Mamoulian War

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.

Personal Goal nr 4/2025 achieved February 26, 23:30 – I have finally decided, it is time to finish my Platinum Quest in Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin on my PS4 and after 923 Deaths and 246 hours I have acquired the last two missing spell trophies. The NG2+ run to Drangleic Castle was pretty fast for my typical pace (took a little bit over 10 hours), but as always, I have started to stumble in the Iron Keep. I did few stupid mistakes, including two just before the last bonfire, while fighting the Black Phantom mob guarding it 😄 . I’ve been victorious in all bossfights, with the exception of three on first try. The worst fight for me was as expected the Old Iron King 😄 . Due to my silly wipes at Iron Keep, I started to feel tired, so I have either misclicked a button during last 10% of his HP, or I have misrolled in the small lava pool near the fog gate 😄 , but I really want to finish the game this night at all costs. After finishing him off on 5th try, the road to the Platinum was clear, and it took me just one last wipe at Mastodons, before reaching Chancellor Wellager and purchasing last three spells.

After some longer break, I have finally started the NG2+ in DS2:SotFS. So far finished up Dragonrider, Flexile Sentry, The Rotten and Najka. All on first try, despite some ****ups diring the fights 😀 The goal is to finish all 4 great “adversaries” which are dropping DS1 souls to be able to make the final weapon crafts and then to Drangleic Castle purchasing last few spells for last two trophies. After that, we’ll see if i go for Nashandra again, to craft last spell catalyst, which I am missing, or just quit the game and go for DS3 🙂 Well, I should go and finish Star Ocean 5 on hardest difficulty as well, but not sure, if I should go before or after DS3 🤔

https://www.gog.com/en/game/neverwinter_nights_doom_of_icewind_dale Neverwinter 1 received one more module, which follows the story of Neverwinter Hero.

Goal nr. 3/2025 February 16, 19:30 – After obtaining all 5 online Trophies during Free PSN weekend and little bit of practice in The King of Fighters ‘98 Ultimate Match Final Edition on my PS4, I’ve decided to try out the Arcade mode as well. My pick was Hero Team (Kyo, Benimaru, Daimon). Of course, I have picked up the lowest difficulty, but because I have instantly forgotten all of the special moves, I had it pretty tough. Even on the easiest difficulty, the game is much more difficult than Mortal Kombat 11 on Medium, especially when playing without forgotten special moves 😄 . The biggest challenge for me, was getting used to different way of blocking, than I am used in Mortal Kombat games. So my first playthrough ended up with many lost fights, and a shameful matchup with final boss Omega Rugal, whom I was able to defeat only after lowering his HP to 1/3rd after few loses . Despite that, I like the feel of this retro game, but I have to focus more on remembering special moves to have a little bit easier time with it.

The rights hell is all about Atari and WotC. A mix of awfulness which could be toppled by only a few 🤷‍♂️

What a coincidence 😄 Did he mentioned, that he has actually seen it? And if yes has he seen more than season 1? 😄

I would love to hear his opinion on the Netflix Series as well 😄

Goal nr. 2/2025 achieved. January 26, 23:00 – After spending a lot of time with Mortal Kombat, fighting King’s Pets and farming Dragon Scales, I have finally finished New Game+ of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin on my PS4. This time, I have encountered Aldia as well, and after winning the fight, I have left the throne for an ending, which I have never seen before. I made this playthrough my personal challenge to defeat every boss in the game without the help of summons. Most of the bosses were fine, including Fume Knight, for which I had to train a little bit my muscle memory, and Gank Squad, which I have postponed until the very end of DLC. But all three of King’s Pets have been major pain in the ass. Lud and Zallen almost made me quit the challenge. Thankfully I got an advice on Obsidian Forums to use Dark Infused Rapier with Dark Weapon buff, which helped me to finally win this encounter as well. I am still missing three more spells for last two trophies, and few items to 100% the game, not counting the PvP exclusive rewards and invisible rings. For that, I will need one more fast run through the base game, and I should have another Platinum Trophy .