What are you playing?

[Bebpo]

Finished Monkey Island 1. That was great. A couple of obscure puzzles aside, the game's still a classic and a really fun adventure. The puzzles aren't even as tough as I remembered them. Nothing like some of the Sierra nonsense. Puzzle difficulty outside a couple spots is pretty normal.

Definitely fun re-examining it in light of all the stuff in Return to MI.

Time to start MI2!

[Himu]

Oh, earlier I said Return was better but I meant MI2. I vastly prefer it to 1.

[Himu]

Also, Sierra games were nonsense.

[Bebpo]

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

Finished part 1 the Largo Embargo of MI2 and got off Scabb Island. Man, I don't know if I every actually beat MI2 as a kid. I remember the intro but this does not feel familiar at all whereas all the parts of MI1 felt familiar. Not sure why I wouldn't have beaten it. I liked MI1 and definitely beat MI3 (still have the PC box sitting around here) and definitely at least played MI2 since I remember the intro. Idk, maybe unlike MI1 where I probably played it a few times, maybe I just played MI2 once.

Anyhow, it makes this a fresh experience since I don't remember anything from it. Part I was solid. I'm sticking with retro visuals for the MI2 SE but the scene specific developer audio commentary with Gilbert, Grossman and Schafer is great and really enjoying checking out those bits each time they pop up.

Oh, earlier I said Return was better but I meant MI2. I vastly prefer it to 1.

Yeah, I always get the impression everyone likes MI2 over MI1.

[Bebpo]

Got 1 of the 4 map pieces. This game is...kinda of tedious. Not having as much fun as MI1 or Return. Going back and forth over and over again between all these islands and then walking across the island maps and trying something and then over and over again and the library with 100 potential books you can check out.../sigh. Feels like work. Also you have like 30 things in your inventory at any time.

I guess some people like that level of complexity in their PnC adventure games. I find it tedious. I'm not a big fan of a ton of locations to go back and forth between when solving puzzles. Return to MI does the multi-island puzzles thing in a way that's "dumbed down" compared to this, but also a lot less effort and more fun imo.

Will try to get the rest of the pieces tomorrow and finish up this part. Enjoyed the smaller scope part 1 of MI2 a lot more so far.

There's a bit at the 15:43 timestamp where they talk exactly about it and annoying players like me lol

[Joe Molotov]

Trails to Zero/Azure has got me wanting to get back in to the Trails series. I just wanna play some old JRPG-ass JRPGs. I still had my clear save from Trails in the Sky FC, and I imported it into TitS SC and played through the first chapter on my Steam Deck. It scratches an itch.

[Bebpo]

The nested questlines in MI2 are insane. I'm almost 100% sure now this is the reason I never finished this game as a kid. Even as an adult with a walkthrough and hints I barely have the patience for this.

This is definitely up there with the hardest point and click adventure games of all time. I googled "hardest point n' click adventure games of all time" and reassuringly MI2 was on a lot of lists with some other stuff.

Some of it is nonsensical too and without a guide I'd have never guessed some of it. Like Monkey Island 1 has a few BS puzzles where like you need to know Italian to figure out the yellow flowers are cause sleeping or know what red herring's literary definition is, but MI2 is just as bad, plus it constantly trolls you. Like you pick up a map piece in the Marley mansion and then it gets taken off you and thrown out the window, then you chase it on the ground and then it flies to a cliff side, then you get it off the cliff and then a seagull takes it. Like it's just designed to laugh at you and make every step of progression as difficult as possible.

There's also a lot of puzzles that aren't even puzzles but just designed to waste time. Like you get an oar to use as a stepping stone and you step on it and then it breaks and it's like "oh I need to go to the woodsman to get the wooden item repaired". That's not a puzzle. That's just wasting your time to make you leave the island and go get it fixed and come back. Just tedium.

This is not my kind of game. I'm finishing it out, but mostly just for the experience to see the rest of it, not because it's particularly fun.

I'm probably not gonna replay MI3 after this because this is basically burning me out on adventure games for a while. Ready to play a different genre.

[bork]

It definitely sounds like you're burned out. Maybe take a break and stop playing it for a while.

I don't recall Monkey Island 2 being that difficult.  I played through it when I was around 13 or 14 and didn't have that much trouble from what I remember, but I definitely need to look at some guides or ask for help here and there.

I'd like to replay the first two games to see how I feel about them now for sure.

