What I've Been Playing, The Blog

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-06 16:59:12

A thread for my new blag about video games.

I intend to post in this space whenever a new post goes up, with the title of said post.

As I will do now.

Obligatory Intro Post

Tre · 2014-07-06 18:58:33

:D

You should totes open this up for submissions and stuff for guest contributors.

(I know I'd put it to good use, and possibly Kexy as well)

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-06 19:00:10

If so, would I be allowed to submit rants about LSD, Windosill and Yume Nikki once I have played them? Maybe Master of the Elements and Riven or such?

:3

Yarrun XIX · 2014-07-06 19:03:10

I'd also be up for submitting stuff

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-06 20:05:19

Sorry guys, I plan on making this like a formal-ish review blog, which I might try to use to springboard into writing for a major game reivew site somewhere down the line. Submissions would kind of call into question my contribution to the blog.

You are completely welcome to start similar blogs of your own of course, and to ask me questions about my reviews if you'd like.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-06 20:07:07

Darn I kinda feel like I let you guys down a little bit by saying that.

But it is important that I make clear to any prospective future employers that the writing on the blog is mine and mine alone. I hope you'll understand. :(

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-06 20:25:46

You could have a guest-post system in place in which you frame someone else's review with an explicit statement of "this is something a friend/colleague of mine wrote" and whatnot. A lot of blogs do that.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-06 20:31:31

Yeah, but it still makes the blog look less "legitimate".

It's kind of dumb, but if I'm going to keep up an air of professionalism, I do have to be strict about that kind of thing.

Again, I appreciate where you're coming from, and I'm sorry to have to say no, but I do.

Plus also, on just a personal level, I want the blog to be a platform for my own opinions, not an aggregator of many peoples' opinions, if that makes sense.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-06 20:46:04

I'm sorry if I disappointed anyone. :/

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-06 21:09:49

I wasn't saying it would be a frequent thing, but more like a monthly "counterpoint" sort of deal. I don't say this because I want my stuff featured or because I expect anything of it - I can't even write enough to come up with stuff for my own text blog - but because it would be an interesting feature, and frankly I don't think that it could harm your credibility. Professionals do that sort of thing all the time.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-06 21:10:32

It's just kind of not the direction I want to take the blog in.

Conversation can happen through asks, and in fact, I'd welcome that.

Tre · 2014-07-06 21:37:27

Well, if nothing else, I find the concept interesting

You guys wouldn't mind if I headed up a blog based around the idea, right?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-06 21:39:10

I mean, I'm not really an innovator here. There are dozens, heck, probably hundreds, of video game review blogs on tumblr alone. The format's probably not unique to me either.

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-06 21:42:40

Mo The Show said:
It's just kind of not the direction I want to take the blog in.

Conversation can happen through asks, and in fact, I'd welcome that.

That's fine. But I feel like you could have just said that in that way earlier. "That's not a direction I want to go in, but I would appreciate using asks to foster conversations."

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-06 21:45:00

Well, it took me a bit to really formulate it that way.

What I said earlier is also still true, though.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-07 23:07:10

So hey, I queued up my Magicite review, but I'm not sure how to get to whatever panel lets me edit when it publishes, can someone help me out?

I typed up the post and hit the "Queue" button, assuming it would take me to a menu, but it didn't. This is my first time using the queue.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-07 23:09:43

actually I think I may have figured it out.

I want the post to publish tomorrow at 2PM, so if I set the "publish x posts per day between x time and y time" thing to "2 PM" and "2 PM" respectively, that should work, right?

Yarrun XIX · 2014-07-07 23:10:06

Go to your dash. There should be a ''Queued Items' button on the right-hand side. Once you get there, you should be able to edit it from there. Click the little gear thing, go to Schedule, and edit it from there.

And for future reference, if you want to queue something for a specific time (rather than just shoving it in the queue to be shunted out whenever), you have to schedule it instead. Doing that will also send it to the 'Queued Items' section.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-07 23:15:32

I think I got it working?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-07 23:16:09

wait no for some reason it won't let me change when I want it published

mrglrglrglrgr

Yarrun XIX · 2014-07-07 23:18:15

:?

And you're using the Schedule button? Through the gear thingamabob?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-07 23:18:48

OK I got it, I guess you have to specify two different times

so that post should show up tomorrow sometime between noon and 2PM.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-07 23:19:47

Also as an unrelated note, if y'all boys and girls wanna send me neat things to play (as long as you acquired them legally, advocating piracy is soops unprofessional) I'd appreciate it. They need not be new, though it helps if they are.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-07-07 23:39:33

I should have a spare copy of Antichamber. I can kick it over to you at some point, probably after my lapto issue gets sorted out.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-07 23:40:22

I own Antichamber!

