[Kobrar44]

I played some of the original Red Faction. It was cool until I died and found out there is no autosave.

EDIT: Since people say it's good, Beyond Good and Evil. After over an hour it's mostly ****, so it lives up to it's name in a way.

[Mongoose]

EDIT: Since people say it's good, Beyond Good and Evil. After over an hour it's mostly ****, so it lives up to it's name in a way.

Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad!

[Colonol Dekker]

I'd that the one with Ellen paige?

[Mongoose]

Um, no?  It came out in 2003.  I think you're thinking of Beyond: Two Souls.

[0rph3u5]

Since people say it's good, Beyond Good and Evil. After over an hour it's mostly ****, so it lives up to it's name in a way.

What turned you off exactly?

The gameplay has some faults, esspecially when you are looking back at it. But the story actually makes for a solid watch in Let's Play.
(I personally didn't care for their brand of humor but that's subjective thing)


Finished Hyper Light Drifter. Good game, visually great and gameplay is very nice too - showing nicely what some of isometric action classics could have done if they just had the processing power.  A bit of a nitpick is that the appraoch to not having text beyond the menu or spoken dialogue leaves you with a few question marks in the game itself - however that is caught by just how good the narrative is.

[Det. Bullock]

Airfix Dogfighter (PC)
Model planes from WWII wage war inside a house.
Nice little game.
It's extremely arcade-y, to the point it only supports two axis in a time when three was already the bare minimum, a bit bummed I can't use the throttle but extremely fun nonetheless and all the commands (including the increase/decrease throttle buttons) fit on the stick alone with room to spare anyway.
I didn't beat it at the time, I'm trying to do that now, I finished the axis campaign already.
The missions aren't as difficult as I remember, either because I got better or because the stick I used at the time might have been really crappy.

[Black_Yoshi1230]

F-22 Lightning 3 and F-16 Multirole Fighter:

Bah, I can't really rely on my wingman as much. Especially in the latter in the third campaign mission, a trio of F-7s launch their missiles at me all at once. How the hell am I really supposed to counter if that's the norm? (At least in the F-22 I can do a loop-de-loop or sharp corner turn to avoid missiles...)

EDIT: Just beat F-16. Had to skip one or two missions due to there being way too many aircraft. Can't do the ending of F-22L3, because there's not enough blockers, and cruising down to step-down level can only go so far.

Jane's F/A-18:

Had to restart because I couldn't straight up hack it in airfield strikes. I bloody hate MAP radar ground targeting, because I literally cannot tell what dots are which target in a cluttered mess, even on expanded mode (I tend to use zoomed FLIR-Paveway or GPS bombing for that reason). [Edit: Now at the part where I have to destroy that hardened nuclear depot.]

EDIT: That mission got worse thanks to ONE SA-10 shooting down EVERYONE. Yes, my escort wing, myself, and all my wingmen. Damn it.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Dredd Soeed and the Robot Rebellion. I don't know why I find it so addictive - I played it when it was first released in 2012; now I'm playing it again.

[Colonol Dekker]

Today on the toilet I bought grey goo definitive edition as my steam app notified me it was on sale.

I look forward to seeing humanity as the superior race we actually are.

[Bryan See]

Raiden IV Overkill for PC. I'm a fan of Raiden since childhood in the mid-to-late 1990s.

EDIT: I've failed to mention that Dimensional Eclipse has two unused music tracks from Raiden IV.

[MP-Ryan]

Finished up The Witcher EE.  Onto them Premium modules, then Witcher 2.

[Det. Bullock]

I finished Tomb Raider Anniversary (PC)
I quite enjoyed it, story is minimal but no motorcycle chases and the possibility to almost always get back and recover missing collectibles without restarting the level are a great improvement over Legend.
The shooting is slightly more frustrating since i'm rubbish at dodging and most enemies knock you down for a while.
The platforming is the same as all the other post core design Tomb Raider games with only collecables and a couple of sections in the final level requiring superprecise timing.

Rogue Squadron 3D (PC)
From time to time I try (and fail) to get the gold medal on the Hoth mission but this time I accidentally discovered that you can switch back to the cockpit camera while harpooning AT-ATs instead of being stuck with that stupid external view.
It made flying circles round around them MUCH easier, I hit the completion time required for gold after only three tries after more than fifteen years, better late than never I guess.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Switching between Rally Championships and OpenRCT2. The former has no save function so I'm resorting to running it on DOSBox SVN Daum so that I can use save states.

[Wet Orange Ostrich Toilet]

Been playing some Homeworld: Cataclysm recently. I love the pilot view to death.

