the reviews are insanely good, there's apparently a problem with the pc port tho so I'm waiting

rating the levels

S Tier:
Compton's Cookoff - fantastic concept, and so good at illustrating its themes that it makes about half of the other levels redundant, at least in part
The Motherlobe/Quarry/The Questionable Area - just dicking around in these areas are very fun, as it should be. lots of great optional dialog

A Tier:
Hollis' Classroom/ Hollis' Hot Streak - the structure of this part of the game, including the casino part, rules. depressing that they don't try for something this cool again until the very end, and it's not as good.
Strike City/ Cruller's Correspondence/ Ford's Follicles/ Tomb of the Sharkophogus - I've seen some people angry about the amount of Ford in the game but I thought this all tied together very well, and the levels all had cool gimmicks. Really felt bad each time I put a piece back together.
Cassie's Collection - very funny all the way through, and while it is yet another old Psychonaut (yaoP) it's actually about new things. still a little stale structurally, but that's an overall game problem and not its fault

B Tier:
Lucrecia's Lament/ Fatherland Follies - this section was probably supposed to be as cool as the Hollis part but they had to cut it down, still good stuff, overall satisfying ending.
Bob's Bottles - lot to love about this, but it would have been way better if it wasn't yaoP and if you didn't immediately cure his Alcoholism. if it was close to the same thing but a side character it's A or S teir: well written, looks good, plays interestingly
Loboto's Labyrinth - A fun opening, though I really thought Loboto would be more integral after all that

C Tier:
PSI King's Sensorium - I'm being meaner than I should be because it's just not an aesthetic that I like. I do feel like it should play weirder than it is, if it's gonna look that trippy, but it's pretty normal. Also angry that it hides that it's yaoP until it gets going.
Green Needle Gulch - It's fine, I miss running around the rest of the map tho

That's it, nothing worse than a C

brb sealing my copy of super godzilla using my vacuum sealer to sell it on ebay for $100,000

I have a lot of fun with this game, it's also available as one of the free games with an Xbox Live Gold subscription.

yeah iirc that was just for one version or something?

told my gf once it used to be reeds/bamboo and struggled to find evidence for it for a while and i almost thought i made it up

good, change is bad and horrible and should be avoided.

for shame

quite looking forward to another 2d metroid and it looks to have a similar atmosphere to fusion which is great

excited to dread

metroid found dread in miami

i had a geforce 6800 with the purple borg guy on the box lol

personally i think this is the strangest graphics card box art. not quite sure what gigabyte was going for here.

this reads like a headline from the hard drive lol

you can't play multiplayer with other mayors over the internet even without the network addon mod lol

does the network addon manager mod allow you to play with other mayors over the internet?

if you're ok with something 3d, cities: skylines is kind of the end all be all at the moment.

there's a game called new city that's in early access that's pretty cool and feels like a simcity 2k, but is still pretty In Early Access

honestly the best actual 2d simcity still is probably simcity 4 with the network addon manager mod

Pretty sure it's City Skylines or bust, but I could never get into Skylines, so I'd be interested in hearing about another game.

I like OpenTTD because I like the infrastructure and makin train tracks but that's not really simcity as much as it is... well, transport tycoon.

I love Polygon's videos and I missed this one, thank you for highlighting it :D

mweep

Yeah originally integrate only undid differentiate and wasn't a win condition. When I updated last week it I decided to add more levels going the other way with integrate. I realised it was much easier so I made it so you had to do it once more than differentiate. It might have been a mistake to let you do something that just lets you avoid the main joke but I also thought it was unsatisfyingly asymmetric before.

This boss is much easier to integrate rather than derive.

Also Tangerine lol

So the grammatical answer is that you repeat the verb in the negative.

• An rachaidh tú? - Will you go?
• rachaidh - Yes (just the future tense form of the verb go on its own)
• ní rachaidh - No (the future tense form of the verb with the negative particle before it)

You can give more verbose answers as well but that's the most terse way.

What they went with in the game is a bit more verbose to account for the fact that it was presumably not feasible for them to record a negative form of every verb that gets act of the player in the game and dynamically play them back at the appropriate time. It's the sentence "ní dhéanfaidh mé é sin" (I will not do that) said very quickly.

How do Irish people deny unreasonable requests or establish boundries?