What if some other random user made the thread? Wouldn’t that be messed up?
Anyway, Nubby update today was good. I have finished all the challenges and am now attempting to crash the game for the first time.
A friend got the idea of playing all older Monster Hunter games, so after trying MHG for a while and getting pissed at Dos disconnecting us constantly, we’re playing 2ndG.
Owlcat’s 40K Rogue Trader. I’d never really delved into 40K before, but man it’s really good so far. Writing is excellent, combat super fun, and 40K is such a cool setting and world. Highly recommend if you’re a crpg person.
I picked that up in the steam sale and haven’t gotten around to it yet. it looks good!
Morrowind with OpenMW.
Well that’s a lie mostly I’ve been modding it and done a few test runs to see if everything works.
It’s just so great to be able to get a ship from Ebonheart(on mainland) to go to Anvil in Cyrodil and then come back and take a boat to Karthwasten in Skyrim.
i hacked my switch earlier this week, so i modded a ton of games and pirated a few too. right now i’ve been playing miitopia with harder difficulty and controllable party members mods
Software hack, cartridge, or soldering stuff in the mainboard?
software hack
Cool! Did you get yourself one of these USB-C flashers for the hack so that you can do it without a computer? Quite convenient
i did :) though tbh i thought i would need it more often since the cfw is so volatile but i just put my switch to sleep when im not using it so it’s fine lol
I use my switch sparingly enough normally that it will be outta juice next time I pick it up half the times if I put it to sleep, so normally I shut it down fully after using unless I’m in the middle of something, but yeah.
I managed to solder the PCB hack to my roommate’s switch but I sweated while doing it, tense shit. Managed to work though, now he has Linux on the switch
nice, good job! im too afraid of soldering to do that lol
Zelda: The Wind Waker.
elder kings 2 kind of dominated my week, they updated to the latest ck3 patch and it’s sooo good. what’s really crazy is this sense of reality i’ve gotten from it, it’s almost more ‘real’ feeling than the historical game.
let me explain–elder scrolls games are almost all first-person experiences of being in a fictional place, you’ve (assume you’re a massive elder scrolls fan) ‘walked’ through the imperial city, you’ve seen Vvardenfel from the ground level, you’ve seen the inside of the palaces of Skyrim. Though EK2 is a bit different time from all other elder scrolls games, it’s not that different which is something the historical game can’t really compete with. The royal courts, if you’ve been lucky enough to go to the real things are accurate and beautiful in-game but everything else really has no analogy for something a player has personally experienced. The player genuinely has point of reference to how medieval London feels or should feel, and if they’re enough of a nerd to have an impression it will never really match what a game developer is able to produce. No such problems exist when the setting is a fictional, massively popular video game series, with a standard experience for everyone. The result is a bit mesmerizing, I can go to Anvil in EK2 with the reference point of Project Cyrodiil and Oblivion, and a cursory impression of ESO and have a very good idea of where I am and what it should look like. And the lapses in artifice are so much more forgivable because it’s fictional, you can’t actually say ‘that’s wrong’ and have it take you out of it.
Xenoblade X.
They were roommates!
I’ve finished No Nine Sols and Islets, now staring Unbound: Worlds apart, next in queue is Tunic and Spelunky.
NNS is a really great souls-like metroidvania.
Islets is on the other hand totally chill one.
The guy that made Islets made a game called Sheepo I’d recommend if you haven’t played it yet. It’s a non-combat metroidvania and it’s a very well made indie game.
Hades and Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. Both absolutely amazing games.
Xenoblade chronicles X until my eyes bleed. I haven’t played a game for this many hours a day since I went through a breakup and played Ni No Kuni 2 almost straight through in a couple days.
I’m still playing Stardew. Winter year 2 right now. I’ve only been playing a few hours a week so not very far along. I’m starting to ramp up for keg and cask production because I’m hoping to get starfruit wine aging going by end of summer year 3. I’m also waiting on like 2 items to finish 2 Community Center bundles because I forgot one and misread the wiki on another. I think I have 2 bundle sets left after that.
Also super jealous of all the Xenoblade Chronicles X comments. That’s the one I’ve been waiting for but I haven’t even touched Xenoblade 1 or 3 and got like 10 hours into 2.
You can play X without playing 1-3. I can’t speak to how the new content connected to that stuff, but at least the base game only has a few fanservice-y connections.
Do not play 3 without playing 1 AND 2 (and the DLC).
I say this as someone who started XBC1 two summers ago, played each game in sequence but played X at release. Unless the final chapters for DE have some serious connections to 1-3, it’s much less direct
Once I get over my farming/live sim and factory game kick, I think XBC is next on my list so I would probably do 1 through 3 including the DLC for 2, and after that pick up XBCX when it’s on sales at some point. So I guess that would be Switch release order.
played anno 1404 on lan play for a while, tried to get the cracked copy of 1800 working on Linux because fuck ubisoft but no luck yet
update: it worked with proton in Lutris and changing the windows version in wine settings to win10 (it was on vista for some reason)
edit: no it didnt, apparently it working at all was a fluke
More CK2, the Aladdin achievement is almost within my grasp! Sunday was a banner day:
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I called China to shatter the empire of Mali, although I ended up having to do all of the actual fighting as they putzed around the tibetan mountains… but it was worth it to declare war on three of the dukes and kings born out of the shattering before they could join the defensive pacts against me and gobble up land that would have taken decades to conquer in just a few years.
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Soon after, China got hit with a devastating plague and I took my shot to break out of being a tributary. I had been forced to hundreds of years ago while all of Christendom was crusading me for Jerusalem and I obviously couldn’t fight both. I’d tried before but their troops were too strong. But the plague meant the spawned troops had really shitty comps of mostly light infantry so I was able to hold them off for long enough to become independent! No longer must I suffer under the yoke of the Western Protectorate and pay half my income to them
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Foundation. Played for like two hours, it’s a competent city builder with some neat customization, but unfortunately it looks like mobile slop and doesn’t really do anything interesting. Also it’s UI doesn’t display properly on a 4:3 monitor, which didn’t stop me from playing but it was annoying at times.
Pikuniku. Played for like two hours. Fun but I probably won’t finish it, if I had played this fifteen years ago it would be one of my favorite games of all time, but this type of humor doesn’t really work for me nowadays.
I want to like Foundation. Ive made a couple bigger towns and I like the organic look of the paths. But it’s hard now that Manor Lords is out, it’s just outclassed in the “making a pretty city” department and doesn’t have another draw really.
Indiana Jones game and Atomfall. Both quite enjoyable exploration games
