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!

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    I’ve been getting excessively high playing WWE2k and doing Stalin and Lenin vs Trump and Biden.

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      Custom characters are the only reason I buy WWE games. Just a shame they keep shutting down the online services for last year’s game every year.

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    I’m playing Sonic 3 & Knuckles and trying to complete Persona 3 FES

    I’m planning on finishing Persona 4 Golden, too. Last time I played P3FES and P4G, I messed up my fusions by the end, and ended up very underpowered

    1. Sonk Hechoeg

    2. Maybe BoTW 2, but I haven’t kept up with news on it. I’m waiting for the update to WRSR that adds Cosmonaut difficulty

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      I need to go back and finish some of the Personas. I played 3 Portable and 4 Golden about 10 years ago but never got around to finishing 3 (and got the worst ending in 4 despite playing on the easiest difficulty - I’m really not very good at grindy-ass RPGs).

      I might just lock myself in for a few days and just power through one of them. It’s probably the only way I’ll ever beat these sorts of games.

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      Monster Hunter gang! I just fought Morbius with my buddies last night.

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          We morbed him real good!

          Jokes aside he is tough. We run Hammer, GS, and CB so we had a good setup to get in lots of stuns and tail cutting.

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              Yeah I still do lots of play with randoms but one time during MH World some randoms adopted me and now I also have a few, less random, randoms to play with. Lol

              They added a bunch of companion quests which are solo only which is neat. Some of them have pretty good AI.

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              I could dm you my friend code if that wouldn’t be weird? I pretty much only play Monster Hunter games and very occasionally some other random game in-between releases. Don’t have much time outside of that for anything else.

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      I forgot that Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a thing now or will be.

      Also, I gotta say: Sonic Frontiers doesn’t look that bad like many people say.

      IMHO

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    I finally got around to playing AM2R and I’m absolutely loving it! When Dread came out I got completely obsessed with Metroidvania and played through almost all the Metroid and Castlevania games and other ones like Ori and the Axiom Verge games. I’m also still hopelessly addicted to Warframe sadly…

    Don’t really have any favourite characters to be honest, but I’m very much looking forward to the new God Of War, which was the main reason I got a Playstation 5 recently lol

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      AM2R is such an amazing game. One could feel that it’s a labor of love and passion just by playing it. I cite it as an example of the kind of game that would be more prevalent under communism.

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      I’ve heard that Warframe has gotten kinda bad lately. Well, at least lore-wise and story-wise. Is there any truth to that?

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        I can’t really say, since I’ve only been playing for around 4 to 5 months. In my experience the story has been pretty good, although I’m still missing The New War and all the new Zariman stuff.

        Gameplay is good though :)

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    All I’ve been playing is Civ V and Crusader Kings 3. It’s mainly been an outlet for my frustration with everything going on. Getting to run a government and actually do productive stuff (in game) has helped my mental health a bit.

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      My suggestion would be to find an organization so that you can befriend others like you.

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        I’m part of a few local chapters and have some loose connections, just need to find some more video game friends.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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)?

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            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.

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

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    Finnaly picked up Hades. Really cool.

    Also found a little game, cheap on steam : Vampire Survivor. I loved it even if I must admit it does not last that long.

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      I prefer games that aren’t that long.

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    I’m staying at my best friend’s house for a month (long distance) so we’re playing the Halo series and Fortnite, the latter of which I’ve never played before. It’s obviously a meme as a kids game but holy shit it’s so interesting for some media analysis, like the most Zoomer/Alpha plastic neon capitalist realism schizophrenic “nothing means anything” clusterfuck that has ever existed. A peek into the the hellish terminally online meaningless mainstream the capitalists have set out for the youth. Ngl it’s pretty fun though I won’t see myself playing beyond me and my buddy sitting on the couch getting intoxicated and having a laugh.

    Favorite video game character(s)…hmm…honestly hard to say, I love a lot of character designs but don’t usually relate to them on an emotional level. I really like the 5 main characters in the game me and the same best friend are making (thank goodness, you know, cuz we wrote them, lol).

    Definitely don’t have an anticipated game, I barely know what’s happening or trust any franchises, on top of that I don’t have all the next gen stuff. I loved Dead Space so if I got a chance to play the remake that’d definitely be cool.

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      Yeah, I get that about the characters.

      Honestly, I would hop in terms of Indie games: they’re easier to play and less corrupt.

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    Fallout 76. It’s a great time for me, I’ve always loved Fallout.

    Since I play a ton of RPGs, it’s hard for me to pick a favorite character since I end up creating most of the ones I play from scratch, but I do love the aesthetics of Doomguy.

    I don’t anticipate any games since I’m a “patient gamer”, ie, one of the weirdos who waits two years after the game is released to buy it on sale.

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      I do like the labor history homages to West Virginia.

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      That world looks really fun to explore, bit of a shame that it’s an always online game so no mods :(

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    I’ve been playing The Elder Scrolls 5 for about 80 hours in the last two weeks lmao.

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    I’ve been playing Apex Legends and Assassin’s creed Odyssey, I like having a multiplayer game and a single player game to play.

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        Definitely not a typical AC game, I love the Greek setting and it has more RPG choices than just do quest follow story sort of deal. I think that the people complaining are blinded by nostalgia and it is a different game too. Overall lots of fun tho.

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    • Video games I’m playing.

    Between games right now.

    • Finished recently.

    King’s Field III (II outside Japan)

    • Plan to play.

    Demon’s Souls

    • Favorite characters.

    Sticking to protagonists. Samus Aran (Metroid), Ike (Fire Emblem 9 and 10), Yuri Lowell (Tales of Vesperia), Stocke (Radiant Historia).

    • Most anticipated games.

    BOTW 2. Deltarune.

    Glory to Bayarea415.