Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So once I get these ones affinity charts maxxed out I'm finished with the game right ha ha ha hahaha haha hahahaha hahaha 000
Reposted by KaiWelcome To The Rat Parade @seolfyr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Xenoblade is a good game because sometimes you're minding your own business when suddenly you encounter Inconceivable Jimmy, a lizard who is slightly larger than average Inconceivable Jimmy proceeds to beat your ass while the best song in the world plays 171042427
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026180 hours of xenoblade 2 and all for this screenshot. was it worth it? if i say yes will the voices stop 130
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If I can tear myself away from XC2 I will probably try to finish a casual run of it this month. It'll be nice to finally cross it off the list if nothing else. I do not like this game but it is an ok game 000
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think this team went on to make essentially the same kind of game but better (don't quote me on that, I haven't played em), so hey, gotta star somewhere. And of course I'm playing this without that tonal rugpull of its original trailer in my recent memory, so that probably helps 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A few hours in, I still don't like this game - every single character is a wildly unlikeable douchebag, but that was probably the intention - but I can recognise it for being fine for what it is and of its time, if a little mediocre. It was always a pretty good looking game and it's held up ok there 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I was like 3 or 4, loved this game, but the title music freaked me out a lot. Love it now though youtu.be/sFYzjU-C3mA?...youtu.beMartin Galway - Wizball (C64) [Title Music]YouTube video by Nettoyeur71 000
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Might play Dead Island for spooky month, one of the first steam games I ever bought and the first I absolutely could not *stand* so I didn't play it for more than about 4 hours. I do not expect my opinion to have improved on it at all but it might be funny to just see it through 100
Reposted by Kai🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 🔜 NFC @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ball animals are the best This bird is called Bearded reedling 393559766
Reposted by KaiKai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026OCTOBER MEDIA THREAD It's 🎃spooky season🎃 owwwoooohh etc etc. XC2 is still the focus because. christ. BUT I wanna get some seasonal games in too. Last year I started Silent Hill 2 because to my great shame I'd never played it, then to my equally great shame I didn't finish it, so that's on the list 001
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026OCTOBER MEDIA THREAD It's 🎃spooky season🎃 owwwoooohh etc etc. XC2 is still the focus because. christ. BUT I wanna get some seasonal games in too. Last year I started Silent Hill 2 because to my great shame I'd never played it, then to my equally great shame I didn't finish it, so that's on the list 001
Reposted by Kaithat one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026another day in the layoff industry 41517361
Reposted by KaiKai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS XC2 doesn't count as a replay if I squint hard enough that the NS2E label counts as a new game, ok? Anyway the real highlight this month is Orbitals, an absolutely gorgeous delight. Sam 2nd Encounter was a lot of chaotic fun too. And some good classic cinema views 001
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS XC2 doesn't count as a replay if I squint hard enough that the NS2E label counts as a new game, ok? Anyway the real highlight this month is Orbitals, an absolutely gorgeous delight. Sam 2nd Encounter was a lot of chaotic fun too. And some good classic cinema views 001
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026(I skipped PC because uhhhh forgot but because that's already an enormous and hugely fractured and complex space so it's hard to say anything other than PC keeps PCing. High end is getting hit very hard right now of course, mid and low end just keeps trucking along forever) 000
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Most importantly I am almost certainly completely wrong about every single part of this 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So yeah, fractured. Sony goes high end, Xbox flails, Nintendo goes middle, new players fight for the budget end. The parity between systems as a "well most people can afford to just buy whichever one they like most, the price difference isn't that much" pretty much collapses, if it hasn't already. 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026onto a low spec affordable box (which will undoubtedly confuse the faithful who have come to understand that everything Nintendo does must be for them, but as card-carrying Switch 2 owners can't see a reason to buy this themselves) to keep the affordable family demographic in hand. 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026entertained will be easy to move away from the relatively expensive and pretty premium- (and breakable-)looking Switch 2 to a cheaper alternative. Nintendo might be well advised to put something into that space themselves. They've got the back catalogue, load a bunch of Wii era and other classics / 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Which might be Nintendo's biggest threat, similar to what the iPhone did for their blue ocean strategy going from the Wii/DS to the Wii U/3DS generation. They might be the cheap*est* of the big players but they're still not *cheap*, and families looking to save money on tech to keep the kids / 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We might be ripe for new competitors to enter the market. We had the Nex Playground as a much cheaper family offering that performed rather well. If enough people are priced out of the existing big players, it creates room for someone new to come in and scoop them up. 