What have you been playing recently?

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  1. Tuckerfan

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    Original Equipment Manufacturer
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    I bought two original pads on EBAY, is he implying they are difficult to obtain or am i missing the point?
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    So much Animal Crossing. Making a ghetto town for the animals--five cats, eventually five dogs, living together. Mass hysteria.

    Ordered a set of the old NES controllers for the Switch and Nintendo lost them in the mail. They really suck at anything that's not Mario and Zelda.
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  4. Tuckerfan

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    He probably wants new ones, not used.
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    Both of mine where unopened in their OG packaging, he will be able to pick some up he just has to peruse the place a bit i think the two i got came to about €30 including postage.
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  6. Seph

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    Which i was happy to pay.
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    I also ordered Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas both GotY versions, havent played either in about 10 years.

    Loved the earlier Bethesda stuff, all went wrong after Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas.
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    Original Equipment Manufacturer, I think.

    Anyway, all the 3rd party knockoffs suck ass. Analog stick drift, no vibration, no shake sensor, weird wireless dongles.
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    Correct. I've already got old ones with dead batteries.
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    You should keep an eye on ebay they come up more often than you'd think.
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  11. Uncle Albert

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    Yeah, with little kid boogers and cheeto dust in every crevice.
    :yuck:
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    Nah i got two unopened ones for 30 euros.

    You have to keep looking though.
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    Hope you have more luck with FO3 than I did if you ordered via Steam. Wouldn't load, had to get a refund.

    New Vegas works OK, but look into the community patch via Nexus to help with preventing random crashes. Still the best story of the set. I never finished 4.
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  14. Seph

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    I bought a PS3 8/10months ago, so retro gaming here.
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    NAHTMMM eating my lemon

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    Went on a hot streak in Sokobond and solved about twenty levels. :shades: Still plenty more to go.

    Descent level 6 is still a distinct change of pace. The music is less about the hard beat but still catchy. The level design is more paneled and flat, to feel more like humans built this for humans to live and work in. The hallway intersections have that diagonal cut on the corners to feel more open, and encourage that feeling of being able to see a *little* around the corner, but also feel more exposed and anxious about not being able to see around the corner enough.

    And of course those Vulcan gun gas mask robots are introduced. :garamet: They're fragile, but they wander, their alarm sound is startling and immediately followed by attack, and one shot of their Vulcan cannon can take 20 points off your shield if it all hits. Very annoying glass cannon that can easily get the drop on you.

    Level 7. Okay, history. There are at least three versions of Descent. One is the shareware version that goes to level 7. I have the Destination Saturn version that came with our Win95 machine that goes to level 15. Then the full version has I think 30 levels.

    Anyway, 7 is set up to be a serious jump in difficulty and scariness, with multiple cloakers and Mega Hulks; narrow tunnels filled with ambushes, lava, or robot generators; and a boss at the end in a lava room that cuts you off from the rest of the level. Also *arguably* the best soundtrack in a game full of great music. It's a great finale to leave the shareware players wanting more, while feeling they got a proper end to the demo.

    Level 8 introduces some new robots and new weaponry. Okay, so. Once you reach a level in a playthrough, your profile can start a new game on that level. To help with that, the designers make sure to put previous powerups in each subsequent level, so you have what the level is designed for you to have, and you aren't punished for skipping previous levels. Usually you do have to fight through some enemies before you start getting the good stuff.

    Level 8 gives you a couple of laser upgrades immediately. That's how much harder they expected the new robots to be for, I imagine, people who had played the shareware to death, bought the full version, and zipped through Level 7 to get to the new stuff.

    Speaking of Level 8, music talk. A negative of this adapter software I'm using to play the game is that it uses the wrong music. :nono: Yes, there are several versions of the soundtrack too! There's the MIDI version I'm used to. There's another MIDI(?) version that's probably the final product for the full version. And then I think there's a noise rock soundtrack for the Playstation or something. (The Playstation also got an animated, voiced cutscene for the intro, instead of text and stills for MS-DOS.) A few of these "final" DOS tracks, I can understand preferring to the "proper" shareware/Destination Saturn version, maybe. But the main theme, while *good* and fitting to the game, is so much less than the proper theme, and the proper soundtrack is what Parallax released onto the Web for people to play in their Win Amps, back in the halcyon days of 20+ years ago. Obviously, then, my tastes are objectively correct.

    But. The Parallax release missed an instrument in the Level 8 theme's bridge. Level 8 is another strong candidate for best track, but that "bubble up" instrument is key in keeping it from feeling flat. I was worried that the "final product" version wouldn't have it. But it does! So I don't know why it wasn't in the released soundtrack. Anyway, I'm really only "suffering" from the main theme. There are options to use other music but I haven't gotten them to work yet. This is what being a Discerning but low-energy fan of Descent is like.
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    Made some good progress in Baba Is You, my score is about 81 now and I've opened up a couple more zones. Getting much better at recognizing all the possibilities in a puzzle and thinking properly about them.
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    Replace the batteries.
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    That's how my old ones got destroyed. Apparently, I lack the delicate touch required.
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    Compatibility isn't perfect, but for the most part you can use a PS4 controller with a PS3 which is nice.
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    I've been playing Max Mustard and Red Matter 2 on my Quest3. Max Mustard is a cool platformer that handles the third person VR camera really well. Red Matter 2 is visually stunning, if you didn't know it was running standalone could 100% believe it was streaming from PC.

    Also started Astrobot on PS5, very polished and fun.
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    Yeah, I'm seeing love for Astrobot elsewhere too.
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    Shadowman Remaster PS4
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    Fallout 76. They nerfed all my favorite guns. :ualbert:
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    Free apps on the ipad. Mostly puzzles. But one is typical of real video games - must gather ‘these’ items to build ‘that’ item so you can build another item to allow ability to build other items …etc., etc., etc.
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    Sadly, even if Harris wins, this ain't gonna happen IRL.
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    It’s already happened. What are talking about?

    Oh, wait. Politics.

    Idiot, you’re not in the red room
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    Wandersong is a delight so far. Intuitive controls, colorful graphics, charming characters, and you can sing and sashay everywhere. Not a big challenge so far, but the singing mechanic is used in several different ways, the dancing mechanic will evidently come into play, and it's just built to be something you can have fun with.
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    https://metazooa.com is Wordle but you guess animals. I took only four guesses somehow. There's also a plant version.
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    I've been having a lot of fun with Star Trucker. It's a game set in the future, where you're an interplanetary space trucker who take cargo all around the galaxy, and there's also a survival element to it where you have to replace energy cells, oxygen filters, and so on. It's developed by two guys and it's really well done for what it is.
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    Got some more time with Wandersong the other day and it continues to surprise and delight me. It's kind of in that Wuppo headspace in visual design and general tone and putting things in to just be fun, but there's a lot more to be done with singing than with paint cannons. The characters are all charming, the dialogue is fun, the humor is on the mark. Right now it's pirates and mermaids time, and I pilot the ship by leading the crew in a chorus.
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