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This is me right now so I might get Atelier depending on how the port is. And see my edit regarding my initial impressions on LKS' port. Main complaint is with inputs but I can get used to the quirks.

Gotta show XSEED (and other companies) that their efforts are not wasted. Edit: Quick port report. Little King's Story performance has improved. Some minor (non-gameplay important) stuff does run at double speed but you kind of get used to it during 60 FPS mode. For when it matters, F1 switches between modes on the fly though It feels way too good to play on 60 FPS to move back to 30 FPS but I can see why this was an acceptable workaround. My only major complaint and it appears to have not been address is controls besides adding more supported formats. The M+KB is still terrible. No rebinding and there is nothing for the mouse to do (i.e., camera control). WASD to move but camera turning is binded to QE so it is awkward to move the camera while moving. M is to pull up the menu, to select is Enter and to exit is Backspace. The controller inputs is weird too. Menu navigation is tied to the D-pad so you cannot move while fumbling around in the menu screen. This might be solved by tying menu navigation to say the triggers (leaving the right and left bumpers for the specialized functions). Otherwise it's not terrible and this might be the preferable way to play. I can't help but feel that letting people rebind their controllers would solve most complaints here.

XSEED just patched Little King's Story with the direct help of Durante (What can that guy NOT do?). He fixed the stuttering and improved overall performance. 60 FPS mode isn't perfect but it is way better than it was previously.

The Pirate's Curse blows away Risky's Revenge in every imaginable way. Though I think there's a slight input delay in jumping that I didn't notice in Risky's Revenge and that the accessory item/spells are more of a pain to use. The core gameplay loop is better though and that is what truly matters. Also this song is here: Every level so far has some mission that tosses a wrench to the main mission. This appears on one of them, a one hit KO run-through section. The music makes it so good.

One down. Now onto Pirate's Curse and perhaps I'll get the new game during a sale.

Okay, that's not a bad price for an online service of unknown quality. And yeah, VR isn't happening for the Switch. It will have to be a new standalone system. With Nintendo track record, they'll have a hard time attracting support.

Now that I can go 1440p at 144 fps, I've been running my computer through the paces and I manage to freeze up my computer like I did with Civilization 6 with DOOM. I guess I didn't resolve that problem with reseating my GPU cooler? Anyhow, for some reason pulling the first Gore Nest did my computer in. Prior I was somehow capped at 60 fps with screen tearing so I think I can see it coming but now that I got Riva and Afterburner on to monitor via graph log and on-screen display the CPU, GPU, RAM usage along with temps, no issues are turning up. CPU temp is 50-55C's and GPU is around 63-68C. Strange.

To this day I'm undecided if that did more harm or good to teams who had to play with four people on one console.

Videos about geology. A bit cheese but it has nice production value to them. There's only two episodes so far but I like what I see and hear. Science communication is a much needed thing.

Looking at it now, Jesus, it has been ten years since a mainline game came out (2007 for 6). AH is 2010 and Infinite (F2P PS3 game).

Nothing supernatural at all. Razgriz was a folktale being that brought destruction in a war torn land, killing everybody and itself. Sometime later, a traveler came by the decimated land and cultivated it anew. That traveler called themselves "Razgriz". So Razgriz is both a demon of destruction and god of hope. During the events of 5, multiple things/groups got referred to as Razgriz. It eventually fell upon you and your squadron by your enemies and allies alike for first kicking ass, faking your death then coming back stronger and hard to the point of stopping a weaponized satellite with railgun and nukes and an ultrasecret Belkan (THEY DID NOTHING WRONG) organization that started the whole war in 5 (After the events of Zero where Belka started that war (THEY DID NOTHING WRONG). I had to look that all up because even I was confused when I play it 10+ (I think...) years ago. Silly, cheesy and melodramatic, I know, but you flew through a tunnel to destroy a control center (staple of the series, for better or worse) and then shot down a falling satellite with a nuclear payload. And you get called a mythical demon god while this is playing: At the very least in these games you'll feel like a badass. Maybe I should track down 6 to play. I didn't play that one since I didn't have a 360 for the longest time and it fell off my radar.

They are all self-contained. You only see passing references to past games and events. You might need a map to orient yourself of where you are though. Honestly, you don't need to know any of this since I didn't even know where I was when I played 4, 5 and Zero and I had a blast. Also the countries are confusing since their names are thrown left and right but you won't have any idea of how most of these countries are like. All these countries are based in part(s) on real countries or alliances. I've hinted that Osea is kind of like an EU/USA mix, Yuktobania is Russia and Belka is/was Nazi Germany lite. I believe Usea is another EU/USA mix but more like NATO than anything and maybe an Asian version at that. Just enjoy flying jet fighters and blowing shit up. In 7, it seems to be man versus machine and there's a lot of machines. I'm going to plow through them with an A-10 like I do to navies in the previous games.

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5#.7bzpyo6aq Interesting thought when you consider everything (e.g., Resignation/firing of most senior-level State Dept. officials; disregards for the judiciary branch and court orders; Homeland Security Council shakeup and many more) that has happened in the last 9 days that seems to test our institutions. I don't buy it, yet. What I do buy is that they're trying to tire us all out. It has been a really "WTF?" time and I personally can't keep up. I got my life to live and sort out after all. This is where groups like the ACLU comes into play. They can play ball all day if you flush them funds (see Ethan's post re: ACLU donations).

Interesting look into VR motion sickness and how devs are going about dealing with it. Resident Evil 7 VR is making people talk since it's a good game with good VR.

The stories always been melodramatic (those death flags) and pretty anti-war. Thing is though, war always comes back in less than a decade (all these sequels) in all these countries. Like come on Osea， stop getting into everybody's business. Yukobania, stop trying to paint the world red. BELKA DID NOTHING WRONG. And you can be part of all this alt fact world in jet fighters. You can fight over some northern sea where some ancient god demon sleeps, trying to knock something out from LEO. You can fight over cities or in some mandatory tunnel to blow up some weapon system. All with great soundtracks.

Joyoland's there but everything else is gone.

I can't help but narrow my eyes on Bannon. He shouldn't be where he is.

Open boxed 1440p @ 144 Hz with G-Sync. In a few years I'll jump to that 4K monitor that I mentioned in the other thread. That or give VR a whirl sometime next year. I'm undecided if I want to duel monitor it up or give my current monitor to my brother. It would allow me to work outside on his proper desk with my laptop instead in my janky setup by my bed (I'm sitting on it) with my gaming PC. He gets a better monitor and I can get rid of the silly workaround of using a small TV behind his old monitor (only has one port for his computer) which I have to move when I use my TV monitor. It doesn't even produce an image correctly... Weak justifications for this purchase.

The Last Tour concert in May in SF. Unsure who's opening but hopefully Sabaton will have more than enough time to play most of their classics in addition to The Last Stand songs. I feel that The Last Stand doesn't really stand up to their previous albums. Too samey for an already samey (but awesome!) band. I loved the previous Heroes album though! I would pay good money for a Carolus Rex based tour like how The Blind Guardian did Imaginations from the Other Side tour last year...

D.Va is so nerfed that she can't even hold a point. /s

VR for AC7 is for select side missions only and it is exclusive to PSVR for a while (like with RE7). One of the limitations was to never break first-person view during gameplay but with how the missions are put together with cut-scenes and such (barf alert!), it wasn't possible. Reading through the article though, it seems really worth it though. Pretty interesting to see two takes on VR with AC7 and RE7.