What are you currently playing?

Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits. On a PS2.

That's one thing about Steam and current gen, very few good rpg's made the cut for re-release. And most of them are Final Fantasy and Tales.

Revenge of Shinobi.

This was a Sega launch title, yet the meme is "Nintendo hard."

I tell you ROS makes the hardest Nintendo games seem laughably easy by comparison. Super Meat Boy is a joke by comparison.

So Genesis games on Steam have "mods". Browsing the "Workshop" folder, these mods are merely different rom files being accessed.

You can see where this is going.

Some of these "mods", are completely different games. Steam doesn't offer Contra: Hard Corps? No problem, someone uploaded it as a "Golden Axe" mod.

And hey, Super Mario 2 is a mod, too!

This presents a bit of a moral/ethical dilemma. There's obvious piracy afoot, and I'm participating just by subscribing to some of these mods. On the other hand, I paid for the games the mods are linked to, and Steam is essentially giving their seal of approval on the practice (People report them all the time. Nobody cares.)

I've subscribed to some of those mods myself too, Be great if they added more games to the Sega Mega Drive Classic's the legal way but i doubt it's gonna happen.

Originally posted by Kazenji
I've subscribed to some of those mods myself too, Be great if they added more games to the Sega Mega Drive Classic's the legal way but i doubt it's gonna happen.

It's great, but I mean the entire point of paying Sega is guilt free gaming (And supporting the company, of course.)

If I see a "1.0 Shinobi, with Batman!" in Steamworks, I'm gonna jump on it, but now there's the same "Is this.... legit?" questions you get from high seas buckeneering.

Wondef Boy III Monster World.

Uses an Ocarina to open doors. Zelda ripped that off wholesale.

Planet Coaster and Division 2.

Both are excellent games.

Star Trek Online. Was reading some of the novels recently and got the itch to play again. Working on unlocking all of the Temporal Operative rewards atm.

Never played it, the free to play nature had me suspicious.

I'll have to try it out.

Warframe.

Spent most of the time updating. But what i did see looked fun.

Borderlands 1 GOTY and Yakuza Zero

finished the main story of Yakuza Zero, Now onto doing some of the side quests etc.

Castlevania SOTN.

Harder then I remember.

Scribblenauts Unmasked on Switch.

If you guys know where to download heroes, inform me please?

Also I uploaded a rather obscure hero today "The Eminence of Blades".

I think I did him and his sword pretty dang well. His sword is called "Blade of Eminence".

Originally posted by cdtm
Warframe.

Spent most of the time updating. But what i did see looked fun.

Unlocked the comm, and for all intents and purposes started the game proper.

I'm impressed. For a free to play game, this seems pretty fun. Maybe up there with Borderlands, and way more fun then Destiny (That game bores me to tears..)

Originally posted by cdtm
Never played it, the free to play nature had me suspicious.

I'll have to try it out.

It didn't start out as a F2P, and right now it doesn't even offer a pay monthly model at all.

It's a mixed bag, tbh.

The good:

-Space combat is excellent, and the best you'll see in a Trek game outside of Bridge Commander. It feels very much like a better version of Starfleet Command, if you've ever played that. The ships are also gorgeous.
-There are tons of customisation options for your bridge crew/away team, allowing you all kinds of combinations of races, uniforms and weapons.
-The writing and missions of the game improve as you progress, and there are plenty of voiced cameos by people from all of the live-action shows.
-When the writing is good, it's as good as any Trek available right now, and it IS the only post-VOY, truly canon work available until the Picard show comes out. Plus, getting to meet all those Trek charries is awesome.

The bad?