[Klaustrophobia]

I finished Tomb Raider Anniversary (PC)
I quite enjoyed it, story is minimal but no motorcycle chases and the possibility to almost always get back and recover missing collectibles without restarting the level are a great improvement over Legend.
The shooting is slightly more frustrating since i'm rubbish at dodging and most enemies knock you down for a while.
The platforming is the same as all the other post core design Tomb Raider games with only collecables and a couple of sections in the final level requiring superprecise timing.

Rogue Squadron 3D (PC)
From time to time I try (and fail) to get the gold medal on the Hoth mission but this time I accidentally discovered that you can switch back to the cockpit camera while harpooning AT-ATs instead of being stuck with that stupid external view.
It made flying circles round around them MUCH easier, I hit the completion time required for gold after only three tries after more than fifteen years, better late than never I guess.

I played on the N64, not PC, but I never had problems with AT-AT harpooning.

[LaineyBugsDaddy]

Can's say as I had any problems with AT-AT harpooning in the PC version, but then, I played with a joystick that has a throttle, too, not a gamepad or the keyboard and mouse.

[Klaustrophobia]

On N64 it was as simple as "Push stick into upper right/left corner and hold there for three laps."  Granted that was before I figured out speeders had left/right brakes that you could use to turn sharper.  I originally used the control scheme that uses the Z button to fire, which removes the independent braking on the speeder.

Damn, now I really want to play RS again but my old 64 is still with my parents/sister.  I guess I might try the PC version with an Xbox controller but it's just not going to be the same.

[LaineyBugsDaddy]

Just got around to digging up the Pokemon Uranium fangame. Turns out that if you modify the neoncube.ini file a specific way, you can keep it up to date, even patch it from 1.0 to 1.1.0 without needing to download the patches yourself, even though all the official links are gone b/c of Nintendo's C&D order to the makers.

[Det. Bullock]

I finished Tomb Raider Anniversary (PC)
I quite enjoyed it, story is minimal but no motorcycle chases and the possibility to almost always get back and recover missing collectibles without restarting the level are a great improvement over Legend.
The shooting is slightly more frustrating since i'm rubbish at dodging and most enemies knock you down for a while.
The platforming is the same as all the other post core design Tomb Raider games with only collecables and a couple of sections in the final level requiring superprecise timing.

Rogue Squadron 3D (PC)
From time to time I try (and fail) to get the gold medal on the Hoth mission but this time I accidentally discovered that you can switch back to the cockpit camera while harpooning AT-ATs instead of being stuck with that stupid external view.
It made flying circles round around them MUCH easier, I hit the completion time required for gold after only three tries after more than fifteen years, better late than never I guess.

I played on the N64, not PC, but I never had problems with AT-AT harpooning.

The unlockable Battle of Hoth mission has the AT-ATs in very close quarters (two are very close toghether, the third is in a canyon) and the external camera on PC is wonky due to a bug with modern graphic cards.

It's doable in external mode and without brakes too of course, but not in the strict time required for the gold medal.

Another quirk  noticed even back then is that the default external camera is more precise than the cockpit camera so getting the gold in some missions literally required me to switch in and out of the cockpit to ensure to miss as few shosts as possible.

Sincerely I cannot imagine playing the game on the N64, I always played with a joystick, I even got my CH HOTAS to work with it using a software profile.
Hell, it's because of that I discvered I could change the camera, I mapped F8 (cycle camera) to one of the hat switches on the throttle and hit it inadvertently while circling around an AT-AT.

[BlueFlames]

I dusted off the SNES and did a run of Super Mario RPG a couple nights back.  Going in with a different build strategy and some new information led to me beating the game in about twenty-four hours, spread across two sessions.  (I get drawn in, when things are going my way.)

The most impactful bit of information, which I missed as a youth, was that Mario's basic jump attack slowly increases in power, the more you use it.  If you grind it in every combat encounter, it gets nuts.  Bundt went down in two jumps.  By the end of the Nimbus Land, Mario could land 300-500 damage to just about anything, depending on the target's special defense, and if they were vulnerable to jump attacks (like Zombone), the basic jump would hit for over 800 damage.  Stomp all the things.

Since that one attack constituted most of the damage dealt in any given encounter, Mario's accessory progression was Jump Shoes -> Amulet -> Quartz Charm (because Culex got stomped too).  I kept the Jump Shoes around for the entire game, but there's not that much that is outright immune to jump attacks in the late game, so combining the Quartz Charm with an early-encounter Geno Boost--basically doubling Mario's attack power--ensures that mere resistance to jump attacks is not enough.

Yeah, a correctly-timed Geno Whirl is an instant-kill, but that doesn't work on bosses (did I mention that I two-shot Bundt with Jump?), and Jump only costs 3FP, compared to Geno Whirl's 8FP.  That reduced cost allows your party to clear entire areas of the game, without having to dip into the syrups, thereby freeing up your item mule to chuck bombs or be something besides an item mule.