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Lots of stuff actually.

I tried Warhammer Darktide with my friends, they all got almost 100 hours on it I think but I didn't really feel it personally, it's not bad I guess, it's got nice sound and the looks nice and the shooting feels nice, but the idea of grinding the same missions over and over just to get better loot isn't that appealing to me.

Tried the Tekken 8 demo, which I was already pretty hyped for this game, but goddamn that demo sent it to overdrive, the character animations and stages look amazing and the combat feels great (even if I still don't care for the rage arts as a mechanic, but I'll deal with it) Cannot wait for this one.

Started Cyberpunk 20-something on my shiny still-almost-new-PS5 as well, great combination of GTA and Fallout with a really strong art direction and world, love it so far. Also probably one of the bizarrely horniest games I've played in a while.

Finally I got hooked into Rimworld again, continuing my run that I started months ago and then dropped, when the addiction hits with this game it's extremely hard to put down. If you had to bring one game into a deserted island with you this one wouldn't be a bad choice.

The game's general look is a bit too minimalistic for my taste but I do like the game's "cover" art, remind me a lot of Terranigma/Illusion of Gaia.

I don't have much of a dog in this race since I'm not a big Zelda guy, I do find that the open world gameplay does work for me better.

However I can definitely undestand why someone'd be annoyed to have the original style entirely replaced. I'm not a fan of how Final Fantasy has been turned into an action game for example.

Dragon Quest Monsters Dark Prince proved to be a pretty big dud, so I'm not wasting time on that one anymore, Returnal was great and I did get a lot of mileage out of it past week but I can't get past the 3rd area and combined with the oppressive atmosphere the game has I really just needed something a bit more chill.

Right now I'm casually playing Tekken 2 which I found out was a free download on the PS Store (for some reason). I'm a Tekken 3 baby and that game had some pretty big gameplay feel improvements compared to 2 so it's always been a bit tough going back, but playing it for a bit now I have gained a bit of a newfound respect for the game. It's a bit jank but many of the moves the characters are known for are still there, the game does have an awesome soundtrack and a this weird vibe going for it that I kinda enjoy. I'm prolly gonna try unlock all the hidden fighters and in the meanwhile try to figure out something else to play.

Really? I've got a few hours on it now and so far it has come across as very low budget, especially in terms of story presentation, which really doesn't feel its very much in tune with the monster tamer angle.

It also runs terribly, especially for being a switch exclusive.

Fell victim to the day of the product and bought myself a PS5 which came with God of War, and I also bought Ghost of Sushima and Returnal which were on sale also.

God of War I have zero interest in and I tried the Sushi Samurai game, which I hear is an opent world game, but an hour in so far it's been like playing a movie, almost completely scripted, which to me is the lowest form of gaming one can have. Maybe it'll open up and get better later on but I'm quickly losing interest.

Which does leave Returnal which I would hope makes a bit more of an impression.

Cool that low quality license games based on movies/TV series are making their glorious return. Gollum really paved a way for a new era.

Having played it up until beating the power ranger knock-offs, just like the original I find it to be good but not amazing It has some cool events and set pieces and a nice soundtrack, the arrangements really do it proper justice as well, which is quite nice coming from the travesty that was the SO2 arrangements.

Star Ocean Second Story Remaster is ongoing, I'm pretty far in, I think its like 1 or 2 dungeons before the finale but I'm probably gonna go for the bonus dungeon too which is gonna be a whole chapter of its own, got my entire party decked out in bunny shoes so I'm ready.

Also visited my father's where I continued on my Final Fantasy 4 (japanese SNES version) save I've played a bit every time I've been there, made it up to the point where I beat the water fiend so now I'm in what I personally believe is the toughest strectch of the game.

Finished 8-Bit Adventures 2 few days ago (Superb game btw!)

So I started up the Star Ocean Second Story remaster, mostly just been meandering about still, I started the quest where you go with Celine to the cave but haven't done that still. It's been ages since I played the game last but I do remember that you can get a rare missable accessory if you get your pickpocket skills high enough and manage to collect the 40k needed for the bandit gloves very early on, I'm still undecided if I wanna go for the bonus dungeon since it is not for the faint of heart as I recall but in case I do, I do want to at least be prepared somewhat.

There's still 1,5 months left of this year, hold your horses.

Agressive indifference, I'm in it for the video games, none of this movie nonsense.

