That was my first project beyond very simple tutorial stuff so I’m honestly not too much further than complete beginner myself! I think you should just go for it! Engine-wise I chose Godot because it’s open-source and it’s pretty simple to get started for a hobbyist like me but Unity is also a good choice due to the sheer amount of support and resources available. I wouldn’t stress engine choice too much since many concepts will crossover so you’re not like starting from scratch if you decide to change.

I’m happy to help answer questions or give pointers or whatever to get you started if you ever want

I decided the next game I want to make that is within my capabilities (hopefully) is a shump so I’ve been playing a bunch of shumps to get inspired for my own project. Of all the games I tried out so far (and there’s been a lot), I found Mushihimesama, Radiant Silvergun, and Zeroranger the most interesting ones to invest more time in.

Nardinal

VATS made sense in 1 & 2 due to the third-person isometric design. It feels clunky and shoehorned in a first-person setting. The gunplay in vanilla is awful but mods fix that and make it a proper shooter in a way Bethesda can’t seem to manage.

I understand the philosophy of carry weights but fiddling with inventories in Beth games has never been engaging to me. And the mods add a lot of new stuff so it compound the problem. What’s the point of adding new stuff if you’re not picking it up?

Sure! This is the guide to install TTW

and this is a mod guide with a few hundred compatible mods.

Do everything in the first guide. For the second guide, I would do everything in the Extra Utilities & Fixes and Optimization sections, and then you can pick and choose from the rest. I ended up installing everything but Overhauls. I also installed STARS (armor rehaul mod) which was part of the main guide a couple days ago but has been moved down to the appendix.

I love DQ3 SFC. My favorite of the series (that I’ve actually played anyway)

I’m playing Tale of Two Wastelands, a conversion mod that glues FO3 and FNV together and changes some stuff up. I installed a ton of mods on top so it’s a smooth experience and everything flows much better. Between looting on hover, removing VATS in favor of bullet time, and removing weights from all items (sorry Bethesda fans but I hate inventory management), the experience is more continuous and immersive. Getting a lot of nostalgia from the Capital Wasteland since I haven’t played FO3 since it came out like… 10 years ago? Yeah we’ll go with that. Don’t correct me I don’t wanna know

This is my first ever week on an adderall prescription and I found out the hard way how dangerous it is to mix with video games

Oh and I feel like this image added by a perk mod would make a good emoji with some editing and repositioning

I finished Romancing SaGa 2 a bit ago. I was nervous to fight the last boss as I had read about how it was supposed to be one of the most difficult last bosses in the series and then I did it one attempt without any major problems. Maybe I just got lucky with attacks because mechanically I can see how it’s supposed to be a hard boss. Overall I enjoyed the game but it’s a hard one to recommend to people due to how unconventional it is.

I skipped RS3 for now and moved on to the SaGa Frontier remaster. It’s fun but also a step back in complexity from the RS games and so it feels a little too easy sometimes. Also the limited rehashed quests gets old fast (ugh runes). Anyway I’m hoping to be done with this one before Emerald Beyond comes out. I’m abusing NG+ so I don’t have to grind out every single scenario so I don’t think it’ll take too long.

The Garniers left comments about the financial mismanagement by a former superintendent and about alleged incidents of racism.

“I have children of color in the district, and I don’t want them going to school and seeing a noose or the profanity like that,” Kimberly Garnier testified.

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I caught Stardew fever and I made a new meadowlands farm to check out the content from a fresh run. It’s been a few years since the last time I played, just long enough where I can tolerate another playthrough.

Before that I was on a mission to play all the SaGa games this year (except maybe Unlimited) which I’ll continue to do, probably just switch off what days I play which. I am on Romancing SaGa 2 (remaster), which might be the hardest SaGa game I’ve ever played. After gaining an understanding of the game systems I’m having fun but it’d been nice if they added a few tutorials in the remaster.

My current empress is a pretty nereid named Pherusa and I’m gonna be sad when it’s time to jump to the next generation and pick a new one.

I wish the pixels were less janky though. Thanks for the lazy mobile port Square Enix.

It’s such a good game! Unfortunately MMOs enable bad habits for me so I had to give it up

I’ve been playing randomizers. A little LttP, some FF5, a lot of La-Mulana.

I’m looking forward to Silksong if it actually comes out this year

This will save you some time. It’s an archive of all known English translations for many if not most major systems, already patched and ready to go.

There’s an official translation, but it is notoriously bad and possibly the worst on the SNES. It’s a great game tho so it’s worth patching with a fan translation

I rarely play JRPGs these days but I played a ton back then. Listing ones I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

SNES

Lufia 2

Breath of Fire 2 (find a retranslation patch)

PS1

Suikoden 2

Saga Frontier

Star Ocean 2

Breath of Fire 3 & 4

Grandia

Valkyrie Profile

Lunar

Xenogears

Koudelka (didn’t play this one but I had a friend that loved it)

If you like tactical RPGs, Front Mission 3 and Vandal Hearts.

I wish I could go one winter holiday without a new trauma being heaped onto me. I fucking hate this time of year so so much