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In my Quest for One-Handed Games, I started playing Wargroove today. Hot damn! So far it’s almost entirely just fantasy Advance Wars, but I am here for it! I’m still in the tutorial levels, so I imagine it’ll probably go beyond that eventually. It did add a little gameplay wrinkle I like: each unit type has little preconditions it can meet in order to score a critical hit, e.g. put two pikemen adjacent to each other, or put an infantryman next to your hero.

The game looks great. The little units have a ton of personality. I like these guys best so far:

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The bandits in Dragon’s Dogma keep kicking my ass and… am I missing something? The game seems to be heavily guiding me towards them but they feel way above my level.

Also, fuck off Dragon’s Dogma for closing me off from training quests because I accidentally triggered a fight with a Hydra.

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yeah try and do all the side quests you can before continuing the story. The bandits are a pain in the ass but you can just run by them, or throw them off cliffs. see if you cant renbt any higher level pawns from friends

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Seconded! This game is nice!

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the writing in Astrologaster is genuinely hilarious

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I love giving terrible medical advice

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i just wish there were more outcomes depending on the choices you make, but it seems they don’t really make that huge of a difference.

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I should throw other games in the garbage and just play the Sega Ages ports. Virtua Racing is incredible.

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Spent all dang day yesterday slowly fixing Sony’s folly with the PS Classic by adding something like 130 games to it.

Good games? Maybe some! But mostly it was everything I remembered seeing or renting from Blockbuster back when, or stuff I wanted to play at a kiosk at Sears but some kid had visibly bitten off the start and X buttons.

Anyway!

Tobal 2 - Dang this is still good.

Dead or Alive - Same, egregious physics aside.

Croc - if that story about the devs making this thing as a pitch to Nintendo for making an official Yoshi game, well, may I one day approach the uncertainties in my life with the same, arguably unfound confidence.

Gex 3 - oh yeah this is the horny one.

Akuji the Heartless - Gex but with that hard voodoo edge. I was scared of this game for some reason as a kid. It kinda undoes its whole moody angle as soon as you pick up a collectible and your omniscient guide informs you that collecting 100 will give you an extra life.

Blasto - I dunno, kinda don’t wanna shit on one of the last things Phil Hartman did. I kinda dig what they were trying to do with the art design, but yeah, it’s not good.

Assorted Capcom fighters: woofah, impressive, sure, but time hasn’t been kind to these ports. It’s kinda fun to see the changes they had to make to games like JoJo to work on the system, though.

Street Fighter EX2: why did I never own this as a kid. What was I doing. This is great. But then again, I like Fighter EX Layer, so that figures.

Anyway the USB drive plugged into this thing gets super hot after a while, so I’m not sure how safe that power mod is, but I wasn’t using my PS Classic anyway, so.

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I thought the whole problem with the PS classic is that the hardware couldn’t run the emulated games at speeds equivalent to original hardware? Do the hacks improve that?

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I guess so? I’m using AutoBleem, which I think makes use of the built-in PCSX Rearmed emulator, but with some clock adjustments and speed hacks enabled by default.

It’s honestly been such a long time since I’ve played some of these games that I’m not sure if I’d notice any minor differences. I know for sure that the NTSC Tekken 3 ISO I put on there runs smoother than the PAL version on the stock hardware.

Beyond that, I think some of the more involved processes, where you mess with the kernel, let you sub in other emulators. And there’s probably a way to just run the ISOs with whatever you want in RetroArch.

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Rival schools forever

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Interesting. So, it might be possible for Sony to essentially software/firmware patch the thing and make it be fine. Rather than liquidating them and eating the shame. Huh.

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yeah, i’ve never cleared the first CV, either. it’s maybe the only one i haven’t beaten? the last real level (with Death) is just…ridiculous, in terms of how much damage you take. also, the lack of continues and whatnot. i’d really have to utilize savestates (like you said) to get a better feel for that level and for the boss. like, clearly there is a “trick” to it that is hard to get a grip on if you can’t easily re-challenge the level.

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Wait I can THROW PEOPLE?!?

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wasn’t being able to throw people one of the big selling points of dragon’s dogma over elder scrolls?

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

I wasn’t paying much attention to it when it was released, and throwing fools wasn’t really a feature discussed by more recent podcasts I’ve listened to.

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is dragon’s dogma the one where you can like, cast a fire spell, and the fire can keep spreading to other objects, and there’s similar environmental stuff you can do in combat?

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It might be. Oil and water are common resources, you can douse enemies in both.

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I think it just amplifies fire/lightning spells on those particular enemies than being true environmental interaction.

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It seems like heading to ground kontrol is a monthly thing now. I keep going to it with different cool people.

I did not actually play much this time but i finally got to play Virtua Fighter 2 with someone who knows how to play fighters and I forgot how great fighting games against someone who knows what they’re doing are.

Also ground kontrol did have at least one exciting new addition:

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