Will do 
It tends to be on a very good sale quite often though, so you might find yourself buying it before I manage to get around to it 
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Just bought Scott Pilgrim vs. The World- The Game last night. If I can get past the difficulty barrier, it should be loads of fun.
- This game is very much an homage to old arcade games, starting with the difficulty. I played the first level solo twice last night, I didn’t manage to beat it. I got 2/3rds of the way through the first time, and died on the final fight in the 2nd one. It should get easier the more levels I increase and moves I unlock, or I’ll try the online co-op.
- There’s also barely any tutorials or instructions on how the game works. I had to figure that out on my own or looking it up online. Apparently there’s hidden shops in the background of each level you can use to buy stat boosts and healing items – very useful – I just assumed the background was level-dressing.
- There’s cheat codes to input on the main menu for OP items, unique areas or modes.
Pretty neat. I also just checked out a video detailing a whole lot of easter eggs within the game – and wow. This game was apparently made in crunch-mode to release alongside the movie, but that didn’t stop the team from including a whole bunch of references to the comics, other games, and the author himself.
(Also heck yes I’m loving their rendition of Virtual Toronto. They even got the TTC buses right.)
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I just finished a run of MGS3 and I’m as depressed as I was 15 years ago. Saddest ending in a video game 
Otherwise, I’m playing Valheim at the moment. At first I thought it was just another lazy early access, but I was soooo wrong. I’m at 60 hours played now with 3 bosses down, and honestly it’s been a long time since I had so much fun on a survival game.
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Guess you haven’t played Secret of Mana? 
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If you want sad, try Valiant Hearts.
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i’m juggling prey and hollow knight on and off, but stellaris - the video game equivalent of military-grade crack cocaine - has had an update on consoles, so i will be playing that until disco elysium comes out. in celebration of disco’s imminent release, i will be playing stellaris as a literal fully automated luxury pan-sexual space communist empire.
also, i have a hunch that disco elysium is probably going to have the saddest ending of all.
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Try life is strange 2. All endings are sad in their own way.
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Finished GTA Vice City and jumped into III. Playing Doom 3 and I’m close to finish the damn thing. It’s actually a continuation of a save I had in 2019 but the game is so boring that I stopped right in the middle of it.
The game that surprised me is Might and Magic 6: The Mandate of Heaven, got it cheap on GOG and I’m loving the hell out of it. Goes to show that you don’t need fancy new graphics and cinematics to have a fun game.
Give sadness the middle finger and boogie woogie!
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I’m actually playing through the ezio collection, just cause 4 and far cry 4 at the moment. Looking forward to starting shadow of the tomb raider and greedfall after I’m done.
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Is Life is Strange 2 any good? To be honest, everything I’ve seen about the first game and its prequel looked pretty rubbish, but the sequel looked a bit interesting. Just I’ve seen noone talk about it, and now that Life is Strange 3 is now getting promoted.
If we’re talking sad endings, I cried at the end of Bioshock 2. Bioshock 2 is so underrated, both as a game and as a story. And it’s the only Bioshock game where the ending isn’t rubbish.
If we’re going with a funnier sad ending, in the Game Gear or Master System version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the plot has Sonic having to collect the Chaos Emeralds to save Tails who has been captured by Eggman. If you don’t collect all the Chaos Emeralds by the end of the game, the game ends with a cutscene of Sonic running alone, then stopping to look at the night sky with Tails in the stars, very much saying that yeah, in the bad ending, Tails is fucking dead. I never played this as a kid but it is funny reading stories of children mortified after playing this game.
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The 2nd game was good. It has a really sad story though and there’s no happy ending.
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That’s cool, but I guess to be a little more specific, does it avoid having the awkward dialogue of the first game. That and are the sad endings satisfying, rather than LIS1’s pretty bad endings?
Basically, would you recommend it?
I was satisfied with the ending I got. The game is pretty good at dialogue choices because choices you make will have an impact on a character and will determine actions that character makes during the story.
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That’s cool. I’ll need to get it at some point, I do like these sortof Telltale style games.
I definitely recommend it. One of the best games I’ve played in a long time.
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I enjoyed the first game, the prequel, and life is strange 2 quite a bit but LIS 2 is generally regarded as weaker than the other 2 - i share that opinion but I don’t think the quality gap is as big as others do
if you’re not a fan of the first one (which you should still give a try if you haven’t already, behind the hipster front there’s actually a very engaging mystery) then I’m not sure the sequel will be for you either. the dialogue is improved, but the endings are still as miserable as ever - this time there are 4 endings based on your actions throughout the game rather than a static choice between 2 you make at the end (but don’t let that fool you into thinking the choice system has more depth than it actually does). the tradeoff is that it goes for a roadtrip type structure rather than having all 5 episodes set in one place, so you never really have enough time to get familiar with a lot of the characters beside the core cast
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Yeah I noped out of that one as soon as I heard the main character say “I guess I’m just more of an analog girl” 
But I know Jane from Outside Xbox loved it too so…
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The first one is really good, I had dismissed it for so long but when I finally got around to playing it I found it was really good. The prequel is alright, it was a victim of that voice actor’s strike though. If nothing else the bonus episode was great.
Haven’t played two yet since I was waiting for a price drop but I know it was good but it lacked a certain charm the first two had.
If we are talking sad endings then how come nobody has brought up Red Dead Redemption? Shame on you guys.
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He was released on my birth year, so, no, I didn’t play it 
I almost bought the 3D remake when it was released on pc, but the feedback wasn’t super good, so I gave up.
No, I’ve had my dose of sadness so far 
But the game looks interesting, maybe I’ll try it later.
I haven’t played Life is Strange 2 but I played the first one. Nice game, but not really my type tbh 
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I have been really busy the last week or so with some important matters and haven’t had time at home with my computer. It’s just been me on buses or waiting for important appointments and I had to fill the Hitman shaped hole in my heart with another game I can play endlessly on my Switch.
I have finally just discovered how good the remake of Crash Team Racing is. I got it ages ago but barely touched it because other stuff came up. Now I can’t put it down except for when I have to for priorities. It’s no F-Zero but it’s fun being kicked in the teeth by a racing game again until you learn how to go way, way too fast for your own good. Fun times.
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