What Game/s are You Playing? Daily / Whenever Check :) (GAMEPLAY)

[jb143]

I've been mostly playing handhelds for the past couple years due to convenience. Recently though, I started playing Skyward Sword. I bought it (and a Wii Motion Plus controller) when it was new and figured it was about time. I'm liking it so far, my only issues are with the controls. The swordplay is fine, it just bugs me to no end that they went with the gyroscope for selecting things on screen rather than the sensor bar. I constantly have to center it because my hand is not in the same position or angle each time I need to use the menu or target something. And I've even lost a battle or two because the cursor doesn't go the way I want. And I really wish there was a way to rotate the camera. A GameCube controller option would be great, other than the fact that it would negate the swordplay aspect which was the driving factor in most of the game design.

Other than those gripes I'm having fun with it so far. It's a little linear as far as Zelda games go, but at this point in my life I don't mind so much, knowing that I have limited time to put into games. If I know I'm only going to have, say, 40 minutes to play one night I'd rather not waste it just wandering around trying to figure out what to do next.

[celerystalker]

Played through A Link to the Past for the god-know-how-many-eth time Sunday and Monday, having been in the mood to play classic Zelda after finishing Link's Awakening.

Taito Memories II: Gekan was on the docket today. My son (he's 2 years old) sat on my lap to "help." We played through Night Striker (he was in charge of the shoot button) and beat it. That game, while derivative of Space Harrier, is the shit. Killer Super Scaler-style game that stands up well along the likes of Galaxy Force.

We did some Full Throttle next, which is a straight OutRun clone, but a good one at least.

Following that, we beat Chase HQ. My son was in charge of the nitros, which we naturally used immediately each stage, costing a couple of credits, but we still finished in four credits.

We played some Buggy Challenge next, and I suck at it. Next.

We finished off with beating Battle Shark on about fifty credits. My son was in charge of shooting. We died a lot toward the end. Very different playing it emulated on PS2 without the periscope on the cabinet.

I played everything else on the disc after he fell asleep, and some more Night Striker. I've really come to love big, beautiful arcade games that use tons of sprite scaling, especially GI Joe, Space Harrier, and Night Striker. I need to hook my GI Joe pcb back up in my Sunset Riders cabinet.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Messing around with my Green Xbox Debug Kit Console..I have not had the chance to even play many of the games on the system..

I need to make some videos of what's on it before selling it..

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[Aussie2B]

I'm up to Chapter 6 in Period Cube on Vita. Maybe getting somewhat close to the end? Visual novels with longish chapters like these tend to run around 7 chapters or so, from my experience. Without spoiling anything, I think it's kinda dumb how they reveal a character as being another character, not by explicitly saying so in the story but by where the CG appears in the gallery. Talk about anticlimactic if you happen to look through the CGs you've seen and haven't pieced it together yourself already (the characters do share the same voice actor, so it's pretty obvious in that regard, but the performances for each are quite different).

I also tried out Risk of Rain on Vita. Pretty meh on it. I think I've had my fill of indies having "roguelike elements". Just make a full-fledged roguelike then. Those I enjoy, but if it's a platformer or some other kind of side-scrolling game, "roguelike elements" seems like code for "we're too lazy/lacking in creativity to actual design stages". I've just never been big on randomly generated areas in most types if games. Same reason Dragon Quest Monsters practically bored me to tears.

[Aussie2B]

I'm still on Chapter 6 of Hiroya's route in Period Cube on Vita, though I have played a little more since my last post. But this week, I've more so been playing Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut on Vita, which I started for the Game Completion Challenge but failed to beat in time, despite that I had read it's a short game. I guess I can attribute that to a combination of having a heavy workload this week, not liking the game that much, which made me less inclined to play, and kinda sucking at it. The latter two maybe are a result of me still having minimal experience with survival horror games. Maybe the genre just isn't really for me and I simply haven't played enough to come to that conclusion yet, and maybe Lone Survivor is more designed for experienced survival horror players. The main thing that's been annoying me is that I feel like I'm tending to a frickin' Tamagotchi as I'm playing. On top of the genre staples of having limited ammo and healing items and such, the protagonist is constantly whining about being hungry and sleepy, so you have to worry about food supplies too (which also heal, but you'll have to eat eventually even if you don't take damage). You can sleep as much as you want, but you have to return to the starting room in the game to do so (there are warps at least, but they're quirky and annoying in their own way), and sleeping just means you have to eat again that much sooner. So then you want to avoid sleeping, to minimize eating, but you have to sleep to save your progress. Then there's the fact that the game gets progressively darker overall as you go along (until you get out of the apartment building and into the city streets), to the point that you can barely see anything at all in the basement without turning on your flashlight. But that uses up limited batteries, plus the enemies see you then, so you want to avoid using the flashlight too. So I was basically stumbling around in the dark in the horribly irritating basement area, trying to use the game's garbage, confusing map that does not remotely work with 2D side-scrolling movement (the developer should play some Valkyrie Profile and learn how to properly do a map for a game like this). And on top of that, there was a stupid chase sequence in the basement. So yeah, that particular area really killed my momentum. Now I'm out in the city thankfully, making more consistent progress, and I think I'm nearly done.

Besides my Vita playing, I got Steam set up again, so after a month since I last played it, I've resumed The Charming Empire and have gotten up to Episode 14 of Sera's route. Lastly, I played a tiny bit of Sunset Riders via MAME.

[celerystalker]

Finally have a couple of days off, so I'm spending some time with my two new arcade pcbs, Heavy Barrel and Lode Runner: The Dig Fight. Heavy Barrel is like putting on a comfortable old pair of shoes again, and after two plays, I nearly 1cc'd it. I have several boards that use the rotary sticks, so it's something with which I'm rather comfortable, and it's good to play Heavy Barrel that way again.

Lode Runner: The Dig Fight is a Japan-exclusive member of the series, and has multi-player co-op and vs modes to boot. I need to track down the extra cabinet harness, as the same board can run two cabinets in a Nintendo Vs-like fashion for two screen, four player fun as well. Still, I can fully enjoy single and two player modes as is, which is fun. It's fast and silly, loaded with ridiculous and stupid cutscenes between stages. Also, it uses a unique approach of time limits being the governing factor for losing and scoring, encouraging speed run-style play for top ranking. I did the beginner stages A and B tonight, clearing both easily. The cutscenes have atrocious engrish, and even a quick 1cc finish of stages B ends in a gruesome death for comedic effect I suppose. I dig it. Eh? Dig it? Boo. Cool game, though.

