Now play on Hell mode with all the physical-immune enemies 
Really enjoying FF7 on the PS Mini. I didn’t really get the game before but for some reason I started playing it to try it out and haven’t stopped since. The planet dying, anti-corp, etc themes are feeling too real which clashes deliciously with the anime nonsense. Also playing it at original resolution reduces the art clash. I played the PC version as a kid and the 3D modes stood out Sooo badly on the ol PC CRT. I hope the remake is woke’d up even harder but good luck on that, right?
One thing I really appreciate about this game that I don’t see mentioned is how snappy the battles are and how much you can use magic to change them. Enjoying using Haste+All and just mashing the shit out of things with Barrett (Mr Pibb) and Tifa (Moxie)
The one thing I cant forgive is how much I have to fidget around to get unstuck on things.
On the black berry priv via snes9x I’m playing Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 and having a jaunty good time. Its maybe too easy but played in 10-30 minute session as a mobile game with save-anywhere its a really good experience so far. The translation I have is not complete and lacks some of the menu text but Its not been a problem.
Its very light compared to mast tactics games Ive played and so far is not falling into a lot of the traps tactics games seem to fall into. Specifically I’m thinking of advance wars tendency to have ONE RIGHT ANSWER for stages past the 30% point or Let Us Cling Together’s extremely tedious grind.
I hear Shining Force also gets this right so I may have to get that for Genesis once this and FF7 are up.
Also on the PS Mini:
Im playing a bit of puzzle fighter but Ive hit a matches per second wall that I cant overcome. I feel like I need an arcade stick. I may hit this again later on mame.
Jumping Flash is a total joy, I need a single word for this style of absurd, creative, enthusiastic design. After years of failing to emulate it Its nice to see I was kinda right to try.
Once FF7 is over I plan to hack the mini and am assembling a list of essential games. I’ll prolly make a post about it in the appropriate thread as I get closer to a full set.
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This is the general thrust of the ActionButton review; reading that flicked a light of truth on in my brain and I realized how much I enjoyed that aesthetically complete experience, and allowed me to encapsulate the thing in a perfect union.
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Finished this free story game/text adventure thing called Stories Untold that was one of the free games on the Epic store. I’d be pretty mad if I paid money for it
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the first story was a pretty neat hook but beyond that it’s like, nah
Actually I thought the first one was a neat hook but pretty cheap, the 2nd and 3rd had a spark of something, and the 4th completely shit the bed
I found the 2nd way too clumsy to complete
Some of that is of a matter of the RNG though. The basic structure of the segments tends to be the same, and hell in particular tends to be very similar no matter what, but enemies you encounter can vary some through the runs. Like sometimes the caves are all magma and lighting demons chucking a billion rocks and bolts at you from a mile away, sometimes it ends up full of death knights and serpents who you can just funnel across a narrow path through the lava and take them one at a time.
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I like how in DQ Builders 2, when you have cats following you, they just calmly hang back and wash themselves while the monsters are attacking you
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I talked about it briefly in the night thread but there is a mod for Diablo called Hell 2. I died in the first dungeon in the second room and never looked at it again because hell no, I’m not going to git gud at Diablo in 2019 but it might be something to check out for you if you want more
Since people have been taking about WC Privateer: what’s the best game of this kind to get into nowadays? Was Freelancer cool? (I only played Starlancer, which I loved but if I remember correctly it was linear, story-based and not an open world type of deal like Privateer) Is the new Elite the pinnacle of the genre now? Something else?
I’m asking this because Rebel Galaxy Outlaw just came out and I’m feeling the space trading itch.
My understanding is that Rebel Galaxy wants to be the new Privateer; it hooked my brother for a good few months but I haven’t played it enough to vouch for it.
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how do i cancel missions in privateer
I see. “chucking a billion rocks and bolts at you from a mile away” was 100% my experience of the caves. I assumed the death knights and serpents were both Hell-only enemy types. The bottom right corner of floor 10 had such a high density of lava and poison spitters that going anywhere near it meant instant death, and I resorted to blindly firing arrows from barely out of their range for several minutes (it started getting safe around the same time my bow durability wore out).
how the fuck do i accurately plan out how to get from one system to the next. this game is driving me up the wall with how ancient it feels.
i really want to like it but also Im Mad At Video Games’s
Freelancer is pretty cool, mostly notable for being pretty and inventing the first mouse-driven control scheme for a space sim that really felt good. It’s overall pretty dumbed down from the heights of the genre.
I got Rebel Galaxy for free in the Epic free games bonanza. It’s a dumbed down Freelancer with an emphasis on frigate and larger vessels, so it’s all about lining up broadsides instead of dogfighting in a fighter/freighter sized craft. Found it pretty boring and stopped before getting out of the first star system. I know nothing about Outlaw though, maybe it’s expanded in scope or whatever.
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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is on my radar purely because the art director was the person who did all the graphics in Wings of St Nazaire
Should I stream Rebel Galaxy and pick up RGO down the line? Would people be interested in that?
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I mean knock yourself out, but I’m not joking it’s really boring
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I’ll make it interesting
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Resident Evil 2 (PS4): was trying to make a brand new start with the B-scenario or 2nd run or whatever they’re calling it now, but even after dialing the difficulty down to normal I still found myself stonewalled an hour or two into the police station.