It always bums me out a little when a survival horror game ties saving to a limited resource. It feels like a system designed for people who can easily glue themselves to a game without issue, and I can't always do that My ADHD-ass brain doesn't like artificially capping my ability to stop playing

Galactic Racer is a lot trickier than I was expecting but it's really got its hooks in. You can feel how absurdly fast and dangerous this shit is, *especially* podracing. It really sells why Anakin was the only human who could do it, cause you crash hard and easy It's so fun

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For various reasons I haven't been able to blitz through Silent Hill Townfall quite as fast as I did with Control Resonant. But I'm starting to get near the end and it's been fucking incredible Hard to believe we've had a whole modern trilogy of SH that's been this varied and good

Control Resonant is one of the most mind-blowing video games I’ve ever played.

There's something really fun about devs making their own magazine ads like this Ambrosia Sky is a beautiful gem, highly recommend

Ambrosia Sky 🪐@softrains.bsky.social · 5d ago

Buried in the rings of Saturn lies a cluster of hope. A cluster of progress. A cluster of discoveries. A cluster of hubris, danger, and death. 💀 A colony in crisis. It's time to come home, Dalia. Ambrosia Sky is 30% off on Steam until October 15th: ambrosiasky.com

"Confident in my ability to bounty hunt, I land on the hostile alien world. I smile at my opponent. Samus does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did, I think. She fires. The charge beam shot passes cleanly through my skull, vaporizing me instantly"

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 6d ago

This disgusting dipshit got filtered from Dark Souls AND the Star Fox remake and thinks he can speak authoritatively to devs.

HEY MAN SCUMBAG RAT CATCHER CHEM FREAK TONIGHTS THE NIGHT PRESS CHECK LASER SIGHT

RUBY RANGER : QUAKE DAD@rubyranger.bsky.social · 5d ago

Forgot to post yesterday's album, which is PURE ACID HELL by @gothgamernation.bsky.social. Straight from the Goth Gamer Nation President, Grimbeard, this is an exceptional industrial album, evocative of an older sound and grit. Don't miss this one. open.spotify.com/album/1LVYzl...

Hard to think of another modern game that feels more like an experimental PS3 cult classic from 2010 (100% complimentary)

Colin Spacetwinks@spacetwinks.bsky.social · 6d ago

Slitterhead ($19.99) - October's the perfect time for this one, with Keiichiro Toyama (Silent Hill 1, Siren, Gravity Rush) bringing you a horror-action title where you swap bodies on the fly and fight with vicious blood powers. Akira Yamaoka soundtrack too! store.steampowered.com/app/2631250/...

I like to joke that it took me ~7ish years to learn to block I tended to dodge more than block in action games, old habit. I assumed as an RPG, all play styles would be equally viable. And because Dark Souls has much a reputation for being hard, when it didn't work I figured that's just how it was

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️@sharkabytes.bsky.social · 7d ago

Happy 15th anniversary of your North American release, Dark Souls! (the ad is a euro one for its release a few days later) A sea-change in gaming and the one that really caught people's attention, buoyed by considerable promotion and hype for its release. Favourite Souls games and memories, peeps?

I'm in a very Signalis mood lately and it's proving to be a surprisingly difficult itch to scratch I just played it back in May, so ideally I'd love to find something new. But I might end up firing it up again for a bit just to soak in the vibes

A new Remedy-fueled banger from The Stupendium is exactly what I need right now If you haven't heard The Ribbon go fix that

The Stupendium@thestupendium.bsky.social · last wk.

Just 30 minutes until we turn Nerdcore upside-down with this one... Be sure to tune in for the premiere of 'The Sky Below', my song for @remedygames.com's CONTROL Resonant! #Ad #ControlResonant youtu.be/1qriW3LiZUg

everything about the jacob geller allegations is deeply upsetting and traumatising, from the details themselves to their being publicised on twitter by third party texts seemingly without any consultation with the victim to the armchair detective posting that followed

Fantastic look at Townfall. I've only just started playing and I'm blown away by the setting. If you haven't seen how beautiful and unnerving it is you should really check this out

maria@eurothug4000.bsky.social · 2w ago

#ad NEW VIDEO! I played SILENT HILL: Townfall and it got... quite close to home. The details of the in-game world are something that made the experience for me, so I wanted to make a lil essay focused on that <3 Thank you to KONAMI UK for sponsoring the vid! youtu.be/55mgRMzLcRw

You know, if Remedy ever wanted to *actually* make Severed Circle 2 as a little side project, I would play the fuck out of that. Just saying You know their take on a 16 bit RPG would go so hard

Wait a minute... there are six Remedy protagonists Max Payne Alan Wake Jack Joyce Jesse Faden Saga Anderson Dylan Faden Dylan *actually* is P6

I'm only like 10 minutes into Silent Hill Townfall and I'm already convinced Screen Burn understood the assignment. Holy fuck this atmosphere *hits* Also Terry O'Quinn is in this? I had no idea but that's rad

Finished Control Resonant. My god. What a beautiful game We much protect Remedy at all costs. Everyone needs to get on their level

Control Resonant is surprisingly melancholy. Behind all the big, trippy action you pass by a lot of small tragedies and people struggling to do their best in the wake of pretty overwhelming shit I can see why some folks felt the story starts off simple, but this thing's got some real weight to it

analog horror series about evil cursed retro video games except instead of a guy documenting it it's an avgn type asshole who never realizes the game is haunted AND THE FUCKING IDIOT SHOPKEEP JUST KEEPS TALKING ABOUT HANGING HIMSELF? THAT'S NOT GONNA HELP ME BEAT THE LEVEL! BAD GAME DESIGN MUCH???

I can't believe some of the ways Control Resonant keeps unfolding and one-upping itself. There's so much to unpack and it's all incredible

There are so many visuals in Control Resonant that are just the sickest most incredible thing you've ever seen

The overarching theme of the Star Wars sequel trilogy is that fascism will come right back in a few years if you don’t completely stamp it out.

The Star Wars Underworld@theswu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Question: What is the overarching theme of the Sequel Trilogy's story? #StarWars #SequelTrilogy

The exploration in Control Resonant is so good. I keep stumbling into little parts of the map I didn't realize I haven't explored yet There's so much to see but it doesn't feel *busy* the way some open world things do. Feels like a very natural evolution of Control's scope in a less confined space

Cal Kestis and Dylan Faden go to the same poncho store.

This is why I don't like Steam's user review system and it really confuses me why anyone would trust it Do you really want random anonymous losers like this having influence over your discovery algorithm? Influence over which games get a fair chance and which don't? Influence you can't opt out of?

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com · 2w ago

I just found an account on Steam that has reviewed over 21,600 games... Most of them indie. Almost all of them negatively and at least several paragraphs long. Misery given flesh.

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There's a lawnmower in the distance outside that sounds almost exactly like a specific ambient droning from Silent Hill 2

I think Control Resonant may take me forever to beat simply because I'm stopping to look at all the cool bits of architecture and graffiti and posters and ads and random bits of lore pickups. Remedy make worlds that I want to devour.

Whatever they're paying their technical artists at Remedy, it's not enough. They're still unquestioned champs of taking photorealistic rendering and then doing nightmarish things to it. The vapor effect that pours off Hiss enemies is still *so* good.

If you manage to make a boss fight simultaneously epic, menacing, and *tragic*, you're probably doing something special Control Resonant is something special