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i don’t know why people would but it appears as if they already have. f-droid is a catalogue of FOSS apps for android. sort of like an alternative app “store” (but there is no purchasing).
I’m not really sure yet…
I just finished Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy + and Fire Emblem Warriors on my 2DS XL. Well, I finished the story modes… there’s obviously so much more content there.
I’m thinking about maybe trying to rack up some medals in Kokuga on the same device or maybe diving into Ace Combat 4/5/zero for the PS2. I wanted to play 7 but found those. I also wanted to finish the PC version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter but something is messed up with the game on my computer and it freezes at a certain scripted point in the second mission.
Might scrap all those ideas and play Blazblue Entropy Effect or Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth instead. I always have trouble deciding what to play.
HL+ was my only intro to the series. I scooped it up at a used game store when I was digging through some loose carts in a bin. I have really enjoyed it and I considered getting the ps2 version but I read that the controls were a bit more clunky and there were some quality of life improvements in it.
Comparing 7 to HL+, it’s hard for me to pick the better game. HL+ reminds me a ton of the old title Fury3, I think because the ground is mostly just flat bitmaps. That’s a heavy nostalgia factor for me because my dad and I used to play that game quite a bit. I thought the updated graphics in 7 would put me off but they’ve been nice. Plus the thin story is a little enjoyable.
I think it’s harder to stall in HL+ than 7 but that might just be because I have a bigger controller? The plane customization in 7 is overwhelming to me compared to the limited options in HL+ but others might like that. After about 10ish hours in each game, I’d say they are just about equal to one another. I think I’ll try to finish HL+ first and then go back to 7 so I don’t get too confused with the controls switching back and forth.
Oddly, I got into EE because I like the fighting games a lot. The Dead Cells collab just put it on my radar. I was kind of bummed that EE seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the titles. I shouldn’t be, however, because there’s BlayzBloo on the NDS and Clone Fantasma on the 3DS. Neither have any real story but feature the characters as well.
Side note: I badly wish that the Legion 1.5 mode in BlazBlue Contiuum Shift II was available on other releases. It’s my favorite mode but the d-pad on the 3DS wears my thumb out. I would love to be able to use my leverless controller. Perhaps emulation is the way to go for that one.
Ace Combat 7 but maybe I’ll go back to Ace Combat Horizon Legacy +… I always seem to find later titles in a series and end up playing them in confusing parallel.
BlazBlue Entropy Effect. This one has been fun and weird. I jumped into it because of the Dead Cells collab and that content feels almost like it could be a Dead Cells 2. This game took a while for me to understand what’s going on. I like the gameplay a lot, not so much the overworld stuff.
Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth. I went back to this game and realized that I gave up on the first boss months ago. Might try to beat that boss or I might just start it over. This game is a lot like Blade Chimera (same engine, I think. definitely the same team) but I have nostalgia for Lodoss stuff so I picked it up last year.
The PC version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. This game is super difficult for me but I’m having fun trying. It also tends to jump-scare me more than any horror game has before. Sadly, I can’t get GRAW2 to run because of weird Physx problems and Wine/Proton, so I might go re-play Ghost Recon Future Soldier for the Xbox 360 again after this one. I’m too busy to get to that this week, though.
I also scooped up a Fire Emblem Awakening cartridge last week. I might try to finish the last two chapters of Fire Emblem Warriors and then dive into that one. I’d play both at the same time but the contrasting speeds of the two genres might be a bit too much.
My “I have 10 minutes to play” game this week is BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma. I really enjoy the BlazBlue series (especially the 3DS release) and this one is the cutesy/chibi arena fighter version. Very simple and shallow but great for quick games.
i’ve tried to do this on several occasions but sadly i have to travel at odd intervals for work. part of that is ride “sharing” services, apps to unlock doors (no web alternative), and notifications from work on the go.
the last time i tried this i simply kept a spare stock phone for when i had to travel for work and i just set it up before a trip and then wiped it after. it’s extra effort but it’s doable.
this pain in the ass seems to be cyclic with regards to open source things. over the last 30 odd years of my being in the flow of doing my own thing with my own hardware, it seems like we hit peaks and valleys of “company does something frustrating” -> “community sorts it out”. rinse and repeat.
it’ll be bumpy but someone will figure it out and we’ll start the cycle again.
i started playing 3 because i heard the single player campaign has checkpoints. i don’t have much interest in multiplayer but it looks like lan support is still available. i have heard on some videos that people still play it in multiplayer by bridging the lan support across the internet.
