Thread for Gamers: Game, Set, and Match!

[Imperializt Russia]

I genuinely don't believe consoles have delivered anything truly impressive in terms of advances since the PS2/Xbox made way to the PS3/X360.

The PS4/Xbone generation just felt incremental, after that massive shift the generation before it.

[Holy Tedalonia]

Been playing Fire Emblem Fortunes weave.

I think this might be their best campaign in modern fire emblem. Maybe not story or battle, but how it handles the in between. The world map gamble paid off, I like that the 4 characters get unique mecnanics on the map. For example, Cai gets the ability to capture animals and farm, while Dietrich got to hunt enemies and buff combat arts. Makes me think of total war warhammer oddly enough.

If you think that sounds mundane, its really not. Cai gets exclusive access to animals, letting him have the best cavalry in the game. Farming sounds mundane, but plays into the trade system to getting high quality gear without spending money. Dietrich can eventually teach his teammates combat arts, giving your team a bunch of unique abilities.

Battles I think hold up. I think Engage is better though. But that was the only thing Engage has over other games.

Story, I have yet to finish so Im withholding judgement.

Finished Dietrichs path part 1, working on Cai part 1. Story finishes when you play part 2

[Abserdia]

I genuinely don't believe consoles have delivered anything truly impressive in terms of advances since the PS2/Xbox made way to the PS3/X360.

The PS4/Xbone generation just felt incremental, after that massive shift the generation before it.

Counterpoint: the Switch can make it feel like there’s an ice cube in the controller.

[Imperializt Russia]

I genuinely don't believe consoles have delivered anything truly impressive in terms of advances since the PS2/Xbox made way to the PS3/X360.

The PS4/Xbone generation just felt incremental, after that massive shift the generation before it.

Counterpoint: the Switch can make it feel like there’s an ice cube in the controller.

To be fair, the Switch fulfils an absolute niche that the other consoles just aren't offering. Xbox had to launch a "new" "handheld" to compete, and I wouldn't consider it worthwhile personally over my gaming laptop.

Before I bought my laptop (which has supplanted my desktop PC for personal reasons, and has definite drawbacks over my PC), I trialled a ROG Ally, which the Xbox handheld is basically a variant of, and I fucking hated it. Didn't help that it basically didn't work out of the box.

[Holy Tedalonia]

Counterpoint: the Switch can make it feel like there’s an ice cube in the controller.

To be fair, the Switch fulfils an absolute niche that the other consoles just aren't offering. Xbox had to launch a "new" "handheld" to compete, and I wouldn't consider it worthwhile personally over my gaming laptop.

Before I bought my laptop (which has supplanted my desktop PC for personal reasons, and has definite drawbacks over my PC), I trialled a ROG Ally, which the Xbox handheld is basically a variant of, and I fucking hated it. Didn't help that it basically didn't work out of the box.

Yeah i have both a steam deck and switch 2. Mainly just play switch. Its platform just has more reliably working games.

Steamdeck is cool, i love the freedom and its super easy to set up. But its a massive letdown everytime a game you think. might work, doesnt. Its mainly used to emulate the patapon series for me now and play shadow of war on the go.

[Immoren]

Damn. going back to witcher 3 combat feels rough.

[Southland]

There's been a bit of trend where people are posting the nine games that shaped them. I'm curious to see what people's choices on here are. I'll try to post mine when I get the time.

The website used is found here: https://my9games.net/en/edit

[Holy Tedalonia]

There's been a bit of trend where people are posting the nine games that shaped them. I'm curious to see what people's choices on here are. I'll try to post mine when I get the time.

The website used is found here: https://my9games.net/en/edit

Ill bite.

[Yorsa II]

There's been a bit of trend where people are posting the nine games that shaped them. I'm curious to see what people's choices on here are. I'll try to post mine when I get the time.

