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"Axis Football" just makes me thing of Escape to Victory to be honest.

Was idly trying out some of the more recent additions to the NES and SNES Switch Online libraries. The best addition by far was Mario's Super Picross (or was that Super Mario's Picross?). Anyway, it's a hell of a gateway drug and being able to do the puzzles co-operatively is a blast. It's drop-in multiplayer at that, where the second player just needs to hit any input on their gamepad and it's automatically activated, no faffing about in menus required, which is a good thing because it's one of the games they didn't bother translating before dropping it onto the service. This is the opposite of Tales of Berseria, which I've also been trying lately, which has one of the more horrifically cumbersome multiplayer implementations I've ever seen. Every time you start up the game you have to manually assign the second gamepad to the second player, then manually assign a character to that player. Oh, and it's one of those games where the multiplayer only gets enabled when you formally get a companion NPC a few hours into the game, despite there being temporary companions earlier. I get that the multiplayer is basically just an afterthought, but still, it could be a hell of a lot friendlier to use. Oh well, not in love with the game anyway and just about to drop it in favour of BG3. The mood of the game is probably best described as being bi-polar, a lot of the NPCs are insufferable, and the combat is mostly button-mashing at this stage.

I thought there was something wrong with my computer with the update. Does look a little awkward, then I decided to just blow away the entire sidebar with uBlock and now with full width posts it looks tolerable.

If this was single player then I'd have huge reservations about it. But I'm desperate for more co-op RPGs (excluding ARPGs) so the question for me isn't whether to get it, but whether to risk going the full Brazilian to get this for about half the price. Hmm.

1.1.2 hotfix just released, looks like it resolves the issues that were stopping me from playing. Nice that they're willing to do these smaller fixes after having to wait so long for some key ones previously. And nice timing too as it's a long weekend here.

I think its predecessor, Crime and Punishment, is generally considered the better game. Might want to try that one first if you can get it cheap. It's been free on EGS before but it looks like the best current deal is "only" 75% off on GamersGate.

And now I'm waiting for the patch for the patch. Generally welcome changes - unsurprising when there are 998 documented changes - but they did manage to spectacularly break claim inheritance so that women don't inherit claims at all, and therefore completely breaking the concept of marrying for claims. Y'know, the actual proper historical way to get claims instead of gaming conveniences like fabrication. Plus they didn't fix the super frustrating levy replenishment bug.

Ian for trapping me in corners and spraying me in the back with an SMG. Iolo does this too with a triple crossbow but the game runs too fast to really notice it happening. Personality-wise it's gotta be Miranda and her (skimpy) plot armour.

No, just a lot of disk partitions. Easy to lose track of my files and folders when I have drives C through H, with most of them being simply transplanted from my previous PC.

I was clearing out some hard drive space and noticed I had a Star Citizen folder, dated 6 November 2013.

All I want from Star Citizen is a version of Privateer where I can actually aim without the slightest directional input causing the crosshairs to move an entire ship's width.

Briefly revisiting my childhood, back from before I knew who most of these people were. Mussolini is definitely good at making sure the trains run on time, while Lenin turned to communism after being disillusioned by the failure of his enterprise, owing more money than he has assets. The Bismarck simply sunk without a trace.

People do tend to settle near good sources of heat to help them survive winter.

My excuse is that I was here before the like system was implemented and therefore was robbed of my rightful internet points from 2004. However, this admittedly pales before metadigital's 1 like in 21635 posts, for a likeability rating of 0.0046% per post.

Nah, I'm happy with 16:9 as the primary gaming area and I suspect ultrawide screens (though I've never actually used one before) would just introduce more hassle as I don't think contemporary OSes can treat them the same way it would three separately addressable displays. I still want my games full-screen, with adaptive sync and all that, but without interfering with Windows desktop space either side. In the end, I just want somewhere to put my browser window (which I put on my right screen) and various other programs like file explorer windows, my music player, email client (on the left) and the natural breaks between separate screens is the most straightforward and intuitive solution to the problem.

I want a monitor set that opens up like a dartboard cabinet, with an ~30" screen in the middle and two more-or-less square displays inside the "door" panels. Running 3x27" right now but I really neither need nor want the screens on either side to be that wide as they're not used for displaying games (with rare exceptions). But matching not just the height but also the pixel density with various monitors of different sizes right now is nigh-impossible so I have to live with just having three identically sized ones.

Cyberpunk like everyone else. On a tier below that, BG3. Looking far forward, Avowed and Star Citizen (completely unironically I swear). More speculatively, Saints Row 5? And as a basic remake, the upcoming complete release of the Overcooked series in one package with the first game in the second game's engine. That interests me more than any other launch title for either of the new consoles. 😛

The versions included in The Kilrathi Saga include the option to turn off the ****pit. It's a bit of a hack of course, but still.

