yet, so gimme new AW games Intelligent Systems!
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They don’t really have a choice though, or it’s pixellated graphics from 20 years ago on your 50 inch telly.
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This has been keeping me occupied. Pulls from Dream Quest / Slay the Spire structure, but battle is Yahtzee
While your description makes Dicey Elementalist sounds interesting, that list of IAP is mighty off-putting. How paywally/timery is it in practice?