This week I am playing Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. I am also playing Marvel’s Spider-Man remastered. I don’t know what I’m doing in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, but I’m having a good time; I’ve recently discovered smithing, and so far I’m enjoying the mechanic.
What are you guys up to?
So at this point, I had an HP Laptop with RetroArch for 8-bit and 16-bit emulation, and a Wii for GameCube games. I had wanted to keep this as simple as possible, but two systems isn’t really a problem. Except it’s not two systems. This puts me at three systems, actually; because I already had Sony games taken care of. I didn’t mention that before. And arguably, PlayStation and Xbox emulation are really at the heart of a lot of what I want to play. Complicating the issue is that Microsoft *REALLY* doesn’t like backward compatibility. Sony seems to play this weird moving target game. And Nintendo really is just as bad as Sony, if not worse…but they left a couple of big caveats out in public.
And on top of all that, I really don’t want to do this:
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “An Experiment in Retrogaming 1.5: This is getting complicated…”
This one has a bit of an in-joke in the second panel. The phrase, “Why is nobody ever glad to see us?!” was uttered in varying forms quite often during our campaigns.
I often tried to speak in Tolkienesque form when roleplaying some ruler or other important NPC, although the effort was usually wasted because of the misunderstandings it caused. The players would ask me to translate (or Bogan would translate) so I ended up switching to plain English anyway.
The conversations would sound like this:
SOME BIG IMPORTANT DUKE OR WHATEVER: Long has it been since these halls have seen the champions of Greymoor. Have you come now to make good on your oath?SKEEVE: Huh?
THORDEK: Ummmm…
THUFIR: Zzzzzzz…
BOGAN: He’s saying it’s been a long time since we were here and he wants to know if we’ve done that job for him yet.
SKEEVE: It’s on our to-do list.
SBIDOW: So why do you trouble my gatekeeper? Have you come to request some new boon while your old debt remains unpaid?
SKEEVE: Huh?
THORDEK: ?
THUFIR: Zzzzzzz…
BOGAN: He’s saying we better not ask him for anything until we do that job.
SKEEVE: I hate this guy.
THUFIR: Zzzzzzz…
THORDEK: What did he want us to do again?
– Shamus, Wednesday Nov 15, 2006
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remaster XXX: Misunderstandings Abound”
The year is now 2012. This is the moment that I realize I’ve made Logan just a few years younger than myself. He turns 12 as the year does (or close to it, anyway) just like my younger brother Peter did when he hit 12. This makes keeping track of time relatively easy, thank god.
Lottie’s BookNook has had some shockingly successful months, three to be exact, since they opened. Michael and Kelly had imagined a steady stream of cost or income which they would find once their store had been open a year. They assumed that once open it would be clear if they would enjoy a little boost from it, or an ongoing cost they’d have to budget for. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. Some months the shop feels like a consistent bleed of money, and some they get an exciting little payout. Annoyingly, it doesn’t ever line up with when they expect the highs and lows to be. A popular book comes out and they expect more traffic, but the mall has it for cheaper and the wholesale price for a store barely makes it worth carrying. A month is supposed to be bad and then a regular D&D group rent the place every Friday night for two months. They get used to the group and appreciate the people they bring in, and then the party stops meeting because someone went to college and someone else got a new job.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: The 8th Graders”
This week I am still playing a bit of Risk of Rain 2 but I’m now also playing a bit of Terraria and Phasmophobia while waiting for Phasmaphobia to update and Risk of Rain returns to release.
What are you guys up to?
Let’s pretend you know me, already. It’s possible a handful of you do, at least a little; I’ve been around here before. Although not actively for quite a while. But all that will be taken care of in a different post. Probably. But as far as intros, the important thing is that I am approaching this from a Gen-X POV, because I’m Gen-X. I’m from that meaty part of Gen-X born right before the “greed is good” era when families still trended closer to two kids, down from the Baby Boom peak of three kids, but well before the drop reached the “less than one kid” point. So yeah. But anyway…RETROGAMING.
To borrow a phrase from the “Well There’s Your Problem” Podcast, first we must ask ourselves, “What is Retrogaming?”
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “An Experiment in Retrogaming”
– Shamus, Monday Nov 13, 2006
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings Remaster XXIX: Organizational Skills a Plus!”
Finally, the age-old debate has been settled.
Two minutes of fun at the expense of a badly-run theme park.
Raytracing is coming. Slowly. Eventually. What is it and what will it mean for game development?
This series began as a cheap little 2D overhead game and grew into the most profitable entertainment product ever made. I have a love / hate relationship with the series.
A programming project where I set out to make a gigantic and complex world from simple data.
What is this Vulkan stuff? A graphics engine? A game engine? A new flavor of breakfast cereal? And how is it supposed to make PC games better?
What makes this borderline indie title so much better than the AAA juggernauts that came before?
Did you dislike the ending to the Mass Effect trilogy? Here's my list of where it failed logically, thematically, and tonally.
Who is this imbecile and why is he wandering around Europe unsupervised?
Sometimes in-game secrets are fun and sometimes they're lame. Here's why.
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