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As a German wo went on vacation to croatia in the last years and will go on doing it until other countries with sea access will get cheaper I started to learn croatian but with mondly.
And Hogwarts Legacy (not for kids only)
 
Band of Dans said:
Negative, but I picked it up during a recent steam sale and am looking forward to checking it out. I've never really gelled with deck-builder type stuff so it's been kind of an intimidating prospect.

OTOH, I've been playing a ton of Silksong lately, which is another game that's hard to enjoy without focused attention.
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If you run into issues with STS2, I would suggest watching a tier list video or something to help kick start it. Tier lists are not actually very useful when picking cards because it depends so much on your existing deck, but the discussion behind why some cards are good or bad helps a lot. Getting a grasp of the general power level of cards, not picking them if it doesn't improve your deck, and not trying to make an "exhaust deck" or a "shiv deck" (it doesn't really work like that in STS2 - you need to pick what works, not only "cards that would fit a theme") should get you through the base difficulty I think.
 
jessenator said:
I would go so far as to say Fallout London is the 2nd best (21st century) Fallout game Bethesda never made.

It was a trying time to set up indeed. I was doing it on Linux, so I was already making it harder on myself, but h*ck off, Microslop. Ended up having to install an outdated version of GOG Galaxy in a dedicated WINE bottle and download/install it from there, but the biggest issue was checksum failures. Had to re-download the base game so many times…
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Actually, Fallout London is not a Bethesda venture. Some independent folks created the DLC-sized mod for an older version of Fallout 4. But yeah, a lotta fun.
 
jessenator said:
would go so far as to say Fallout London is the 2nd best (21st century) Fallout game Bethesda never made.
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Cybercow said:
Actually, Fallout London is not a Bethesda venture. Some independent folks created the DLC-sized mod for an older version of Fallout 4. But yeah, a lotta fun.
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I'm aware. Hence my silly use of "never" in the original post.

Since New Vegas, Bethesda said they're unlikely to let any outside studio release a title in that franchise again.

IMO, the nothingburger Fallout 4 update Bethesda forced out over Steam—which was not the big update one with superfluous Enclave garbage, but the earlier one almost immediately after FOLON's release—was deliberate in order to break Fallout London. (Giving it more negative reputation?) It was a stupid update which fixed basically nothing, and added nothing of substance.

Every update to the main game breaks the script extender used by virtually every quality mod. Which is why the most stable, least faff way to get it going is the final fixed version release on GOG.

I know it sounds like foil hat conspiracy theory, but the coincidence is too strong.
 
jessenator said:
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I'm aware. Hence my silly use of "never" in the original post.
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I missed the word "never" . . . . . 😱
jessenator said:
Since New Vegas, Bethesda said they're unlikely to let any outside studio release a title in that franchise again.

IMO, the nothingburger Fallout 4 update Bethesda forced out over Steam—which was not the big update one with superfluous Enclave garbage, but the earlier one almost immediately after FOLON's release—was deliberate in order to break Fallout London. (Giving it more negative reputation?) It was a stupid update which fixed basically nothing, and added nothing of substance.

Every update to the main game breaks the script extender used by virtually every quality mod. Which is why the most stable, least faff way to get it going is the final fixed version release on GOG.

I know it sounds like foil hat conspiracy theory, but the coincidence is too strong.
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That makes a lot of sense. I don't mind starting over, but definitely need to dump everything related to GOG and start over. My FOLON game is completely borked and instead launches the last saved version of my Steam Fallout 4 save.
 
Cybercow said:
My FOLON game is completely borked and instead launches the last saved version of my Steam Fallout 4 save.
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It's a pain, since Steam and GOG use the same savegame location.

If you have Steam for vanilla and GOG for FOLON, it should be as simple as loading manually instead of 'Continue' ? but I haven't tried it on Windows, tbh. Bottles on Linux is nice because everything can be its own isolated sandbox. Takes up only a little more room for each one. I'd say do a VM for GOG, but VMs are a PitA for me.
 
