Apart from the daily 20 minutes on Animal Crossing New Leaf I’ve spent more time tinkering and “fixing” stuff than playing. The best thing I did was setup Syncthing on my emulator handhelds which I should have done a lot sooner but didn’t even think to.
Tetris (NES) on Lutris on CachyOS. Good times :)
I’ve never been good at Tetris. My wife, on the other hand, used to do competitions. We’ve played Tetris duel or whatever it’s called (the two player competitive one) and she completely destroyed me every time.
I’m not good at it either, but I like playing it anyway. Sometimes I watch the pros play on the ClassicTetris YouTube channel. It’s nice to watch, I’ll never reach that level but I’m okay with that.
There’s a Tetris clone you can play in the Linux terminal, I’ve messed around with before. Pretty fun. I can’t remember what it’s called now but I’d recommend looking it up if you like Tetris. It’s pretty cool.
I‘ve finished Neon White and I honestly think the hell rushes (especially with level shuffle) is where the game shines the most. I could‘ve saved myself some time skipping all of the story and wouldn‘t have missed out on anything IMO lol
The story was so corny. The soundtrack is fantastic, though. I bought the soundtrack after finishing the game.
Into The Breach
It works perfectly with just touch controls. Eden emulator runs the Switch version perfectly on my phone. I hadn’t really played the game properly before (would just die quickly and not know how to proceed). Now I’m starting to get the hang of it and can play it for brief gaps in my day now that it is on my phone.
Elden Ring. About 40 hours into it, running a dex / faith lightning build with dual bandit curved swords. Lately I think I’ve been researching builds more than actually playing though.
Elden Ring is probably my favourite game ever. It’s got some tight competition but whenever someone asks me what my absolute favourite game ever is, I default to Elden Ring.
I caved last week and got Sly Thieves In Time on my steam deck because for whatever reason the disc copy I have freezes up on 2 PS3s: one with and without PS2 backwards compatibility. So far still fun but not quite the level of Sly 3 yet.
I’ll also hopefully be playing Sonic Colors for the first time in general on wii if the SD card I ordered arrives by Friday.
Since you mention “without backwards compatibility”, I guess you are preparing your own installers to run the game. If so, try to look if there are any known issues between the PS3’s emulator and the game, and if there are, look for the patch to inject when creating the installer. And if you’re running CFW, iirc you just need to place the patch file in the same folder as the ISO.
I just mentioned backwards compatibility because they’re two separate models. Not focusing on that feature so much because I don’t think it has much impact on PS3 games played on a native console.
I probably worded my previous comment in a weird and kinda vague way, so my bad for being an idiot. I happen to have 2 unmodified PS3s of different models I have access to, so no CFW. Would love to have a PS3 with CFW but I can’t and won’t do it to either of my brother’s PS3s.
Stardew Valley. I needed something kid friendly and I’ve ran out of rally games so I decided it’s time to check out what has been added since I last played it when it released. I know it’s had some big updates but I’ve never paid attention to what the updates have been about, so there’s a bit of wonder going into the game. There are already moments where I’ve gone “I don’t remember this being in the game”.
Nothing picked yet. Long weeks, those past few. ;-;
Maybe I’ll play Eternal Arcadia Legend or some other GC game. Finishing franchises is fine and all, but the mood for starting something new is growing along the need to game. =)
Path of Achra. Only recently found it and I love it. Roguelike, turn based, classic. About 2h for a full successful run. But every run it gets harder, up to 32nd difficulty.
Lots and lots of build combinations as it has races, classes & religions, pick one each and the bonuses are substantial. And 3 out of 9 skill schools. Item bonuses often scale crazy good with very specific style of play etc.
It’s the kind of game that gets broken easily and it actively encourages you to do it, cause endgame bosses are no joke too.
baldurs gate 3. One thing im learing is I was to obsessed with stats and build. The mirror thing does not happen till way late in the game apparently and you can respec at any time so only the witches hair matters at all but unlike the mirror it has the 20 cap so its only real use is getting a stat to 20 at level 4 (or before level 8 or 6 for fighter) or for a particular min/max thing. So you can use it for an early power boost or leave it in your inventory but it ultimately does not matter much. Im still not sure if I will use it at level 4 or whenever I get it or just leave it in the inventory to see if there is something I would like to do at very end game. Im leaning to using it but I bet when push comes to shove I leave it in my camp chest. The main thing to remember is it does not really matter. The biggest thing is race choice and background and yeah it makes a difference but not a whole lot. If you want to min max melee damage you can do half orc but elf will give you a bit of extra movement. halflings get a redo of 1’s. gith get access to all skills of an ability. ultimately it does not matter tha much.
Recently got Detroit: Become Human on discount. Just began to play it this week and my wife cant let me play alone. She is super invested in the story. And so am I.
Just played Dead Cells for the first time.
Ever since trying Hades I’ve decided to give Rogue Like (Lite?) games another chance. Dead Cells definitely scratches a metroidvania itch I’ve been having for awhile. Looking forward to giving it a few runs and seeing how much I like it!
I installed The Ascent to test my new rig with Bazzite, it’s kicking my ass but I can’t seem to let it go haha
Annalynn is on sale (Switch), so I picked that up. Immensely fun, looking forward to unlocking more palettes.
I started SKALD: Against the Black Priory yesterday and I’m just about an hour in, but so far it seems to be a pretty fun CRPG.