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And when that comes, they're less expected to do a raw-numbers hardware upgrade. If Switch 3 (or whatever) was roughly the same power as Switch 2, but had some other USP attached - like Gamecube to Wii, Wii U to Switch - would anyone be that surprised? And it keeps the costs down. 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026to the bleeding edge. And they're at the start of their current console generation, not the end, which gave them some early pain having to raise prices barely after launch but now lets them observe the industry relatively risk free with 6 or 7 year's worth of headroom before their next system's due. 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nintendo's interesting. They're sort of becoming the "do nothing, win" company if it can be said they're competing at all in the same space. They're already somewhat sheltered from the tech price jump by offering lower power hardware, so they feel it a little less anyway, and they're not beholden / 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026streaming, and they'll always have their PC carve-out. But generally they do what they've been doing for the last ten years - chasing the golden goose by over-exposing a handful of their biggest franchises to wildly mixed success and leaving a lot more destruction in their wake. 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think they maybe try to position as the home of live service "Gamer"'s games. That conflicts with Helix being overspecced and costing a fortune like PS6, but what *doesn't* conflict with all of Microsoft's decisions over the last decade? There's a low spec Helix, there's another stab at cloud / 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Xbox are very hard to predict, but then they're hard to predict even if tech prices come back down. Their heart just doesn't seem to be in it. Honestly hard to suggest anything other than look at the last 10 years and say "yeah they pretty much continue to flounder in harmful and destructive ways." 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026They pretty much drop the pretence that Playstation is within reach for everyone entirely, they continue chasing the bleeding edge of tech and the biggest blockbuster AAA releases regardless of cost. If you can't afford a Playstation, you might be able to stream their games on a subscription plan. 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Playstation reposition as an ultra premium brand. Their console costs $1000+ and rising, their games are digital only and $90+, everyone decries it and predicts their failure, but they're Not For You, Serf, they're for annoying people with money and a love of flaunting money. The iPhone of consoles. 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So here's what I maybe think happens in video games in general in the event that tech prices remain astronomical and we're just Stuck With That for the forseeable (of course, certainly hope it doesn't, burn baby burn etc). I don't think it collapses, but I think it fractures. 100
Reposted by KaiD.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine. 2649141737
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Orbitals Coming in clutch to save me from nothing to put in my highlights post this month, this is a delight. Fairly short, but absolutely *gorgeous* throughout and a ton of fun. A must-have for Switch 2. 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yeah the karts are a tourist attraction in Tokyo. Also Definitely Not Mario Kart We Swear (they got sued by Nintendo a few years back lol). Also pretty much universally hated by the locals because turns out inviting tourists to drive around knee-high in go-karts in real traffic is pretty dangerous 170
Reposted by KaiFrancisco González @grundislav.games · 24/09/2026I just realized that these three inventory items can be found in Chapter 4 of my adventure game. It's not what it looks like, I swear! #iykyk 6436
Reposted by KaiLorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026long long lonnnnnnnnng spagggghetti #fallingblockjam 20514114
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Making it older? Hasn't it always been older. Isn't that how time works. Did they somehow overtake bread 000
Reposted by KaiJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published 541631391
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026my year in ps5 thingy last year was empty except for 2 hours of astro bot (I played the free xmas dlc level) and so far this year it's looking like it could be completely blank. I want to play Saros at some point but that's literally the only thing. 010
Reposted by KaiChip (aka Josh) @chipcheezum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hey it's me, a dev at Remedy. I made some of the trailers for CONTROL Resonant! I'll be streaming the game for a few hours when it launches on September 24th at 10AM EDT, 9AM CDT, 7AM PDT, 3PM BST, 5PM EEST over at twitch.tv/chipcheezum 1141276
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026like it struggles with anything that would be considered bleeding edge post 2020ish but also <looks around generally at the bleeding edge of the games industry over the last decade> who gives a shit 000
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"I guess I can use this to do some light editing work and browsing and stuff-- oh shit I can run games on this machine I ran games on for 6 years" 100
Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026me when i buy a new pc to replace my old perfectly capable if slightly underpowered one and then 10 months later finally get around to hooking the old one up again and discover it is perfectly capable if slightly underpowered 100
