Sick, I’ll check back in once it’s done downloading in three days
Running at whatever ass resolution the wii u gamepad is should help somewhat
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That’s one of the ways I played it! Tho it wasn’t as good as the Xbox experience at the time
After watching the excellent Gammelier video on it, I’ve picked up and put some time into Ultros. It’s a visually gorgeous search action game with some really cool ideas going on.
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Been messing around with some porn games I won’t talk about (except to say the opening of Renryuu Ascension is very funny for how the stoic lead cheats his way into becoming king by just saying “yeah I’m the heir” and then you’re king and that’s after about five minutes).
I will talk about Winter Wolves games, as I’ve picked back up all the Aravorn games he made after Loren the Amazon Princess, sans the direct sequel Elven Marriage.
Season of the Wolf is quite nice, with a slow burn opening that builds really well, and a great sense of balance with the battle system and difficulty. It requires careful resource management early on in an area, but it’s very satisfying to see your build and use of supplies lead to victory against tough enemies. The story is also really unique for a fantasy game, starting in a snow area before going to a desert trade town where you have to get yourself out of slavery.
Cursed Lands still has an awesome concept, basically a fantasy Suicide Squad thing where you have to gather all sorts of weirdos and rejects of questionable morality to deal with a vampire problem, though I did notice the dialog system is somehow more limited despite moving away from choosing a response by picking a mood. Instead, you have to think what the person you’re talking to wants to hear most to build affection for the sake of romance and later events in the story, so it’s less roleplay and more social engineering. That’s a cool idea (saying this as a huge Alpha Protocol fan) but moving away from the mood response system to answering questions or making decisions sort of makes it feel more artificial. Despite that, the cast is fantastic and bizarre, and the battle system also has a nice openness to it.
Thieves of Dingirra, the most recent game, feels like it takes more from Cursed Lands than Loren or Season, which is fine by me. Back to the old dialog system, and now your party have relationship values with each other based on how you interact with those connections, which is probably the best way to go about this. The town and guild management is a neat way to extend things and make it feel like you’re working towards something, and the combat is still great, if a tad more challenging (I had to start on easy). Highly recommend, and would actually recommend playing as a guy for one run solely for Halima’s romance (she’s absolutely bizarre). But girls also get Yasemin, clearly the best character, so it’s a hard call which character to play as first.
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I’m continuing my slow playthrough of Generation Zero, enemies are very much severe bullet sponges at this point (plus they are mistreating my boi the Carl Gustav by implying it’s a rocket launcher). I’m still interested in the story, it’s going places and it’s a nice game to slowly chip away at between all the busy moments in my life.
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OH! I played it a bit when it got Retro Achievements. I kept taking photos of the evil door for XP and money and didn’t dare to delve much deeper
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I’m loving replaying Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure, it’s so colorful, happy and fun it’s a joy to play.
Everything is so cute I love it! <3
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Welp, I’m hooked on Balatro again. Just when I thought it was out, I got dragged back in.
Shit’s like being in a gang 
the only way out is in a bodybag
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I just picked up Fire Emblem: Three Houses again for the first time in ages and a character just asked me to answer if I remembered something specific that happened in the first part of the game. I got it wrong…
I need to stop taking literal years to finish RPGs
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Can confirm that Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag runs tolerably on Wii U. Just got my first pirate crew and I look forward to boating around the Caribbean, though I am disappointed the map doesn’t extend all the way down south to the ABC islands.
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Currently playing through Dredge on the ps5 and CoC: Shadows of the Comet on the ao486 core on MiSTer. Having a lot of fun with both.
Wii U once again proven to be superior.
I’ve been vaguely interested in Assassin’s Creed, after getting into The Saboteur I’m starting to be interested in games set in historical time periods/famous cities around the world. Unfortunately Ubisoft is ass and restricts how they can be accessed on PC so I can’t play through Steam Family Sharing, not to mention Ubisoft launcher…
I might just pick a few to play on consoles.
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Yeah I can’t play my Steam version of AC2 because of the Ubisoft launcher crap
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If memory serves, some content on AC2 was only obtainable through Uplay’s reward gimmick, in which you get coins by getting to certain parts of the game, and then use those coins on Uplay to unlock things (I don’t remember what. I think some armors and stuff?). Does that still work? If not, is that extra content now in limbo?
i think it just automatically unlocks now, any ubisoft game i’ve had in my backlog defaults to giving me access to everything.
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I’m playing Shadow Generations on my Switch and this might be one of my favorite games now. I don’t think I’ve had this much fun just moving around in a space before.
I’m also replaying Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. My first playthrough was as a Malkavian with Unofficial Patch Basic installed, this time I’m a Ventrue with Plus installed.
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The last few days I’ve been going back and forth between Vampire Survivors and Planet Crafters. I’m also playing Sierra’s Space Quest II for a video.
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Lumines Arise has seized my central nervous system with the creator’s earnest belief that psytrance raves can bring about world peace
I played a bit of GZ with friends a couple years ago. I loved the atmosphere, but it kinda felt a bit samey gameplay wise, although the story is interesting. Maybe I should just queue up a longplay in the background to find out.
Personally - finished CP2077. Fantastic game. I went for the more humane ending and that made me shed a tear. Most story games tend to. I might be getting sentimental with age lol.
Now jumped into GTA4 as I kinda skipped over that game, and it was a big downgrade story-wise. It kinda annoys me that the game can’t decide if it wants to be a drama or a comedy. And you can’t play without being a mass murderer, there’s no nuance, but I guess that’s GTA for you. Not sure what I’m expecting. The driving definitely is nicer though - RStar have nailed the physics.
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I would honestly recommend something that just blasts through the story, most of the gameplay is very samesy while enemies just become worse bullet sponges. There’s a lot of interesting stuff there, and I’m sure in coop it can be a lot of fun but I’m just gonna be happy when it’s over at this point.