I hadn’t heard of this game until it won the award. I’m surprised it wasn’t already a board game. The original game strikes me as a more advanced version of Carcassonne.
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The video game hasn’t been out all that long, relatively speaking, so going from that to an award winning board game seems really fast.
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It’s impressive as hell. Had me wondering if they were produced concurrently, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Early access for the video game happened in 2021, and it sounds like that might have caught the eye of the board game’s designers. And the brilliance here is that the video game may have served as a proof of concept that could iron out the quirks before the board game was produced. Easier to produce an update fixing rules than it is to make sure all consumers get an updated manual or, worse, yet, updated components. Little different than using Tabletop Simulator or Board Game Arena to prototype a game, just better because players didn’t have to actually go through those to try out the game.
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I don’t care if anything ever sells on Steam, but Nintendo are hypocrites here.
At least this is less dangerous of them compared to when their legal team directed The Big House to not move a Super Smash Bros. tournament from in-person to Slippi in 2020. While Nintendo picking legal stances which are indefensible goes back to the Game Genie, I can understand the Dolphin team not wanting to accrue the costs to define the grey area.
ETA: While I’m here, I’d like to make a recommendation for a Pokemon ROM hack. PureRGB is a set of three patches which can turn Pokemon Red or Pokemon Blue into a much more refined game. Why three patches? There’s one for Red and two for Blue. The only difference between PureBlue and PureGreen is changing the presentation to be inline with Japanese Green. The impressive bit is that you only need to apply one patch ever. So many other ROM hacks require multiple patches to enable or remove optional changes, but thanks to a recent disassembly of the ROMs, Vortyne was able to extend the in-game options menu from one screen to four. This might play on original hardware, but I find it’s handy to be able to switch between the color palette used in Pokemon Yellow or one of the Super Game Boys on-the-fly when emulating, without accessing an emulator options menu. Being the type of hack which makes all 151 original Pokemon available, there’s also less incentive for the trading aspect.
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Put that backlog to good use!
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YES! The Room is now available on PSVR2. That was an instant buy, and I’m definitely not regretting it so far. Being in the British Institute of Archaeology makes me really, really want Assassin’s Creed VR.
My only complaints are it’s snap turn and teleport. I prefer free move / turn.
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That would be genuinely horrifying in VR
I’m too old, my mind went to being stuck in Mega Man 2, but in 3D.
I haven’t mentioned it in this topic, but I used to participate in a summer challenge, the Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta. As of this post, there’s still over a month remaining and this year the charity receiving the donations (also through Tiltify) is The Trevor Project. It was previously organized through a Twitter bot, but the organizer is now handling job assignments and victory picture submissions through the website. If the Pixel Remasters are in your backlog (or any other release of Final Fantasy V), I think the Four Job Fiesta can be a good way to learn FF5, though I might recommend a Regular Run with the Team 750 job set option (to rule out starting with a party of under-equipped Thieves).
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If you want to use a mouse instead of a joystick or gamepad, click the option for “Babu Frik’s Configurator”…
Does it go “Hey! Hey!” when you launch it?
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The new Double Dragon game suddenly dropped on all platforms a few days ago. I love old-school brawlers, so i pounced on it. It’s alright, if a little short. The whole game is bolstered by some inspired ideas.
The main thing is it’s a brawler with roguelike elements. You collect money throughout each stage, and upon completion of a stage you can spend money on upgrades for your characters for that run of the game. You can cash out at any time for tokens that unlock things.
They unfortunately didn’t take procedural generation of levels from roguelike games. Their translation of that into brawler form was to have each level get larger as you play. You start the game by choosing one of four levels led by a gang leader. That level will consist of one stage, ending with a fight against the gang leader. Then you get a cutscene saying this has put the other gang leaders on notice, so they’re expanding their territory. Each level gets an additional stage. Then another stage. Then the final gang leader powers up. So while the game ultimately gives you 10 stages to play through, it feels short because there are only five different locations. (There’s a final boss to deal with, of course.)
The other cool idea was borrowed from the Capcom Vs games. You choose two characters you switch between. The one tagged out recovers health. This provides nice variety, but there’s not enough there to create a team with strong synergy or anything.
It’s fun for me because I was obsessed with Double Dragon II as a kid. But I wouldn’t recommend this game at full price. $15 or below seems more reasonable unless there’s free DLC on the way. (And maybe some bug fixes.)
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This is a surprise, but probably a long time coming. Feminist Frequency is shutting down. Anita Sarkeesian and her team were incredibly helpful in pointing a mirror at the gaming industry and giving some gamers language to explain the things they see in games that don’t feel quite right.
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Happy Baldur’s Gate 3 PC Release Day, everyone!
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Very excited to fuck that bear, but I fear that my compulsion to 100% Tears of the Kingdom is going to prevent me for a little while
I’ve got the first one installed, I have yet to play it 
Still have the original disks upstairs too
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That’s great that you have the original disks! I love BG1. I’m pretty sure that I lost my original CDs 20 years ago, but I’ve since replayed it on an Android tablet and it translated pretty well.
Download just finished! Time to roll up a bard.
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Got to say I’m really glad I have the digital version of the manuals with the ability to zoom thanks to my old-ass eyes.
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Having way more fun with this.
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