-Ground combat is... It's a bit messy. It's functional, but you can see that it just doesn't have the same polish as the space stuff. It can be really buggy too, with lots of pathing issues and enemies that seem to be quite OP at times. This is a problem in space too, but less-so.
-The graphics on the ground stuff are pretty dated, to say the least. They've been improving with their designs of ground maps the last while though, and they did make a small graphical improvement recently to character models.
-The devs are not a big team, and they don't have the same resources as, say, Square gives to the FFXIV devs. In a lot of aspects, the game just doesn't have the quality it should, or the polish it should. There's also the P2W aspect of the game, being owned by Perfect World. The devs do give away a fair amount of free shit in the game (even top tier ships once or twice a year), but that cash shop is always there like a siren, begging you to spend your space bucks.

Originally posted by -Pr-
It didn't start out as a F2P, and right now it doesn't even offer a pay monthly model at all.

It's a mixed bag, tbh.

The good:

-Space combat is excellent, and the best you'll see in a Trek game outside of Bridge Commander. It feels very much like a better version of Starfleet Command, if you've ever played that. The ships are also gorgeous.
-There are tons of customisation options for your bridge crew/away team, allowing you all kinds of combinations of races, uniforms and weapons.
-The writing and missions of the game improve as you progress, and there are plenty of voiced cameos by people from all of the live-action shows.
-When the writing is good, it's as good as any Trek available right now, and it IS the only post-VOY, truly canon work available until the Picard show comes out. Plus, getting to meet all those Trek charries is awesome.

The bad?

-Ground combat is... It's a bit messy. It's functional, but you can see that it just doesn't have the same polish as the space stuff. It can be really buggy too, with lots of pathing issues and enemies that seem to be quite OP at times. This is a problem in space too, but less-so.
-The graphics on the ground stuff are pretty dated, to say the least. They've been improving with their designs of ground maps the last while though, and they did make a small graphical improvement recently to character models.
-The devs are not a big team, and they don't have the same resources as, say, Square gives to the FFXIV devs. In a lot of aspects, the game just doesn't have the quality it should, or the polish it should. There's also the P2W aspect of the game, being owned by Perfect World. The devs do give away a fair amount of free shit in the game (even top tier ships once or twice a year), but that cash shop is always there like a siren, begging you to spend your space bucks.

Well, Mass Effect combat wasn't all that polished either. If it has all that other good stuff, I think I can take it.

It's not like Trek is known for its elaborate action scenes anyways.

Revenge of Shinobi.

Actually mastered level one, and stumbled onto a trick to farm one ups.

Not bad, for an old guy who couldn't even get past the first half of stage one. Honestly, I'm wondering how kids ever played this thing, it is the complete opposite of "intuitive".

Originally posted by cdtm
Well, Mass Effect combat wasn't all that polished either. If it has all that other good stuff, I think I can take it.

It's not like Trek is known for its elaborate action scenes anyways.

lol, true.

If you end up trying it and have any questions, shoot me a pm or post in the STO thread here on the forum... At least, i think there's one...

Originally posted by -Pr-
lol, true.

If you end up trying it and have any questions, shoot me a pm or post in the STO thread here on the forum... At least, i think there's one...

Thanks, I'll remember that. 👆

Think I've gotten Warframe's measure now, so thinking moving on. It's good, the problem is, it has a grind to it, and I'm just thinking "Why not just play Ninja Gaiden or something, to enjoy similar but better gameplay, without the grind?"

I mean, I'm sure not playing for the story, and the gameplay is "Good, for a f2p", so why am I playing? (I felt the same way about Destiny 2. Yeah, the shooter mechanics are good, but at the end of the day you could just play Halo or something, and avoid the stupid fetch quests. Or just enjoy Borderlands.)

Originally posted by cdtm
Thanks, I'll remember that. 👆

Think I've gotten Warframe's measure now, so thinking moving on. It's good, the problem is, it has a grind to it, and I'm just thinking "Why not just play Ninja Gaiden or something, to enjoy similar but better gameplay, without the grind?"

I mean, I'm sure not playing for the story, and the gameplay is "Good, for a f2p", so why am I playing? (I felt the same way about Destiny 2. Yeah, the shooter mechanics are good, but at the end of the day you could just play Halo or something, and avoid the stupid fetch quests. Or just enjoy Borderlands.)