Dark Souls thoughts.
https://www.disposablemedia.co.uk/2025/07/lttp-dark-souls-remastered/
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Dan (qazimod)
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Miscellaneous chatter about entertainment and nonsense. I'm not on X, so any account that looks like me, isn't me.
@jevanmoss I bought a new desktop this year and later read a bunch of horror stories about a CPU fault that was fixable with a BIOS update. But of course I installed the wrong one and my brand new PC got upset on boot.
Thankfully I think there was some kind of built-in "roll back to the version that worked" feature. And I later found that my CPU type wasn't one of the faulty ones anyway...
@yprbest I used to go out to work lunches at a local Italian where I liked to get a penne gratinate (it was kind of like a tube pasta bake?) and there was the option to have a side of garlic bread.
In my defence the work lunches were monthly and I didn't attend all of them!
I finished Dark Souls Remastered last night! (Well, it was already past 12am "today" when the credits were rolling...)
I had tried DS1 a couple of times on 360 and it never clicked, but I had more success this time around. Some fun bosses, locations and gear - but some bits were a bit tedious and I also made some "backup" saves just in case I ended up in a softlock situation or suffered PC hacker invasion shenanigans.
It was better than 2, but I think I liked 3 and BB more.
@ugvmpodcast Any recommendations for favourite Evercade carts (online stock permitting?) I've never owned one but I've had an eye on the recent Neo Geo Super Pocket...
@yprbest but who else is going to speak up in defence of these plucky upstarts who don't know any better?
Somehow we went from web 2.0 and an infinite canvas of user-generated content, to people evangelising a future shaped by machine prompts and approximations. From individuals having a sense of pride in their daft little uploads, to a personality void making guesses about what people want to see.
Prompt-driven output does have benefits in very specific use cases, but in the creative space it's oblivious to the appeal of individuality and expression that drives the creativity in the first place.
60% off was my breaking point for Double Dragon Gaiden in the Steam sale, after having it wishlisted for months. And I was able to get the Peggle pack - Deluxe and Nights - with the change (I found myself randomly getting into the PSP version recently, so I felt like I needed to get a "proper" version.)
I probably won't get into either of them immediately, but I can sense there being a bit of a drought in my gaming time later this year, so this will help...
On Sunday evening I finished my first playthrough of Earthbound! I had made a few attempts to play this in the past but a brutal opening combined with slightly obtuse paths to progress was offputting.
I did still resort to googling when I was totally stumped, but I got around the combat difficulty by grinding everything into the instant-kill threshold. I really liked the humour and characters but it definitely felt like a game designed to sell player guides. I'm glad I've experienced it though.
