I’m finishing up Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Might play Blasphemous next.

Looking forward to whenever Nintendo releases BOTW 2 ahahhaha

Discussion questions:

  1. Who are your favorite video game characters?

  2. What are your most anticipated games right now?

My answers:

Frankly, probably Super Mario as generic as that sounds, even though he technically doesn’t have a character.

Also, probably BOTW 2 and the Warhammer 40K CRPG by Owlcat Games. There’s probably more, but that’s all I’ll say for now.

Also, shameless plug-in for a Discord server that me, BayArea415, and some good friends created:

https://discord.gg/qQmdd28CBR

Enjoy!

  • Tempo
    7•2 years ago

    Got the PS2 hooked up again recently so I’ve been dabbling in a few different games. A bit of MGS3 this morning (replaying it since Kojima mentioned Lupin the 3rd had inspired some elements of the game, mainly Eva being essentially Fujiko), and some Ty the Tasmanian Tiger (never actually played any of them despite being Australian myself).

    Favourite game characters? You’d have to be more specific. I’m terrible at picking favourites from a broad list.

    Most anticipated games? Currently, I’m waiting on my PlayDate, so I’m curious to see how that goes when it arrives. Maybe the new Earthworm Jim for the Amico too when/if that ever comes out. I don’t really follow that much of the modern gaming press so I can’t say I’m hyped for much.

      • Tempo
        2•2 years ago

        That’s probably why I was so drawn to it. I need a dumb gimmick to sell me on new hardware nowadays.

    • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
      1•2 years ago

      PS2? Why that? What made you decide to use that old thing? I’m curious: was it hard finding a working one? I take it that a lot of them don’t work that well now.

      • Tempo
        2•2 years ago

        I just felt like pulling it out of the cupboard. It’s nowhere near the oldest machine I’ve got sitting around and it still works just fine, I’m just using it with an internal hard drive instead of discs. The disc drives in those things are the main point of failure.

        I’m currently in a spot of bad internet so messing about the various games off a hard drive beats downloading hundreds of gigs of Game Pass games on my Xbox just to find something I want to play. The games, while low res, still look nice through a good set of video cables and a nice upscaler like a RetroTink 5x.

        • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
          1•2 years ago

          Oh wow.

          Do you have to use an internal hard drive instead of disks or is this just so it works properly (like, in terms of performance)?

          • Tempo
            2•2 years ago

            I use a hard drive instead of discs because carrying around (not to mention buying) hundreds of PS2 games is a massive waste of time and space compared to just downloading a ton to a 2TB hard drive. The thrill of physical games isn’t worth the prices being charged for them on the second hard market.

            In terms of performance, I’m using a third party adaptor for SATA hard drives (the original Sony adaptors were IDE based) which only works properly when forced to run at disc speeds. Load times are about the same as disc but they still beat most games running on slow PS4/Xbox One hard drives.

            • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
              1•2 years ago

              Good point, tbh; I don’t miss cartridges or disks at all.