Random Gaming Thoughts

[Forlorn Drifter]

Oh yeah, also have Shovel Knight and Rogue Legacy. Fez I should have looked into more. I didn't realize it was a collectible platformer, and being that I've already had to look up a puzzle (seriously? Text hints in tetris blocks?!) I'm pretty over it. Bad buy, but I'll live.

Still open to suggestions, Don't Starve, Super Meat Boy, Braid and Super Stardust HD are interesting.

[MrPopo]

That's what is really painful here, I was a massive TAS fan and all. This side of Batman IS Batman to me. So I'd love to see how these stories and characters unfold. But yeah, hard to get over some of the game design elements that I'm not too into anymore.

I'm actually finally enjoying Witcher 3, so maybe those will click for me someday. Can only handle so much sandbox/open world stuff thesedays... lol

I just progressed through another major chunk of story, and holy shit. This game blows Asylum and City out of the water utterly on the story. And I really enjoyed the story in the first two games. This has just been an utterly perfect Batman story so far.

I highly recommend you grit your teeth and bear it. Hell, skip all the open world sidequests if you must. The ones I'd say you should still do are the Season of Infamy DLC missions, which are integrated in the world (whereas the other DLC missions take place outside the context of the story) as they are definitely quality.

[RCBH928]

I have been browsing my GOG library and noticed that I own games I didn't know about. Must be how rich people feel about money.

Not a good sign...

probably because you're not just running the game, you're running it inside a wrapper like DOSBox and there have been other fixes, etc to make it play on more modern machines.

I didn't think DOSbox requires so much. I also thought GOG gave you the original installation files for some reason.

[PartridgeSenpai]

Oh yeah, also have Shovel Knight and Rogue Legacy. Fez I should have looked into more. I didn't realize it was a collectible platformer, and being that I've already had to look up a puzzle (seriously? Text hints in tetris blocks?!) I'm pretty over it. Bad buy, but I'll live.

Still open to suggestions, Don't Starve, Super Meat Boy, Braid and Super Stardust HD are interesting.

I've had great fun with Don't Starve on PC, but it might be something like Terraria where I just didn't have the patience to relearn how to play on Console after doing it SO much on PC.

Super Meat Boy is a fantastically fun stage-based platformer which I love a ton.

Braid is an okay puzzle-platformer. Granted, it is the OG indie-puzzle-platformer, so it's very well designed: I just don't find it terribly fun.

Hotline Miami is a fantastic PSN game. I have some PSN money myself, and I think I may pick up Hotline Miami 2 on mah Vita. Either that or Binding of Isaac Afterbirth if I can afford it. Binding of Isaac is some gooood rogue-ish action shit.

As a final note, I also quite enjoyed Fez. It's only once I even attempted to try 100%-ing that mo' fo' that I got really fed up. Those puzzles are CRAZY.

[isiolia]

I have been browsing my GOG library and noticed that I own games I didn't know about. Must be how rich people feel about money.

Not a good sign...

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I didn't think DOSbox requires so much. I also thought GOG gave you the original installation files for some reason.

I think GoG adds some of the free games they've got to your account automatically, so it might depend on which you're seeing.

DOSBox is an emulator, so it does take a good bit more than the original hardware (they have some rough equivalents here with regard to CPU). Based on that, those requirements probably would net DOSBox performance akin to a decent Pentium MMX machine or something.

That said, the system requirements there seem to pretty much be their copy/paste generic Windows requirements. So, I wouldn't read too much into it.

You can usually extract the original files from a GOG installer if you really want to. Unless you have a dedicated retro machine or something though, probably not a lot of point to it. I think the game files are typically just in folders if you're wanting to use the DOOM WADs for a source port.

[BoneSnapDeez]

My excitement over Xanadu Next reminded me...... There was a Japan-exclusive PC compilation of the Dragon Slayer games released a few years ago, which contained emulated versions of the original PC-88, PC-98, MSX2, and PC Engine versions of the games. I had seen Amazon.co.jp listings before, but today I spotted it on eBay for the first time. Asking price is about $300, sadly. I'll just have to live without this one.
Some great photos of the packaging:
https://shiku963.blogspot.com/2012/06/blog-post.html

[pierrot]

I was watching this video of Falcom super-fan #1 talking about the Dragon Slayer Chronicle box a number of months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeNU0MBDjpM. It seems like a pretty nice product, with authentic replications of some of the manuals, and Dragon Slayer IV soundtrack.

[wclem]

I have been using a wireless Logitech keyboard for my pc gaming. I do not have any problems with lag or anything on it, it actually works great. I think the model is K520? I may be wrong.

My problem is I hate when I shift my hand and end over the wrong keys. I want to find one that gives the wasd keys some kind of different feel to them. A nub or rougher surface, just something to differentiate it from the others. My only real qualifier is that it is wireless.

So, 2 questions:

What do you guys use?
Do you have any suggestions?

[noiseredux]

couldn't you just find 4 replacement keys rather than buy a whole new keyboard?

I don't have that issue myself. My pinky naturally rests on the Shift and my thumb on the Space, so the other fingers just seem to know where to go.

[wclem]

Duh, never thought of buying just keys! When my hand goes on the keyboard my nature is to sit over the "F" key with the nub. Four fingers on "ASDF" typing style. So when I play games from time to time I shift over to those keys absent mindlessly. Or simply just pur my hand in the wrong position.

Also I am curious as to what you guys use. I may find out about products I never knew about.