I saw that ps rewired has a “socom 3 / combined assault” section. i do wonder if just vanilla socom 3 would be playable there because i think combined assault has different maps? at any rate, there were only two people online when i looked at that. it’s possible that it picks up on nights/weekends as opposed to 0800 CDT on a thursday.
EDIT: i also bumped into this list, so maybe there are other ways to play: https://ps2online.com/
It’s been generally fun but I am really bad at this kind of game so I end up lagging too far behind where the story wants me to be, so enemies teleport seemingly out of nowhere. I also can’t seem to identify where the alarms are, which makes it even worse. That’s a me problem, though.
If you like story driven FPS games with good art, it’ll probably scratch the itch for you. It’s not as much as an interactive movie as the games from the era of quicktime events but there is a little bit of linear play to it. Overall it’s pretty standard fare. I read a review that was something like “It’s not a great FPS game but it’s a great Killzone game” and I think that tracks.
I just scooped up Killzone Shadow Fall and I’m enjoying it, even though the beginning part of the game was basically a half hour long movie disguised as a tutorial. I also got the Shadow of the Colossus remaster for PS4 so that’s next.
For quick sessions, I’ve gone back and started half heartedly trying to 1CC Danmaku Unlimited 2 since the new trailer for 4 just came out.
a very old (and more public) approach was the piratebox: https://piratebox.cc/android
maybe there’s been some forks or related tools?
Started out trying to play F.E.A.R. platinum edition and Tomb Raider GOTY edition. I just don’t like story games… TR is far more story heavy than F.E.A.R. but both have plenty of cut scenes. I also feel like maybe TR was created during the peak of quick time events because the first half hour was just mash some button repeatedly to win the movie (the game uses the word “mash”, that’s not just me). I ended up playing Dead Cells and Gradius V instead. I suppose I just like more arcadey style games.
I finally finished downloading all the digital games I had for the PS4 that had single player content and disable the network connection in order to prepare for an eventual jailbreak, so maybe I’ll play DOOM 2016 this week. Never did finish it.
I’ve been back on COD Mobile this week. I’m just doing F2P. They had a collaboration with Gundam so that drew me back in. The Gundam TDM mode is really nice.
Contrasting that: I got SmokePatch set up with PES 2021 (on Linux!). I moved from EA FC to eFootball when it became too much like a slot machine. while the 30th anniversary stuff in eFootball looks cool, it’s turning into a slot machine as well. SmokePatch doesn’t have any mtx, it has great community addons, and it retained Master League. Enjoying the immersion of my favorite team, their stadium, and commentary in my preferred language.
If I get a little more free time, I’ll finish the last three chapters of Fire Emblem Warriors. I just worry that my team isn’t leveled up enough yet, so I might have to do some stories in History Mode first.
I think nostalgia does a lot for those of us who were there. I don’t like some of the modern indies that build on the old games but I will admit they have some serious quality of life improvements.
Fast forwards, save states, extra details you’d normally find in a manual are in-game. Also, the controls are great. When I revisit some old games, I forget that we were really figuring out the best ways to use a controller and it was often very awkward.
The happy middle ground for me are when there are excellent ports of older titles like what M2 has done for a lot of games. Elevating the retro titles to modern platforms and adding enjoyable ergonomics.
I went the pixel and graphene route and I’m pretty happy with it. if Google locking out drivers means there won’t be graphene for the next line of pixels, I’ll probably just see what phones calyx or lineage support and roll with something from there.
I’ve been fortunate to not have any issues with banking services. the only big thing I lack is maps. there’s not a one to one replacement for Google maps, so I just use a dedicated GPS in my vehicle. (before folks start typing at me, yes I’m aware of organic maps and etc but they absolutely lack a lot of data, especially in my semi-rural area)
I haven’t played in years and it’s sci-fi themed but astro empires checks some of those boxes:
Realized I had Strania - The Stella Machina installed, so probably that. I must’ve bought it when I was on a G.Rev rabbit hole and forgot about it.
I did buy DayZ but it runs very poorly on my potato of a computer so I ended up refunding it. Given the steam sale, I’m not sure what I’ll pick up with the refund credits.