Track this topic | Email this topic | Print this topic

Quote (Spooniest @ 4th June 2018 03:59)

Is it just me, or has the subject matter of games become very serious and dire? I mean this probably doesn't belong in this thread, I dunno.

Everything's so gritty, and it has a streak of iconoclastic thinking (tearing down of iconic things) in it.

I mean, I like punk rock rebellion when I hear it on records, but I don't actually want there to be a punk rock rebellion, that'd be horrible, it'd be like Kent State x11,092,308,942,308. I'm concerned for the spirit youthful people are getting out of these games.  I guess I'm just kind of an old fuddy duddy.

I really think it depends on what you're playing.

I mostly play mobile games,and I wouldn't say any of them are gritty. FF Record Keeper doesn't have much of a plot of its own; rather, you replay instances from past Final Fantasy games.

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is your standard "the crystals are in danger!" game. There's a lot of humor and lighthearted moments, and sure okay there's a bunch of stuff about war, especially in season 2 , but even so I've never felt the game is gritty.

Dissidia Opera Omnia is about closing torsions threatening to swallow the world. That sounds kind of dark, but the game is mostly about the interaction of all the various characters, which is really fun.

Mobius Final Fantasy is probably the darkest of the mobile games I'm playing. The rule of the land is "those who do not fight are destined to be forgotten", and the world is inhabited by people who forgotten everything except their own names. But the playable character is a delight because he's full of snark, which really lightens things up.

What games have you been playing that are "serious and dire"?

----------

As for the subject of this thread in general, I've gotten control of the airship in FFX. Now I'm busy capturing fiends, and getting really bored of it. Thinking of switching gears and starting to gather materials to customize equipment. I'm open to suggestions on how to build my tetra armors. I know I want auto-haste, for Rikku at the very least because with Godhand she becomes a beast once she's leveled up on the sphere grid, but I don't know what else to put on the armor. Auto-phoenix, maybe?

This post has been edited by AltheaValara on 5th June 2018 02:09

--------------------

Watch me play games on Twitch!
Schedule:
Mondays: Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Fridays: Final Fantasy XI
Saturdays: Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail Side Quests & Shenanigans

Fallout 76 hype got me in the mood to do another Fallout: New Vegas playthrough!

Pretty excited for the new one to come out - Fallout 4 was still recent enough that I didn't quite feel like replaying that yet - although with the different endings and choices I'm sure I would enjoy a 2nd play through on that as well!

I've spent the past month playing Super Metroid or hacks of it.

First, it was Hyper Metroid, because a friend was playing that.

Then, I started looking at other SMet romhacks.

Then I started watching SMet videos. I remembered there was this one crazy idea called Super Metroid Rotation, which turns the entire game world 90 degrees to the right (and makes other minor adjustments to make the game completable). One video showed a player not getting a really obvious item, so I was like, I should go get that.

...well, then I played Super Metroid Rotation. Even streamed it for some friends. lol. I proceeded to forget how to wall jump and re-learn how to wall-jump, then forget how to bomb-jump and re-learn how to bomb-jump. (You need a good grasp of movement techniques to get through that game, needless to say.) I 99%'d the game, because there's one item that's just a giant pain to get.

Then I picked up another hack called Super Metroid Arcade. What this does is it gives randomly-generated rooms every time you get a door transition, and you see how many rooms/how much score/how long you can stay alive.

And I even finally 100%'d Super Metroid itself, for the first time. Did it in 2:09 in-game time.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 10th June 2018 18:54

--------------------

Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

Quote (AltheaValara @ 4th June 2018 21:08)

What games have you been playing that are "serious and dire"?

It's just the general trend (where I'm frum) of First Person Shooters and Alien Genocide and Beating Criminals To A Pulp With Your Bare Fists and Skyrim being popular.

These games, while excellent softwares, are too gritty and nasty and violent for me, and they make my admittedly hypersensitive nature produce nausea.

Um...my parents were hippies. You're lucky my name is Running Horse and not Moonbeam FyreLight or some crap.