[Videogamerdaryll]

NEO GEO MVS

Since I have the 161 MVS Multicarts in two of my MVS cabinets I have decided to sell some of my loose MVS Carts and MVS Kits..
If the Game is on the 161 then it's for sale..

So I have been playing all these MVS carts ,matching up artwork....

Started off with :

MUTATION NATION
SUPER SIDEKICKS 1 2 and 3
ART OF FIGHTING 3
BUST A MOVE 2

[Aussie2B]

I beat Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut on Vita and then finished a few little side quests and other stuff to rake in a bunch of trophies. Still only amounts to, if I remember correctly, 34%, as there are a ton more that would require me to play through the game again (many have to be done on a replay period, others involve stuff I missed). And I finally learned how to get water out of the bucket I placed under the drip. Turns out, a la Zelda, you have to drink a bottle of milk to get an empty bottle. But I hadn't touched my bottles of milk because the game tells you the milk is spoiled, and eating/drinking bad food takes a toll on both the protagonist's physical health and mental health. It's really dumb because there are a bunch of other foods that are in cans and bowls and such, which just totally disappear when you eat them, so why should anybody expect the milk's bottle to remain? I really hate inconsistent logic in games and having to discover something purely at random. Anyway, not gonna replay it, at least not anytime soon, so back to the shelf it goes.

In The Charming Empire on Steam, I'm on the Happy End version of Sera's Chapter 16, so I just have to go through that, zip through the route again for the Normal End, and then I can start up a new route.

[Aussie2B]

I've been playing a whole bunch of different stuff, but not sinking a lot of time into any. Since finishing Hiroya's route in Period Cube on Vita, I started his route up again to pick different answers and shoot for a different ending. I'm saved in Chapter 3 or 4 of that run, obviously skipping most everything. I also started Runner2 (or the long ass title: Bit.Trip Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien), and I'm near the end of the second area. I think this is my first time playing through a proper runner, though I've definitely played other games that had some runner-style stages. I prefer regular platformers, but it's still fun, just kind of repetitive with every level feeling like a variation of the same kind of obstacle course. I still struggle a little with remembering the controls, though. I've been briefly trying out random Vita games that have been coming in too. God Wars seems like a nice traditional-style strategy RPG, while Ben 10 Galactic Racing and F1 2011 I only bought because they're a little on the rare side (my first loose Vita games; I took a gamble and lost with GameStop.com's used games, hoping I'd get complete copies. I may still try to replace them with complete copies eventually.) From Limited Run Games, I got Broken Age and Deemo: The Last Recital. The former seems like something I could get into, but the art style is not my thing. The mouths are especially creepy looking to me. The latter I was looking forward to trying, and it was even more enjoyable than I expected. It really is a fantastic deal at $15 on PSN and sold for only $25 through LRG. It feels like something that easily could've been sold at the standard $40. I'm not super crazy about the idea of having to use touch controls (especially because I don't use any kind of screen protectors), but I can't claim it doesn't feel good. For a piano-centered rhythm game, tapping the notes arranged horizontally across the screen really does give the feeling of playing piano. I enjoyed all the songs I tried too. I'm not even big on rhythm games, but this one I look forward to sinking more time into.

I *think* that's everything I've played lately on Vita. For non-Vita gaming, I polished off Sera's route in The Charming Empire on Steam. I then started up Kagemitsu Togawa's and got a few chapters in. I'm finally starting to feel like I'm closing in on fully completing this one. I also pulled out my GBA SP to try a few recent buys. Mainly I wanted Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon, since the idea of replaying one of my strategy RPG favorites on a handheld sounds nice, even if it does seem inferior to the Genesis original. With it, I got a copy of Riviera: The Promised Land, which I had a hell of a time trying to get to work, despite that GBA games usually play on the first try for me. Lastly, I played just enough of Yggdra Union to make a save. That last one is a dupe for me, so I'm just testing it to make sure it functions properly before I get rid of it. And at a friend's house, I got to play some 4-player Puyo Puyo Tetris on Switch.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Sonic & Knuckles (Sega Genesis, 1994)

What plugs into the top of this cart again?

[celerystalker]

Sonic & Knuckles (Sega Genesis, 1994)

What plugs into the top of this cart again?

Sonic 2 and Sonic 3.

[Aussie2B]

I got Hiroya's bad ending in Period Cube (labeled as a "Merry Bad" ending, haha) on Vita, and hot damn was that good. Easily the most interesting part I've experienced in Period Cube so far. I love when everything goes awry in visual novel plots, haha. I keep hearing people complaining that most of the love interests in Period Cube are demented, and I'm like hell yeah, bring it on. Then I got up to the fourth area in Runner2. I think only one more after this?

In The Charming Empire on Steam, I'm up to Chapter 5 in Kagemitsu's route. Nothing too exciting yet, though it is interesting that, in the four routes I've finished or started so far, in two, Kei is the protagonist's tutor, and in the other two, some unnamed woman with no portrait is. Makes me wonder who the "canon" tutor is.

[Rickstilwell1]

Lately I was on a hack n slash kick, Playing Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance on PS2, Diablo on PS1 and X-Men Legends on PS2. I still have work to do on each.

I bought a bunch of Wii U games I thought were must-haves but still only went back to replay New Super Mario Bros. U on the standalone copy of the game yet since that disc gets a separate save file from the 2-in-1 version. I'm on World 7 again there, not really caring about the star coins this time through.

Yesterday I finally installed a couple Sonic the Hedgehog fan games on my PC. Sonic World is a 3D fan game similar to Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 + Heroes and contains a lot of rare characters you can use in addition to the popular ones. There are also mods for it on top of that to add characters and stages. Sonic Time Twisted is a very well done 2D Sonic game that is like a cross between Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Sonic CD in style. I 100% beat the game as Sonic but still need to play it as Tails and Knuckles.

[o.pwuaioc]

Been playing Mario Golf for the Game Boy Color. It's often just what I need to relax and unwind. Currently on the third tournament. Despite the razzle-dazzle music, there's something very peaceful about golf.

[The S]

Got this today and played it for a bit before work. Probably will play more tomorrow

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[celerystalker]

Been playing Gradius II while trying to fix my Dou R as it shits all over my feelings. Gonna have to have it re-capped I believe. I just want to play Gradius II.

In my desire to play Gradius II, after beating my head against a wall for days, I subbed in some Gradius V on PS2 and Border Down on Dreamcast. It wasn't the same. Still, great shooters.

Played a brief co-op round of Lode Runner: The Dig Fight with a buddy after buying him lunch to celebrate some stuff in his life. He liked it a lot, which was cool. We played a bit of Heavy Barrel as well. Both were the arcade games on my cabinets.

