Finally!!!!!!! pity no alex for some real home improvement talk but i'll take what i can get
I'm not ready for this - I need an isolation tank to fully experience it!
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We're thrilled to be joined by Remap Radio's Rob Zacny this week to talk about everything from Shogun: Total War to Qui-Gon Jinn's Force balls, Manor Lords, Another Crab's Treasure, the post-Embracer troika, strategies for truly unplugging, and plenty of other stuff!
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Rob guesting is a surprise, but a welcome one.
Hopefully an opportunity presents itself down the line for Alex to guest on HOA. I also wouldn't mind seeing Rob and Alex finding an outlet to talk about Like a Dragon since the former seems to be really digging Infinite Wealth.
2 minutes in and Rob is already urging the crew to lie to themselves at all times...this is glorious.
Yeah, it mostly still worked for me, but it went from running kinda tight on resources to just having everything very quickly. I'm not entirely sure I would've liked it better if it stayed consistent, but that's because I've played too many jrpgs with that same power curve.
Citizen Sleeper does a great job at replicating the feeling of having a mountain of problems of your own while also feeling pulled to help others who too are clearly struggling and not having the ability to do it all. That is of course until the game's balance eventually sways in favor of the player and it becomes rather trivial to spin all the plates.
Still haven't gotten around to Citizen Sleeper but if anyone's at all interested, Norco is great and it's leaving Game Pass soon.
Man. Having these problems in real life... Why would I ever touch such a thing?
coz its fun to solve it with dice instead of time and hard work in real life
Sometimes it's nice to be seen and relate to something rather than pure escapism. That might be why the game allows you to just become a mushroom baron, space station philanthropist at a certain point too. It'd be a distressing, depressing experience otherwise.
I'm with Rob and Vinny regarding both Harold Halibut and to a lesser extent Citizen Sleeper. I was fine with the slow pace and relative hands off gameplay of Harold until I looked it up and learned it's a 10 hour long game. That's a lot of walking back and forth through the same dozen or so screens.. Citizen Sleeper had a similar issue for me but this was at least mitigated to a certain degree by the menu-based gameplay that let you skip around the station. With Harold Halibut you have to actually do the legwork which gets tedious after a while no matter how wonderful the backdrops are.
Well you could argue that the dice represent finite resources acquired each day that you can decide to use to help other people or just help yourself, while the allocation of die denominations is random each day, you are never solving problems through straight dice roll as, if you meet par or above, a successful outcome is guaranteed.
Or I could just make a joke about solving your problems with dice
That's true. I definitely liked how in-depth certain storylines went. Even though you lose some of the resource scarcity decisions in the early game you still have some tough decisions to make narratively.
Vinny was asking Rob about Star Wars things in the pod, so for him I'm posting the news that the 2024 update to the absolutely ridiculous "Star Wars: The Complete Canon Timeline" from Star Wars Explained is out.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaVnlWw5DAE
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaVnlWw5DAE
It's one of the most popular entertainment properties on the planet - yah it's "still a thing"
Trying to keep up with the Zacny Extended Universe is like a game in its own right 😀
I was surprised the crew got into Star Wars so much since they were all pretty down on Jedi Survivor and voiced in not caring all that much about the franchise iirc. But I can also see them just wanting to give Rob some of that space to help nudge interested folks over to AMCA.
As for Star Wars Explained, they really are some of the very few excellent folks on YouTube. Maybe a little too positive/summary-heavy when it comes to the "review" end of things, but I'll take it over the gateways to chuddom that is most of the Star Wars space on YouTube/social.
Dunno how they put together that kind of video though, especially with how quickly books, comics, and shows come out to where it was already out of date when posted.
I thought the story was supposed to be like the best part of those two games?
Nah.. they have really good gameplay. Fallen Order was a little spotty in some places but Survivor definitely tightened a lot of the gameplay up and was a really good metroidvania. It was unfortunately plagued with with technical issues, both games really, but I wouldn't say the story is anything special.
Jedi Survivor has good characterization, it is nice bath of fun characters that do Star Warsie stuff without relying on "Remember This Guy?!"
But the story is pretty weak, because it relies on two twists that I clocked almost immediately.
Sometimes it's fun to be a little smarter than the story, but when stuff is too obvious it makes the main cast look dumb.
But the story is pretty weak, because it relies on two twists that I clocked almost immediately.
Sometimes it's fun to be a little smarter than the story, but when stuff is too obvious it makes the main cast look dumb.
I like how Rob can talk endlessly about Star Wars but also give it shit. The best type of fan.