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Greak - August 17th! Looks like Hollow Knight meets Trine. Really looking forward to learning more about this.

Looks like good, old-school fun. Very good trailer at least.

Yeah. That was a great trailer. Looks like an interesting world.

Ah. I haven't played the game. At first I was like "is that Sheik?" but no...

I don't get this reference. Who is that?

Yeah. Good idea to invite two random people who just started a games company and talk about an upcoming project that they can't name or tell us anything about. Friends of Geoff?

Was that a new trailer? Looked like any other trailer for that game. I haven't seen any gameplay from Wings of Ruin and I've seen all official trailers. Terrible marketing.

Agreed Those were highlights - but the no Switch versions of two of them.

It's been a rather generic show until now, hasn't it? I would have hoped that they would focus more on multi platform games with this being a more general show. Nothing that really piqued my interest up to now.

Well, I have been mildly entertained by it generally, even as a male adult who has never seen the show. I wish I could have played as the hero version of the girls more as I didn't enjoy all that extra about shopping and social media, but the sub-missions are actually not bad and there is a ranking system on the fights, where it is actually quite hard to get 3+ stars on the first try (but you can return to them with upgraded characters, making it easier).

I was thinking that I need a thread to dump thoughts on random games. But i'll post here for now. I just finished reviewing DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power and I want to say that it's actually a decent game for the target audience. It got a lot of hate when it was announced in the last Direct but having played a good portion of it, I can say that I actually had a decent time with it. The story is trash (Lex Luthor wants to rebuild the slum areas of Metropolis and wants teenagers to design the new area - wtf? The game is two-parted: civilian and superhero. You cannot change between those at will, which is a shame. As civilian, you run around, taking photos and helping people. The tasks are quite varied, though eventually become a bit repetitive. The superhero stuff is about smashing robots with a simple combo system. Y for attack, A for dodge (why not B??), and X, R, ZR for special attacks. Dodge perfectly and get the chance to do a counter attack. The fights are ranked based on how you do within certain criteria. They too become a bit stale but they aren't bad. The fights would have been perfect for co-op though, such a shame that it's single player only. Overall, the game suits its audience quite well and is not a bad game for the audience. I did enjoy playing the game to some extend but I wish I could just be more superhero throughout the game.

Finished Mare of Easttown this Monday. It was a good show with a lot of character and depth. It might not be as good as everyone's saying it is but I enjoyed it very much nonetheless. We needed something lighter and shorter again now, so started watching Cobra Kai yesterday. Two episodes in. I haven't watched the Karate Kid-movies since I was a child but I do remember some bits about it - but not much about the second and third movies. My wife has never seen any of them but she got spoiled a lot in the opening scenes of Cobra Kai. Anyway, looking forward to progressing it. I also want to watch Shadow and Bone now. It's good to finally have some more time in the evenings now that the children are sleeping better again. The past couple of months have been rough.

Today I did interval running for the first time in months. 10 sprints of 150 m with a 5 m elevation - sprint uphill, walk back. I'm really feeling it. It's also funny how weather affects my exercising at home. During the winter period (well, actually up to the beginning of May!) my performance has suffered, I couldn't run as fast or row as far as I could last year. Now the weather has become better so I'm warmer to begin with and I almost broke my record on distance rowed on Monday, no other change than it getting warmer outside. Now I don't feel so bad about my form again.

Yeah, I agree. It isnt a problem here with that possibility but news outlets posting the information in headlines and such makes it hard to avoid.

I used it to play DOOM Eternal sometimes. It's just far better with Pro Controller and gyro aiming but I didn't have the TV available at that time.

I know going in blind is a virtue to some, but knowing a release date of a game that may or may not show up is at least not that much of a spoiler.

Switch On.

When achievements are implemented correctly, they add to the game, make you do something you wouldn't have done otherwise or make you go somewhere that you wouldn't have thought of. I like that. However,785 % of the achievements I got on Xbox 360 were just grinding or doing something strange that didn't provide me with more fun in the game. Pricewise, I think they should launch it at the same price the Switch is now and then either give the OG Switch a price drop or phase it out completely.

He went with our proposal in the end. He tries to make it legal and if he doesn't succeed, we get a sum of money that we can use to make it legal - which would require us to tear it down or at least a part of it. But the most likely scenario is that it is just accepted and everyone is happy. But yeah, tearing it down and rebuilding it would likely be more expensive than what we would get and devalue the house a bit. We were perhaps a bit too soft on the seller but we also didn't want him to turn us down and sell to someone else. It's a seller's market here at the moment with house prices having risen almost 14 % in Copenhagen over the last year - and it was expensive before. There aren't enough houses for sale and many want to buy houses now as well.

I've caught up to what's been released of The Handmaid's Tale season 4 now. This season is much, much better than the third season which was just 80 % filler with no real advancement to the story. This season, however, we have seen much more character development and the story is far more interesting. I still find it hard to believe that such a dramatic change to society could happen in just 7 years (in s4 ep7 June says that's it's been 7 years now). I know, Nazi Germany happened in a shorter time span but still. I could have accepted 10 or 15 years but I know that wouldn't work with the story of June and Luke losing their newborn daughter. Now I just want to see Gilead burn down. Next up is The Mare of Easttown which is getting very good reviews. We'll probably spice that up with some Cobra Kai to have something a bit more lighthearted on the side but we don't have much time for watching television these days so it'll probably be some time before we finish that.

A German tabloid has posted an article about the new Switch. Erm. https://www.t-online.de/digital/id_90107170/nintendo-switch-diese-geruechte-von-neuer-version-ab-herbst-kursieren.html

I've tried Beat Saber once. It really is good fun and I can understand people getting hooked. I have a friend who's using it (and the Occulus Quest in general) for weight loss and training. It apparently works well for him.

There is a spare room - is that alright?

Ugh, if it comes out this year, I can't buy it. Just bought a house, can't afford anything else...!