The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

I don't think you can do Knuckles in Sonic 2 on Steam normally because someone put up a workshop file for it: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674614944

My first Sonic was actually the Master System version of the first game, which was basically a completely different game. I eventually had both versions and I hated the Labyrinth Zone on both. That was usually where my game ended. I did progress past it on some rare occasions but I was never able to actually beat either game in full. I tend to attribute that to the lack of a save system back then, or maybe games were just harder in those days. 

I've played it at a friend's house, I haven't bought it yet though. I've been waiting for a price-drop and it's hard for me to save money with so much good music out there.

Last night I played the first episode of Telltale's Batman series. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I have to say the episode delivered big time. It's a lot more focused on the Bruce Wayne side than any other Batman games have been, which shouldn't be a surprise, and one choice I made early feels like it could really come back to bite me later on. I also like how it includes some detective work, as well as one sequence where you get to plan things out and then watch the plan unfold right after, and it felt awesome to pull off, even it was largely scripted. They certainly did a great job of introducing the different elements of the series in one episode, so hopefully the rest of the series can live up to this, and hopefully the more unique features don't randomly get dropped along the way.

To be honest, I've never played it, but it doesn't look fun from reviews I've seen. 

Even though it's obtuse in just about every way possible that a game can be, it did originally come out in 1984, and it was pretty innovative. It's one of the first action rpgs ever, one of the first games to use a quick save system, and probably the first game ever to have regenerative health instead of needing some form of a healing item (as far as any sort of action related games go), and how many games use regenerative health now-a-days? Quite a few. How many games can you think of back in the 80's and 90's that had regenerative health? Not many. The main problem imo is that this was released in 1989 in North America. No one would even dare to consider porting a six year old Japanese only computer game to the Xbox One or PS4 virtually unchanged now, but porting old computer games to current consoles was a fairly common thing to do back then. It's really more the fault of FCI for releasing it in NA six years after it came out that the game is considered one of the worst on the nes, than it actually being a truly bad game. It's worth a play for anyone who genuinely likes oldschool rpgs, as long as you don't expect all that much from it.

While I'm still building a massive settlement in Fallout 4 on the Starlight Drive-in site, I've gone back to the Witcher 3 and started from scratch with the intent to play though the whole thing in order: base game (Velen, Norvigrad, Skellige in order), Hearts of Stone and finally Blood and Wine (which believe it or not I've only played once so far). 

I want to get that new Deus Ex but it will be some time before I can. The last one was excellent so I'm hoping this lives up to it. 

Anyway, recommended if you own Skyrim on PC. One thing to note though is that because this is not a Steam mod (I really wish they could get their games on there as others have done) is that it will overwrite Skyrim will installed, so you have to have one or the other...though this may cease to be a problem once the updated Skyrim is out as I think that will use a new install and if I recall correctly anyone who already owns it and all DLC on PC is entitled to a free copy.