I'm kind of not in favor of certain activities and attitudes which are going on in the world around me and it's not fun to watch the news lately, but there is little else for a person too bipolar to really be around people long enough to hold down a job to do, except play games from a long time ago which were hopeful and fun in tone, and browse the net. One of those things is no longer possible (boy howdy I'm done watching the news), and the other is making me flash back to childhood traumas now...nostalgia has become painfully emotional for me.

I do have a copy of Doom, but I prefer to run it on the lowest detail levels and kind of regard it as a thing I didn't even like back then. A friend of mine into PC gaming was super into it, one of those guys who runs around drawing Anarchy symbols on everything.

Me, I'm about stories and music (which is really a story in itself, honestly). One of the only things I really like about Diablo, for instance, even though it meets all the criteria for a dark, gritty game I just laid out, is the guitar track for Tristram village. I like guitars a lot.

--------------------

X is blue.

As I've probably mentioned in this thread and many others, I tend to only play handheld games when I'm flying, as I don't much care for the small screens any other time. Well, in the last week and a half I spent, literally, close to fifty hours on airplanes and I managed to finally beat Final Fantasy III on my DS Lite. It's definitely a product of its time, even in its 3D incarnation, meaning there was more grinding than I prefer and a bit more guessing as to what I should be doing with my party and where to go after each plot point; however, it was still a pretty enjoyable game to play on handheld. I only ended up with about 35 hours on the clock when I finished.

Edit

Also, some of the planes I flew on for the international flights had seatback gaming, so my wife and I rolled back the clock ten years and competed for high scores against each other in Peggle.

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 2nd July 2018 14:56

--------------------

"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

God help me, but I started on New Vegas again. I don't even do anything in the game really. I've been walking to and fro staunchly refusing to enter Vegas and continue the main quest line, randomly popping in on whatever locals I find and interfering in their lives for no goddamned reason.

Oh and I finished up the Bloodborne DLC and have gotten quite a hankering for the co-op that game offers.

--------------------

Arts

Farts

Twarts

Why do I get the strangest feeling that I want to try playing Rising Zan: Samurai Gunman?

... Sexy points are a thing, I guess. Wow. Gosh everyone is always thinking about sex in this business! Do you guys like, ever read some book or something?

--------------------

X is blue.

Recently played, and beat the main game and a couple sidequests (but not NG+ or Survival mode(s?)) in Cally's Caves 3.

It's an action platformer. Where you get at least 15 different weapons (plus a sword on top of that) and they can all be upgraded.

Recently also picked up Melody's Escape. I'm hoping it'll be better than Audiosurf, Turba, and Beat Hazard at its procedurally-generated beat maps.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 4th July 2018 21:32

--------------------

Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

I've been getting back into Mario hacks recently, and I just completed a hack called Mario is Missing! Done Right (which has nothing to do with the edutainment game other than the basic premise and a couple references). Good hack, although I'm missing one exit and I'm not sure where it is.

Played a few more matches of 100% Orange Juice today. Had really good luck the first three matches; won all three. Then I switched to Saki. Had a disappointing fourth match where I finished last, and couldn't even get to norma level 3. Fifth match was better, and I enjoyed it even though I didn't win.

I waited to place my Big Bang Bell on a draw panel next to an exit teleporter, and that placement paid off. Was a relatively late placement on my part (I passed up multiple opportunities earlier to place it because I wasn't in the center square of panels), but the game did continue for a while after that, which allowed it to stew long enough. I was expecting someone else to step on it, but eventually I did...and took Yuki down with me. Yuki had earlier beaten me up and taken my stars, so that was beautiful revenge. Poppo was closer to a home panel, though, and won the match before I could. (Yuki and Flying Castle weren't in contention at that point. Flying Castle was at one point, and so was Yuki.)

I also got all the items from the event that started about a month ago. Got the last of the random drop multiplayer items today. The School Crashers event ends tomorrow or the day after or so.

--------------------

Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

Beat Metroid Prime on Hard. The boss, not the whole game though it does count for unlocking the image gallery.

This was done on a relative's old file from the last save point of the game. It lay dormant for years and back then I thought it was way past my skill level. After playing through the game again on a whim and then picking up Echoes and making progress on Hard, decided to try it for kicks. Only took two tries which is a good thing as each attempt takes a while and just getting to the boss fight involves a climb where it's quite easy to get knocked off by respawning Fission Metroids.