I only went with 4K on my new TVs because they stopped making sub-4K ones. It'll be the same with monitors for me, and I don't expect that for another 5-10 years at least. Having to replace three screens instead of just one is a big disincentive for upgrading unless it's a proper generational upgrade, and that means moving away from LCD.

Yeah, wouldn't have a clue on the hours, but to name some 20th century games with a cross-section of genres representing the birth of my gaming preferences: Civilization 2 Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Ultima 7 Wing Commander: Privateer SimCity 2000 (could easily be SimTower or SimFarm) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Super Mario World (there's an argument for SMB3 but I never finished it) FreeCell

I'd still prefer an Obsidian Midtown Madness.

Dunno what was in my 486, probably something by Cirrus Logic. After that was a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (S3 Virge DX) which had a few 3D features but wasn't truly a 3D accelerator. This was one of the more common 2D cards to pair with a Voodoo, but I never had a 3DFx card of any kind. Richer people would pair one with something from Matrox or Tseng Labs instead, probably. The next card I had was a Diamond Viper V330 (Nvidia Riva 128). This was a bad card, making all sorts of sacrifices in image quality in order to claim the speed throne from the original Voodoo. I remember the wonder videos from Civ2 looking particularly awful with the dithering this card employed, when even whatever the hell was on my 486 had no problem with it. Shamefully, I fell for Jensen's marketing. As many of us know, similar 'cheats' would be employed by nVidia throughout the following years in order to win benchmarks, so there was a bit of a pattern established. Undeterred though, my next card would be a Diamond Viper V770 (yes, a pattern is emerging) with the nVidia TNT2 chip. No complaints against this one, it ushered in the age of 32-bit colour when 3DFx stubbornly stuck to 16-bit, which would be the undoing of the company. After that it's a bit of a blur, as the 00s generally were, with the rapid pace of development meaning very frequent changeovers. I don't know what the timeline is but I had a GeForce 3 Ti500, GeForce 4 Ti4200, Radeon 9800 Pro (it died), GeForce 7900GT (it died), Radeon X1950XT and Geforce 8800GT. I might even be forgetting a card or two, like if I had a GeForce 6 series, it's completely slipped my mind, and I think I had a 5850? But where is it now? Not on my shelf like a couple of its predecessors. I also had a Radeon 8500 "Low Profile" for a couple of days before I realised the shop had pulled a swifty on me by selling it as a 8500LE (which was better than the low profile but slower than the full 8500), and I took it back and got the Ti4200 instead. The following decade I had the following: Radeon HD7950 and R9 290X. Far from bemoaning the lack of progress, I'm just happy to have saved the money from upgrading every 5 years instead of every, what, 1.5 years? EDIT: Oh that's right, I stuck the 5850 with my old HTPC parts then gave the whole thing away to my sister. And my current HTPC has a 1650 Super in it, but that doesn't really count.

I play a thief (a proper one, as in one who steals stuff) type character in just about every RPG with customisable player characters these days, but thankfully that wasn't the case during the IE days (but before Dragon Age). I'm pretty sure I played through BG2 as a sorcerer, and I don't even have the foggiest idea who the notional thief of the party was. I have no memory of relying on any of Imoen, Nalia, Jan or Yoshimo but surely I did, right? Even if only for trap disarm XP, I was a bit of a mix-maxer back then. Come to think of it, the only NPCs I can remember definitely using full-time are Aerie and Valygar. God, I'm getting old.

It's okay, I've played FF7 and FF14 so far so I'm next due to play FF21. As for the PS5, it looks fine I suppose, but is a complete non-starter for me unless they make PS Now both better (i.e. more recent games) and actually available here. And even then it's a hard sell due to the $110AUD controllers, sheesh. On reflection, it's a shame the cheaper models of both consoles aren't swapped. Xbox has most of its titles on subscription so a full-power model with no optical drive would have some appeal. Digital-only on Playstation is just not workable since all the major titles need to be purchased individually and almost every single one of them would be significantly cheaper at retail. EDIT: Let's face it though, I'm probably only going to get either console for Overcooked parties. That is, until the next big rhythm game comeback.

BG2 was more than half a lifetime ago and to be honest, I didn't really roleplay back then, and was more concerned with effectiveness and probably ended up as a pretty milquetoast semi-completionist good guy. These days - well, these days I wouldn't play the game at all because I'd find the large parties and micromanagement insufferable - but pretending I could tolerate that, Minsc (and all the other ones who give you lip) is probably the kind of NPC I'd ignore. Anyway, perhaps as a consequence of not bothering much with the roleplay aspect, I don't really remember anything but the catchphrases. Did the game even let you leave him in the cell at the start?