Destructoid Changelog - Useless, horrible dates

Hello from a sea of boxes. I’m moving this week. I hate moving. I feel as though I’m being suffocated by all this cardboard. I hope your week is going better.

With Bungee’s recently announced layoffs, things have been less weird and more depressing. So, instead of feeling sorry for myself and laying my head on the desk for a good cry, let’s have a look at what some of the on-duty writers have come up with.

10 MTG cards that are totally useless

I know some things about Magic: The Gathering, but not a whole lot. Enough to appreciate this list of the most useless cards you could possibly pull from a booster pack. These aren’t ranked, which is probably for the best, because I don’t know how you can compare useless against useless. Some of these cards work against you, while others just raise the question of why you’d even want to play it.

Tiago also brings this up a couple of times, but imagine being the person who created the art for one of these cards. Would you use it in your deck? Just out of some weird pride?

Another question: Are there people out there that actually use any of these in their deck? Is there some strangely effective way to use them?

Sims 4 Lovestruck brings out some of the weirdest dates, and I’m here for it

I definitely know The Sims 4. I haven’t really played in the last few expansion packs, but it’s hard to fit a few dozen hours of rapturous mindlessness into my schedule. I love it, though, despite its glut of paid expansion content. The newest one, Lovestruck, is super tempting as someone who likes disastrous romance.

Kristina Ebanez gives us the rundown of what this new date is packing. This includes dating eggplants, in case you lived through the NES era and have dreamt about that hot eggplant lady from Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom. There’s also dating your stalker because – and I cannot stress the sarcasm enough here – that always goes so well. And then there’s the time when Kristina stood up a blind date and later found out that it was with the CEO of the dating app company, and her Sim was banned from the app out of vindictiveness. Ah, romance.

10 promising indie-sized horror games slated for the second half of 2024

I play a lot of “indie-sized” horror games, but I honestly don’t keep up with them. I like them to surprise me like a monster bursting out of the air ducts. If you’re like me and wander through life in a daze, then Shane Weaver’s list of 10 upcoming horror games may be what you need.

It’s a good selection. Personally, I’m looking forward to Clock Tower’s first official release outside of Japan, even if it totally isn’t indie (though studio sizes at the time were pretty similar). I’ll probably circle back to Conscript at some point. We looked at Zoochosis last week. I’ve also been following Hollowbody’s development, which looks like a unique take on the PS2 days of survival horror.

There’s another that I’m looking forward to that isn’t on this list, and that’s Sniper Killer. As a fan of Bloodwash, I’m excited to see what Black Eyed Priest and Henry Hoare come up with next. I did a preview of the demo over a year ago, but what I’ve seen since then suggests an expanded scope.

Get it? Scope?

Review: The Operator

I checked out The Operator due to my love of adventure games that take place entirely within a fictional operating system. The Operator is that, but definitely not the most sterling example of it. It’s not Hypnospace Outlaw or Pony Island. However, it is enjoyable throughout its entire runtime.

When it comes to OS sims, I think that progression should come from mastery of its systems in order to solve puzzles. In The Operator, it’s more that each one of its systems is a puzzle, so you only need to learn them enough to solve that one puzzle and then can just move on and forget about it. That winds up describing The Operator: solve the puzzles, move on, forget about it.