Certified foxgirl enjoyer. Weeb, but hasn’t properly watched anime in ages. Gamer of incresingly niche subgenres. Aficionado of racecars, mechas, fighter jets, and any other vehicles you can think of. Lives in the wrong side of the planet compared to all my friends. Made accounts in 278 different in
I played a lot of the old TDU and the Nacon WRC Games. Long story short, the way they handled Generations, that was supposed to be their last hurrah with the franchise, was so bad, that I completely gave up hope on Solar Crown being good. And I’ve been having the live service hell feelings about it for a while too.
I haven’t played on my Switch or really touched in in a few months now, since around the Yuzu news. I’m too disgusted by them to want to do it, and shortly before that, I had decided to mod it and not buy their games again. Now I’m 100% certain I’m going to do that. If I really want to give money to some indie game I like, I’ll buy it on Steam.
God I love old games getting fanmade expansion and mods. The passion people have for their favorite games can kee them alive and interesting after many years. I’ve been playing 30 years of Doom mods, 20 something years of Quake mods, fan translated Super Robot Wars, a fully standalone modpack expansion to another standalone mod based on a custom engine of the Stalker games, I’ve recently got Star Wars:Galaxy at War… The possibilities are endless.
I’m not switching to KB+M but I am switching to Type B controls after struggling against Balteus for 6 hours today. My hands actually hurt from how hard I was gripping the controller, lol.
Dual wielding was basically the only way to play in late Gen 3 as the games got harder and harder, and the enemy ACs started coming more and more decked out (or in the case of Last Raven, straight up cheating) and is what I’m most used to. First thing I did in 6 was to put on dual rifles. But now after trying out other builds I put a sword back on, they’re really fun and VERY strong in this game.
I didn’t say it in this thread, but since you mentioned it I’ll concur: yeah after a tiny bit of remapping the shoulder buttons and d-pad, I actually got really into the old controls, and other than dual wielding, I actually preferred them over the later 3rd gen style. But both were usable. yeah I’m playing AC6 right now and I’m twisting my right hand into a knot operating the stick and the face buttons at the same time, but this is a kind of problem that every japanese mech game has… Gundam Battle Operation 2, EDF, the 4th and 5th gen of AC too. At this point I’m just used to it.
Ah yeah I really like the Ys series. I started with Ys Origin and absolutely loved that, it was almost like an isometric Metroidvania, that one. With excellent and memorable music, the music is amazing in this series! I did play Ys VIII too on the Switch and yeah, the performance issues are noticeable. The game is still very playable despite that. I just lost steam at some point about 2/3rds of the way into the game, after the big cave at the top of the mountain. The ape enemies infuriated me, lol. I do want to play more of the series, mainly the older titles. I already know I don’t like the first couple with the bump style combat, but I want to play at least 6 and 7.
I’ve NEVER liked the Fandom hosted wikis because their platform is so fucking bad. I also tend to strongly dislike the Fextralife wikis, mostly because their Souls pages were full of wrong information, or lacking information at all.
But Fandom wiki… blegh, it’s like a full page ad with tiny holes for maybe having the info you need in the middle.
This is sad. They had a good game going there, and you can tell the devs had their heart in the right place. They had serious struggles with cheating early on in their game, which impacted growth and retention of players, but they dealt with it so well they should become industry standard in how to curb cheaters. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough. Maybe the game would have been better if it was pay to play instead of free.
Meanwhile, Tarkov is still going, milking their cheaters for revenue, after half-assedly banning them and letting them buy new accounts again…
Doom. I have 30 years of custom maps that I’ll probably never finish playing. Assetto Corsa, also with mods, I can drive and race any sort of car I can think of. And Monster Hunter. I guess I’d take either 4 Ultimate or Generations Ultimate. In 4U alone I have 1,000 hours.