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Maturin said:
Anyone played Terraria? Was thinking of getting it.
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That used to be almost an addiction for me a couple of years back. For some reason that got me way more than Minecraft did. It should work for you if you prefer to have the game set a goal for you, instead of just letting you do whatever.
 
I haven't but I bet I'd like it for its Metroid-like qualities. And I've heard a lot of praise.
 
What's the cost of that thing? I got a secondhand Wii from a friend, installed homebrew, emulators, USB disk support, etc. Last revamp of the software and everything I did in 2011. So now I have the complete collection of Nintendo's game sets from all consoles below and including N64, a lot of Sega stuff, PC Engine, even Dosbox (although Wii isn't powerful enough to emulate mid-90s DOS games) plus a hefty collection of native games on hard drive which would be both Gamecube and Wii.

To make the setup complete I need to get a memory card for Gamecube. I'm using real GC gamepads but emulated memory card through USB loader that spoofs the card, routing data to the USB HDD. However it does not work well with all games.
 
I built a retropie as my Wii is getting old and does funny things now that it's been modded for awhile. Cheaper, better, smaller.
 
I was able to get an Nes and snes mini and hacked both. They were 60 USD and 80 USD respectively if I remember right. There’s a ton of memory on them so I was able to get a lot of extra games from the nes, snes, and game boy libraries. Emulation is great and they did a good job replicating the original controllers.
 
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I built a retropie as my Wii is getting old and does funny things now that it's been modded for awhile. Cheaper, better, smaller.
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I had random crashes of homebrew software now and then. Some of it that was Internet-bound like the Homebrew Browser doesn't work properly any more, the servers are probably not maintained right now. The emulators and USB loader are set-up tho, so adding new games is just a file copy to that disk. For Wii games I use some Windows utility that manages that "Wii Backup FS" used for storing Wii ISOs but that again is an exact copy with some filename mangling.

Technically, none of these operations touch the Wii system software, my Wii boots to Homebrew Loader directly etc. The Wii menu is empty apart from the "Mii" and "Homebrew Loader". I wasted a week's worth of afternoons learning about and how to revamp the firmware and all components needed to have a hacked Wii.

Another interesting thing is that we played multiplayer DOS at job last Friday; Dosbox can emulate Novell networking that DOS understands through TCP/IP that modern host operating system understands, hassle free. We played Death Rally - I'm extremely good at that game and they were no match, and we played Warcraft 2 where everyone had problems with too snappy in game scrolling and dumb route-find algorithm where you need to micro your units because they're unable to walk around the forest with just click-to-destination. I also forgot that naval units will just sit there and fish while the enemy is passing right next to them, if you don't put them on explicit patrol they do not shoot at anything. Anyways - there is no RNG involved in the fight turns, the Humans and Orcs are perfectly balanced per unit basis for 95% of the units, and for buildings that produce upgrades. This means a high possibility of two of same dueling, meaning a clear 100% win for whoever fires first. The game did not age well I have to say, all the advancements that Starcraft brought in RTS world are missing...we did play Tides of Darkness and not BTDP which as I recall from single player campaigns back in the day, at least didn't have the route finding issues.

I overdid my naval units and had no means of defense when one sent dragons to harass my town and other managed to do a D-day with a bunch of ogres in his 3rd attempt. I've allocated a lot for farms and peasants because I was the only one with two gold mines on my island but the other one had grave route-find issues where peasants were unable to automatically mine. I got annoyed by the game and my incompetence and blamed everything on them playing two against one, attacking me in unison, etc :D

P.S. if you guys need some backups for any system go to www.emuparadise.org . The site has no shitware and it's easily navigable, with download limits based on file at a time, not speed. I've been a part of that community and "worked" for the site back in 2002 when I discovered the scene after having a heart attack seeing the three yellow triangles coming together, hearing the cascading harp arpeggios with a label "(C) 1991 Nintendo" right on my PC
 
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Mosh said:
I was able to get an Nes and snes mini and hacked both. They were 60 USD and 80 USD respectively if I remember right. There’s a ton of memory on them so I was able to get a lot of extra games from the nes, snes, and game boy libraries. Emulation is great and they did a good job replicating the original controllers.
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You can emulate gameboy too? On NES and SNES?
 
Yea you can install emulators for game boy, genesis/master system, MAME, etc. I’ve even seen some people put N64 on there but they don’t run great.
 
SNES had some adapter cartridge for GB games originally.
 
Before our moving shuffled everything up (neither our TV nor our Xbox is currently plugged...) I was halfway through Kingdom Come: Deliverance and enjoying it very much, along with still progressing in GTA V.

Also, through the Gold membership I came across Super Hot. It might be the most innovative FPS I've played in a long time, despite obviously being a low-budged indie project.

Another interesting experience was Layers of Fear - a horror adventure (though admittably very easy - on the other hand there are supposed to be multiple endings which are not really easy to find out) that has some really cool ideas and tons of creepy atmosphere.
 
If you can, you really need to try Super Hot in VR. Its one of the best VR games out there right now, and it really changes the experience when you are actually moving your own body, physically maneuvering yourself slowly out of the way of bullets, throwing things with your own hands.
 
What's your record playtime for a game on Steam or Origin (or whatever else of the kind exists)?

Mine is FIFA 14 - 2232 hours of playing. My old laptop didn't support FIFA 15 or 16 so I played this one for close to 3 years. Actually just checked and I bought it on October 1st 2013 and played it last on September 9 2016, which amounts to 1075 days. 2232 hours is 93 days, so I've spent close to 11% of that time playing FIFA :facepalm:
 
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Been playing some Skyrim and Fallout 4 on the PS4.

Got Skyrim on release back then, played a bit and then left it. I sort of realise why I did that. I love exploring, but the whole forced-down-your-throat-story is super-bad. I don't want to be the Dragonborn. I don't care about playing the generic-hero archetype. It doesn't matter if you're a simple thief or the Dragonborn anyway, you're still stuck with the same shitty quests and treatment from the NPC's. Hey could you go and get me this and kill these guys? -No problem bro! Which leaves you... very little fun.

Fallout 4 I'm new to. The shooting and overall control is a major improvement on previous Bethesda games. This is a fantastic action game. I'm just getting into it, but the roleplaying seems even more shallow than Skyrim. I don't even know if I have gotten a real choice yet, 5 hours in.
 
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