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I'm trying to play Witcher 3, Tempest Rising and Yoshi's woolly world at the same time.
Oh, and Untitled goose game, because that's obviously not enough.
*buys a humble bundle*

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I'm not an addict. I can quit whenever I want to.
 
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Finally tried the remaster and managed to get 2 working last night and had a blast of nostalgia finally playing it with an analog vs keyboard and it makes a huge difference.

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I'm trying to play Witcher 3, Tempest Rising and Yoshi's woolly world at the same time.
Oh, and Untitled goose game, because that's obviously not enough.
*buys a humble bundle*

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I'm not an addict. I can quit whenever I want to.
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I typically don't really replay story-heavy RPGs because of the time sink, but when I grabbed W3 on Steam for joke of a price in prep for the last DLC coming soon, I absolutely sat through the entire game and did all the side quests, especially loving Gwent and how CDPR made it almost its own campaign. Even tried W1 afterwards, but as dear as NWN look and feel is to me, after 3 it just doesn't compare.
 
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Currently playing Ghost of TSushima on PC, glad I tried it it throws me back to the old Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines PSP days. Also playing my own PandaSokoban game on the PSP for short gaming breaks.
 
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I'm currently obsessed with two romhacks that I've had for couple years now, both lets me catch every Pokémon and evolve them via friendship, leveling or stones.
For instance, evolving Machoke into Machamp with Sun Stone, evolving Kadabra to Alakazam with Moon Stone, etc...
I'm jumping between Crystal and Emerald.

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Finally tried the remaster and managed to get 2 working last night and had a blast of nostalgia finally playing it with an analog vs keyboard and it makes a huge difference.

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I saw that a Croc 2 remaster was announced. I'm sure I played through Croc a long time ago, but I only sampled the second game briefly. The way I remember Croc 2 is that the camera was fairly close to the character, and it moved with each jump. I have to look up some gameplay footage to confirm, but I hope the remaster adjusts the camera a bit.

EDIT: I just watched some PS1 footage of Croc 2, and yeah, the camera does shoot upward, when jumping.
 
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I saw that a Croc 2 remaster was announced. I'm sure I played through Croc a long time ago, but I only sampled the second game briefly. The way I remember Croc 2 is that the camera was fairly close to the character, and it moved with each jump. I have to look up some gameplay footage to confirm, but I hope the remaster adjusts the camera a bit.

EDIT: I just watched some PS1 footage of Croc 2, and yeah, the camera does shoot upward, when jumping.
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Yep - camera and thus getting used to the icy tarmac movement and jumps without seeing your shadow def takes getting used to, but its EONS easier with a controller's analog vs keeb which was the only thing I had a kid. Bosses and some levels are thus brutal and take precision to a sniper level. Croc 1 remaster has SOOOO much dev and concept art alone that it's worth it!

So, having beaten AC BF (remaster) I figured I'd properly revisit Unity I kinda dropped through the tutorial missions way back when Epic was giving it away for free, and booooooooy is it a walk in the park in comparison! Controller is a must because MKB control scheme from 2014 just doesn't account for having to hold sprint button and that use/parkour down/parry all lay on 1 bind that makes it super awkward. If you swing through the whole map to open all eagle points that reveal all the scattered loot around, you can gear up well past beginning levels and quickly clear first "hard" end mission of your homebase that in turn nets you almost $5k/20 min and holds 20k in the money box, so "cheesing" from zero gear to hero-enough gear is literally a matter of clearing a few missions or letting the game run while you do other things and pop back every hour o collect phat stax of shiny franco wax.

Combat has its sniper and gun lock moments which are brutal, but otherwise parkour and melee flow SO well at a much, much, much slower pace than they do in BF remaster, so having gotten used to BF's proper modern speed and quirks - Unity feels like absolute butter. Honest joy to play and weapon types offered are nice and quirky to boot. As fun as ship pirating was, I like my wingless Spidey sim when the city is bigger than Manhattan of new Spidey games. Plus the new gimmick of running through some houses just adds that perfect element of depth without going too crazy or pointless with it.