This evening, we took our nephew out for his birthday. He was sweet enough to play a game of MLB Baseball on NES with my 2 year old son:

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After my boy went to bed, he and my wife played a game of Baseball Stars 2 on Neo Geo MVS on my cabinet. Neither had played it, but they had a blast, with my wife winning in 13 innings. Fun stuff!

I may slap in Gradius Gaiden or IV before bed. I really wanna play II on PCE. Blech. Anybody recommend a good cap service? It'll take me too long to do it myself. I'm a slow solderer.

Oh! Put in a new kitchen sink and garbage disposal for my wife today. Turned out great, which takes a bit of the sting off of my Duo woes.

[danny_galaga]

Modern- still putting countless hours into Elders Scrolls:Skyrim on PS3

Retro- Had a mate over last week and we spent the whole evening playing Bank Panic on my Mame cab with only small intermissions of Puzzle Bobble and Elevator Action (",)

[otaku]

xbox one- imported Raiden V
ps4 wipeout omega and yakuza
pc- quake beta and forza 6 apex
switch mario kart 8 deluxe

[Videogamerdaryll]

Playing some old PS1 Games I purchased at a Flea Market..

Auto Destruct...I don't remember owning this game..

[celerystalker]

After a week long, knock down, drag out fight with my Duo-R, that bitch is playing my games. :) I finally played some lovely, seamless Gradius II. I then played some Gate of Thunder, R-Type Complete, Super Darius, and L-Dis. Everything seems on point after about 2 hours of play. Horizontal shooting happiness!

[celerystalker]

Been testing my Duo R every day since repairing it, and it's still going strong! Did Gradius II and Final Zone II tonight.

Afterward, I played King of Fighters 2000 on Neo Geo AES for the first time in a bit. 1CC on normal. Not too bad given the ring rust.

[celerystalker]

Oh, man. As big of a pain as it was to fix my Duo-R, it has gotten me in love with the Turbo all over again. Still playing Gradius II, because it's the shit. Also, played some Download, which is one of my favorite shooters.

Having figured out and basically bulletproofed my Duo inspired me to fix the bad RF port on my US Turbografx as well, which was a breeze to re-flow one cracked solder joint. I played some Super Star Soldier and beat Vigilante, as well as getting my ass handed to me at Aero Blaster and Sinistron. Sinistron is awesome. I'm having so much fun I might pop open a sealed game like Exile or Cosmic Fantasy 2 next weekend. :)

Now that my sister's divorce is finalized, I'm also helping her get her stuff up and running again. Aside from talking her into getting back her copy of Dragon Force that I gave her years ago from her ex, I went through and organized her stuff, had some of her damaged games resurfaced (Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, and Mario Kart Wii), hooked up some consoles and cleaned them up, and then helped her decide on selling some Genesis games they never play in order to re-purchase her favorite game, Brigandine. I bought that damned game for her TWICE, and her oldest daughter broke it twice. The girl also broke most of their controllers, which my sister can't afford to replace right now, so I ordered parts to repair apl of their Gamecube and N64 controllers as well as new battery covers for their Wii-motes and replacement covers for the GC controller ports on the Wii. Lots of work done and yet to do!

[celerystalker]

Just did a nice clean 1cc run on Gate of Thunder on PCE CD. Definitely one of my personal favorite horizontal shooters. It and Gradius II are probably at the top of my list. Both have fair challenge and can be cleared on skill over memorization. Great stuff.

[celerystalker]

Ugh, shouod've been asleep hours ago, but made the huge mistake of eating at a Denny's for the first time in probably five years. It was disgusting, and I stopped eating part way in, but still have had, um, let's call it gastral distress all night.

To make lemonade from those lemons, I sat down and started a new "Quest Mode" run on Final Lap Twin. Getting started is much tougher than in World Court Tennis, but it's really great once you get some new parts. If you didn't know, it's a Dragon Quest-inspired racing RPG on the Turbografx in which the random encounters are one lap races, with bosses being three lap encounters with more rival cars. You don't gain EXP, but rather simply money for new parts. You have to defeat each town's big boss in order to make your way to the world championship.

I cleared out the first four towns before snagging a password to go to bed. Comically, the manual is full of incorrect info, likely stemming from a beta translation. It claims your sister will help you, though it's your dad in the final release, has the wrong name for the first town, incorrect item and command names, etc. Pretty funny stuff. :)

[celerystalker]

Spent some time playtesting a copy of D on Saturn I had spare for someone, and it freezes on Disc II in the rotating room. I sure wish it had a cheat to start at Disc II for when I have it resurfaced.

Finished Final Lap Twin. That last race is a bitch. Funny ending, though...

[Videogamerdaryll]

Spent some time playtesting a copy of D on Saturn I had spare for someone, and it freezes on Disc II in the rotating room. I sure wish it had a cheat to start at Disc II for when I have it resurfaced.

Finished Final Lap Twin. That last race is a bitch. Funny ending, though...

Awesome..I remember playing D..I have to look I may still own this game..

Please tell me more about Final Lap Twin..?what system TG13..I'm on a racing game hunt ..

[celerystalker]

Awesome..I remember playing D..I have to look I may still own this game..

Please tell me more about Final Lap Twin..?what system TG13..I'm on a racing game hunt ..

Final Lap Twin is on the Turbografx 16 from Namco. It's definitely got some Pole Position DNA. The "Twin" part comes from supporting 2-player split screen, but the single player game has several modes. There's an Arcade Gran Prux mode that's pretty good, but the "Quest" mode is the real treat. Imagine Dragon Warrior, but random encounters are a one lap race. You save up to buy new parts, taking down the top racer of six cities in order to get secret parts to build a super car and take on the world champion. It isn't super deep, but it's a good time, and an innovative way to play a classic racer.

Also, the racing handles excellently, and, like I said, fell from the Pole Position family tree. They did a tennis game with a similar RPG mode called World Court Tennis, too. :)

[thom_m]

Cuurently playing the Sonic CD re-release for PS3. Finally got to enjoy this game... I would never be able to purchase a Sega CD back in the day. I also beat Duck Tales (NES) and Duck Tales Remastered (PS30 last weekend.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Final Lap Twin is on the Turbografx 16 from Namco. It's definitely got some Pole Position DNA. The "Twin" part comes from supporting 2-player split screen, but the single player game has several modes. There's an Arcade Gran Prux mode that's pretty good, but the "Quest" mode is the real treat. Imagine Dragon Warrior, but random encounters are a one lap race. You save up to buy new parts, taking down the top racer of six cities in order to get secret parts to build a super car and take on the world champion. It isn't super deep, but it's a good time, and an innovative way to play a classic racer.

