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Cake day: November 3rd, 2025
  • Japanese visual novels that never get translated are a big one. A huge chunk of them live on novelgame, DLSite, and DMM. In fact, there are some full fledged Japanese games that are DLSite exclusive. I’ve tried a few, and some can be quite good.

    The Star Trek games on GOG (like Elite Force I and II, and Armada) are worth your attention.

    Full Metal Daemon Muramasa is also typically bought on JAST.

    There are also a bunch of gacha games that never released on Steam, though the bigger ones are working to change that.

  • Well, maybe not now, considering how corporate it’s become. But in the period of 2010 and 2015, you could make a decent sequel. The 23rd century era of Fallout is pretty much creatively bankrupt, but Fallout in the 25th century is workable. What Fallout is missing is the rebuilding of society. The NCR side of things in NV comes close, but it’s clear they still have a ways to go to achieve pre-War levels of society. Where’s the NCR variant of Nuka Cola, for instance? Or industry for making all those bullets the NCR uses (Pitt doesn’t count)? Or the logistics for large scale transport, like trains?

  • Command and Conquer 4. The game that killed the franchise.

    Picture things after C&C3. Two factions, GDI (America, basically) and Nod (evil religious dudes) were busy fighting a bunch. The Scrin (aliens) show up and start blowing things up. It is discovered that the aliens are making special structures of unknown purpose. GDI gets to work with blowing them up, but Nod helps the aliens save one of the structures. It is rendered impervious to harm when the game ends.

    Then, there’s the C&C3 expansion. The fancy alien device under GDI’s control is stolen back by Nod, on the orders of their leader, Kane.

    Quite a setup for C&C4, right? There was a first person shooter sequel (called Tiberium) on the pipeline, but it was cancelled. Wait some more time, and C&C4 is announced and released.

    What did we get?

    • The base building system used for every installment is abandoned in favor of a mobile base system. You can zoom around in your mobile base and make units from that. Static structures are gone. Awful.
    • The story is incredibly short. Only a few hours.
    • One character (James) is a huge pile of shit, and fucks shit up at the end regardless of whether you side with GDI or Nod.
    • Nothing on the alien plotline.
    • The video at the end looks like it was shot with an extra just outside EA’s offices.

    Ridiculous. I’m still upset about it to this day.

  • Yeah, I have some Nazi-killing games for you.

    • Hearts of Iron 4. RTS set during WW2, covering the whole planet.
    • Dies Irae - Visual novel where magical Nazis from the past show up to ruin things in 2008 Japan.

    As for games that are close to shooting Nazis:

    • Does the Sunrider series count? You fight the Space Soviet Union in that one, so I don’t know.
    • Possibly Starcom: Nexus. There are some human supremacist bad guys who show up that want to kill everyone that isn’t human.
    • Scarlet Nexus has two factions of fascist bad guys who want to kill each other. You get to fight both.
    • Reverse Collapse Code Name Bakery has you mainly fight fascists led by a crazy man.