As for Echoes, I had beaten the game long ago but never played on Hard before. Only started up the file to see how far I could make it because the Gamecube was already plugged in and I'm too cheap to spend money on new games. (I'd spent a lot on a custom cosplay, more about that story in that topic) Racked up around 4-5 losses to the Alpha Splinter before winning that early gauntlet. Early game is suitably scary but I didn't have any other defeats until the Boost Guardian. Did have dangerously low energy several times along the way and I had a scare after missing a jump in dark Aether.
I died around 8-10 times to Boost Gaurdian, but I still don't find it as impossible as most of the internet makes it out to be. Felt like victory was within reach after the first try or two, just needed to get a run without lots of collision damage. Alpha Blogg was scarier to me despite losing to it fewer times. I'm not that good at evading its charge and even though I won on the second try, it was at 3 energy and would have been a loss if my Super Missile didn't do enough to finish it off. Definitely felt good about these victories since I anticipated getting walled by one or the other.

Played a bunch of 100% Orange Juice matches yesterday. Won 3 of 9 matches (which is better than par, which is 25%).

FWIW I've been keeping records of my matches on this thread on a small forum I've been at for years now. Yesterday's results, as detailed on the pagebottomer, involve me losing horribly as my favorite character as well as unexpectedly winning as a character no one likes playing.

The pagetopper on the next page, meanwhile, is part of my series of prattling on and on about introducing the characters and their basic playstyles. It starts roughly halfway down the first page. Pardon me for being wordy.

--------------------

Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

Well, I beat Metroid Prime 2 on Hard. Was prepared to get stuck on most of the bosses but only lost once at Chykka before the endboss. Many of the fights were close calls. I made an enormous tactical blunder at Quadraxis trying to Darkburst the head module in phase two. Thought I would die but won with all my E-tanks empty. Unintentionally found that if one part of a Dark Quad is still around when the head would normally summon another, it blocks the summon. Blew up the legs and then boosted to the other side of the arena. Quadraxis' head module moves faster than a Quad's so I could separate them and deal with the boss unhassled.

May have found a more reliable way to dodge Chykka Adult's dark water spray. It appears to be directly aimed so jumping before grappling to another platform and jumping some more seems to evade the spray more often than not. Still was low on energy on the next phase but a Darkburst into a pack of Chykklings solved the energy and replenished my empty Light ammo. Was enough momentum to carry on to a win.

Emperor Ing is a pain. I did a practice run on an endgame Normal file to relearn patterns before trying to topple it on Hard. I'm not that great at form 3 but on my winning run had near full energy after form 2, so just outlasted it. Did lose once. Kept running out of time at the end fight so glad for the checkpoint. After around 5-6 losses, won with less than 20 seconds on the timer. That was a close one.

100% Orange Juice came out with an update which includes a summer event that adds a whole new game mode, co-op, where four players work together to level up and fight off what's basically a raid boss.

Though there are still some wrinkles in this mode, it's quite a ton of fun, and I've been playing the game too much lately, again.

--------------------

Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

star Ocean: Anamnesis dropped in the U.S. recently, and I jumped on it on its second day. I thought it would be another game that I merely log in for the daily rewards, but to my surprise I've been playing it pretty heavily this week.

It's a typical gacha game, with characters and weapons to summon. This is my first introduction to the Star Ocean franchise, and I'm enjoying the story this far. What's different in this game from other gacha games I play is that there's multiplayer. So far I haven't used multiplayer often, because of connection troubles in my phone, but I was able to beat a hard boss by hosting a multiplayer lobby!

I'm enjoying the game enough that I have an urge to edit a wiki for it, and wish I knew how to data mine as that would make the job easier.

Here's my info in case anybody else out there is playing it and wants to follow me:

Played name: AltheaV
ID: DRUHJ9CKMN

--------------------

Watch me play games on Twitch!
Schedule:
Mondays: Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Fridays: Final Fantasy XI
Saturdays: Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail Side Quests & Shenanigans

Finished Divinity: Original Sin 2 not too long ago. Still not sure how I feel about a few of the changes made to combat from the first game, and the last chapter was definitely kind of a mess, but overall, the game was a blast. And the definitive version should be even better (in particular, I believe that last chapter is supposed to be more or less overhauled), so hopefully I'll play that in not too long.

