The thought came to mind after reading a recent post about Baldurs Gate 3 here but it reminded me of the Japense only PSX game Mizzurna Falls where if you don’t perform a certain action early in the game you are prevented from getting a true ending. While this might not be a traditional soft lock because you can still progress...
It’s when there’s a disconnect between the storytelling and the gameplay. Usual example is Uncharted or the last Tomb Raider reboot: the main character wrings their hands over the possibility of having to kill a person, but the gameplay is you mowing down an army.
Sadly, even before the mod purge many subs couldn’t get that right. I don’t know how many discussions I had over the years about things that appeared in the sidebar, only to find the other person was looking at a completely different version of it. New.reddit.com was a problem from the start.
Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch
Content discovery challenges are forcing the average consumer to spend 10.5 minutes finding something to watch each time they access their streaming services according to Nielsen
Combining those, it sounds to me like their usage of “streamers” is referring to the viewers. If they meant the services, it’d read more like “Streamers now wasting record amounts of people’s time”.
Bethesda put out a long video around Summer Game Fest that spent 45 minutes showing most of the gameplay systems in the game. It was honestly a bit overwhelming.
Reviewers are quiet because the NDA is still active. It should end sometime today (Aug 31).
Warriors Of Fate (ARC) - Stage 1 (www.youtube.com)
Masaki Izutani, Toshio Kajino, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Inu
Sub-Terrania (GEN/MD) - Title Screen - [Jesper Kyd] (www.youtube.com)
Sub-Zero (Chinese Ninja Warrior) - Mortal Kombat: The Album (1994) - The Immortals (www.youtube.com)
Shovel Knight - Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage) - [Jake Kaufman] (www.youtube.com)
Donkey Kong '94 (GB) - Title Screen - [Taisuke Araki] (www.youtube.com)
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors - Demitri Maximoff - [Toshio Kajino, Tomoyuki Kawakami] (www.youtube.com)
Mortal Kombat 1 (2023) - Cage Mansion (Round 1, 2, 3) - [Wilbert Roget II] (www.youtube.com)
What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?
The thought came to mind after reading a recent post about Baldurs Gate 3 here but it reminded me of the Japense only PSX game Mizzurna Falls where if you don’t perform a certain action early in the game you are prevented from getting a true ending. While this might not be a traditional soft lock because you can still progress...
Sonic Adventure (DC) - Crazy Robo (E-101β) (www.youtube.com)
Jun Senoue, Kenichi Tokoi, and Fumie Kumatani
Star Wars: KOTOR - The Old Republic Theme - [Jeremy Soule] (www.youtube.com)
Thunder Force IV (GEN/MD) - Fighting Back (Stage 1A) (www.youtube.com)
Composers: Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida, and Naosuke Arai
Quarth (Arcade) - The Theme From Quarth - [Kazuo Hanzawa] (www.youtube.com)
Rogue Warrior - Funky Credits Theme (Feat. MC Mickey Rourke) - [Mark Rutherford] (www.youtube.com)
Yes, this is its actual ending music. The game has a 29 on Metacritic. Fun times.
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Doom II - Running from Evil (map01) - [Bobby Prince] (www.youtube.com)
Turrican - Main Theme (Welcome/Shoot Or Die) (Remastered) - Chris Huelsbeck (www.youtube.com)
Loaded (PS1/Sat) - Prison Breakout - [Neil Biggin, Patrick Phelan] (www.youtube.com)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trial - [Masakazu Sugimori] (www.youtube.com)
Capcom vs. SNK 2 - This is true Love Makin' (London Stage) - [Satoshi Ise] (www.youtube.com)
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
Pictionary (NES) OST - [Tim Follin] (www.youtube.com)
Battle Arena Toshinden (PS1) - Eiji's Theme - [Yasuhiro Nakano, Makoto Mukai] (www.youtube.com)
Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch (www.tvtechnology.com)
Bionic Commando Rearmed - Main Theme - [Simon Viklund, Junko Tamiya] (www.youtube.com)
Maker of ‘smart’ chastity cage left users’ emails, passwords, and locations exposed (techcrunch.com)
Metroid Prime - Phendrana Drifts (Depths) - [Kenji Yamamoto, Kouichi Kyuma] (www.youtube.com)
Secret of Mana - Fear of the Heavens - [Hiroki Kikuta] (www.youtube.com)
CrossCode - Autumn's Rise - [Deniz Akbulut] (www.youtube.com)
Starfield - First Flight / Sol System - [Inon Zur] (www.youtube.com)
Goat Simulator - Goat Chill - [Gustaf Tivander] (www.youtube.com)
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Virtua Fighter 2 - Black Moon Cat (Theme of Sarah) - [Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Takayuki Nakamura, Akiko Hashimoto] (www.youtube.com)
Assassin's Creed 2 - Ezio's Family - [Jesper Kyd] (www.youtube.com)
Now the series’ de facto theme song. Kyd is amazing.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1 (360) - Main Theme - [James Silva] (www.youtube.com)
Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs and More (bethesda.net)
TL;DR:...
Tempest 2000 (Jag) - Mind's Eye - [Ian Howe, Alastair Lindsay, Kevin Saville] (www.youtube.com)
Centipede (DC) OST - Greg Sweeney (www.youtube.com)
I’m having trouble finding info on the composer for this. There we go.
Cannon Fodder (Amiga) - Intro (War Has Never Been So Much Fun) - Richard Joseph (www.youtube.com)
Arleen Sorkin Dies: Voice Of Harley Quinn and ‘Days Of Our Lives’ Actor Was 67 (deadline.com)
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Silpheed (Sega CD) - Scramble [Stage 1] (www.youtube.com)
Fumihito Kasatani, Nobuyuki Aoshima, Masakuni Mitsuhashi, Hibiki Godai
Jackal (NES) OST - Shinya Sakamoto, Atsushi Fujio (www.youtube.com)
[OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit (s11.gifyu.com)
Super Monkey Ball - Jungle Island - Hidenori Shoji, Haruyoshi Tomita, Sakae Osumi (www.youtube.com)
Stardew Valley - Stardew Valley Overture - Eric Barone (www.youtube.com)