I was playing Custom Robo until Armored Core’s existence was brought to my attention. So now I’m working through the og title and it is crazy fun so far.
There’s been a little Pokémon Colisseum on the side as well, as I never got to try it as a kid. Much better than the main series and I wish they’d drop more interesting experiences like this one…but they got their money machine and no reason to risk turning it off ig. Lame-os.
The Planet Crafter. I can't believe how much fun my girlfriend, my friend and I are having with that game. When we first picked it up, I expected we might play it for a couple days, maybe enjoy it for a couple of weekends. But it has really turned into one of those obsessions that you get from games like Satisfactory, No Man's Sky, Favtorio, etc., where the whole world just disappears around you, and a 7 hour session feels like 3 hours at most. This game has just perfectly straddled the line between challenging and relaxing for me.
I personally like it a lot more than Satisfactory currently, but that's because my life is pretty stressful right now, and managing the conveyor belt spaghetti and machine connections is too tiresome for me at the moment.
With The Planet Crafter you are striving to unlock buildings by raising your Terraformation Index, which is comprised of pressure, oxygen, heat and biomass. You do that by crafting and placing down various machines and buildings, but none of them are feeding each other like in Satisfactory. Instead you are out exploring, finding ores in the wild, in old bases, scattered crates, and raiding old, abandoned, crashed spaceships for resources and parts. There are no enemies in the game, so no combat and no weapons. Instead the challenge is to manage your oxygen, hunger, thirst, and various environmental hazards like meteors and weather events.
As you raise your Terraformation Index you'll start seeing your planet change in flora and atmosphere, which is such a cool experience! New areas will be unlocked by you heating up the planet, which will introduce new resources. I just can't recommend this game enough. I think it's definitely worth the full price, but based on previous sales, my guess is that it'll go on sale again within a month, around 40% off, if they stick to the pattern. I also really appreciate their pricing structure for DLC, which is just a new planet to start out on (Base game has 2 different planets to choose from as your starter), at 8 euros. I ended up getting it, since only the player hosting the save file, needs to own it, in order for everyone in multiplayer to join in.
I feel like everybody will answer “Silksong” for the foreseeable future lol
As for me, I’ve been in a mood for zombie games for the past few months. There are a LOT of them, but good ones? Not very much. I finished RE2make (which I kind of liked, with reserve) and RE3make (which I despised) at the start of the year, then moved to RE8, but I found it disappointingly boring, so I switched to Dying Light, which I’ve played for the past two months.
It’s technically a replay because I played it already a few years back, but I didn’t bother with the DLCs because I was kind of over with it by the end of the story, so I hope to 100% it this time. I really like it actually! I just find open world games exhausting in the long run as they drag on a bit too much.
Szedłbym w stronę map na bazie OpenStreerMap, gdzie będzie można wybrać opcję pola kempingowego. W większości aplikacji typu OsmAnd jest taka możliwość. Można też, np. poprzez stronę openpoimaps w zakładce hotels. Na bazie OSM jest też Lokjo, ale tego jeszcze zbytnio nie rozkminiałem. To oczywiście zaznaczone są oficjalne miejsca, ale np. Grupie biwakowej są miejscówki mniej oficjalne.
The GBA, not bc it has fancy features like the Wii, but bc the mods deliver an experience I couldn’t otherwise have.
Sure, running ripped games on a PS1 or full-on Slippi on a Wii is nice, but I wasn’t locked out of those experiences. I could use a PC or even my phone these days to get a similar experience.
However, GBA hardware mods are all about making the GBA the best it can be, not just doing something in yet another place like the Wii mods.
For instance, in the form factor of the GBA (i.e. the landscape form that is far superior to the SP), you can:
Install a beautifully bright LCD (these days a display better than what came on the SP)
Switch over to a rechargeable battery via USB-C
Replace the awful mushy membrane buttons (which have, unfortunately, taken over the gaming industry) with tactile clicky push buttons
Run any game you want off with a flash cart (if you’re rich enough for one).
With those mods and the extensive and wonderful GameBoy/GameBoy Color + GBA library, you get a truly elite handheld experience.
Sure I can play GBA games on my phone, but I can’t play them with a device that feels so good to hold like this. A dedicated distraction free gaming experience on the go as well. It’s personalized and practical and beautiful.
So yeah, loading backups from SD on a Wii is cool, but to me, nothing beats perfecting an already great device through hardware mods!
Simply modding it to have expanded storage is fantastic. I have a PSTV hooked up to my hanging room TV (basically like a firestick/chromecast) since it doesn’t need to sit on anything.
It kinda serves the same purpose as that PS1 Classic, except better in almost every way.
Honestly my "favorite" is my SteamDeck. In that it doesn't really need to be "modded" just install some software and away you go. At certain points ive made it into:
A desktop with mouse and keyboard
A satellite tracker (satnogs)
A retro gaming system
A quick media system (we had some movie nights and the laptop adapter died at one point).
The PSP was my first back in the day. It was awesome!! 3DS is also a close second. I think I have a ton of homebrew games. Ive seen some impressive wii/wii u stuff lately. And the switch / switch 2 mod scenes are pretty cool. Switch for now is the easiest with all the homebrew stuff people have been putting out. And the switch emulator(s?) that are coming out are pretty impressive. Was able to play a couple of games after getting and compiling the latest releases. Hard to find but totally worth it.
Im having a blast with the miyoo mini plus playing pico 8 games lately.
I've got a lot of nostalgia for DS homebrew. Tons of fun things you can do with a flashcart.
3DS too, but although modding was a lot more widespread due to how easy it was, I feel like homebrew games were kinda lacking. Custom themes were great at least.
The DS with a flashcart was nearly perfect. It was incredibly portable due to the rectangular shape, the screen was protected from scratches while folded so you didn’t need a case, and it could emulate every console up to the N64 as well as every Nintendo handheld (obviously). I was upset when my cart finally died - no other handheld emulator I’ve found is as convenient.
Garry’s Mod was fun, now the only servers that have people in them got ridiculous rulesets and the constant begging for donations & locking superior weapons behind a paywall gets old real quick.
Not hard to spin up a docker container for a Garry’s mod server, these server hosters are abusing their position and think hosting a server is difficult.
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