Mitchell R. R. Akhurst

the big difference here is that Survivor is more of an open-world thing which changes all the difficulty and level design and also just takes so much fucking time

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Watch out. I'm playing new video games again.

I am feeling the pull toward Valor Mortis and Belmont’s Curse, one looks like Euro Nioh and the other sounds like games I’ve enjoyed in the past like Outland

even more excited for Rogue Trooper to be my kind of shit (a Beowulf /Titan A.E.) after Digger already gave me another Baron Munchausen this year

potentially the funniest console launch of all time incoming

EVERYBODY BE QUIET I'M STARTING FORTUNE'S WEAVE

as a fan of both Nioh and Nioh 2, I am uhh ... suddenly very interested in the way Valor Mortis looks.

If they can do it, so can you

Vibe coded programs are extremely dangerous. You have no idea wtf the code is made to do, and neither does the person distributing it. Like sure, it could infect your PC or create backdoors, but also memory leaks, render files unusable, brick it so you can't boot, anything Do not install them

I wish I could do a little spec article or two so I could pay for Valor Mortis, Some Groceries, and Galactic Racer, but I am doing other work right now rip

Maybe we should make kids’ fantasy movies that feel like they take place outside

Woman walks in and says "Uh, is a problem if I try to speak Huttese with an Aussie accent?" And I pull my butterfly knife out and say "Lady, it's gonna be a problem if you DON'T"

The Dark Crystal abides

TIL

I played the scary secret on a treasure island game again medium.com/@ak.mitch/ad...

PSA: the steam description still starts with "Flock is a multiplayer co-op game", but it can be played solo if you like

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“Games have stagnated” is a funny thing to finally say now when it’s now multiple years from Concord, a game that (as far as I know) was quite fun to play, got saddled with some of the worst aesthetics and marketing and sank like a stone

I just saw someone refer to Stephen Sommers’ Mummy film being “reclaimed” and uh…? when did we stop liking that movie so it would need reclamation? As far as I know that movie has been enjoyed as it is since it released

there aren’t many meme templates that leave a bad taste in my mouth worse than “we are not the same” well duh

I have tried half a dozen times to write the “make the whole plane out of black box” fantasy story equivalent with deep dark underground scary dungeon places and despite my travails I still believe it can be done; metroidvania games are my evidence

Lol. Lmao, even.

it’s nice to know that, as a nerdy and insufferable kid with good standardized test scores, I could really have turned out a whole lot worse

*beaming as I listen to two of my team members talking very excitedly about how an idea came to be*

How seriously should I take this? I was not very moved by the episodes of Castlevania and Blood of Zeus that I saw

Renaming a developer to “Halo Studios” and now being like “btw they aren’t making the next Halo” is just incredible

American players in particular should be livid about what’s happened to their country’s once great stable of CRPG teams

What is there to even say at this point? Literally everything I could think to say about this is something I’ve already said a half-dozen times in the past year alone. Game devs deserve better than the video game industry.

I know exactly what this work entails—I personally led the last effort to port old campaigns to the current version of Destiny 2, & wrote hundreds of pages of documentation about exactly how to do it again! Though I wish I could be there myself, I’m glad me & my team’s efforts are being put to use

i need someone to make a complex political crpg set in Al-Andalus

Dragon Warrior (1989) It's the game that introduced me to the world of RPGs, which still remains my favorite genre, 37 years later.

Turned 35 and really started feeling the sensation of becoming older than average in the old nerd socials

getting into bed after a shower at the end of a long day of running around outside is such an incredible feeling

Thinking about how many “love it or hate it” books that I feel merely whelmed over and worried it says very middling and mild things about my personality 😂

It’s going to be very funny when The Legend of Zelda movie is the way it is and nobody expected it because they didn’t watch the Maze Runners or Kingdom Apes

I really wish they’d do Pirates of the Caribbean in concert because the themes are iconic but the score in that first movie is so chintzy and cheap

First time Ive taken myself to the movies since The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya like 15 years ago It was… okay! Tonally completely different from the trailer so my expectations were all out of whack For better or worse it was very RE in every way except for the dialogue? 5 bags of popcorn 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

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Sincerely, if you're not enjoying video games like you used to, maybe it's time to step away and enjoy another hobby. Go read a comic book. Or a novel. Or watch a TV show. Play a sport. Just go do something else for a couple months. If you want to play again, you'll come back eventually.

Okay I learned my lesson, if I don’t want to get a bunch of likes I shouldn’t reply to an account with tens of thousands of followers 😂

I don’t think I seriously _dislike_ SCP/Control style stuff, I think I just prefer it mixed with fun soapy characters and delivered in 44 minute instalments over three to seven years

"The way to save the soul of TTRPGing is not with a vapid “all are welcome”, “no judgement” attitude. It’s with standards—not of preexisting skill, but of heart and care."