Mamoulian War

That's what you get, when your focus group are teens who grew up on TikTok

Still alternating between Star Ocean 6, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves and Mortal Kombat 11. In SO6, I ended up for the first time in the space and had first encounters with main villain faction. So far, the story is the best out of last three games, but the difficulty on the Galaxy (normal) level is so easy, that I get bored once in a while and postpone my next session for later and later. I wish I knew that before I launched the game. In MK11 I play once in a while against one guy from neighboring town. He is probably the best KoF player in Slovakia, and I can see his experience even in MK11, which he started like a month ago or so I am able to play very balanced matches against him, but he wins more often then I do. I also keep playing against him in CoTW, where he pretty much destroys me in few seconds. Me winning a round against him is on par with a miracle But still good experience. I am now able to perform some basic high damage combos with Terry, but only in training mode. Sigh… I am almost never able to perform them against real players. As soon as there is some stress factor in the fight, my combo muscle memory just turns off, and I can’t punish the other guy properly . My winrate is still above 30%, but I am still at the Newcomer category despite seiing some guys with the same winrate in C+ category. Need to practice more vs fight to stay more calm to be able to perform my combos… Oh, and I am slowly preparing regional “championship” in CotW and Tekken in my hometown for October. We’ll see if it will play out good. It will be very hard to get sponsors for it, as our government is tanking our economy faster than Trump can say “Tariffs”

Unfortunately nothing which required/s Ubisofts stupid DRM was added and probably will not be added in the future, unless Ubi gets sold to someone more willing to remove it from their games.

Coming back to the thread after 6 months and reading through it has some some exceptional qualities. Especially the arguments that DPRK would not sent their soldiers to fight a war in Europe and notion that Trump would be a positive factor in bringing the Russian war against Ukraine to the end, aged like the finest of milks Anyway, after today, the world is again a nicer and safer place. A butcher responsible for thousands of civilian casualties has been put to pieces ”According to Russian media reports, Major Zaur Gurtsiyev has died in Stavropol, Russia. He was one of the Russian military personnel involved in the assault on Mariupol and the airstrikes on the city.” Edit: the second good news is, that Germany will fund the Ukraine’s domestic long range missile manufacturing. It is said, that first rockets from this deal will hit Moscow already in few weeks. There are already emerging speculations, that this means some unnamed country is already disassembling western long range missiles, which will be assembled back at Ukraine and written all over it with cyrilic to bypass all existing restrictions for Ukraine (basically they are mimicking some automotive EU companies, which are successfully avoiding US tariffs in the same way)

Yes I did it already few days ago

It was really, really challenging fight for me. But compared to others, like King's Pets at Frigid Outskirts, I consider it as a pretty fair encounter. I have really enjoyed this encounter despite failing 30 times before victory. For me it seemed as a peak rhythm encounter, as sound hints helped me a lot to properly dodge his attack (despite messing some of them ) My biggest challenge was, that I missread all the features of Lightning Clutch ring, so I have probably wasted 20 or so attempts before I have noticed the real reason behind his hard as truck hitting attacks

Finally, my Fume Knight NG+ solo fight has gone through the queue I have almost messed up, but in the end attempt nr. 31 was successful, and it has become one of the hardest challenges in game, which I was able to overcome

Looks like miracles sometimes happen After I got asskicked for the first hour at Casual Matches, I have tried just for the giggles the Ranked for the second time. And it looks like Ranked Matchmaking might got a little better. 6 fights today 5 wins and 1 loss My first attempt was 0-6 So either some miracles happened or there are more people much above my league in Casual than in Ranked So my ranked is now 41,7% win rate (5-7 Rank Rookie V) and my total online play is at terrible 17% Still having a lot of chaos with the stick, but it seems, that my grip on the bat top has improved a little bit

The funny thing is, that for me, I have much easier to perform under pressure the Ignition, Redline or Hidden Gears than DPs I have checked today my online performance, and my winrate is currently at 16%. I feel so weak compared to MK11, where I almost never get under 50% winrate

A miracle has happened. I have won my first 10 online battles in Fatal Fury for a trophy I still sucks at arcade stick, but changing Balltop to Battop on the lever made the controls a little bit more comfortable to use for me Still missing some inputs, but hopefully, I will get there one day

Done

More Star Ocean 6. Story for now is unfolding fine. My main issue is still to easy difficulty. Exploration is still fine as well. Just the travel around the world is getting tiresome and I did not left the initial continent yet. Because of that, the pacing feels a little bit off. For now, I have to say, I have enjoyed SO4 and SO5 more. Although the story and characters are for now more likable than in SO4 and a little bit more interesting than in SO5. So I hope the pacing and difficulty will get better soon.

