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General Chat / Re: I’m very very sorry
« Last post by RABicle on August 26, 2025, 03:20:03 AM »lol should’ve kept the reply from the spambot assuring me it was ok.
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by broodwars on August 25, 2025, 11:53:05 PM »OK, so that's Robocop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business in the can now, my 397th Platinum btw. I'm aiming to hit 400 by the end of the year (partially because it's an excuse to finally get serious on Valkyria Chronicles 4 to be #400), so I made some good progress on that this month.
As a standalone expansion, Unfinished Business reminds me a lot of that Wolfenstein: The Old Blood expansion from last generation, in that it takes a game that was kinda open and brings it back to basics with a corridor shooter filled with monster closets and big guns. I was actually kinda taken aback by how hard the game was at first, as you start the game basically fighting the End Game armored mercenaries from the main game, but with only a handful of upgrades and your basic gun. But it didn't take long for the balance to flip in the opposite direction as I obtained upgrades and levels.
Frankly, I think the game could have used even more paring back, as this game still includes small side quests despite its already shorter length, and they're pretty forgettable in general. I would have rather the time spent on these basic fetch quests be used on maybe another level with 1-2 more enemy types, but the experience overall is still very solid. In fact, with the addition of the flying drones; the rolling explosive drones; (prototype versions of) the Otomo ninja robots; the flying troopers; and the new heavy weapons, I'd say there's a lot more variety in combat now than in the base game. The Cryo Gun in particular is a delight to play with, and the late game is more than happy to give you encounters setup to turn into a winter wonderland. You even get to play a level controlling an ED-209, which is very cathartic (and yes, they remembered the vulnerability to stairs).
Storywise, what's here is solid but not particularly noteworthy, though it is an amusing lead-in to Robocop 3. Teyon seemed to care more about setting up a well-developed villain, but they just didn't seem to have the time to really make him truly memorable. In fact, everything ends super abruptly with a sub-30 second villain death cutscene leading immediately to credits, making me think Teyon ran out of time and money when designing the last 1/3 of the game.
Overall, I had a great time with Unfinished Business, but the game definitely feels rushed and a little buggy. I had to reload a checkpoint a few times because the game would bug out and refuse to unlock a door I needed to proceed. Gotta wonder what 80s franchise Teyon will do next, as they've already (badly) done Rambo and (excellently) done Terminator and Robocop. Die Hard, perhaps?
As a standalone expansion, Unfinished Business reminds me a lot of that Wolfenstein: The Old Blood expansion from last generation, in that it takes a game that was kinda open and brings it back to basics with a corridor shooter filled with monster closets and big guns. I was actually kinda taken aback by how hard the game was at first, as you start the game basically fighting the End Game armored mercenaries from the main game, but with only a handful of upgrades and your basic gun. But it didn't take long for the balance to flip in the opposite direction as I obtained upgrades and levels.
Frankly, I think the game could have used even more paring back, as this game still includes small side quests despite its already shorter length, and they're pretty forgettable in general. I would have rather the time spent on these basic fetch quests be used on maybe another level with 1-2 more enemy types, but the experience overall is still very solid. In fact, with the addition of the flying drones; the rolling explosive drones; (prototype versions of) the Otomo ninja robots; the flying troopers; and the new heavy weapons, I'd say there's a lot more variety in combat now than in the base game. The Cryo Gun in particular is a delight to play with, and the late game is more than happy to give you encounters setup to turn into a winter wonderland. You even get to play a level controlling an ED-209, which is very cathartic (and yes, they remembered the vulnerability to stairs).
Storywise, what's here is solid but not particularly noteworthy, though it is an amusing lead-in to Robocop 3. Teyon seemed to care more about setting up a well-developed villain, but they just didn't seem to have the time to really make him truly memorable. In fact, everything ends super abruptly with a sub-30 second villain death cutscene leading immediately to credits, making me think Teyon ran out of time and money when designing the last 1/3 of the game.
Overall, I had a great time with Unfinished Business, but the game definitely feels rushed and a little buggy. I had to reload a checkpoint a few times because the game would bug out and refuse to unlock a door I needed to proceed. Gotta wonder what 80s franchise Teyon will do next, as they've already (badly) done Rambo and (excellently) done Terminator and Robocop. Die Hard, perhaps?
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by broodwars on August 25, 2025, 07:51:41 PM »Nearing the end of Robocop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business, the standalone expansion for Rogue City. So far, it's been a LOT of fun, albeit very simple fun. This is much more of a retro shooter than Rogue City was, with an emphasis on corridor shooting with big guns and monster closets.
