What Are You Playing? (Winter, 2015-2016)

Straight up ruined Pacrappa at Twinkle Star Sprites and Mark of the Wolves. My Real Bout Fatal Fury skills, however, are seriously lacking.

Just use Hon Fu and smash buttons.

Time Crisis 5 - Pretty well made. Dual pedals makes for nice positioning options.

Dragon Age Origins PS3 - Feels pretty damned clunky at the outset. Glad it's not-free. Oh well, it's something I can suffer through with my wife.

Ketsui - Well, while I have the PS3 going I can finally get past the inertia and get a few rounds of this in every now and then too. Still excellent, now I just need to figure out how to properly play it.

I'm slogging through Dragon Age: Inquisition, and after about 10 hours I'm ready to shelve it. All I've done is fetch things and kill bears (fucking bears!). Does it get any better? This is boring as shit.

Are you still in the Hinterlands? Move on from that. It's a tutorial area but completionists who insist on staying there kind of ruin the game for themselves.

Ah, ok. I'll do that then. Things were really bogging down there.

Finally got around to hacking my 3DS, so now I can play Japanese games.

First up, Gaist Crusher, a 3D beat 'em up by Treasure. It's been so long since I played a new Treasure game, and I'm not expecting the world from this one, but hopefully it scratches the itch.

Played a little Bloodborne tonight.

Yeah.

Yeah, these games just aren't for me.

Rocket League (PC) - I managed to get ranked in 3v3 just in time for them to announce that they are giving out crowns in the next patch. They're also adding uncommon loot, which is not going to help my addiction at all. I had my first five-goal game over the weekend, but that was in unranked. I typically play goalie in ranked, which has made me realize the point values for saves and clears are grossly under-balanced compared to offensive stats for MVP. Maybe they need to add a match Vezina/Golden Gloves.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (iOS) - Inspired by the Eurogamer story regarding a potential link between this and Kylo Ren's lightsaber, I decided to fire this up. It's been forever since I have played it, and I don't remember much, which is great. Since there is a relatively large lull between time consuming releases right now, I thought it was a good time. I also want to play the remastered sequel on PC. This version avoids one annoying quirk a lot of games that support Mfi controllers have. You don't have to go into an options menu to change the controls. It just works.™

"Gaist Crusher" sounds like an M. Bison move.