TheMightyEthan

My wife found these two CRT TV's at an estate sale, snagged them both for me for $20. Sadly, after testing, only the one on the right works as of now, the one on the left will turn on but just as the picture is coming on it shuts back off. That one only has composite input though, and the working one has S-Video, so I'm not too upset since that'll give a better picture anyway and $20 is still a great deal considering TVs like this can go for hundreds online. Anyway, to facilitate retro gaming on these, I also snagged: An Extron VSC 500 downscaler. It'll take an RGB signal from a VGA cable and convert it to 480i over composite, component, and S-Video outputs, just what my new TV needs. And to top it off: Displayport-to-VGA cable, so I can output from my PC to the VSC, for optimal retro gaming. No more janky CRT filters, just the real thing bay-bee.

Of the 5 Final Fantasy games I've finished, 4 have been some variation or spinoff of 7, and the other was 15, so out of those FF7 Remake Intergrade is probably my favorite. Possibly FF7 Rebirth depending on the day.

Clair Obscur, you can read my gushing in the games you beat thread. I'll be shocked if anything tops it for the rest of the year.

For me it's rarely a conscious decision to give up on a game, normally I just realize I haven't played it in a few days or a week or whatever and have no desire to go back to it, so I don't.

Dead Take This is a cook indie horror game that the creator describes as a reverse escape room. Basically you're exploring/unlocking this creepy mansion belonging to a Hollywood producer using escape room style puzzles, while learning the sinister things that happened/are happening there. It's really fuckin weird, and uses a lot of FMV. It's almost like Alan Wake x Immortality. It's cool though, I recommend it. Grade: B+ And Roger This is a cool short indie game about a girl with some kind of mental health problems. I can't really say more without spoiling it. It's only like an hour long, but super moving. Grade: A

This is a cool looking FMV indie horror game. Looks kinda similar to Immortality. It's only $15 and is getting good reviews (and the HLTB is only 4 hours!) so I decided to check it out.

This game has a lot of really cool ideas that it executes really well on, but unfortunately also has some aspects that drag it down. The premise is you're trapped on an alien planet with a movable base that requires more than one person to operate, so you have to essentially clone copies of yourself who made different life choices, so they have different personalities and skills. The core concept works really well, and the interactions between the Alters are shockingly smooth, up there with like Mass Effect companion interactions. All that works great, as does the base management aspect. Where it doesn't work so great is the third person exploration of the world. You have to run around finding resources, putting down mining rigs, destroying anomalies, etc etc. It's not bad, it's fine, but it always just seems like it's a barrier to what I really want to be doing, which is the management side. It doesn't ruin the game by any stretch, but it does prevent it from reaching the heights it otherwise might. Still, I recommend the game to anyone who thinks it sounds interesting. Grade: B+

I never played 3, wasn't it supposed to be bad?

That's adorable! I want it!

Make it your priority, it's so good!

Ooh let me know how it compares to the other Zachtronics games, I've had my eye on it.

I've got a little bit of range anxiety with the Bolt, but also Kansas is a lot more sparsely populated than the UK so stuff is farther apart.

3D World and Bowser's Fury is so good!

It really is.

Electric car bros!

Went over some railroad tracks a little too fast, scraped the ground a little bit from the bounce and broke the undercarriage splash guard/air deflector...

Tempest Rising This is a very C&C-coded RTS that just released a couple months ago, and it's a lot of fun. There's two campaigns, one for the Global Defense Initiative Force, and another for the Brotherhood of Nod Tempest Dynasty. Each campaign covers the same time period of a war between the two, focused on an energy resource known as Tiberium Tempest. I quite liked it, though it's a little shallower than I like my RTS in terms of tech trees and stuff (I've always been more of a Starcraft guy myself), and definitely would recommend it for anyone who's itching for a new strategy games. I don't really have much in the way of detailed thoughts, it kind of is just a fun and competent RTS, not really anything standout great, but not anything seriously bad either. Grade: B

I love 3D World + Bowser's Fury so much. Odyssey's also great, they're both in my top 3 3D Mario games.

Holy crap that's a lot of Switch games.

I hadn't heard that theory, but it does kinda make sense. I'll believe it when I see it though.

I'd be a lot more hype for that Game Freak game if all their previous 3D games hadn't been complete technical messes that run like shit. XD

Romeo is a Dead Man looked weird af.

The one I got for my niece worked great. And with those controls you wouldn't want to be playing anything newer than like SNES, so you should be golden.