The website used is found here: https://my9games.net/en/edit

Ill bite.

omg Ratchet and Clank 3 is one of my favorite games ever. That franchise is incredible!

edit: I don't want to post a big image so I'll just state the games: Ratchet and clank 2002, Ratchet and Clank 3, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon, Half-Life, Fallout New Vegas, Rise of Nations, and Super Mario Sunshine

[Sectiyera]

Could probably use this as a reaction image

[Outer Armatonisdaristan]

There's been a bit of trend where people are posting the nine games that shaped them. I'm curious to see what people's choices on here are. I'll try to post mine when I get the time.

The website used is found here: https://my9games.net/en/edit

Any one of these where I get to put in Glitch Karts is automatically based.

(Motorsport Manager is there too because why the fuck not. And as for Asphalt 8, I’m not referring to the state of the game in 2026)

[Ameriganastan]

There's been a bit of trend where people are posting the nine games that shaped them. I'm curious to see what people's choices on here are. I'll try to post mine when I get the time.

The website used is found here: https://my9games.net/en/edit

Tried doing them in order. Made sense to me.

[Southland]

As promised here's my list. I'm a fairly late bloomer when it comes to video games, with me really only getting into them in the past few years, which is why some of my choices are pretty recent. The arrangement is in no particular order.

[The Huskar Social Union]

This is mine

If the link doesnt work ill just list them:

Halo Combat Evolved
Command & Conquer Red Alert
Warcraft 3
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Halo Reach
Crusader Kings 2
Metro 2033
XCOM 2
Disco Elysium

[Abserdia]

https://my9games.net/en/share/90909bbe- ... 72eabe152c

Aside from being my favorite thing on Steam and a gateway into other great VNs like Clannad and Muramasa, Umineko directly inspired me to start drawing, which led to me picking up music as well, and to start developing the story and setting ideas that float around in my head. Reading it and other VNs also got me reading more in general, like novels and history and theory...
For those reasons I'm breaking my rule of treating VNs as their own medium rather than as 'video games', just because Umineko is so much more influential on my day-to-day life than any actual video game ever has been. It's not even close.

If anyone ever checks it out, make sure you download the 07th-Mod for voice acting and your choice between the different official art styles. I recommend Ryukishi's original art, but that's an acquired taste. Just don't use the pachinko art that's default on Steam.
And avoid spoilers. A lot of it is spoilers. Some of the spoilers are very early and are actually used as primary selling points, but it's best to go in completely blind. It is "mystery vs fantasy", after all.

Touhou is a similar story, and I actually got into it because of Umineko! EoSD isn't necessarily my favorite game in the series but it's the first one I played, so I chose it over, like, PCB.
That sort of doujin ethos personified by the whole franchise is just really admirable to me. And of course, great games.

For the rest it's a bit more typical, I think. I could've included more games from my childhood or maybe replace DMC4 with an earlier game, but I feel alright about it.

[New Visayan Islands]

With Wings of Theve already out and about and people bringing up the OST, I have my five Top Gun Ace Combat themes as follows:

• Everflow - My current earworm.
• Daredevil
• Liberation of Gracemeria
• White Devil - The track that introduced me to Ace Combat OSTs, aka "IT'S A GUNDAM!" but for Ace Combat.
• Megalith Agnus Dei

[Unogonduria]

This is my list (excluding NationStates, of course!):

Everything AFTER Portal are games I played before I began to play on my computer (since, after all, the question was games that shaped you, not your favourite games the past 2-3 years), with the exception of Minecraft, which I also played on my phone. To note, I don't play the latter 4 games anymore, with the exception of FNAF 3 from time to time.

[Imperializt Russia]

This isn't even the stupidest thing I've yet done.

That post will come later.

You were warned.

Asteroids are now clogging up my game. There is a series of rings above Kerbin at 330-660km of asteroids that are being mined for fuel, to refuel the refuelling platform.
These are the ones that were worth dragging that far. Many of them - small wastrels of objects - were caught on highly elliptical orbits, used for fuel (often less fuel than the manoeuvres spent to intercept them) and discarded on loose capture orbits.

Now, you can just delete asteroids from the game. Much like with the vessel/debris "Terminate" option in the Tracking Station, you can also do this to owned asteroids. But the time I wanted to do this, the option wasn't there for some reason, so I thought the game didn't let you.

