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#542

In what I am calling the Nerdiest Thing I Have Ever Done, I am creating a replica of the USS Voyager from Star Trek Voyager in Starmade. It is essentially Minecraft in space, with spaceships and physics. It is taking me forever, but I enjoy plugging away at it. Unfortunately it is in Early-Release, has been for four years, so by the time I finish my build there will undoubtably need to be endless retro-fits completed. Luckily it is a passion project :slight_smile:

#543

I picked up an SNES Classic on Friday and spent all weekend playing Secret of Mana. This is a pretty great little system. The inputs are the same as the Classic NES, so I was able to just swap it in and use the same controller extension. If I could change one thing, Iā€™d probably add Actraiser to the lineup instead of a second Kirby game, but overall the game selection is pretty much what I would have chosen myself. My kids have also been all over it.

#544

Jealous! Though to be honest I actually forgot this was coming out last week. I hope to pick one up sometime for the holidays as a gift to the household.

#545

Iā€™m hoping to get one in the second or third wave, it seems like itā€™s worth picking up.

Iā€™m currently playing Steamworld Dig 2, and really enjoying it. Iā€™d played a little of both Steamworld Dig and Steamworld Heist in the past, enjoyed both of them, but hadnā€™t completed either.

And soon, Iā€™ll be playing Stardew Valley, since the switch version launches this weekend, though thatā€™ll probably wait til Monday or so.

#546

I am tempted to pick up Stardew Valley as well. I have never tried any of the Harvest Moon or similar games. It just looks so adorable and relaxing. Could be a lovely break from all the shooting and slashing I have been doing lately.

That, and my Switch has just been so lonely since I finished Zelda.

#547

How can your switch be lonely? So many good little $10-20 games on it.

Iā€™ve enjoyed Stardew Valley on the PC. I think this was the video that got me to give it a shot, either that or one of the podcasts.

#548

Thatā€™s true, there are a lot of good little games, but for the most part I already have them in other places. I have Axiom Verge on the Vita. I have Severed on the Vita. Shovel Knight on the 3DS.

I take a bus to work, so portable gaming is a big plus for me, and Stardew Valley looks really good for that. Something I can start and stop easily. Not too heavy on precise controls. Did you watch the last Nintendo Direct? Wargroove looks SO much like Advance Wars and that looks to be a great portable title, too.

#549

Dan totally sold me on Stardew Valley too. I fell off of it when Persona came out, I need to get back to it.

#550

Now that itā€™s on the switch, Iā€™m going to be hitting it pretty hard. Well, after SHUX anyways. I think Iā€™m a single boss away from finishing Steamworld Dig 2. Golf Story is proving entertaining, though I think Iā€™ll drop it for Stardew Valley, as they feel similar in terms of relaxed fiddly gameplay.

#551

I was lucky to get a SNES Classic too! I just went to a Target on the day they came out before they opened, there was already a line of like 50 people, but I decided to try anyways. A few minutes later, they handed out one ticket to each person in line up to 60. I was #48 and there was like forty more people who came after me. The ticket holders got one each, so I was glad to get up earlier for it.

I also finally picked up a Nintendo Switch this week. I got Zelda, Mario Kart, Arms, Splatoon 2, and 1-2 Switch and another controller. Havenā€™t had a chance to try any of it, but look forward to diving back into the world of Nintendo. It was the only current console that I didnā€™t have yet, I have a Wii-U. I just wasnā€™t as hot on getting one at launch.

#552

Had to take a break from XCOM 2 WOTC after a heartbreaking mission wherein I lost half of my top operators.

Playing Forts with a friend whoā€™s PC is old and has no GPU. Solid little game for 15 bucks and Iā€™m amazed it slipped under my radar at release. Itā€™s like the older brother of Angry Birds and the dialogue in the campaign is pretty hilarious. Hence forth I shall refer to my country as the Eagle Empire.

Any other multiplayer recommendations for crap PCs?

Also been gaming Overwatch PS4 with some friends back home. Am I crazy to feel like the game is almost better with a controller over the mouse and keyboard? I typically dislike having to heave and slew my sights around with a tiny thumbstick but thereā€™s just something about the way the game plays (arcade like?) that makes a solid case for console FPS. Be interested in anyone elseā€™s thoughts on the matter.

#553

Doki Doki Literature Club. Free on Steam. AVOID ANY SPOILERS. Go in blind and fresh, like I did on a friendā€™s recommendation. I know, I know, it looks like a pervy japanese visual novel. Itā€™s not. Holy crap is it not.

#554

Agreed. Just finished a (mostly?) complete play through, and itā€™s fascinating and visceral.

#555

I am so mad with you right now.

That wasā€¦ Iā€¦ I mean, the warnings are literally RIGHT THERE in the game, but no. No no no.

No.

Not your fault. But that wasā€¦ gods. I had to stop.

#556

My friendā€™s been telling me about DDLC (Iā€™m ambivalent about spoilers anyway, but itā€™s definitely not something Iā€™m ever likely to play) and thatā€™s the reaction Iā€™d expect from how it sounds.

I played some games for the first time in ages today. Started off with the first episode of Life is Strange: Before the Storm. I loved the original, but I was expecting to be possibly disappointed by this. But it was a strong start. The lack of time manipulation means itā€™s lost some of what made the original great, but the characters, story, etc are all still good.

And I got to play D&D in the game :smiley:

Then after a quick bit of Lego: Jurassic World (I do wonder if Laura Dern is miffed that they made ā€œjumping in poopā€ her special ability), I moved on to Tomb Raider, which I bought a while ago, but has been sat unstarted (and obviously Iā€™m already 4 years late on this).

I ended up getting really sucked in and playing it for several hours. Each objective is so close after the last, itā€™s difficult to resist doing ā€œjust one moreā€.

I really liked the mechanics as well. Nothing super complicated that left me frustrated and wanting to quit. Though the times I did fail at something, I was a bit unnerved at how brutal Laraā€™s death always seemed to be.

#557

This is the first time Iā€™ve heard about this game so I went on Steam and looked it up and yeah it does look like a cookie cutter H-game/dating sim. So Iā€™m kind of afraid to ask what the deal with it is?

#558

Wikipedia it.

Like, holy hell. I canā€™t go into other rooms without turning on the lights.

#559

I just Wikipediaā€™d it.

ā€¦wow. Justā€¦wow.

But donā€™t worry. I havenā€™t been able to sleep in full darkness since I watched ā€œDarkness Fallsā€

#560

Wikipedia it!? Oh man and spoil the surprise!?
I played it over two days, thought it was great, completed it all the way to the final credits. Interesting concept well executed and FREEEEE.

In other gaming Iā€™m still chipping away at The Witcher 3 now Iā€™m on the Blood and Wine expansion. My partner genuinely requests me to play this every few days so she can just sit back and watch the stories unfold. Iā€™m constantly amazed by the quality of the stories and voice acting throughout the whole project. Itā€™s really incredible to consider the amount of time put into this game.

#561

The Horizon Zero Dawn expansion comes out tomorrow and I will be all over that. Honestly, I liked Horizon a lot more then BotW as far as open world games go. There is something so satisfying about hacking a giant robot tyrannosaurus rex to make it fight another giant robot t-rex and then picking up a launcher off of one of those suckers and adding to the carnage. Over in BotW land I just found the slippery rain mechanic and not being able to see how much ammo my swords had left very annoying.