Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

Sometimes I see people nostalgia posting about how they miss the days when games came with manuals in the box, but tbh it's so much better now that games explain how to play within the actual game

Also like. For a lot of these old games, they didn't even put the story inside the game. You had to read it in the manual!

Jak 2 has separate issues that combine together to make it not as good:
- it's linear mission based, which means (unlike Jak 1) if you're stuck on a challenge you can't go do something else and come back
- it's cruel - there are no checkpoints in missions
- it's demanding - many missions are timed and only give u the exact amount of time u need to finish the mission

I still liked it a lot, and the deeper story is great, but it was hard to motivate myself to play

Jak 1 is a really fun collectathon platformer, I'm already learning the speedrun for it
Jak 2 and 3 are both action games though... I think Jak 2 doesn't stick the landing, but Jak 3 is amazinggg

i recently played the Jak and Daxter trilogy! it's really good, overall!

creachers,,,

I keep wanting to come back to here but I don't know what to post

it's kinda weird to use this account because like.... we're different people now!
And none of us really use the lizardsquid name anymore!

it's been so longgg since we used masto

real lizard hours

wiggling,,,

I am going to try streaming mirror's edge catalyst speedrun attempts!
https://www.twitch.tv/veelunarcritter

Good morning!

Sleepy bean...

The video itself showed off some stats that were somewhat interesting, like the survey found completion was the strongest motivator overall. The video then asked the question "is this because people are fundamentally motivated this way, or is it just because games are designed to encourage and reward completion specifically?" And then proceeded to.... Not answer the question.

I would argue that the idea that someone can be driven by one specific core motivation is fundamentally flawed, because even though I would say I'm someone who likes 100%ing a game, I have only ever reached 100% in a tiny proportion of the games I've played.

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