I decided whether to try and nudge them onto escape/collision courses, then came up with a devious workaround. What if I built the smallest probe I could be bothered to construct, latch it onto an asteroid, creating a single combined entity under the control of the probe core, and then use the Terminate command on that?

I later found out that yes, the Terminate command does just work on asteroids, but I realised I could have some fun.

Meet my interplanetary nuclear missile.

It has MIRVs. Though I guess technically they're not Re-entry Vehicles. It has MIKEs - Multiple Independent Kill Emissary expendable drones. It's a working title.
The lower stage is my all-purpose in-system launcher vehicle. Even though this thing has close to 4k dV once refuelled, some of these elliptical orbits are way out there and I needed more fuel to turn this into a viable bus delivery vehicle.

So I built what I realise in hindsight is a Burevestnik and launched it into space - I now have a nuclear-powered nuclear cruise missile.

Each MIKE consists of an RCS fuel tank, four large RCS thruster blocks, a docking port and a grabber jr. Plus, obviously, the probe core, antenna, solar panels. 710kg wet mass per probe, and they're cosplaying as "nukes", Armageddon-style. I never saw Armageddon, I don't think. Each unit is capable of about 1,000m/s dV so in theory I don't even need to stop the main bus to deploy one in the path of an asteroid, I can launch it on just a basic intercept and save the match-velocity fuel.

It carries eight warheads; each one is named for a different piece of Asteroid-themed media.
We have:

• Armageddon
• Don't Look Up
• Deep Impact
• A Big Ball of Garbage
• A Big Ball of Garbage II (the hypothetical future Futurama episode when the ball of garbage they fired comes back)

At this point I had to look up some asteroid-themed media on Wikipedia, resulting in the following movie titles:
Japy Ending (A Brazilian short stories compendium, apparently), Without Warning, and Starship Troopers - though I called that last one Buenos Aeries instead.
Here's images of the original test-deploy, A Big Ball of Garbage moving towards its target and then latched onto its target asteroid - EDL-371, an asteroid with barely 20t of fuel mass, that I already titled as "garbage", fittingly.


While this crazy little thing is chasing down the tiny rocks at the edge of Kerbin's SOI, I realised I should prepare a second mission to tackle near-Kerbin objects. So I built the CIWS launcher. I was really scraping the barrel for probe names on this one:

• Without Warning
• Atlantis: Milo's Return
• Ben10 vs The Universe
• Ice Age: Collision Course
• Project A-ko
• Your Name (which I renamed to Your Party, Huskar knows)
• Moomins and the Comet Chase
• The Orbital Children

Taken primarily from the Wikipedia list of "animated movies about impact events".
Because this one only ever has to bob around the more even orbits of Kerbin, this one did in fact stay on top of the original launch vehicle, my in-system-bus. Here it is approaching one such stable orbit asteroid.

Deploying and transiting:

This one was the Moomin probe, incidentally. And now latched.

The mining station is still attached to this asteroid... don't worry, there's a safety switch on the detonator. I think. The mining platform was eventually detached and transited over to a kiloton-sized magic asteroid, the one I captured a few posts back.

[Ameriganastan]

This isn't even the stupidest thing I've yet done.

That post will come later.

You were warned.

Asteroids are now clogging up my game. There is a series of rings above Kerbin at 330-660km of asteroids that are being mined for fuel, to refuel the refuelling platform.
These are the ones that were worth dragging that far. Many of them - small wastrels of objects - were caught on highly elliptical orbits, used for fuel (often less fuel than the manoeuvres spent to intercept them) and discarded on loose capture orbits.

Now, you can just delete asteroids from the game. Much like with the vessel/debris "Terminate" option in the Tracking Station, you can also do this to owned asteroids. But the time I wanted to do this, the option wasn't there for some reason, so I thought the game didn't let you.

I decided whether to try and nudge them onto escape/collision courses, then came up with a devious workaround. What if I built the smallest probe I could be bothered to construct, latch it onto an asteroid, creating a single combined entity under the control of the probe core, and then use the Terminate command on that?