Did you finish this game or is it unfinished business?
Was wondering when someone was going to make that joke. Wasn't able to play it all weekend. Had family in town assisting us in doing some major house cleaning/moving, and I wasn't able to boot up my PS5 in all that time. They're back home now, so my room is mine again. I'll likely have this wrapped up soon.
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by M.K.Ultra on August 25, 2025, 07:48:15 PM »Nearing the end of Robocop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business, the standalone expansion for Rogue City. So far, it's been a LOT of fun, albeit very simple fun. This is much more of a retro shooter than Rogue City was, with an emphasis on corridor shooting with big guns and monster closets.
Did you finish this game or is it unfinished business?
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by M.K.Ultra on August 25, 2025, 07:45:41 PM »Finished Little Kitty Big City, or at least the main objective and some side stuff. The game is extremely cute. Its fun to run around as a cat and collect things. Im glad its short though, it could easily overstay its welcome. Overall as a game though, I liked it less than Stray. I will probably go back to it later this year after that update is released that was shown in the Indie World video a few weeks ago.
I just learned that there is a physical version of the game through Fangamer so I deleted it from my wishlist and plan on picking that up next month.
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General Chat / Re: I’m very very sorry
« Last post by Khushrenada on August 25, 2025, 05:03:41 PM »LOL! It's just the nature of spambots. Nothing was weakened. Security just always been that terrible. 
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by RABicle on August 25, 2025, 09:11:34 AM »LOL. Yeah I'm playing on Switch so not fussed about achievements. That does sound hilarious though and I'm pretty sure I beat the original in one sitting back in the day.Will probably return to Beyond Good and Evil like I keep promising. I mean I've beaten this game plenty of times before but this is the 20th anniversary release! Has anything changed? Yes it has in fact they added some completely trivial nonsense to try and create continuity to the sequel which will never come out but lol.
There's also a new "Speedrun Mode" where the game challenges you to beat it from start to finish without saving. It's nerve-wracking. I did it for the game's Platinum earlier this year. It's not that the game's difficult, but you're just petrified of the game crashing, which apparently it did at launch in this mode.
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by RABicle on August 25, 2025, 09:10:33 AM »So after starting Frostpunk and encountering a repeatable show stopping bug, 3 times, after 40 minutes of play, I successfully got a refund off Steam, despite purchasing it over a year ago! I think that count as reducing the backlog and I will celebrate it.
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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 940: Zoom In on Showpony’s Groin
« Last post by Printertales on August 25, 2025, 08:12:52 AM »This post is the perfect representation of what 45 minutes feels like — drifting between focused thought and accidental tangents, with some existential time dilation thrown in for flavor.
The bit about 45 minutes not feeling like 75% of an hour hit me right in the temporal cortex. It’s that weird length where you're too antsy to settle into something deep, but too guilty to completely waste it. I once spent a full 45-minute stretch deciding whether or not to start a game of Hades. Never did. Just stared at the Switch menu like a fool.
Also, Sakurai absolutely needs to be let loose in the forbidden zone. No more rules. Give him "Wii Music 2: Jazz Vortex" and see what happens. Or let him reinvent Ice Climber as a roguelike dating sim. Kirby Air Riders Direct is exactly the kind of overly polished, overly sincere, overly charming weirdness I expect when Sakurai is in his element—and it’s beautiful.
Glad to hear Jonny back on the pod, too. Always feels like classic NWR when he’s around. And man, ten years of James? That’s not a run, that’s a sentence.
The bit about 45 minutes not feeling like 75% of an hour hit me right in the temporal cortex. It’s that weird length where you're too antsy to settle into something deep, but too guilty to completely waste it. I once spent a full 45-minute stretch deciding whether or not to start a game of Hades. Never did. Just stared at the Switch menu like a fool.
Also, Sakurai absolutely needs to be let loose in the forbidden zone. No more rules. Give him "Wii Music 2: Jazz Vortex" and see what happens. Or let him reinvent Ice Climber as a roguelike dating sim. Kirby Air Riders Direct is exactly the kind of overly polished, overly sincere, overly charming weirdness I expect when Sakurai is in his element—and it’s beautiful.
Glad to hear Jonny back on the pod, too. Always feels like classic NWR when he’s around. And man, ten years of James? That’s not a run, that’s a sentence.
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General Chat / I’m very very sorry
« Last post by RABicle on August 25, 2025, 07:43:38 AM »Khush had to disable some security to help me log back in and now look what happened! There’s Temu **** all over the page and it’s all my fault! I only wanted to post in Backlaugust!
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