Games

I am continuing to play through morrowind

Nwah! This is my Skyrim. I should start another game... Anyways! It's been, uh, a while since my last post. I continued to avoid my Mass Effect and BG3^[That said, a friend hinted at wanting to do a co-op run, so now there is a fire growing under my ass to make progress...] saves by playing a bunch of classics.

First on my list was Ground Control. I played it long ago when it first came out, but (unwisely) sold it to GameStop after beating it. It's an early 2000s RTS that completely does away with base building. Instead you configure your dropship loadout before a mission like XCom or Total War multiplayer games. Unlike other RTSs, there isn't a traditional early-mid-late game progression, instead relying on a good army composition where each unit has multiple roles. It definitely suffers from being an early 3D strategy game, with wonky camera controls and AI that definitely cheats^[Cheats as in enemy-artillary-somehow-sees-my-units-from-behind-a-mountain cheese], and (most sadly :boohoo:) no skirmish mode against computers, so only the single player campaign is available. Despite these problems, the game itself has a fun tactical feel where every class has it's purpose. I'm planning on skipping the DLC and moving on to the sequel.

Next my nephew is making me play another game of Ocarina of Time. I've created a monster! Good thing this is a comfort game. This time I'm playing using the Zelda Recompilation project, specifically the Ship of Harkinian port. It's so weird seeing this game played at high framerates! I've also introduced SoH to a friend who never played OoT before, so I'm quietly hyping him up for it. In other news, now that the Banjo-Kazooie project has a release, I'll have to pick that up as well. Additionally I also installed 2 Ship 2 Harkinian (Majora's Mask), Spaghettikart (Mario Kart 64), and Starship (Star Fox 64). I'm currently watching Goldeneye with interest, and holding perennial hope for Jet Force Gemini...

I had some friends over for a weekend, and I decided to dust off my VR headset and run SUPERHOT VR for them to play. It's my favorite VR game right now^[Elite Dangerous is looking angrily in my direction. I'll get to you eventually...] and a great introduction to VR for somebody new. You feel like you're in the Matrix and it's incredible.

Last but not least, I ran a fun single-session D&D campaign for a bunch of family kids who never played it before. They got hyped on it from watching Stranger Things and wanted to play themselves. They are all becoming geeks under my tutelage :sickubus: :sicko-satan: all part of the plan :curry-space: