Capt. Wolf

Excellent game! So satisfying when you get a run that totally breaks everything! And it just got a true online coop mod! Previously you could play with one Fight and up to three players could be Orbs.

Sorry, I’m legally required to post this or they’ll cut off my Johnson…

Only reason I know is because I’ve been collecting since I was a kid. I’ve got three loose copies, shame they’re not worth anything… I’d be happy to separate some stupid people from their money.

Going to point out that actual boxed copies of just Super Mario Bros. Is actually on the more rare side, since it was quickly bundled with the NES and the version with Duck Hunt came out pretty quickly.

It may have sold 30 million copies, but a large majority of them are either the Duck Hunt combo or the one with Duck Hunt and World Class Track Meet. Kinda the same way Stadium Events is that much more rare because of the bundled, renamed version.

That being said, people have too much fucking money…

The La-Mulana series. They’re side scrolling metroidvanias that absolutely hate you. Getting hit is frequently fatal. Finding secrets aren’t just for fun, they’re a requirement. Puzzles range from pretty easy to “What in the actual fuck? How do I get there?” Hints are puzzles on their own. To top it all off, the lore is amazing and very well planned out. You’re basically setting out with nothing but a whip on a quest to look for your father and, in the process, you find god…

I’ve managed to beat both a few times and can say, they are, by far, two of the most difficult and well constructed games I’ve ever played.

I’ll give you that, and the swastika and manji came to mind. I’d originally included in my post the suggestion about going and putting up swastikas and was like, “wait… That’s still a thing.”

I get that it’s a Norse rune and I recognize the history and heritage in the same way, but in that case maybe just one ᛋ would have sufficed. However, considering someone thought enough to say, “Hey, this is going to be problem in Germany.” it would have hurt literally no one to just say, “maybe we just shouldn’t do it at all.” Deleted. Literally no controversy.

Instead… here we are.

Wow… I really don’t buy those excuses…

They literally admit to seeing the problem before distribution, but instead of just deleting them from the email, they decide to just not include the place where it would get them into the most legal trouble instead?

Uh… No… That’s not an accident anymore. There’s no oopsie there.

Then they go and double down on reddit by giving the excuse that the symbol has been around way longer than it’s modern historical use, so we shouldn’t stop using it because someone corrupted it?

No, that’s not how it works.

Things get ruined and they take on new meanings, that includes words and symbols. You don’t just get to decide that you’re going to take back the symbol of some of the worst evil mankind has known just because it had another meaning before that and then expect everyone to be like, “Oh, alright…” It has a new meaning now. One that everyone recognizes… A meaning that it is blatantly apparent they were aware of beforehand and decided to use anyway.

Anyone buying that bullshit excuse is an idiot.

Fuck GoG.

Meanwhile, indie devs:

Been playing since it came out, and it’s been amazing to see it go from 2D Minecraft to such a massive experience. Now I’m going to to have to update some mods and play again…

I remember grabbing whole collections of NES games at yard sales for like $10-20. It’s wild how much people would just let stuff go for. And the general consensus was always that they didn’t know what they were worth. Like… You dropped $60 on one of these games, and now I’m buying them off you for $2 a piece? I’m just gonna hand you the money, try not to look excited, and walk away like this was a smooth drug deal…

Trackable? Terraria at just over 1,350 hours plus another 147 in tmodloader since it moved to steam 7 Days to Die at 711 Binding of Isaac at 572

Untrackable? Probably Breath of Fire 2, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, or maybe Secret of Mana I play a randomizer of one of them almost every night before I go to bed or when I’m bored.

Looks cool, but looking at the preview pics, I’ve got to point it out…

Rocksmith is what got me back into playing bass regularly again and gave me a way to actually perform when I was no longer in a band. Fired it up, loaded up twitch, and took requests all night. I even got a second cam rigged to the neck of my bass. 2014 was an instant buy and had CDLC so damn quick. I praised it up and down for years. By comparison, plus is performatively better, but it’s also subscription based trash. No CDLC, not getting my money. Didn’t even let you carry over already purchased songs, which they did between original Rocksmith and 2014.

