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Been touching up the living room, making it better with cleaning and new furniture and such. This is the fun part: getting a new tv. My old one was 32 inches because I was using an old pre-HD cabinet and that was all it could fit. Now that I have more room, I bumped it up to a 55 inch. Also went for an OLED because I wanted to get more out of an upgrade than just a bigger viewing space.

I'm an adult and I spend my money in a responsible and mature way. I've also got a decent collection of figma figures at this point but they're all still in their boxes because I currently have no space to display them. With the ones I received yesterday, I now have the entire God Hand from Berserk!

Yakuza 5 Remastered Finished it two weeks ago but I immediately jumped into Rebirth and that first week I couldn't be bothered writing my thoughts because that was time I could spend playing Rebirth instead. Then I kinda forgot about it. I'm not joking, either. I literally finished Yakuza 5 like 15mins before Rebirth finished downloading. Anyway, it was pretty good. It was also very long but it never overstayed its welcome. Mostly because every time you switched protagonist it was like playing a completely different game. You start out with Kiryu and he's a taxi driver now, so naturally you end up getting sucked into the street racing world with drifting and eurobeat music. Then the next character fights like 78 dudes at once while breaking out of prison only to immediately get into a high-speed snowmobile chase followed by a fist fight with a giant bear. Then you spend the next 5 hours in a little mountain village playing a survival/hunting roguelike minigame. Then it's time to play as Haruka, Kiryu's adopted daughter, and she's training to be a pop idol so now the combat has been replaced by a rhythm game. Did I mention that this game is fucking bonkers? I can easily see how someone might just bail when they get to the Haruka chapters but it just made me love the game even more. This is the most unapologetically schizophrenic game I've ever played and I loved it for it. Overall, it did the multiple protagonist thing much better than Yakuza 4 but the story ended up feeling a lot less cohesive as a whole. Yakuza 4 kept me on the edge of my seat for the most part and it was only the finale that was a bit underwhelming (I still can't get over how our heroes' big plan was "We don't understand what's going on or know what to do, so let's just put that big pile of money on top of Millenium Tower and beat up whoever comes to get it"). Yakuza 5 was kind of the opposite. The story was so meandering and full of distractions that by the time I was on the last protagonist I had basically forgotten how things had started out with Kiryu at the beginning. The finale itself was much more exciting, although it did end rather abruptly. Anyway, that's now all the PS3 games done. That took me way longer than I expected but I can finally play Yakuza 6 and then move on to the Ichiban games. I'm almost caught up!

27" 360hz 1440p OLED monitor, because my 19" 60hz 1080p LCD from 15 years ago just looks too much like shit to me now. I was actually gonna buy the 240hz version from Newegg cause it was on sale, but then I did a quick Google check and found that Walmart had the 360hz version for the same as Newegg's 240hz sale price. So that's sweet. *Edit - Though I actually plan just to use it in 120hz mode cause I don't want to make my 120hz LG TV start looking juddery to my eyes the way that TV made 60hz look juddery... XD

Star Fox Adventures Better than I remembered, but also kinda bad lol, some of the parts I recall being super frustrating (like the test of strength in Lightfoot village) were way easier this time, while the bomb puzzles were as annoying as always. Gameplay holds up better than expected, except for some things. Trying to aim the fire blaster feels like you're fighting against the staff itself, really frustrating, specially with how many timed puzzles require that you hit targets with this thing. Not being able to jump down while climbing rock walls gets annoying real fast, more so if you make multiple visits to the store. Not having proper camera controls is also quite the choice, specially when Assault does have the option to use the C Stick as a normal right stick camera control. I actually didn't remember that moment with Scales lol, was actually looking forward to that fight and then... Nothing. Grade: B+

I mean... Granblue should have a "New To Library" label too, not sure why it doesn't.

Catch up post. Ubisoft have been adding Steam achievements to a lot of their older games and they've also had several sales, so I went on a bit of a buying spree over the last few weeks. Because I don't have enough of a backlog already, I guess! Also this being the only game in the series I didn't own yet, I figured I'd grab it while it's on sale. I just finished Yakuza 5 so I'm getting there. I'll be fully caught up on this series one day...

