bloodborne is pretty good. i like it a lot more than i liked dark souls
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driveclub to this:
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for fucks sake. I had mt32 working but made the mistake of updating retroarch to try to get general midi to work in dosbox now just navigating the menus is incredibly sluggish and absolutely nothing works “failed to open libretro core” don’t know what I was thinking there spitting in god’s eye by poking at a mostly working retroarch
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I’ve given up on preserving my settings between retroarch updates. Just clean installs all the time
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still crawling along with nier 1. maybe 16 hours in at this point, we just finished fighting black scrawl kaine after she got impaled. i understand that we are on the precipice of where it “gets good” but i still feel mixed about this game (though i also still prefer it to automata). i think it’s extremely beautiful, i admire the careful restraint with which the narrative progression gradually expands and re-traverses locations within a relatively small game world, the 3d bullet patterns and janky chunk are pleasing, but it still feels like it’s ineptly plodding from one canned emotional beat to another, and the self-consciously prefab block puzzles etc. are a little tiresome. i have all the time in the world for the stoic, pointedly miserable grind of drakengard 1, but i can feel the beginnings of what i find so grating/hacky/lazy about latter day yoko taro games in terms of writing and design here. it’s a little bewildering to get this far and not really feel much of what others have described about this game in terms of emotional impact. i think this is just about the halfway point, so i’ll definitely hold on in any case.
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Anybody ever play this old ass Drakan game for PC!? It’s kinda like Tomb Raider mixed with Blaster Master (where instead of a cool car you have a dragon). Lots of flying around a huge level setting fire to everything then having to enter dungeons and caves and stuff where your dragon can’t follow, or will need you to open large gates for him first. The main character design is as embarrasing as you’d expect for a western fantasy game from 1999 but apart from that the art direction is nice in that sparse polygonal pre-pixel shader kinda way.
Also I always like a game where you can do something like this.
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if I set the midi games to use the dosbox svn core the music is fine but it slows down unplayably so if I move the mouse around fast and start clicking things, mt32 sounds terrible. if I set the mt32 games to use the normal dosbox core that doesn’t even seem to be in the update list anymore they’re fine. gatdam computah masheens
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excited to buy a new computer with a 4k monitor and 20 core cpu this year so I can play dos games made to look like a crt and sound like a roland sc-55
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In the moment, Nier 1 didn’t really hit me until after the first ending and playing the B path. I think alot of the magic in Nier is looking back on it once you make it to the end(s).
I still feel the magic/special attacks in Nier OG feel better than the comparable attacks in Automata. Being tied to a meter that you could fill faster through your actions leaned into the berserk quality of the character in certain moments. Being on a hard cooldown in Automata just felt like something you were only allowed to do once in a while. I don’t remember if there was a chip that let you reduce cooldowns through in game actions but if there was it came to late.
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XCOM 2 has kicked my ass all weekend. I’ve had to restart campaigns each evening. It would be heartbreaking, but each time I seem to do better and last longer. I stake what short-lived success I can claim on realizing one change that needs to happen in either my moves on the geoscape or in the way I build my base. It’s cool to me that what can really ruin a run is not just taking a bunch of snake poison or blaster rounds while in a shootout, but I can also die a slow death by untenable logistics, where the six ADVENT trooper corpses I sold to make some extra cash ended up being exactly what I needed to build the armor I had spent rounds researching and my dudes desperately needed so that snake poison and those blaster rounds would be more manageable.
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Yesterday, I discovered that in The Legend of Zelda, a game I’ve been playing for 28 years, when you boomerang-stun an enemy, you can walk over it without taking damage.
Mind blown.
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always confused it with Drakengard as a kid
Kingdom of Drakkhangard
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If you feel like it, can you post what your dosbox conf looks like?
with some sleep I finally had enough braincells back to notice the dosbox svn core had a option where it was bypassing the conf files I was using per game for it’s own default option I think unchecking that solved the slowdown and it’s all okay now, except where I have to quit inbetween games to get sound for a new one but that’s not a big deal. but here is my conf settings anyway incase there’s anyone out there who also wants to meticulously set up each sierra game with the best sound settings using two different dosbox cores in retroarch
the mt32 games using an older core where midi doesn’t work just called “dosbox” that I don’t know how you’d get if your were starting from a blank slate, with the mt32 roms in the system folder in retroarch:
and the general midi games that I’m using OmniMidi with a roland sc-55 soundfont with the “dosbox svn ce” core. if there’s a way to get the mt32 games to sound right with this one too I’m not going to try to bother figuring it out for awhile:
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If you ever want to fuck with it, I would recommend installing MUNT separately and routing dosbox to play midi through MUNT, that way you can have a stupid solution that always plays correctly whether the source is general midi or mt32
[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
mididevice=default
midiconfig=0
this is what my conf looks like for every dosbox install I have (Because I’m an idiot with 50 different installs for specific purposes)
But midiconfig may need a different number based on how dosbox orders your midi devices, so make sure to run mixer /listmidi from dosbox to see where it indexes munt
EDIT: Oh yeah, and it’ll probably index MUNT as “MT-32 Synth Emulator”
2nd EDIT: and I don’t remember how I got windows to acknowledge munt as my default midi device but I think I installed virtualmidisynth to add it to the list and then uninstalled VMS. If MUNT works out of the box for you thats better than dealing with virtualmidisynth, which is one of the shittiest programs I’ve used
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Was killing time in the Vallis and at Fortuna in Warframe and got an urge to be a shutterbug.
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So I finished up Shenmue earlier today, ending sorta snuck up on me there.
It’s a very odd game. I think I got more out of it in terms of finding some of its design choices interesting rather than the game itself being actually enjoyable? They were clearly working without a pre-existing blueprint and hence you are never quite sure where it is heading next. The dev apparently didn’t know that you could mark certain trophies as hidden so I unfortunately knew most of the story bits fairly early on, but hell it is a twenty or so year old game that happens sometimes.
Nothing is more confusing than the motorcycle part of the game being markedly worse than Hang-On in the arcade. If you couldn’t do better than that then just put like Outrun in there instead, this just shines a light on the problem.
Anyways I can’t really pull my thoughts into anything coherent, I mainly just look back at individual things and go “that was an odd way to do that, it worked well/bad.”
Ryo could have worked at the docks for two or three weeks and made enough money to buy an airplane ticket to Hong Kong BTW.
Is there any reason to play Shenmue II? I take it that the story doesn’t wrap up in any meaningful way and from afar I can’t tell if it does enough “new” stuff to still be interesting to me or if it is just Shenmue: more of the same.
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If you are asking if you should play S2 then the answer is no.
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