i’ve been replaying Yume Nikki on my phone during the commute to and from college. because the thing is, i’ve been thinking for so long and obsesively (but also shallowly) about this game that it is basically impossible for me to view it in any clear-eyed or productive manner. so playing it in short bursts on a tiny screen with no sound has become a weird kind of (partial) defamiliarization exercise
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D2 got a two-goal low-scoring soccer-type mode originally from D1 c. 2015 and it’s fun remembering when that kind of design was in vogue. It seemed to coincide with record US interest in the 2014 World Cup but was also of a piece with local multiplayer indies.
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you are in for a TREAT, this game RULES
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Double-S.T.E.A.L.: The Second Clash 4K HDR international re-release when, Bunkasha?
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At one point I would have been like “slim chance” but we live in a world where Metal Wolf Chaos is very available on current hardware
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The YouTubers love it, the players hate it: it’s Rift
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The delisted Marvel vs. Capcom Origins on PS3, to see if I could make the games playable for myself using Training Mode options–to remove the Power gem and its flashing red hits in Marvel Super Heroes, and to be able to overcome the limited roster in Marvel vs. Capcom and avoid the hideous boss.
Didn’t really work out. Can’t remove gems, Training Mode’s difficulty level is way too easy even at max, and stage randomization stops after stage 2. Seems like they didn’t test the “Infinite Health - Off” setting a whole lot. Here’s the stage randomization bug, for instance:
(Colors slightly washed out due to my ineptitude.)
What are your crt royale settingd
here’s the reshadepreset.ini I’ve been using but I think it’s mostly default settings, except content width and height is set for 4:3 so anything outside that, like pcsx2’s popup messages, is cutoff, and I’d been using the shadow phosphor mask setting for pc games up til now but was trying out slot mask for pcsx2. I think reshade royale is good for looking crt pc monitor like but I don’t know enough about messing with the settings if it can look as good as some of those presets retroarch royale has for a nice shitty fuzzy 13 inch sharp brand crt tv look I like. but that’s nitpicking.
PreprocessorDefinitions=phosphor_mask_type=SHADOW,USE_LARGE_PHOSPHOR_MASK=0,CONTENT_WIDTH=CONTENT_HEIGHT * 4.0 / 3.0
Techniques=CRT_Royale@crt-royale.fx
TechniqueSorting=Daltonize@Daltonize.fx,DisplayDepth@DisplayDepth.fx,UIMask_Top@UIMask.fx,UIMask_Bottom@UIMask.fx,LUT@LUT.fx,Deband@Deband.fx,CRT_Royale@crt-royale.fx
[crt-royale.fx]
aa_subpixel_r_offset_runtime=-0.333333,0.000000
beam_horiz_filter=0
beam_horiz_linear_rgb_weight=1.000000
beam_horiz_sigma=0.350000
bloom_excess=0.000000
bloom_underestimate_levels=0.800000
border_compress=2.500000
border_darkness=2.000000
border_size=0.015000
convergence_offset_x=0.000000,0.000000,0.000000
convergence_offset_y=0.000000,0.000000,0.000000
crt_gamma=2.500000
diffusion_weight=0.010000
enable_interlacing=0
geom_aspect_ratio=1.313070,1.000000
geom_mode_runtime=0
geom_overscan=1.000000,1.000000
geom_radius=2.000000
geom_tilt_angle=0.000000,0.000000
geom_view_dist=2.000000
halation_weight=0.000000
interlace_bff=0
lanczos_weight_at_center=1.000000
lcd_gamma=2.200000
levels_contrast=1.000000
mask_num_triads_desired=480.000000
mask_sample_mode_desired=0
mask_specify_num_triads=0
mask_triad_size_desired=3.000000
mask_type=2
scanline_blend_gamma=0.930000
scanline_blend_strength=0.000000
scanline_num_pixels=2.000000
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made a list from the SB Recommends Xbox section for me to…find somewhere yeah, not one but TWO Genki produced games are in here.
Apex (racing game)
Battle Engine Aquila
Breakdown
Crazy Taxi 3
GunValkyrie
Maximum Chase
Metal Wolf Chaos
Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Phantom Crash
Project Gotham Racing
SSX 3
pleased that “Apex” was listed because I remember playing a game for xbox where you got to build the cars you raced but then forgot it existed until now.
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phantom crash has an incredible soundtrack
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You know what’s good? The original Metal Slug.
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I looked it up based on your comment and I’m truly floored. Does your mech have a radio in it or something? How do all of these genres fit into it?
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pc-less for a few days while waiting on a psu that won’t show up until monday because britain is having a nonce festival right now, intended to catch up on triangle strategy but realised i’d been just watching bad cutscenes for an hour
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you buy tracks and make mixtapes to listen to while doing fights
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My favorite hook
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played more Double Steal 2 last night. Some missions include jumping gaps with your car, which is ultra bouncy and will sometimes flip midair, or come crashing down and spin unpredictably. Free Roam mode is interesting in that to find bonus cars you have to get boxes scattered around the game world, so you explore each corner of the map, and it’s pretty expansive feeling. It feels like Chicago. I miss the early days of big world games like Smugglers Run or Midnight Club where you’d just drive around a big map and explore.
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you can tell Phantom Crash is good because the English version is literally unfinished and they left an entire event untranslated and also broke it in the process and you can’t 100% the game
you can also play SLAI in a PS2 emulator, it’s the Dark Souls of Phantom Crash. I recommend it if you hate yourself, though it does have a bunch of tracks PC lost in overseas versions
it doesn’t have DX Choco in USA though, so I can’t give it any credit
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the last good final fantasy before 7r was Dissidia 012. I have not played the 13 series yet