A wandering monster, but digital now.

Heroquest is getting a digital version. Not entirely sure what that means to be honest but brings back a lot of memories, that's for sure.

One of the things I'd always wanted to do with my Wii U was to mod it. I even bought the ds games that were supposed to help with breaking open the os before they shut down the store. I just never got around to it.
Things have changed drastically since then and I think this might be even easier now with way more to do including getting the wii u online services running again.

I'm just waiting on a power cable to see if that's what the problem with my wii u is. The cable I have seems to have some fraying on it so I'm hoping a simple replacement will get the thing working again.

Looks like a nice Hades esque game.

I've been meaning to buy this for quite some time, and I finally got it right before I left italy. Played it the entire flight back to St. Kitts.

It's fantastic, and I've been trying to figure out why it's so good aside from it being a really pretty and well put together Metroidvania. I love a good metroidvania...

The main thing is you have these E.M.M. I. things that will hunt down Samus and kill you in one shot. It's very nerve racking at first because all you can do in the beginning is just run from them. Eventually you get power and weapons that help you hide from them and then take them on and luckily the bloody things are stuck to specific rooms or zones in each area of the map.

I've been trying to think of why this feels familiar and it finally clicked. It's basically a simplistic version of Alien: Isolation. The core of Metroid's gameplay isn't the same as Alien Isolation though. It's not just about ruinning and hiding. The core is still a metroidvania, explore, get new abilities to open new areas, fight bosses, rinse and repeat.

What sets Metroid apart from Alien in these little sequences though is there's an action button you can hit to get out of the single hit death mechanic, but has to be hit at the exact right time and there's no real indicator when that is (that I've figured out) and the timing is random. Could be a second, could be 5, entirely random. This adds a bit of diversity to the encounter that I think is absolutely brilliant.

I just picked this up on steam for like 8US but wish I could of found it on switch. Seems like a much better fit for the game.

This is pretty interesting. NVIDIA has been developing, or at least help develop tools that would allow modders to add RTX lighting to almost any game. At least it started out that way, but soon became a tool one can use to exchange assets and textures as well.

Apparently, and this is a very Layman's way of saying this, the tool is able to do this by "interrupting" the drawing of assets, lighting and textures and replacing them with whatever someone wants before they are drawn on screen.

It's sounds overtly complicated, but this video shows precisely how easy the system actually works.

You will need RTXRemix and an Nvidia card of course.

Looking to buy some new games while my parents are in the States.
I was thinking of getting the following:

• Tactics Ogre Reborn


• Metroid Dread


• Mario on drugs


• Collection of Mana


• Deadcells


• Pikmin 4

I'm always looking for a bargain though, so if you know of anything on sale that's worth picking up, let me know.

From a company called Night Dive studios. They've been making remasters of a lot of the old gems and seem to be gathering quite the cult following.

Andy, this is for you my friend.

Holy cow this looks amazing. Rotoscoping for the win.

Is this a new game or a remastering or remake of one of the originals?

I have to admit, the sprite animation in the trailer does look enticing.

Apple has a platform known as Apple Arcade which is very similar to the Microsoft Game Pass, Sony's Playstation Plus and Nintendo's Switch Online platforms. Hell, even Google has Play Pass.

Games as a service are here. You don't technically own anything anymore. You simply rent it for a period of time and play it while it's made available to you.

Thanks Steam for bringing us down this road. Originally, I was against the idea of what Steam was, but never thought it would get this bad.

So Apple had a bunch of games that were on this rental service and now they're removing these 15:

• Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree


• BattleSky Brigade: Harpooner


• Cardpocalypse


• Dead End Job


• Don't Bug Me!


• Dread Nautical


• EarthNight


• Explottens


• Lifeslide


• Over the Alps


• Projection: First Light


• Spelldrifter


• Spidersaurs


• Towaga: Among Shadows


• Various Daylife

The agreement between the devs and Apple was that for a period of time those games would be on the arcade and they would be available to be played for anyone subscribing to the service. The terms are now up and people who play those games will eventually - 2 weeks? be met with a message saying no longer available. The dev can decide if they want to put the game for sale for full purchase on the store after that. People who had the game through the service will need to buy the game to continue playing it.

This raises all sorts of questions regarding ownership and preservation and the like. It still boggles my mind that people are willing to do it this way.

They are saying this is emulation but I'm not sure exactly how it would be.
Maybe just a remote desktop to a workstation running MacOS 8? This hurts my head.

All I know is that this is pretty cool and it's able to run Civilzation 1.

I don't know how many people have the epic launcher - I installed it to get Starwars battlefront but I have a lot of games from the store in there. If you didn't know, Epic gives away free games every week, I think they can do that thanks to all that sweet sweet Fortnite dollary doos.

At any rater, these games aren't always indie games. Sometimes it's the big triple A titles like Starwars Battlefront as I mentioned before. This week, we've got Metro Last Light Redux.

Seriously, all it takes is an epic account which is free to create and then the game is yours forever. Go, do it. Get that account made.

Speaking of Battlefront, it was a 90gig download which was took less time to play, decide it was a terrible game and uninstall it compared to how long it took to download. Seriously, a piece of garbage.

I'm going through my steam library trying to clear it out and have been going through games 1 by 1 when I'm not playing TitanFall 2 (Go pick up titanfall 2 if anything for the single player though the multiplayer is awesome as well).

I picked up Cat Quest a while ago and started playing it yesterday. If you look at the steam page, there are tons of reviews on how great it is. It's aesthetically pleasing for the most part with cute graphics. It's part metroidvania and part souls game.

I had to turn off the music after about an hour though as there seem to only be 3 or 4 songs, each playing on a loop when certain things happen.
It can be a relatively short game too, since I was doing the mini quests and after my 10th or so I realized that the entire game was a fetch quest.

• Go here


• get this thing


• oh shit someone stole it


• chase them to another location and kill them

• Or someone is missing


• go there to find them


• oh shit it's monsters


• kill them quick


• now head back to town

Seriously, even the main missions are like that.

I had to force myself to finish it, and only because the main quest is so short I figured I might as well.

The AI for the monsters varies depending on the mob, but all in all pretty pattern based and pretty simple to figure out.

I've uninstalled it, not planning on playing it again, but I could suggest it if you have an afternoon to burn and it's on super sale for a couple bucks.

Just so many good pixel games to play. Christophe has been playing this and been raving about it. Definitely added to my wish list.

Roguelike RPG with pixel graphics.