[Bebpo]

Some of it is just obscure, like monkey wrench wtfffff

Anyhow, found all the map piece and finished part II. Maybe the rest will be more straight forward like Part I. I did like some stuff in part II like searching for the underwater shipwreck. But lots of it was a really pain in the butt.

[bork]

What am I not playing: Call Of Duty.

Had some fun with the MW2 open beta and decided to reinstall both MW 2019 and Black Ops Cold War on PC.  Vanguard was still installed, but I never played much of it due to the game having so many problems at launch.  This stuff got fixed, but I just never got into the game.

MW 2019: Had some issues running it at first, but then it started working and...dunno.  Wasn't feeling it as much.  Might try again later.

Cold War: Just got a black screen when launching the game.  Repaired the files, reinstalled, restarted, allowed the launcher as a firewall exception, and doing that last bit worked, but the game would crash after the logos came up.  Tried it on my laptop- same issues, so wasn't a problem specific to my desktop.  Checked Treyarch's twitter and the game broke after they did an update a few hours ago.

Vanguard: This is shit.  Uninstalled.

So for now am just waiting for Cold War to be fixed.

[tiesto]

Made it to the final dungeon of XB3, but still have a bunch of quests to catch up on first. And a few level 90 cavern depths to explore.

However, I just got my copy of Trails to Zero, which I've been waiting forever for...

So I'm debating if I should just finish up XB3 and grind out these quests, or shelve it and catass Trails.

[Potato]

All this Monkey Island talk reminded me that I've never played them and I have had the special editions of the first two games in my Steam library for years.

Playing the first one now

[Bebpo]

Finished Monkey Island 2. That ending wtf

Overall I like the game but the end stuff seemed kinda rushed and ho-hum. I think the game starts strong and then the giant open ended bulk of the game is interesting but I'd probably like it more on a replay knowing generally what to do.

Also probably one of the only adventure games where like 1/5th of the items you can pick up in the game are never used and just take up a ton of inventory space (and using items doesn't get rid of them from your inventory usually, so your inventory just keeps growing and growing the whole game). It's kind of a weird experimental game the more I think about it.

[Bebpo]

Made it to the final dungeon of XB3, but still have a bunch of quests to catch up on first. And a few level 90 cavern depths to explore.

However, I just got my copy of Trails to Zero, which I've been waiting forever for...

So I'm debating if I should just finish up XB3 and grind out these quests, or shelve it and catass Trails.

There are a lot of quests in XB3. Like dozens and dozens of hours of quests.

I'd probably just play Zero and get back to them.

[Bebpo]

Started playing Curse of Monkey Island. Pretty funny it's just using an old version of ScummVM on Steam.

The animation is still pretty incredible. I can't believe they animated all the actions. I wonder if Curse is the best looking 2d PnC game of all time, though the art style is subjective and the game is held back by the resolution of its time frame (would be crazy if they could ever do an SE with the original non-compressed clean art).

[paprikastaude]

I played MI 1 for the first time myself a while back. I really liked the exploration and puzzle variety during the first part. When you get on your ship though, it became all the pixel hunting and trial and error that you don't care for in these games. Never got back to it.

[MMaRsu]

Started playing Curse of Monkey Island. Pretty funny it's just using an old version of ScummVM on Steam.

The animation is still pretty incredible. I can't believe they animated all the actions. I wonder if Curse is the best looking 2d PnC game of all time, though the art style is subjective and the game is held back by the resolution of its time frame (would be crazy if they could ever do an SE with the original non-compressed clean art).

I started with CMI3 when I was younger and eventually played 1 and 2. Never finished those tho, the special editions just didnt really gel with me.

CMI3 is still the best Monkey Island as far as Im concerned.

For new players I would still even advise that game. Artstyle is just amazing.

[Joe Molotov]

I love Curse of Monkey Island, the art style and animation was incredible, and the guy that voiced Guybrush was great. If there was ever an HD remaster of the original assets I would cream.

[MMaRsu]

Well the new one is really good too

https://twitter.com/devolverdigital/status/1574817734256369665

[Polident Hive]

Deathloop on PS5 has a ridiculous amount of adjustment options.

Tried this flick stick aiming mode. Heard about it before and how it solves aiming on joypads. That may be the case after a learning curve. Conceptually I get it. In practice, it’s disorienting for me. Right stick moves the camera like it’s shooting in Smash TV and Geometry Wars. Down on the analog does a 180 and aims behind you. Any vertical aiming and fine aiming is motion controlled.

