Quote from: fbnaulin on December 10, 2024, 04:55:02 PMI just completed Tactics Ogre Reborn, I completely felt in love with the game. So much, that I'm starting Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis on GBA.

I've never seen it confirmed, but I'm dead convinced that series owes its existence to Queen. Yes, that Queen. The first game in the series is titled Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen. The second Queen album contains both a song called "Ogre Battle" and a song called "March of the Black Queen". Fun fact.

I'm playing Gloomhaven on switch right now. Its just alright (the game isn't very performant)  but at least I don't have to set things up or invite friends over to play.

For Christmas, I got the Atari 7800+ system. and it's fully backwards-compatible.  I searched around and found about a dozen of my 7800 cartridges, and I'm playing those.  Some of the titles include Joust, Winter Games, Crossbow, Galaga, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr.,  and my favorite: Xevious.  It came with a new title: Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest, a platformer based on the characters in Crystal Castles.  Pretty fun.

Currently playing Risk of Rain 2, now that all the bugs from the new DLC have been patched out. There are a few more updates yet to come, so hopefully the rest of the balance issues will be ironed out.

I've been itching to also try out Mouthwashing, it's got that retro horror aesthetic.

Quote from: ForgottenF on December 24, 2024, 09:08:54 AM

Quote from: fbnaulin on December 10, 2024, 04:55:02 PMI just completed Tactics Ogre Reborn, I completely felt in love with the game. So much, that I'm starting Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis on GBA.

I've never seen it confirmed, but I'm dead convinced that series owes its existence to Queen. Yes, that Queen. The first game in the series is titled Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen. The second Queen album contains both a song called "Ogre Battle" and a song called "March of the Black Queen". Fun fact.

That's awesome.  Wonder if they have any plans to fit "Seven Seas of Rhye" and "The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke" in there?

Warplanes: WW1 Fighters on my new Meta Quest 3S.

I now finally have a flight simulator that matches the dream I've had since I first saw a flight simulator an a computer on an episode of Mr. Wizard a lifetime ago.

Funny thing is that I have the same game on my Switch and played it a bit, but I can't get enough of this one in VR.

Quote from: I on December 31, 2024, 02:14:33 PM

Quote from: ForgottenF on December 24, 2024, 09:08:54 AM

Quote from: fbnaulin on December 10, 2024, 04:55:02 PMI just completed Tactics Ogre Reborn, I completely felt in love with the game. So much, that I'm starting Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis on GBA.

I've never seen it confirmed, but I'm dead convinced that series owes its existence to Queen. Yes, that Queen. The first game in the series is titled Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen. The second Queen album contains both a song called "Ogre Battle" and a song called "March of the Black Queen". Fun fact.

That's awesome.  Wonder if they have any plans to fit "Seven Seas of Rhye" and "The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke" in there?

It's been way too long since I played it, but I remember Tactics Ogre: The Knights of Lodis for the Game Boy Advance having some things in it that reminded me of lyrics from "Seven Seas of Rhye". Supposedly all those songs were based on a fantasy novel Freddy Mercury was writing at the time. Information about it is extremely scarce though, so I doubt it was directly used as a basis for the Ogre Battle setting.

Just learned this though. The first Tactics Ogre game is subtitled "Let Us Cling Together" which is the subtitle of another Queen song.

Dug up the old files on my machine for Master of Magic (classic 1997 version, not the remaster/remake). Let's see if it actually works...

Incredibly, it does!

My grandson invited me into his realm for Minecraft (Bedrock edition although I'm a java fan.)  I think he thought I was just going to be a tourist, but then I got working on organizing farms and livestock, building market stalls for the villagers, and setting up organized roads and orchards.  This allowed him to work on his mega projects without being starved for resources.  Grandpa powers activate!  :-)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch)

It's positively insane Nintendo made a game where making steampunk contraptions--now including flying machines--is a major selling point of the game. Unfortunately, the clunk is very, very real.

At this point I think Zelda's new systemetized game paradigm needs to go on a massive diet. There is a bonkers amount of menu surfing, and the "new player" safeguards like surviving any hit with 1/4th of a heart if you were at full and pausing to eat bananas amounts of food in the middle of being stun-locked combine to actually make the game favor power-gaming over casual play. It's so blazingly obvious that Zelda needs to adopt a limited real-time healing item like Estus from Dark Souls.