Also, the racing handles excellently, and, like I said, fell from the Pole Position family tree. They did a tennis game with a similar RPG mode called World Court Tennis, too. :)



AWESOME....Thank You ,I need to get this game..

[celerystalker]

AWESOME....Thank You ,I need to get this game..

It's super common, so hopefully it's still a cheapie.

Been playing a shitload of Dragon Force on Sega Saturn. It's one of my sister's favorites, and so when her ex took the Saturn with the divorce, I fixed her up a junker so she can play her copy I bought her years ago. After testing it with NHL '97 with no issues, I decided to test it with my copy of Dragon Force, given that it will be the console's primary use. Ended up playing for 3 hours, copying the save to a memory card, and continuing long after giving her the system.

Playing as Mikhal, and have conquered about half of Legendra. Reinhart and Gongos are conquered, and Leon and Goldark are down to pretty much themselves. I have to work the next four overnights, so I won't play again until probably next Monday. Good stuff!

Also, played a bit of Macross 2036 on PC Engine. What a good horizontal shooter! A bit easy to be sure, but holy cow is it true to its source material. Great game!

[Aussie2B]

I've been pretty low on gaming time this past month or so. I did get almost to the end of Libera's route in Period: Cube on Vita, though. Now I'm playing Collar x Malice, but I've yet to even get on anybody's route yet. It's really interesting so far, and I have a feeling that this is gonna rank among the best of the otome visual novels available in English on Vita. I popped a couple other recent Vita purchases in for a brief try too: Ys: Memories of Celceta and Bard's Gold.

On PC, I finished Kagemitsu's route in The Charming Empire, and I'm on Chapter 6 of Soshi Amazaki's. I don't know if it's just how my luck in picking routes has gone or if the game is wearing out its welcome, but I feel like I've been enjoying each route less than the last. I still like Tanba's best, since the heroine actually had some spunk and did her own thing in that one. She's a lot more resigned to being trapped in the palace and used as a pawn in the others, and I feel like practically all she does is think negatively about herself. It's an endless stream of internal dialogue about how useless and helpless she feels, and that gets really repetitive and tiring route after route. It doesn't help that the protagonists of Hakuoki and Period: Cube are a bit similar in that regard. I'm not saying their situations don't give them reason to feel that way, but so much of that negativity was starting to bring me down. Collar x Malice is a breath of fresh air after these, with a heroine who has some confidence and calls out BS, at least in her head, if not voiced. Anyway, to get back to what I was saying about the diminishing returns in The Charming Empire, Kei's route was all right (helps that I like the voice actor), though not as good as Tanba's. Sera's was kind of dull. I've never been crazy about characters/routes where the core point is the guy's desire to protect the heroine. Kagemitsu's probably would've been on par with Sera's or Kei's, if not for it falling apart at the end. It turned into mess of disjointed, cobbled together pieces. As for Soshi's, nothing is standing out either way so far, but I have little motivation for the game at this point. I'm ready to just finish it off and move on. I wouldn't describe it as bad, but it doesn't support five routes very well, not when it feels like going through the same motions in most of them. I wish more of them were like Tanba's and switched things up a little.

Outside of my usual handheld and PC gaming, I started up Harvest Moon 64 on my Nintendo 64. My anxiety has been pretty bad lately, and as I was watching one of Daria's videos actually (about RPGs she'd like to own but doesn't yet, in which she named Harvest Moon for SNES), I was thinking about how relaxing I find Harvest Moon on SNES. But I've absolutely killed that game, having beaten it with every wife and maxing out the money and everything. On the other hand, I've owned Harvest Moon 64 since around the mid 00s, I believe, and I've yet to play through it even once. I figured now is as good of a time as any. I love how similar the mechanics are, down to the last little details. It feels both like something new and something very comfortably familiar. But the slight differences make a big impact, like how quickly the day zips by and the fact that the protagonist can get sick if he stays up late. In the SNES game, I'd usually clear the entire farm of stones, stumps, and weeds on the very first night, since the night is endless and you can just restore your energy in the hot springs, but here I am almost halfway into this first spring with only a small fraction of the farm cleared and just two patches of cabbages growing. I'd like to woo Ann (because I'm narcissistic, haha; if I'm playing as a male character who romances female characters, I'll usually first go after the female character who most reminds me of myself. I'm not outgoing like her, but I share my middle name with her, I love animals too, and I wear my hair tied up when it's long.) She was one of my favorites in the SNES game as well, except there she was the tomboy mechanic girl, while Ellen was the one passionate about animals (here, Elli is in the family that owns the bakery). The only problem is that I can't find her half the time, haha. Meanwhile, Karen appears every damn place I go. Anyway, I'm having a blast so far. I can picture myself being in the same position with this game as the SNES game years from now (knowing it inside and out, taking advantage of all the quirks, having played through it with every wife).

[Aussie2B]

I'm a few days into fall in Harvest Moon 64 on Nintendo 64 now. I kinda feel like I screwed up summer. There were three typhoons (which I can't control, but still), and my farmer got sick three times. So that's six totally wasted days right there, and one of them made me miss a festival. I still haven't fully figured out what causes sickness, but I guess I've been pushing it too far on how late I'm staying up. But the day goes by so fast that it feels impossible to get everything done. I don't think I even harvested much in the summer. The typhoons wiped out some, and I was trying to keep everything watered, but I'm pretty sure I had some crops that never grew enough to produce a single vegetable. What a waste. And since I wasn't shipping much vegetables, I've been perpetually broke. I forage in the mountains just about every day, which may be part of my problem, since that eats up time. At least I have a full coop of six chickens now, but I've yet to afford a single sheep or cow (so I had nothing to enter in the cow festival). I am slowly winning over Ann (the heart at the end of her dialogue turned from white to blue, and she appears on the farm now and then), and hopefully fall's eggplants will go better for me. It's fun to actually grow stuff (besides grass) in fall, since the SNES game kinda dragged in the fall and even more so in winter.

And in The Charming Empire on PC, I cleared another chapter. Maybe it's my imagination, but I feel like Soshi's chapters last a little longer on average than chapters in other routes.

[Videogamerdaryll]

STREET FIGHTER..

I have never been that into street fighter ..being into NEO GEO fighter for so long ..

Even on consoles I just never played fighting games That Much but after getting the Street Fighter II CE arcade machine I want to learn more about street fighter..
Especially the characters ..
Now on TV the other day the Street Fighter Movie that I have seen before but this time I'm trying to understand who is who..

That's where I am at trying to understand learn about the characters..

[celerystalker]

Took my wife to see Newsies at the Muny (the municipal opera house in Forest Park in St Louis), the stupidly picked up on my Dragon Force game around 12:30am. That game destroys time.

