Been playing MGSV Phantom Pain.
Got gifted xbox360. Modded it and been playing games from that era that I’ve skipped. AC1 was great, AC2 is okay. Tried MGSV and was like “Wow! AI in this game is incredible!”. But FPS was abysmal so I got Steam key and now playing on Bazzite. Game is great! Definitely recommend.
I have my 360 still in my closet. Was modding it very difficult? Hypothetically, where would one go for resources on doing this?
Are you planning on giving Ninja Gaiden 2 a spin? You have a chance to experience the original Chapter 10 staircase fight, where there are so many enemies on screen at once the game slows down to full-on bullet time time dilation because there is too much game for the hardware to handle.
I am seeding a popular xbox360 rom archive, and Ninja Gaiden 2 already has been downloaded, unpacked, and transferred to xbox. I have heard it is a great game. I will pick it up later on after I finish a few games higher on the list.
That’s awesome, do you know if it has the DLCs included? Survival (part of the Mission Mode DLC) is my favourite part of the game for quick access mindless action.
In general NG2 is an incredibly unique game. To this day there is nothing quite like it, you will either love it or hate it - and probably both in equal measures. It was unfortunately rushed out and released in an unfinished and unbalanced state due to some internal issues at Team Ninja, and you see this particularly in the later levels and the higher difficulties. But when it hits and it’s delivering fights against groups of humanoid enemies it really delivers a feeling of “what if cocaine was playable?” that no other game matches.
Will be interested to hear your thoughts, and let me know if you want any tips. It doesn’t really play like any other action games.
cyberpunk 2077
finally got to it and it’s awesome.
After finishing shadow of mordor I started playing Sims 3 again, its a blast fr
Trying to be an asshole cop on my second run in Disco Elysium. So far no apologies, I’ve punched Cuno and chosen fascism. Trying to build up my Physical Instrument to knock out Measurehead.
I’m not sure I have the strength to be mean to Kim though.
I’m playing Alan Wake, never played it back in the day. I like Remedy’s weirdness, but I’m finding the gameplay a bit repetitive.
It was much better than the competition when it first came out
It’s worth sitting through as “homework” for the later games, in my opinion. It has some great moments still, and the story is interesting. But yeah, a bit too much clunky combat in similar-looking forests.
Everspace 2. It’s giving me Freelancer vibes and isn’t as weird as Chorus. Pretty good for what it is. A little video gamey… I still haven’t used my “ult” on my ship just because it doesn’t feel right. The AI is pretty basic too.
I’m still having fun though. I’ll stick it out for now.
I recently played through To the Moon, it’s just a few hours long and it’s really just a story with some superficial gameplay elements taped on top. It’s really sad, I cried.
I saw there are a couple sequels and I intend to get to them eventually.
Balatro
Definitely late to this party but I bought a GameSir X2S controller and have spent all week streaming games on my phone with it. Balatro has quickly become an all time favourite for me.
GTA Chinatown Wars
I also tried some emulation on Android and it works great so tried out a few PSP games as I’ve never owned a Sony handheld so thought why not.
I started playing car mechanic simulator VR so i’m learning how to take appart every part of a car to find their issues. Right now the floor is full of engine parts since i’m trying to find what the client said made a noise XD
Does the game resemble a real car? So do you actually learn for real? I’m very interested in this
It’s surely much simpler then a real car since i could disassemble the whole car in an hour and put it back together in around the same time i think XD
Lol. If the parts and how they’re assembled is the same as the real car, I’d be ok with that. Much appreciated :)
I watched a guy who worked as a mechanic for a couple years play it and he said it was very accurate to a real car but without the wires and tubes. I got it on sale for like $2. I just checked and it’s still on sale.
back on my long way away from my mmos. champions and star trek online. its the summer event. Lost some elite qued content. I don’t think I messed up on any objectives but ill admit there is one where the team splits up to three locations and I did not check how the others were doing or if someone covered them and there was someone who came to mine after I was there and I have a scitorp that can handle a section alone. I mean I was doing it alone for a bit so not sure why the guy came over. if it was not elite its fine for one of the sections to fail but in elites all objectives have to be met. anyway its also the summer festival. in champs my characters need to be respeced and its an rp thing around my main to which is going to take time.