I'm not as huge on these controllers as I used to, I bought 3 of SN30 Pro+ controllers of which one now has a malfunctioning A button which kinda "sticks" which results in double presses (a pain in the ass in RPGs and like) and 1 copy of Pro 2 which just never seemed to work properly, it's always disconnecting and having compability issues.

As long as they do work they're great feeling controllers but I'm slightly iffy of their build quality now.

Got a good 10 hours of it on PC since the day the full release dropped, it's good, it has slightly limited replayability since there are only so many cases and so many resolutions to them, even after unlocking all of it and the UI and mechanics does take a bit getting used to, but it's a very stylish game with great atmosphere and music.

Luckily for myself I didn't bank on Star Ocean 2 Remaster cus turns out that my delivery for that ended up getting delayed to next week.

Instead I started up 8-Bit Adventures 2, an indie RPG, which I played the first game earlier this year and quite loved it, and now 10 hours in into this game, this one seems even better to the point where this may very well end up being my game of the year if the quality stays constant.

I was just casually playing late last evening when this guy randomly showed up on the character select, I hadn't heard a peep of any of it before so that was kinda weird, I thought they had messed up, releasing the character earlier than intended or something.

Nah, poor timing since I just visited my friends last week plus it does come across as a pretty quick by the numbers entry to me.

Tv play not being an option would kill it for me.

@Impossibilium
Legimately thanks for sharing this, I've never heard of this program before and I'm actually quite loving it after trying it.

I suck at music creation but I've always wanted to learn, if only to be out of the shackles of having to use pre-determined tracks for my RPG Maker games. I wonder what the stance is on using tracks created on this on potential commercial releases?

Original in the case of all the NES Marios that got remade.

I don't care much for the all-star look or soundfont and while I kinda like the Advance port of Mario 2 for all the added content and weird voice lines, I think the originals just are more unique.

World of Horror got its full release finally so I'm playing some of that, great game and perfect for the october festivities.

I also started yet another playthrough on Rimworld, one of my recent all time favorites. I haven't played the game after its latest DLC had released so I'm kinda just doing a generic run without any real goals to see what all the new stuff potentially entails.

My friend's getting it so I get to play it through his copy.

Yeah, I'm a fan of (old) Fire Emblem so I'm no stranger to RNG combat, but on the first game at least I found the combat to be sluggish and annoying, and the menuing and shopping to upgrade your mechs was so slow and cumbersome. I love the art of both games and I wish I could like this, but I just don't.

Has similar energy as life of black tiger.

I'm mostly waiting for World of Horror next week but in the meanwhile I've been playing Tormented Souls, a game emulating the style of the PS1 era survival horror games, in spite of some rough edges it's been pretty fun and it does have some pretty spooky atmosphere even if the monsters themselves aren't all that scary. I think I'm decently far into it by now, I got the "electric lance" weapon a little bit before and I've opened up many of the areas of the mansion by now, so now I gotta figure out where to use all the key items I'm obtaining. Doing pretty well on resources too, I'm not in any real danger of running out of healing items or bullets any time soon.

Probably the worst main series Pokemon games for me in competition with Diamond & Pearl, but unlike those games there wasn't a 3rd version to fix many of the issues either. Doubly jarring coming from Gen 5 which I deem to be one of the better ones.

Hmm curious choice using the standard RPG Maker sound effects.

Still Final Fantasy Blacmoon Prophecy, the RPG Maker 2003 Final Fantasy fangame from the 2000s using assets from the SNES final fantasies. 20+ hours in I've entered the 2nd main act of the game.

It's jank and the writing's really goofy, infuriatingly so at times and it has SO much padding but I've been able to enjoy it for what it is nonetheless, if nothing else I do commend the effort that was put into it, there is a lot of game here.

That's great! It"s always easier to appreciate the new takes too when the originals are still an option.

Late last week I was visiting my father's and in there I decided to play a little bit of Final Fantasy 4, which really did get me in the mood for some final fantasy.

But unlike a normal person I decided that instead of one of the classics I'd try out Final Fantasy Blackmoon Prophecy a final fantasy fangame made in 2000s on RPG Maker 2003 by some rando using assets from the SNES final fantasies (4 most prominently), someone on the internet told me that this is the best Final Fantasy fangame, donno if there is any stock to that.

