Hey everyone. Hope you have had a good weekend and are enjoying your summer. This week I’ve been out of town but I spent a lot of time in airports so I dusted off my Gameboy emulator on my phone and saw i had a Pokémon emerald save that was still before the first gym leader. I now have 3 badges and full steam ahead on the 4th. Hope you all have a great week!
Final Fantasy Tactics. Yes again
The switch from chapter 1 to 2 is so weird, like Delita gets asploded at the Death Corps base, there’s a brief intertitle of (presumably) Ramza being like “I took my whole life for granted…” and then it cuts back to the chapel from the intro. I guess we just don’t get to see when Ramza became a mercenary? Okay???
I am playing twighlight struggle the board game for the first time and its genuinely brilliant. Its like Risk but not shit, naturally i am playing NATO and i have europe, asia and africa on lock rn expanding in central america. It appears using actual american cold war foreign policy works
Edit: I won. America reigns supreme
Actually i ignored south America completely, dont overstretch your empire folks
Neat, you playing the video game or the actual boardgame IRL?
I’d say it’s pretty hard to hold on to South America or Africa as the US because the USSR will keep DEFCON at 2 with a coup into a battleground in one of those two continents as their first action just about every turn they can.
Boardgame irl but looking at getting the digital version
Lol yeah there are sure a lot of cardboard chits for the physical game. Back in the day the digital version had no DRM so my friendgroup bought one copy and then just passed around a USB stick. Good times.
Decided to put another playthrough into Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. It’s been a few years and I need to recreate a clear file on my memory card since I lost my old one recently. This game is easily one of the best games in the series with one of the best stories. Also, Ike/Soren is a thing and I won’t hear otherwise.
Just beat Persona 3 Reloaded. Funny thought: I first played the original on emulator, usually at like 2-3x speed. On emulators, the speed up also speeds up the music, so i ended up listening to all the tracks at high speed and it mostly sounded like gibberish. Now that i played at normal speed, i realize that the lyrics are actually gibberish because they are translated to english and don’t make any sense lol
Back in my day we called that nightcore
I set up Sunshine/Moonlight to play PC games on a TV via a Switch, although my annoying-ass wireless network is making this a pain recently. Sometimes I connect first try, othertimes I need to endlessly restart my PC and Switch until they happen to connect for some reason. I assume it might be a thing with the router having a automatic 2.4Ghz/5Ghz thing and maaaaybe if I switch that it’ll stop being like this, but IDK. Plex is similar.
But anyway, I set this up to (re)play The Painscreek Killings with my mom. She’s taking notes and helping solve the puzzles and I’m doing the inputs. I vaguely remember the mystery, mostly just the bad ending the game has, but the 90% of the game before that is really good. I gotta’ play Scene Investigators their game after this where it leans even more into being a real detective game.
Definitely 2.4ghz auto switching that band is very congested everywhere
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See, just connected first try right now.
Oh also about Pokemon, very chill. Emerald has a bunch of great hacks nowadays like Lazarus, Seaglass, but I ran a nuzlocke of Emerald Cross (mostly vanilla but has many convenience features, such as nuzlocke mechanics) and it was pretty good. The pokemon games actually hold up fairly well imo, which is cool because I thought I’d grown out of them.
My hotel blocks torrents so I downloaded Outer Wilds, starting once I check in.
EDIT – I was flying into it completely blind and didn’t even know it needed a controller. It will have to wait until I’m in my own place.
You can play it fine with a keyboard. Don’t delay yourself from playing the best goddamn puzzle game ever made
What do you mean it needs a controller? 🤔 i played for a while on kb+m just fine
It suggested it. If I’m 7 years late to play it, it’s no big deal for me to wait a couple more weeks to play it properly.
Mh i don’t remember that at all and find it quite weird because it is first person and those are just automatic kb+m to me.
Hope you enjoy it whenever you do play it😁
I finally got enough decent stickers in War Thunder to start fucking around with flying Japanese planes (after I cover up the sun roundels). Still playing some other planes, though, like the Yak-9T and Chinese La-11.
Trying to pick Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 back up. It’s hard to not want to be a completionist in this one, but I’m trying to be loosey-goosey and enjoy it.
Finished Esoteric Ebb and Star Wars: Jedi Survivor the other day, too. Fun games, but hard to recommend to anyone beyond those who see the immediate appeal.
Its going to be Dead by Daylight and Grim Dawn for me today. Have a whole gaming day set out with loved ones
and are enjoying your summer
This ironically fits because despite being winter in the southern hemisphere, it’s hot as hell in here. This week temperatures hovered between 28ºC - 33ºC.
But outside of that not so fun fact, I have been still grinding on that SF6 ranked. I have finally surpassed Platinum 1 and I’m now midway through Platinum 2. Really feel like I’m getting better at a very rapid pace too, feels like I’m understanding interactions much better now.
I have also gone back into Hades after watching some gameplay recently. I have finished the story but there’s still quite a bit of stuff for me to do there.
I got Saros, and the incident at galley house. Saros is like returnal, with maybe too many mechanics (dodge, shield, shield to charge a big gun, but shield only works on some bullets).
Incident at galley house is the next game from the team that remixed roottrees are dead, and they remixed this game as well. It’s another fun detective game. Not quite sure what I’m doing, just seeing scenes and using them to find more scenes and slowly attach pictures to names. It’s quite satisfying.
I finished Saros so if you need any help with it let me know. You can always use the modifiers to make things easier. I kept a few on permanently to keep things from getting even more overly annoying. The real key is to keep making forward progress so you can unlock the abilities and additional weapons that the story provides. Sadly, its not as good as Returnal, but its pretty close. The story is better but the gameplay and fundamentals aren’t as fleshed out as they should be. I’m holding onto my copy in hopes of a DLC.
Yeah my hands are not what they used to be so I’ve got the aim assistance bumped up. But long drawn out fights tend to leave my hands pretty sore. Action games are probably going to disappear from my future it seems.
Almost got through the first boss, just trying to get the hang of dodging, shielding and general positioning to avoid the bullets
Yeah getting used to using the shield took me a good long while.
If you’re having hand problems are you doing your hand and wrist stretches before gaming? using any wrist or hand braces?
If not, you should. They help a great deal.
Just started playing dying light. Got it for free years ago and I’d heard good things. So far fun zombie parkour game, decent fun. And when I’ve had time to kill I’ve been diving back into Into the Breach. Such a good game and I love all the new content that was added a couple years ago
Today is day 9 of Path of Exile 3.29. The 3.29 expansion introduce a new character type (Luminary) that can hire mercenary NPCs to fight alongside you, like in diablo 2. There’s a lot of new build possibilities and it’s fun. Many players are making a character that provides buffs to the mercenary and then it kills everything instead of you.
I’m now platinum rank in Magic Arena ranked which is quite enjoyable
making some good progress through Horizon Forbidden West. I haven’t played any open world games in a while so it is nice to get back in this weekend. It’s been a pretty chill weekend!
decided to try the tales games, playing Tales of Berseria now, if I finish it and still want more Tales of Xillia would be the next to try, I have a few unplayed JRPGs in the steam library and maybe this will be like a kick off to finally get on track to play them