Believe it or not, I’ve been so busy with life, that I only just started playing Deltarune. So far I’m liking it, despite of the 240p resolution (uh) and the 30 FPS cap (uuuuuuh)
I’m about 20hrs in now and still early in the second zone. I’m a big fan of the combat (playing as a wizard). The world is beautiful, NPC design is great, scenery is gorgeous. I’m not sure about the story so far (not that it’s bad). The one definite downside so far is the performance. I had to use Optiscaler to force FSR4 upscaling (I have a RX9070) and FSR4 frame gen just to get over 100FPS.
I absolutely adored Animal Well, so I went looking for something similar and I found Rain World.
But Christ on a trampoline, this game is hard as hell. And I have noooo idea what I’m doing yet.
Fun!
Rain World is brutally uncompromising, but there’s a certain kind of satisfaction in that.
If you’re interested in recommendations based on Animal Well, some games with similar puzzle style would be Tunic, Toki Tori 2 and Outer Wilds (be careful with spoilers for those kinds of games)
I appreciate it! Unfortunately I have played tunic and outer wilds as well lol. I own Toki Tori 2 but I remember it being more of a puzzle game? Guess I’ll have to go check it out again.
It is very much a puzzle game, but the way its puzzles are structured involves exploration.
I’d generally say it’s a rule discovery puzzle game, which is a searchable term, structured in a metroidvania style. I love rule discovery games, the core idea is that the game doesn’t tell you the rules, and discovering the rules that govern gameplay is part of the puzzle.
I haven’t actually been playing any games for the past week, so I don’t have all that much to talk about. Today was the first time I actually sat down and played anything, which was some random Ninja Gaiden 2 survival mode on Xenia Edge emulator and then a couple of fights on my ongoing playthrough of modded Ninja Gaiden 2 Black. The latest custom moveset mod from ShowR18 dropped the other day and so I played around a bit with the new toys.
Otherwise I want to get back to my first playthrough of Darkwood, which I only just started last week. Game is incredible, absolutely top notch horror and atmosphere - without a single deliberate jump scare. Some of the best sound design you’ll ever hear, and some just brutal, oppressive survival horror. I am not easily spooked, but this game gets to me. Almost to the point where I am not sure I will finish it, actually. The convergence of gameplay design and audiovisual design during the nights in your hideout make for some of the most tense moments I’ve ever experienced in gaming. It’s similar-ish to the powerlessness you feel towards the xenomorph in Alien Isolation, but this might honestly be scarier.
Shit, you just sold me on another game. Gonna check out darkwood later this week!
Enjoy! The intended experience is playing on Hard (semi-permadeath, you have limited extra lives) but I recommend playing on Normal. I started off on Hard but restarted on Normal because I still have a faint hope of actually finishing the game and I think it’s a little too difficult to pull that off on a first playthrough on Hard (and I’m not going to start over if I lose my save after 15 hours).
But keep that in mind when playing. The tension and stakes are just so much higher when you have limited extra lives. It definitely does heighten the experience.
Using what I know of the original version and the little I know that changes in this one, doing some slight powerlevelling in Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age.
Still, a bit annoying you can no longer get phoenix downs from Lohen in the Westersand, and best ways now are either a chest in the far corner of the first area of the Estersand, or the rarest drops and steals from an enemy that isn’t easy to chain, the cockatrices.
Also glad now FFXII TZA allows resetting jobs. With how long the game can be, making a permanent mistake early on could be… tilting.
I really want to get to FF XII some day. I never got around to it, but the Gambit system intrigues me so much. I loved the tactics system in DA: Origins, I even installed mods to make it even more advanced and had a lot of fun setting up programming for characters to be sort of self playing pianos.
Also I like the Ivalice setting.
Not familiar with DA: Origins, but being as old of a game and the first from the company (afaik) with such a function, you may notice every once in a while the limits of it. Still, having to cycle between gambits, battle speed and active/wait modes, it gives quite an unique spin on real time strategy. But that if either you are exploring earliest, doing powerleveling, or hunting optional bosses. Usually gambits carry you through most of a normal playthrough if you’re smart about them.
