Video Games

How did she like Oxenfree?

Thought it was a bit strange in parts, but overall liked it and rated it slightly above Edith Finch. Probably 8/10

This looks AMAZING. I enjoyed the first one. Switching from 2D to 3D alone is too fun not to get into it.

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Speaking of BotW, can we drop some kudos on this amazing soundtrack?

If you skip to 5:53, youā€™ll hear one of the most fantastic piano compositions of any era. It neatly transitions to a soul-satisfying violin rendition of the Zelda theme at 6:40.

Well shit, we playing that game?

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Iā€™m in love w/Kassā€™s little theme song in BOTW.

Best gaming soundtrack of all time? Mineā€™s probably Final Fantasy 6. Silent Hill also had some amazing soundtracks. Icoā€™s is quite memorable as well.

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Been listening to this in my car btw. Soooooo many good tracks

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OK, you convinced me on CrossCode, itā€™ll be my next game after finishing up BOTW and maybe another quick LA playthrough.

I already have a backlog of like 20 games though that Iā€™ll never get to. Bought like 6 main titles when I got the Switch a year and a half ago and every time I see a sale in the online store I buy a couple indy games. Main issue is that I just donā€™t do as much gaming as I used to. Maybe like 5-10 hours a week max on average.

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Huzzah, I got one!

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ā€žOrcs must dieā€œ (1/2/Unchained/3)

I havenā€™t played 3 yet but had a lot of fun with the other ones.

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If it makes you feel better, I put in like 15-20 hours in BOTW and gave up on it. Maybe I wouldā€™ve liked it when I was younger but itā€™s just not my kind of thing anymore; I found it tedious and strangely boring just traipsing around this giant world, fighting the same enemies and taking forever to accomplish anything.

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It does make me feel better and less alone TY. Felt like I was the one person in the world not declaring BotW to be the best video game ever made.

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Same. We do have the same taste in games. Lol

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30 fps action games are fucking terrible across the board.

You also used to play Eternal, which Iā€™ve gotten back into lately in spite of myself (I have a love/hate relationship with draft). Oh and Rocket League, which Iā€™ve been off of for a while, although Iā€™ll download the Switch version once it goes F2P and I can transfer my progress. I think what it comes down to is I only want games that I can complete something and get enjoyment out of in relatively short bursts - card games, Slay The Spire, Dead Cells, and lots of rogue-likes. I definitely have a love for longer, story-heavy games and still find a lot of enjoyment in certain larger games, most recently GoW, HZD, and Bloodborne, but Iā€™ve definitely moved most of my gaming to those short-burst games on the Switch.

yep. Same. due to my attention span I can really only handle games in 5-20 minute bursts. Why I used to love CS as well. And street fighter/fighting games in general.

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If you know what I mean

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lmfao, is there really a ā€œcomposing a haikuā€ minigame? This samurai game rules school. Iā€™m gonna go stab some dudes and write poetry and shit like a boss.

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This is exactly how I game now except I play HS BG or Legends of Runeterra. Every once in a while I binge on something like a good degen. I put like 50 hours into Grim Dawn in 2 weeks recently but Iā€™ll probably go a few months before anything like that happens again.

Iā€™m looking to get a couple new controllers for the PC. Xbox 360 controllers have been the standard and they are obviously great. Weā€™ve been using PDP Afterglow versions and theyā€™ve been good, except that my kids have abused them.

Any thoughts on Xbox One wired controllers versus Xbox 360? Looks like I can get the PDP Xbox One Stealth for $20, pretty much the same as an Xbox 360 PDP controller, depending on the day. They seem pretty similar.