Uuuuh.. does candy crush count? lol.

Thought about dusting off the Xbox controller and giving the New Vegas disk and expansions another spin. Been a decade or so since I have played it.

Otherwise?? Not really much of a modern gamer. Still have my Rasberry III loaded up with NES/Sega Master System games, and that keeps me super happy playing games from my youth.
 
Compared to you gamers, I’m a dweeb. I’m using the Switch Online to go back to SNeS games I didn’t complete/play.

So far, I’ve played through Super Metroid. A quick blow through of Super Mario World. Now playing Super Mario World 2 - the one with baby Mario and Yoshi. I think I’ll play Mario RPG (the updated version we bought) next.
 
pbrommer said:
Compared to you gamers, I’m a dweeb. I’m using the Switch Online to go back to SNeS games I didn’t complete/play.

So far, I’ve played through Super Metroid. A quick blow through of Super Mario World. Now playing Super Mario World 2 - the one with baby Mario and Yoshi. I think I’ll play Mario RPG (the updated version we bought) next.
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I love the soundtrack to super Mario world 2. The song on the underground levels is a banger. Great game too even tho baby Mario is annoying.
 
My daughter took my Steam deck to play Dispatch and I'm playing Ghost of Yotai. Can't say too much about either yet.
 
I'm saving my thumb endurance for lifting and (Shock! Horror!) playing music as of late, by once recording is done I wanna get back to Remnant 2. It's one of my favorite games of at least the last decade and is much more than the simple "Soulslike, but with guns" premise implies. There's challenge aplenty but it's also designed for fresh replays and co-op. Half my gaming group and I still have 2 of the 3 DLCs to complete, and the other half have yet to play it whatsoever.
 
I've been wanting to give Starfield another try after all the recent updates, but haven't been able to find the right combo of time and motivation. Most recent thing I sat down and spent time with was Fallout 76, but I haven't spent any serious time with it after killing my first Bigfoot
 
pbrommer said:
Compared to you gamers, I’m a dweeb. I’m using the Switch Online to go back to SNeS games I didn’t complete/play.

So far, I’ve played through Super Metroid. A quick blow through of Super Mario World. Now playing Super Mario World 2 - the one with baby Mario and Yoshi. I think I’ll play Mario RPG (the updated version we bought) next.
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Oh man I’ve been on a big “retro” game kick lately too. Feels kinda weird to refer to my childhood games as “retro” but time comes for all of us I suppose.

I played through Super Metroid a few months back and it really holds up. I just love how a lot of these older games lean on actual game design to guide and challenge the player instead of turning everything into a tutorial or a million dialog boxes or hints every 12 seconds. I don’t know if the switch online stuff covers game boy advance but there are some excellent metroidvanias on that system. I was too old to get into GBA when it came out so it’s really cool to go back and explore that library. You can tell the designers had really figured out how to get the most out of pixel art by that time. Bonus: the GBA had a 3:2 ratio screen so its games fill out more of the screen on modern devices.

Metroid Fusion isn’t the most beloved in the series but I liked it and the controls are excellent, especially coming off Super Metroid. If you haven’t played it, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow is very good as well.
 
jjjimi84 said:
You can buy the Castlevania gba and ds collections on the eshop. They hold up pretty well, having Super Metroid in the Snes app is worth the price of the yearly subscription
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Ive had the switch online plan for a while but for some reason I just never end up using the included throwback stuff. Maybe because I use the switch so infrequently that it ALWAYS needs some massive update every time I turn it on.

Not that anyone here needs additional hobbies, but the recent crop of retro gaming-oriented handhelds has gotten stupid good. It’s kind of amazing to fire up a little gameboy-shaped-object to play through basically everything from the 16 bit era (and beyond depending on hardware) with all the creature comforts of modern emulation. The more basic ones run on bespoke Linux systems and basically never need to go online once they’re set up.
 
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