Too much for me. Option for motion aiming with the left trigger held is nice. I’ll still prefer to try it on PC. The youtube benchmarks I’ve seen, on slightly better hardware, have it struggling to hit 60 FPS on low settings at 900p. So unfair how a game in 2021 won’t run at ultra 4K 144hz on my 2014 mid range PC.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, I can't click with this gyro/flick stuff. But then again I've never had an issue with how FPS games control on a controller. Though I don't play competitively and just on normal difficulties.

[Polident Hive]

Yeah. Last competitive console shooter I played isn’t coming to mind. Must’ve been on Xbox 360 or PS3. Being able to whip around quickly would’ve been helpful, from what I remember. Going way back, when Japan was figuring out shooters, you had Lost Planet where the bumpers turned you 90 degrees.

Anyway, no chance I can play this on my desktop PC. Dropped to 720p to get a smooth frame rate. Game seems cool enough to not spoil the experience.

[Svejk]

Well, you guys certainly have me wanting to play MI now.  Gonna be away from home for about a week and have Secret of Monkey Island on my phone.  Guess it's time I finally start playing these.  ScummVM has improved nicely since I last tried it on my phone, so that's good.

[Bebpo]

Well, you guys certainly have me wanting to play MI now.  Gonna be away from home for about a week and have Secret of Monkey Island on my phone.  Guess it's time I finally start playing these.  ScummVM has improved nicely since I last tried it on my phone, so that's good.

Enjoy and don't be afraid to use a guide or the Universal Hint System which gives you a hint at a time. There are bits in the game that almost everyone had to use a guide to figure out. But it's mostly pretty reasonable that you can figure out as you go.

https://www.uhs-hints.com/uhsweb/hints/monkey/3.php

I played MI 1 for the first time myself a while back. I really liked the exploration and puzzle variety during the first part. When you get on your ship though, it became all the pixel hunting and trial and error that you don't care for in these games. Never got back to it.

Yeah, both MI1 and MI2 have had a decent amount of pixel hunting. A lot of times I'd check the walkthrough for a hint and find out it was just something I missed that existed somewhere in the screen but I didn't see it. Like MI1 on Monkey Island itself I completely missed the fort because it was just a few pixels on the map and didn't look like anything. There's also some especially evil ones for an object has a description/interact point but somewhere on the object there is another interact point so you click on the main object and it doesn't work and you move on.

For example MI2 on Phatt Island

spoiler (click to show/hide)

In the Jail cell that you're locked in (the pirates ride scene) you try to use the stick on the skeleton body in the next cell and it does nothing so I got stumped but if you hover to the foot of the skeleton body it's described separately as "bone" and then stick on bone works.

[close]

Still I'd go back to MI1 when you get a chance. I honestly think the back half of MI1 is pretty good and quick and works well outside a few bits. The ending is great too which is rare for Ron Gilbert lol

[Bebpo]

It's kind of interesting now after actually playing a couple hours of Curse in that the writing difference from MI1/2/Return is reaaaally noticeable. Like all the cynicism is gone and it's a "friendly" pirate game for kids.

I'm finding all the dialogue and writing pretty boring on Plunder Island.

Like so far I'd say:

MI1 - Guybrush is kind of a very blunt one track minded mildly jerk
MI2 - Guybrush is an extremely shitty person and this game is mean to every NPC
MI3 - Guybrush is...a nice guy?

Return to MI - Guybrush is kind of a jerk but it's not purposeful and he's more a clueless sociopath

Like one instance of this is in MI2 you can introduce yourself to pretty much every NPC as "I'm Guybrush Threepwood and I'm here to kill you" whereas MI3 just goes back to the "I'm selling fine leather jackets" gag.

[Bebpo]

You know, the weirdest thing about Ron Gilbert is that after making more and more cynical games from Maniac Mansion up to Monkey Island 2 which is dark, cynical and mean-spirited, he then quits Lucasarts and makes...a company for edutainment games making silly happy games for little kids? Weird flex. And Dave Grossman joined him there after another year or two. Only Schafer stuck around making more grown up humor stuff with Full Throttle and Grim Fandango.

Did Lucasarts just a miserable place to work at in 1990?

[Himu]

How does one even play MI3? I've never played it.

[Bebpo]

How does one even play MI3? I've never played it.

It's on GOG and Steam and runs fine on modern computers since it's using ScummVM. Sells for $6.