Right now, though, I'm playing through the campaigns of Heroes of Might and Magic 5. I had heard that it was fairly similar to HoMM3, one of my all-time faves. It doesn't quite measure up to 3, but so far, 5 hasn't disappointed, and it certainly seems like the developer was harking back to 3 in a lot of areas.

--------------------

Console RPG Cliches

Gran Turismo Sport

I was playing Horizon Zed for a days, but then got distracted by New Vegas...again.

In my continuing quest to be the most petty person in the most pointless manner possible, I still have avoided actually entering the titular New Vegas and instead wandered the DLCs. I started with Honest Hearts, for which there is little to say about it beyond its bizarre racism, then Dead Money, which is just...the worst. It's the worst thing...ever. And now I'm knee deep in Old World Blues.



This DLC's an absolute blast to play, and not just because I'm so overleveled there's little rpg bs to get in the way of the fun! I'm typically not a big fan of the 'tomorrowland' shtick seeing as how its rarely done well in media that's not called The Venture Bros, but the writing in this one is pretty up to snuff. It helps that the VAs are all hammy vets like Cam Clarke...and actual Dr. Venture VA James Urbaniak!

As for the game play, it's a nice whomping big open space, which is a breath of the freshest air after suffering through the tight corridors and all-indoor design of Dead Money. Yeah, the constant respawning enemies are a bit of a hassle, but since THIS DLC lets me bring all my goodies with me from the base game, I can whomp 'em with my sniper scope well before they're a problem! So yeah...good times.

...should prolly get in some more Herzog: Zero Dawn though...

--------------------

Arts

Farts

Twarts

I beat the latest version of AM2R, on hard, with 100% of items collected, in just over 6 hours. I had previously played AM2R shortly after release, on normal.

I also restarted Terraria on a fresh file.

--------------------

Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

I recently got the urge to go back into FIFA 18 and finish the RPG mode for this year's edition, likely nudged on by the fact that the European season was about to start. Finally finished it last night, as it was certainly longer than the one in FIFA 17.

They made a lot of updates for this year's version, and it ended up being a way better sub-game. I doubt anyone here is looking to play it, as it's certainly niche, but I'll still avoid spoilers and simply say that the ways they used old characters and introduced some new ones really unlocked some fun new ways of doing the narrative and freshened up the gameplay of it a lot. The real-life players that play parts in it still can't act, though, and the way they worked to introduce the narrative elements in a single calendar season felt a little unrealistic and forced. Still a great enhancement over the already-good mode from last year's game.

--------------------

"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

...and now I am wearing a fish shirt, dyed green, with a steel rose in my hair, while riding a giant metallic bunny and being followed around by small flying minotaur, waving a bug net around to catch walking goldfish.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 20th August 2018 21:16

--------------------

Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

Picked up Megaman X Legacy Collection on Steam. I beat the 1st game easily enough, and then started up X2.

Boy, I've forgotten how insanely frustrating the X games started to get as the sequels continued to be made. I seem to recall reading somewhere about how the guy behind it was kind of frustrated that he was asked to make sequels, as he really intended the 1st game to be a stand-alone story on its own. I wonder if he decided to take his frustration out on the players, or something, because...

X2 starts out the same way as X1, with an intro stage that sort of shows you the ropes, with the added bonus of allowing X to dash automatically, instead of making you wait for the upgrade later. But from there, it starts to get a little convoluted.

After you've defeated two Mavericks (I traditionally choose Flame Stag first and then go on to Morph Moth), the X-Hunters descend into various stages that are selected based on an algorithm (I'm guessing it changes depending on which Mavericks you've already defeated). If you don't defeat them (and they are somewhat irritating to deal with), you lose the ability to recover Zero's parts.

It is kind of manipulative, in a way. The player (let's use childhood me as an example) cares about the 'best friend' character Zero enough to go after the parts, and taking away the chance to get them if you don't perform up to the game's expectations in defeating the X-Hunters makes the player feel like they have failed somehow.

In the end, however, all it really amounts to is that you face Zero as a boss right before Sigma, and he isn't terribly hard, and the game turns out the same way whether you recovered all the parts or not. The ending doesn't really change one way or the other. Zero still goes to destroy the main system and you still end up having to fight Sigma.

Now, on to other matters. The sub-bosses in the middle of levels in this game are basically way more of a pain in the butt than a sub-boss deserves to be. I recall, yesterday, playing through it and remembering the tooth-grinding frustration of dealing with them. In Morph Moth's stage there are these Reploid Insects that take over other Reploids, and you end up fighting two sub-bosses where one of them takes over a Junked Reploid. If you don't pump enough shots into them before they decide to dig back under the garbage pile for another Junked Reploid, they continue to get another one until they are destroyed during the short window where they are jumping around. Frustrating. Another annoying one is the Reploid that scans your abilities before you fight him in Magna Centipede's stage. I eventually figured out that if you just dash under the falling blocks quickly enough, you don't have to deal with your abilities being imparted to it, but even then, it's kind of an exercise in tedium dealing with the thing, as its animation frames seem keyed just so to where you are unlikely to see the shots coming until you have fought it and memorized the timing many times. I could go on about the sub-bosses, but you have limited time to read, I imagine, reader.

The stage gimmicks are irritating as well. In Magna Centipede's stage, there are these Searchlight things that sound an alarm if you touch them. I get that Metal Gear Solid was about to come out and everyone was obsessed with stealth gameplay, but in the endgame it just turns into an exercise in frustration. I feel like the connection that was forged with X as a character at the end of the first game is being exploited by the programmers to make you feel irritated every time he takes a hit, which happens many, many times.

Another stage gimmick that I found irritating was the Fish Reploid in Bubble Crab's stage. It is basically just there to get in the way and screw up your progression through the level, and it takes 40 bajillion shots at about 5-6 different sweet spots to take it down. The Giga Crush wipes it out in an instant, but that's another thing:

The Giga Crush is a really stupid weapon with very few practical applications. To charge it, you have to take damage from a projectile. So, get hit on purpose, basically, but it can't be a hit that results from colliding with an enemy (for some reason), it has to be a projectile.

I really feel like these features were put in the game simply to irritate the player, and I imagine they caused my family all kinds of grief from listening to me scream and swear at it, back when I was a kid (I wonder why they never thought to simply confiscate the cartridge from me as a punishment, but, you know, looney lefters, who knows).

As a final note, screw Wire Sponge's stage forever. That sub-tank is the most annoying hidden thing in the history of everything.

X3's music isn't as good as the first two, either, but the Intro Stage's theme gets my blood pumping every time. It's a shame the rest of the soundtrack doesn't hold up as well.

And X4? Well...you know.

This post has been edited by Spooniest on 21st August 2018 19:59

--------------------

X is blue.

My personal favorite soundtrack from the first five X games is X3, actually.

I personally found X2 to be the most difficult of the first three X games (i.e. the SNES ones), and X1 to be the easiest.

--------------------

Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

Finally finally entered New Vegas and now I'm in the big leagues! Got the presidential suite in the Lucky 38 and grabbed up all my former companions so I could stick 'em in there and now I'm getting caught up in all these faction politics as I chuck and maneuver my way into becoming God King of the Mojave. I gotta admit, there is a certain charm to the bump in scope this game gives ya once you pass that gate.

--------------------

Arts

Farts

Twarts

I finished my replay of Final Fantasy X! I put 65 hours into it, which is about half the time of my last playthrough. I was a bit uncertain I'd be able to do the final boss as I hadn't grinded for auto-haste and auro-phoenix, but a friend assured me it was possible without those. I did end up grinding for Auto-life and Auron's zombie attack, both of which were helpful.

I started X-2 the next night. This is my first time playing it. The feminist in me LOVES that the party is three women, but hates Rikku's default outfit (a string bikini and micro-skirt). I had problems with the game early on; there's a jumping puzzle (timed!) And I rather suck at those. You get about 5 minutes to do it, but it took me 40 because I just couldn't figure out where to go. Meh.

