raocow's talkhaus

is it okay if i friend you on staem [sic], i like stalking the talkhausers when they feel like playing huniepop or [bad horny rpg maker game that some idiot put in greenlight for 3 bucks, further tarnishing rpg maker's reputation] or whatever also man, dark souls 2. i heard that one is a nightmare ...

Yeah I did a lot of soulsing this year

And also Spiritfarer is there to be on the total opposite end of the gaming spectrum

Finished up NG+ in Bloodborne and now playing the Demon's Souls remake. There's something really weird and uncanny about playing this game remade by a Western studio cause it looks like an Uncharted or a God of War but it's... Demon's Souls. The word-matched mouth movements, crazy modern lighting ef...

Still playing Bloodborne because why would I play a PS5 game on my new PS5. Finished the main game including DLC several days ago and have been working my way through NG+ but got sidetracked doing chalice dungeons. I only ever did them once when I was going for all achievements, and cause they lock ...

Finally unboxed the PS5 that's been sitting next to be for a week and a half and set it up. An hour or 2 later, after repeated attempts to get into my PSN account, which I had the password for stored in my password manager so I know it's right yet it didn't accept it, and the password reset emails s...

Finished all achievements in Pinocchio Souls. Honestly just an incredible game. Possibly swooping in last second as my favorite game of the year. Which is saying something in the same year we got Tears of the Kingdom and Mario Wonder. It's incredibly polished, atmosphere is great, combat is quick an...

Apparently, Super Mario Galaxy 2 was originally conceived as Super Mario Galaxy 1.5 , which was a remake of the original game with some added features and stars. I mean, is there really much of a difference other than the title? I didn't know about this factoid, but it's how I felt about SMG2 anywa...

It's funny raocow is playing this now, earlier this month I happened to pop this game in and play through it 100% for the first time since it came out in 2010 (incidentally a few days before my join date on this forum) It's a good time. Too bad it's trapped on the Wii. I know a lot of people were di...

Finished my first playthrough of Lies of P. Except for the fact that there's a timed choice you have to make at the end of the game and I picked wrong and got locked out of the ending where you fight the actual final boss. So now I'm probably gonna try to run through on NG+ and hopefully will be abl...

Demon's Souls is actually the main reason I was wanting a PS5 too, but yeah I couldn't justify the $900 a PS5 + single game cost at launch in Canada, so I held off. Bloodborne was what got me to buy a PS4 too, but at least that was a new original game. I'm not even convinced this one will be better ...

I much prefer the imported-the-wrong-map16-page ending, it's honestly the perfect reward after the past few days

Lies of P is still very good. Think I'm approaching the final area now. Also even though Black Friday doesn't really make sense as a concept in Canada where Thanksgiving is a month earlier, we still do Black Friday anyway and thanks to that and the points I accumulate on my credit card from the comp...

Still having a lot of fun with Lies of P, really impressed how polished this game is. Got to a boss (Romeo) a couple nights ago that was giving me quite a bit of struggle and I eventually gave up after maybe an hour or 2 of attempts. Came back to it the next day and eventually got him down after abo...

Video of the 3DS Nemesis Challenge https://youtu.be/iEkkDbBTjF8?t=30 That's pretty cool how they integrated it into the map, and it vaguely fits into the overworld I think? You kinda approach that area of the game climbing up the bottom right side of the island and then moving to the left so I don'...

I have to relearn Cave Story from the ground up with a gamepad and most joysticks are meant for 3d play so now instead of getting a lack of upward shooting while moving right I'm getting too many vertical inputs while walking left-to-right. Are you using a gamepad that doesn't have a D-pad? I alway...

I didn't consistently mark down years, but here's my standouts that are pretty normie 2014 - Dark Souls 2015 - Bloodborne 2017 - Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey 2019 - Sekiro 2020 - Witcher 3 2022 - Elden Ring 2023 - Mario Wonder Lies of P I actually did mark down my games beaten in 2021 but it'...

Lies of P went on sale the other day and I've been hearing very good things about it from Souls fans, which is honestly a bit rare in the past several years where a lot of studios have been trying to recreate the FromSoft magic while pretty much always missing something major that makes it not quite...

I didn't realize how much of the ASMT King Charles fight was a Cave Story reference.

Also didn't know the Emerald Stronghold music was from Cave Story either.

I own Cave Story 3D because it was one of the few games that seemed like I might enjoy in the 3DS's early life when it didn't have much to play. It's kinda cool that it came in a slip cover with a holographic cover image, though unfortunately it's an image with the new designs that are pretty ugly a...

Earlier today (yesterday now) a friend was asking about favorite Mario villains and all I could think of was Fawful from SS. I was trying to remember its release year, and I said "I think 2003." Found out later that not only was I correct but it was exactly 20 years ago to the day (yesterd...

I spent some time finally installing some game cores on my Analogue Pocket which I got back in January and proceeded to let collect dust on my shelf since then. I couldn't think of a GameBoy game I wanted to play off the top of my head so I also installed the SNES core and went looking for a SMW rom...

Actually my uncle works at vip and he says it's from the vip 4 level "dodge the beefsteak" I'm blind to this path of the game (and actually the ending of the first route -- when I first played Cave Story on DSi I got the ending where you fly away with Kazuma and went "wow I did it, I ...

I wouldn't take such issue with it if the action that this all hinges on made some amount of sense. Instead, the falling professor is basically the least intuitive thing. Of course a person's gonna fall down there too. I don't know a single person who thought "what if I ignore him? what if I t...

Played through Bowser's Fury 100% from start to finish this evening. I've managed to stay pretty spoiler-free from this game even though it's a few years old now. It was a pretty good time! Basically a mini version of Odyssey made within 3D World's engine, and a pretty interesting gameplay loop with...

The tow rope inspires you to have the strength and willpower to carry Curly on top of your head