[MMaRsu]

Yeah its on steam

[Bebpo]

Got to Act IV in Curse of MI now at Blood Island.

I feel like I'm kind of at the point in the Monkey Island series where it's like do I keep playing these games just to play them, or if I'm in the PnC adventure game mood, should I be spending this time on much better games in the genre I still have in my backlog.

Like Curse is ok. But outside the visuals it's a dull game and I feel like the puzzles are even worse than MI2. I'll finish Curse out, but then it's like do I really want to waste time on Escape from MI and the Tales of MI games? Whereas I could be playing Gilbert's Thimbleweed Park, or the last Wadjet Eye published game I haven't played yet Strangeland, or their new published game that just came out today The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. Or maybe it's even time to sit down and play that Double Fine Broken Age I backed like ten years ago in the kickstarter. Eventually I'll get to them all, but it's just like deciding whether to shortcut to them (aka better games) by skipping MI4/5 or finish this out.

At this point I'm feeling the overall conclusion that only Monkey Island 1/2/Return are worth playing these days. But I've never played Escape from MI and I never finished Tales of MI so making assumptions there and could be surprised. I hear some people really like the last couple of chapters of Tales of MI.

[Rufus]

Curse was my first MI, I think. Probably why I have fond memories of it. I only recently found out that a lot of MI fans hated the art for it. It's traditional to hate the sequel's art. My favourite Point'n'Click series remains Broken Sword, I think. It does help that the localization was amazing.

Some of it is just obscure, like monkey wrench wtfffff

This was completely hopeless when translated. The Rubber chicken with a pulley from MI was bad, too. But that was obscure for everyone, I think.

Mindlessly trying everything was the only way I got past those bits as a kid. Adventure games deserved to die languish in obscurity.

[Himu]

Broken Sword

[Bebpo]

Trails in the Black II is actually changing the formula somewhat. Color me surprised. FF13-2 style timeline branching paths, multiple lead character chapters with chapter select and dungeon crawler sidegame from Reverie, bad tailing missions from Judgment.

Also now that I'm a bit in, I am surprised but Falcom actually managed to make a nice looking 3d game on the PS5. There's a lot of nice tech touches with reflections and hero lighting and what looks like SSAO and the characters look great with perfect IQ.

The music is also a huge step up from the first game.

I still am not a big fan of this Calvard arc's battle system and the game is still way too talky like Cold Steel onwards, but some good improvements,

[Bebpo]

The music in Kuro II feels like good Falcom music. Been a while. I love this big band strip club music they've got going on. Reminds me of the Crossbell game osts.

[Bebpo]

Some more good tunes:





I think they got someone new on their composing team for this game. Some of it sounds kinda fresh for Falcom.

Also for an idea of the graphics these days in Trails:

[HardcoreRetro]

Damn, they finally matched crossgen PS2/PS3 graphics.

[Nintex]

Trails in the Black II is actually changing the formula somewhat. Color me surprised. FF13-2 style timeline branching paths, multiple lead character chapters with chapter select and dungeon crawler sidegame from Reverie, bad tailing missions from Judgment.

Also now that I'm a bit in, I am surprised but Falcom actually managed to make a nice looking 3d game on the PS5. There's a lot of nice tech touches with reflections and hero lighting and what looks like SSAO and the characters look great with perfect IQ.

The music is also a huge step up from the first game.

I still am not a big fan of this Calvard arc's battle system and the game is still way too talky like Cold Steel onwards, but some good improvements,

What's the battle system like? I can't find any footage of it. Just cut scenes and exploration and that's giving me Xenoblade vibes 

[Rahxephon91]

Valkyrie Elysium is a fun action game. Maybe not what people wanted. Very low budget. But pretty good game so far.

[tiesto]

Bebs, is Kuro 2 a retread of Kuro 1 areas or is it new areas?

[Bebpo]

What's the battle system like? I can't find any footage of it. Just cut scenes and exploration and that's giving me Xenoblade vibes 

It's a turn-based game with free positioning movement ala Grandia. Certain skills are positional for extra damage and magic spells set an AoE marker that players and enemies can move out of the way if they get a turn before the cast point.

The only thing they're really missing is a combo system like Grandia/Star Ocean/Shadow Hearts that takes advantage of positioning to create team combos (player knocksback enemy into path of attack of next player's spell, etc...)

In the latest game Kuro/Black they added a real-time system that is just a mash and dodge thing that you can use to take out trash enemies. If you stun them and then start turn-based battle you get a persona team like damage attack against all the enemies and you start with them stunned so it puts you in a better position.

I took a video of me rushing through an optional dungeon area for a sidequest. I'm not playing well and just fucking around but this should give some idea of the combat:



And this is a boss fight. A famous thing in the series is you can fire off the ultimate attacks at any time by a character if they have enough CP. The downside is it uses up all your CP (which is used for your non-magic special attacks) and it drops you back pretty far in the queue afterwards. But it's good for just instantly wiping out a bunch of enemies or finishing a boss before it can kill you like I do in this fight.



There's also a high speed fast-forward button and you can skip animations with start so I'm skipping some of the animations and FF at points in these vids.

[Bebpo]

Bebs, is Kuro 2 a retread of Kuro 1 areas or is it new areas?

Can't tell yet.

Kuro replaces the school base in Cold Steel with a home city base which is like the size of Crossbell or bigger. So in Kuro 1 you'd spend the first part of each chapter doing the city stuff -> go somewhere and do a story there like you would in Cold Steel with the School.

Kuro II starts off with going to new locations for the non-city parts, but then it re-uses the city again for the city parts (though it does add new city sections which are pretty nice looking and more complex than Kuro 1 city areas).

I'm still in Ch.1, 15 hours in. I did the go somewhere part of the chapter and now I'm doing the city part. Will find out next chapter if they start re-using the locations you visit. I have to imagine you'd go back to some of them since they were kind of important Calvard cities.

[Nintex]

Combat looks fun that fast forward button is something that more games could use.

[Joe Molotov]

I'm getting pretty deep into Trails in the Sky SC. Like 25 hours, so maybe 1/4th of the way thru lol. Enjoy these out-of-context screenshots.

[tiesto]

What's the battle system like? I can't find any footage of it. Just cut scenes and exploration and that's giving me Xenoblade vibes 

It's a turn-based game with free positioning movement ala Grandia. Certain skills are positional for extra damage and magic spells set an AoE marker that players and enemies can move out of the way if they get a turn before the cast point.

The only thing they're really missing is a combo system like Grandia/Star Ocean/Shadow Hearts that takes advantage of positioning to create team combos (player knocksback enemy into path of attack of next player's spell, etc...)

In the latest game Kuro/Black they added a real-time system that is just a mash and dodge thing that you can use to take out trash enemies. If you stun them and then start turn-based battle you get a persona team like damage attack against all the enemies and you start with them stunned so it puts you in a better position.

I took a video of me rushing through an optional dungeon area for a sidequest. I'm not playing well and just fucking around but this should give some idea of the combat:



And this is a boss fight. A famous thing in the series is you can fire off the ultimate attacks at any time by a character if they have enough CP. The downside is it uses up all your CP (which is used for your non-magic special attacks) and it drops you back pretty far in the queue afterwards. But it's good for just instantly wiping out a bunch of enemies or finishing a boss before it can kill you like I do in this fight.



There's also a high speed fast-forward button and you can skip animations with start so I'm skipping some of the animations and FF at points in these vids.

Can't wait till 2030 to play this, and then still have a bunch of untranslated text and stale internet memes because NIS fucking sucks

[Bebpo]

Who did the Sky localization? I really liked the dialogue in those three.
Is Zero noticeably worse?

The dialogue in Cold Steel onward is nothing special in Japanese though, so can't imagine it's too much of downgrade. It's pretty generic anime stuff.

[Bebpo]

https://twitter.com/GENSOUFGO/status/1577185652911009792

Hmmm, yeah I just hit ch.2 at 22 hours in Kuro II and it feels like a weird filler game. Side stories are fine, but Kuro 1 was very slow paced 150 hours long, and if Kuro 2 is very slow paced 150 hours long side story game...yeah, Falcom continues to not know what they're doing with this franchise after Cold Steel 2.

Imagine playing Sky FC and then instead of SC, you play 3rd and it's 150 hours and then a year later SC actually comes out. At least Kuro 1 didn't end on a cliffhanger, so while there's setup that you're waiting for to happen, if you gotta wait another game it isn't dreadful. It's just weird that I'm playing a filler game as game #2 in a country arc.

My pet theory is that Falcom can't actually make a full Trails game every year anymore at this level of 3d jrpg production, so they have a B-team that does a weird side game in the alternate years to give the main team 2 years dev team on the real entries. The B-team did Hajimari, A-team did Kuro I, wouldn't be surprised if Kuro II was done by the Hajimari team.