I also have a quibble with the order to do events. Naturally, I was attracted to hot spots, as I figured that's where the game wanted me to go next. But the second got spot is in Zanarkand, and I got wiped on my first encounter there. So I had to look up a walkthrough, which basically said to ignore the hotspot for now and retrace Yuna's pilgrimage. So I'm doing that now, and things are going well. Still in Chapter 1, but have completed 11% of the game so far.

I'm hoping to finish the game this month so I can start a play through of the Kingdom Hearts franchise. I've only played half its games, and I'd really like to finish them all by the time KH3 drops. I'll be busy these next few months!

--------------------

Watch me play games on Twitch!
Schedule:
Mondays: Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Fridays: Final Fantasy XI
Saturdays: Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail Side Quests & Shenanigans

After beating Metroid Prime 2 on Hard, took a look at the save file and realized it was only a little slower than my Normal clear. So I'm intermittently going back from time to time to blaze a trail through normal with the goal of knocking off a few hours. Everything dies so fast... Something new I learned is that Bomb Guardian has a unique attack it only uses if you're in morph ball form. Guess that's why none of the guides mention it. It's painful too, taking off about 60-70 energy (out a max possible 199).

Anyways, really getting into Mana Khemia. As in enough to want to write a guide that covers some answers I'm not finding on GameFAQs. Even considering writing a bare bones walkthrough since the few guides are rather, um, busy. First impression may be of high school anime (though I haven't watched enough to tell) but the gameplay is enjoyable enough. The item crafting is my favorite part of it. Combat is really basic for the first three chapters of the game. Not many skills yet and they are expensive so just spamming attack with a heal spell when needed. More party members show up and the combat mechanics become deeper. It takes a bit of effort to not use fighting game lingo when describing battling with a larger party size.

At some point, I'll post more about my experiences with the game beyond the warmup period.

I was playing League of Legends constantly but now I'm in dire need of a break from it! I'm sitting on Bioshock (not yet finished) and The Last of Us (not yet played... for shame)

I've been into an Android game called Summoners War for the last six months. And after months of not working I've started a Youtube channel as a little creative outlet for myself. It's a long shot but if anyone was interested the channel is called: "GeraldTGiraffe"

I'll sub. Why not? I'm a fellow "content creator".

Man, I hate euphemistic corporate-speak. I feel like, while it makes ideas clear, it does so in a uniformly un-poetic, dehumanizing way.

Besides, "content" can mean anything, when you think about it. The word's literal meaning is "a thing or things that are inside a container." In your case, YouTube.

Anyway. Have a subscriber. Cheers!

This post has been edited by Spooniest on 17th September 2018 21:48

--------------------

X is blue.

I finished Chapter 1 of Final Fantasy X-2. I was enjoying the game, but then I got distracted with making Kefka and didn't play for a few days. That killed my momentum. I sat down to play it the other night, and according to the walkthrough I was following I had a quest to do next, and I just didn't wanna. So I turned it off. I'll go back to it again someday.

I went ahead and started [B]Kingom Hearts Final Mix[/B ]on the PS4 this weekend, as it was my birthday and I wanted to play a beloved game. Holy cow, is it gorgeous on the PS4! Very glad I spent the money to buy the game. I'm currently stuck on the Trickmaster in Wonderland. I have no potions left. so I might revert to an earlier save and acquire more potions, then replay Wonderland.

--------------------

Watch me play games on Twitch!
Schedule:
Mondays: Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Fridays: Final Fantasy XI
Saturdays: Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail Side Quests & Shenanigans

wanting to get into Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy.

It's a dungeon-crawler game.

I have a hunch that I'm wanting to play this because I actually want to play Soul Worker, the action MMO game, but I don't want to play an MMO game because I have had multiple experiences that basically taught me that MMOs are basically just giant lists of tasks that don't inspire immersion, even despite cool-looking anime art. So instead I picked up (while it was on sale) some other dark-urban-sci-fi-anime game I had my sights set on.

Also eventually I'll probably try to get my hands on Pokémon Crystal Clear (the open-world romhack) when I restart my catch-'em-all journey again. (First attempt ended unceremoniously with a lost save file.)

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 19th September 2018 04:04

--------------------

Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )