Hello everybody. Hope you all have had a good weekend. This week I played Ace Combot 7 for the first time. I have not played any previous Ace Combat games. I realize that I missed my calling in life and should have been a fighter pilot. Hope you all have a good week ahead
Castlevania Bloodlines on Genesis. Used the konami code to get 9 continues instead of the 3-5 I think you can get normally.
I am narrowing in on perfection in stardew valley, really the only thing I have left is to befriend a few of the out of the way NPCs (Sandy, Leo, Dwarf) and getting all the qi gems I need. Qi challenges seem like a huge pain so I’m kinda dreading that. And a few odds and ends that won’t be that bad.
First game i ever 100%ed was Jak and Daxter for the ps2.
My reward was to watch the credits. If there is something designed to hit my ADHD more directly than that i will admit to the existence of the demiurge
Mostly touching grass this weekend, believe it or not. I’m learning archery, which I guess still counts as a game, kinda?
Otherwise, Unnamed Space Idle has the Idle Wizard crossover event on so I’ve been checking in there on the daily or so. That and Wuthering Waves. Gatcha game, but the vibes are cozy and weirdly hopeful.
Doing the DnD thing in real life is a classic nerd move. What you shooin’?
Very much still learning. The closest club to me lets all styles shoot (saw someone with what I think was a Mongolian horsebow the other week) but only has resources to teach target recurve, so that’s what I’m doing. I’ll stick with that until I get my technique down and distance and draw weight up, then think about other styles.
I got a little takedown bow for target shooting. Maybe 35 or so. I want to go a hit heavier but it is fun even though I am terrible. The park near me had a pile of used carpets or the like that the city keeps up as an archery range so that is super cute even though it is harder than it seems so far
I’m still using the club bows at 24# or so, really focusing on technique and precision more than accuracy or distance. If you really want to improve I’d say it’s probably worth it to get at least a couple lessons; sure you can watch tutorials and practice on your own, but it’s entirely possible to develop bad habits that way. Having someone external observe and say “actually no, your hand should be doing this” or whatever will catch errors you don’t even know you’re making.
The thing I’m finding helps the most is to not actually worry much about hitting the target. The bow will do that for you if you operate it correctly.
Played through Graveyard Keeper 2. Had a pretty great time. I loved the original; the game loop felt like crack to me, i couldn’t stop. And the writing was actually pretty good. Unfortunately, GK2 writing wasn’t as good. Also had hints of AI writing, but can’t prove it. The graphics are actually a lot better though, so I liked that. Also, thank god for mods.
How long did you need to finish it? I vaguely remember the first game not being that short.
mods help a lot; i don’t have much time to grind, so i do stuff like exp multipliers and whatnot. it took like 4 days to finish GK2 for me.
Friend bought me Wardogs and I am liking it. It’s like battlefield but 100 players and three factions and also has a counterstrike style money system where you earn money for all sorts of actions and have to buy your load out, your money persists between games and servers and so far it’s pretty fun.
I have been replaying the old mega man games to get back into the mood. I am currently on x2. I don’t normally replay old games like this. I am boomerfying I guess because I am really enjoying revisiting this one. I spend months trying to beat it as a kid
Gamer Church Confessional: On three different nights now, I have had a dream about the upcoming Deadlock patch. Absolutely devastating to have an update for a video game get into my psyche like this.
Valve games are so much more fun while they’re still in beta lol
YOSHIII
the deadlock discord is an incredibly funny place to be rn YOSHI DROP THE PATCH NOW AND MY LIFE IS YOURS
FYI i think I’ve been the one to sticky all the recent sunday threads so feel free to ping me every week to get to it before i notice the thread on my own.
I’ve been playing this kinda boring pokemon clone that just came out called Aniimo but my wife and kids are playing it so I’m grinding it out
darktide update soooooooon im excited
new weapons new map, finally
im about to finish up the message from deep space and its been a really fun lil puzzle game
Message From Deep Space is so good!
SpringRO beta started not too long ago. New Ragnarok Online server. There’s integration with RetroAchievements where you can get a badge on the site, and some cosmetic rewards in-game for participating in the beta and getting to level 30. Full server launch is soon and will also have achievements sets in-game and on RA for leveling different classes, collecting hats and cards, etc. One of the devs is also a dev for the HorizonXI Final Fantasy 11 server, which is great, so I have high confidence in this one.
There’s been a ton of people who have never played RO checking it out from RetroAchievements and it’s been really fun to help guide them and see their reactions and questions. I’ve played the game on and off since launch (got a disc in the mail even), so I’m not the most knowledgeable, but I feel like a real oldhead. The population has been consistently around 100 players at peak time, so I predict a few hundred on launch when their progress won’t be wiped.
New patches came out this week providing critical improvements to the first Shiren the Wanderer and Torneko’s Great Adventure games’ translations on the Super Famicom, so I’m poking those. The Aeon Genesis patch for Fūrai no Shiren in particular was a major pain point for me for ages, what with it rendering riceballs as “onigiri” in JUST ACCORDING TO KEIKAKU style, but while some enemies and items (Haboon, otogiri-so) still maintain their Japanese names, the new patch is a huge improvement and fixes a lot of bugs the AG patch had, such as the “arrow fell on the ground” message not displaying, or the pickpocket guys never displaying how much gitan they stole. Very nice.
The Torneko patch uses the script from this month’s new official HD re-release so it should be rad, if I can swallow my burning hatred for DraQue.
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Control Resonant spoilers
Beat up a washing machine and then played karaoke (which led to the deaths of only 2 civilians).
Cool game, but the combat is by far the weakest part, it constantly feels like it’s getting in the way of the lore and exploring the world.
That doesnt sound great though since I assume its a pretty combat heavy game. Right ?
That’s the remedy special. A game that is very angry that it can’t be a tv show.
Alternating between new fire emblem and control resonant. Both are quite good. I have a vacation in a week so I might actually be able to play games then
Octophobia - just another daily.
I relapsed on Slay the Spire 2 because I saw the girls from Pew Pew Bang playing it (check them out, it’s the best gaming podcast/channel). I’m also still playing Dawncaster on my phone and it’s a banger.
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