My wife and I had a trio of pigs. They are such funny and cool pets with the rumble strutting, popcorning and insane squeaks when they hear someone chopping vegetable from across the house :)

It is. It’s all clean and everything there is just called “the dogs chair” anyway so doesn’t get mixed up.

I’ll pair your cosy dog with our sleepy dog :D

Still playing losing skirmish matches to the veteran ai in Gates of Hell: Ostfront.

Also randomly started a Miitopia save :D

I feel like mods are coming back around to the general public again but I don’t think it’ll go as far as to take over a whole platform. Not even close to that happening.

Also a lot of us didn’t stop with mods and community servers etc but with the rise of PC gaming over the past 10 years of whatever comes a whole group of people who don’t even know how to troubleshoot the basics let alone make games…

Too many to name as the 80s through to early 2000s was full of them. Star Wars on the original Gameboy comes to mind though.

Gates of Hell: Ostfront

I’m still getting beat by the ai in skirmish. Normal is too easy and the next difficulty is too hard but it’s a lot of fun.

Apart from that I spent time fixing my Miyoo Flip handheld. The hinge had broken but now it works better then before. Even this v2 version is poorly designed but superglue and a little bodge sorted it.

It look much more interesting than I remember from the announcement trailers and hopefully it has a good narrative.

I tried out RetroAchievements last week while playing Pikmin and even though technically it works great it’s just not for me.

Achievements were an interesting idea but ultimately they are meaningless. Especially now that they are everywhere… Like big whoop I got an achievement on the Google Games app, GOG Galaxy and Steam…

As for console commands it would be nice but most gamers don’t know that they are doing and would probably ruin it for themselves somehow. Breaking saves files or getting stuck in a crash loop.

Halo comes to mind straight away. The way the enemies react, dodging out the way or charging towards you was something special. Also the music score and freedom it gives you in the semi-open levels to play differently.

I agree that “authentic” isn’t really the word for this. They seem fixated on the term when it’s really just non-traditional media/marketing but even that is nothing new nowadays.

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Played a bit of Tom Clancy’s The Division, slowly clearing the side missions and leveling up. Have cleared the level 20 main mission, and I think level cap is 30, so still a bit left.

TD1 is a great game and it turned 10 years old the other day. The snowy city is beautiful even though its a quarantine zone :/

I really hope there is an upgrade option or at least a heavy discount for us that already own the game. Otherwise I’ll just wait a year or whatever as I’m not buying it full price again.

You could keep the chain going and pass it down to somebody else?

If you have any old hardware/laptop laying around then use that until you nail down what you actually want to do and need.

The Xbox dashboard is already a mess so I hope this doesn’t make it even more shit. I know it will though.

My goal this year is to finish off all the games I’ve left hanging so Pikmin is my first one on the Switch list. I’ve started all 4 but I’ll at least complete them in order eventually :D

Currently the new ratings will only apply to games released after June. “Without applying the rules to current games the policy will do little to protect the children who are already playing them,” Tofield said.

Overall I think the changes are positive but I think they definitely should apply to all and not just new releases.

Games lacking any way for users to report or block players online will receive a PEGI 18 rating.

Also this is interesting. I’m not sure how common it is to have no controls for this in a game but it should certainly make devs/publishers think seriously about it.