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Rules: share what games you’re playing, what non-gaming activities you’re entertaining this upcoming week.
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I will be gone this week for a long needed vacation. I hope to get some sun searing but not too much. However I’ll be in Portland and Seattle so sunshine is a gamble.
I’ve managed to close-in on the last few levels of Max Payne where indeed maximum pain has been inflicted through a difficulty spike. I found myself finally “feeling” like Max Payne in a series of hallways with BS enemy AI. However I still stand by my original critique. There just isn’t enough classic Max Payne style in the game. What Rockstar didn’t realize is that Max Payne series is a rouguelike. The third entry kind of emulate this with set pieces but lacks enemy placement and relies on cover mechanics too much. I had to remember I have a leap ability that slows time because cover is so much easier. I think overall it’s a 5/10 Max Payne experience, 8/10 action game. I’ll have to finish it whence I return.
I’m looking forward to checking out the Pinball Museum in Seattle! Maybe seeing some whales.
Last edited by itscalledreality on 15 Jul 2022 at 7:26 pm UTC
Non gaming: Went "Mountain Biking" (I live in a river valley in a plain; Mountains these are not). Still fun. Doing a party later and then some fence and concrete inspection/repair (side note, Quickcrete Red is garbage)
Gaming: going to continue to do Dominions 5 and maybe Dead Cells. Still debating to buy it for Linux or Switch. Leaning towards Linux, ATM.
Ps, hope you like Seattle/Portland. Seems really nice.
Last edited by denyasis on 1 Jul 2022 at 6:47 pm UTC
Other than that, since I finished Jazz Jackrabbit CD and Jazz Jackrabbit Holiday Hare 1995 last weekend, I'll probably be revisiting Donkey Kong Country (courtesy of RetroPie, which I highly recommend building for desktop use, in spite of it having a few quirks when you do this) for my next 2D platforming fix.
I'd also like to get around to setting up a 32-bit Windows XP virtual machine for a few very old games I have that either don't play nice with Wine or otherwise don't get along with the slightly oddball display on my GPD Win Max 2021 (the GPD mini-laptops and palmtops have vertical mobile panels that are mounted sideways, so when old games/installers try to change resolutions to ones that it doesn't support it tends to mess up the display, requiring a reboot), but I don't know if I'll do that this weekend or not.
Lucky you! :grin: This reminds me of how cool it was to see the pinball machines at the Play Expo when I last went - a good chunk of the UK pinball enthusiast community trucks their machines up there for those events, and it really is a sight to behold. :woot:
This reminds me that I still haven't set up GOG's Epic Pinball Collection - I need to do that...
Same - this is my favourite weekly thread, and I always look forward to it. :grin:
Once compulsory maintenance tasks are accomplished, I will proceed to my real purpose which is saving the world from Brainiac in Injustice 2.
Hope it goes well!
I got a few more Bomber One wins in Super Bomberman R Online...
... completed Donkey Kong Country...
... And made a start on Super Bomberman 3.
I briefly played Super Bomberman 1 and 2, as well, but quickly abandoned the playthrough idea because it's hard to go back to the pre-1994 entries since the improvements from Bomberman '94 (PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16) and Super Bomberman 3 (SNES) made such a fundamental and positive difference to how the games play, which has lasted all the way up to the present-day titles.
I’m loving the screenshots, and am encouraging more!
Last edited by itscalledreality on 5 Jul 2022 at 4:49 pm UTC
Oh, good! :grin: I wasn't sure if I should go for it or not, since there are already dedicated screenshot threads. I'll shrink them a bit next time, though!