One of my favorite releases of last year in fact, I thought it was seriously underrated.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-07 23:40:47

It was probably the best "weird gun" game since Portal, but people were all disappointed with it for some reason.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-07-07 23:46:57

It really was, wasn't it?

Calica · 2014-07-08 00:08:32

Mo The Show said:
It was probably the best "weird gun" game since Portal, but people were all disappointed with it for some reason.

They were? I thought Antichamber was amazing; one of my favorites.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-08 00:11:46

A lot of the reviews I saw boiled down to "I really liked it but it was just an amazing puzzle game instead of the paradigm shift I was expecting".

"I liked this but it wasn't literally the best thing I've ever played in its genre so I was disappointed" seems to be a huge problem with video game journalism and one I hope to counteract in some small way. More recently, I saw similar reviews for Titanfall, Watch_Dogs, and Transistor.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-08 14:34:25

Review for Magicite is up.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-07-08 17:15:35

The idea of Terraria combined with hella unlocks kind of reminds me of Don't Starve.

Magicite itself reminds me of Don't Starve with an altered aesthetic, right down to the difficulty curve.

You did a good job, Mo.

Princess Alice · 2014-07-08 18:48:22

Mo The Show said:
OK I got it, I guess you have to specify two different times

so that post should show up tomorrow sometime between noon and 2PM.

For future reference, if you hit "Schedule" instead of "Queue" you can specify a specific time and date for that individual post.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-08 18:50:43

Yarrun XIX said:
The idea of Terraria combined with hella unlocks kind of reminds me of Don't Starve.

Magicite itself reminds me of Don't Starve with an altered aesthetic, right down to the difficulty curve.

You did a good job, Mo.

I dunno if I would say hella unlocks, more like 20 in each category and like six for the companions.

It' still a fun game though.

Bunny · 2014-07-08 19:02:23

Hey Mo, have you played One-Way Heroics?

It feels like it'd be up your alley

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-08 19:03:14

Nope! What's that?

also you should be asking me these things in my ask box, but I digress.

Bunny · 2014-07-08 19:09:32

Roguelike similar in presentation and mechanics to Mystery Dungeon type games. A massive cloud of darkness is covering the land to the west, so your only option is to go right and try to find a way to stop it. Turn based game, multiple different classes, companion system that makes Charisma a stat actually worth having, and all in all just a fun game.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/266210/

Only $3.50 on steam.

And I guess I'll use your ask box in the future, then.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-08 19:15:38

Mystery Dungeon?

Fossilmaiden · 2014-07-08 19:16:29

A series of commercial roguelikes based on various IPs (such as Pokémon, Dragon Quest, and Final Fantasy), developed by Chunsoft. (Also an original series called Shiren the Wanderer.)

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-08 19:19:27

interestin.

Anyway, I'll check it out when I gets paid next.

Currently I'm working on my Yume Nikki retrospective.

Here's a screenshot I just took that I'm probably gonna use in the article

just now actually, I discovered a new connection I didn't know about before (one of the Hooded People in the Barracks teleports you to an area in 8-Bit World).

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-09 21:24:44

upcomin'

WIBP: Tess
WIBP: Nuclear Throne
WIBP Special: Contemplating a Dream: Yume Nikki Revisited

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-10 06:54:50

Tess review should be up around noon today.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-10 13:51:52

Tess review is up.

It's a surrealist platformer, I recommend it.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-10 19:17:28

Hey, big news! The developer of Tess (Micheal Shirt, "GIRakaCHEEZER") reblogged my review of his game!

Cool stuff.

Odradek · 2014-07-10 19:18:07

Mo The Show said:
Hey, big news! The developer of Tess (Micheal Shirt, "GIRakaCHEEZER") reblogged my review of his game!

Cool stuff.

Awesome.

Looking forward to that Yume Nikki review.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-10 19:31:50

It's not a review, really. It's a retrospective and assumes you already have some degree of familiarity with the game.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-07-11 01:38:40

Finished playing Tess.

I kind of found the twist to be underwhelming? Maybe I'm just not one for she's been dead the whole time twists, but I feel like it'd be more satisfying if we knew exactly how Tess died.

You're right about the design though. Beautiful stuff.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-11 15:36:19

Did you actually beat the last boss?

Also jumping off of a cliff will kill most people, you know.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-07-11 15:41:45

Mr. You Can't Kill An Angel? That was the boss I fought. Was there another?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-11 15:43:32

No there's not, was just curious.

I don't know. I didn't see it coming, I was fully expecting the story to go flipout crazy given the obvious OFF influence.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-11 23:07:50

Contemplating A Dream: Yume Nikki Revisited

Odradek · 2014-07-11 23:49:30

Minor proofreading thing: You misspelled "conceit" once and the overworld is from Mother 1, not Earthbound which is technically Mother 2

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