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Sid Menon
Sid Menon
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the he/him who made every joke. co-hosting @bghof.com, hosting/editing We Thought About Games, and musicking as NETWORKS. all my posts are good https://linktr.ee/beamsplashx
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Gonna return to Ace Combat at the top of the hour. I just finished up mission 16 last time. @dochospital.bsky.social tells me Mission 17 is hard as balls so I'm a bit scared as to what shows up. Join me over at www.twitch.tv/indestructib...
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i tell you what, we're up to our neck in out-of-towners who think they can seekest mine treasure! then we find 'em ass-halfway in mine labyrinth of beguiléd deception going "ooh ooh i'm stuck!", and i have to be the one to shout "hey cityboy! ya ain't performed thine seven ablutions of clarity yet!"
if you want me to care about this many variants of the F/A-18 and F-15, then you should put the railguns and lasers back on them. license some freak planes if you're not gonna stack the roster with more of your cool original designs. also make the first d-pad input choose one or all wingmen to order
the first-person parts were novel, but it felt like they were conceived separately from the story and didn't really achieve anything the previous ace combat games' pre-rendered cinematics couldn't. i also felt like they scaled back the action from AC7? and sure i didn't mind, but i did always notice
i mocked vibe-coded decomps in a discord and some guy fired back with "do you know how many hundreds of hours a decomp takes without AI?", to which i said "that's fine", because making hybrid heaven run at 60fps or whatever isn't something crucial we've all sorely missed in the decades since release
ifuu and burai in the new onimusha clear it easily, but it's a shame more people didn't experience yan liang and wen chou in wo long: fallen dynasty. having a duo boss start with wen chou spinning and throwing yan liang full force at you was better than anything in ornstein and smough phase 1
i've said it before, but going back to ornstein and smough phase 1 really feels like two random enemies were dropped into a room with no interesting interplay between them. the music, presentation, and phase 2 gimmick are really great, but that first part never feels like there's a cool way to do it
the four tech spec categories are "Connectivity" which states what platforms it connects to wirelessly, "Compatible with" which says what platforms it connects to, "Includes" to restate that it's a wireless controller, and "Battery" which tells you it has a rechargeable battery fifty dollars please
XBOX Nano Controller announced - $49.99 news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/1... Preorder MS Store: www.xbox.com/en-US/access...