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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 haven't played at all this week. While I require some leveling up to fight Radagon in Elden Ring, my continued search for a tenement (10 days to go!) has set that task and other games aside. I did however manage to get a few quick games of Synthetik, Sanctum 2, Earth Defense Force 5, and Duck Game with my friends.
Sanctum 2 is an interesting game because it has all the right pieces to be a very fun game. It's often intense but is honestly unpolished. I'm not sure if there is a similar game that "does it better", but dynamic FPS Tower Defense could be a genre I'd sink some credits into.
Last edited by itscalledreality on 20 Aug 2022 at 10:10 pm UTC
But no gaming in the near future for me. I'm "job shadowing" on my weekend at my potential new employer. Learn more about the organization, see if I mesh with the team, etc etc.
Next week I'm teaching at the local college on behalf of my current employer. It's a nice change of pace, but still a 45+ hour week. Afterwork, I'm doing certification validation with my new employer and doing some emergency home repair (plumbing).
I feel I'll be a little grumpy and game deprived in a week's time, lol. So a calm builder seems nice. Maybe RimWorld. That's a lot of fun.
[Bomberman '93](https://bomberman.fandom.com/wiki/Bomberman_%2793) (TurboGrafx-16, via [desktop RetroPie](https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Debian/))
[The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game](https://store.steampowered.com/app/963000/The_Haunted_Island_a_Frog_Detective_Game/) (Steam, via Proton)
[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy](https://store.steampowered.com/app/787480/Phoenix_Wright_Ace_Attorney_Trilogy/) (Steam, via Proton)
I should be able to finish (or at least get close to finishing) the first two since they're both fairly short, and I'm very close to the end of the first game in the latter collection so I might clear that one as well. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is one that I'll be chipping away at over time, since it isn't short, so expect to see it pop up during these weekend threads for the foreseeable future!
I'm also having a ["Need input!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTKllDbu5o) moment right now, since I'm currently reading through [Linux For Dummies 10th Edition](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Dummies-Richard-Blum/dp/1119704251/). I've been using Linux exclusively for 14 years, but there's plenty that I don't know because it's simply never come up for me, and I want to improve my fundamentals not just for myself but also so that I can show my younger relatives, who are starting to show an interest, that there's more to computing than the product-placement/dependency classes that still pass for computer education in British schools today. :tongue:
It's the first For Dummies book that I've bought, though I did so because their website proved to be useful when I was learning how to crochet a few years ago; I find their documentation to be a good fit for how I pick things up, and I feel that it was worth the money. I'd recommend it if you're explaining Linux to anyone older, or just old-fashioned like I am, who learns better with text in-hand to refer to.
Last edited by Pengling on 20 Aug 2022 at 10:23 pm UTC
A friend got me a VR headset but I need a lot more time to see if that is worth my energy. Really looking for home versions of rail gun stuff. Those games really hit the ticket for my wife and I along with a good amount of my friends.
After 2 week of playing this with friends and family we have come across a flaw in it. The manaul refers to gaining morale but so far every card leads to defeated morale. Perhaps we have a misprinted copy but after researching it seems to be a flaw in the original release but the betas had a way to gain morale and without it's a game where you pretty much bleed out every turn even with ppl working together. There are house rules for it but that left a sour taste and so I'm putting the game up for sale to reduce my clutter. Otherwise it is a great looking game.
Cthulhu Fluxx has been a major hit with all of the groups I play with. It's been the most played game since I picked it up. I'm putting up my Firefly Fluxx while cute the rules are very monotone and I rather not have it collect dust. I'm looking forward to trying out Monster Fluxx and checking out some of the other games by this company. This one ROCKS.
My group is getting back into D&D and so I am super excited. Everyone has made accounts to get with the new update and we will be doing some online video chats to organize places, adventures and timing for the next 6 months.
Its been raining and miserable here most of the week...... Only been able to talk the dog out for a walk once this week.....
I bought myself a treadmil last Monday to help lose some weight around my gut..... Its the only place thats fat..... I have skinny arms and legs.... But I have a keg where a six pack should be..... And apparently that has been causing some of my back issues...... I have been using it for 1 hour everyday and I travel 6.5 Kangaroo Metres (4.0 Freedom Miles) in that hour.... I havnt lost any weight yet according the scales but when I measure my gut it is smaller..... I think im building up my leg muscles with the walking..... I dont think I will ever replace the keg with a six back but I would like to flattern the curve a bit.....
As for gaming well I have been doing a lot of that cause of the weather..... Since the last thread I have completed.....
