Mamoulian War

Oh Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Season 2 released yesterday, with QoL and balance changes implemented as well. From first impressions it seems, that from top4 cast (Hokutomaru, Hotaru, Kain, Marco) was Kain nerfsmacked the most, but it still seems that Hokutomaru will still be in Top Tier. Some people are saying, the he will be the strongest character in S2, but most of the S1 lower tier character did not get fully tested yet. My main Terry was slightly buffed, but I am mostly curious, how SNK treated Tizoc, who was the undisputed worst S1 character.

Check your emails and spam folders. As of today, the biggest discount of Imperator: Rome and DLC pack by Paradox is valid for next 18 hours. Of course, if your are into that kind of games. The complete game with all DLCs cost me 12 EUR.

There are rumours, that AMD will go back to AM4 chipsets to “counter” the current environment in PC market. So there might be not everything lost for you, yet.

Haha, seems like it I have actually not played anything since last week or two. But now I have prepared some basic recap of first Celestian Tales game, so I can finally play after 7 years or so the second part of the series

Oh yeah, the trailer is terribly. Thankfully I learned not to judge the content of the games, by content of trailers Still one of the most awful trailers in FGC, if not in gaming in general Anyway one of the mysterious characters is most likely Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, which should print money for SNK. The other one? Looking at SNK's current track record, it will be Magnus Carlsen

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Season 2 releasing next week. With new new character released every month

I have finished today late in the night the hardest MKvsDCU Kombo Challenge, Shang Tsung. As before, I have used the feature of my controller to program actions. The paradox of this challenge is, that 8 out of 10 challenges, are not that hard, but challenge nr.7 and 9 are crazy hard as ****, even when not counting the occasional game latency. It took me 3 hours to program the 8 easier challenges, and another 3 hours to program these two crazy one. For now 4 out of 22 challenges are completed.

I think I went full indie with occasional Japanese AA somewhere after my disappointment with Final Fantasy 15, and I am pretty glad I did that. I bought also few AAA games as well after that period, but only after they got on GOG, which meant pretty much 85%+ discount. Saved me a lot of money to control my impulse buying that way, and I still have backlog worth at least 5 years, if I stopped purchasing stuff altogether.

And third Kombo Challenge finished in MKvsDCU. This time Sonya. And it was pain in the ass trying to figure out the patterns to program the controller, as almost every combo had a pro-move, which made the search for exact frames more time-consuming. It took me almost 5 hours to program my controller and it was far from perfect. Next in line is Shang Tsung, which has from the roster the lowest number of players who were able to perform all of his combos. So I expect to spend as much time on him as on Sonya .

Goal 9/2025 achieved December 31, 17:45 – Finally, I was able to have few hours long session for finishing XCOM: Enemy Unknown from GOG. I wanted to finish few more achievements before finishing the game (Including one rare for mind-controlling an Ethereal), so I have postponed the last mission for a while. Before the last mission. After I have filled out all of my check-boxes and some crafting, I've entered the Gollop Chamber with one of my Psionic trained soldiers. The contact with the Hive Mind was successful and I've entered the Temple Ship. With that I have also unlocked last Slingshot DLC achievement, as one member of my party was Shaojie Zhang, whom I've befriended long time ago in "Low Places". The last mission felt a little bit easier than some of the basic missions. Maybe due to me trying to be as cautious as possible. The game as a whole was real gem for me and worth the time spent on it, although I had my "reservations" about the alien spawn mechanic. As it was my first playthrough, I've made many mistakes, which cost me few soldiers, but on Normal difficulty it was manageable to redeem them. 45 hours in total. Not much time this year to play a lot of games, so hopefully a little bit more time will be available next year

It is said, that GOG in 2025 had a very positive year considering the revenue, although 2024 was pretty bad. That being said, going private might be a good step for them, as a lot of original older GOG customers, have heavily criticized some of the newer service changes based on the corporate decisions of their Mother company. Some of the even completely left the service (ergo the 2024 financial results of GOG).

I Think It will have to wait a little bit in my backlog. I am a little bit busy IRL last few months, and my current primary gaming goal is to finish my last two owned Soulborne games, before I turn 50 and still have some reflexes I have nit started them yet though, so my plans might be still subject to change

Looks like, I’ll be the last in this thread to play that game

On GOG it is sold under Activision.

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to everyone

For the few Yakuza/Like a Dragon fans amongst you

Goal nr. 8/2025 December 12, 22:45 – After spending to much time at work and alternating between X-COM reboot and new Fatal Fury, I have decided to give a try to another easygoing game. I had picked some time ago Hero of the Kingdom II during GOG giveaway, so this was the next logical choice for me to play. It expanded a little bit more on the first game, made some quests a little bit longer and harder to notice some details. It also made a little bit harder to earn money and with that all achievements. At some point I have though, that I have messed up, but luckily, then I have noticed three NPCs, which with a little bit of effort offered a decent earning method. In the end, it took just a little bit over 9 hours to 100% the game.

Yeah, we'll see how they will fare with current not the most positive climate for gaming. Some good RPG Star Wars game is long overdue.

Just to be sure, is this for Grounded 1 or 2, so I can move the thread into appropriate part of the forums if needed?

Played a little bit today with creating scripts for MKvsDCU Kombo challenges. This time for Sub-Zero. Took half the time than last time, so it seems, I am getting more used to it. Second Kombo Challenge Trophy unlocked 20 to go

If anyone still does not own Total War games, the first 4 have been released on GOG.

Yes, they added these features with the expansion patch to the base game.

I have booted up a first game today after a few weeks long break. It was Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. I have wanted to test out my new controller, if I still would suck at the Kombo Challenges. And yes. I still suck Although, I was able to do more of them than with PS3 controller. But, I have found out, that my new controller is programmable So I have spent few hours trying to find out how it works, and after few more hours, I have programmed all 10 of Scorpion Kombo Challenges and unlocked the first Kombo trophy . Challenge number 10 was really challenging, as the controller language is working on 60FPS, and MKvsDCU is 30FPS game and the last combo hit required perfect timing. I spent almost an hour on figuring out, how to overcome the lag caused by this FPS "discrepancy". I have to say, I had much more fun programming that controller, than performing the combos manually I have much better knowledge on how it works now, so the next character (Jax) should take much less time to fiddle with