I later found out that yes, the Terminate command does just work on asteroids, but I realised I could have some fun.

Meet my interplanetary nuclear missile.

It has MIRVs. Though I guess technically they're not Re-entry Vehicles. It has MIKEs - Multiple Independent Kill Emissary expendable drones. It's a working title.
The lower stage is my all-purpose in-system launcher vehicle. Even though this thing has close to 4k dV once refuelled, some of these elliptical orbits are way out there and I needed more fuel to turn this into a viable bus delivery vehicle.

So I built what I realise in hindsight is a Burevestnik and launched it into space - I now have a nuclear-powered nuclear cruise missile.

Each MIKE consists of an RCS fuel tank, four large RCS thruster blocks, a docking port and a grabber jr. Plus, obviously, the probe core, antenna, solar panels. 710kg wet mass per probe, and they're cosplaying as "nukes", Armageddon-style. I never saw Armageddon, I don't think. Each unit is capable of about 1,000m/s dV so in theory I don't even need to stop the main bus to deploy one in the path of an asteroid, I can launch it on just a basic intercept and save the match-velocity fuel.

It carries eight warheads; each one is named for a different piece of Asteroid-themed media.
We have:

• Armageddon
• Don't Look Up
• Deep Impact
• A Big Ball of Garbage
• A Big Ball of Garbage II (the hypothetical future Futurama episode when the ball of garbage they fired comes back)

At this point I had to look up some asteroid-themed media on Wikipedia, resulting in the following movie titles:
Japy Ending (A Brazilian short stories compendium, apparently), Without Warning, and Starship Troopers - though I called that last one Buenos Aeries instead.
Here's images of the original test-deploy, A Big Ball of Garbage moving towards its target and then latched onto its target asteroid - EDL-371, an asteroid with barely 20t of fuel mass, that I already titled as "garbage", fittingly.


While this crazy little thing is chasing down the tiny rocks at the edge of Kerbin's SOI, I realised I should prepare a second mission to tackle near-Kerbin objects. So I built the CIWS launcher. I was really scraping the barrel for probe names on this one:

• Without Warning
• Atlantis: Milo's Return
• Ben10 vs The Universe
• Ice Age: Collision Course
• Project A-ko
• Your Name (which I renamed to Your Party, Huskar knows)
• Moomins and the Comet Chase
• The Orbital Children

Taken primarily from the Wikipedia list of "animated movies about impact events".
Because this one only ever has to bob around the more even orbits of Kerbin, this one did in fact stay on top of the original launch vehicle, my in-system-bus. Here it is approaching one such stable orbit asteroid.

Deploying and transiting:

This one was the Moomin probe, incidentally. And now latched.

The mining station is still attached to this asteroid... don't worry, there's a safety switch on the detonator. I think. The mining platform was eventually detached and transited over to a kiloton-sized magic asteroid, the one I captured a few posts back.

You know, I'm always impressed seeing posts of people actually good at this game. I've never even got to the moon successfully.

[Imperializt Russia]

You were warned.

Asteroids are now clogging up my game. There is a series of rings above Kerbin at 330-660km of asteroids that are being mined for fuel, to refuel the refuelling platform.
These are the ones that were worth dragging that far. Many of them - small wastrels of objects - were caught on highly elliptical orbits, used for fuel (often less fuel than the manoeuvres spent to intercept them) and discarded on loose capture orbits.

Now, you can just delete asteroids from the game. Much like with the vessel/debris "Terminate" option in the Tracking Station, you can also do this to owned asteroids. But the time I wanted to do this, the option wasn't there for some reason, so I thought the game didn't let you.

I decided whether to try and nudge them onto escape/collision courses, then came up with a devious workaround. What if I built the smallest probe I could be bothered to construct, latch it onto an asteroid, creating a single combined entity under the control of the probe core, and then use the Terminate command on that?

I later found out that yes, the Terminate command does just work on asteroids, but I realised I could have some fun.

Meet my interplanetary nuclear missile.