Console
Rocket Knight Adventures (1993 Konami) - Sega Mega Drive - Platformer
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (1990 Konami) - Nintendo Entertainment System - Platformer
Super Mario Land (1989 Nintendo) - Nintendo Game Boy - Platformer
Streets of Rage (1991 Sega) - Sega Mega Drive - Beat 'em up
Streets of Rage 2 (1992 Sega) - Sega Mega Drive - Beat 'em up
Arcade
Chiki Chiki Boys (1990 Capcom) - Platformer
Mega Twins (1990 Capcom) - Platformer
Pocket Gal 2 (1989 Data East) - Sports (Pool)
After some advice from Pengling I completed
Neo Bomberman (1997 Hudson Soft) - Neo Geo - Maze
Incase anyone is interested when I play Console games I use my 8BitDo SN30 Pro+ and when I play Arcade games I use my MadCatz Street Fighter x Tekken Arcade Fight Stick....... I have also put an Octagonal Gate in the Fight Stick..... Since im a gate riding peasant I like the octagonal gate better....
Today I plan of finishing the Streets of Rage Trilogy by completing
Streets of Rage 3 (1994 Sega) - Sega Mega Drive - Beat 'em up
As for the rest of the week I plan on playing some Sonic games on the Mega Drive as well as playing some more Mario games and Castlevania games (I didnt play Castlevania II and I still dont think I will as im really not interested in all that cryptic shit in that game)...... Also plan to play some good ol Arcade games...... and i might even sneak in some Bomberland 64 (2013 RGCD) Commodore 64....... Depending on how good/bad the weather is.....
As for non gaming..... I am hoping to get the dog out on more walks.... She really hasnt been happy being stuck at home but I cant walk her in the wet..... I will also keep hitting the treadmil..... And then there is work as per usual....... I will also need to go for a drive to my parents and give them back their Desktop PC that I borrowed.... I put in a new HDD and I installed Linux on it for them as well.....
Sounds like im going to have a busy week.....
Since I'm here: Since my post last night, I've powered through Bomberman '93 (a fun one, and a rare single-player offering where the Kick ability gets used a hell of a lot once you have it, but as far as the TurboGrafx-16 installments go I didn't enjoy it quite as much as Bomberman '94), and finished up the fourth chapter of five in the first Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (the Japan-only Game Boy Advance original only had four chapters, with the fifth added for the Nintendo DS up-port that got translated into English in 2005, and since the four-chapter version was never officially translated I won't count this one as finished until I clear the fifth part). I'll dig into Frog Detective 1 later - apparently it's only about an hour or so long, so I expect to finish it in one sitting once I get to it.
Last edited by Pengling on 21 Aug 2022 at 5:48 am UTC
Yeah that lengh is about right its real short...... I watched a mate play it though the Steam Broardcast and yeah it was real short..... I think a lot of drugs were consumed during the making of that game..... Its quite strange.....
I probably should get back to running too.
Naturally, like most people the first thing I did was get the Gentlemen of the Row game mod for it. Got the game + mods installed and working on my steam deck.
I've found it gets pretty good battery life (3-4hrs on average) with some steam power settings limited and the game capped at 30fps, I used proton rather than the native port since I find proton version works better and the in-game radios work this way, which is useful since one of the mods I've installed replaces the PC ports default low quality mono music sound files with the higher quality X360 stereo quality sound files. Along side other "make it more entertaining" mods :whistle:
So I'll probably spend most of my free time playing that game next week also since it brings back proper (3D) GTA style gaming rather than modern GTA style gaming. :grin:
I might mix in some Saints Row 3 for variation, since that's also already installed + with mods installed.
IF, that's a big IF the new Saints Row game becomes available on Steam, I might buy it.
Outside of gaming, it's the usual boring stuff, manage my business, manage my personal & business servers, edit website code, edit application code, audit security logs etc etc etc.
Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 21 Aug 2022 at 2:17 pm UTC
Hahaha! :grin: I breezed through it earlier and enjoyed every charming, weird, chill moment of it - it's really nice to be able to just kick back and enjoy a game that's intentionally short and easy every now and then, and this had exactly my sort of cute aesthetics, surreal/absurd humour, and everything. I'll definitely be picking up the other games in the series.
That aside, I got a little way into the fifth chapter of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, but there's no way that I'll be finishing it this weekend with less than an hour of Sunday left to go here! Still, I cleared both games that I knew I could finish, so I'm happy with that. :grin: These threads are really motivating for that!