The problem with that is I don't think players will put up with side games between each main game entry in the series when these games are over 100 hours and people want the stories to progress.

[The Sceneman]

Beat AKUMU mode on The Evil Within. Again. Did it on the Xbox360 version about 5 years ago and am now gunning for full completion of the Xbox One edition. Such a damn fine game. Next stop the speed run with brass knuckles then the DLC.

Also finished the Reunion DLC in Dicey Dungeons . Superb content, really mixes up the gameplay, the new Robot episode is a must play, as it changes the game mechanics from dice to coin flips with some spiffy new UI. GREAT free content. It didn't even add any new cheevos and I still played it which is saying something

[Svejk]

Starting Act 3 of Returnal.  Had a single run to biome 4 getting the sun fragments in each.  Just 2 more to get the true ending.

[Joe Molotov]

Estelle weighs in on Jan 6.

[thetylerrob]

She's clearly been brainwashed by the Liberl media.

Your silly screenshot posts have gotten me to pick up TITS: The 3rd again. I had put it down last year as I was playing through this series because it felt like a perfect Steam deck game and I think I made the right decision. I'm having a better time with it now than I was playing it on a desktop.

[Svejk]

Working my way through Act 3 of Returnal to get the true ending.  Since getting past biome 3 initially, I've only died once since.  Act 3 basically has you go through the 6 biomes again looking for sun fragments; 1 in each biome.  Got all 6, and now just need to play through biomes 4-6 again and fight the last boss again to unlock the final ending.  Absolutely destroying it though.  Having a total blast with this game.   I had to suspend my cycle at the end of biome 4 because it was getting late.. Haven’t decided if I should go directly to biome 6 from 4, or go through some of 5 to find a higher rank Electropylon Driver.  What an OP weapon that is, but it makes runs easier, especially for biome 6.  Plus, it makes short work of the last boss, which is cake actually, so not too concerned.  The bosses in this game are nothing compared to certain mid-bosses.


Here’s me making short work of the last boss.    That barrier shield is nuts how much it blocks. 




Hope to have it complete this weekend.  Not sure if I want to attempt the platty or not... It all boils down to RNG, so may not be worth my time.  But I'm ending up absolutely LOVING this game. 

[chronovore]

LTTP: Started Valheim yesterday. For as many familiar elements as there are, as a 3rd person, viking flavored Minecraft with boss fights, there are plenty of little curbs on which to stub my toes in its learning curve. Procedural map generation, so YMMV but I couldn't find rocks to make a basic stone axe for the first 30 minutes, so I was basically, "Tree-Puncher: The Punchening" until that got sorted. It's also a bit whack on the weapon durability, and stone axes and the first bow-and-arrow are ridiculously fragile.

Still fun though.

[MMaRsu]

Rocks are everywhere on the ground!

So much content and goodness in Valheim

[Bebpo]

One thing I really like about the new Calvard arc in the Trails series is they put a lot of effort into NPC placement and animation for even NPCs you can't talk to, to make it seem like they have their own lives and stories. It really makes the areas feel alive in a role playing way. Very good environmental storytelling.

I really feel like these Calvard games is when Trails finally is a good looking 3d jrpg.

[Joe Molotov]

They look good, maybe they'll be out in the US by the time I get there!

[Polident Hive]

Left Alive is on the PlayStation Gamepass. Played some of it. If I didn’t know better, I’d think it’s a PS2 remaster. Like playing Spy Fiction or Operation Winback 2. Just a janky stealth action game.

[Bebpo]

Not sure why you can fish in a fountain, but I'll roll with it.

[Rufus]

(Image removed from quote.)

Not sure why you can fish in a fountain, but I'll roll with it.

Be sure to use a magnetic lure.

[Svejk]

 Picked up Saints Row The Third Remastered and Stick of Truth for $16 on the recent PSN sale.  After being burned on the SR reboot, still had a yearning for some Row.  And Stick of Truth, I started a game on my laptop awhile back through Ubisoft launcher, but never finished it.  Need to finally let loose, get ripped and laugh with some gamez. 

[Bebpo]

Also, I realized I haven't shown off the greatest improvement to come to the Trails series that Calvard brings.

JRPG BASKETBALL





(it's actually a pretty fun mini-game and one of their better ones

Also a special shout out for being able to go to the movie theaters and watch fake movies like Trails series version of JAWS complete with guy getting eaten by generic jrpg monster.