The original Donkey Kong was originally meant to be a Popeye game, but Nintendo lost the rights, so they changed the sprites and voila! Two new franchises were born.
so TemTem is good. It’s Pokemon, but an MMO. I’ve just made it to the first gym, first boss fight with the bad guys. It’s Pokemon. I haven’t played enough to know if it transcends Pokemon, but just the fact that they actually gave us a functional online Pokemon is worth celebrating.
I’ve been playing on and off last night and today and haven’t had any server issues so far. My friend said that it still sometimes gets dicey around primetime, but it’s release week for an MMO.
Playing some Starcraft Brood War. I’ve never played it seriously until now. Currently going through the Terran campaign. I’ll probably stick with Terran, practice some build orders, and look up some competitive plays. It’s been really fun and surprisingly not as big of a skill floor than I thought, although there are quite a lot of starting options and paths to take.
Only other RTS experience I’ve ever had was playing a bit of Age of Empires II.
I know Ubisoft is not the greatest company and Uplay is terrible, but all that aside, Anno 1800 is an incredible game. It’s just the right mix of city-builder combined with light RTS for combat elements that just hits all the right spots for me.
Plus, you can play cooperatively where you and up to three other friends can all control the same faction. I was playing online with a friend last night and while I was building up our settlement and doing the city-building stuff, he was controlling our fleet attacking pirates and fulfilling trading quests. Then, when we expanded our settlement to a new island, I was improving the old island while he was setting up our settlement on the new island. I’ve never played a game like this before where you and your teammates both control everything. It made for an incredibly fun and collaborative experience. Oh, and it’s absolutely draw-droppingly gorgeous.
Highly, highly recommended!
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I bought this game on Steam called Moonlighter. I think I saw it at a PAX once. Similar to Reccetear in concept, but more pixelly action RPG and less visual novel. Shopkeeper by day. Action RPG adventurer by night.
Well, I didn’t even get to play the game for one second. It did not recognize my controller. The menus could not be navigated with the mouse. Through trial and error I figured out some of the keyboard controls to navigate the menus. It was WASD. I think the “J” key was the A button and the “L” key was the B button. I think C and X were left and right triggers. It was a mess.
Anyway, I navigate to the control configuration screen to get my gamepad working. I’m able to remap up/down/left/right to my gamepad no problem. Then I go to remap A and it doesn’t work. I’m mashing the A button on my gamepad, and it doesn’t do anything. Then suddenly all the control configuration icons disappear and are just replaced with white boxes.
First time I ever tried to get a Steam refund. We’ll see how that goes.
I have this game it doesn’t have any issues with the gamepad I’ve been using and works perfectly.
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Yeah, it seems to recognize my xbone controller just fine. Might be an issue on your setup?
As long as your gametime is under 2 hours and it’s been less than 2 weeks since you bought it it’s easy peasy.
From research online it seems like lots of people have controller problems with this game.
They refunded me no problem.
Well, admittedly I never needed to look, so I didn’t know. But fair enough.
I wish I had known about the two hour limit when I bought No Mans Sky.
Playing Rime. I got it in a GOG sale giveaway awhile back. Tried it once didn’t click but Im enjoying it much more my second go. Pure exploration and light puzzling with a great visual style. Its like the Witness if it was less about line puzzles and more about exploration of an aesthetically pleasing environment.
Beat Hazard 2 is not what it needed to be. The streaming integration didn’t use an API, it just detected audio playing on your desktop. As a result, there is no way to pause the game and the music at once, and between tracks there’s no stopping. Otherwise it is identical to Beat Hazard 1 as far as I could tell, so there’s really no point in buying it over it’s predecessor.
Re?playing The Witcher 3.
Apparently I last played years ago but my save was fine so I’m just picking up where I left off, having forgotten how to use most of the mechanics sort of compensates for being a god king in terms of my level. I’d never done the DLCs or the final quest of the actual game. So I did Hearts of Stone and the final quest and am currently in Blood and Wine. Christ I forgot how broke you are in this game. The good armor ran me out of money making just the chest piece. 2 swords and 3 other pieces to go.
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Mini Metro is so soothing.
The GrandMaster crafted level gear in Blood & Wine and the Oferi crafting in Hearts of Stone are both meant to be large money/crafting sinks since you can get a fair bit of coin looting and selling weapons and armor throughout the game. Don’t worry though there’s plenty of big money quests and sidequests in Toussaint for you to get the crowns you need to craft more stuff.
If you forgot since you are coming back to it later a lot of crafting components can be made from junk you find in the world by breaking it down at a blacksmith (pears to pearl dust, leather scraps from belts, etc.) so check that out when you are trying to make the big expensive things.
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Mega Man Zero/ZX collection came out on Switch and assumedly on everything else today. Some of the best Mega Man games on one big pile. Played few stages of Zero 1 and still feels good to play.
I emulated those games back in the day on a DS lite with piracy card. They were just too damn difficult. Pros only.
I might try again if I run out of other games to play.
There is now casual mode that makes the games easier and optional added checkpoints which means you don’t need to care about lives in the Zero games and generally have to replay sections less.
But yea, the Zero games especially are a challenge.
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