Also there’s a mod set for 2014 now that includes a fix for the sample rate problem that ubisoft told us was impossible to do. It let’s you specify a sample rate so that you can use Bluetooth headphones or other devices that aren’t locked to 48khz, like Bluetooth headphones. Used to have to route it through voicemeeter and deal with a pretty significant delay.

Meanwhile, me walking into that same exact house or neighborhood that’s used in every indie game…

Also, what the fuck is with Japanese law, criminalising modding?

My best guess would be that they’re trying to get ahead of the recompiler scene before it catches a bigger foothold. But also, that lumps in the entire rom hacking and fan translation community, which I’m sure they view as perpetuating the piracy of their games.

Abiotic Factor has been really fun for my buddy and me. Especially with the new update that came out last week. It’s a Half Life themed survival game.

Others that get my vote:

Valheim - Norse mythology themed survival game with Playstationesque graphics

Phasmophobia - THE ghost hunting game(see also Ghost Exile, Ghost Exorcism Inc., Forewarned)

Left 4 Dead - the original Zombie FPS series (see also Back 4 Blood, it’s kinda alright) PILLS HERE!

Risk of Rain - Pretty tough shooter series

Stardew Valley - A modern Harvest Moon, farming/life sim

Don’t Starve Together - If you played Stardew valley in hell, but everyone’s name started with a W

Factorio/Satisfactory - Resource harvesting and logistics sims. One’s isometric, ones first person, one has zerg rushes

Grounded - Honey I Shrunk The Kids: the survival game

Deep Rock Galactic - Left 4 Dead for Dwarves. ROCK AND STONE!!!

Overcooked - cooking and serving game, lots of communication required

Portal 2 - First person puzzle game, also lots of communication required

Barotrauma - Submarine sim on Europa, requires marriage levels of communication

Binding of Isaac - Roguelike shooter that’s sort of Zelda inspired, multiplayer was a little janky last time I tried it, but that was a while ago

The Forest - Excellent horror survival series

Starbound - Terraria in space

Trine series - A modern Lost Vikings, side scrolling puzzles and platforming

Subnautica 2 - A beautiful and terrifying diving/exploration game, original game has a coop mod 8 years in development, but it’s been very buggy

Diablo - First and second games are still very solid experiences and there are some excellent mods out for both

Escape Simulator - Literally an escape room simulator. Has workshop support on steam for even more puzzles.

Green Hell - The Forest, but in the jungle, much more focus on the reality of being stranded in a place where just about everything is likely to kill you.

No Man’s Sky - Space/planetary exploration sim

Dead Island - another zombie FPS

Dying Light - a zombie game with parkour

20XX/30XX - Megaman X styled platformers with roguelite elements

GTFO - Extremely hard, stealth based, alien FPS

Most “Souls” games - Very fun coop summoning, if you don’t mind the sometimes extreme difficulty

Goat Simulator series - Goofy exploration games

Magicka series - Isometric action adventure games where you combine different elements to cast spells

Barony - a true roguelike FPS RPG, voxel based, very hard

Void Crew - Space sim, mission based, sort of Egyptian mythos themed, meant for up to 4 players but definitely possible with just 2

Human Fall Flat - Puzzle/exploration game

Half Dead series - Cube: the game

Orcs Must Die series - Tower defense

Dungeon Defenders series - also tower defense, but with class based

Secret of Mana - One of the first action JRPGS, the remake has drop in coop just like the original, but I believe it’s couch coop, so if you’re not right next to each other, you’ll need something like Parsec to play it

Have a ton more, but those are the ones I can recall having the most fun. Others have probably listed a bunch of them and I probably missed a few good ones, but hopefully a few of them are new.

You could always tinker with some emulators for some retro coop games!