It's a little bit jank because of the (old) RPG Maker engine and the story is about what you'd expect from a fangame, bit of a mess with tons of new forgettable characters that get added at every turn and a simple plot that overexplains everything, but I do find that there is a degree of sincerity to all of it at least and the gameplay's been remarkably well paced roughly 8 hours in.

The dev clearly loves dungeons, dragoons and invisible walls.

It doesn't need to be anything set but I do want to play something different coming from another game, coming from a hard game requiring concentration I'd rather play something easy, coming from a turn based RPG I'd rather play something shorter and/or different genre etc.

I just cannot play too much of the same thing.

I kinda disliked the world and the characters in the first one, but the strategy gameplay wasn't bad for the most part. I'll need to return to try and see if I can complete the first game at some point.

Cloud version for sure.

It's been a while since I played it but I recall finding Timespinner to be throughly mediocre and the dialogue in particular was actually painful.

Not interested in the sequel whatsoever.

I think 16th is the best I got, and even that was sort of a fluke, mostly I tend to be in the 30-40 range, if I can actually make it to the end of the track in the first place.

I need to learn some manners on the track before I can really hope for anything better.

I bought the Pokemon Violet DLC, I needed something chill after playing through Command & Conquer Red Alert, and there's not many thing more chill than Pokemon, didn't start a new save or anything, just continued from my save with the main story completed, to get some more mileage of the DLC though, I made it a point to not use many of my Pokemon from the main run and try to build a new team for the DLC, I only kept my favorite, Mondo Beast the Vigoroth, to help me get things running. To get readjusted to the game I did go and collect the Eviolite item which I missed in my original run since I never really went into the area where it was, in the process I ran into a Misdreavus which'll also be joining me in my DLC run.

Made it to the DLC area and have just been sploring haphazardly, catching random Pokemon and battling pointless trainers. It's been okay, it's just more of the same, which isn't too bad since I did quite enjoy Pokemon Violet.

I don't think I really have anything that'd be rare enough to be worth mentioning, some sought after games that do go for the $150+ price these days 's the best I got.

Here's hoping it's gonna be able to fulfill at least some of what it's promising to be.

Pretty poor showing, weakest one in a long time. None of the new stuff was interesting to me, sole exception being the Ogre Battle lookalike from Atlus+Vanillaware, and even that's just potential interest. I guess Saga's fine also though its kind of a lower end RPG series in my eyes.

Thousand Year door was cool when I played it years ago but I don't really consider it something worth revisiting, unlike Mario RPG.

And yeah, the F-Zero 99 game is pretty much just pouring salt in the wound, just give us the true new F-Zero entry we all want, c'mon...

I've played the original, already know it's gonna be worth it.

Though apparently Dragon Quest Monsters also got a demo, that one I'm not so sure on so I'll prolly be checking that one out.

Out of all the stuff on the mediocre direct this one did actually catch my eye somewhat, looks pretty dope. Gonna have to wait and see.

And yeah I was thinking it was gonna be Ogre Battle as well, lol.

I liked the game and all, back in the day, but don't really feel compelled for a revisit on this one.

Nah, the loss of the english dub kinda killed it for me personally, I'll just play my GC copies if I do wanna play it.

Both of these are great JRPGs though and come with a hearty recommendation from me.

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I disagree. Having played the recent fan remasters of those games that fixed the terrible frame rates and added some additional quality of life, it really wasn't too bad, I think the games do have legimate charm to them. More than anything I think the games were held back by the CD-i itself, and how it really wasn't properly designed to be a video game console.

At my friend's recommendation I decided to give the Command & Conquer Remaster an another go since apparently the 2ns game of the collection C&C: Red Alert does a bit more of a better job easing you in compared to the first one, and yeah, I'd say it does, game's still kicking my ass and I need to lower the gameplay speed to snail speed (which thankfully is an option) so I can actually keep track of whats going on but I've been able to enjoy this one quite a bit more. Still early on, on mission 5, was stuck on Mission 4 for several days before.

Also started out a Co-op playthrough of Borderlands 2 with my friend, I find the characters obnoxious but I love the gameplay and the diablo-like look system.

Probably either one of the Todds.

They made such a big deal about the dragon transformation being permanent and how Zelda would be sacrificing her own self for it and then I gues it just wasn't? It was a total copout, I hated that.

The Simon's Quest homage seems pretty goshdarn cool.

I've been looking to revisit this game once they've finally made it feature complete.

Retro Game Challenge was superb, some of the best stuff on the DS. I'd love to see this get an international release as well a translation of the sequel.