What are you playing this weekend/these days?

TeDaDeS said:

Duke Nukem Forever also had super high expectations, while most people just want to play some Duke without waiting a decade or more.

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On the other hand, Ubisoft title series, where people just don't bother with the next title anymore.

TeDaDeS said:

Duke Nukem Forever

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Could have been better in many ways even with its actual engine, most of the issues there were in level design and choices they made to "change" the previous game.

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netcat said:

Actually I think the PS3 has kinda bad, mushy graphics.

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Nearly 20 year old video game system, and you're likely upscaling a 720p game so of course it would look horrible on a modern display.. I have mine hitched to an older DLP projector that scales well with lower resolution systems.

TrashyMG said:

Nearly 20 year old video game system, and you're likely upscaling a 720p game so of course it would look horrible on a modern display.. I have mine hitched to an older DLP projector that scales well with lower resolution systems.

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I don't think it's the fact that it's upscaled but the nature of the upscaling. To me PS3 upscaling smooths unaesthetically and my TV's 720p is fake and mushy. Because most people are pixel averse these days, is my theory.

And I just learned how to deactivate deflicker filter on my Wii and now certain games, namely Twilight Princess, look sharper. Lovely big, sharp pixels via OSSC. With a pinch of scan-line emulation. Yum.

Btw I ordered a component cable for my PS3 so I can use OSSC to upscale (line-double). I'll tell you how it goes.

Emulation on the Xbox SeriesS/X should work nicely to I was told. But it's obviously non-native gameplay in that case.

Recently won a game of Midwinter (with bombers and mortars disabled) and I confirm my appreciation. It's really well designed. For example I've realised that the "ice-age" world isn't just a pretext to have untextured white floor everywhere and a more oppressive atmosphere. It makes travelling more interesting: base movement is skiing rather than walking so you have to be careful of not exhausting yourself climbing uphill or going too fast downhill and you regularly have to turn left or right to optimise your path, same when driving a vehicle. The food/sleep mechanisms lead to decisions between trying to go further or playing it safe, etc. Even the combat that I initially found difficult and unrewarding is actually fine once you get used to it (at least in a vehicle, sniping might be a good option from high ground or when facing supply vehicles, or maybe for the bombers and spotter planes but most of my attempts to use it were failures) and routing enemy units with a single character (especially the 11 years old girl) feels epic.

In the end I had a character glide all the way to the enemy HQ and blow it up (with a few hours detour to gather some dynamites from a shop because I forgot to ensure he had some). On the one hand it feels like it could be possible to do this from the start and 'speedrun' the game but on the other hand it might not be that easy (I've tried it with three different good gliders and was only able to do it properly (with a perfect landing right inside the settlement) with one of them) and it's possible that the other characters who sabotaged buildings and held-off enemy units slowed down the enemy advance enough to give time to the character who destroyed the HQ.

I've also recently finished Rise of the Golden Idol, it's more of The Case of the Golden Idol with some small changes/improvements and it's still good.

Was testplaying lots of games on the Anbernic RG CUBE (Android),
Got an adiction for the OTR (an Free to Play Driving Simulator) , but also did play 2 Levels on Sonic Adventure for the Sega Dreamcast Emulator Reicast.. Did only a few minutes in this game bevor to show that its runs fine on the Pyra, but did not play much.. didnd even beat this Tutorial Endboss on the first Level .. , the Second Level was an Beach Themed 3D Sonic Run and Jump Level, its a bit confusing but in the End you did rescue Tales ^^

I think on Weekend i will start and finish Super Mario Land DX (the Patch 2,0) i have an Tradition that i finish this Game first on an Device that can Run it .. (Gameboy, GBC, GBA GBASP, Analoque Pocket, Pandora, GPD Win1,5 , Steamdeck, Pyra, DS whit Flashcard, 3DS whit the Game from the E-Shop, Anbernic RG35SP , GPD Win Mini.. and now Anbernic RG Cube..) ..
Cant Remember i did this also back then on the Sony Xperia Play ..

TerraTech

This is an interesting game where you constantly upgrade a vehicle with pieces of enemy vehicles.
You can construct a vehicle in almost every kind of shape you want and with the weapons/gadgets where you want, the only limit is the physic.
There are a lot of upgrades, the world is big, and there are a lot of missions.

But I'm not so much in this kind of construction games... so after the third time my vehicle was almost destroyed and I had to reconstruct it piece by piece, I just quit.


Wizard of Legends

It's a simple roguelite game heavily centered on fast combat skills.
The gameplay is responsive and there are a lot of different type of magic, from melee to area, from charged to defensive, etc... It's a joy to play, it's possible to find the preferred combo.
The music and graphic, even if somehow different, reminds to me Chrono Trigger ... there are also familiar names in it, like one of the bosses is called "Zeal", and also how the dungeons are presented ...
You choose 4 types of magic skills to use, from four elements, a bonus upgrade of some sort, a cape, and that's it, you are ready to battle... and die...
The random dungeons are small, but full of enemies with different kind of combat skills, also you can find more magic skills or bonuses that will stay there only during the current run.
There is a boss fight every two dungeons and it will be of the same type of magic of them... you should beat 3 bosses to go to the last level... but I'm just lucky to reach the first... and die...
The bosses have indeed recognizable attack patterns, but are so damn fast and covers so much area/distance that is needed a really great eyes-hand coordination to survive to them.

This game is perfect... if it wasn't for the impossibly level of difficulty (that can't be changed)... damn... I can't really see me finishing the game... and that's bad, because I really like what they made.

I played a lot of "difficult" games like this, but all of them had a lot of persistent upgrades that made the game easier at some point... this game has them too, but in this case, not only them are really underpowered, there are always the same restrictions in what you can wear, just 4 skills, a bonus and a cape, despite how much things you have unlocked.

Finished HL2 + episodes 1, 2. The latter ends in a cliffhanger - meh. The German translation is bad, was apparently done without knowing any context. Didn't like the voice acting that much either. Enjoyed the music quite a lot OTOH. There's not much, but when it happens, it's great.

I listen to Portal 2s soundtrack a lot. Nice and dystopian. Perfect vibe for work.

And I've been playing Einhänder, PS1 shooter, on retropi. Absolutely beautiful upscaled 2x. Gorgeous big polygons. Lovely game overall.