Looks like GOG and Capcom struck extensive “retro” deal. After RE 1-3 and Dino Crisis 1-2 PC releases, they released today Breath of Fire IV https://www.gog.com/en/news/a_quarter_of_a_century_after_its_original_release_capcoms_legendary_breath_of_fire_iv_returns_to_pc

My oh my, I went for the first casual fights in new Fatal Fury. In MK11 I was able to keep 55/45 win loss ratio, but here… not a single fight won in 1 and half hours I suck horribly at that game

I have started the playthrough of Star Ocean 6. As always for my blind playthrough, I have picked Galaxy difficulty, but it feels so easy this time Besides that, they implemented flying/gliding mechanics into the game, which added nice twist to the game, with few interesting environmental puzzles, which use this feature. Especially in the second town, where I have spent almost an hour to get all of the chests I am now a little bit over 6 hours into the game, so can’t comment much on the story yet, as it still starts to unfold. I have picked Raymond for my first playthrough.

Ronaldo is IMHO very strange choice for this kind of game, but his gameplay is certainly very interesting. Salvatore on the other hand, is ridiculous and hard to learn meme character, but IMHO he is kinda fitting into the roster, especially due to he being close friend to Duck King in the lore (he has few moves resembling his). And SNK did really good job researching the guy. MK has gone to far from what I liked about the franchise in his last two installments, so I have purchased Fatal Fury as my new Main fighting game, and from my first impressions, it seems good choice for me, although I am fully aware, that I will be struggling a lot in the next few months

I have decided to give a go to Fatal Fury: City of Wolves fighting game. The optimization is very good, I can play the game on Ultra Settings on my 4 year old Ryzen 9 5900X with Radeon RX 6900XT. I have went through all of the Tutorials, and then trained a little bit with one very good King of Fighters players. My biggest issue with that game is blocking. I have almost exclusively played Mortal Kombat games since Sega Mega Drive/Genesis days, where you have dedicated block button, and this game has the classic blocking with or input, and I can’t force my brain into accepting that and of course, my opponents can easily exploit this. I am still having fin, but I will probably have to spent a lot of time to recondition my brain to different behaviour.

Let’s hope so you both are correct. I actually like the idea of SW Tactics, but EA is a big red exclamation mark for me like forever…

Electronic Arts... I already see billions of premium currencies and pay to progress gameplay... *SIGHS*

From what I understand it is still not a law. Just a guideline for it, which can be altered before it is passed.

Doom 2016 has been released today on GOG!

Goal nr. 5/2025 achieved. April 17, 16:30 – 8 years and 4 months after I have booted Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness for the first time on my PS4, I have finally finished my 3rd and final playthrough on hardest Chaos Difficulty. With that, I have acquired the last missing trophy. Skipping most of the quests and optional content, it took me about 23 hours. I had to repeat few boss encounters, because they hit harder than a truck, so my main character was knocked out a lot of times. And I have to say, without the special crafted Reserve Rush gear, which helped me to get faster my “ultimate attack”, it would be much harder and take much longer to finish the game on this difficulty. In total it took me about 185 hours to get the Platinum Trophy.

Metro 2033 on Giveaway on GOG, but looks like, the people wanting this one, are currently DDOSing the webpage My game appeared in my library after more than 45 minutes after I have clicked on it

Amerzone, a classic adventure game for grabs on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/amerzone_the_explorer_legacy Also System Shock 2 Remaster is on preorder.

I have started a week ago Chaos Playthrough of Star Ocean 5. As I have now crazy tight work schedule again, I am moving at slower pace as I would like, but still enjoying the game. And I still think that this game was a better Square Enix game than Final Fantasy XV, despite probably 50x lower budget. I am probably somewhere in the middle of the playthrough, right before the Treikuran Slaughterhouse raid.