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    Your 2020 Gaming Diary

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    47 minutes ago, drahkon said:

    I've stopped playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Shovel Knight (Plague of Shadows) and Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! for various reasons.

    If you liked Shovel of Hope, then just go ahead and skip Plague of Shadows and start Spectre of Torment or King of Cards. Plague of Shadows is easily the worst one of the four, and it's the only one I couldn't get through. But the other ones I loved, so it would be a shame to miss out on those.

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    Your 2020 Gaming Diary

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    Posted · Edited by Vileplume2000

    Iconoclasts (Switch)

     

    Done! I’ve finished the game in a little under 11 hours, which is a perfectly acceptable time for the game to last.

     

     

    Don’t be fooled by that low score on Tweaks; I never crafted more of those as you only have 3 slots for them and I just crafted the ones I needed, and I didn’t know they would count towards completion. I have the materials to up that number quite a bit. Components is a bit low as well but I never went back to them as they don’t really give you anything extra. I wanted to backtrack to up the score but my savegame is before the final boss and I don’t think I can go back from there.

    All in all an enjoyable game. The length for me is perfect, and it plays well. The characters could have used even more fleshing out, despite the comments of too much dialogue in this game that you read. I got it for €10 in the sale and at that price it’s definitely worth it.

     

    Pokémon Sword (Switch)

     

    I already posted about this in the Pokémon Sword and Shield thread, but I finally became Galar champion. I have mixed feelings about the game, although they hang towards the positive. But like I said before in the other thread, I think I just outgrew the series a bit. Will go back to complete the Pokédex, and probably get the DLC but I’ll give it a little bit of a rest first.

     

     

     

    Okami HD (Switch)

     

    With both Iconoclasts and Pokémon finished I have room to start some new games on Switch. I picked up Okami HD on my holiday in Japan, and I decided it’s time to start this. The first hour was a bit difficult to get into. First of all it took about 20 minutes before I could take my first steps, and the controls felt a bit outdated. But after adjusting a couple of things (inverting camera and turn of rumble, that is insane when on!) and coming to peace that this is a 12 year old game I got into it. The game looks so charming, and it is great that it is set in Japan as well, as I saw all these traditional temples and houses on my holiday. It’s quite heavy on the dialogue, and that cricket is damn annoying. But I think I’m going to get a lot of enjoyment from this.

     

    For the second game to start I was thinking about starting Wargroove, but I think I will first finish off Valkyria Chronicles. It’s a game that I love playing but takes it’s time. I usually tackle a few chapters and then leave it for a couple of months. Time to push through. And postponing Wargroove means that I get to play it when the Double Trouble DLC is already out.

     

    I also made some good progress with Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PC), but I'll update on that when I'm a bit further on. Still enjoying it.

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    Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield (2019, Switch)

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    Posted · Edited by Vileplume2000

    There's a lot of info popping up for Pokémon Home. Apparently there will be a free and a paid subscription, and it launches in February. I've never really looked into the whole Pokémon Bank/Pokémon Home stuff, so I'll let someone else do the summary :p

    https://home.pokemon.com/en-us/?cid=&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pokemonhome&utm_term=january28

    N-E Café Podcast

    in Nintendo Gaming

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    Just finished listening to this week's podcast. Another enjoyable one! About the Mass Effect trilogy: Bioware has been teasing on Twitter that something is happening. First with a fragment from ME1 and another with a quote from ME2. So chances are a Trilogy remaster is on the way, hopefully coming to the Switch as well.

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    Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield (2019, Switch)

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    I have finally (FINALLY!) finished the storyline of Pokémon Sword. Beat it with this team (I was expecting a nice shot of my champion team but that never came so I had to do it with the save screen:

    All around level 60-63. It was a pretty enjoyable experience and I'll go back to it to fill up the Pokédex and probably grab the DLC as well. I really like a lot of the new Pokémon, but I can't shake the feeling that I've just outgrown the main series. I can imagine this is a great adventure if it is your first or second Pokémon game, but for me the writing and the handholding have all become too much kid-friendly. The Darkest Day never felt like a threat and Team Yell was just laughable. Guess I'll give Mystery Dungeon a go to get a better Pokémon story.

    I was also wondering if the game is indeed more stripped-down compared to previous entries, or that it is just more apparent now they have made the switch to 3D HD. But the lack of secret hide-outs, labs, complicated caves and legendary Pokémon makes me think it's just a bit barebones. There just isn't that much to discover.

    Still a decent game though, and collecting has always been the more fun part so I still have that to go. Won't burn my hands on competitive Pokémon though.

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    Streaming, recording and editing video game footage

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    On 17-1-2020 at 11:59 AM, GenericAperson said:

    Since episode 2 I have also been using a Kotion Each headset for recording purposes. That is where the fanciness ends though because for editing I'm still on the bare bones Windows Movie Maker. If you can afford different editing software that allows you to overlay images onto video and overlay several different things at once then go for it, anything is better than Movie Maker but actual proper editing software costs a lot of money so I'm kind of stuck with it.