It has MIRVs. Though I guess technically they're not Re-entry Vehicles. It has MIKEs - Multiple Independent Kill Emissary expendable drones. It's a working title.
The lower stage is my all-purpose in-system launcher vehicle. Even though this thing has close to 4k dV once refuelled, some of these elliptical orbits are way out there and I needed more fuel to turn this into a viable bus delivery vehicle.

So I built what I realise in hindsight is a Burevestnik and launched it into space - I now have a nuclear-powered nuclear cruise missile.

Each MIKE consists of an RCS fuel tank, four large RCS thruster blocks, a docking port and a grabber jr. Plus, obviously, the probe core, antenna, solar panels. 710kg wet mass per probe, and they're cosplaying as "nukes", Armageddon-style. I never saw Armageddon, I don't think. Each unit is capable of about 1,000m/s dV so in theory I don't even need to stop the main bus to deploy one in the path of an asteroid, I can launch it on just a basic intercept and save the match-velocity fuel.

It carries eight warheads; each one is named for a different piece of Asteroid-themed media.
We have:

• Armageddon
• Don't Look Up
• Deep Impact
• A Big Ball of Garbage
• A Big Ball of Garbage II (the hypothetical future Futurama episode when the ball of garbage they fired comes back)

At this point I had to look up some asteroid-themed media on Wikipedia, resulting in the following movie titles:
Japy Ending (A Brazilian short stories compendium, apparently), Without Warning, and Starship Troopers - though I called that last one Buenos Aeries instead.
Here's images of the original test-deploy, A Big Ball of Garbage moving towards its target and then latched onto its target asteroid - EDL-371, an asteroid with barely 20t of fuel mass, that I already titled as "garbage", fittingly.


While this crazy little thing is chasing down the tiny rocks at the edge of Kerbin's SOI, I realised I should prepare a second mission to tackle near-Kerbin objects. So I built the CIWS launcher. I was really scraping the barrel for probe names on this one:

• Without Warning
• Atlantis: Milo's Return
• Ben10 vs The Universe
• Ice Age: Collision Course
• Project A-ko
• Your Name (which I renamed to Your Party, Huskar knows)
• Moomins and the Comet Chase
• The Orbital Children

Taken primarily from the Wikipedia list of "animated movies about impact events".
Because this one only ever has to bob around the more even orbits of Kerbin, this one did in fact stay on top of the original launch vehicle, my in-system-bus. Here it is approaching one such stable orbit asteroid.

Deploying and transiting:

This one was the Moomin probe, incidentally. And now latched.

The mining station is still attached to this asteroid... don't worry, there's a safety switch on the detonator. I think. The mining platform was eventually detached and transited over to a kiloton-sized magic asteroid, the one I captured a few posts back.

You know, I'm always impressed seeing posts of people actually good at this game. I've never even got to the moon successfully.

Good, I am not.

I've gotten overly reliant on using MechJeb, which allows you to basically turn KSP into an idle game. "Plot this complex intercept for me" "yes master" "now make it so" "yes master"
It's very effective as a space captain game in this manner, I suppose, or the day-to-day NASA crew flight experience in non-emergency situations, ie, preplanned from the Goddard Flight Centre.

I still haven't sent a single Kerbal outside of Kerbin's SOI! I have still yet to send Kerbals beyond Minmus. I've got a couple of probe missions going out, I have launched a Duna and Jool probe mission and waiting for the transfer window for an Eve probe mission, but I've already maxed out the tech tree.

My suicide comet lander from the previous post will be the first to slip the surly bonds of Kerbin and touch the face of Geofdocks-Macksie-Gerber-1 (the comet he's going to meet).

I originally abandoned KSP at about 200 hours and having never made it past Minmus in that save either. I cannot overstate how good danl - a small YT channel I had no reason to have pushed to me around the time of the Artemis mission - was at inspiring me to start over. I copied a lot of his tips and tricks and influenced my design instincts, encouraging me to simplify my craft.
Now I'm up to 750 hours, all that new time in a single current save.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO6jBiYlei7SSMwerjgZV7qgLWKjzG71e