I've been getting curious about trying racing games again with an actual driver setup. This wheel and pedal set is usually 350 but I got it for 175. I figure I'll try it out and if I don't get into it, I can always just sell it on eBay. Apparently the driving community takes this stuff pretty seriously so there's always someone looking to buy used driving accessories.

Metaphor ReFantazio 117 hours later and man, great game. I don't have a lot specific to say, if you're familiar with the last few Persona games it mostly follows a similar structure, though in an industrial fantasy land instead of modern Japan. There are a few changes, like the "Personas" work differently, and everyone can switch now instead of just the MC, but for the most part if you like Persona I would definitely recommend checking this out. Grade: A+

P.N. 03 This was... something lol, the most positive thing I can say is that some of the ideas present here went on to become Vanquish, and that one's cool. Oh, and I guess the Papillon suit is kinda neat. The controls are awkward, even for a GameCube game, some enemies and bosses move way too fast for how slow the aiming is, environments are empty and barren and not in a GameCube era kind of way. The story is pretty much non-existent: "Here's your next mission" "Will you tell me about the target?" "No" "OK" The last boss is a nightmare too lol, overall, not recommended unless you really, REALLY want to see what came before Vanquish. Grade: D-

It's Trails Day once again. Which means I get to spend an excessive amount of money on a game I won't be playing anytime soon. One day I'll be able to play these at launch again. Just need to catch up on Yakuza first. Then I can get to work on catching up on Trails...

90% off, the eshop version.

I played this on a flight, love the surrealism. It smacks of the animation bits in Monty Python. Has a little bit of untitled goose game vibes too.

Star Fox Assault Shorter than I remember, but still pretty fun. Really appreciate that it uses the C-Stick as a right stick camera control instead of some other weird control setting lol. Aparoid infection is still super creepy, specially the Corneria boss fight, still hits hard after all these years. There are some issues though, voice acting is a weak spot, Peppy went from cartoony old guy voice to monotone apathetic old guy voice lol, graphics also look like a downgrade from Adventures, and (this is just me lol) I much prefer the Arwing from Adventures over this one, Adventures has a more practical look and feel to it, Assault just kinda has pointy stuff everywhere and doesn't really land, just hovers in place. Grade: A

Hell yeah OLED life!

My laptop needed a keyboard too. I actually didn't buy this one specifically because of the theme. I tried a smaller TKL keyboard but I didn't like how the right side buttons were vertically aligned so I got this slightly bigger one instead. Feels great to type on but man is it loud. If I had to worry about waking up people in the house I wouldn't be typing on this thing after bedtime, that's for sure.

Thank Goodness You're Here! This is the most British game I've ever played. I'm not even sure how to describe it. I guess by some definitions you could call it a walking simulator because all you do is go around and slap things, but it's just so bizarre that I don't think words alone can do it justice. You play as a tiny British salesman on a business trip who, after his meeting is delayed, decides to go for a walk around town. From there, people ask you to help solve their problems and apparently you can't say no (or anything at all) so the rest of the game is you helping people with their first world problems. Sounds boring except that for every problem you fix you tend to break ten more things and you get to watch the town descend into chaos because of your well-meaning actions. Plus, some of these problems are solved in some truly outlandish ways and in the process you can go anywhere you please in town, including right through the houses of total strangers. These people are FREAKS too. Honestly I should just shut up and let the trailer speak for itself.

I would wave hello but...

I didn't realize Elon Musk was on this board.

Bro bought Division 1 and 2.

HELL YEAH!!!! \m/ \m/ Available today!! \m/ \m/

It is pinned, idk what you're talking about. <.< >.>

HOW ABOUT SOMEONE MAYBE PIN THE NEW THREAD THEN

I love how you posted this in the 2024 thread even though you're the one that started the 2025 thread.

I upgraded pretty much everything else about my PC. Might as well finally do something about that stock wired keyboard. Already got a new mouse a while back that I'm happy with.

Yeah, this is clearly Ethan's fault. You're a shit mod, Ethan!!!