    I haven't really edited game footage, but I used OpenShot for a music video and for putting together the N-E Café to go on YouTube. It may not be very extensive compared to the bigger paid programs, but you can easily have different tracks on top of each other to do overlays. It's free and open source, so maybe there are even more functions available as plugins.

    On 17-1-2020 at 8:22 PM, Dcubed said:

    As an added bonus, I have a spare hacked New3DS that I can use to stream video from; meaning that I can actually capture/stream 3DS games! (Super bonus points in that I can actually hook up an Xbox controller or a GCN controller to the 3DS at the same time!).

    Haha man, that thing sounds awesome! Is it purely a software hack or is it hardware modified? Would love to see the thing and how it works.

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    N-Europe Video Game Club

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    9 hours ago, Ike said:

    I was going to suggest Kirby's Dreamland 3.

    Wouldn't mind this one. I've started it but haven't pushed on so this would give me an incentive to finish it. It's also an interesting one to talk about as I think it really depends on the alternative quests for bringing the challenge. And it has those animal friends which kind of mixes it up compared to the previous Kirby titles.

    N-E Café Podcast

    in Nintendo Gaming

    Posted · Edited by Vileplume2000

    Great question from @WackerJr by the way. Movies based on games have a bad reputation and there are plenty of examples, but somehow I have a weak spot for them.

    For example I really liked Mortal Kombat, but I think I was about 12 when I last saw it so my opinion may have changed a bit there. Never did see the Mario movie. I did enjoy the few episodes I saw of the anime with the real life intro. I also had a VCR with a cartoon series based on Super Mario Bros 3, where they visit the Giant Kingdom but I don't think it had the real life bit in front.

    My favourite series is Resident Evil. The first movies are awesome, the later ones are really bad but I still enjoy watching them. If you want some quality RE material, the CGI movies are pretty good. 

    Alone In The Dark is another really bad one. It's the same as Resident Evil in the sense that it has almost nothing to do with the game series, and the movie itself is awful. Great soundtrack though.

    The first Tomb Raider movie was good, the other ones meh. Haven't watched the reboot yet but that is on my list. Given your love for Doom I was shocked you didn't mention that one! I never saw it either though.

    Finally Ready Player One is a weird one. I loved the book, but it differentiates quite a lot from the movie. It's much more referencing 80s pop culture, video games and music while the movie is more in line with current day. Watching it I had quite high expectations, but I also thought it wasn't that great. But the book is well recommended.

    Edit: Watching on wikipedia there is quite a list I haven't seen yet. I have some catching up to do! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games

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    Streaming, recording and editing video game footage

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    Quoting @Sméagol from the SSBU Online Thread:

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    @Vileplume2000, (and.. @Dcubed? who did the jackbox stream?), what are your streaming set-ups?

    I've been wanting to open up a topic about this earlier, but I guess this is a good moment to do so.

    Anyway currently my set-up is a desktop PC with:

    • Intel Core i5
    • 16GB RAM
    • NVIDIA GTX1080Ti
    • An SSD for speed, and a traditional hard drive to save video files to
    • An AverMedia Live Gamer HD C985 capture card

    It has plenty of power to stream PC games to Twitch and Mixer without the need of a separate dedicated streaming PC. I use OBS Studio for the capture/streaming part. It's a free piece of software but works well. I have to look into it a bit more but I believe you can even use it to do overlays etc. But since I'm not doing any webcamming along the way I haven't really used that feature. To be honest I haven't even talked during a stream yet, but maybe I will start doing that in the future. Don't feel the need to show my face alongside it though. :P

    With the AverMedia that I recently got (pretty cheap secondhand) I can now also capture or stream Switch games (or any other device that has HDMI). I did a few captures already and yesterday I streamed our Smash session. For streaming again I use OBS, and for capturing I use AverMedia's own software. The limitation to my capture card is that it is capped at either Full HD at 30 frames or 720p at 60 frames. But I didn't want to invest in a more expensive card yet as I don't know if I want to do a lot with streaming/capturing. So for testing the waters it is actually working great. Plus it comes with a big red button that you can smack to start streaming. Not that useful, but satisfying to use haha.

    The other limitation is that everything is in my desktop PC (the capture card is an internal one as well), so I cannot capture my casual couch games. I have to crawl behind my PC monitor to get it all going. With a laptop+external capture card I would be a lot more flexible. But I'm a traditional guy and I like my PC's big, bulky and upgradeable. :P

    Curious to hear other people's setup, and if there are streamers among us. I'm just going to quote @LazyBoyas I know he recently got a capture card, and @GenericApersonbecause I've seen his videos of Metroid Prime 2 and I'm curious how he captures and edits his videos.

    Finally: https://www.twitch.tv/dufniall046 Like, comment and subscribe! :p

     

     

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