Anyone here play video games?
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@T4920 said in Anyone here play video games?:
I assume there's a card that allows you to rearrange your Joker order?
No! You can just do it! Grab a joker (or any card) and rearrange as you please - the order they trigger in can be crucial!
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@Giles said in Anyone here play video games?:
I wish I could find an online translator to translate the above post into something approximating English........
If you can play poker you can start playing Balatro. It's making me nostalgic for learning Solitaire as a nipper on our family's first PC. I gather that the developer is working on an iOS version (at which point global productivity will take a nosedive and economists - those that aren't also distracted by Balatro - will be writing reports puzzling over where people seem to have gone).
Edit: If you've got 9 minutes, watch the below from 3:00 to about 11:30, which gives the basic rules and shows a good example of the dopamine hit you get when something goes your way.
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@EdH bahhhh that Amber Acorn blind can really mess a run up! Is it always at the end of Ante 8?
I had the Egg Joker in first slot that increases in value by two $ every round, a Joker that turns the sell value of everything to it's left into Mult, and a Joker that duplicated the previous one!
The Amber Acorn has the audacity to shuffle the Joker
...Fell short on the last hand, I gotta talk a walk...
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@T4920 Yeah, I've faced that blind. Thankfully so far without having a build which depended too much on the order of Jokers.
What you can do is slow the game speed down in the options menu and then play a test hand pay attention to see what effect is added by each of the hidden jokers. This way you can make an educated guess as to which joker is which and re-order them back to how they should be.
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@RobeOfTheMagi Didn't Death Stranding come to Mac, or was it just iOS? (I'd check out reviews of that one, as while I loved it, it wasn't for everyone.)
One of the recent Resident Evil games came to iOS recently too, possibly also came to Mac? I wanna say it was the remake of Resident Evil 4 but don't quote me on that!
Take the dive...
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@MQR What kind of game are you into? Based on DD2 and your interest in Elden Ring I'm tempted to recommend Demons Souls and Lies of P.
If you want to branch out a bit, then Returnal offered very good third person shooting, bullet-hell elements, and roguelike game progression and was another one of those 'hard' games that people liken to the souls games for its difficulty.
Can't go wrong with the tentpole PS games either. The Last of Us: Part 1 and its sequel, the Spider-Man games, or the recent God of War games were all cracking.
Take the dive...
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@EdH RE 4 was my favourite game for the Game Cube!
I've seen that there is a Monkey Island Release in the Appstore.
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@EdH Thanks for the reference!
Im into anything good offline campaign ( souls, RPG, etc. )
i think i will try returnal and demon souls ( this is a remastered from ps3 version right? )
already played lies of p, last of us 1 & 2, gow and spiderman 1 and miles morales, spiderman 2 i will wait for discount
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@MQR said in Anyone here play video games?:
@EdH
i think i will try returnal and demon souls ( this is a remastered from ps3 version right? )Yep, I was thinking of the remake of Demons Souls which is on PS5.
Returnal is great fun. Give it a minute to get its claws into you, but once you figure out the rhythm of the combat it’s got that wonderful ‘flow state’ quality.
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@JoshC yeah I could definitely use some “skill building” type games to help me improve. I’ve played a few times with random squads and some of the better players have taken pity on me and helped drag me along. It’s pretty fun if you get a good group. My kids really love teaching me so it’s been fun for everyone I think.
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I recently finished playing Pentiment on my PS5. The game has been on XBox and PC for a while already, but came to the PS5 a few months back under Microsoft's recent push to release its games on more platforms.
The narrative is excellent. I could easily see the story re-written as a period novel.
You play as Andreas Maler, a journeyman artist completing his masterpiece (required to attain the rank of 'Master') in 1518. He is doing this work at an abbey in the fictional Bavarian town of Tassing when a visiting Baron is brutally murdered and one of the monks with whom Andreas is close is blamed. Armed with a short list of alternative suspects, Andreas must gather evidence to present to the court to try and clear his friend's name before the judge arrives in a couple of days' time.
You do this by discussing events with the brilliantly written townspeople, finding clues in the environment, and making the odd deduction.
There's some replayability by virtue of the fact that you won't have enough time to fully investigate each suspect - you're left with a nagging feeling that you did your best, but did your evidence condemn an innocent person to death? - so you should play it through at least twice to see all possible avenues of enquiry. You also get to make some choices early in the game about Andreas' prior life experience which open up some dialogue options and close others. Your choices in dialogue will in turn also affect how other characters react to Andreas and whether he forms friendships or fosters animosity with the other townsfolk.
The early bubbling of what would become the Reformation and lead to the German Peasant's War provides a wider political backdrop to events, with subtle impact on the story. There is also a wider conspiracy at work which, once you've seen the ending, is subtly hinted at throughout the game if you pay attention. It has that satisfying quality that a movie with a twist ending has, where repeat watchings give you those 'aha' moments when you notice something which foreshadows the twist.
Artistically, the game has been heavily influenced by the Nuremburg Chronicle, with the characters and world drawn in a flat, medieval style. Yet the characters remain surprisingly emotive despite this self-imposed limitation by the developers.
I highly recommend it if you are after a particular type of experience. The game is very narrative driven, with almost no gameplay to speak of besides movement and pressing X to enter and progress conversations with other characters and make selections between different responses. But for a narrative that stuck with me and had me thinking about it for days after completing my first playthrough, I can't recommend it highly enough.
I dunno if you're into video games, @endo, but I thought you in particular might get a kick out of this given the setting and your interest in early Christendom.
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Thanks for this review and the recommendation @EdH I do play video games, for almost 40 years. Started on a Commodore C64, later early PC games, console for the last 15 years, currently also on a PS5. Apart from my faith, most of all I love shooting Nazis and zombies. But your review sounds very interesting and the setting reminds me of ‚The Name of the Rose‘ (but later in time). All in all the advent and early years of the reformation were fascinating times. Will have a look at it. Thank you.
