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After a good week at work I've been rewarded with a new earworm, a
throwback funk piece from a K-pop outfit called One Pact. It's better
than it has any right to be.

Play:
--=--

Binary Domain (PS3) - I really, really wanted to like Binary Domain. I
do not like Binary Domain. I had one save file from like 2010-ish or
something from when I first started playing, and I literally have no
memory of what the game was like or why I bounced off of it before. This
time around I made my way deep into the tutorial intro thing and I found
that I'm just not suited to third-person shooters at all in any way. I
get that there's something vaguely Yakuza-like once you get out of
combat, and the characters are engaging enough to a point, but I can't
get past how noisy and uninteresting all of the gunplay is. Proper Like
a Dragon games are always portraying something entertaining and fun in my view, and I'm just not willing to get through all the shooty stuff to
get to the moderately wacky character interactions. The street fighting
and martial arts portrayed in RGG Studio's other games was always going
to more fun and more interesting to me.

Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (PS3) - What's going on? Why do I need to register a U-play account? Why can't I register a U-play account? Why is
the game pushing me to play multiplayer if the servers are down? Why
won't the boat go where I want it to? Why are all the UI elements off in different corners of the screen so that I can't tell what to do or
what's important information? I don't play a lot of Ubisoft games, are
they all confusing like this?

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (PS%) - I spoiled by perfect 69
hour completion time by spending another five hours getting Pirate
points to finish levelling Majima up. I thought I had maximum HP, but it
turns out I need another 220,000 (and some money besides) to get a tenth level. That means doing shogi puzzles and the Sicko Snap flasher
photography minigame in order to unlock treasures so that I can earn
points quickly, and from completing treasure series. Sadly it looks like
my next best option now is to either win all the pirate coliseum matches
or to win all of the Dragon Kart races to get the remaining points I
need.

Want:
--=--

A Gigabit Ethernet port mod for Playstation 3 (PS3) - That is all.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who hopes his American tax return made it safely through the mail.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PC) - dating from 2020, this one must be close
to the limit of what my N100's GPU can run in any remotely tolerable
way. It's possible to get it running at about 25-30 fps with mostly
low settings (with texture and geometry options bumped up from the
minimum to stop it looking too much like a dodgy PS2 game) by using a
50% scale in 720p - so presumably the actual rendering is at a mere
640x360. Nice.

Anyway, I'm not sure how I feel about both the new character (so to
speak) and the switch to RPG gameplay in this. But so far it's... not
bad, at least. And it's curious how readily the original brawler
approach converts to the RPG battles used here.

Tempest 4000 (PC) - gradually working my restart point onto later
levels, though I seem to have a real talent for losing lives on the
way.

Rayman 2 (PC) - I doubt I'll play through this again (I played it on
the Dreamcast decades ago), but it was so cheap I got it just to try
out this version. It's still decent for an old 3D platformer I
suppose, but having camera control that will only turn left or right
and not up or down - and sometimes won't even let you do left/right -
is a special kind of joy at this point. I'm also not sure if a
platformer should really require a strafe button.

Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (PS3) - What's going on? Why do I need to register a U-play account? Why can't I register a U-play account? Why is
the game pushing me to play multiplayer if the servers are down? Why
won't the boat go where I want it to? Why are all the UI elements off in different corners of the screen so that I can't tell what to do or
what's important information? I don't play a lot of Ubisoft games, are
they all confusing like this?

Probably. But there's no Uplay harassment in Rayman 2, at least. :-)

Want:

More PC games to have as many graphics settings as Y:LAD does. I
expect this mostly seems unusual to me due to it being the newest PC
game I've tried, but even just the scale option to render at a lower
res and scale it up is something I can tell I'm going to miss having
in some games which lack it.

Bin:

Y:LAD's game data being spread across literally 8000+ separate files.

-Rus.
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