Captured Leon almost immediately, and Goldark is cornered in his las castle...but stupid Scythe and Gaul will not stop attacking over and over, which has ground my progress to a near halt, as every time I start to get ready to deploy, I get attacked again, roundly win, and then get back to work. If I play tomorrow, I will immediately crush Goldark so I can get over and continue whipping Wein's ass. I started encroaching there already, but once I can stop getting pulled west every ten seconds, I have a few armies there that will happily pound Wein, Tieris, and Junon with ease. Many, many dragons are headed east. :)

[jefis]

I'm playing Sunset Riders on the Genesis. Never played SNES version, but for me this game is one of the greatest Genesis games ever made. It's so fun, yet so good.

[Aussie2B]

I'm now a couple days into my second spring in Harvest Moon 64 on Nintendo 64. Winter was surprisingly profitable, and fall wasn't bad either. At first, it seemed like winter was going to drag like in the SNES version, but it was a good opportunity to finish clearing the remaining stones and stumps on my farm, grind for lumber in the mountains, and then from the 8th to the end of winter, I spent most days mining. I have three sheep and two cows now (though two are still too young to produce milk/wool), and I have a third cow on the way (since my adult cow is pregnant). I bought a stairway leading to nowhere for my house, haha, but at this point, it's lumber that's the real hurdle in building expansions, not the monetary cost. I've also got Ann up to a yellow heart, and even her brother is starting to act a little friendly. I assume she's gotta be at a pink heart for marriage, which I have no idea how to do in this game since I've seen nor heard nothing about a blue feather. Maria is strangely up to a blue heart too, even though I've put no effort into wooing her, though I may have thrown a gift or two her way when I was carrying something and couldn't find Ann. Likewise, I had to pick someone other than Ann to dance with once when I stupidly voted for Ann even though my farmer wasn't chosen as the harvest king or whatever the heck. Anyway, all in all, for my first time through this Harvest Moon, I don't think I'm in too bad of shape after the first year.

I'm also up to Chapter 9 in Soshi's route in The Charming Empire on PC. I'm trying to get in a routine of hammering out a chapter each morning while I eat breakfast.

[Videogamerdaryll]

I'm playing Sunset Riders on the Genesis. Never played SNES version, but for me this game is one of the greatest Genesis games ever made. It's so fun, yet so good.

Years back I traded in Sunset Riders SNES to a local game store by Mistake-they gave me $29 cent for it..(I forgot to remove it from a lot of other SNES being traded in after a move-I will Never forget..

Today I play it on a multiboard..It's great..

[celerystalker]

Years back I traded in Sunset Riders SNES to a local game store by Mistake-they gave me $29 cent for it..(I forgot to remove it from a lot of other SNES being traded in after a move-I will Never forget..

Today I play it on a multiboard..It's great..

I love Sunset Riders. Oddly enough, I've not spent much time with the Genesis or SNES verson. I have the dedicated 4-player cabinet, so I never ponied up for either of them. I've considered taking a shot a the Genesis game, as it is so different it might as well be a spinoff.

More Dragon Force for me. The whole map is conquered, so just doing sidequests until I decide to finish. In the meantime, I won't be playing anything at all for the next few days due to work. Boo.

[Aussie2B]

Man, I got skunked on the Flower Festival yet again in Harvest Moon 64. I voted for Ann again, this time as king, but she wasn't selected to play the role of the goddess this time. At least I could decline dancing with the one chosen and dance with Ann anyway. On that note, Ann is up to a pink heart, and I still have no clue how to wed. I wouldn't be surprised if I have to get a certain house expansion first, but everything takes too damn much lumber. I've almost got a full barn of cows and sheep now. I've turned my first cow into a calf-making machine, haha. She's already given birth to two, with one more coming, and I've bought four sheep. I figure I may as well go half cows, half sheep in this file. I don't know which is ultimately more profitable (probably cows), but I'm not gonna pass on the opportunity of keeping sheep when they're new to this version of Harvest Moon.

In The Charming Empire on PC, I think I'm up to Chapter 11 in Soshi's route? I saw the plot twist coming a mile away, but I'm still kind of glad they pulled it rather than doing nothing interesting. That said, how they've handled it since has been pretty ehhhhh. The protagonist's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are all over the place and make even less sense than usual.

For some much better writing, I got back to Collar X Malice on Vita. This opening common chapter after the prologue feels like it's going on for all eternity. Not in a bad way, I'm just surprised that I still haven't advanced to the next chapter.

[Aussie2B]

Only did one more chapter in The Charming Empire on PC. Getting so close to finishing this one off. Well, unless they pull out some epilogue or something.

I'm at the beginning of my second summer in Harvest Moon 64 on Nintendo 64. I'm taking it slow in the game now. Days take longer to complete with all the time I spending tending to the animals, and the allure of playing some Harvest Moon for the first time in years has worn off some now that I've completed a full in-game year. Not that I'm having less fun now, I just want to enjoy it at a more relaxed pace.

So instead, I'm getting serious about Collar X Malice on Vita again. I finally cleared the common chapter, and I somehow ended up on Kei Okazaki's route. I wasn't trying to get on any particular route, so I'm not sure what I did that led to his. I'm not sure if it's the best route to start with, since he's sort of an outlier compared to the others, but it's not like there are many options the first time through, as I hear Yanagi and Shiraishi aren't available until later. Besides Okazaki, that leaves Enomoto and Sasazuka, and I hear Sasazuka is the worst part of the game as far as shoddy QA goes (so lots of typos and what have you). So I'm not sure I'd want my first route to have lots of localization issues. Enomoto is a bit of a comedic relief character, so I don't know if I'd want him at the center of my first route either. So all things considered, maybe Okazaki isn't a bad place to start.

[celerystalker]

Rastan (Arcade)

None of my cabinets are regularly wired for the -5v Rastan requires for sound, so I ran a simple modification that can be easily reversed in one after play testing my Tecmo Knight board. Rastan is a long time favorite of mine, and it's nice to finally be playing it completely on correct hardware. It's a classic if there ever was one. Sure, I may prefer Black Tiger as a similar platformer, but Rastan has its own magic. I'm pretty rusty, and only got half-way through stage 2 on my first credit. Lots of brushing up to do, but it'll be a blast being able to play this the way I remember it, with no glossy filters or anything.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Rastan (Arcade)

None of my cabinets are regularly wired for the -5v Rastan requires for sound, so I ran a simple modification that can be easily reversed in one after play testing my Tecmo Knight board. Rastan is a long time favorite of mine, and it's nice to finally be playing it completely on correct hardware. It's a classic if there ever was one. Sure, I may prefer Black Tiger as a similar platformer, but Rastan has its own magic. I'm pretty rusty, and only got half-way through stage 2 on my first credit. Lots of brushing up to do, but it'll be a blast being able to play this the way I remember it, with no glossy filters or anything.

RASTAN..yes great game..

I have it in a Taito Bartop Arcade machine...I suck at it so bad but keep trying..

[celerystalker]

RASTAN..yes great game..

I have it in a Taito Bartop Arcade machine...I suck at it so bad but keep trying..

Heheh, yeah, it is not an easy game. I get in a rhythm and tear through most of a stage, and out of nowhere I just lose it and get annihilated. Love that game.

[Muntic0re]

When I have free time I play Free Gear or Governor of Poker on http://www.friv5online.com/ . There are many small flash games, very interesting, by the way. A great way to chill out at least for 10 min.

[celerystalker]

Woke up in the middle of the night with a stomach issue (not to mention the back and forth of working overnights and trying to be normal on days off), so I played a credit each of Tecmo Knight and Gondomania.

I suck at Tecmo Knight, but it is pretty cool, and I bet it's a blast co-op, but I haven't had anyone over who will play it with me. If only I could pull off an adorable puppy dog stare, or my son was old enough for its absurd violence...

Gondomania, though, I've gotten pretty good at playing. I hadn't played it in a few months, as I'd left Heavy Barrel in my rotary Time Soldiers cabinet, but even without my contact lenses I cleared the first three stages on one credit. Utterly underrated shooter that rotary stick fans really ought to play, and one of Data East's smoothest games of the era. It's probably my second favorite game that uses that control setup after Time Soldiers, though admittedly I've never gotten to get my hands on a SAR board to sink my teeth into... that shit is rare.

[celerystalker]

Played 1 credit of Rastan and died at the beginning of stage 5.

Later, I played Confidential Mission on Dreamcast for awhile. I wish it was compatible with my Japanese Sega gun, because the InterAct guns I have just feel comparatively spongey. Still, good gun game, though Virtua Cop 2 is still my favorite.

[celerystalker]

Went over to a buddy's place today to try again testing a JNX Big Red JAMMA to MVS adapter I got him for his birthday. We'd tried it before with my Lode Runner: The Dig Fight pcb, but we weren't able to get sound for some reason. Today, I brought over my Punisher and Tecmo Knight boards, and both worked perfectly, so it must've just been something odd with that one board not liking the adapter. Weird.

Anyway, he and I both dig classic brawlers, so we beat Tecmo Knight. That game is dramatically easier with two players! Still, lots of violent fun, and it's great how you decapitate literally every enemy in the game save the enormous gorills mini boss.

[Aussie2B]

Well, I totally finished off The Charming Empire on PC, which is cause for celebration in two ways. One being just because I was tired of it, but this is also the first visual novel I've fully completed since...probably 2013, I'm guessing. I can't complain at all about the increased rate of otome visual novel localizations in the last few years, but I'm developing a bad habit of jumping from one to the next without ever fully completing anything. Sticking with the pattern of steady decline, I'd say Soshi's route was the worst of the bunch. It was just a mess from the plot twist forward. I kinda have to wonder how I'd feel about Tanba and Kei's routes had I not played them first. I don't know if I liked them best just because of the newness of it all or if they were legitimately better written. Anyway, I must be a glutton for punishment because I started up Gakuen Club, which is from the same developer, localized by the same publisher, and uses the same engine and general setup. It does have six routes rather than five, though, so I wonder if that means it's going to be longer or if the individual routes will be slightly shorter. It's nothing that exciting, but so far, so good. It at least has a competent prologue where you're actually introduced to all the guys, which matters a lot for the mobile versions where you pay for each route individually after playing through the free prologue. The art is better too. I guess I'll drown my sorrow over Taisho x Alice being utterly butchered and ruined by its awful localization by playing a different otome visual novel with character designs by the same artist. Anyway, started with Asahi Minakawa's route.

I've barely touched Harvest Moon 64 since my last post in this topic, so I'm only about halfway through my second summer. Not much to report, just that the Fireworks Festival or whatever it's called annoyed me to no end in trying to find Ann. I got trapped into watching the fireworks with Karen first and then Popuri. And only Maria would come to my ranch (Dorito ranch, haha) in the morning to tell me where she'd be, which was dumb. I even checked Ann's ranch previously, but nothing triggered (I guess I was there too early). And the info you get elsewhere only mentions the square, beach, and mountain as fireworks viewing spots. After repeating the day over and over, I just looked up where Ann would be. Also on Nintendo 64, I played some Cruis'n World, which I received as a birthday present this past weekend. It's my first time playing any game in the series other than Cruis'n USA.

On Vita, I'm up to Chapter 2 in Okazaki's route in Collar X Malice. I got up to my first investigation scene where you get to move a cursor around and examine evidence.

[WulfeLuer]

Well, against my better judgment, I went and bought a SNES and started rebuilding my old RPG collection. I'm currently going through Final Fantasy "III" (really VI). I keep poking at the copy of MS Saga: A New Dawn I nabbed, but I dunno. The pixels are calling...

[celerystalker]

Well, against my better judgment, I went and bought a SNES and started rebuilding my old RPG collection. I'm currently going through Final Fantasy "III" (really VI). I keep poking at the copy of MS Saga: A New Dawn I nabbed, but I dunno. The pixels are calling...

Final Fantasy III is my second favorite RPG. MS Saga is cool, but I'm an SNES guy at heart, so I'd say fantastic decision. :)

[otaku]

overwatch (pc) with wifey
rez infinite ps4
dirt 4 xbox one
trials xbox one

[celerystalker]

Did a first for myself tonight. My Game Gear screen has been dead for a few years, so I finally decided to try re-capping the thing. I'm pretty experienced with through-hole soldering, but pretty inexperienced with surface mount soldering. Well, I went for it, and:

10353

I'm up and running. Bad picture due to the lighting, but, yeah, it looks as good as ever now1

As such, I played some Ax Battler and Zenki for Game Gear tonight. I've always said that Inu Yasha is a flagrant ripoff of Zenki. I stand by it. Ax Battler is a kinda sloppy Zelda II clone, but I like it pretty well. Reminds me of playing Exile or other Telenet stuff. Zenki is a really good action platformer, and I'd really recommend it to any Game Gear fan. It's one of my favorite Game Gear games. I hadn't played it for a decade, but it's really held up very well.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Did a first for myself tonight. My Game Gear screen has been dead for a few years, so I finally decided to try re-capping the thing. I'm pretty experienced with through-hole soldering, but pretty inexperienced with surface mount soldering. Well, I went for it, and:

10353

I'm up and running. Bad picture due to the lighting, but, yeah, it looks as good as ever now1

As such, I played some Ax Battler and Zenki for Game Gear tonight. I've always said that Inu Yasha is a flagrant ripoff of Zenki. I stand by it. Ax Battler is a kinda sloppy Zelda II clone, but I like it pretty well. Reminds me of playing Exile or other Telenet stuff. Zenki is a really good action platformer, and I'd really recommend it to any Game Gear fan. It's one of my favorite Game Gear games. I hadn't played it for a decade, but it's really held up very well.

