Coelacanth

I really wish this worked with Piefed communities.

I love dazzle camo.

Thank you, Nordic Souls does look pretty great. I'll jot that down for the future!

I know the Wabbajack scene is pretty big for Skyrim, is there any big mod pack you would recommend? Skyrim is also an embarrassing blind spot for me (played enough of Morrowind and Oblivion back in the day so never got around to it) but after all the hundreds of hours I've spent modding Fallout: NV, Cyberpunk and STALKER Anomaly I am not sure I want to dive headfirst into another multi month mod project.

Oh right, haha! Well, I hope your confidence in me wasn't misguided! I am having a great time with it at least.

The modding scene in general is really good. The only shame is that so many old classic mods got broken by the 2.0 update.

I hope you'll enjoy Chrono Ark, I'm having a really good time with it! The JRPG/party based concept merged with roguelike deckbuilder feels really good and I really like the boss designs, each with unique gimmicks. I'm surprised it isn't a bigger title with more recognition.

I would probably say Withering Rooms. I've been super interested in it since it released but have managed to restrain myself to wait for a deep(er) sale.

Chrono Ark

I'm at the true final boss, but got wiped. Felt a little deflating as the fake final boss was a super hype fight with awesome cinematic mechanics and presentation and I was all set to see the credits roll, only to stumble at the finish line. This is the downside of having a large story focus on your roguelike deckbuilder, I felt ready to see the (first) ending and now I just felt a wave of frustration. I need to take a break for a few days to reset and then come back with a better build, now that I now what the true final boss demands mechanically.

Ninja Gaiden

Been playing more of NG4 and NG2 Black. I keep going back and forth between them, and I can't shake the feeling that NG4 is a great action game, but I wish it had more Ninja Gaiden in it rather than more Platinum Games in it. Also I hate the fact that NG4 is checkpoint autosave only and you never now when the last time you saved was, so you just kind of have to guess. I can't understand why it didn't use save statues like the previous games.

Rise of the Ronin

A comment on here last week got me interested enough to acquire this from Fitgirl to try it out. I've been somewhat curious before as I do like Team Ninja and have heard good things about the combat, despite the otherwise mixed reception. But after reading about it on here I suddenly felt the Open World Slop urge hit me out of nowhere. This far though I've only gotten so far as to halfway finish designing my characters in the very extensive character creator...

The timing with Fluxer is very fortuitous, it's been in development for years but only just got public which is why it seems to have come out of nowhere. I am with you on the money bit, but it comes down to how it gets used. I haven't looked into how transparent the finances are. I understand the need to rustle up money fast in order to scale up development, as a proper Discord competitor needs to be more than a one-man effort. So I'm hoping that's what the money will go to.

I agree that Fluxer is by far the best alternative yet, so I want to be hopeful.

Great writeup from my favourite video game journalist. Maybe one day I'll actually play EarthBound, I kind of missed the boat on it back in the day.

It's a good story but I am pretty sure this is all made up. Wasn't this confirmed to be a fabrication already?