robio said:

Okay, I guess I'm confusing them then. For some reason I thought that one was called championship edition DX. But yeah, the one with the chains of chasing ghosts and bombs was awesome. That's the one I spent hours and hours and hours playing.

Nah, you are right. I was the one that was confused (insert old man joke here). I was thinking DX+ was called CE2. I redownloaded all three games on Steam today. CE2 is like DX+ but with an added a jump button and a ton of unlockable gameplay modes. I blame Namo for their confusing Pac-man naming scheme.

This weekend I've mostly played Super Mario World. I started with a new game yesterday. I intend to beat it without activating the color block palace switches. I've never tried that before.

aspro said:

I was prepping the artwork for tomorrow's podcast on which I'll be talking about Princess Peach Showtime, so used an AI generator.  I used this as a seed image:

and told it I wanted a dystopian photograph version of it.

I thin kit did pretty well given the challenge!

Which one of you bit the bullet and played it lol? I've been busy the last few weeks but finally am open again. If you need any FF7, BG3, Balatro talk I'm your guy.

Dvader said:

Which one of you bit the bullet and played it lol? I've been busy the last few weeks but finally am open again. If you need any FF7, BG3, Balatro talk I'm your guy.

I did. I could have you on today for Balatro if you are on discord when I record.

Dvader said:

I started Inscryption for the first time, wow this game is brilliant. Still early on but what an addictive loop, great card game to build, loads of mystery and secrets. It's so well done.

Never heard of it.

Huge Indie Switch sale has 24 hours left.

I got

Never type Kathy Rain into an image search. There's an adult actress lol.

Now have enough cash for one expensive game or three to four cheap ones.

Been playing Snowrunner all weekend. This game is a beast.

I mean I'd call it one of those whale games that you can dedicate most of your gaming time to. But it's not some live service multiplayer battle royale. It's just packed with game content and multiple massive open world maps.

Given all the years worth of dlc, I could probably play this game well into 2025.

It's looks amazing BTW, on anything more powerful than switch, I'd check out some videos. I'm surprised this game doesn't have more buzz around it.

It's like an open world trucking rpg. You start with crappy vehicles, upgrade them, find and recover new vehicles. Repair bridges.and rockslides.

You pick up and move cargo about the map. Do challenges, contests. There's a fully functional economy system, things to buy and sell. Tons of different trailers and attachments to buy and sell.

You can deep dive into customization, I recently bought new chunky offload tyres and a raised suspension for my jeep. The difference in performance and handling was massive.

It's a really great game.

Ravenprose said:

Top Spin 2k25 is coming out later this week. I haven't played a tennis game since Virtua tennis on Dreamcast. Kinda tempted to get it.

aspro said:

Beware. I've had bad experience with 2K's golf game, so they may have junked it up with microtransactions.

I bought a tennis game the other day without researching --  AO Tennis (Australian Open, not an adult only version), assuming it would be great, because every tennis game I've ever played on consoles was great (except the Mario Tennis one for Wii U).  It sucked hard. Non-responsive controls, poor soudn, poor graphics and long load times.

On the topic of tennis, I am fond of the expression, "Does love mean nothing in tennis?"

All of the sports games I've bought this gen are full of microtransctions. I just ignore them. Top Spin is getting good reviews 8/10 at Push Square, for instance.

I'm more annoyed by always online connection requirements for single player, especially when it takes 3 times longer to connect to their servers than to load the game from my PS5's SSD...I'm looking at you, EA!

Types "Kathy Rain" Thanks, GG!