AWESOME Well Done..

[celerystalker]

AWESOME Well Done..

Hey, thanks! It was my first Game Gear cap job, so I was really happy it went off without a hitch!

[Aussie2B]

I dunno if it's just renewed enthusiasm or what, but I feel like I'm blazing through Gakuen Club on PC. I'm on Chapter 10 in Asahi's route, and I feel like I can complete two chapters in the time it'd take to clear one in The Charming Empire.

In Collar X Malice on Vita, I played a little more, but not enough to have anything of note to report on. Gotta get me some more gaming time!

[celerystalker]

I got in my Desert Assault pcb yesterday, which is a cool 4 player top-down run 'n gun. The board gets super hot, though, so I need to monitor it closely. It has a burned out ground pin, so I have to run a lead from that wire to a different ground pin, as that happens to be the ground wire attached to the coin mech on my 4 player cabinet, and of course it doesn't have a free play mode.

Tomorrow is tournament day, so today means mowing the lawn and cleaning up mostly. Yeehaw.

[celerystalker]

Holy shit. I gave my buddy a JNX JAMMA to MVS adapter for his birthday, and it's worked fine on some of my boards. However, he bought a Pandora's Box 4S+ multi-board, and when he put it in, the screen just started flashing like crazy and it made popping sounds. I went over to check it out, and all I could tell was that the 5V rail was all over the place. So, tonight, I brought over a brand new switching power supply, wired it up, and bam, we have picture, but no sound. Long story short, after reseating it a ton and really clamping the edge connector on for, like, 40 minutes, I finally got that bitch running!

We played a game with a misspelled title that he'd researched, which turned out to just be Wolf Fang, which I've played to death on Saturn. Still, I didn't want to spoil the fun for him feeling like he discovered something new, so we played through it. :)

[Aussie2B]

I cleared Asahi's route in Gakuen Club on PC, and now I'm up to Chapter 4 in Toma Sakai's route. My second route should show what this game is really made of, since I'll get to see if the story is super repetitive from one route to the next like in The Charming Empire. So far, I see that the weekend trip to the shopping mall is an event Asahi and Toma's routes have in common. Overall, I'm seeing a lot of things in Gakuen Club that I like better than in The Charming Empire, though. For one, the whole cast is present in a route, not just the love interest currently being pursued. (Kagemitsu appeared a tiny bit in some routes other than his own, and Soshi was around in all for obvious reasons, but that was about it in The Charming Empire. Even when a character should've been one of the love interests in The Charming Empire, like with the tutor and the cafe owner, they were typically turned into generic background characters.) I also like how the choices aren't completely braindead in Gakuen Club. The first ending I got with Asahi was the Normal ending, but in The Charming Empire, it's much harder to get those than the Happy endings, as most dialogue choices had no wrong answer (and with the few that did, it was usually painfully obvious which was right). In Gakuen Club, it seems like dialogue choices appear far less frequently, for better or for worse (a downside if you'd like more interactivity), but they also seem to always have a wrong answer.

In Collar X Malice on Vita, I'm up to Chapter 3 in Okazaki's route. I had a smile plastered on my face during the entire scene where Okazaki and the heroine are exchanging texts while sitting right next to each other. :)

[Videogamerdaryll]

Holy shit. I gave my buddy a JNX JAMMA to MVS adapter for his birthday, and it's worked fine on some of my boards. However, he bought a Pandora's Box 4S+ multi-board, and when he put it in, the screen just started flashing like crazy and it made popping sounds. I went over to check it out, and all I could tell was that the 5V rail was all over the place. So, tonight, I brought over a brand new switching power supply, wired it up, and bam, we have picture, but no sound. Long story short, after reseating it a ton and really clamping the edge connector on for, like, 40 minutes, I finally got that bitch running!

We played a game with a misspelled title that he'd researched, which turned out to just be Wolf Fang, which I've played to death on Saturn. Still, I didn't want to spoil the fun for him feeling like he discovered something new, so we played through it. :)

Ah glad to hear you got it going..
I won a Pandora's box Cheap listed as used on ebay..It came New unused-I bought several adapters plus the JNX JAMMA to MVS .to try the board in several of my cabinets ...
I first tested the Pandoras box in a small bartop machine with LCD monitor and it worked first try..

Candy cab wired for MVS did not like it..jumpy picture popping sounds ,flashing-some games would not work at all or be so flashy unplayable...and I have a new power supply in the cabinet too...I messed with it too much,waisted to much time trying.

Going over wiring 20 times I even bought one of those adapters to run my own wires..
.............
Big RED MVS again a no go..Made that cab go nuts -this is my baby-board out quick..

Street Fighter 2 CE had the most promise -I figured I could still plays SF2CE and have a bunch more in the cab..I got picture but it was dull shifted to the left-buttons stopped working ...this cab also has a new power supply .I go messing with the monitor adjustments can't get it no brighter yet it's bright with the SF2CE board...Going over the wiring crazy the Pandora box the buttons in the cabinet just stop working over and over..I was having ground issues it just drove me nuts,then the cab would not boot up with SF2CE anymore I gave up...
I let the cab sit for a day went over the wiring checked the power supply voltage everything ok,finally the cab came back on..

Frustrated I bought a kit to build a bar top machine to build around the pandoras box...everything new,wired it all up.. $600.00 later I have an awesome bartop machine and the pandors box plays perfectly ,it seems to prefer LCD...

[Aussie2B]

September is kicking my butt with work, so my amount of gaming time is suffering like usual. I'm up to, I believe, Chapter 11 in Sakai's route in Gakuen Club on PC, but I dropped that for the time being when another PC game, Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome, the first ever adult otome game to be localized, came out. I've only played a little so far, but it's pretty amusing (it is billed as a comedy, after all). There are a lot of nice benefits to it being an adult game that many people wouldn't realize. There's often a big push for creating protagonists who are accommodating for players who want to imagine themselves as the protagonist in all-ages otome games, which can mean heroines with very plain appearances (sometimes not even showing her face), little in the way of backstory and defining personality traits, and no voice acting. But here, Ema is fully voiced, usually on-screen, and has a very distinct personality and appearance. And she and the two guys crack all sorts of ridiculous jokes that are, uh, a little too "colorful" for an all-ages otome game, haha.

I'm also still plugging away at Okazaki's route in Collar X Malice on Vita, on Chapter 5 now.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Play testing several Sega Saturn games today starting off with :

Criticom (Sega Saturn, 1995)

[Aussie2B]

Still playing Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome on PC when I can make the time. After I got my first bad ending, the menu where you can see all you've unlocked opened, so now I can view a precise percentage of how much I've cleared. Right now I'm close to 30%. I've seen four out of, I believe, twenty endings, but just bad endings so far. The game isn't rip-roaring hilarious like I've seen others make it out to be, but I've always found games, anime, manga, etc. that people claimed had them laughing their asses off will usually make me smile or lightly chuckle at best here and there. That's not to say I'm some humorless individual, but I guess Japanese humor doesn't do much for me, nor the corny humor often seen in Western games and localizations. I'm not criticizing Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome here, though. I don't need to bust a gut over it. I'm just fine enjoying how light and silly it is, especially when so many of the other visual novels I play get pretty heavy. On that note, I'm in Chapter 6 of Okazaki's route in Collar X Malice on Vita.

[Tron 2.0]

PS4
Ys Origin

Got a copy from LRG recently for a game from 2006 it holds up well.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Forum needs a LIKE post button ..

I'm messing around with OLD TIGER LCD Handheld games..
Bowling -Speed Boat..

I haven't bought a video game on ebay in years,today purchased NES MAD MAX...

[WulfeLuer]

I've torn a big swath through Final Fantasy VI (aka 3) for SNES, calming down a bit since I'm at the point where I need a big block of time to do the last bits. Doing a concurrent playthrough of Chrono Trigger to keep things fresh.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Alien Trilogy (Long Box) (Sony PlayStation 1, 1996)

Too Dark on a CRT TV.even worst on a LCD...

Need a better way to play this old game.

[bb_hood]

been playing Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash over the last 5 days and its awesome.
Like, its really really really really awesome.

[Cornelius]

I have three games going, which is extremely unusual for me.

1. Rogue Legacy - I like this game, but I guess I suck at it, because after about 15 upgrades I seldom come out with enough cash to buy anything. I just play a little now and then after getting into it initially.

2. A Boy and His Blob (Wii) - I dunno, it is alright. I'm not swept away by its charm like I expected from reviews.

3. Axiom Verge - Started this yesterday and really like it. I don't often have the patience for the difficulty and deliberate(?) frustration of games like the original Metroid anymore, but this game is striking a nice balance, perhaps straying towards too easy on the normal difficulty.

[jb143]

After moving to a bigger place recently, I've finally been able to get my Mame cab up and running once again. I've been introducing my 6 year old to some arcade games. Though he tends to mainly be interested in super hero games and TMNT(which he's beaten by himself about 20 times in the last 2 weeks). But I'm usually too busy myself, to actually play the thing.

Last night, though, I played Captain America and the Avengers with him, and then finished off the night playing a few games of Klax.

[Tron 2.0]

Retro Freak
Sweet Home (NES/Famicom)

Finished,Ys Origin with all three characters so now that is a complete for me.After that i did a quick run for castlevania 3 the japanese version with trevor and grant.Now i'm playing sweet home i've had the game for years now and i want to beat it finally.

[Videogamerdaryll]

I've been all over the place.

F355 Challenge - Sega Dreamcast

Mad Max (Nintendo Entertainment System, 1990)

Both games bought off eBay..I haven't bought a game off ebay in years otherwise..

..........
Playing a game bartop arcade machine random multi-board game
JACKIE CHAN....

Newer stuff:
RECORE.. I love this game but it's to hard so I gave up..miss a jump have to go all the way around again to miss it again -no fun..
Having more enjoyment with Ghost Recon Wildlands..

[Aussie2B]

It's hard to remember everything I've played since my last post in this topic, but it doesn't amount to a lot of actual playing time. I've tried out a bunch of games of games I bought over the last couple months, but only briefly. Let's see, I finished Okazaki's route in Collar X Malice, I got back into Runner 2 and beat that, and I tried out Ys VIII, Ys Origin, Mary Skelter, XBlaze - Code: Embryo, Asdivine Hearts, Plague Road, and Oceanhorn, all on Vita. Might be forgetting something else I recently bought and tried, but I think that's everything. I've been playing Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome on PC here and there, and the percentages are diverging more and more. I think Saito is at about 40%, Miki over 60%, and the general "Story" percentage is closing in on 50%. I feel like I'm getting close to the end of Miki's route, but who knows.

[Videogamerdaryll]

GAME GEAR..

Testing two old game gears both have bad screens where you have to tilt them to see the game..

Playing ROAD RASH and Putt & Putter Mini Golf..

[Aussie2B]

Took months but I finally retired Runner 2 for Vita back to its case for the foreseeable future. After beating it, I unlocked and cleared (on the default difficulty) all 100 stages in the game. That's good enough for me. Since unlocking all of the rewards and/or trophies requires playing through the entire game again on the easier and harder difficulties, I'll save that for a replay if I'm ever so inclined. I also tried out Chaos;Child on Vita, and urgh, that prologue......... Made me feel kinda ill and put me off to playing further, not that I was planning on playing through the whole game right away anyway. For the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I got back into Gakuen Club on PC. After playing Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome and Collar X Malice lately, the writing and story in Gakuen Club feels really bland, but in spite of this, it's still enjoyable enough. Sometimes some mindless fluff ain't bad, though we'll see what I say when I've cleared all six routes. I had left off near the end of Sakai's route, so I finally finished off that, and now I'm a few chapters into Saku Takizawa's route.

[Cornelius]

I've been meaning to play the STALKER games since they came out, and since I haven't played an FPS in a while, I started up Shadows of Chernobyl. I was going along pretty good, though it was a little more difficult on the second of 5 (or 6?) difficulty settings than I expected. Then I started noticing that bandits just keep coming CONSTANTLY. I wouldn't even have time to loot corpses before another wave was coming. I went looking to see if I was experiencing something normal or a glitch. Might be that is normal, but I really don't enjoy rushing constantly. A frantic fight is one thing, but once it is done I like to breathe a little, and not have to frantically grab up ammo and meds for the incoming wave. So my checking led to some full overhaul mods. Tried one that sounded like it might be to my liking, but despite the better graphics, it also was harder to see and I got wasted right off. Trying another that people complain makes the game too easy, but that sounds like what I need.