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And since Unity was after Black Flag - berserk "dart" makes a VERY welcome return and ensues absolute hilarity when a mission is in a tight house, and plenty are -
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And rightfully you're only allowed to carry 2 (and hopefully that's the game's cap, otherwise it would cause utter mayhem in my hands). And yes, you CAN hit the target with it to have him do your bidding against his men as you sit back and watch your passive income accumulate as the mission gets easier and easier by the time you feel like taking the wheel again XD
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From what I've seen, and it's been plenty, it just reminds me of SR4 that's like taking any game and loading in every available mod into it turning it into LFD with teletubbies fighting Duke Nukems using stone axes and Fallout nukes alike.
 
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Yep - camera and thus getting used to the icy tarmac movement and jumps without seeing your shadow def takes getting used to, but its EONS easier with a controller's analog vs keeb which was the only thing I had a kid. Bosses and some levels are thus brutal and take precision to a sniper level. Croc 1 remaster has SOOOO much dev and concept art alone that it's worth it!
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Thanks for the rundown. I'll have to keep an eye on the remaster to see if they adjust the camera.
 
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Dude, go grab the original and play it on a controller!
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It is cheap enough to get a hold of, and there are FOV fixes out there for the PC version. It's good to know that there are options. I may wait for the remaster just to see what's changed/improved.

What a time to be a Croc fan. I'm getting this weird impulse to load up the original.


Ok, I just did some research. Check this out:
1) Crocguy0688 created the Definitive Edition mod for the original PC version.
2) GOG.com is currently having a Back to School Sale, and the Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Remaster (Platinum Edition) comes with the original PC version. This duo is currently going for $10.19 USD. (Sale is going on until September 10th.)
 
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Recently I'm playing Zelda romhack - Gifts of Kinomi. It has features of Oracle of Seasons / Ages and there are new elements like refilling blocks, overall not so bad if you can explore new story, quests, worlds and dungeons, quite playable, no bugs so far.
 
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Currently playing Ghost of TSushima on PC, glad I tried it it throws me back to the old Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines PSP days. Also playing my own PandaSokoban game on the PSP for short gaming breaks.
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Solid game, but 1/2-2/3 of the way I kinda gave up since game started throwing those purely annoying enemies you HAD to take down using extended weapons and abilities with constantly and seeing how rest of the game was purely more of just that I pulled the plug. AC at least had lots and lots of fluid and fun parkour vs just driving the horse from one mini-boss random encounter to the next.

Now, I take EVERYTHING I harked at new Star Wars Zero Company - it's a perfect SW themed XCOM albeit with TOO much graphics and absolutely unnecessary and power-hungry Unreal engine. Once you get (mid game, maybe? wherever I just got to) your toons absolutely wake up from weak slumber and start wrecking everything like SW heroes ought to!

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Some missions can be absolutely brutal and force you to hella leg it to extraction point and to throw insult to almost grave injuries, they spawn a ton of fresh baddies RIGHT next to your extraction point you're still at least 2 turns of full speed away from....
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But then Jedi and non-Jedi can yeet things off when maps have chasms or pure airspace around the play area
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And THE best QoL - you can change classes/respec spent skill points absolutely willy nilly thus try all sorts of combos and whatnot. Game can be plenty hard as it is.

Edit: HOOOOLY Sithspit this story and delivery absolutely fucks! Just when you think you might be at the final boss, nope! For what it is and how generally focused, this is almost as damn good as KotoRs in a kinda, sorta similar format since those were technically turn based as well.
 
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alright i'm back in this thread again! i'm still playing cave story (more focused on the jenka's nightmare mod), but i'm now focused on chrono trigger and it's becoming one of my favourite games so far. i played it a bit up until last november, but now i picked it back up and mann it is sooo good. the art and especially the music is so good, i haven't heard anything like it before. the characters are fun and interesting and the overall scenario just tickles that sci-fi fantasy part of my brain. i see why oldheads like this game so much lol
 
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