Last edited by Pengling on 21 Aug 2022 at 10:08 pm UTC
I cant run anymore my knees are too knackerd from when I played tennis back as a youngster.... But if you can run you really should get back into it.... :grin:
Saints Row 2 is my favourite Saints Row game.... But does it still hold up today???..... Storyline wise I think it would..... But it has been a really long time since i played it so im not sure about gameplay wise...... Let me know if you think it does or not......
Well you will just have to wait wont you.... :tongue:
The native port was terrible and barely playable, so I gave up on that one after a while.
I feel it holds up well. But you've gotta take it for what it is, which I mean don't walk into it expecting the latest & greatest modern triple AAA graphics and features. It is an old game, so just remember that. There's no bouncing jugs or moving hair for example like in Saints Row 3 sadly :sad:
Textures actually don't look too bad, but you can obsoletely tell they're the old way of doing them (low res).
I didn't walk into it with an old save though unlike SR3, which surprised the crap out of me when the Linux port saves were imported by steam cloud into the windows proton version and worked, I didn't expect that from SR3!
So with Saints Row 2 it was start from scratch.
The game however does hold itself up in game play imo, it's full of customization (even more so if you used GoTR mod) right down to layered clothing options and many hidden open buildings that you can walk into, with even buildings you used in missions open to just walk into. Making it a proper open world game. (rare even in modern games)
In this regard it has more places to explore than GTA IV & GTA V, which had hardly any open buildings and limited clothing options with no layering ability (in single player).
I much prefer the SR2 way as I love to do all the extra little things rather than simply main missions. I tend to do lots of other stuff between missions.
The games dark humour and story still hold up well also in my opinion.
And finally and ironically enough once the port is thrown through proton on the deck, it runs surprisingly well! Probably better than it did on windows (considering how bad the port from X360 was!) vulkan has truly worked wonders on this one.
Crashes are relatively rare, so far I've only had two crashes. Frame rates *sometimes* drop a bit when using the decks power saving options mostly while driving or flying (I set CPU to max of 5), disabling the power saving options makes it run smooth.
Although I am using an unofficial mod, Gentlemen of the Row, which fixes a lot of known bugs in the original PC port, and that particular mod used to be maintained by IdolNinja in his free time before he died, he was staff at Volition (the games dev) so he knew the game quite well.
Good to see my memory is still correct about the game and that the rose tinted glasses havnt taken over yet :tongue:
I am getting old so im sure that will happen soon enough.....
I might have to look and installing it again and giving it a bash...... I would much rather play SR2 than SR3..... I still cant figure out how they went from such a great storyline in SR2 with some really genuine deep, dark moments...... to dick joke dick joke dick joke dick joke dick joke dick joke dick joke dick joke dick joke dick joke dick joke..... Finally somthing deep and meaningful and then followed up by another dick joke 5seconds later in SR3......
Thanks for the info mate...... Much appreciated.....
In my opinion, SR3's biggest drawback was the lack of "open world" ironically enough. I mean sure it had a few stores you could walk into, but no hidden buildings and building interiors that were opened for missions, were closed after.
So effectively it wasn't truly open world. That combined with the small world (you could literally get from one end of the world to the other in a car in less than 2 minutes).
You could use Sandbox+ to revert building states to be open and such.. but in an open world game you shouldn't need a mod to do that (clues in the name, open world)
(I've never understood why an open world game dev would want to take the time to model a nice interior, only to then use it for one or two missions and lock it off from the player to never be seen again)
The missions are okay, but once you've done all the missions, you tend to feel like "welp that's it, next game".
SR2 doesn't give that feeling imo, since there's so much to do!
Humour yeah.. SR3s humour got old fast. I prefer the dynamic feel of SR2. On the funny side you've got pierce, elaborately planning a break and entry, sneak in-sneak out style swiftly followed by GAT interrupting his plan explanation: "Why don't we just walk in the front door and shoot everyone?" - "Great let's do that!" :grin: :grin: :grin: dropping pierces plan entirely! The face expression he gives is like "but! but! but!"
Or pierce coming up with ideas, shaundi interrupting him with the same idea before he can finish his sentence taking the credit for it, and his like "But that's my idea!!" :grin:
Then it can flip and turns dark, you've got your homie being dragged down the road and when you save him, your character has to kill him in mercy.
The game also gives you the "you're a criminal" vibe, you can feel your character can be dark and that they are a criminal. Saints Row 3 (and GTA to some degree) you tend to feel like you're a super hero or some "good guy" as opposed to a cold blooded criminal.
THAT'S Saints Row. It's just a damn good game.
Edit: Also just noticed something that I had never noticed before.. my character starting singing along to the radio while driving :woot: I crashed the car from laughing at it though -.-
Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 22 Aug 2022 at 6:50 pm UTC